getta loada this guy

early 20th century britain. everything was green. morris arsenic paper, victorian pubtile, and copper-imitation green railings. velveteen tables. then bankers lamps. emerald fascinators. garden cities. racing green. institutional green. number 2 army uniform green. bombshelter green. hurricane green! meteor green! i bet by the late 40s everyone was sick to death of it. green was abolished for many years, in favor of silver, blue, pink, anti-flash white, and teasmade taupe

kids today theyve not even had to deinterlace anything

you can prompt The Model to produce a particular kind of image, and it will search the latent space of the motifs and structure of dozens or millions of artists. what it does with those connections is interesting. it could identify the themes, the artists, and their works, to help you learn about them, or even hire them. it could build bridges between people. but the version that was built? it wasn't that. it was a wall, an intermediary, to enclose and extract. like most recent social technology

i think there is a stark division between the "computers let me automate tasks and get more done quicker" people and the "computers let me express my ideas precisely and give me more control" people which has always been there, but was sort of easy to ignore, until the last couple of years