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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I work with ai models semi-regularly in a professional academic setting. I am used to differentiating between actually useful ai programs, and mass-marketed slop. There is no gulf of understanding, at least on my end.

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

hey man, if you had read my previous comment you’d see that I mentioned this, I have used ai in digital art before. The fact that it CAN be used properly doesn’t mean that there is nothing wrong with the way you’re using it here

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The fact that you can actually put effort into art just makes it more embarrassing dude.

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I wouldn’t if data centers weren’t being forced on small towns for energy-inefficient overuse that’s subsidized by our federal government in conjunction with massive megacorps intent on obliterating our rights and our planet

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Also, bull-fucking-shit you didn’t steal anything. That is the same cookie-cutter smoothed out corporate art style that every ai image smells of, takes less than a second to clock. Cool art bro I’m glad you’re ok with generating the same bullshit as every other lazy American

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Well then don’t act like I’m some old grandpa for thinking it’s shite, you embarrass any side you take because ai art screams “I want quick and easy and generic art for likes”

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

You don’t understand photography then, because photographers actually put work into their art. I’m not saying it’s not art, I’m saying it’s the cheapest and and laziest and least inspired way to do it. If you want to bring attention to issues you care about then actually put some effort in.

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Photography actually requires skill and effort.

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A camera is a way to capture the position of photons/energetic particles as visual data on a 2d plane, genAI is a neural network designed to digest and adjust to input data. Reducing them both down to “art machines” is so completely missing the point it’s not even funny

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I frankly find it insane that you would rather rely on a power-hungry, polluting data center to make a bad piece of art than just do it for free with msPaint. At least by hand you get practice and you show you care. We don’t have issues with ai, we have issues with lazy people relying on it

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Ai is used in programs like blender and other modeling/animating softwares, (digital editing also was criticized like photography), it’s mostly fine there as it’s a tool to help creative people make art. What you are doing is the equivalent of those cheap dime-a-dozen carnival t-shirts.

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If someone photocopies someone else’s picture and claims it as their own, that’s cheap and shitty. Comparing photography as a whole to the lazy practice of wholly generating the image is disingenuous. I don’t care if you are bad at drawing, everyone is bad at first, I’m bad but I still do it

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Photography was revolutionary as it altered the way that we use a specific medium and in that it created its own art form and its own medium (in a way), ai image generation is an imitation of both photography and pre-photo visual arts (as well as literary).

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

“You Luddite, you’re going away with history” I literally use genAI in research I know how it can be used well. This is a waste of energy to make an uninspired (THAT is not an opinion!) piece of “art,” instead of you just drawing it yourself. It would be easy to draw and wouldn’t be so wasteful

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Light capture onto images directed by humans is different from the government-subsidized power-sucker being forcefully shoved down our throats by our corporate marketing gods. Do you not see how using a machine to make an image that you couldnt be bothered to make cheapens your point?

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Have you considered that ai image generation is ugly and blatant and tells people that you didn’t care enough to draw something yourself? It cheapens your point by using it, generative ai isn’t going away, but ai “art” is a scam and is in no way the continuation of the human artistic tradition

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Once his son gets too old, and if he doesn’t give him a grandson to feed off of

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Idk about the website but it would tear me apart, and im only medium-style obsessed with both.

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The “self-replicating machine swarm” solution to the Fermi paradox but they also generate infinite quarterly reports

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

That interview is so telling, he sounds like an 8th grader

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

No one does it like this, not then, not now.

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Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Two blocks from me, patrolling a bus stop on a corner where most of the houses are owned/rented by latino families.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Neither grief nor pride had so much truth in them as did joy, the joy that trembled in the cold wind between sky and sea, bright and brief as fire.

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Carefully imported from Terra, the biomachines prop up the thin air of the Martian Fringe and can maintain the bodily function of a single adult human without refuel or maintenance for 40 days. Though veteran agents know to travel in number and to use Xecamelops to carry spare parts and supplies.”

[Pictured: Hazop-Sherif regular carrying one-handed GarrettiArms “Scout” shotgun. South-Hellas Revolt, March 2937]

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

To survive the hostile climate, the Hazop-Sherif must be be a highly efficient duo of man and machine. Immersed in a network of Sub-Machines entombed in Cognitoplankton webs, a careful microclimate is maintained, drawing scant power and nutrients from the sun and in-taken organic material.

[Pictured: Hazop-Sherif Anti-Drone Specialist wielding Terran-designed RF-Lance, "manufactured" by Yu-Pellaski Corporate Armory. Perseverance Glacier Combat Zone, March 2960]

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The other is tasked with maintaining company order and profits on the hyperarid inland desert, the ice-dunes, the wind carved badlands, and the southern glacial mass.

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Been doodling some bad guys [check alt txt]: “For every job in the ATC:SD (Ares Terraformation Conglomerate:Security Division), there are two officers. One to patrol the semi-humid valleys and coastal plains of the Tharsis Plateau, whose job would be pretty familiar to a counterpart from Old Terra.

[Pictured: Lower Franklin Law-Enforcement Trooper with GarrettiArms Model-7 PDW, Emiliano Demonstrations, November 2942]

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

DSA has been utterly amazing in the past few weeks/months locally

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

In Minnesota the public shift has been crazy, I haven’t seen white middle aged moms shift allegiances this fast since weed was legalized. Everybody is coming out for this

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spooky cannoli @boner.ink · 21/05/2023

just got a job as a bug in the tall grass

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 21/01/2026

Russians in 1918

Where are all these communist coming from and why are they all super chill

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 19/01/2026

it’s just so crazy to see it happen in real time

Politics
Yet to regain the majority, Democrats would need to run more competitively among White voters without a four-year college degree — the mostly widely accepted definition of the working class — than they typically have done in the Trump era.

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Arguing over a penny on the ground while Bezos & Co. are making off with a giant bag marked $$$ on the side

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Sounds east coast, I’m relatively unfamiliar with AAVE dialects but I would guess he’s from Philly, where the video was taken.

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Definitely true, I just get very weary of seeing the “🧃” emoji everywhere I go. I have a suspicion that a lot of bots are being mobilized for a culture war push

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I didn’t even know he was sick!🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Devils advocate: Minnesota is a blue state tbf Regular advocate: that number is still obviously bullshit

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Spent the last few months on Instagram instead, but this last week has made that place as bad as Twitter, without the easily-followable reply format. No where online isnt rage-inducing these days I fear

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

He’s so spot on here, I always thought of those guys as like the most stereotypical white Wisconsinites, which definitely adds to the comedy for me (not to say they aren’t aware of this, I think they do lean into it a lot)

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Which is crazy cause they clearly hated watching the new Star treks, and it seems like they enjoy making regular reviews and the occasional anti-ai rant video, which I enjoy much more anyway

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I’m thinking that Putin probably would enjoy cutting us off, but that’s just conjecture

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I phased “based” out of my vocabulary like two years ago it’s like just give it up little bro

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felics @sharpthingy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

To clarify I mean that in coming up with a term to label them as a group, even in a derogatory sense, we accept that “AI” are entities capable of being labeled as humans are. I think this stems from the general chatbot formula of pretending to talk like a human which also bugs me.

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