Its a fantastic deal for management if you can find people gullible enough. But a raw deal for the worker bees themselves

I spent the next few days tinkering with my own Stable Diffusion implementation. I never got it past outputting total nightmare fuel, but it was fun!

To this day I think of the process as like baking pizzas in a sequence of pizza ovens

There is plenty of money to be made in secondary sources -- merchandising and so on. They can give up trying to lock down information that naturally wants to be free. But they won't, because greed.

Looking at the aesthetics of the era, there is just so much frivolity and extraneous flourish. Clean lines and minimalism are avant garde. Yuck.

I got shit to do. Art doesn't need to waste my time unnecessarily.

If there is one thing that drives me nuts about old literature, it is how verbose authors seems to be.

That reminds me, I am overdue for a smog check...

I had a monitor that had a switch in the back that would change those colors to red-yellow-green. It was still awful but at least it was less awful than white-magenta-blue

At some point we need to acknowledge the problem is cultural, and address accordingly. I realize that the business objective for many is to make computing as brainless as possible but we need to be pushing back on that.

Instead we have forums full of really smart people demanding a nanny state. Yuck -- what a sad and pathetic state of affairs.