Been meaning to subscribe to @404mediaco for a few years now, and their article yesterday on how AI is eating media got me to sign up for an annual subscription.
https://www.404media.co/the-medias-pivot-to-ai-is-not-real-and-not-going-to-work/
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Been meaning to subscribe to @404mediaco for a few years now, and their article yesterday on how AI is eating media got me to sign up for an annual subscription.
https://www.404media.co/the-medias-pivot-to-ai-is-not-real-and-not-going-to-work/
promised myself I would not engage with Deranged Discourse but https://tenforward.social/@melsbells/114850237937015698 came across my timeline yesterday and I cannot get it out of my head
no matter HOW badly you post, I promise, none of you fedizens will ever observe mass famine under the forced collectivization of early Soviet agronomy and decide "we should do that too", leading to the deaths of ~30 million people
none of our Hot Takes are even remotely comparable to this behavior!
People need to read Mao so when they make mistakes instead of just panicking and disengaging they know that they can actually just say "yeah that was wrong I'm sorry my bad" and like, it's okay. People make mistakes. People make bad jokes. People say shit that's kinda fucked up. What matters is that they understand what they said was kinda fucked up and that they shouldn't have said it, and that they can engage with that in a way that doesn't result in complete social ostracization.
Keep thinking about how Fragile calls Rainy a "Pharmakon--a medicine that can harm, a poison that can heal". She leaves unstated the third sense, which is pre-eminent in the scene: scapegoat. And the fourth: a means of production. Feels like her character arc has to culminate with the birth of her child--in reifying that fourth meaning.
I don't think Death Stranding's writing is *good* exactly but it sure is *provocative*.
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After two weeks of this nonsense--huge dust control sheets, the kitchen being a disaster zone, wearing a respirator to enter the house for half the day... I am declaring defeat. This is as good as it's going to get. It is covered in bubbles and has a few visible lap marks, but it is at least watertight now.
I'll give it a month to cure and knock down the worst offenders with 1000-grit and a buffing wheel.