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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • IMO I’d call “AI Artists” a type of Art Director, since they themselves don’t make the art but instead direct and dictate what exactly they want, and if the result is different they tweak their wording to direct the art into a different direction

    Art Directing, whether for a human or a machine or otherwise, is still a skill itself and still has to be learned to get good results, but it’s distinctly different from making the art yourself so I wouldn’t call them “Artists” outright










  • I don’t understand why I get zero choice

    Absolutely agree, I use to get excited for new updates to anything, cuz like “yay new things” or “old things but less buggy”

    But recently I’ve been absolutely sulking over the modern software updating paradigm of shipping perfectly fine updates with completely useless UI changes that absolutely nobody wanted so tech companies can justify having an in-house UI team

    Like my phone, on Android 11 I set the custom color to a really nice red color, i matched it to my wallpaper and everything, I loved it

    And then Android 12 hits, and that lovely red gets replaced with some bologna enthusiast’s spamcore aesthetic

    I’m sorry, Material “You”?. Nah this is Material Somebody Else fr

    And I can’t do anything to change the colors of my own phone

    I hate being a slave to UI teams, let me change the colors atleast, damnit

    I am so close to just rooting my phone ngl


  • I’d recommend reading Wikipedia

    More content than you could possibly read, short reads typically, you learn stuff, and you can make games out of it

    A game I like to play is to come up with 2 completely unrelated things, start on thing 1, and see if you can get to thing 2 on Wikipedia in 6 tabs or less, using Wikipedia links only






  • That’s what Big Aviation wants you to think, Newton was paid to invent Gravity in 1903 by the Wright Brothers so they could sell everyone their airplanes, and Big Aviation has been tampering with the history ever since, so we all pay for overpriced plane tickets and bland airplane food