Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13/04/2025The real goal is to harvest agreement: not just that it's okay to generate this image (a neutral act) but that they were RIGHT to do so, that generating this image is praiseworthy. 993446
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13/04/2025You will observe the same in right wing political circles - what they crave is not permission to do the thing (the kind of person doing this - typically ablebodied cishet white male - has precious few restrictions on their behavior) but validation that it is a good thing to have done. 10107599
alamkara @alamkara.bsky.social · 14/04/2025it's more than that, I think - what they want is not so much validation as unqualified agreement, faling in line - recognition that the man doing it is not merely right but the authority of what's right. they want obedience, not permission 020
Scott 📎😷 free Link defund/abolish 12 Black Lives Matter Menor 🍉 @smenor.phd · 13/04/2025They’re so damned pathetic 000
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13/04/2025A lot of actual artists create slop with no soul, and are fine with doing so, because they - and their customers - aren't looking for soul, they're looking for, well, I'll leave that to the imagination of the reader. But being accused of making slop deeply wounds the prompt goblin. 589343
Ken @tcbullfrog.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I don't remember where I read it but I've seen stories about how, despite all his wealth and fame, Trump was never actually accepted by the upper crust in New York, and it killed him 160
Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Yes, I feel like this conversation has cycled around for my whole life: you can’t say anything any more/ well you can, it’s just that other people can criticise it 1201
Timothra but now it’s October @timrandosaurus.bsky.social · 13/04/2025They want to compel under penalty of law that we all agree their flatulence actually smells like toasty pancakes. 1130
Desarrayed @desarrayed.bsky.social · 13/04/2025It also highlights their need to be “proven” as creative and intelligent as acknowledged artists and geniuses without ever putting in the hard work to learn 180
Krinn DNZ @krinndnz.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I hate that so much of the time it's the exact thing Lincoln's Cooper Union speech talks about. 0101
Katie, Mistress of Education @limoniana.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Which is why we must always withhold the approval they crave 030
