Eugen Rochko
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog. Luddite.
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog. Luddite.
Always a good day when a new #PsychedelicPornCrumpets track comes out.
I have created business cards, stickers, and a website for spreading awareness and push back wherever there are Harry Potter products.
The idea is simple: print or order some cards/stickers, then whenever you run into a place hawking hate-fund merch, drop a card and to let the business and/or prospective customers know.
Clark Kent should really only clean his glasses in the privacy of his own home. #grickledoodle #superman #clarkkent #superheroes #cartoon #funny #art #humor #drawing
Sometimes the app I use to pay for parking asks me “do you love this app” and I am not sure I understand anymore what love is
Azodicarbonamide is a chemical used to make bread dough more elastic is also, incidentally, found in yoga mats.
It is not healthy. And in Europe it is not allowed.
Still, no burger crisis. No sudden change in taste. Just the same sandwiches, quietly made without it.
And a regulation quietly doing its job in the background while you ordered your dinner.
— Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008: Food additives. EU ban on azodicarbonamide. In force since 20 January 2009
One thing that keeps me up at night is the progressive certainty that we as a society are slowly but surely losing our ability to be bad at things. We are ceding that skill to AI.
"You don't understand, without AI, I couldn't have drawn this/written this/designed this." says a person, certain that surely this, this argument right here is the nail in the coffin of the anti-AI argument. Utility: "Without this thing, I would have been bad at this task."
Yes. Correct. You would have been bad at it. And that's ok. Not only because it's just... Ok to be bad at things in general. But also because being bad at a thing is the first necessary step to learning how to do a thing.
Every musician you love has spent thousands of hours first being bad at being a musician. Every artist that brings you to tears has spent thousands of hours being bad at art. Every single designer with a master's degree in design has spent thousands upon thousands of hours designing things that are utter crap.
We learn how to do a thing by first being bad at it. And then noticing what skills we need to acquire to be better at it. And then honing those skills on a million failed attempts. And THEN we are finally good at doing it.
And being bad at things isn't just about learning how to do it yourself. It also teaches you how to listen more effectively to music. How to see art with the eyes of an artist. How to study a design for design flaws before it's even built. It teaches you good taste. How to perceive the humanity in the things all around you - things built by humans, for other humans.
No, the biggest problem with AI isn't that it makes bad art - although it most assuredly does also do that. It's that it robs human beings of the legitimacy of creating bad art ourselves.
How can anyone ever be expected to learn to do a thing if we can't ever be bad at it first?
These are the pages for January-April in my "Cats in Weird Places" calendar, available for pre-order right now https://www.djamilaknopf.com/store #Illustration #Watercolor #CatArt
Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
https://brennan.day/normalized-fascism-in-open-source-12-million-given-to-dhh/
Das Plushtodon vom @kdsz_bayern hatte ich schon einige Wochen nicht mehr gesehen. Jetzt ist es mir im Dom St. Kilian zu Würzburg über den Weg gelaufen!
Da saß es ganz ungeniert auf den Gottesloben (Gotteslöbern?) und grinste mich an. Es zeigte mir auch, wo es sich sonst noch im Dom herumgetrieben hatte.
Schlussendlich hat es sich dann von mir wieder mit nach Hause nehmen lassen. Ist wohl besser so. Damit es nicht noch mehr Unfug anstellt.
With some effort I bring you this photo of Musti being cuddly and staring at me, as is his way.
Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons
the tech industry fervor over Omarchy is so fucking confusing to me that i'm honestly starting to wonder if it's just money laundering. over TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS for a fascist's dotfiles and bash scripts is patently insane
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/117190449442518308
On the one end people are being priced out of running web services due to hardware shortages caused by AI, on the other end those who still run web services are being bled dry by AI scrapers essentially stealing compute.
I am a Muslim. I can assure you I have never once in my life felt attacked or called it "anti-Muslim" or "Islamophobic" when someone criticized the government or state of Saudi Arabia, the government or state of Iran, or the government or state of Pakistan.
Because governments and states do not have rights. There's no "universal declaration of states rights." That's not a thing. People have rights, states do not have rights. Banning criticism of states is fascism.
This is a post about Israel.
