I am very tired of making the point that the known negative effects of LLM usage and funding/support are so extreme that there is no hypothetical amount of “usefulness” or “productivity gain” that can so much as justify experimentation with this technology.

It is simply ethically beyond the pale and I have a very hard time respecting otherwise intelligent peers who make an explicit choice to ignore all those harms because they have a massive boner for “fun new tech”, regardless of where it comes from.

Simply put, “Is it useful” is not a conversation worth even having and you suck for dragging it in that direction

Anarchy is order; government is civil war.
-- Anselme Bellagarrigue

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Boy and Butterfly (Sad Boy) / Niño y Mariposa (Niño Triste) (1961)
https://www.remediosvaro.art/paintings/nino-y-mariposa-nino-triste

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#SurrealistArt #Surrealism #Surrealismo #RemediosVaro

« Returning Home », c. 1979

by Timothy White (British artist, 1952-2020)
Illustration from "La Science-Fiction et le Fantastique de TIM WHITE", AMP, 1981
Also in Tim White 1994 FPG Fantasy Art Trading Card TCG CCG

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #TimWhite #dragons #dragonsnest #tcg #ccg #tradingcards

This afternoon I'm installing a show at Cafe Suspiro, the lovely little cafe that's downstairs from my studio space. I'm showing my Sutro Tower series of pieces.

The show art will be discounted for the month of April, and 50% of sales are benefitting Raul, the cafe's equally lovely owner, who is recovering from a recent stroke. You can see and buy the paintings at https://heatherrobinson.com/sutro-tower-art

#sanfranciscoart #sanfrancisco #sutro #artforsale

Holy shit, the techbro AI billboards in San Francisco are an assault! Ruthless shit. Its like THEY LIVE! with the glasses on only all the residents already see them and are like, whatever, yesh smog monster takeover yeah.

Im here for a book thingie at Adobe Books tonight 730.