I don’t hate AI-created images. I hate the insane amounts of energy required for current AI models. I hate that it’s the same rich assholes who control everything also controlling AI. I hate that they monopolize access to models trained on all our work. And I hate that it will be these rich assholes benefiting from humans being put out of work by AI. Because this will happen on some scale.

If it were free, I’d love AI. Because it allows people who aren’t artists to create stuff. And lowering the barrier of entry on art is always good, in my opinion.

I am hyped for Gianmarco on Dropout. After that I am waiting for Taylor Tomlinson. With the large number of Dropout contributors on After Midnight there must be some connection.

Damn, that is like satire.

They’re destroying the federal government, so some parts can be replaced by corporations and so that corporations can do what they want. These people saw cyberpunk and thought of it as something to achieve.

Well, I’ve always been curious what a ruthless person would do with all that DNA data. I’ll finally find out.

Reminds me of this SNL sketch: https://youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk

A passport costs 165 dollaroos? Damn. And I thought the 70 Euro we have to pay was excessive.

Ah, so that hasn’t changed. I last had contact with hamradio through a friend 25 years ago and it was just what you described. Bigots, racists and otherwise unpleasant men. And it truly was all men. I was interested in this hobby, but why would I pursue this if almost all people you’d talk to were assholes?

A song by post-hardcore band Frodus.

Eskapismus halte ich für vollkommen legitim.

Pathetic fuckers. One of the reasons why I love the fediverse.

The satire here is that there won’t be any replacement.

That’s like when Germans try to point out that Hitler was Austrian.

I see you’re taking it slow. There are 5 minutes of break time where you could inject steroids while consuming creatine.

That’s not a combination of words I expected to see today.

Yes. Absolutely. But I see where the appeal comes from. A few years ago I bought some Bitcoin for 50 Euro. A year later it doubled in value. That was nice. And that was moderate compared to when I first got Bitcoin and it was as cheap as dirt and suddenly it’s worth 70k. With the world in the grips of the billionaire class people get desperate for even a chance at moderate wealth. It’s a sad symptom of the fucked up world we’re living in.

It’s Russia, if someone’s wondering.

It really is.

It’s the circle of life and it moves us all.

Did they get a Toy Yoda as a consolation prize?