The Art of Asty

say what you want about the prequels but George's political commentary on them was ahead of its time

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

With the current prices of RAM I don’t think that will be enough LMAO

*walking around with a sign on my chest that reads “will suck dick for RE9”*

Ok I might have to watch The Dinosaurs, despite my distaste for Netflix, just because a bunch of paleo artists I follow and admire worked on it

I hate that it’s so present in my work because I tend to navigate naturally towards it but it’s so incredibly time consuming and annoying to execute in traditional media, even when it’s not exact mirrored symmetry.

Symmetry will be the death of me

I love the idea of Sirenhead enjoying the company of tiny woodland creatures

Incredible interaction

It’s a good measure to have, I’m on it specifically cuz someone I have a very close relationship with is positive, so it’s good for the peace of mind of both of us, I’m only off it right now cuz my dumbass forgot the appointment and I have to wait til later this week to get it again

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