The Art of Asty

I dont know if stopping PrEP has any effect on your body other than the higher risk of catching HIV, but since I ran out of it last week I’ve been feeling increasingly dizzy and with constant headaches similar to when I forget to take my Sertraline

That and the Great Firewall become China’s biggest “I told you so” every passing year

It really does

and having these types of interactions with them causes a lot of dissonance because they legitimately cannot comprehend how a cost that they often forget even exists, is something you have to factor in every single decision you make if you want to make it to the end of the month.

when you're not wealthy, you NEED thing to come out perfect first try, because the alternative is to waste time, money and resources that were NOT easy for you to acquire, but for them? they can afford to fail upwards because those costs associated with error are negligible.

something you quickly realize when you have the displeasure of interacting with wealthy people is how much more it costs you than them to make mistakes

We understand how LLMs work FAR more than we understand how consciousness works, so

The fact that we don’t know how consciousness even works is a big point as to why we can’t claim AIs to be conscious, how can we assign it consciousness when we barely even comprehend what consciousness is?

Tear all their bridges over, tunnels burst
And will it ever crumble, fall apart?
Or will it slowly remain?
In every mind a barrier made from words
The very substance to destroy the world
Or build the future in sand?

I can’t wait for Silicon Valley to go up in flames with all its cultists in

Tech bros love to act like they understand everything about every field of knowledge just cuz they know how to code, while simultaneously bragging about willingly losing those skills to automation, they think they just have some inherent irreplaceable brilliance, but everyone else is disposable.

It’s funny seeing AI companies screaming “SENTIENT! SENTIENT!” about their shitty bloatware every time they need their stock prices to go up, when we as a species have BARELY even begun to start unraveling what sentience and consciousness even are.

I didn’t hate people, I just hated what the powerful turned people into

I kinda stopped being a misanthrope myself when I came to the realization that things are the way they are because the world is already run by misanthropes.

This glaze is notoriously finnicky so I’m not surprised it didn’t come out perfect on the first try, at least we now have a point of reference to see where we need to go to make it work

The red is supposed to come out more intense and without the cloudiness like in this example tile, but it seems like the kiln didn’t quite reach the appropriate temprerature this glaze needs, so we’re going to re-fire it on the next kiln load to see if that fixes the cloudiness

This one didn’t come out the way I expected but it was still a pretty interesting result

It’s hard to not feel infinitely small when your best efforts do so little while your enemies are collapsing every fiber of society for their own amusement

My current form of doomscrolling is reading through the profile of asshole tech bros and start internalizing all the shit they talk about us “common folk” because at the end of the day they’re bending the world to their psychopathic will while I’m here doing my little drawings and my little pottery

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

This is just bald Bill Clinton

They probably decided he was ok to brutalize the second he mentioned Israel

That video of the American veteran getting his arm snapped in half by a senator for speaking out against the war is insane, what a wretched nation

"I feel like something bad is going to happen to me. I feel like something bad has happened. It hasn't reached me yet but it's on its way."

funnily enough, the girl from Lake Mungo's last name is also Palmer, and I don't think that's a coincidence

Paysage d'Hiver - Welt aus Eis [official] YouTube video by Kunsthall Produktionen

black metal is so beautiful when it's made by someone with an actual vision

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiB1...

Well that’s horrifying

One time I was trying to power through a piece while having a horrific case of food poisoning, I paused the piece a bit while I went to the bathroom, vomited my guts out, passed out on the toilet then got right back to work when I woke up

Art really wears you down sometimes lol

Every comic I’ve ever drawn has taken a chunk of my health with it. Every cartoonist should be a millionaire for the amount of effort you have to put in.