just purchased fancy bedsheets I need to lay down for a second jfc my wallet

swore up and down that I was going to only read from my physical tbr this year and that I wouldn't buy new books until I made significant progress - now I'm reading books new books via my library 🧍🏻‍♂️

Frederick Cuming (British, 1930 - 2022). Winter Sun (oil painting).

I love when you watch a home DIY video and the person is like "watch me transform this for under 100$" and then pull out several giant appliances that are worth 100+ each

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence lies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't. By magicmosshka, yesterday's

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

the cottage, as told through polaroids 🫶 #heatedrivalry

shout out to all the people who will have 10 fingers for the last time today

Once I finish this paper I'm locking in and picking War & Peace back up again

Edit image button

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

by far the funniest use case for AI is “I use it for powerpoints because I hate making them and nobody looks at them” because it kinda sounds like the real workflow savings would be to stop making powerpoints

I do think there is a metacommentary in the fact that every book on goodreads is rated approximately 4 stars

them not using the RUS version of it though - major missed opportunity

in august I bought 64gb RAM cards bc they were on sale, and at the time I felt kinda guilty for buying them bc yeah it was a good deal but maybe not the most financially responsible decision, now I realize i got on the last chopper out

artwork of the creature from frankenstein (2025). the creature is the central figure, his body abstracted into the swathes of blues and greens, with a tinge of red, with details of furs of his coat and candles lit with red flames. his torso is carved out, exposing red flesh and a heart connected with veins that have some sprouting flowers, and the final scene of the creature embracing the morning sun. framing the creature are various body parts as well as the halves of victor and elizabeth's faces.

i love frankenstein (2025) so much

#art

i am so tired of online shops listing products as "available" and promising they'll ship in 2-5 business days, just to then constantly delay your order until they ultimately cancel it bc it's not available - and then you check the listing and it'll claim to still be available to ship in 2-5 days

i have to use linkedin for work & holy shit the ai epidemic on there is out of control, the worst part is that you'll see former colleagues that are your age like the most obvious slop imaginable - like a dog saving an orphan from a burning building and they 100% earnest think it's real

Just so we’re clear; if you use gen AI for your writing at all then I don’t care what themes the work contains or what point you are trying to make. Using gen AI tells me that you fundamentally cannot engage with or create art in any meaningful way and nothing you have to say to me has any value.

top 5 parts of winter are when you get to move all the big drinks on the window sill and free up all the space in your fridge

I have two quite expensive books ordered that have been delayed for like 2 months-ish now, so i want to order other ones to read now, but like what if they suddenly *do* arrive and then i have to pay all the bills at once

scream why are the pots wearing tiaras

you know how dating apps tend to have a "don't have but want" or "don't have but love" options for pets or kids, they have to add one that's "don't have, dislike and will be a dealbreaker if you do"

so desperate to improve my latin I've started writing down the vocab with my non-dominant hand in hopes of forcing my brain to focus, but all that's happening is that I'm becoming ambidextrous

major Italy W I love a good Kiwi

sadiq @SadiqoJN • Follow Why do bash "dead-beat" dads for not being there for their kids but we never question if the child has bad vibes? Or if they're just unpleasant to be around?

Frankenstein (2025)

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

the german asoiaf paperback cover is so ugly and I hate how it looks in my shelf, like the crest/house words design is cute but why the cheapo papyrus background

idk who needs to hear this but if you think putting salt in pasta water "makes no difference" you are not putting enough salt, you need to throw in like a proper fistful don't be shy and stop eating bland pasta 😭

photo of vince gilligan with a quote from variety: "AI is the world's most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit." - Vince Gilligan on why he hates AI

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Posting this as a teaser just to disappear into the mist for midterms

#Zaundads #Vanco

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