MrsDoyle

joined 2 years ago
[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 23 hours ago

"Organic" especially pisses me off when applied to honey. There's no such thing as organic honey. Bees have a range of three miles or more, and they will forage on whatever they like.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not for me, I hate them. BUT. I watched a documentary recently where a blind man wore a pair (the Meta ones maybe?) and was able to use them to navigate around on foot, alone, without other aids. He also tried out a self-driving car, and showed how he already uses his phone's AI to help him; for example he gets it to describe the shirt he's about to put on. The programme shook my ideas up. I hate AI, driverless cars, all this tech that takes away our autonomy in various ways. But I hadn't considered that for many people it's liberating, it gives them independence.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In art, this fellow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kinkade

It's the only Wiki entry on an artist that I've seen with no examples of his work. The nearest is a photo of a photo of Kinkade with one of his paintings.

I'm not being snobbish - it does give me the same vibe as AI generated images touted as art. Nostalgia, colour saturation, cliché, all dialled up to the max. The man died in 2012 but lives on as a brand.