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I’m bringing this energy into 2023

You know those aesthetic image posts that float around tumblr? I'm . . . starting to see a lot on my dash that are obviously ai-generated. Are non-artists having trouble telling the difference between AI images and real photos, or are people starting to stop care about the stolen art that gets fed into those programs?

Stolen profile images

Given the bots are using stolen pictures, how long before people start seeing themselves following themselves? Like a Black Mirror Spiderman meme

Amateur hour

At Virtual Le Mans.

Pay your devs, people.

“Oh, you know, you realize that grief is perhaps the last and final translation of love. And I think, you know, this is the last act of loving someone. And you realize that it will never end. You get to do this, to translate this last act of love for the rest of your life. And so, you know, it's– really, her absence is felt every day.

“And ever since I lost her, I felt that my life has been lived in only two days, if that makes any sense. You know, there's the today, where she is not here, and then the vast and endless yesterday where she was, even though it's been three years since. How many months and days? But I only see it in — with one demarcation. Two days — today without my mother, and yesterday, when she was alive. That's all I see. That's how I see my life now.”

-Ocean Vuong, NPR

Lance: Not gonna lie, I'm kind of afraid of Fernando...

Stoffel: As you should be.

Lance: No, for real, they're kind of-

Stoffel: As. You. Should. Be.