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I love the fact that most of the math records we have of the Babylonian Empire aren't official documents. Most of the records are exercises for children
Imagine you are a archaeologist and you find a rare clay scribe in Syria. You instantly recognize that it belonged in the Babylonian Empire many centuries ago. You excitedly show it to the others only to find out it's a math exercise for children on basic addiction.
boys like it when you imprison them in the ornate birdcage that hangs in the centre of your lair
shut up and look at this photo of Marsha P. Johnson smiling and holding a Snoopy plush.
decided im coining Marsha P. Johnson with Snoopy Sunday so I will see you all. Next Sunday.
aphrodite 2500 bC
you never know!
You Never Know!
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not a day goes by that i do not think about the sims 3’s disgusting moodlet icons
my d.b. cooper theory is that the rapture happened while he was falling and he was the only christian worthy of heaven
skin to skin is not enough for me i want to be soul to soul
shit ton of people are repeating the thing about hayao miyazaki saying AI art is an "insult to life itself" and just as a reminder he was talking about the zombies that team made that were intended to be scary in how much they shook, but instead reminded him of his disabled friend. the insult to life itself was referring to the team trying to make scary real symptoms that people live with.
it was a quote about ableism. if he has said other things about AI type stuff, that is a different thing. but that specific quote was about ableism.
It's worth noting also that while this has been doing the rounds again recently, he said it well before the current plague of generative AI slop was upon us. The clip is from a 2016 TV documentary. The specific bit of animation he was reacting to was a demo of the computer animating a ragdoll-like model body to try to find ways to move it forwards. While a living creature will normally try to avoid injuring itself as it moves, the computer algorithm had no such inhibition and so the virtual ragdoll would flail around and drag its face across the ground. The team working with it thought it would be a good way to animate creatures like zombies for horror movies because it was so inhuman and bizarre. Miyazaki was reacting to the inhumanity of it, and the fact they thought it was clever to create something so grotesque with no greater point to it than "Isn't this gross and weird?" I'm sure it was a painful criticism to receive, especially if they were all excited to show animation legend Hayao Miyazaki what they were working on, but I think he gave them something really important to think about.
I can scarcely imagine what he'd have to say about the lifeless plagiarism machine that is gen AI.
