it's incredibly painful but it works with 90% accuracy. ideally can be done in a waiting room or out on nature, maybe a bathtub. do nothing else unless you feel inspired to do it - I bring my notebook to write down any ideas I don't want to lose or sketches I want to remember, but ideally I want to get bored so I can get out all that boredom and just have focus. phones are banned but take it just in case you would ever have an emergency. if you're at home shut it off and don't touch it.
Apr 13, 2025
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it’s healing. no screen, no headphones, no book, no nothing. just you sitting doing nothing and being. maybe inside or maybe (ideally) outside. maybe in a chair. maybe lying down. looking around and observing. maybe 5 minutes or maybe an hour.
Feb 8, 2025
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Let’s the ol’ noggin wander and it’s fun to ppl watch (also ironic as I post this while on the train 🤷🏻♀️)
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one of the last frontiers of quiet introspection
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Apr 17, 2025
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doing bad things is good for your mental health sometimes. I think. idk
Apr 16, 2025
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you can do whatever you want, but if you really want to hear my opinion on it... at best, ai-art is demoralizing to actual human beings and creates novelty slop that vaugely looks like an art piece, while not harboring any skill in using it. and theres nothing wrong with not wanting to make art fir the skill of it, though. but at worst, it's an environmental and economic disaster, a predatory business model to consumers and customers of AI, and a great way for businessmen to try and take creativity away from us to turn us into cogs in the machine. it's built off of the stolen work of artists who already struggled to make a living, now forced out by a tool that's turned on them with their own work. it can help make propaganda that is virtually unidentifiable, turn victims into deepfakes, and generally evil we have yet to see. and that's just the image side of things, but the cons of all types of ai models overlap.
I've had to watch people throw away their lifelong dreams because of this garbage. it's no coincidence elonely muskrat and every ceo you can think of are obsessed with it - it's a perverse business tool.
I wouldn't mind coexisting with it if it wasn't out to get me. but it is.
I also feel like it's the reason nobody makes fun photobashes or random photoshops anymore. it will never fully phase out human art but I think it's starting to take over the photography world, especially commercially. I'm sick of looking up real places and animals and sorting through fake slop im being told is real.
Apr 14, 2025