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You heard it here for the thousandth time in the history of art: condescension towards new mediums does not make you morally superior, just conservative in a predictable and recurr…

Hmm... where have I encountered this worldview before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art

I think you're right unless the person is disabled or almost anyone inside of an extreme religious context, or a context where they are a member of a small minority group. But thes…

I feel like you would love the book "Simulacra and Simulation" by Jean Baudrillard. It agrees with you, and there's a sense in which you're right. I wonder what you think our eyes …

I absolutely will. I am.

I don't think the intentions of those men matter, though, when it comes to whether or not they are creating new mediums for self expression. It won't be those men who make the art.…

Yeah this is the part that really sucks

I doubt this will remain niche. Clothing was niche at one point. So was plastic surgery. Image filters are now ubiquitous. Also, I lived through the Second Life and Warcraft eras. …

Yeah, this is how I feel. "Reality" is already heavily mediated. Why are people so enraged that a person might want to mediate or enhance it further? Often lately the same people w…

I don't think so. We had genocide and thousand-year periods of enslavement and colonialism and existential despair (and existentialism) and mechanization and atomization that led t…

This feels like I'm reading a comment written by anti-video game moms in the early 90s talking about the stupid unfashionable nerds and how they were ushering in a frightening new …

Was anyone else confused by this title? I thought it was saying "a letter to those who fired tech writers because they were caught using AI," not "a letter to those who fired tech …

This article is full of conflicting implicit beliefs and personal opinions. This is anecdotal folksy wisdom porn.

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I agree! Especially now that the data analysis tools have been integrated by default. It even writes and executes code to validate most of its mathy answers. I tried for a few mont…

The landing page of this site doesn’t load correctly on my iPhone.

This is basically how I respond to requests myself. Sometimes a single short sentence will cause me to slowly spit out a few words. Other times I can respond instantly to paragraph…

Every time this happens at the companies I’ve worked at, it’s been because the business didn’t think the need was worth prioritizing over the other business needs. I’ve never been …

I guess this makes sense if you don’t use a Second Brain/PARA/Zettelkasten/etc. system, but my entire life is structured around Obsidian (at home) and OneNote (at work). If you’re …