Software engineers are bad at their jobs.

It’s just that everyone else is worse.

This is my D&D party’s mantra

Looks delicious! I like the pops of color the mayo and avocado lend to the dish. I started making a similar dish recently, except I marinated the salmon for ~3 hours in 1 part sake, 1 part soy sauce, and 3 parts mirin. Drizzling the remaining marinade from the pan over the salmon/rice makes it divine, but it does look a little plain by itself. Might follow your example and add some colorful sides!

I read somewhere once that one theory behind deja vu is that it’s the result of a temporary de-sync between your left and right brain hemispheres. Usually signals reach each hemisphere at about the same time, but sometimes the signals can be de-synced by a few milliseconds and (theoretically) cause you to process the same thing twice in quick succession, giving you the vague impression of familiarity on the second signal process.

Edit: Messed up a bit. Each hemisphere sends a signal to the temporal lobe for processing, and that’s where the de-sync can happen.

The gay former transportation secretary

What on earth does his sexuality have to do with this topic? Why bother mentioning it?

I feel like these comments have finally come full-circle

Standards so low they’re burrowing into the earth’s mantle

Yeah, of course they do. They literally form the cornerstone of your worldview. If you change someone’s beliefs, you change how they see the world. That sounds pretty damn big and important.

Of course he’d say that, he has severe brain damage

My girlfriend has the same issue. Her doctor told her she was allergic specifically to cat saliva, and since they groom themselves with their tongues their fur has little bits of saliva on them, which triggers a less intense reaction than direct cat licks.

Wow, fuck Robin Hood’s wife, I guess

Actually I believe I saw recently that Romania agreed to extradite them to the UK. I don’t remember the source though, so take that with a grain of salt.

“If you have a deeply emotional reaction to your entire worldview being shattered in your middle age and having everything that once brought you a sense of comfort, however manufactured, suddenly ripped away from you, then you need psychological help.”

At least your brain-dead snark somehow still brought you to the correct conclusion, unintentional as it may have been.

Gonna add The Last Kingdom to this list. Super cool show about the Viking invasion of England in the 11th 9th century, it’s got like 5 seasons and a movie to cap it off. Highly recommended.

Edit: I’m a dummy 🤪

Squad!

After Dark still goes hard as hell, but Ichirin no Hana and Rolling Star are close runners-up

I recognize this art! And this comic! It was drawn by Red, one of the two main hosts on the Overly Sarcastic Productions youtube channel. For those who don’t know, she and her cohost Blue make funny videos detailing myths and mythological figures (this is mostly Red’s content) as well as history (this is Blue’s area), along with plenty of other edutainment content. One of my favorites is her video on Loki and how his role as a mythological character morphed and twisted wildly throughout the centuries.

Anyway, it’s super cool to see her art here!

I feel like that’s the free space at the center of the card

Maybe I’m getting too deep into semantics at this point, but I would argue that art created without emotion is not art, it’s a product. Like I said, art expresses something. Maybe it’s something banal, or trivial, but it’s still something. AI art doesn’t express anything, it’s purely mechanical - you put something in, you get something out. The whole is never any greater than the sum of its parts.

Here’s another analogy for you: Let’s say you take that one old saying literally and you leave a (presumably immortal) monkey in a room with a typewriter for a million years, then you come back to find that it has written Shakespeare. You could read the play and be impressed that the experiment worked, but you couldn’t actually engage with the content in any meaningful way because you know there is no content. You couldn’t say, “What do you suppose the monkey meant by, ‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players’?”, because the monkey didn’t mean anything by it. The monkey had no intention behind this “art”; it just did monkey shit for a million years and happened to accidentally create Shakespeare. AI art is a lot like that, except AI works way, way faster than a monkey, which is why it doesn’t take it a million years for it to create something that sounds like Shakespeare, just a few minutes.

Having said that, I do also think people react the way they do to AI art because it forces them to confront the deeply existential question of what it means to be human, and if it even means anything at all. Seeing AI do something so distinctly human as creating art, and doing it in such a distinctly human way, makes us wonder if we’re not all just machines made out of meat. If AI is indistinguishable from human intelligence, then the reverse must also be true: Human intelligence is indistinguishable from AI. And that itself raises all kinds of uncomfortable questions about life, purpose, morality, etc.

Art is a record of emotion; it exists to express something felt by the creator. When we look at art, we often feel connected in some way to whatever the creator was feeling when they made it. But AI doesn’t feel anything; it just takes inputs and produces something that its machine learning algorthm thinks it will be rewarded for. It’s like if you had a very deep and meaningful conversation with someone online, only to later find out you were being catfished; it leaves you feeling hollow inside. Sure, you could argue that the conversation itself still had some meaning to you even if your partner was disingenuous, but it destroys the veneer of sentiment and human connection surrounding it, casting it in a much darker light. And if you strip away the connection and sentiment from art, what do you even have left?

This is of course to say nothing of the massive amounts of theft from other human artists that AI art is built upon, but I feel that’s not really what you were asking.