rayquetzalcoatl

Congratulations and well done dude!!! I've found Hybrid Calisthenics (the app and the YouTube channel) to be a friendly, easy way to build routine and understand what you're doing and why you're doing it when you're exercising. The app can be a little glitchy on my phone but it's just visual glitches.

Ahhh I assumed it was that one, lol

Making art can be lonely when you come up for air and feel like nobody cares or would enjoy what you're creating, but I'm sure plenty of people would love to read what you're writing! It's impressive that you're even attempting to write a book!

What film are you referencing?

Nice, thank you! 👍

The head of my agency is a gullible rube who is terrified of being "left behind", and the head of my department is a grown-up with a family and a career who spends his days off sending AI videos and memes into the work chat.

I've been called into meetings and told I have to be positive about AI. I've been told to stop coding and generate (very important) things with AI.

It's disheartening. My career is over, because I have no interest in generating mountains of no-intention code rather than putting in the effort to build reliable, good, useful things for our clients. AI dorks can't fathom human effort and hard work being important.

I'm working to pay off my debts, and then I'm done. I strongly want to get a job that allows me to be offline.

Asking you as it seems like you're somebody working in the AI field: how can I avoid whatever you and others in your field are doing? Do I just have to go offline?

I'm not against that idea, but unfortunately I do have debts to pay off at least for the next 45 months or so and my career requires me to use the internet (I'm a web developer). Once the debt is paid, I'm free.

Sure, it's an arbitrary distinction to you. To me, not so much. Different feelings, I guess. 🤷‍♂️ Have a good one! ✌️

I hear you. It's hard to trust that art you see is genuine art by people anymore, and it's only going to get more difficult as these AIs swallow and plagiarise more and more of the human effort that they can.

I can't give you easy advice on this. Find an artist you trust. Follow them. Learn to appreciate older artists who are dead. Learn to love fewer artists.

What I can tell you is this: take time away from the internet. This whole Generative AI boom has shown me that a disconcerting number of people, probably even the majority, honestly and seriously do not give a shit about authentic human effort and creativity. Being real, being authentic, being creative, any of the things you or I might view as essential to the human experience don't matter to them. They want content to consume, and that's that. Don't give a shit where it comes from. Don't give a shit what it means. Just stick it in front of their eyes for a few seconds before they move onto the next thing. It's really fucked up.

So, go outside. Reconnect with your real friends, in contexts where these marketing machines can't lie to you. Talk with human beings. I've started going to galleries in my area. I'm sober at the moment so I'm spending a lot of time working out at home or running. I went out to a film night screening Palestinian films made about the genocide. Met a lot of people there.

Get away from the internet when you can. It's not a healthy place, and it can make people a little bit sick, I think. Make art for yourself.

Oh do stop it, you know what the OP means.

Interesting, you might be right. If that's the case, though - and I don't have any sort of formal education in fingering so this is a layman's perspective - it looks like the starfish is misplacing his fingers.

Surely the starfish would find it more effective to use the more nimble and dexterous tips of its fingers to touch those sensitive nerves around the rim, rather than the middle of its digits which are much harder to apply directed pressure with? It's also harder to control how much pressure one applies through the middle of the digit as opposed to the fingertip, although I recognise my frame of reference is human fingers and not starfish fingers.

I don't think they were saying users need to have an interest in decentralisation, more that some of these complaints seem specifically like problems with a very core principle of Lemmy (decentralisation), and that disliking a fundamental and (as far as I'm aware) unchangeable aspect of a platform might mean the platform isn't a good fit for those users.

I hate to ask... But would that even feel good for the sponge? Would that even feel like anything? From what we can see, there's nothing in there. The starfish's fingers aren't stimulating anything; they're just waggling in the air inside the sponge.

Beyond simply the stretching of the hole, I can't see the sponge really getting anything out of this act. And the most I can see it doing for the starfish is providing a convenient carry handle with which he can bring his friend with him wherever he goes - which is neat but the sponge also walks so it feels unnecessary.

Unless either or both parties involved get off on the more cerebral aspects here?

I am not an expert on digital stimulation of sponges, though, so I am totally open to being wrong here!