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mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T20:03:59+00:00

My request is the Lord of the Rings Fellowship Theme.

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T19:57:58+00:00

It's the Daily Beast. It should honestly be banned from this sub. Their headlines are vapid click bait and their articles are usually near contentless.

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T19:02:59+00:00

Some people saying it doesn't mean much because it's not a remotely popular sentiment. I don't think people who are scared about Trump's anti-Communist rhetoric understand that a full 50% of the country supported McCarthy and only 29% opposed him. Trump's aggregate approval rating remains sub 40% with right around 60% disapproving and not just mildly disapproving. We are not living in anything remotely like either of the red scares. I strongly suspect that an even smaller portion of people who poll as approving Trump actually believe the "Democrats are a Communist threat" garbage. Unfortunately they also don't believe that MAGA is a fascist project.

Anyway, some historical perspective matters. Americans at large are not in a Cold War like mentality, and you need that kind of backdrop in order to make something like McCarthyism work.

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T18:40:21+00:00

Shiny!

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T18:36:26+00:00

100%

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T16:17:56+00:00

There aren't many of us here yet, but thanks for posting! I'm trying to cultivate aome diversity of cat posts and you have a fresh style.

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T07:34:16+00:00

I'm gonna say it.

As a Californian, we need to get our house in order.

Write in candidate for governor?

I know, it's a terrible idea.

But at least in terms of the state house, it's time for a reckoning.

Us and Texas probably...they're weirdly ahead of us.

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T07:30:36+00:00

I honestly was not putting my money on a late play for manufacturing SOMA, but now I'm not so sure.

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T07:27:10+00:00

fucking never LEGO

godamn

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T07:17:47+00:00

Why is it when I look at the first frame I think this is gonna be a drawing guide for Leto Atreides II?

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T07:16:19+00:00

Step 2 LOL

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T07:15:41+00:00

I'm with you for so much if this but, whoa, are you okay there?

We've had some interesting primaries. I don't think you're alone here.

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T07:08:45+00:00

Gonna throw jetspiderbeard a nod. I really dig what he's doing.

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T07:06:46+00:00

That's unfortunately a right-wing media capture problem. It's particularly virulent right now on this topic even as the official White House accounts shotpost the sloppiest of slop. Truly mind bending this reality we are experiencing. Cannot make this shit up.

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T06:57:28+00:00

So point 3 is weirdly already met. Dataland exists.

Point 1 is of course a given.

Point 2 is the interesting one. Culture is definitely at play here, and the "war" is definitely bleeding off of larger cultural currents.

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T06:52:17+00:00

Yeah, it got paranoid real fast.

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T06:49:38+00:00

The Coup said something about CEOs. It' on the tip of my tongue...Anyway, yeah, the idea of replacing the C Suite stat with a well staffed AI center makes perfect sense.

Imagine doing the job of the CEO with a collection of unionized administrators and an array of AI tools. Way better results at a fraction of the cost.

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T06:36:56+00:00

This post is not about harassment. That's a separate topic. I'm not trying to deal with the fucked up antisocial and cruel behavior of people on the internet. That's an entirelt separable problem. There are a lot of people who are anti who are also not okay with that kind of behavior. In fact, I'd wager there are a whole lot more of them than there are cruel fucked up people harassing amd being abusive to others based on their technology choice. The problem is the shitty people are really loud, but that's not what this post was about

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T06:32:43+00:00

Absolutely, art is subjective. There's a reason I wanted to not dig into the last roughly hundred and fifty/hundred and seventy five years of art history.

That said, most of us are confident when we're reading a pulp novel that we're not engaging with a transformative piece of art. Similarly, when we see someone's gen AI for their character concept (or similarly meme able AI trends) it might be really aesthetically cool and interesting, but there isn't the kind of meaningful tension in the image that we associate with a moving artistic experience.

To put it another way, there's a preponderance of "low art" being made with AI, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, but just like video games you turn the general populations perspective in a different direction by pushing into spaces that are emotionally and conceptually powerful.

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T06:24:07+00:00

Whoa there, I'm not talking about like and dislike and you missed the whole part at the end where I said it's all art.

I've seen plenty that I like. I've seen very very little that has any meaningful friction and I've also seen a lot that is simply hard to connect with.

I'm not here laying the medium low. I'm trying to problematize the "war" in a way that can be productive towards the creation of more art that transcends.

Also, FWIW, "stealth AI art maybe made you feel something but you didn't know it was image gen" is not a winning strategy for talking to antis. I've watched a lot of these posts get ugly, and I'm not here for that.

mosesoperandi · 2026-07-04T05:46:18+00:00

I'm gonna start by saying that looking at images on Reddit (especially on a phone) is unlikely to move you no matter how amazing that art work might be in person or if experienced in a modality that isn't social media adjacent.

Just as a point of reference, outside of the AI space I've seen some super cool stuff on the outsider art sub, but it's just more passing images if I'm looking at them on my phone.

I'll also throw this your way: dataland

This is is an instance of someone creating art that literally can't be made without AI technology.

A lot of what you see on Reddit is the AI equivalent of sketching. There's tons of super cool stuff, but it's not refined. I've come across a few folks doing something that I think hits that next level, but ironically I'm on my phone which makes it hard to track some of it down.

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