matthewabeldemesne.bsky.social
Artist: pen, ink, oil, acrylic, wire, the dreaded AI.
Dabbler in music generation, D&D, nerd stuff, irrational rationalist, left leaning centrist, no position is inviolable. All ideas should be challenged, especially bad ones.
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how come they can't march in sync?
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I mean that's just every single government on the planet.
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looks pretty empty.
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My step mother actually takes sanskrit lessons here at the local banjar temple. She explained it to me. And her understanding of karma is very different, like she thinks if the baby dies it is wrong doing from a past life that predetermines the child to die.
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In Sanskrit, vilomah means "against natural order" If we are talking about deaths caused by disease in pre vaccination times wouldn't that be with the natural order?
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People who are incapable of thinking for themselves seem to be the ones in power.
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Trump's ideas are executed in the same manner as explosive diarrhea.
Sudden and without warning, and they can't be planned for and it always creates a disaster that leaves an expensive mess for others to clean up.
Oh the guaranteed ensuing disaster is never the participant's fault either.
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It's called a false flag, Hitler used it to start WW2.
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I live in a "3rd world country" for quite some time, I have never even seen a burning car in 15 years. Accidental or otherwise.
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I gave myself tendonitis in my elbow from kneading paint, I wanted to keep working so I learned to paint and mix with my right hand. I also had to change my physical behavior with my left arm for 8 months. How I slept, how I held my phone, like not compressing the joint for extended periods of time.
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The first question should be "Are you a man of courage?" Then this question then a follow up of how could a spineless coward who is afraid to give their own thoughts on events could ever be called courageous.
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What an injustice to carrion feeders, they serve a critical role in the ecosystem. Trump however is a parasite and serves no function other than the one he's made just for himself.
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Does Trump think he's Kim Jong Un?
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Trump doesn't read anything. Literally.
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the vacuum that America created + the enormous stockpiles of munitions and wide array vehicles and equipment they left in Iraq gave rise to ISIS out of the ashes of that country.
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It is a cancer than needs to be lanced out.
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Iraq under Saddam's rule, while brutal in the eyes of Americans it was one of the most progressive Arab countries in the middle east.
I've had several conversations with Iraqis that were studying at my university's industrial tech program. What the US turned Iraq into is worse than Saddam.
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Aw the billionaires are fighting again.
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wow...this is getting cray cray.
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neither it will be a domestic violence turned murder suicide.
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I still think digital art is cheating, when you make a mistake you can just delete it. There's no risk in what you do in procreate or photoshop, ctrl + Y undoes the last thing you did until it's a blank paper.
If I fuck up in a stippling drawing? I'll have wasted 1-150 hours of work.
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When I started painting and drawing, photographers and illustrators, and painters called everyone doing digital mediums? Thieves and cheap art shills. That was just 30 years ago. AI is just the next technology in expression.
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Let's take the strict definition of art theft. The 1:1 use of someone else's work. That is actual theft. If I made by hand an almost 1:1 graphite drawing of your image on paper that would also be theft. But you might call it inspired work because you respect the medium of physical work.
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They should move to Mexico, supply the rest of the world and boycott Americans, Apple and Nvidia are building operational HQ's outside of America too.
Which is cheaper? scramble to build a production line of factories in America. Or just move your business outside of America and resume biz as yuge.
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This orange bastard is crippling the US economy because he must think entire supply chains and manufacturing processes can be built in the blink of an eye. This monumental prick is a total disaster.
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Trump could have been informing the country's manufacturers the entire time from 2020 - 2024 about his tariff plan GET READY to build in America...ah yeah, he was bitching and moaning about how he didn't win the re-election. Now American industries are reeling from the tariffs.
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I bet Trump's venues are like the Walmart of country clubs.
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do you have a shower?
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"Choose Europe for Science" Initiative: The European Union and France have launched this campaign, allocating €500 million from the EU and an additional €100 million from France to support incoming researchers.
at least a dozen other countries in Europe want to capitalize on Trump failing America.
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Usually people that say that is right after hurting people trying to explain it away.
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That won't happen, you'd need an actual civil war to "restart" the government and I don't think there are enough people that actually want that to happen, just those fringe militia doom preppers.
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America became the world power it is today because it gobbled up the world's intellectual might and invested in those people. The world stands on the next technological precipice. And it will be Trump that ensures America will not be at the forefront. We're gonna see America go down the toilet.
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I sincerely hope? that aspiring science, engineering, or medical, and the arts students, look beyond America for opportunity. They'll get cultural enrichment, they'll go into fields where their work will be appreciated and have certainty in their future.
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damn, look at that subject verb disagreement...
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European countries WANT aspiring scientists. He should look into opportunities abroad. Fuck America. Drain the pool of intellectuals.
They can keep their swamp.
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The Trump administration is essentially used napalm to weed the garden, then when they realized they've burned the entire place to the ground, they'll blame Biden for it. And MAGA will believe it.
It's either intentional or it's sheer blind stupidity. I don't think there is an inbetween.
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Junk yards for example. You'd be hard pressed to find one. People repair, reuse, repurpose & recycle. If something is broken it is mended, if you move places, you move your shit and not buy new stuff. America is the biggest offender of wastefulness and needless expenditure of resources.
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I live in Asia clean unprocessed cheap food is everywhere here. And proportions are not completely out of control like they are in Western countries. The culture shock doesn't hit home until you go back home and realize the enormous waste that is consumerism.
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I think people, more in Western culture than others won't inconvenience themselves on their own. They'd have to be forced to change, which would then be perceived as an infringement on their rights. Cerebral people possess the foresight to look into the future, beyond their lifetime. The rest? ehhhh
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it's always been illiterate.
I don't think it will ever be as accurate as language models that include image generation on the side.
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I think it depends on what your prompts are about. I sell midjourney prompts. The marketplaces hamstring you into making prompts that do a directed thing with a range of subject matter on raw words only.
You can't image prompt or cref or sref or oref, p code or moodboard anything.
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mine yoyos between being a transhumanist to being a nihilist wishing for an asteroid to end the earth.
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looks like a mishmash of WH40k and Fallout.
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...they go through phases where there are but two choices. destroy your civilization or change for the better. I think we may have passed that point. I think we've destroyed our civilization as we know it, we won't go extinct? But we're about to get set back in a major way.
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I know I sound like a college kid that has no world experience. Except I do have world experience. I've had businesses, I've lived in several cultures, I've been around man. And I just don't have high hopes. Carl Sagan surmised that sentient species all have to travel through bottlenecks where...
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Fissures in the perceived ah, immortality of our legacy as a civilization will be shaken. The global population is still growing. But the job market is heading towards automation because we are entering the "bad part" of capitalism. Expanding those profit margins by any means necessary.
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I heard some saying, the ocean is dying. Dying. 15 years ago. Australian marine biologists think the Great Barrier Reef will be gone in 25 years. Divers? Around the world have noticed receding reefs. Studies say we've lost 40% of the worlds reefs in the past 50 years.
We are done. It is over.