Seeing the people embrace the slop is more bewildering. I saw AI generated star wars short about General Grevious's space shuttle crash. And the comments where full of the usual suspects saying "if disney doesn't want to make star wars movies anymore then we will make our own with AI :)".
It looked like utter shit with no story except what we all know from reading wookiepedia. But they don't care because all this pop culture is slop anyway and they detest anything slightly different from a 1930s serial.
Maybe I am having a
moment, but don't we already have cameras, drawing tablets, scanners, krita, gimp, kdenlive, hydrogen, audacious, blender3D etc. for making new non-slop anyway? A Bezos-Theil trade federation blocking physical art supplies seems really unlikely anyway and people have made more with less.
The issue is that they practically own our attention with extremely low effort addictive apps where people devote hours to video clips they don't even enjoy. Alot more people can and should make real art in the face of this.
But also if there is to be an American AI winner, it's likely going to be an inefficient peronist style arrangement that wrecks havocks in communities with data centers destroying the air, depleting the water supply and small modular nuclear reactors being built everywhere with reduced safety standards. Best of all there will be no jobs from this once the construction is completed. The american suburban experience was already unviable but this will push it over the edge. Our role as communist isn't the lament this collapse but to prepare people for it and work towards something much better.
So many people have been conditioned to create as much microplastic as possible. Be it Christmas nostalgia or the physical media radicals who can’t get their heads around piracy.
Switch isn’t a good analogy for building socialism either. Fascists already have a base built on hatred. We’re stuck have to convince everybody to stay the course towards something better.
Western climate activists have ngo brain and must plead fealty to dirty old hippies.
The question why is China, a country run more by engineers then lawyers is relatively cool on nuclear as compared to renewables when energy security is so critical now?
I get they are reinventing le epic thorium reactors or fusion. But they are nascent. Low risk PWR Nuclear is still really shit at scaling. You need very specific sites where people know they can extract as much money out of the project in objections and protests. Projects are too big to fail which become grounds for every stakeholder to bleed funds out of project and gain political power.
Not to say geography isn’t an issue with renewables but the moral hazards you have to absorb are so much more dispersed and don’t depend on water in vast quantities.
Yeah but a very dangerous outposts totally dependent on supplies from earth and the ability to evacuate quickly. Is there any evidence we cracked self-sufficient life support systems?
Bet this person will post non stop now how Christmas used to hit different and how depressing it is that kids don’t replay the exact experiences she did.
This is a really badly written article. Like a really stupid boomer rant.
Flash forward to 2025 and the real thing motivating the move to Linux is the enshittification of windows not some embrace of privacy netsec culture. The kid's aren't just computer illiterate, they are illiterate illiterate.
Hot take but teaching kids to code or use computers beyond being specific accessibility aids isn't a good use of their time. They should be building neurons and confidence with a pen and paper. Learning any technology is easy once you understand the principles of how it should work, stay calm, read the fucking manual and think critically about the problem your trying to solve.
Seriously hope so. Already feels like an alien invasion with friends using studio gibli profile pics and co-workers sending AI slop.