Except you can very much use it as a tool to create a work. With img2img you can feed it a drawing (or anything really) and have it remake the image you fed it in a whole new style. With inpainting you can take an existing image and have AI fill in a masked area with something else entirely. Controlnet lets you control how things in the generated image are composed or even do wild things like create unique QR codes. And absolutely nothing is stopping one from taking the AI generated image, pulling it into an editing software and editing it further into a greater piece too

With tools like these its very easy to see how an artist might make something like say, a fake time travel log or use it as a tool to reduce how much labor is needed to complete a larger work

AI is like photography. If all you do is rely on the machine you get output exactly as good as the thought and effort you put in, but if you approach it as a tool to use in your artwork it opens up a ton of neat possibilities that are yet to be seen and can be a brilliant tool to keep in the toolbox

not because they’re ever good but because of the conditions they were made under. So, still actual art.

I’d argue that torturing GPUs into generating thousands of extremely similar but still unique pictures of anime titties has a bit of poetic artistry to it

(I’m mostly shitposting here, but there might be a kernel of truth somewhere in there)

That’s one of the reasons why many smaller farms run 50-70 year old tractors, they’re machines designed to be maintained and kept running indefinitely so we have farmers using literal antiques to get work done. Literally they’ll drive off the field to the antique tractor ride then head back to the field to finish the days work after the ride.

I think you misunderstand the economic choice that smaller farms are making. When you can get a 50 year old workhorse tractor for 20k that you can actually maintain yourself, it makes far more sense than any 200k+ tractor whether diesel or electric. Additionally folks are used to diesel, they’ve already got a big tank on the property that they refill every few months, and they might not have sufficient electrical connection to get several of the giant swapable battery packs for their tractors and keep one on the charge while they work.

If farmers were starting from scratch, sure it might make sense to go all solar and all electric, but these are folks who are constantly squeezed for cash, constantly relying on crop insurance and well-timed loans and subsidies to stay afloat living on 200 year old farms that have been in the family since the land was stolen from the native Americans, and probably still using the equipment dad bought in the 60s and 70s because that’s the most financially viable option.

Dude two of the colleges I toured when I was a high schooler ended up shutting down and losing their accreditation. Only reason I didn’t attend either of them was my parents told me they were too expensive and I was just a high schooler with zero concept of money who had yet to work at all (and honestly I had a bunch of other contributing problems but that’s well outside of the scope of this discussion)

Jezebel posted a story about paying an Etsy witch to hex Kirk just 2 days ago

My first thought was that the pacing and humor was perfectly on-point for the Onion so it makes perfect sense that that’s where it came from

I don’t think you’re being creative enough!

That’s the dumbest part of it all is that pirates seriously get the best movie/TV experience of anyone. I mean, maybe if you spend a shitton on DVD and BluRays to rip you can match that experience, but even that can be legally dubious depending on the jurisdiction

I’ll take a pair of rubber feet too!

Religion is important though. Ultimately for one to live a fulfilling life one needs to tend and maintain their mental, physical and spiritual health. Religion is how historically most have maintained their spiritual health (and mental health too), and in modern times organized religion doesn’t have a monopoly on spiritualism, so people can find whatever worldview and practices that help them maintain their peace with the universe and their place in it. But importantly, many people do still turn to religion for their mental and spiritual health

Honestly I love the idea. I wonder if they’re planning on the obvious next step of adding a media player that will work similarly, turn it on with a disc or SD card inserted and it’ll play the DVD or music

Yeah I’ve focused more on finding stuff I like, and that happens to primarily be punk music. But there’s a lot of stuff I like and really the only genres that I can’t do are country (it’s just nails on chalkboard for me) and pop (because it’s too over-engineered)

My wife and my oldest enjoy some pop music and I can find the parts I enjoy but it has to be small doses and has to be something with a hint of actual creativity and soul to it

Howard Jones is an incredible vocalist. Have you heard his (not so new anymore) band Light the Torch?

That argument suggests you bought the lie of what the age verification is for. When every service is required to perform age verification, it quickly becomes not about porn but control.

They’re trying to close the Pandora’s box that is the internet decades after the fact, and they’re learning the hard way how impossible and unpopular that is

bet there’s a mobile version of Scratch they could use if they can’t read yet

And for older kids apple made a scratch-like game for teaching their Swift programming language!

Scratch also works entirely in the web browser

I mean it’s all licensed by the frequency and antenna transmit power, so long distance is possible with the right choice of protocol, antenna and frequency you can get a surprisingly long distance with unlicensed spectrum. Ubiquity makes some directional antenna for wirelessly connecting 2 sites that operate in the 2.4 and 5ghz ranges that can connect over distances of multiple kilometers

Flash drives of banned foreign films are the one method of accessing foreign media that north Koreans realistically have. It’s extremely hard to prevent people plugging a flash drive into their computer in their home to view some media

I’ve seen deer just wander through my yard in town

My aunt is a teacher at one of the poorer schools in LA. She says every once in a while they’ll arrange a plow to bring a load of snow down from the mountains and dump it in the parking lot for the kids to play in it for the afternoon until it melts