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We now see people who want the rigid hierarchies but they don't want to believe in them, not really. They want to be like the "cool boss" who doesn't wear a suit, but you best not forget they are the boss.
And this feels like such a bad deal for most of us to me. At least if a king must wear a crown it can weigh on him and be heavy.
Something like that. This relates to my gripe about powerful people not wearing fancy outfits anymore. They want all the respect and awe that was given to a Pharaoh, but they won't put on the silly hat.
The idea that costumes don't really do anything, that, at some level, they don't really matter is a postmodern one. But, it's supposed to come with a destruction of the hierarchies implied by those costumes.
It almost certain you'd know better than me. I don't even have "high school French" to lean on.
I am totally overthinking this one but this meme kind of captures what "after postmodernism" feels like to me.
We can't even be sincere about questioning the importance of context... and in the end what matters most is who holds the gun.
OK this got a little grim, didn't it?
Fun meme!
The other day I was having this great conversation about "what comes after postmodernism?"
If modernism is sincere, optimistic, deterministic and views the world something that can be explained and controlled.
Postmodernism is sarcastic, subjective and says explaining reality is absurd.
We could call the current shift as one "back to a modernist stance" but I think that misses something. It misses how extremist positions taken on initially "as a joke" can become very real.
Image description doesn't mention that the text on the image says:
"Ceci n'est pas une pipe?"
and the one holding the gun says: "N’a jamais été"
"This is not a pipe?"
"It never was."
AI generated video is always differentiable. And of course it's derivative.
I think one of the reasons why generated video often feels "off" is a kind of agnosticism about momentum and gravity.
When generating frames the algorithms are indifferent to "before" and "after." This is why people move as if in zero G. Everything is smooth and continuous, but the direction of motion and things like acceleration wobble.
An object falling can suddenly rise. Hair moves as if underwater.
Much of physics works identically irregardless of the direction of time. So to AI video.
This is something this tech is really good at!
Technically everyone is in the African Diaspora if you take a deep enough cut of the history.
So, it's basically the most important cultural article improvement project ever.
(More seriously: The Project focuses on material in the era of recorded history and forward only. So "out of Africa" is far beyond our scope.)
The positive thing that came out of this was "Project Afro" which I created to improve the content on the people and culture of the African Diaspora on the wikipedia. Check it out, there are many articles that need more eyes on them:
I didn't know about this Captain KRB video on "cryptids of wikipedia" but I was shocked that he mentioned the "Race and Intelligence" article. It turns out that I was dealing with a weapons-grade troll back in my editing days on that thing! And he got caught eventually. I didn't know this, I gave up on editing feeling very unheard and disgusted long before this happened.
You should put some alt text on this it's an awesome image.
When you reorder the chapters in a fiction book you're writing to really know if the new order works you need to read the whole thing. An enjoyable way to do this is using text to speech. iPhones have a built-in speak function and will read any document to you. I go for a long walk and listen to the new order of chapters then make further tweaks.
The only thing I don't like about iPhone "speak" is it's hard to pause. I may need to look for a text reading app with more features.
Sometimes cool things really do exist!
I did see this! But, I didn't know if it was a reconstruction and if it was one how accurate it was so I didn't share it. I thought "I ought to find out if that really happens..." so I'm delighted to see this thread.
what is the green thing?
This is pretty cool!
This video pretty much shows what I expected, although finding out that there are millions of machines on those racks was kind of vertigo inducing. This is what "a data center" looks like today. And people keep all those cables tidy, and replace the servers when they break.
