my feelings hurt

two weeks ago, the same thing happened in Gaza with a huge sandstorm kicking up all the debris and toxicity into the air, except no one had anywhere to go. this storm destroyed tents, literally ripped through the little between families and the harsh weather. people are still trying to find the means to fix what has been destroyed. and just yesterday, another rainstorm hit.

hammad signed a contract promising to pay $5000 in three months for a down payment and rent during that time. if we don’t raise these funds in time, they’ll be evicted.

i know this is a large goal, but we can show up as a collective and achieve this! ↪️⭐️ 50 of you are needed to contribute $100. 100 will be needed to gift $50, and 200 of you are needed to give $25 ⭐️↩️

The piece that the protester ate was made by an MFA student and wasn't an attempt to "pass off" generated images themselves as art, the art was the presentation of the images and their sequence and variety (there's an element of obsessive iteration visible even in the remaining images - an empty room, the same room with different light, the same room with a smiling woman on the bed, the same woman standing in different poses, which speaks to me of someone furiously attempting to construct a comforting reality and finding the tools in your hands inadequate, but that's just my interpretation of what remains).

Again, I also think that performance art is art and eating a portion of the gallery piece is certainly an interesting statement, but I wonder if the protestor would be as outraged by the ceramic phones with AI images engraved on them. How much human touch or human intention does "slop" need before it's art, or is it fruit of the poisoned tree and must always be considered slop because AI was part of the process?

Cannot overstate how much you do not have to ever hand it to Nintendo's copyright lawyers.

Obligatory plugging my man Gary's GoFundMe

a lot of what you might naturally assume are product photos are digital mockups. i can understand not realizing that if you've never had a reason to mock anything up yourself, but it should go without saying that the 'happy looking cat' in the advertisement for your local veterinarian's office was not a real photo of an animal they have taken care of before being replaced with ai. it was a stock photo they have licensed that will have been subject to any amount of undisclosed digital manipulation before it ends up in front of you. and this is without even touching on the tactics that are used to mislead in actual product photography. "product is not accurately reflected by the images used to advertise it" has been an issue since the inception of advertising....

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Palestinian girls and women are forced to use tents as pads. People boost. Donate if you can

I can’t stop laughing

on the other hand miles gets easily flustered and his fight or flight response to being caught off guard is spitting a venomous comeback. but in his head he's making puns. he's thinking about how the plants are beautiful. he's like an easily spooked horse who is also a dork that gets into a staring contest with a dog. and then loses