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salmon in the river
my favourite piece of "AI art" is something that was not intended to be AI art at all, and was made and posted online as a joke. which is "salmon in the river", from 2023.
this is how the AI apparently understood the above prompt. salmon filets jumping in water.
in this case, not only do i think this is interesting art, but i think it is interesting art only because it was not made by a human. like, this reads to me as art about alienation and commodification, right? obviously we all know that under capitalism products become separated from the labour and processes that created them. you buy a shirt and you don't think about the hands that sewed it, and so on. the commodity form hides its own origins. and food in particular hides not just labour, but life. the animal disappears. like, if you think about how meat reaches you at a western supermarket, typically it arrives on a styrofoam tray, wrapped in plastic, cut into shapes that don't resemble the body they came from. a chicken breast doesn't look like a chicken, and likewise a salmon filet does not look like a salmon. many times people actually find it gross or distasteful to see the animal! the filet is literally the shape that says don't think about it.
so the art, then. the filets are appearing in the river, which is where the living salmon would be. the commodity form is occupying the space of the creature. the erasure itself is swimming upstream. that's sick!!! and the wrongness of it, the visual absurdity, is exactly what reveals how much work the commodity form normally does. We're used to seeing filets in kitchens, on plates, in supermarkets. In those contexts, they look right. they look like what salmon IS! it's only when you put the filet in the context of a living animal that you suddenly see how strange it is and how much has been removed. it's good art!!!
AND YET if human artist had made this image, i don't think it would be very good art. filets swimming upstream as a commentary on commodity food culture is fine but it would feel very on the nose in a banksy, makes-u-think kind of way. this would be a human saying "here's what I think about how we relate to what we eat." like imagine this as a political cartoon, right? immediately the exact same image would make me want to fucking roll my eyes. it would be kind of insufferable!! and to me i think that's because it is making an argument. the artist has to be visibly making a point and the finger is always wagging. we live in a society, bottom text. UGH!
whereas, when an AI produces filets in the river, it's not making a claim. it doesn't think and it doesn't care. it is just outputting based on what it's been trained on and based on the prompt. it's saying "here's what salmon actually means in the aggregate of human visual culture." it says something in and of itself that an AI image generator was asked to create salmon swimming in a river, and it produced filets. boneless, skinless, ready-for-the-pan filets, floating serenely through the rapids. and that's because the AI was trained on us. it was clearly not primarily trained on, e.g Coast Salish art like on carved salmon with eyes and spirits or more generally on cultures that really focus on holding the sustenance and the creature together. instead it was trained on an aggregate blob of the internet, including the very massive and alienated western commercial relationship to food. our images, our photographs, our stock photos and food blogs and recipe sites. and in that corpus, salmon is overwhelmingly a filet. when you throw everything into the pile and ask "what is salmon," the commodity form rose to the top.
thus when the model produces filets in the river, it's not really making an error in the same way we would; it's just accurately reflecting what "salmon" means in the aggregate, and putting it in a context that makes it seem incredibly absurd. it literally works as art because it's not A Guy saying eyy, look what you've done, it's just showing what we've done, without commentary or judgment and without even knowing it's showing anything at all.
but then ALSO. was this really an "error" generated by an AI? or was this a human who prompted it to make a picture of salmon filets in a river and posted it as a glitch for internet points? i don't know!!!
and at first this bothered me, because I've been so hard on arguing that the image only works because it wasn't made intentionally. like, that the lack of human intent is what gives it evidentiary weight and what transforms it from trite political cartoon into Good Art.
but i literally think that's still true. if a human made this, if someone deliberately prompted an AI to produce filets in a river and then framed it as an accident for heckin reddit updoots or even legitimately to make a political point, then what they created is a piece of art about the difference between intentional and unintentional meaning. they used the AI as a medium, but more importantly, they used our expectation of AI failure as a medium. The art isn't just the image; it's the image plus the caption plus our willingness to believe it.
either way, the image only works as art if we believe an AI made it, because that belief is what transforms "salmon in the river" from a heavy-handed political cartoon into a piece of evidence about how we see. but only a human could post it and have it work, because the act of posting it as a mistake is also an artistic gesture, regardless of whether it actually was one. the AI can't do that part. it doesn't know what it made or why it's either profound or funny. but a human couldn't do it alone either, because a human making this image deliberately would just be making a statement, and statements are easy to dismiss. the art exists in the gap between the generation and the framing, and that gap is where the human goes.
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it's a moral failing to still be a harry potter fan
if you ever worry to yourself that still liking harry potter makes you a bad person it's because it does
don't engage with Harry Potter media such as streaming, buying merch, or listening to soundtracks.
instead, pirate, bootleg, and diy. watch the movies via thrifted DVDs. if you must get merch, thrift that too! you can always find Harry Potter stuff at 2nd hand stores.
moral of the story, keep your morals and ideals in mind when spending you money.
do you really want to give a racist terf your money?
jesus fucking christ just let it go. shut the fuck up and just let it go. you are still supporting the IP you are still keeping it relevant you are still signaling to people that its a cool thing to be into. you are splitting hairs about how to still have your blorbos while we are talking about the public & explicit funding of a hate movement. it couldn't be more obvious that your motivation is not to be criticized and not to help anybody who is more vulnerable than you. fuck you. shut the fuck up.
If I see you in public wearing a Harry Potter shirt I'm not asking you if you bought it ethically I'm just going to avoid you because you're walking around signaling that you aren't a safe person.
This is how it seems to work:
Transformers Cartoon: this is Firetruck Steve he turns into a Firetruck wee woo wee woo
Transformers Comics: Firetruck Steve struggles with drug addiction due to his crushing guilt at not having saved more people from the flames
Transformers Fandom: Firetruck Steve must be held accountable for his war crimes
everyone is talking about various firetrucks guys in the comments but i just wanna illustrate how unexagerrated this is
Transformers Cartoon: this is Shockwave he's got 1 big eye for a face bcos he's a baddie
Transformers Comics: cybertron has an ancient punishment called 'empurata' which involves amputating the hands & face and replacing them with claws and a featureless mask to mark the offender forever as a criminal :)
I might be getting him mixed up with another cybertronian but dude is 11000% a straight up monster that calling him a war criminal would be an Injustice
You're not wrong but as per the canon where he underwent empurata he FULLY did not deserve it, he was essentially assassinated by the fascist police state for standing up for the rights of the oppressed
& then he went on to become a full on monster but in his defense in addition to the empurata they also uninstalled all his emotions

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Christians love doing stuff like this and making such a person the face of their religion then turn around and get mad when they're (correctly) seen as insufferable.
Some of the same people upset a Muslim man is poised to be the mayor of New York. But sure, they give AF about supposed "religious discrimination".
Let my Black behind have thrown a fit like this and I'm sure the same crowd supporting this girl would be telling me to sit my DEI ass down.
hey so i read part of the student's essay and i want to add a few things:
it was a 0 out of 25 points. that's not even a huge deal.
she only wrote 650 words.
the girl didn't do the actual assignment; she just wrote what she felt like and submitted it.
the class was a PSYCHOLOGY course yet her essay was about her religious beliefs and provided no citations or psychological basis. she simply insisted her argument was true because the bible supposedly says so.
her entire essay is a mindless rant about how strict gender roles must be upheld and trans people are "demonic"
her writingāand i cannot stress this enoughāis on par with that of a child who doesn't want to do an assignment. it's so bad i genuinely thought i was reading a satire article.
the student is a fucking college JUNIOR writing like a 10-year-old. she is also a psychology MAJOR who thinks everything in the bible is literal and that her religion is the only source anyone needs. this is someone who intends to go into mental health care. she is dangerously bigoted and ignorant, and her professor saw this and was punished for grading accordingly.
here's a line from her essay:
"Women naturally want to do womanly things because God created us with those womanly desires in our hearts. The same goes for men. God created men in the image of His courage and strength, and He created women in the image of His beauty."
here's her teacher's reasoning for the grade:
ā[I am] not deducting points because you have certain beliefs" but rather because the paper "does not answer the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class and is at times offensive."
the girl is a hate-filled bigot. she is a white christian girl who is now being championed by fox news and turning point usa while her professor sits on fucking forced leave. this is disgusting.
important edit: i have just learned the professor is trans. this hateful brat is actively trying to destroy a trans person's life.
Reading the feedback of the teacher as well as the co-teacher, they calmly explained their reasoning for the 0 grade in a way that repeatedly said this girl was allowed to think what she believed, but that this paper simply could not be considered a completion of the assignment.
The fact that this teacher was put on suspension for failing a student who did not even meet the assignment and went out of her way to say the girl was allowed to believe what she believed is absolutely galling. This is an educational institution, and the fact that they are even considering disciplinary action against this teacher for attempting to teach?? Appalling. Absolutely beyond parody that this is where we are in this country.
I feel the need to point out the following:
1. The teacher who has been suspended is transgender.
2. Multiple teachers in the faculty room marked the paper. Only the transgender teacher has been suspended.
3. The student in question broke this story through the incredibly transphobic organisation Turning Point USA.
4. The student's mother has been posting hideously transphobic things on right-wing social media.
This isn't just conservative anti-intellectualism. This is weaponised, targeted transphobia.
i think its also very important to note that samantha fulnecky made academic honor roll at OU last year. people keep saying how stupid she is, which based off the essay absolutely makes sense, but i think its important that more people know this was a conscious effort on her part to produce a piece of work well below the standards of the course, inserting hateful rhetoric, for the sole purpose of getting a failing grade and getting this professor fired. this is not her being ignorant or stupid, this is a specific strategy to ruin a trans womans life and gain public notoriety to launch a right wing grifting career.
Actually reblogging this in the post
The fucking governor of OK is fanning the flames of attacks on this professor & university as well by completely 100% buying into the tpusa claims. He did have a massive falling out very recently with a prominent maga in the school system in OK (ryan walters) so maybe he can be convinced to stop being a piece of shit if enough people contact him
LEAVE A COMPLAINT AT THE UNIVERSITY AND CALL THE OK GOVERNOR'S OFFICE TO LEAVE ANOTHER, HERE ARE THE CONTACT SPOTS
AND FUCK IT HERE IS THE EMAIL TO EACH OF THE REGENTS IN CHARGE OF THE UNI HAND PICKED BY THE GOVERNOR
This is so fucking embarrassing. This is one of the most embarrassing business quips I have ever seen in my entire vile career.
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"the best way to screw jkr over is by making her characters queer!" actually. The best way to screw jkr over is to stop engaging with the property she still profits off of and read a different fucking book
we're 10 days away from the anniversary of this post breaking my blog, so reblogs are back on! maybe I can get a new blocklist out of this
strangest thing is that anyone is still watching that fucking show

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I used to see this image all the time in December but now literally nobody cares. We as a society have forgotten him. All he wanted was to offer us a nice treat and what did we do? We abandoned him. Hell has taken refuge in our hearts and its fires have burned to ash all warmth and love. We should be ashamed.
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I hate that fuckass manic pixie dream girl diet coke lana del rey thought daughter pink bows and bunny bullshit I DOOOONT CARE !!!!
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joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.
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literallyĀ ok so not a funny story but kind of funny?Ā when I was nine I encountered rape in a book and I was like hey mom whatās this meanĀ and she explained it and I was like oh. gross.Ā and then like two weeks later a girl on the bus abruptly disclosed her csa and we were all like ????? what ????Ā but I was like wait hang on thereās a word for that āļøš¤Ā and explained what it meant and that it was illegal and that you could talk to a teacher or my mom if it had happened to youĀ and everyone was like ohhhhh I see I see and very somberly comforted the girlĀ (she was safe she was removed from her home and living with my neighbor at the time so it wasnāt Urgent)
And this is a perfect illustration of why it is important for kids to read or variety of things, and why abusers donāt want them to.

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This video depicts a moment that is nearly impossible to observe: a sperm whale surfacing with a giant squid clenched between its teeth. These predators hunt at depths exceeding 800 meters, where light does not penetrate, and only biosonar directs the pursuit. Consequently, clear surface images are exceedingly rare.
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This is, factually, the first footage of this that we have ever gotten. This has never been observed by a human being before in recorded history. The only reason we knew these whales ate those squids before was the beaks of the squids found in the stomachs of dead whales, and the battle scars on whales consistent with fighting giant squids.
My favorite thing about this clip is that, in the original uncropped footage, you can see her calf is right beside her, ascending from the depths along with her. Whale calves don't dive until they're taught by their mothers. It is very likely that this footage is of a mother whale teaching her calf to hunt on one of its very first dives.
When I saw this footage for the first time, I cried a little tbh.
Arising from the inky depths with a delicious giant squid snack⦠with mama.
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