I’m currently in NC which while it’s not currently as harmful to trans folk as other southern states, the legislation is starting to lean in that direction. I’m trying to move up to New York State to be closer to friends and find new opportunities in a location that I’ll feel more comfortable being out.
I just want everyone to know my wife has been laughing at this post for like three full minutes, she’s literally in tears and in three years together I’ve never seen her laugh this hard????
Once upon a time in the US, skins or casings on hot dogs were commonplace. Some brands in Europe still do these; so when we’ve recently been to a grocery that carries such things and have brought some home, I pause to doublecheck them carefully before starting work on them.
This is because the very first things I ever attempted to cook by myself were a couple of the non-skinless ones. I didn’t really notice the skins, so I just put the hot dogs in the oven to grill.
At which point, once they got hot enough, they near-simultaneously blew up—out the not-quite-sealed ends of the skins, interestingly—and splattered the entire inside of the shiny new oven with mushy pink hot dog innards.
To this day, sometimes, when finishing the business of cooking something new, in the deep recesses of memory I can hear a formerly mortified and thoroughly pissed off ten-year-old muttering, “Well, at least that didn’t blow up.”
actual response to the “it’s art theft” argument: if literally any legal/regulatory action is taken that supports that stance, big corporate entities are going to basically have legal precedent to fuck with the average artist who is maybe infringing on Copyrighted Art Styles or literally just making fanart. you don’t want music industry-style copyright law affecting visual art too
are there labor-related issues tied to generative AI? absolutely. is the root cause of those issues generative AI itself, and would regulating generative AI out of existence be feasible or even address that root cause? no lmao
see i fully agree with this but like. i kind of struggle to call e.g. what DALL-E 3 is doing “art theft” because it’s kind of not doing anything conceptually different than what Regular Human Artist Brains do when they absorb stylistic influences from people (and arguably generative models are kind of worse at this than humans are). like yeah it has the mechanical advantage of being able to crawl enormous datasets but i don’t really think just having more I/O makes it less ethical
people who train/use models to specifically like, reproduce a particular living artist they don’t want to pay for commissions is fucked though but again like. those people aren’t going to suddenly start respecting artists if the newest tool for fucking them over stops existing or becomes socially taboo to use
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