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West bank.

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And if you don’t have a subscription/like leaping over paywalls.

archive.is link

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Read mostly hardback books like a king.

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I’m second hand books all the way.

Great collection you have, I’m pretty sure you’d be seriously good chat down the pub.

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Its a really lovely mix of science and literature. Signals a broad and interested mind. Besides, Once and future king is an absolute banger.

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If you’ve got wood, you’ve got something to drink.

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I’m betting they weren’t around in the early 90s. I mean… If we are talking any real sort of publicly available machinima, we must be talking about the start of YouTube.

Unless watching your mate, Gary, do that thing where he voiced over Zangief as if we was a WWF wrester counts.

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Right you are. They started in 2003 a full two years before YouTube and a solid four years after the 90s.

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It is a great step forward, but the barrier to entry is relatively high. You can sign up to substack for free and they take a cut of your profits (that most writers don’t draw enough attention to earn.

Meanwhile ghost charges $9 a month, billed annually.

That’s a significant barrier to anyone that can’t afford to see if their writing will be popular and as long as that remains it will struggle to gain traction in the same way.

And yeah, I know you could host your own too, but again a price point and a technical barrier.

I like ghost, the interface and the ecology, but the truth is that it isn’t going to attract the sort of vibrant, young community it needs if you have to stump up $108 just to see.

I think one of the great things about 2000s/early 2010s internet was the proliferation of free to use platforms like livejournal, blogger and WordPress. Sure there was a lot or jank, but I found some of my favourite writers back when they were scratching their name into the internet.

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Burns night 2018. A wonderful horrible terrifying brilliant life affirming night out in Newcastle.

They’re good people, but good grief can they drink and talk shite whilst being utterly charming and threatening.

TIL the dev of Iron Lung, an acclaimed indie horror game, faced significant backlash over increasing the price from $6 to $8 (www.ign.com)

Then, responding to those who have said he’s “only doing this for the money", Szymanski tweeted: “Yes, no fucking shit. I make games for a living. If I didn't want to earn money from them I wouldn't charge money for them.”...

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No mate, I’m doing you a favour playing your game. You should pay me. It would be great exposure. I’ve got literally some followers.

And yeah, I’ll bang on about minimum wage being too low and I’ll post about AAA Devs ripping off their workers, but a lone developer asking $10 for something that probably took them months, too much. Too much.

What a sell out.

(/S just in case)

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And what’s worse, half of those complaining bought Elon’s blue tick!

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Radical.

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Yeah. Vacations. Sure.

I see them blowing all their money on things like healthcare and rent.

Not exactly hedonism at its greatest.

Every time we pay them more, the expenses go up by double that.

Who is doing the most good in the world, and how? (kbin.social)

My feed is filled with bad news, which is my fault for using the fediverse as a news feed, but it made me wonder: Which organisations, groups or individual people in the world are doing the most good for our world? I'm particularly interested in those who manage to do good on a larger impact scale (quantity or quality), but if...

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Get a point for being bold enough to nominate yourself too.

I mean it, that was a cool thing to do and I’m glad you recognise it.

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I was so glad when we slipped out of the bulbous silver aesthetic.

Everything looking like a Tonka toy Geiger.

And now I look at it and it seems like home.

Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" (futurism.com)

Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on...

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AI art is, by very definition, average.

It’s the best fit line. It’s the most common. The mean or the median.

The best art is exceptional.

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Going to be honest with you, your art is fine.

Just fine.

Not great though. Not exceptional. Not really new or exciting.

Just what anyone with a weak prompt and an llm can do.

It’s ok.

I’m glad you are enjoying making it.

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The problem is that most artists make money from commercial clients and most clients don’t want “good”.

The want “good enough” and “cheap”.

And that’s why it is taking artists jobs.

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I take it you spend time going to galleries or the theatre? That you engage with art at the source…

Because if you said something as fucking stupid as “and what art is exciting these days” whilst only consuming media through a screen, that’d make you look and sound really daft.

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I’m not afraid of AI and I’m certainly not a luddite my friend. I used to lecture about technology in art on several university courses.

I’ve used algorithms to generate work that has been shown on an international stage, and used computers to run massive participatory art shows.

I currently work in publishing, and I can’t express how much AI has already impacted the landscape through generative text. It doesn’t compete with traditional authors, it just smothers them through sheer volume. It clogs up submission processes and it fills open calls… And nearly every one using generative methods thinks they should be called an “author” just because they put a few words into a prompt.

There really is a reason I hold this point if view and it is based on experience and education as well as being part of an industry that this is already having an impact on.

If you want me to take you seriously, I’m going to need some real discussion around the firm that goes beyond name calling and vague statements.

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I don’t look down on any of that art. I’ve read transformation novels written in the last couple of years. I’ve heard the most amazing original and articulate music. I’ve played games that have pushed storytelling and visceral experience.

I consider it art too. It’s the product of human endeavour, often driving to make something wonderful through effort and skill. It’s often an attempt with communicating at an audience.

To denounce it all as “derivative” misunderstands creativity.

That’s like saying that language is derivative because someone has already said all of the words… It’s not the words that matter but the context in which they are used. This is true of all art. The context of work provides the newness that stops it being derivative.

Sorry, I’ve got to ask though, can you give me an example of “bougie shit”?

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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d3316251-f021-4433-9c05-7fb3db243dc6.jpeg

I call this, “Derivative is not bad, it’s simply a matter of fact. Our creations and ideas are based off that which inspires us. Things don’t need to be unique or revolutionary to be enjoyable and that’s the most important quality, that we enjoy what we consume.”

I’m enjoying our collaboration.

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Bet you are into NFTs too, huh?

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My eyes! The detail! It hurts!

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It’s a bit meh, isn’t it?

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His work almost never benefits the community though. Councils will actively remove it or individuals will tear down walls just to sell it for private gain.

If the artist genuinely cared about the community they wouldn’t bestow work upon it but work with them instead.

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And the community responds:

guardian article, Banksy defaced

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Not just sea salt. Signs down across Glasgow and I think that’s chip salt and neglect.

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The only thing I’ve found that makes much difference is pre-wetting filters. The rest feels awfully like tarot and crystals for people that like caffeine.

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I feel like that is neither universal or basic.

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6 feef.

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I feef you.

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I know you’ve been recommended a lot of books.

Like you I only ever read non-fiction.

Then someone gave me a copy of Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut.

You might like a lot of his work. It’s not exactly fiction and not exactly non-fiction.

Anyway, good luck on your adventure! You are doing something brave and interesting. Let us know how you get on.

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Slow readers are my favourite humans.

They don’t race through a book, but instead the stroll, taking time to look around, think things through, ponder the future and reason the implications. Sometimes they just rest for a while, letting the story mull in their mind, before returning later.

Genuinely have so much time for people that take it slow with books.

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People lie about how much they read and how quickly they read. I saw one guy online list his yearly reading and if you totalled up the words in those books he’d be breaking records.

People lie because they want people to think they are smart. But reading quickly isn’t an indicator of intelligence any more so than people that watch videos at four times the speed.

Retention and comprehension are far more important, but still secondary to enjoyment.

If you enjoy how you read and what you read, don’t let anyone tell you that you are doing it wrong.

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Oh yeah, I’m not shaming anyone who skims, read however you enjoy.

I just know that there’s more of a weird stigma for slower readers.

Same goes for finishing books. I know some folk will stick with a book even if they aren’t enjoying it, mostly because they’ve learnt that as part of their education.

I abandon books all the time. Life’s a little too short, so I treat reading like the radio… A song comes on that I’m not into, just flip over and see what else is put there.

That said, I’ve returned to books that I bailed on and in some cases I really enjoyed them at the second attempt. Which makes me think that you have to be in the right place sometimes. Still, it’s no reflection on intelligence.

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There’s a certain sort of grief in finishing a book you enjoy, isn’t there?

It’s harder with physical copies because you can feel the pages slipping away. Not so much on an ereader.

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Literally a side plot of Disco Elysium.

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It’s certainly worth playing if you enjoy whimsical philosophical narratives.

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Yeah I was being a little glib. It’s close to perfect for me. Also Kim.

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Older version in case of comparability issues. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f76785e9-6b2c-46e4-989e-e12a1727d74a.webp

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Older version in case of compatibility issues. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ee366348-9d0c-4982-80f2-983722181eff.webp

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But not the cyclist as the cycle right through it.

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This is really good. Clear and well laid out.

The only thing that might confuse some beginners is your specific choice of package manager.

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You’re awesome.

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The UK, where we don’t trust you not to run off with a trolley, so we make you deposit a pound coin, but then we make you check out and cash up your own shopping.

All this so they don’t have to employ people.

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Aye, I know, but I was being flippant. All of it is cost cutting. Self checkout was a way of getting rid of staff… More importantly making customers work for free. They just overestimated their ability to police the process.

To be fair, I’m surprised they don’t just hand you a brush and a full trolley on the way in to get you to sweep up and restock the shelves.

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