something that occurred to me is, everyone knows it’s possible to become a musician with work and practice. but you can’t work on and practice music while staring slackjawed at your phone. the real promise of generative AI is the ability to ‘make’ ‘art’ without reducing your slackjawed scroll time

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People don't realize how necessary cheap rent is to the arts.

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"Oh well who can tell with these crazies lol" is a comforting sentence you say to gain points and emotional confort with friends when you get something wrong about a post you're dunking on. That is not a sentence you can say on the battlefield when you're drawing maps of enemy troop movements.

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One of the starkest divides between antifascists and liberals was that the liberals saw it as "low status" to be familiar with neonazis, to know anything about them. The liberals were trying to win games of appearance and pretense that take as background assumption that VOTING is how change happens.

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In our present landscape you gain points by demonstrating how unfamiliar you are with monsters. But this is actually just another version of liberalism. The performativity is all around raising morale, jockeying for attention and status in the democratic arena, being seen, signaling.

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