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and the punks and rebels *won* that war. a urinal is art. a solid block of color is art. an empty canvas is art. a pile of candy is art.

and yet here we are once again, being told it must be Hard, you must Suffer, you must have the right Technique. the pencil is sacred, the prompt is profane.

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 38m

uncropped hot af

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 1h

A cat wearing a suit sits upright at a table with a cup of coffee and an open newspaper in front of it, looking contemplatively out a window with white curtains. The overlaid text reads, “I SHOULD GET A CAT.”

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 1h

unimaginable horror, being chronically depressed in a sharply circumscribed peasant life

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 1h

There's something very "growth mindset" about using the word "priors" for every belief, like reflexively adding "yet" to every "I'm not good at x" statement. Your beliefs are always in the past, never the present, always waiting to meet the next observation.

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 1h

were people in the past who lived what look like pretty damn miserable lives depressed just as often as we are today, or more often? and if not... what the hell man

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 1h

it's so much sexier to work on shit that has real hardware constraints, and everyone involved knows it

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 1h

... same hat

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 1h

scaled to net worth, it's like a middle aged silicon valley engineer coming back from Vegas with a grand from playing the poker tables

net worth is weird when it gets that big so the analogy is probably a *little* stretched, but not much

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 1h

no one is allowed to yell at me now, i am just a smol bean on ketamine

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 1h

probably could fit that much into a couple of good nights of poker at the really high stakes tables

it's not like he would have missed it if he lost it. some years he probably does.

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 1h

well you're on here and you have opinions. you're getting yelled at anyway. might as well have the space to get your thoughts in proper shape if you're gonna get yelled at about em either way

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 1h

so uh. what if we'd like to be hit with sapphic goblin flashbangs

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 1h

and the punks and rebels *won* that war. a urinal is art. a solid block of color is art. an empty canvas is art. a pile of candy is art.

and yet here we are once again, being told it must be Hard, you must Suffer, you must have the right Technique. the pencil is sacred, the prompt is profane.

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 1h

there was a war in the 20th century between those who said "if i picked it and put it in a context where it has meaning, it's art" and those who said "it's only art if it was Hard, if you Suffered, learned Technique". the former were the punks and rebels and the latter were the establishment squares

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 1h

admittedly, not a very obvious joke on here where i don't talk about kink much, but i don't think we want to say legibility is a requirement for art, do we? someone *did* get it. probably a few people just didn't mention it. and of course, i always get it. and now a bunch of you do.

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 1h

i did *very little* to change the *image itself*. all i did was select (part) of it and put it in a context.

and that selection into that context makes it mean a *completely different thing* than the original art meant. now it's a joke about sex, kink, and the kind of person i am in those domains.

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 1h

in fact, i think it's a fantastic example of the poverty of a lot of "AI tools cannot be used to produce art" arguments. my profile picture is literally just a straight on photograph of the cover of a book, itself a piece of art, and then cropped and put in front of an audience.

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 2h

but it’s “deciding what out of infinite possibilities to show” at root.

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 2h

yeah basically that’s the foundation IMO. i don’t think anything else captures the breadth of what is considered art. there’s obviously many technical skills involved in specific arts, brush strokes and exposure settings and prompt engineering.

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