Maybe there's a better way to say this. Art and capitalism have *always* been in deep conflict. What generative AI has done is to make it much harder for the artist to find some little safe zone within that conflict in which the two can coexist without art getting stomped out of existence.
That last post probably should have included a kitten photo. better late than never.
Is there something about the field of technology specifically that makes its executives and investors think they understand how society works and how it should be ordered? Do their positions really give them any kind of special insight? Why do we take their opinions so seriously?
From The New Yorker: "...large language models are black boxes. We don’t really understand how they work." This is false in so many obvious ways. We literally designed them to do exactly what they are doing. We have a ridiculously precise idea how they work.
Dogs will never be worse at Algebra than they are today.
LLMs are the love child of a Philosophical Zombie and a Chinese Room.
Reese is going to his new home today. Kit is like, “what about me?”
I saw “Couch Cushions” in today’s Connections puzzle and thought the category might be “things JD Vance has had sex with”. Sea Bass was in there too.
Young cat in a fluffy bed
Natalie luxuriating
Young cat in a hammock with one pad draped over the side
Natalie
Natalie’s handiwork
Kit is a mini-me
kitten asleep on an overturned stuffed duck
Reese
kitten in a very small box
Noelle
kitten lying on a person’s knees with paws crossed
Joy
If you connect to people with your art, you're connecting _around_ capitalism, not _through_ captitalism.
babies
There's a special place in hell for people who use Tolkien's words to name their companies and then use those companies to create tools for people to harm each other.
Lizzy
A very innocent looking kitten sitting in a cat tree
Robin went to his new home yesterday. His name is now Timmy. Pretty good name. He looks like a Timmy.
It might look like Simon is putting the star on top of the christmas tree but that's not what he's up to.
Cryptic crossword clue:
No fascists are kind (4)
Oh, right. We need a kitten. Kitten of the day is Simon. Simon is the foxiest looking cat I think I've ever seen.
baby evening primroses
Every summer, our back yard erupts with evening primroses. There are more every year because I refuse to mow them. But in the fall, they all die, and I weed-whack the dried-up stems. This year, one little primrose sprouted up about three weeks after the weed-whacking.
A literal late bloomer.
Probably should start with a kitten photo. This is Hazel.