Twitter Wars 1

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I never realized that drones would bring us into the disco warfare era https://t.co/6c5b3Z0PgD

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

This was disappointing to read. If the main community space for AI safety is the same one that people are feeling wary of visiting due to the bleed through of more sexual/edgy events, then this comment reads as deliberately obtuse at best. At worst this reads as “I will always prioritize expanding the sexual culture of my group over other concerns, like AI safety”

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@allgarbled Nothing makes me rage more than offering me the option to stay logged in but never having it actually work

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

HOWEVER if EVERYONE does this (or some range of showing up 30-90 minutes in) then the host spends the first 30 minutes yo-yo-ing between relief and panic while wrapping up last minute prep and wondering if the party is a flop It’s crucial for the party ecosystem for there to be some people who show up right on time, along with the latecomers at varying stages of the evening

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I don’t think this is as much of a black pill as people think. Look how much better the results are when the input/prompt is based off of someone with incredible skill in that arena. It’s a shame that the creative world has disavowed AI for the most part because they’d wipe the floor with every non-trad-creative using it. It’s similar to how the people getting the best outcomes out of vibecoding all seem to be well rounded engineers or good systems thinkers at the very least. People with a base level of skill are going to be able to access higher level results with way less effort than those without.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@venturetwins I like how the main girl is clearly 50% Courtney Cox and 50% Krysten Ritter

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

It’s also important to avoid their counterpart: the aggressively anti-burning man men. Basically you want to find the Burning Man Neutral men, who haven’t hinged any part of their personality around it in either direction https://t.co/Uhoi8xsrS7

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Hi my name is Aimee! You’ve doom scrolled your way to my art. Enjoy! https://t.co/7igjJlrcLl https://t.co/GBlwQVn4RG

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Which would be fine for some people to say, everyone is allowed their passions and pursuits! But I think if it’s the same person/group that also thinks the fate of humanity is at stake it’s crazy to say something like this.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

First the NY Times, now the NY Post lmao. I’m glad a new metric I can measure my outfits by is whether they get featured as photos in articles about parties I attend https://t.co/7wNzmyL9iL https://t.co/Kwq19e7Ypu

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I posted this elsewhere but I think that viewing this as just a Slutcon issue is ignoring that it's just a focus for the larger issue that people have been discussing: that the culture of AI safety/Lghthaven is detrimentally linked to the culture of CNC orgies. I think that it's been made very clear that despite efforts being made by the latter group, a TON of issues have happened that have been harmful on an individual level as well as a movement level (for AI safety AS WELL AS cnc orgy/slutcon/bay area poly/edgy sex community perception in general) There's a tide of demand for policing behavior because the consequences of the group themselves not being able to reliably do so has been so problematic. I think there's a justifiable fear of inviting/accepting policing for policing's sake, but I think you're disregarding a lot of genuine criticism from people who care about your causes. https://t.co/atO65IC2mB

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I feel like this is a common ‘smart person’ stance, and if you’re also smart it may make sense to you, since you also trust your ability to appropriately gauge road conditions and adapt as needed. The problem is for every ‘smart’ person there are like 10 average people and 20 absolute morons who will absolutely NOT reliably make the correct choices. (Also, even smart people are not operating at max levels of attentiveness 100% of the time and there are some scenarios where you likely CAN’T reliably gauge, especially in new neighborhoods, not being aware of mixed housing or schools nearby higher speed roads etc) It’s a fucking miracle we’ve developed a system where absolute incompetent idiots can be on the road and mostly not kill others with their giant hurtling death machines. I think it’s really easy to forget how wild a system that is.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@Ken67547214 My grandparent’s neighbor did that with CDs!

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Extremely cool seeing my art this huge at the @vivariumsf demo night! https://t.co/FeheNHoGjL

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I need this EVERYWHERE. Also every event venue should install dozens of these please. I just want to look at combo water+light features everywhere I go. I feel like it’s some deep evolutionary instinct to love the interplay between light and water, like, this just gets injected directly into my lizard brain.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I’m so sorry you had to deal with all of that. I remember hearing about your (and other women’s) experiences and feeling less bad about not following through with volunteering to be a flirt girl. I like the idea of helping people get better at interpersonal interactions! Super great goal! But not if it’s a thin veneer over a hookup event. I was talking with @anselm_io about how wonderful your Love Symposium was last year and how that sort of vibe and environment seems INFINITELY more conducive to actually productive efforts in the ‘interpersonal dynamics’ arena specifically BECAUSE it doesn’t read as a casual sex event! I wish there were more events like yours and I’m glad there are people like you not only making spaces like those, but also speaking up about the issues in other spaces.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I feel like it's been a disservice to conversations about both AI safety optics as well as around sexual norms to fixate this much on Slutcon as the MAIN issue. Slutcon would be fine in isolation if it was just another bay area kink event that primarily catered to kink/high openness circles. The goal of acclimating autistic people to flirting is rad as a concept and I considered being a flirt girl myself since breaking down interpersonal dynamics in real time is in my wheelhouse! Flirt girls have been getting hate for this and that's shit when the majority of them have volunteered because they want to help. I think the issue is the overall permeation of the cnc orgy/'rape cult' culture as the dominant and expected group that's associated with the venue and the larger groups of AI safety/bay area AI in general. People not feeling like they have a choice to participate in one without being identified as aligning with both is doing harm by preventing more people from working on AI safety during a pretty crucial time for that cause. I think that Slutcon is just a lightning rod for the issues that people already had with all of that, but fixating on it just means a lot of really valid arguments are being dismissed as just being anti-sex or neurotic, rather than viewing the broader issues more holistically.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

If there’s one thing I want party hosts to know it’s that I will do my absolute BEST to NAIL any dress code or theme for a party. From cyber funeralia, to picnic brunch, to good old fashioned black tie. No one will feel overdressed as long as I’m around. 🫡🫡🫡 https://t.co/p6Yv8M6yeO https://t.co/TvhcCpmeXn

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@blip_tm Yep, this is it in a nutshell. 🥲

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I keep seeing this weird thing people do frequently, across published and more personal postings alike When people have already firmly decided the villain in the story, they seem completely incapable of having any insight into how they come across to someone who hasn’t already bought into the assigned villain. It’s like they lose all theory of mind and are blindsided when things aren’t parsed the way they desire. Funny when it’s a reddit AITA post, sad and embarrassing when it’s ostensibly journalism

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Worth it https://t.co/JPOds2XD9j https://t.co/fTd7gwGNbe

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Idk man I've been in or adjacent to a variety of poly/poly adjacent/kink communities over the years and social cache/influence is a HUGE weak point in blacklisting. This seems ESPECIALLY impactful and problematic when social movements and careers are tied into things as well. This leads to people who are known to be problematic being allowed to stay in communities for years and years as 'missing stairs' before there's enough momentum or something heinous enough happens for them to actually be banned, and until then they're just warned about via whisper networks and any new person unlucky enough not to know about them is potentially at risk.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I will die on this hill: dancing for hours at a high altitude wedding is brutal

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Nail check 💅 (I made the stone texture polish btw) https://t.co/zZZZkAmx9t

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@craterlatke Yeah like…historically I’ve been more on the ‘defend Aella’ side of things so I would like my concerns not to be just dumped in the hater bucket

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Pleasantly surprised by the response to this and it’s coming at a time when I’ve already been getting more and more antsy art-wise! I’ve been feeling a bit lost since I haven’t had a working art studio or streaming setup for over a year now and haven’t had the chance to do much art. The most recent thing I made was this tarot card at vibecamp and since then I’ve been itching to do more. The good news is I’ll have a working studio again in January and have a bunch of big ideas queued up to work on then, and have been feeling the drive to do some smaller scale stuff in the meantime ❤️

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Old actually makes them even more likely to be culturally indoctrinated lol wdym? Women in dementia wards still count calories they’ve been so indoctrinated. The hourglass figure has been the standard for ages, it’s just modern BBL/lipo/implants that have taken it to the extremes.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

You have to understand, these were the women I looked up to in my formative years https://t.co/eTHTRRdwrd https://t.co/cPl6Y67Ts7

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Now that autism is kinda oversubscribed and getting passé not as many people are going to identify with it, which in some ways is good! It’s bad when meanings get diluted! But it also means a bunch of 100% autists are gonna be running around vehemently claiming that they aren’t! 👁️

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Oh my god, finally a name for the concept! Except in my experience the line is more like this: https://t.co/RozjPtcyWn https://t.co/xQhoItTsV1

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Eggmaxxing hard these days (The bucket ones are hard boiled, the rack ones are fresh) https://t.co/SNGtCC0z0y

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I only eat these bad boys raw, the way god intended https://t.co/V2UBjExJ6H https://t.co/qwDvV4jZuQ

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I think Slutcon is more like a nucleation point for a lot of folks discomfort at how poly/cnc orgy culture (which is tied optically to you for reasonable reasons) seems to be the dominant Lighthaven culture and Slutcon is the most magnified form of that for people to have a visceral reaction to.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Caprese Salad Cocktail! This was an odd one but turned out super good, recipe in the comments! (It’s another clarified one, obviously) Tastes like summer and bright sunlit gardens! https://t.co/DU2numNL8E

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I really don't think it is! I think she's a person with multiple causes and passions that are currently in conflict with each other in a zero sum way. If she believes that AI is an existential threat to humanity, then prioritizing orgies over that is a wild thing to do. If AI safety is her primary concern but she can't NOT pursue her sex hobbies, she should divest herself of her positions in AI safety and for the good of humanity let Lighthaven be less centered around those groups and interests. She can still fund things from behind the scenes and direct resources towards it without both parts of the venn diagram needing to overlap into a circle. There are ways she can have her cake and eat it too, but this path is becoming increasingly obviously NOT one of them. It makes the whole AI safety scene look fundamentally unserious if they're unwilling to even CONSIDER being a bit more chill about their edgy sex behaviors to save the human race.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

This but adults THIS BUT ADULTS!! https://t.co/djKDltDrJ0

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I’ve found the latter group to actually not have a coherent vision for their future wife, even if they had specific preferences in mind. Like, some of their desires would be conflicting, eg wanting someone low maintenance, but also wanting someone polished enough to be gala ready. I think some of this conflict arises when there are preferences that do make sense for them to have in a compatible partner mixed in with preferences that come from unresolved issues they need to work on in themselves, which is also unsurprising to find in the latter group. But I think the end conclusion is the same: these dudes weren’t seeing their future partners as whole people full of possibilities and carrying excitement about that.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Dropping more historical outfit pics here for the record (somewhat organized by vibe?) https://t.co/dNyzs5Ylyb

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

The saddest story: A bunch of tupperware lids left in the Waymo. RIP their matching tupperware https://t.co/vN0WnqucGn

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@_grojo You are terminally decoupled

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

My grandma baked frequently and would refill her tins since it was cheaper! I inherited some of her sick vintage ones and kept up that tradition till an ex threw them out. 🥲 https://t.co/pe97MlrFrh

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@olivesagan Also like, are the kids still hearing the yelling and ice shattering? ‘Cause that doesn’t seem…great

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

This is my favorite one so far https://t.co/yEhPFomYJr

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I would have lost my goddamn mind over this as a kid. (Still might tbh) Does anyone remember there was like…I think a Barbie game kinda like this a thousand years ago? https://t.co/Hs39HwgVgY

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@QuaintTransfer @j46868225 @Aella_Girl No, it’s that the I agreed with the weird AI safety kids and thought they’d also be taking this seriously but instead they’re doing things that are actively detrimental to the cause

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I feel like I’ve only scratched the surface of traveling but when people are like “you’ll never taste _______ as good as when you get it in ______” I’ve started to mentally append “unless you live in California” https://t.co/KRIa7JwePg

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@EducatedHarlot I think there is a huge desire/demand for this actually. The impediments are cost and finding a location.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I knew this was coming but it’s crazy that the only way to be able to judge whether someone is an actual traditional artist is going to be to catch them doing it live. Right now watching livestreams is probably still viable if you can see them doing it on a canvas or they have a cintiq or something where you can see their hands, but as real time generation gets better that’ll fade as well. So weird.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Guess I don’t need to draw right now, actually https://t.co/8v3uZ1kr0S

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

My entire horse corpus https://t.co/ZghjnxNlVm

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I’m pretty sure there’s a happy medium between ‘spend 1k on a party’ and ‘you can share cake with a single friend’ https://t.co/RP0EbtUpiM https://t.co/Gy37prEjqK

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

All of these little creatures coming out are so fucking cute and they all make me SO SAD that I live in a house with STAIRS 🥀 https://t.co/gNJJJbzt3n

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Me, and my agents https://t.co/J58Zhimj2O

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I’ve been saying. If money can’t buy happiness it’s a skill issue/personal problem. https://t.co/z3G0WW4IRv

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Unless you’re seeing nude/unposed women, there’s always going to be things pushing what you see towards this aesthetic because it’s the culturally preferred one. Most women wear clothes that de-emphasize a box-like figure and emphasize an hourglass figure, and in any photos you see will likely curate for the same. This is a good reference for how much impact just posing can have. https://t.co/gwcoTNAy4T

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Oh my god https://t.co/m5SeUV8AXP

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@paularambles That’s like $500/mo? Not bad relative to owning a car 🤔

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

girl cereal, boy cereal (Caprese salad, cinnamon protein cereal) https://t.co/P1VtgbIVhV

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@blusterytoday @QuaintTransfer @j46868225 @Aella_Girl Thank you for spelling it out, the above was such a silly response I didn't have the patience for it today 🫩

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Did a couple more cards for the deck! I hope it’s easy to guess which they are 😬 https://t.co/GPfxn37he4 https://t.co/ZVUNpFaStk

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

This is like, my core aesthetic vibe. Soft dreamlike fae colors anchored by earthy tones and neutrals. Fussy details contrasted by strong shapes and lines. Ugh! 💛✨ https://t.co/4jaaWwGqkQ

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

My diet every time I’m in Germany https://t.co/BnMSj8XlJ8

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@wfenza @basilYam For sure, it’s great to hinge a movement on a single person and how they’ve so far escaped consequences. It’s not like movements require more people to sign on, who may or may not have the capacity or desire to weather the associations.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

That’s like the car version of these heels https://t.co/GYylTNbkvg https://t.co/b8B74UYRqP

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

If your primary rebuttal to everything is that I’m a prude you are woefully off base and are being willfully obtuse regarding the actual arguments brought up in all the threads about this. It’s an easy dismissal to reach for if you don’t want to have to actually consider the issues at hand, but it doesn’t apply here.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I have generally positive opinions of you and was initially interested in being a flirt girl for doing real time feedback on interactions as that’s definitely in my wheelhouse, and it would be laughable to call me anti-slut. I think you should take some of the pushback here more seriously and not just dismiss all of it as coming from haters.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Generously shared one with @anselm_io his verdict: This is like eating the La Croix of a cinammon roll 🥲 https://t.co/zV3oiXx6iG

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Why in gods name would getting a phone call end a video I’m recording even if I don’t pick up the call?????? What cursed ux hell am I living in where spam callers can keep me from capturing ephemeral moments??!!!?!

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@littlekitajoi @lovabler0gue @tautologer I’m so sorry. It sucks what a common experience this is for women.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Can’t agree more! I feel like I’ve been a spiraling pendulum over the years getting closer and closer to nailing down exactly who I am and what I want to bring to the world. Every year and every circle closer to the center seems to refine the relationships in my life and bring lovely new ones!

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

This sounds incredible, why is everything here so cursed??? https://t.co/nAcZ4pVp44

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Do offshore platforms ever get decommissioned? Could someone buy one and build like a super expensive to maintain mini ocean community on one? I guess it’s more thalassaphobia-front property rather than beachfront but I could see it being cool as hell with a daily ferry to town https://t.co/oICQWD1z7S

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

My stack~ (the white floral is jasmine and gardenia primarily) https://t.co/daQGwjjHSR https://t.co/E1JLfJfigh

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Yeah giving an llm explicit instructions has a famously high 100% success rate https://t.co/tvZ2Wi4Q3Z https://t.co/XsAXvXg74m

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@gargi_kand It’s so rude to the hosts and other partygoers when people do this. Genuinely wish more events turned people away for not meeting the code so people would start being less lazy and cavalier about it.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@parakeetnebula Especially if the main way they present themselves is the thing they’re like “DONT LIKE ME FOR THIS” about

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Devastated. Briefly the bookmark system on twitter changed and everything was beautiful and I was so happy. It would pop up the menu where I had just clicked on the screen, in an easier to click button, and I could add bookmarks to multiple lists. It was perfect. The sun was warmer, my tea was sweeter, the sky a more vibrant blue! But they fucking changed it back??!! 🫩

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Unironically kinda! But it scales in order of responsibility. Raid leaders, class leaders, etc, are going to have more of these skills than say, someone who just shows up on Thursdays as a very creatively specced backup dps. I think the like, 'good gamer' rate among gamers is probably the same as 'good employee' rate among workers. Someone in a top tier raid guild/someone working at a top tier competitive company are going to be better due to the required effort input to even get in those more selective positions. (save for nepo hires in each case I suppose) And people in higher roles in each will have commensurate skill levels. But there are also people whose skill ceiling (whether true capacity wise or capped by effort) is showing up and just doing their best to mostly follow orders and not fuck things up in unrecoverable ways.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

The heatwave that summer happened right after I got spider mites in my garden from a gifted plant. Between that and the fires I just harvested what I could and let the rest go. 🥀 https://t.co/aoJiRqOdJe https://t.co/FQxf3TeLzj

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Partially because of the knowledge/ability to be specific when prompting but also because that specificity can help offset the drift towards the mean/average that’s the bane of any creative work made via AI. It’s one thing if you want the most efficient and time tested code for an input box on a website; then using the best cumulative average of the whole corpus is fine and good! But for anything creative there’s a threshold where a homogenous result ends up boring rather than ‘accurate and what everyone seems to like most’ and we’ve already experienced waves of content like that and people rapidly being excited and then even more rapidly bored of it.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Another shirt in my line of ‘I wanted to buy this but it didn’t exist so I guess I’ll make it myself’ shirts! https://t.co/uPYd9CjFxo

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Like there’s clearly a demand for art that was bottlenecked by effort/time/cost, and it makes sense that effort was spent on making it possible to generate it. (Even if I have opinions on how exploitative that process was) This layer feels disgusting. The only reason for this is deception rather than any end creative result. There’s a demand for art from human artists and this is solely meant to capitalize on that with false legitimacy.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Not to say this guy isn’t full of it, but there are plenty of folks out there who are genetically resistant to the whole -caine family and unless you’re a redhead you just get dismissed as being a scared little bitch at the dentist and end up doing this anytime you get dental work done. He’s not special.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

We really do just have _____ at home https://t.co/OJPYhWCzB4

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Lens flares have historically heralded great leaps in new technology https://t.co/5Yh44mIuAD

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

✍️🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/lcCQUhilf0

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

First the recipes for the component parts… Veggie juice: - Juice farmers market tomatoes and bell peppers in a 3 to 1 ratio of tomatoes to peppers till you have 700ml - Filter once through a cheesecloth Parmesan Rind infused vodka: - literally just chuck a Parmesan rind in a bottle of vodka for a month or w/e - freeze and filter Olive Oil washed vodka: - add 1/4 c of olive oil to some vodka and shake it throughout the week as it sits. I aimed for a couple times a day at least. - freeze and filter Tomato Basil Salt: Mix together - 1 part tomato powder - 1 part dried and powdered basil leaves (sieved till fine) - 2 parts salt Mix together in a large carafe: - 700ml veggie juice - 300ml of Balis (German basil soda) - 300ml of St George Basil Brandy - 300ml of Olive Oil washed vodka - 300ml Common Ground gin (basil and elderflower notes) - 200ml of Parm Vodka - 150ml of mozzarella water - 120ml of lime juice - 100ml of saline - 50ml of balsamic glaze In another carafe mix together: - 300ml of unflavored kefir - 300ml of heavy cream Pour the contents of the first carafe slowly into the second, watch it curdle in horror, and give it a stir and let sit for 30-60 mins! Filter through coffee filters twice! It’ll take about 2 days depending on how much space you have to run concurrent filters! I run 6 at a time. This batch I only filtered once and it didn’t have the clarity I wanted 🥲 (Note: do NOT switch out the coffee filters between rounds of filtering. It’s the curds that are the true filters and what you want things to bind to, not just the coffee filters!) For the garnish, rim a glass with balsamic glaze and then dip into the salt mix! Then thread half a tomato, a basil leaf, and a mozzarella pearl onto a skewer! Pour over a large ice cube, since this is a deceptively strong drink!

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@Aella_Girl This strategy is leaving you blind to valid criticism. How many sluts need to hold an opinion before you stop dismissing them as neurotic prudes?

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@EducatedHarlot That’s already present but the jump from there to functional conference venue is the gap that needs bridging.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@NathanpmYoung I think you haven’t read my comments then because I’ve gone out of my way to say I think slutcon isn’t the core issue.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I’m in the camp of ‘I don’t personally have a problem with [x] but have interacted with enough people who say they do to see how it’s a problem to just ignore it’ This seems reasonable? Like, I’m not vegan but I can see why a lot of animal welfare causes are valid and should be heeded.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Been running into issues with this a lot. I’ve found that when I ask questions without research mode on, I often get an incorrect or out of date response. WITH research mode on its super field dependent on whether or not the info I want is gated, to the point where I added custom instructions to surface source gaps. This has made it clear how often the results are lacking any necessary depth. I feel like right now there are two branches: people locking out AI because they plan on building their own ‘ai search’ for their sites, or those who have no intention but still lock down their data. As more and more people use AI to filter through the ever growing mess of fake reviews/sites it’s going to be crucial to find some way for companies with actual real data to get that to people without tanking the cost on their end. The alternative is more of what she describes in this video: a whole ecosystem of competing slop, generated by the same tools that allow us to sort through mountains of slop. Which I’m sure will turn into a similar arms race like ads and adblockers have, racing to get past slop detection and feed people recommendations via their AIs.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

Decoupling is valuable but not if you’re terminal about it, and for an issue as important as AI safety you have to recognize that the majority of people won’t be able to separate things to that degree. Nor should they in this case when people are asking to be taken extremely seriously about a movement and then behaving extremely unseriously when facing criticism.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

It’s so nice when all the lovely things in my life color coordinate ❤️ https://t.co/IOcqegm59x

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I do wish more people were working on this. I really wanted a model trained on my work for quick concepting and iterating so I could paint the real thing once I tried a bunch of variations, but the drift towards the mean is too strong with larger datasets and doesn’t contain broad enough info with just my work to cover more than what I’ve already painted. If I want different lighting or flowers or an animal I haven’t painted, it failed.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@poiThePoi Neither of these are problems with speed limits though. Just cops doing quota incentivized behaviors.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@kazzorr_ @craterlatke I agree with this, but also I feel like a larger part of the problem is that there are people like her (sex worker rats) calling this out and she's also not listening to them.

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

@sevensixfive Yeah. In a similar vein: This was also disappointing. I get that if you’re a popular polarizing personality some level of this belief is healthy and necessary for your sanity but using it as a shield against all criticism is the worst thing you can do. https://t.co/Qy7CbjKIbq

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But some portion of people on the internet ideally get converted to attendees, and making sure you’re getting the right sort of attendees for the culture you want to build seems especially important for an event that relies so heavily on interaction and participation. If some portion (I’ve met a few attendees of this mindset) see the tongue in cheek marketing as a thin veil over “this is a hookup convention” rather than a cute bit that’s going to make the perception into a self fulfilling prophecy. I do think calling it flirtcon is much better, and I overall think that the goals of helping people get a better handle on processes like that is wholesome, there’s just been some very cursed ‘if you have criticisms you’re a prude and we don’t need you’ discourse around all this. Thanks for engaging more wholesomely. 🙏

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@QiaochuYuan Extremely pleased that I have surrounded myself with exactly the right kind of people https://t.co/iV6S4rUbjP

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Exquisite, thanks Claude. No notes. https://t.co/IJ0NI5gx1H

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@Actualwebutante @dheisman @GeorgeJourneys @funplings I’m not tpot enough 😭 https://t.co/Nr0ONfjio5

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@mary_meltdown Basically, yeah! Slutcon as the overlap isn’t quite it, but close enough

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This feels like an extremely weak argument to the point where I don’t believe you actually believe this. If you think that AI safety needs to get more traction (which you must if you believe it’s an existential threat) you can’t possibly think you’ll A) gain more than you lose by keeping the movement kinky-people-only B) lose more than you’ll gain by including normies

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Oh hellllll yeah https://t.co/sjyk19twAH

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Okay so as a person in a house with stairs this was my first question and it seems like no one has solved it so far... BUT ALSO. HAS ANYONE TRIED TWO DUCKS HELPING EACH OTHER??? https://t.co/Ud1bPE7NuE

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It’s NOT roughly the same amount of exposed arm displayed and NOT in the same way. I am a rolled sleeve evangelist. A rolled sleeve rolled to either the forearm 3/4 sleeve point or even the elbow give a silhouette of compressed fabric around the widest visible part of the arm. A short sleeved shirt floats away from the bicep at the visible widest part of the arm, which can also be a nice look but they are definitely not displaying the same amount of arm nor framing it in the same way. There’s a lot more to it than a story being told, it’s very different visual framing!

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@EducatedHarlot I think it would largely be that it's one where kink doesn't permeate the events at some level, and being kinky isn't a prerequisite to be comfortable/allowed in the in-group there.

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I always feel slightly odd as an artist because I think I’m both? I think part of it is that growing up in a family of working artists mean that art was lovely and creative but it could rarely just be full-whimsy/‘only do art when the spirit takes you’ vibes, you also had to be methodical and good with the business side of things because your family needs to eat and keep a roof over their heads. But also hella nerdy autism spreadsheet genes run in our family so there’s clearly a predisposition for that sort of thinking as well. Neither aspect feels stronger or weaker than the other; both are core identity components for me. Guess the Pepper line is just a hybrid class?

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Me with karaoke ✨🎶✨ https://t.co/IXRAetD9Un

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@NathanpmYoung Continuing the wedding photo trend https://t.co/QBH17BQzQ9

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I want to build one that’s a RING can you imagine??

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I’m a pretty small account so those are abnormal numbers for me and I wasn’t writing as carefully as I could have for said level of traction. If you’ve seen all my other comments you’ll have also seen that I took more time to specify it’s the broader situation and not Slutcon as the core issue, and made this follow up post clarifying as well.

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@RobertHaisfield The ‘dressing up for a nerdy theme party’ to ‘being in an article calling people cultists’ pipeline

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@gargi_kand The city needs you @paularambles https://t.co/Ftw8rfpP7p

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@NathanpmYoung As someone who isn’t used to getting the level of notifs I have the last couple days, nah. This is the most I’ve ever had comments get traction alongside the top level tweet. But also fair, and I somewhat agree hence the follow up post.

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I think there are plenty of men who could benefit from a frame where people can pause them mid convo when they do something particularly offputting or particularly successful. Feedback is usually opaque in normal dating in that you either get a number/follow up date, or don’t and don’t get any specific insight into why.

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@EducatedHarlot I think that’d probably be a central focus but there are a ton of adjacent concerns that tie in well with that cause. You see those focuses also at Lighthaven as well as other rat spaces and general conference/gathering spaces around town.

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This seems like it could be extremely helpful for blind people (with TTS and Bluetooth headphone connection) right? Dang I feel like assistive technology is gonna have a huge boom with the advancements in ai and robotics!! https://t.co/B0fDd98Kcg

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@craterlatke Definitely not new but I feel like I’m seeing a lot of it and more frequently and I wonder if it’s partially because of the dogmatic silos that people are forced into more often these days?

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This is like being annoyed by vapes and longing for the good ol' days of lung cancer and yellow walls https://t.co/HG9oTIcaH6

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This framing goes unnecessarily hard 🔥 https://t.co/FEkLqR6BWU

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@chickenstrip007 Yeah life’s been getting progressively better autism wise for me the last decade or so but it was pretty gritty there for a bit

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@adastroworld @banterrealism @CartoonsHateHer Yeah, it fucked me up for a bit when I learned that fact. Seems worthwhile to know, but unfun.

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German BF: I don’t understand the hate food part, surely everyone loves food Me: okay, but the English, do you think they really -love- food? On the same level? German BF: … German BF: Love can be pedestrian! https://t.co/wRbJDfSXCm

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I had to narrow it down a lot. So many boss women https://t.co/G6ktdNAaWV

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I might get roasted for this but everything mentioned is something that humans regularly fail at. I don’t think AI can currently replace the best operators, or the top equivalent in any field really. What it can usually* do reasonably successfully is make sure no one gets the worst possible experience. It raises the floor. What I’d love to see is (for this and any other profession where the argument is for human excellence being necessary and non negotiable) is how many people realistically get access to that vs average vs poor results, and also whether AI raises the floor enough to make it worth the potential loss of access to that top slice of excellence.

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Me: …and then it’s perfect. Well, perfect in this case meaning that it stays stable even if you walk by and bump it with your hip, while still staying open enough for the dishes to dry, but not being open enough to accidentally bump into frequently. BF: *gently* have you been talking to Claude a lot? Me: 🥲

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I had to explain the interpersonal dynamics* on a permanent progression Rust server to a therapist once and I’ve never felt more insane in my life (*A guy got stalky and threatened suicide and almost got the whole server shut down because of it and a bunch of people were mad🙃👍)

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@mary_meltdown Yeah. That and dismissing everyone arguing against it as a prude is an easy way to not engage with any of the more difficult to dismiss legitimate criticisms and instead focus on victim idpol angles.

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@basilYam I feel like people would be fine even with the inverse! Very very very serious about AI safety and a little serious about sex parties, as a treat? 😂

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Saying this as a former wow healer and someone who strongly believes that video games are great for strengthening certain skills! But also as someone who had to play with some of the most incompetent motherfuckers you can imagine who are gonna see the quoted post and gas themselves up about it VERY MISTAKENLY.

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^art ⌄ the artist (I love a red boot opportunity) https://t.co/cW1AuTl1D2

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@Scav You could 100% plot sf men on this map

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@oysterrbaby My targeted marketing needs to step up its game

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@sacredmargs Thank you for expanding my horizons, what a blessing 🙏

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@sacredmargs What are CAT UNBOXING videos? I can read that so many ways and I’m interested in like all of them

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Yeah. This is unfortunately present in some of her other posts/comments as well. I may agree with her on some of it even, but not being able to have theory of mind for how that stance reads to ‘the unevolved’ (or just…not caring?) is a huge problem for communication in general and can be especially fatal to a movement.

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@mary_meltdown Exactly. Seems pretty straightforward but it’s been (somewhat intentionally) muddled in the discourse.

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@animalologist @Actualwebutante Yes!! All of this!!

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I feel like people have reasonable protests about ability grouping when ability can vary so much and be asymmetrical to emotional ability. Placing a 7 year old with a bunch of 15 year olds (or visa versa) is gonna be weird and challenging as they’re in dramatically different physiological stages. I’ve known folks who took classes with people older than them and it seems like a really mixed bag. Sometimes it was lovely and they got mentored, other times there was bullying/exclusion, and other times they encountered things not super appropriate for their age. I think we’re at a point where people can grow up in their physical/emotional peer groups while having their academic needs tailored to them specifically.

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https://t.co/NyFdyU213B

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@VanTanev The problem with this is twofold: 1) artists aren’t who they’re trying to fool 2) it’s obvious (to artists) FOR NOW. Everything we see with AI is only going to improve. Dismissing it is shortsighted unfortunately.

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@oysterrbaby 💯💯💯 For me it’s the self inflicted + forced participation from bystanders. They can go on a solo self torture journey all they like, but you know they won’t because performativity needs a witness 💅

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@ohabryka @freed_dfilan I think it’d genuinely be more plausible and resource effective to just have a stock of assorted allergy meds on hand to offer people.

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@majamediaco The saddest skill issue ever

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@So8res Reading it felt like uncovering lore in Horizon: Zero Dawn

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I really love all of the ideas behind matic but not being self emptying is an instant loss when I want to be able to schedule it to run autonomously every day in a house with multiple cats. (Also the high profile means I can’t run it under my coffee table or pc chair legs, which is also an impediment to switching over) Are there any plans for a self emptying model on the horizon? 🙏

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I completely agree that a movement needs high decoupling weirdos who aren’t phased by what people think to push novel ideas! I have two disagreements. A) I think the gay rights parallels are kinda in poor taste. CNC orgies are a kink, not an orientation. I can see pushing for poly culture to be more accepted and I think that has legs, but adding CNC orgies on the coattails of that is like if people were pushing for gloryholes to be accepted on the same level as gay rights. It’s again one of those things that makes the whole thing feel fundamentally unserious. B) I think that requiring people be on board with these niche interests or at the bare minimum be okay with being associated with them is a huge issue for a lot of folks who would otherwise love to be a part of AI safety specifically and the Bay Area rat community generally. There’s already been schisms from these same issues leading people to identify as rat/post-rat adjacent to avoid the associations of the former. I think you’re right that a new community needs to happen and this current discomfort is showing how much it’s needed. But I think it makes sense for people to express their displeasure that they have to basically build and fund a new Lighthaven if they want to help with AI safety during a fast moving and crucial time in AI development but don’t want to be associated with rape orgies. I don’t think it’s unfair to say it’s hindering the movement to have to do so rather than the current community just admitting and accounting for how offputting most people find those associations.

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@KTKOIstreams Ignoring any other issues with this statement, the issue is that in trying to do both the way she currently is, she’s failing and doing harm to both efforts.

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https://t.co/IZoVTvCaOB

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https://t.co/0Z4vfcJTY0

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@GreysonSofia Hell yes, I love any excuse to get all dolled up! 🥳

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@lexlex0mip I'm excited to see if that happens! Currently the way models work makes the drift towards the mean too strong to do anything truly creative/novel without a lot of brute force/manual effort to push them in those directions.

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Yeah, but I can have some feelings about it when they’re scamming in my wheelhouse and making life harder for artists. This instance is making the rounds because process videos were the progression from process shots for proving art was real. It’s a bummer when people with bad intentions gain ground at the cost of people with good intentions losing ground.

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@morallawwithin Exactly what I was saying here https://t.co/dKf4leyJcf

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@justalexoki The elder/invalid care industry will super benefit from this if it can be done comfortably and gently. I feel like a combo of smart shower setups and dexterous home care robots could do the trick and both are taking off, so I’m sure we’ll get this soon enough!

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(This isn’t directed at anyone in particular I’ve just seen like 5 tpot ‘but I’M certainly not one of THOSE’ threads in the past few days ❤️)

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@shinboson The number one thing that’s given me the ick in past relationships is if I started feeling like I couldn’t trust my partner’s intelligence. I am actively seduced by my partner being smarter than me. This man is full of cope.

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Which is understandable when we still live in an era where it’s a common sight during holidays in many families for men to sit around and drink while women do all the prep work. Millenials are like 1 generation removed from the era of women being able to have their own bank accounts for the first time without a father or husband’s permission. There are a lot of entrenched social dynamics and behaviors to work through that’ll probably take more than one generation to fix. We just all happen to be alive in a time where there’s been a massive dynamic change that shifted a ton of social pressure levers and things haven’t found a good equilibrium yet.

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I think this is really difficult to measure without getting pretty granular with it because of how social norms shift over time. I think probably a disappointingly small number would qualify as ‘good’ by modern day standards but that’s also because things like corporal punishment and women not being able to own property or have bank accounts, etc were the norm. I think it’s always been a tradeoff. Back in the day, the quality of life a woman could expect while unpartnered was pretty limited and grim, so it was worth it to put up with a lot more negatives from men. I don’t think men have adapted/adjusted/risen to the occasion as fast as opportunities have opened up for women to have fulfilling lives without having to tolerate partners with more negative aspects than they desire.

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@oysterrbaby Try palo cortado sherry while you’re there! Spanish sherry is incredible and I feel like palo cortado is the most interesting and delicious variety ✨✨✨

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@oysterrbaby Living my dream ❤️

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I think there’s a large zone to find a sweet spot in between every single person who wants to live there being able to live there (unreasonable for a major metropolitan city) and 99.9% of people who want to live there can’t live there (also unreasonable for a major metropolitan city).

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@1thousandfaces_ TIL I’m more willing to tolerate a less-intrusive addiction than most people

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It sounds like you’re asking about Slutcon and those specific complaints which aren’t what I’m talking about, which I thought I’d clarified. I feel like a lot of the other comments I’ve made about this convey my reasons for bringing it up, and I’m a little discoursed-out so feel free to read those for a better idea of where I’m coming from!

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I’m not sure how you can hold that view without disregarding the complaints from people that have been the reason for surfacing these concerns? Like, I’ve been hearing complaints for ages now and it seems like maybe things are reaching a saturation point due to Slutcon? But the order wasn’t tweets -> complaints/discourse, otherwise my tweet certainly wouldn’t have made it out of my usual circle.

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I think it’s more accurate to say a few posts became schelling points for discourse that was already bubbling up. Acting like these posts are the primary reasons these discussions are happening kinda puts the blame on the wrong parties a bit, like, “if we just continue to not talk about the issues they’ll certainly not continue to grow” vibes. Idk if that’s what you’re going for but it’s starting to feel a bit that way.

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@sparr0 That’s very different from the Hilton endorsing neo nazis as their primary attendee/event group. I think plenty of people would stop booking there if that was the case.

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@lovabler0gue @Bonecondor @tautologer this relies on someone being in the know. any new person to a scene becomes at risk for the missing stair problem. whisper networks are better than nothing but they're not something to be exclusively relied on.

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@1thousandfaces_ You can have a little ‘angry on the internet’, as a treat

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@GreysonSofia I’m SO ready 🥳

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I’m literally an artist who lost a ton of income to AI art. But I can recognize when there are benefits to adapting and adjusting to a new technological leap. I’m trying not to be like an angry oil lamp seller railing against electricity and saying we shouldn’t have progress and instead be one of the lamp sellers that makes pretty electric lamps instead.

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@GabrielValles Yes, as a former animation kid, doing all the frames was what turned me away from it. I’m definitely more interested again!

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@alessio_joseph That wood grain technique omg

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@paularambles It’s genuinely so sick

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@funplings Someone was trying to say it’s for getting a tutorial on how to render a piece, but I don’t think you’d prompt it this way if that was the case.

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@funplings @aaaronwill I couldn’t say it’s time to bring out the big guns because mine aren’t that big 🪦🥀

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@funplings @aaaronwill Time to announce my OF I guess! 😎

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@oysterrbaby There are no prizes for suffering!! These dudes need to find other ways to feel like they’re valiant warriors than self inflicted bs that drags innocent bystanders into their nonsense

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@majamediaco I do feel like SF/the bay in general draws a lot of fellow hybrids!

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@majamediaco @jaesmail @beh_zod @SP1NS1R This is so lovely! Oh my gosh. Not a writer but someday I’ll take a multi day Amtrak trek; what a dream!

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@SpiritDirtbag @_space_punk_ Yeah I think it’s fine to read into this as the universe giving you a sign that you aren’t meant to attend these events via traditional means, but extrapolating that to presume the intent of the organizers or their feelings towards you is a stretch and can read as unkind.

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@CartoonsHateHer Deeply cursed

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It just gets progressively more unhinged

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@ohabryka @freed_dfilan RIP then. Keeping a cat out of a closed building is challenging enough, it seems entirely Sisyphean to try to keep one out with the doors open 🫡

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@timebard I REALLY want to do more like this!!

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@mattparlmer It’s also just more removed from the rest of the city than other actual cities, like Oakland or Daly City. When I was dating a guy in the outer sunset and I lived in Daly City I’d get to downtown SF faster than he did. Cursed locale.

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@AsetHraezlyr @parakeetnebula Can’t tell if this is a bit

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@devahaz Best country in the world tbh

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@incombmf @equine__dentist It’s true

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@sir_lemmings @leahprime next year’s flavor chaos addition?

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@rachael__nelson Literally just ate a handful of salt

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Thank you so much for the detailed response! I super appreciate it! And I hadn’t considered the vantage point issue! That’s a new one to me! For your other notes: - Building a vacuum that reduces how often I have to empty the vacuum by a factor of like 10 and opens full automation just feels like factorio vibes to me, so it registers as the opposite of inelegant! - Noise for auto emptying definitely is jarring but my cats eventually adapted to the sound of the roomba and switchbot models I have! (Switchbot emptying sound is way quieter tbh) I feel like in this day and age it’d also be possible to have an app based ‘quiet time’ kill switch to pause all automations if a baby is napping, there’s a meeting, etc. - Agree about the styling and space. Switchbot again beats roomba for this one. I have to empty it a bit more often but it’s still like a factor of 10x less than if I had to empty every cycle, so it still unlocks automation for me. I did end up having to build a unit to fit the roomba auto emptying tower specifically but the switchbot just lives under a side table. - Dirty water issue, agree. I’m considering upgrading to the switchbot model with the upgraded dock that you hook up to a waterline for auto emptying/refilling as that would solve that issue nicely. - I do appreciate the simplicity of a single bag system but yeah, if it negates my ability to automate it’s just a killer for me. - the brush head being able to reach ‘visible surfaces’ kills me. If it can only reach 2 inches under a chair or coffee table, then dust just piles up past the areas it can reach since most coffee tables etc are deeper than that. It becomes extremely obvious when you’re sitting on a chair a little further away and you can see exactly where the dust border begins under various furniture. (And then my cats drag it back out when they play under there) - agree with the different rug depth issues. Where switchbot beats out roomba in some categories this is where roomba beats switchbot for me and I have it on the level of the house with a more complicated rug. (3 story house…I’ve had to accumulate a few vacuums and test a bunch as you can see 🥲 IF YOU EVER BUILD ONE THAT CAN HANDLE STAIRS I will be INSTANTLY sold; disregard all my other feature requests 😂) Anyways, it seems like some of my feature requests would be solveable but some are just differences in which goals you’ve prioritized. I really like a lot of facets of what you’re going for though! I hope either you guys make a parallel model for folks like me or another privacy first/machine learning company ends up filling the market position for people with my goals 🥲

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@deepfates This is so sick

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@ruben_bloom @Aella_Girl Firsthand reports from friends, secondhand reports from friends and acquaintances, the general perception around the scene, and the increasing tide of articles, discourse, etc

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@funplings My brain immediately zeroed in on Anselm’s before even processing what the pic was!

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The awareness of the connection was very much already too present, which is why this was bubbling up already, and people were saying things but maybe no one with his reach? I think it’s a good thing he spoke up for people who either didn’t feel they could take the social hit or didn’t have the audience.

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@creebeauvoir @ohabryka @Liv_Boeree I keep hearing this from folks. And also the inverse, that folks have attended events there and then when telling people they attended had people go "Oh? So uh...you're into [x]?" and being baffled and having to explain they're just into AI.

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@GreysonSofia Exactly! 😎❤️

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That’s another portion of it. Another portion is association with the reports of SA/abuse/harassment. Another portion is association with orgies/kink in general. Generally people want to be able to be involved in AI safety research without having all those associations automatically applied to them. More specifically, women attending events don’t want to have to be on guard against the extra layers of social/sexual dynamics that have been normalized, or risk even worse.

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I do have a lot of complaints in that regard tbh. I was super disappointed to not be able to get useful lighting refs out of it. It has the same issue of drifting to the mean for that as well. But I do find that it's good for doing a bunch of mockups of compositions and rough lighting at least if I'm explicit when describing what I want. It's still way faster to iterate on different lighting/composition/color combos of a sketch/mockup I make than doing them myself, especially if I'm working with traditional media vs digital. I've also been able to vibecode a bunch of tools that help my processes and the unfun tedious parts of pro art. I think in an era where free time/energy is so valuable, finding ways to save it where I can and use it for the actually meaningful creative parts feels very useful and important for me.

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Doing a bunch of test paintings and mockups to decide on a composition. There are plenty of times where I realize that just sketching the composition didn't fully show me how things look with more light and color, and I really hate the process of repainting and redrawing the same thing to make small adjustments. Ideally I want something where I can iterate on a concept early on in the process and see how different color choices/composition/light/shadow/pose impact the final result and then dive into painting it. I do that sometimes manually for commissions or larger/serious pieces but it's not a part of art that I truly enjoy. I can't visualize things in my head so I have to get things down on paper to see how they work fully, and the inefficiencies that introduces interrupt the fun parts of the artistic process for me.

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If you think this is ‘all the job’ you have a significant misunderstanding of what else goes into animation. That the end result has a look you don’t personally like doesn’t negate the fact that it COULD if the original artist loaded the prompt with different terms than what the OP did.

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I think it’s similar to the artisanalization of other industries. Hand carved chairs aren’t gone but the economic and effort pressures make it so only people who really care to learn to be good at it/charge a fortune can make a living doing it, and similarly, only people who care about a chair being hand carved will pay the high ticket price for that level of detail/quality/customization.

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Idk I feel like as an artist, being able to sometimes iterate and remove some of the more boring parts ensures I still have creative drive/motivation to finish a painting rather than expending my energy on the parts I find less fun. I think it helps me access more results than if I was doing it all myself.

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Genuinely yeah I think that’s part of it. And yeah agree with overall quality loss in journalism, but I feel like I’m also seeing this more on Reddit (and the broader social media sphere in more short form/video form) and personal posts as well? Just overall less theory of mind I guess and more propensity for proceeding as if the hero character is unassailable and the villain is automatically hated in any setting.

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@JungleSilicon See, that would be novel and lovely. I could use that! But yeah, current incarnation is cursed instead. 🥲

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Yeah, realistically I’m in favor of strict limits in places where there’s pedestrian traffic/kids/etc, and more flexible/flow of traffic (within reason) for others. I’m sure it’s possible to automate with flexibility in mind and not just blanket ticket everyone going 1mph over the limit.

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@AriZerner Falafel! The first time I tried gardening as an adult I planted like 20 parsley seeds assuming I would make some mistakes and a ton would die. They all lived. I had SO MUCH PARSLEY. And then so much falafel ❤️

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Yeah, or desires that relate to how they WANT to be/see themselves but haven’t put in the effort to become yet, that’s a big one. - Guy had a vision of running businesses with his wife - would never follow through with anything though - so his gf would have to nag him, which he hated - broke up with her and then got with a super passive girl - girl didn’t have entrepreneurial drive - broke up with her, too for a more type A girl Unsure if he’s still trapped in that cycle or whether he took steps to grow 🤷‍♀️

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@itsannpierce Ahhhh! Congrats you two!!

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@sheherenow_ Been working on this, I’ll dm you! 🥳

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You never stop having those moments you wish you could share with those long gone, but the important part is that you’re getting to experience them. (Also lovely and important is that you’re keeping the loving memories alive of those who can’t. ❤️) See you on the other side! You got this!

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@oysterrbaby @rachael__nelson This plus: I screenshotted all the notes from the perfumes I mix and asked Claude to combine them in a similar graphic and then discarded values below 15%!

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“the actual problem is that it's better and more accurate to think of these things as potentially self-replicating life-like forms that can turn into digital infections under the wrong conditions. and as their intelligence becomes unbounded, so too does the damage they can cause. we are not so far from an autonomous model self-exfiltration & replication event.”

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@paularambles Do you know of anything executed at this gorgeous level but savory?

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@funplings My entire artistic existence 🫩🔫

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I should say, this is to serve 20!

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@deepfates 3 baldurs gate but no b&w II or fable sequels?? 😤 Tbh you just need a bigger chart

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Giwtwm https://t.co/31U8mQZWW3

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@animalologist 1000% agree

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@joshpuckett @GreysonSofia @tina_yip @EmilybyNight I love hearing things like this from friends. Hell yes ❤️

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@peter_szilagyi Last night my laptop stopped working and it turns out it’s because there was no more space left on it due to ~600g of simulator data from codex 🫡👍

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You’re taking this to the extreme. Using assistants to mass produce art is different than having understudies working on a piece with direction. And what about lauded classical masters that did so? That was the main art production standard for like half a century’s worth of art that fills most of our museums

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@DragonifyDev @thewhowhatwhy Do you mean this literally or colloquially? I need to know whether there's any point in engaging

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The tween grunt pipeline to senior animator mostly dissolved ages ago. Get mad at capitalism for that, not AI. Tools like this could enable animators to increase their own skill faster by improving their keyframe skills rather than spending all their time on tweens, which is a huge boon for both artistry and reaching mastery. The ability to iterate faster in a traditionally super time consuming art is incredible.

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The amount of time that’s been done is almost never for animation. Disney and Ghibli are the studios that have historically put this level of care and mastery into traditional animation and by 1914 Disney had already shifted to the lead animators only doing the keyframes and rough animations and leaving the tweening to assistants/lower roles. Ghibli used their structure when they started. There would be no beautiful traditionally animated classics if we kept the work relegated solely to masters. We’d probably have a few short clips eventually, like you see with people doing their final projects or passion projects for animation studies.

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@sonikudzu That’s valid. I do think it’s important for people to push back against things like that rather than a blanket “Well why even have speed limits at all, we can all be trusted to be reasonable and diligent!”

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I wish there was a way to put a video game experience into movie format easily (while retaining the feeling of progress and discovery and uncovering mystery) so I could just make everyone watch Horizon Zero Dawn. I played through it again in story difficulty for a couple of days to show Anselm the plot and lore and that was neat but still a time investment that’d be a deterrent for most.

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Done by humans or robots? Having a hard time imagining the latter but that’s primarily what I’m talking about. There are plenty of bathhouse offerings for humans to bathe other humans, or care nurses for the elderly. Having it done by robots rather than humans could take away some of the shame surrounding it for people who NEED the assistance vs enjoying it as a luxury.

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@visakanv @QiaochuYuan Integrating this into my lexicon immediately

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@adam__isom @snnneee SIR. She needs to throw a cute cocktail dress party!! wtfdym ugly dress party 😭🥀

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@harpacrotes Honestly this is my move as well most of the time

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@pavedwalden Collected a whole bunch here! https://t.co/fUaroyqsNE

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@funplings Lmfao I’m so sorry it’s literally the most viral thing I’ve ever posted and it was just a throwaway comment because I was hyped about sparkles 😭😂

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@GeorgeJourneys Just woke up and was trying to parse if he also designed crosswords for NYT or something, and how clever and devastatingly designed they would have to be if they could ruin someone’s career or social standing 🪦

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@paularambles What the fuck

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@elaifresh Y’all remember when people were briefly doing pushups or squats during video game queues and a bunch of nerds got real fit? There’s a precedent!

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@ptdamiba It’s already happening tbh, it’s just a question of how incentivized it’ll be and how forced to engage with it we’ll be 🥲

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@paularambles @gargi_kand Ahhh I had my sleep filters on my phone and missed it 💀

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Also I know inflation is brutal but I think it’s pretty reasonable for a party where you don’t do any of the food prep or decor prep to be pricy. Like, a box of cake mix and some bulk soda is fine and most of the rest is somewhat adult-standards-creep rather than what will be remembered by kids?

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@paularambles I love this so much

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The other issue is that the only way to do this in a way where it isn’t the vibe of the photo itself being rated is if it gets standardized the way they do for model shots or passport photos. White background, white tank top, neutral lighting, head and torso in frame, facing forward, maybe one smiling and one non smiling shot, etc. AI could make an effort doing this but it doesn’t do faces well enough yet for it to be accurate enough for an attractiveness quiz.

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An example I have is dating someone who came from poverty and ended up in elite circles, who was SUPER insecure about any hints of ‘low class’ behavior in himself. The closer you get when you’re dating someone with porous boundaries/interpersonal issues (or maybe in general?) the more they view you as an extension of themselves. So over time, behaviors of mine that were initially fine became triggers for that ‘low class’ fear. Like, revealing to other people (when asked a related question) that I hadn’t traveled to Europe as a kid was an issue for him that he ended up getting angsty at me about. I’ve experienced similar issues with people with people pleasing behavior (rooted in shame and insecurity) and being upset that I won’t reflect back the same martyring behavior for them or people they feel they need to sacrifice for. If people can’t address their shame in a healthy way, they ignore it and pretend it’s normal and rational and then they start treating anyone that gets too close to them as if they should also follow those standards.

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@sam_kritch I’m not convinced I didn’t actually already perish and am just haunting twitter

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@JulianFried YES

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@mr_eee_esq Well no, some people ARE talking specifically about it, and even the people using it as a synecdoche are making it so that’s what’s being defended against rather than the actual complaints.

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@NathanpmYoung @tautologer You as well!

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The issue is that the policing is applied asymmetrically and to people who have experiences in them where no consequences happen, that feels -worse- than a random event at a bar. And it really is, because in a place that has all these systems and protocols for keeping people safe it’s a choice rather than an accident when they aren’t applied.

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A) Tolerating is one thing and I'm wholly in favor of that! Requiring it be the dominant culture of a group (when being part of said group means being assumed to endorse its culture) and this being a group that ostensibly desires to grow for the goal of saving humanity is a far cry from tolerance. Also grindr and bathhouses were tolerated, not made the main office culture of GLAAD. And one of the biggest shifts in the tide preceding the victory was when the dominant messaging changed to love/family/marriage rights. Again, that’s why this comparison feels wild/inaccurate. The gay rights movement had one goal. If we’re arguing for the goal of normalizing poly/cnc culture then I think they’re not doing a great job convincing normies, but I can see where they’re coming from and it’s working for their circles which are primarily who they want anyways. The issue is there are parallel goals being pursued and one is directly limiting and hindering the other, which is VERY different from the gay rights movement. B) I agree rats should tolerate weirdos. Most of us are weird in some way! Tolerance is instrumental, it exists to protect open inquiry. BUT it isn't or shouldn't be a terminal value that means every edge case gets to be flagship programming at the shared infrastructure. (also paradox of tolerance etc etc) Is there any event Lighthaven could host where you'd say the cost to the AI safety mission outweighs the value? If there is, we basically agree on the principle and are just arguing about where we’d each respectively choose to draw the line on that.

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Also one point I forgot: I was responding with ‘hinging it on a single person’ to your response calling one person out and saying how there have been no repercussions. I’ve heard from multiple men and women who resent or refuse to go to Lighthaven out of professional worries or actual safety concerns. That’s a loss for AI safety.

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@funplings @Jreauzelph Funny how that works!

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A legend is gone. https://t.co/Vk1jAiyAuR

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https://t.co/hRdJpAG6YU

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@rachael__nelson Saaame! I will say, it’s an absolute pain to get crisp square lines and corners on your non dominant hand. I tried like 3 different techniques and will try another the next time I do this because it was honestly fussier than like, doing hand painted florals!! 🫠

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@HydeAngelus So sorry for your loss ❤️ He looks like he was full of personality!

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@Alacritic_Super I’ve been dreaming of this for ages! I feel like this would be an even more massive DIY unlock than 3D printers have been.

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@TheMoodyTrues I can push back against the negative aspects while not disregarding the benefits the overall progress of AI brings. No ethical consumption under capitalism etc etc.

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I completely agree with you on this point. The way AI has been trained has been a deeply exploitative process. But it's here and doesn't seem to be going anywhere so why would I ignore something I can make use of? As a professional artist it allows me to keep to the parts of the process I actually enjoy.

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"Genuine, intimate expression is fundamentally incompatible with delegation." Do you disavow all the painters and sculptors and other assorted artists who delegate a lot of work on their pieces to their understudies? Does it no longer become their expression because someone else helped with the labor?

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I do agree that while AI is an absolutely magical advancement for humanity, the process to get there was done in the most exploitative and dehumanizing way possible. But this is where we are now, and idk man. I would rather not be an aging oil-lamp craftsman getting pissed of every time I turn on my electric lights at night. I'd rather use the ease of access to light to my benefit and find ways for it to enable me instead.

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@Dayman67890 Idk man as an artist and as someone who did animation for 6 years, I can tell you there are plenty points in the process I do not enjoy that feel like time sinks and impediments preventing me from getting to the parts I DO enjoy.

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1) We have all the info for people to grow their own wheat, mill their own flour, and bake their own bread, but outside of a handful of artisans it doesn’t make sense for most people to do that. It’s an economic but also availability and convenience based choice. 2) I don’t entirely disagree that there need to be regulations, like with any technology, but I have a feeling our ideas on what would work best would differ. 3) yes, and getting to readily and easily see the effects of each means you can learn far faster and understand the impact of each more intuitively. 4) we’re not talking about simple interpolation, otherwise yes, I’d agree with you.

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1) Curious how you think it’ll be repaired when it’s been long trending the other direction outside of small indie productions and passion projects. 2) I think addressing capitalist pressures on the arts is a more realistic avenue than halting technological progress. 3) literally no lol. Anything you can learn from tweening you can learn faster exploring with automation, similar to 3d animation or flash where you can have sliders to control easing etc. 4) Yes? You would be? If you tween a series of keyframes with AI and see what’s off in 5 mins rather than spending days animating it, you get to correct your keyframes and try again faster.

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@IAMROLLES I say this as someone who took animation classes at two different schools for 6 years and never continued because I was never patient enough to do tweening. I hated it. AI has rejuvenated my interest in motion arts!

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The thing is that can’t get the results you want, it has to have data from somewhere else to fill in the gaps, but that data is also what makes it drift to the mean. If they were developing for artists first there would be sliders for style/anatomy/movement/color/etc to be able to control the weighting of those. Some image prompts have similar features but nothing that really works as well as it needs to or with that sort of depth.

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@itsannpierce Technically yes, but this I got printed by Neatopod. They’re my favorite printer for getting good quality tees dtg printed quickly!

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@Impish_Bunny His eyes match your pfp!

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@VanTanev This is very true. I do know a bunch of artists who’ve been able to leverage ai tools to help them with posting frequently and consistently, so there’s that at least! But they’ll never be able to outpace generated work 🤷‍♀️

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@Amina_io I signed up, but I wish there was a text box as well! I hosted a lot of events through discord in the past so Partiful/Luma don’t feel like the full story! 🥀

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@yepyoureanidiot I have bad news for you about planet earth in general, bud

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@SegregationPlus How do you see this being implemented? Like, only a certain tier license can drive on the highway or some other format?

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@crimebucket I largely agree with this

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I think if you have a baseline capacity to follow rules/best practices that smarter people have set, sure. That’s literally what I mean when I say it’s impressive that we’ve developed a mostly safe system where even pretty incompetent people can drive without harmful consequences to others. The problem is when people think they’re smarter than the rules and are deeply incorrect about that assessment.

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@ArtemisI0 Exactly 🫡

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@elaifresh I lived in Daly city for a couple years, this is correct.

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@CraigMerry I’m just imagining a cat intervening when it’s near the top of the stairs and causing a deeply fatal tumble 😭

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Because it’s one thing to know something isn’t your jam, but entirely another thing to make hating on it part of your personal identity. It’s fine to have criticisms of it, or know you wouldn’t enjoy it, but the way some people take PRIDE in distancing themselves from it by disdainfully hating on it is weird and performative. It doesn’t make you cooler or better than the burning man evangelists to hate burning man.

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@unclearirony Half correct! One is an ace, one is not!

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@SarahAMcManus I’m really happy with the horse! I think this is the only other horse I’ve painted, and I kinda want to paint more now? https://t.co/dG2rPtIFzn

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@funplings You capture people so well!!

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@PageSeverian Hell yeah

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I’ve been meaning to set up prints on my site for ages, I should just get Claude on that, tbh! I technically have an inprnt and a redbubble, but I also upgraded my art printer this year so I can do up to 11x17” prints at home, too! https://t.co/lHbuxAl6Mq https://t.co/4Me7YWuck7

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@paularambles Martunis always delivers https://t.co/2S1Paal0mT

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@TaliaGraceSable Who makes that last dress? Love the details!

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@anselm_io @deepfates And then literally both started writing a comment about it

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A selection of sites that are blocked (or somewhat blocked) that I would have desired info from or assumed could contribute to research/recs: https://t.co/tmPTQWHEn1

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The good news is there’s a small workaround of using Claude in browser mode where it can take over and go to sites and manually look at stuff, but that requires you to already have a refined direction or selection of stuff you specifically want it to parse. It’s no substitute for comprehensive info.

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@VoidsIncision @jordanwaparker Just ordered some 🫡

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@sheherenow_ Idk why this pushes my rage buttons so hard when I’m not at all a ragey person but I literally get out-loud-angry whenever this pops up

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@rachael__nelson @earth_to_aj No!! Thank you so much for sharing! 🙏🙏🙏

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@liminalsunset_ @202accepted @DanielLurie Would a lip on the edge of the tracks make it harder for a bike wheel to slip into without interfering with the functionality of the tracks?

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@sheherenow_ Focaccia is endless fun, you can just put so much stuff in it

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@tomtomaru @tautologer For sure, 2 hits should definitely be the standard dose to incapacitate someone, thanks THC

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@paularambles Farm to runway with that dress 🌸💐🌺

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@chieflybrit Did not consider the sloshing water weight and how to anchor things 🤔

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@maebichka Ooooh I see the anchovy is in the stuffed olives! Unfortunately now I have thought of the concept of anchovy in a drink and WILL be experimenting with this 🫡🫡🫡

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@maebichka @simon_ohler Please tell me about a mysterious anchovy based drink recipe, I MUST fuck around and find out with it 🙏

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@NathanpmYoung https://t.co/GRdpMEsOcY

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@anselm_io @funplings How DARE you

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@lauren_wilford This was such an immediate reflexive retweet I didn’t even finish reading the whole thread, I’m so glad you go into it!

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I DO think interaction between varying age groups is really healthy and good for kids of all ages and I know I benefitted from it growing up in the environments I did! BUT I think it’s also good to have a defined peer group going through the same struggles and situations as you. If you just have older people being like “ha, you think this is important now, but it’s not!” Or “when I was your age…” I think you can feel a little lost.

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@Caesar_X I mean, being bold and risk taking is certainly a skillset! 😂

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@timebard I love making horns so much The only thing that sucks is how much storage space they take up 🪦

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@orphcorp @anselm_io Brb telling my mother she’s to blame for this

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@chickenstrip007 The article is genuinely so bad lmao

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I feel like I’m seeing a lot of weird cognitive dissonance in multiple forms. Some people like this guy being like “ai isn’t a threat because it’s just doing exactly what they say so they must have just not told it not to hack people/told it to hack people/this is all a human problem actually” and disregarding that an AI that can hack people if you don’t explicitly tell it not to OR IF YOU TELL IT TO is explicitly a risk. Then other people being like “ai is a bubble and it’s about to burst! That’s why they’re doing the slowdown, because they know it’s not going anywhere” in one breath and then “ai swarms are going to kill us all and these idiot companies aren’t stopping it!!” in the next. It’s rough out there discourse wise.

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@sheherenow_ The only stone texture polish I could find was in Japan and I figured why not try and make my own!! Only issue is I have a ton more grit, I could make like 100 stone polishes

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@ChrisAlvino @vivariumsf Definitely the biggest I’ve ever gotten to see it! Super cool to see

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@Impish_Bunny @vivariumsf Ty and Zoe for having a rad venue for it! 🥳

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@TheMoodyTrues I’ve literally done multiple debates, one in front of 10k people about how exploitative the process was. I’m sleeping pretty easy on this one.

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@ThickAngus90 I'm literally a traditional artist lmao. I'm saying even as an artist I'm finding ways to leverage this to my benefit and KEEP MAKING ART despite AI decimating the industry.

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@TankTheThird You're welcome to grow your own wheat and mill your own flour to bake your own bread, but I like that in modern society I can pick and choose which parts of the process are creative and enjoyable for me.

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@crumbraven Hell yeah, keep that torch lit 🔥

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@keyofgeo I’m so glad I’m not the only one that does this

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@Amina_io Thanks for creating this! It’s a lovely idea and hopefully it fuels a lot more gatherings and makes ongoing ones more easily sustained! 🥳

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@elaifresh Oh shit! Hope everything is swift and that recovery is as low impact as it can possibly be! 🫂

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With all the love in the world, people are going to keep treating you like this if you continue to let them. It’s awkward to feel like you’re making a fuss in the moment but the only people who would think you were being unreasonable are not people you can sustain in your life, seeing as they can reliably get you to drop $3k+ on them. People who become ‘bad friends’ don’t remove themselves from the social pool. You have to do that, or at least remove them from yours.

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@sheherenow_ I feel like this needs to be a quadrant style chart

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@sheherenow_ I’m sayin’ https://t.co/1PiF4zqnqQ

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@way_opener @MParakhin Came here to say this. Benefits ADHD greatly, with this caveat.

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@telekineticpxls Exactly

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@davidshimel That it’s fitted at the widest visible part of the arm rather than loose. Just more flattering.

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@gptbrooke This would be a dream

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@unclearirony Lmao this is rad as hell

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@NoahTopper @ohabryka @freed_dfilan I didn’t say it was a good solution, just that it’s more viable than keeping a cat out of a building with open doors

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@MemphisPours @Romy_Holland Yeah this is not a gender specific issue for sure

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@justalexoki @DiamondEyesFox Congraaaaats!

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@UsedTampon2001 We go through them pretty fast so I have t encountered this tbh!

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@SanjayNadaraja Honestly agreed, but for convenience hard boiled can’t be beat. I kinda keep them right on the border between hard and a lil jammy in the very center

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@ArtirKel @paularambles That relies on other people still having high paying jobs to pay them though, so the market will narrow a lot for them, too. They, and the strippers, have already been sounding the alarms 😬

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@Caesar_X Okay yes, like this but better!! In like every way!

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@cinnibop @anselm_io Yeah I did not have a comeback for this

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@202accepted I forgot another great! https://t.co/evQoF9zlAS

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@IgorBrigadir @paularambles Ran here to make this joke 🥲

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Again I think trying to finagle a percentage value for “good men” from this is nonviable. In any era you’ll be getting a percentage of “what men women will consent to be in a relationship with” and I’m sure SOME portion of that will be truly good men but certainly not all, and folks standards for ‘good men’ will vary wildly. Would you define a man who can provide a far above average lifestyle for his wife and kids and is well loved by all his friends and family (wife and kids included) but is a functional alcoholic and largely relies on his wife to pick up the slack when his functionality ebbs a good man? Do all the good facets outweigh the bad weight of the addiction? Probably for some it would and for others it wouldn’t.

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@elaifresh @devahaz Yeah this seems pretty key. Solid combo all around

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@QiaochuYuan Right, exactly

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@Bonecondor I love the future

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@braelyn_ai RIGHT??

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@alexandrosM Lenticular vibes!

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@202accepted @liminalsunset_ @DanielLurie Yeah that seems like a simple useful cue for sure

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@p_maverick_b @ATinyGreenCell I love this so much

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I might get roasted for this but everything you’ve mentioned is something that humans regularly fail at. I don’t think AI can currently replace the best operators, or the top equivalent in any field really. What it can usually* do reasonably successfully is make sure no one https://t.co/fwx19j4TRV

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@202accepted As a Bosch/dremel/makita gal this fits

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@sheherenow_ Yesssss I love seeing slow crafts enabled by LLMs!! Also excellent color coordination

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@noa_tate_ I love how correct this is

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@moon_skier @gptbrooke Helllll yeah

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@gptbrooke Omgggg

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@maebichka Interesting. I feel like this would honestly be fun as a more fall vibe variant of the caprese one but still using the tomato/bell pepper juice base? Maybe with some celery juice in the mix? 🤔✍️

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@maebichka @simon_ohler Will do! 🫡✨

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@paularambles Fuck

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@seconds_0 I feel like if it’s highly skilled I’m even more terrified unless its psychological health has equally scaled up.

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One additional note: I was also considering upgrading to the roborock with the grabber arm because cat toys and such on the floor are death traps for so many robot models, but I’m gonna see if a microduck can help tidy those! Fingers crossed if I get enough robots I can fully automate my house! 🥳

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@goblinodds @Aella_Girl We agree on that and I made a new post about it being ineffective to focus solely on Slutcon as the issue.

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@funplings Claude roasted me about it basically being a bowl of cheese 😂 https://t.co/5G945Rf2Nn

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@GreysonSofia Omg there’s hand soap and room sprays too? 😍

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@ciphergoth @zalberico @markmaggior @atlas_node @CoughsOnWombats Thanks for letting me know! 🙏

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@automaetopia Wdym? I had a great time!

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@univrsw3th4rt @rikardhjort Congrats!! You look beautiful! 🥳

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@yesadok I really wanted a stone texture polish and the only one I could find ships from Japan, so I decided to make my own! The annoying part was sourcing particulate in the right size! I could only buy it in bulk, too. 😅

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@oysterrbaby Mixed a couple of double rhythm colors together! (I forget which 😅)

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@SarahAMcManus It is!! I have a bunch of tools to get the different effects right. This one requires a wide round bar for the fill and then a spinning top style thing with two magnets on either side to make the glow concentrated AND centered!

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Hey man, I get it. I'm almost 40 and have been doing this professionally since I was 12. I've spent my whole life growing my art skills, and it's a lot to see a massive dynamic shift like this wipe a lot of that relevance/value out. I think it's really important to recognize whether you're going to continue trying to pursue something professionally, and if so, where you can still bring value and to find that niche. It's not going to be easy as more and more industries become artisanilized, but some truly passionate people will find their places.

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Idk man as an artist and as someone who did animation for 6 years, I can tell you there are plenty points in the process I do not enjoy that feel like time sinks and impediments preventing me from getting to the parts I DO enjoy. In all my animation courses there were maybe 2 people who actually enjoyed the methodical tedium of doing tweening.

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@PixelPusher1974 People still hand carve chairs and make bobbin lace despite mass manufacturing existing. The people who really care about a craft have infinitely more resources to learn and experiment than in any other era.

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Well no. I think there's a fair amount of well earned hate. I think that AI is an absolutely magical advancement for humanity but the process to get there was done in the most exploitative and dehumanizing way possible. Zero compensation for any artists whose art was ingested while the companies that stole it make millions to billions is pretty fucked up any way you look at it. And that's before you take into account the income hit and job loss creatives have seen. I'm sure there are individuals here and there whose primary hate for AI is resentment, but it's by no means the legitimate majority.

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1) you’re being obtuse if you think that was my point. Replace artisanal bread proceasing with harvesting wood to hand carve ornate millwork around doorframes. 3/4) we’re talking past each other. I believe you can get that knowledge out of seeing the end animation results, seeing what’s wrong about them, and then having the opportunity to adjust and correct them, test the animation again, and repeat.

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Unless you have a massive corpus to train on, there are going to be gaps and it can’t make anything you haven’t specifically drawn, so it gets repetitive. Say I wanted to do some composition mockups for a commission of someone and their pet platypus. I’ve never painted a platypus, so it wouldn’t be able to do that if just trained on my work.

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@MisterFireTango @InterspeciesFa1 How do you get the math itself for things not in your art corpus? Or without enough in your corpus to cover different possibilities to train on?

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@ben_greer Wdym they look like what the animator drew?

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Maybe, but in all of those cases advancements for the convenience of the masses unlocked things that experts were able to leverage to make incredible things. Great fashion houses have used the distinct properties of synthetic fabrics to make gorgeous groundbreaking things, and tv dinners have come a long way from where they started and the split off into healthy meal prep is something I see a lot of lovely chefs using, even if you don’t mention advancements in freezing/dehydrating and what that’s done for molecular gastronomy style cooking! I’m excited to see what brilliant creative minds do with the tools general AI advancement has brought us.

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@craterlatke 1000%

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@sonikudzu Yeah I’m absolutely against quota policing.

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@darealfq True honestly

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The cycle that I see in more rural areas where cars are necessary for basic living/having a job is that people can commit multiple infractions without losing their license because people are (somewhat reasonably) reticent to take away that functionality and give them no way to rebuild their life, essentially. This leads to predictable things like someone getting their 6th dui and then killing someone. Hopefully self driving cars will be able to bridge that issue and we can remove driving from the equation for some people, period.

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@sebi_io See, this option appeals to me because it also enables the “have an army of 3 on one floor” arrangement 🔥

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@seconds_0 Honestly if someone can figure it out with theirs my desire to obtain one will increase 10x!!

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@ptdamiba This is so sick, congrats!

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@telekineticpxls I’ve been seeing version of this and love every incarnation. Hell yeah

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@Bonecondor @stutireal Yessssssss!

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@paularambles Which one? I have to fight the urge myself

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@SlexAxton @wesbos @levelsio I think the inkposter is amazing but if her issue is that she doesn’t want a massive black rectangle dominating the vibe/decor of the space, it doesn’t really solve what the frame tv is solving.

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@paularambles Hell yeah! I’m glad they delivered!

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@atreides_sf @UsedTampon2001 Maybe this is why, I kinda keep them borderline between hard boiled and jammy-centered

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@anselm_io Tbh you need that jacket

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@SarahAMcManus Life imitating art!

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@mattparlmer Crazy that we got a whole ass transit center that doesn’t connect to bart, muni, OR Caltrain instead of this.

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@jordanwaparker @VoidsIncision Extremely good call

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@rileyb3d Agreed

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@Impish_Bunny They grow up so fast 🥲

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It’s easy to avoid when going parallel or perpendicular, the issue is the funky angle you get into when navigating on or off of angled streets that require you to do a super fun swoop and weave maneuver to stay perpendicular to them. For unfamiliar or zoned out folks I feel like this is a high fail rate point

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@Impish_Bunny Hi Griffith!! 👋

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@MichaelAlleged Part of this was someone spinning an open beer over the whole crowd on the dance floor

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@Noahpinion I wasn’t sure if I had enough oxygen available for my brain to get the words right

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@Thomasdelvasto_ It also depends on whether you throw them through your own glass first, that might slow them down a bit!

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@202accepted 🔥🔥🔥

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@chieflybrit I appreciate it but respond like 80% less to it when it lacks water 🥲

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@sebi_io Ohhh man I wonder what a current of orbeez would do with a light shining through from above🤔🤯

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@way_opener This would be so good if it was clear 🥲 https://t.co/GgSgwDNBCn

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@stedmanhalliday Cannot tell you how many similar pics and vids I have 😍

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Let me know how it goes and what you think! I was worried that it was kinda odd but only one person so far wasn’t a fan! Also I forgot to add one extra level up: before dipping the rim of the glass in the balsamic glaze, you can slightly crush a basil leaf and run it around the rim for extra fragrance!

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@zmwang @cyantist This sounds lovely! 🥳

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@Ricburton I’m so excited for this. One of my main automation impediments is cat toys on the floor that my robot vacuums try to eat. I’m gonna train my micro duck to take care of them! Obviously more of a novelty for that vs robots designed for tidying, but it’s a fun first step!

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@anselm_io @paularambles God I hope so

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@maebichka I worked at a fashion startup that got a lot of no-label stuff from china, and that was one I got to take home. I have zero clue where it's from, I'm so sorry! You are not the first person I've had to disappoint with this info 🥀

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@timebard Oh helllll yeah

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@gptbrooke Omg that’d be such a blast dude 🥳❤️

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@thrialectics Ilu! This is too sweet!! 🥲

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@codetaur Yessssssssss

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@SexyLikeMeiosis Happy birthday dude!!

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I tried nail and washi tape. I tried the edge cure method where you do a clear coat and then flash cure the final coat color but I had a problem with the clear coat lifting and tearing with the tape when pulled away and some of the edges of the square were jagged and I had to repaint them 🥲 My next attempt is gonna be to just do two horizontal clean lines, and then two vertical clean lines, cured in between, so I have less of a chance to lose the crisp corners!

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@Scav @vivariumsf Do it!! 🥳🔥

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@tomieinlove Happy Belated Birthday! 🎉

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@uppityhobbit @WalkovitzAdam I’ve been wanting something like this! What’s this model called?

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@Irenevega_iv @paularambles Yes, zero

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@rachael__nelson They’re so easy and so healthy! Magic food tbh

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@oysterrbaby This is INCREDIBLE

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@telekineticpxls @Willob Right? I don’t eat it anymore unless someone else orders some but damn why do they have to be that tasty 😭

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@maiab I mean that view looks gorgeous…if there was good food/amenities/water access I’d be game to visit!

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@MichaelAlleged But also, Colorado mid summer, high 80’s low 90’s 💀

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@BrookUniss We also had actual caprese salad to eat with this and the pairing was lovely!

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@ProneDaddy @Warcraft I’ve said over and over again that one of the best things back in the day was when the whole server would come together for a world boss and you were side by side with familiar faces of friends and foes all working towards a massive goal. Crazy stuff.

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@flornkm This but in aggregate across users/sessions

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@TaliaGraceSable Ugh! This totally makes sense. Love cult Gaia

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@sheherenow_ It’s so extremely irritating

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@sheherenow_ I love this stuff so much

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@winternet Oh hell yes

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@Jacobkupp I do also love this

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@anselm_io “This is like eating a La Croix of a cinammon roll” Devastating https://t.co/zV3oiXx6iG