kinda fucking rocks to bee me atm if im honest

the beauty of life

Another design is using 2 20x25x1 filters, taping them to the sides of the box fan and then to each other so they sort of make a triangle, then cutting cardboard to make a top and bottom to the triangle.

This was discovered as a more effective design during the 2020 US west coast fires.

https://tombuildsstuff.blogspot.com/2013/06/better-box-fan-air-purifier.html

if you are an artist who primarily makes your living through self-employed commissions, most marxists would characterize you as a member of the artisan class, which is a precarious position under capitalism. capitalism pushes all the classes of previous societies towards either bourgeois capitalists (owners) or proletarians (workers)--from nobility to farmers to musicians etc etc, everyone finds themselves being pushed into one of these positions. clear examples for artists can be walt disney, who could sketch and all but ultimately owned a massive media empire (bourgeois), versus the animators he employed at said company, who made their living working in his studios. they were (and are) proletarians, and as such organized in high-profile labor organizing like strikes in the 1940s, for example.

but what of the artist who makes money off commissions and print-on-demand services? especially in the latter case, you are not doing the screenprinting and packing yourself, yet you don't own redbubble. this is where the "petty" or "petit" part comes in. someone else is doing some labor for you, yet you still do a lot of legwork and dont enjoy the same security as a larger capitalist. (the moment you hire an employee, you become a capitalist, albeit a small one, because at least part of your income now relies on your employee helping you bring in more money than you pay them. ex. youtubers hiring editors) this can and should be an objective judgement of your economic position from a marxist/communist/whatever perspective. it doesnt make you suddenly an irredeemably evil person. after all, engels was a capitalist and look what he did for workers! but many capitalists do indeed do horrible things in the name of profit, living lavishly at the expense of everyone else, so we can't pretend like there's not a wealth of deserved hatred for capitalists generally.

so what happens in the case of AI art debates is that people are understandably upset that the very thing they used to promote their work and get clients (public-facing internet) has been used to make a machine that appears poised to take away a lot of their income sources, maybe even forcing them out of artisanry altogether and into fully alienated wage labor (proletarianization). im not going to get into the weeds of the many arguments here because what i want to emphasize is that capitalists are also afraid that image generators will infringe on their profits, control of their image (ex. deepfakes), and many other reasons....AND that one route they have chosen to try and wrestle back control is that of intellectual property and copyright law.

so the frustration communists have here is that intellectual property, like any form of private property, ultimately serves to funnel wealth to the largest capitalists who own things at the expense of and to the detriment of everyone else, the majority of whom are workers. petty bourgeois artisans like independent artists and musicians can utilize copyright law to their advantage in some contexts, but can also be victims of lawsuit trolling or bigger capitalists just generally pushing them out of the market (monopolies are an inbuilt consequence of capitalism once it develops enough). being petty bourgeois means you do have a foot in either camp (to varying degrees), and it's frustrating to see someone who could ally with communists & workers instead side with capitalists who will ultimately screw them over anyway. it's that whole "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" thing all over again.

Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.

As i roar into the sunset you have to swerve* to avoid the small flotilla of hacked Towyota devices trailing behind me

no one needs you to protect the inherent assumed cisness of someone who very obviously didn't fit the mold of what cis men are expected to act like, who died far too young and never got the chance to tell us how they identify as, who ended their own life the way so many trans women closeted and otherwise do due to transmisogyny.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander; do you want people speculating that YOU were not actually the gender you say you are when YOU die?

Respect people's privacy and dignity. Let the dead retain what they chose not to share in life.

2) people speculate on dead people's gender and sexuality all the time. there are people throughout history who, while not using the exact words we use today, would have been the equivalent of gay, lesbian, asexual, transmasc. why is it only offensive when people talk about someone possibly being a trans woman?

3) "no means of fighting back"? being a trans woman isn't an insult or an attack. if anything its a compliment and a mark of pride and honor. what does it say about you that you think someone is lesser for being labeled as a trans woman?

no one needs you to protect the inherent assumed cisness of someone who very obviously didn't fit the mold of what cis men are expected to act like, who died far too young and never got the chance to tell us how they identify as, who ended their own life the way so many trans women closeted and otherwise do due to transmisogyny.