h. Play

Yes, I’ve seen the Ghibli-fication of memes via ChatGPT. Yes, it’s mesmerizing and touching and it grosses people out because many said that AI can’t do shit and now their little hearts are moved by a synthetic organization of colors and shape on screen, and they. Can’t. Take. It.

And here’s the usual media take on how we, humans, are so much better than extremely complex systems (which is what we are, btw) who can do a lot and more every six months or so:

“I think the proliferation of AI tools and the subsequent explosion of AI-generated art is just going to lead to newfound desires and appreciation for the human-made varieties.”

It will not. For one, to appreciate the “human-made varieties” you need to know the world before AI-generated art and that’s a diminishing number of folks every year. Two, this assumes that humans can separate AI-generated art and legacy-generated art, and that’s as of today in the middle of giant improvements of the former, already impossible.

Third, this assumes that people give a fuck about human-made art that much. Everyone makes art. It doesn’t really have any value but the one we give to it.

What AI does is shatter the world of expensive art, yes. Did it ever make sense? I don’t think so. A hour or two of work and you sell that piece $40,000 because the patron is filthy rich? That’s the world of expensive art right there, and that market is now kind of irrelevant. Overnight.

So, everyone born 2000 and up is cooked enough to never see or even bother to see the difference between human and AI art. People born before don’t really give much of a shit.

Everyone with a bit of imagination can now create whatever they want, quickly. Unprecedented. We need UBI, on god. Let’s go.

We’re microdosing on a COVID x bird flu hybrid all week, probably.

Feeling restless due to being grateful for how things are going right now.

I’m looking even more at land, and I have to hurry up a bit, and it’s a bit overwhelming and it feels crazy that it’s happening and that things are aligning and that it’s going to be amazing. Or at least, I’m trying as hard as I can to make it so.

I have never hated a government like I do right now. Holy shit.

The silence of the powerful is deafening.

That’s the term coming to mind these days.

No one seems to have any. Everyone is using their phones the way you would scratch your shoulder: immediately, without warning, just not caring about anything at all.

It’s absolutely destroying society. I am witnessing it in real time, and it’s something. No one seems to realize it, as most everyone is doing it. I’m not because I was lucky to see the negative effects of phone addiction extremely early on, and I’m pretty good at resisting peer pressure.

The lack of digital hygiene is akin to farting and burping loudly whenever you feel like it. In line at the grocery store. In the elevator. Right in front of other folks on a sidewalk. While your supervisor or your mom is talking to you. At a wedding. After sex. While teaching. You get the idea.

Wearing wireless earbuds while scrolling is like farting and burping AND not hearing or smelling yourself. You become content and disrespectful to, disconnected from your direct environment in ways previously impossible to reach.

And we let that happened, somehow. All VCs and SV really, really wanted their 10x returns so they said fuck it, let’s trick them all. Let’s abuse people as efficiently as possible, using the latest research on human psychology.

I don’t know what to do. I’m just happy to not be like that. Having good digital hygiene is a bit lonely. But I worry about the rest of the world.

This scale, it’s no good.

What the fuck Russia wants? All the smoke? To do what?

Can the current president of the United States shut the entire fuck up?

Can someone make ‘lon bleed in the mouth and take a picture?

All of that is even more disturbing because personally, all is well. I was with my girl m. on Saturday night eating mango chicken while listening to Roy Ayers (I have almost all his music), tripping and enjoying ourselves. But we were also like “goddamn, this country”. Obsessed with winning and losing when there’s only living. It’s pathetic.

It’s not we can do better but more like there’s absolutely no other way.

I can’t comprehend how so much pain is being distributed to folks for a goddamn virtual line on the ground that says “Ukraine here” “Russia here”. 

Legions of dumb ass men living in fantasy worlds where territories mean everything as if we couldn’t live together at all, despite the fact that we do.

“Why are they all shaking hands with Putin? Isn’t he a full-on dictator? Whatever, I have things to do” Me in early 2000s.

No one really mentions that today, but the entire West was friendly with this dude 20+ years ago, even though it didn’t make sense. So now it’s even more confusing. We let Russia do whatever for decades, we’ve been warned countless of times and now we’re like “holy shit, they really are doing whatever they want!”

Fucking idiot ass men in power, I swear.

Take China, which is virtually providing 80% if not more of everything we consume here in the West (US/EU) since about 1995. Talking about China being an enemy is fucking crazy. We’re so entangled business-wise that talking about communism vs capitalism is absurd, irrelevant and pointless. We need each other equally, what are you all on?

Globalization has intricately connected us all and there’s no return from that.

I see the plan to rearm Europe. A €150 billion loan, which will be paid back when, when Europe just like the US and China, are living on credit cards? Mad fucking men.

Zelle lost US banks close to a trillion dollars. The banks just killed their lawsuits because who cares about this unfathomable sum of money? No one, apparently. Mad men.

It’s batshit crazy everywhere. I read the creator of WordPress saying that Joe Rogan makes sense and is knowledgeable (since when?????), one of the Basecamp founder sucking JD Vance’s dick in a blog post. Like, shit is insane. Everyone showing their ass.

Exhausting.

Hi Ukraine,

Yes, what my government is, is fucking embarrassing. I’m ashamed. I want to drop kick those people in power in the white house. I want to smack the fuck out of those two disrespectful bums.

I hope Europe shows up for you. Stay strong, as you always have been.