Want to wade into the rainbow-ridden surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy Pride Month, peeps)
Thereās a Basilisk reference in the new 007 game, I guess the robot devil is firmly mainstream now.
edit: the in-game painting looks hella AI generated too.
āThought experimentā is how Iām going to start referring to my āwouldnāt it be cool/awful ifā¦ā thoughts. Why just in the bath now Iāve conducted several thought experiments
Kick it up a level and start calling them Gedankenexperiment
Geddan Ken Experiment right?
I wonder if they had a human imitate gen ai style or just had nano banana generate itā¦
Rokoās Basilisk and other such batshit rat shit was mainstreamed as part of inflating the AI bubble - I doubt this will be the last time something like this gets referenced.
Seems pretty fitting to an illustration made in reverence to Rokoās Bullshittery. I donāt notice any obvious signs of slop-machine generation - either Iām shit at spotting slop, or this was made by human hands.
The brainwrinkles look if you put a brain though a make-it-look-like-a-sketch prompt, itās pointlessly detailed (i.e. not pretty or crafty, not adding anything, just lines for the sake of lines), it has the piss filter hue and also thereās random orange shading. The background seems to be at least two separate layers of seemingly disjointed stuff.
Supposedly the plot hinges somewhat on AI shenanigans so this painting being noticeably GenAIāed could the part of its point. or even a meta thing, but playing the game to make sure isnāt currently on my agenda.
i hate it!