[-] MinFapper@startrek.website 12 points 1 week ago

Eh, Microsoft actually has enough money in the bank to prevent layoffs. They're doing them on purpose to raise the stock price.

[-] MinFapper@startrek.website 11 points 2 weeks ago

I wonder if it passed.

I understand I have the Internet at my disposal, but I'm almost done pooping so I guess I'll never know....

[-] MinFapper@startrek.website 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Just now. I was reading this thread and grinning at other people's misfortune so my wife decided I should join them and bit me 😵

[-] MinFapper@startrek.website 12 points 10 months ago

I think it might take a lot longer than 20 years for plastic to fully die down

[-] MinFapper@startrek.website 12 points 10 months ago

Actually, star trek might be. In their lore, things got a lot worse before they got better.

[-] MinFapper@startrek.website 15 points 11 months ago

Replace insta with Lemmy and I'm livin' the life

[-] MinFapper@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

What is gay underwear? Like a specific brand?

[-] MinFapper@startrek.website 16 points 1 year ago

Yes, but skillful is a different thing entirely

[-] MinFapper@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

But... that requires the internet to research

[-] MinFapper@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago

You can just run yay with no arguments and it does exactly what your update script does.

[-] MinFapper@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So, before the invention of the camera, the most valuable and most popular creative skill was replicating people on canvas as realistically as possible. Yes, we remember famous exceptions like Picasso, but by sheer number of paintings the most common were portraits of rich people.

After the cameras took that job away, prevailing art changed to become more abstract and "creative". But that still pissed off a lot of people that had spent a very long time honing a skill that was now no longer in demand.

What we're seeing is a similar shift. I think future generations of artists will value color theory, composition, etc. over specific brush stroke techniques. AI will make art much more accessible once enough time has passed for AI assisted art to be considered art. Make no mistake: it will always be people that actually create the art - AI will just reduce/remove the grunt work so they can focus more on creativity.

Now, whether billion dollar corporations deserve to exploit the labor of millions of people is a whole separate conversation, but tl;dr: they don't, but they're going to anyway because there is little to stop them in correct economic/governance models.

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