Do things that are never finished. Optimize the everloving bejeezus out of some code. Endlessly fiddle with webpage layouts. Explore and review all the ways not to reticulate a spline.

‘Systemic dysfunction? Sounds like a personal failing.’

“Oh come on, why the fuck, there’s no possible reason this code should-- wrong variable.”

I have too many comments reading “… how did this ever work?”

Is this security through obscurity?

Or for a one-off, copy the image in one program and paste it into another. Then it’s just pixels.

Even before… all this… anyone still on Twitter was an asshole.

Stop visiting the Nazi bar.

“Oh, you’re up early.”

“Sure.”

“What would you call this show?”

… Holocaust Survivor.

Temporarily acknowledging the game you actually bought. It’s allowed to exist, for a FOMO-appropriate period of time. Then it gets yanked away from you, again.

Never give Nintendo money.

This should run on your computer.

They don’t expect to taper off. But they might just be burning money.

Remember: the dot-com bubble didn’t end the internet.

This tech has cool uses, outside of venture-capitalist cult obsession. Mostly porn. I mean, Jesus Christ, so much porn.

But the general idea of image-to-image transformers, based on natural-language descriptions, is here, and it is witchcraft. Generating new images from scratch is a stupid demo gone feral. The real applications will be all-purpose “CGI” as an idiot-proof Photoshop filter. Select tin can on string, type “spaceship,” get decently plausible results for your no-budget sci-fi show. No roto, no modeling, no lighting. The machine makes excellent guesses. And if you disagree, well, run it again. If you want it to be a specific kind of spaceship, either build a little toy or drag a PNG across the screen, and the machine will try to fix the aspects which make that look stupid.

The applications that money-robots want will be what destroys their industry. Animators don’t want to type in “cartoon rabbit walking” and get a finished product the machine spat out - but they’d love to have their drawings tweened. They’re all busy mocking this “framerate upscaling” nonsense, and missing that it means they can put in an on-eights previs and have it come out as smooth or as choppy as they want. And then they can doodle over whichever parts they don’t like, and have a different model turn those sketches into on-model drawings. The ultimate outcome of which can look like any Pixar movie even if your process is entirely 2D. Or… it can look like live action. Starring real actors, living or dead. Or starring literal nobodies, as made-up as any animated character, but as plausible as any person on film.

We’re gonna see a repeat of the webcomic boom… for movies and shows. It simply will not cost one billion dollars to make a whole-ass media franchise. Expect this to completely surprise the lumbering giants who keep trying to get rid of the little people who made up the stories and the characters.

You can abuse the shit out of a PC speaker, even at 4.77 MHz.

Jesus fuck, we can have two problems.

You could solve economic disparity by magic, and spread class consciousness to the whole world, and there’d still be some bigoted motherfuckers out there, tricking other people into becoming bigoted motherfuckers.

OP has an essay due.

Bastards all.

… is there any existing infrastructure or ownership they can erase, this time?

Oh, so you’re against the lesser evil because you just want more evil.

How are you not blocked by everyone? Here, I’ll help.