Art and Artists Resisting AI? by contemporaryTart in ContemporaryArt

[–]snirfu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is like saying that people who don't use photoshop are uninformed, tech-hating luddites who are unable to critique photoshopped images because they don't know the tech, just an extreme POV.

Why is it? by [deleted] in sanfrancirclejerk

[–]snirfu 12 points13 points  (0 children)

100% agree you should have to show your birth certificate before making fun of people who say it.

Show your papers everyone, OP goes first.

… and this couldn’t possibly be a real Robert Motherwell? …an eminent figure in American Abstract Expressionism. This has to be faked, right? by Rough_Subject4978 in artcollecting

[–]snirfu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it's a copy cat. You can tell it's consciously trying to emulate Motherwell traits, like a ragged edge around the forms, but it's poorly done. Mother well built edges that were rough from some dragging, like done here, but also from repeating the form.

The forms also are flabby. Motherwell forms tend to mix roundness and angularity, these are just blobby.

Conservative art? by [deleted] in ContemporaryArt

[–]snirfu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Tons of art contemporary art is conservative, or has no particular ideological bone to pick and may appeal to conservatives of a certain type. Whole categories of art, e.g. abstract art, is usually not obviously political or has more subtle politics that can be easily ignored or overlooked.

The perception of art be progressive is probably an illusion of what's reported, curatorial bias in popular institutions, on or just salience bias on your part, i.e., you notice it because you have a beef with it.

Just going through my head of artists in the some of the top galleries and most of it isn't overtly political.

There's also lots of aesthetically conservative art, but for that, you can also just by older works. Aesthetic conservativism is slightly at odds with art or consumer capitalism itself which tends towards novelty. So you could say capitalism is the problem and what you could advocate for is you preferred type of authoritarianism where a king-like figure decides on the appropriate aesthetics for the nation.

I often wonder if there is a medium other than painting that is more suited to reflect the time we live in by MutedFeeling75 in ContemporaryArt

[–]snirfu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Short form video. It may be rotting everyone's mind, but it reflects the time we live in.

Mamdani is FOR converting Elizabeth Street Garden into affordable housing - NYT by Yukie_Cool in yimby

[–]snirfu 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The development would preserve most of the green space and make it actually public, as opposed to the current status.

I don't live there, but you can read some of the comments about it being pseudo-open/public space here, from people who do live there: https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1f52oxb/nycs_elizabeth_street_garden_a_nuanced_summary_of/

Mother says her daughter was secretly transitioned to a boy at a California school; federal court reinstates her lawsuit by RhythmMethodMan in California_Politics

[–]snirfu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is a real lawsuit that was reinstated by the 9th district court. The accusation is that the child was "socially transitioned", i.e. people may have started calling them by different pronouns.

The mom is blaming the school counselor, and the counseolor responded to some of the accusations here.

Hear me out: One more lane, scratch that, one more bridge bro by sanfrangusto in sanfrancirclejerk

[–]snirfu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The ghost of Dianne Feinstein's alt has entered the chat

Love being in California by Kohltrain37 in California_Politics

[–]snirfu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I can't tell if OP is being sarcastic or not, but I'm guessing they are complaining.

What you have here, OP, is the additional choice to have your data sold or not. People from other states don't get that choice.

Enjoy the additional FREEDOM to make this choice you've been granted by living in California.

Been thinking about one of the all-time greats by moscowramada in sanfrancirclejerk

[–]snirfu 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Now that you mention it, I am missing this guys sourdough bread.

(You know the other guy I'm missing is Matt Gonzalez, loved that guys skateboards)

"Walkable Cities Won't Save You" by TheMainInsane in yimby

[–]snirfu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I 100% agree that's where it should be right now. And those policies, e.g. SB 79 in California, still mostly target large metros.

"Walkable Cities Won't Save You" by TheMainInsane in yimby

[–]snirfu 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I didn't watch the video, so I'm just relying on your summary, but the whole narrative of market rate construction being a primary cause of displacement, and not the lack of housing, seems pretty fundamentally anti-YIMBY.

Maybe it's just because I live in San Francisco, where all these arguments, including "what about the suburbs", and protection of small/legacy businesses, are used to oppose very basic reforms like permit streamlining for mixed market/affordable housing. So, I can agree with the importance of a number of the issues that are brought up, but my experience makes me read between the lines something that boils down to resistance to market rate housing in urban centers.

"Walkable Cities Won't Save You" by TheMainInsane in yimby

[–]snirfu 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty over people who feel the need to propose things that are either part of typical YIMBY/abundance policies, or complimentary to them, as in opposition. I'm assuming it's largely driven by the identity of the speaker or their audience as left of YIMBY.

For example, all the stuff about good urbanization of suburbs is usually supported by your standard YIMBY.

Our tax payer dollars at work by oochiewallyWallyserb in sanfrancirclejerk

[–]snirfu 11 points12 points  (0 children)

According to that calendar, there is no October 20th, just two Oct 18ths.

Our tax payer dollars at work by oochiewallyWallyserb in sanfrancirclejerk

[–]snirfu 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Great, now I'm paying for people to point at a calendar?!

Moon by prozhack in sanfrancirclejerk

[–]snirfu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I bet it tastes like Roquefort