Using genAI alienates you from everyone else. It doesn't democratize art, it atomizes it.

No genAI user is gonna get an outpouring of sincere support from others because even they themselves don't give a fuck about what they're making.

bibliophiles expecting the smell of dill to remind them of books?! huh??

If it hasn't bloomed yet, it's too young so give it another year or two. Also, it propagates via shoots, so trim any unwanted shoots coming up from the ground before they get too big.

You don't need to cut back lilac the way you do with rose bushes. Let it grow, trim it lightly after it blooms to encourage it to bloom again next flowering season. You can let lilac bushes get quite large and they'll still bloom as long as you trim it a little bit

My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words.

I cannot search three words in quotes.

Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.

And now we have this.

People look at photos of malls during closed hours with the dark halls and closed gates and go "ooh so liminal", but I just think it's missing the ecosystem of groggy baristas trying to get the coffee kiosk ready to open under the watchful eyes of geriatrics waiting for their 6:01am drip coffee

Imagine: 5am, in addition to tired retail employees doing floor sets and graveyard shift security guards, gaggles of elderly marching around the dimly lit halls, swarms of grandmas in their athleisure outfits collecting under the skylights in the food court where the sun has just started to rise.

untapped mall culture: mall walkers. Most malls I've worked in have had a community of people (mostly retirees as stay at home parents) who go to the mall before opening hours to get their steps in.

Make sure you're looking under Bluesky Moderation Service. It's not in the regular tab. My Rude was off when I checked it.