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luke viia

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  1. we may have been screwing with Earth's local ecosystems for thousands of years (as any invasive species will do), but it clearly wasn't until industrialization that we truly started fucking up the climate. e.g. even the birth of agriculture wasn't irreversibly warming the oceans (which humans famously don't inhabit - or even have the capability to explore thoroughly). in my ideal world the earth will give the birds another hundred million years to evolve that splintered dino lineage after we fuck ourselves into irrelevance. birds and whales. let them run it for a while eh gaia?
  2. changing our ways would def be for the better - unfortunately 'our ways' (read: the way of business) seems to be a huge addiction to capital, promised (but typically unfulfilled) satisfaction & meaning through products and the comforts we believe they will sustain, etc. if the ship keeps going through rougher waters - and the ship is causing the storm, as it were - what hope is there but to try to land on some safe shore? why insist on continuing to sail? agreed, but: if panic & outrage & worry are the only catalysts that cause true change, then they are necessary helpful for sure, but sadly ultimately not a solution. I say this with ~15 years of work experience in construction waste diversion (architectural salvage & reclamation - no matter how many thousands of tons of material we saved, it barely qualified as a drop in the bucket. took me a long time to accept that...) I think this is where the ship analogy kinda falls apart: there is no captain. and that makes mutiny far more difficult
  3. my phone's autocorrect has lost the plot. an example from moments ago: bucks like bucks not even trying anymore
  4. yeah by hospice I basically meant acknowledging that this *gestures at everything* is dying instead of pretending we can keep modernity alive forever (by way of environmentally harmful "buy some time" fixes like fracking and shale oil digging etc, the equivalent of giving a terminally ill patient an experimental drug that causes horrible symptoms but keeps them alive for a few more months) not so much making everyone comfortable, but yeah managing the symptoms and all the funny stuff pls
  5. 1. we've hit the iceberg. as far as I'm concerned, there's no doubting this. climate moves way slower than we do and its reactions don't line up with our lifespans. the tipping points (that @trying to be less rude mentioned, for instance) are already happening / have happened / are going to continue happening. we're causing an enormous extinction, and yes they happen without us too, but this one is on our species and will drastically disrupt what we know & expect of the natural world. whatever we consider the current Western way of life, it will end or drastically change within our or our children's lifetimes. our society is currently on life support, and it needs to be in hospice care. we should be in the mindset of managing a dying civilization, not pretending it can live forever and using up exorbitant amounts of natural resources to continue living in a way that clearly has to end.
  6. a PSA (PWATMM Service Announcement): i quit smoking weed 10 months ago and my life fell apart. I beg you: warn your family and friends of the dangers of not smoking marijuana
  7. idk but it's officially one of the biggest regrets of my youth edit: fwiw I knew/know all the singles by heart but never realized the entire album front to back just fuckin rules the night
  8. been revisiting a lot of 90s music lately and hadn't heard this album in its entirety, like, ever. IT'S SO GOOD.
  9. I member this playing on the radio in my parents car when I was in middle school. absolute sugar cube of a tune
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    just finished, totally loved it.
  11. I also think that performative art (whether this means live music shows, or plays, or whatever) will gain in value. easily reproduced art (digital recordings, prints, photos etc) will become more or less worthless materially as AI learns to reproduce almost identical "products" without effort. we like art in part because it is originated in imaginations like our own, with unique influences and born of certain experiences, and expressing something intentional with a certain perspective. we appreciate skill. we value the fact that another mind like our own has created this thing. in human history so far, this origin of art has just been a necessary given - but now we will have to differentiate between the old kind, and derivative "art" made by minimal human input (a prompt is about as lazy an attempt at creativity as one could make; I've played with them myself and, while fun, it does not at all compare to the prolonged act of working on creating something you have mentally envisioned yourself, or just something that spontaneously emerges from your current skill level and desire to create). as an example, I am totally captured by watching a group of musicians improvise well together (or playing in such a group): it relates to my own experience as a conscious being. I would be far less impressed by a group of algorithms jamming out a song in real time; not that it isn't impressive from a technical standpoint, but there is no imagination present in its moment to moment creation, no actual relational skill between motivated minds at play. it's not relatable and therefore far less interesting to watch, to listen to, etc. performative art will not only be irreplaceable by AI, it will probably gain popularity in the coming decades. just a hunch.
  12. I suspect it'll generate an artistic reaction like the Arts & Crafts movement after industrial production got real big. but A&C became a bourgeoisie thing pretty quickly, since dedicated artisans had to charge far more for their work than the easily produced cheap crap manufacturers did. likewise, I think in our own time we'll see that there is a deluge of utterly worthless "art" made by algorithms that are just mimicking human creativity, and a (probably ultimately failed) revolt against this. it's not a new phenomenon, this cheapening of art, but AI takes it to a new level.
  13. luke viia

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    great read. especially if there are aging and/or terminally ill people in your life (as there are in mine).
  14. a very small detail in one of my dreams recently: there was a coin-operated elevator. despite the dream also involving sexually ambiguous visions and a cement basement riddled with cat-sized insects that could speak a strange language, the idea of an elevator that charged an exorbitant amount of exact change per ride really got to me
  15. despite the fact that he always wriggles out of trouble like an unsquishable worm, this is pretty lovely news. jack better make a hell of a case out of this.
  16. this is, in fact, the greatest thing on youtube regrettably, I am still stopping at five or six stores, and I can't see the statue of liberty from here
  17. this deserves attention! seriously great stuff
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