CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@dangillmor There's a company to buy stock in.

Sadly they will be bought out and dismanteled by John Deer.

@GossiTheDog It's almost like they have no fucking clue at all.

@mgorny Capitalism has always been the problem. It is a disease. As long a vocal small percent "won" and acted like the carrots that the median chased this worked... for capitalism. If people slacked you kept a pool of "abject failures" who scared the shit out of that median.

But all good things, including cancers, must end. There are too few carrots, too long a chase, too many failures clumping at the bottom. The infection has spread to every aspect of society and behaviour and has touched every society (except, perhaps Sentinal Island). The only real choice we have left is: "do we die from the cancer or be born new from it?".

@limebar Oooh I've got an idea. Using either a 5x5 or 10x10 pixel layout of the image, every other grid square is inverted, or B&W, and then reverse that pattern every frame.

A variant may be to use that same grid breakdown but use it in a vert. column 3-5 squares wide, have a sort of wave fliping to b/w that washes from L>R.

@holsta @GrapheneOS Agreed.

@jalefkowit I did an artshow (artfair type of thing) that the owners were already social media assholes. I needed the cash. They sent a contract with 8 simple points. 8. said: "We have the right to photograph or video you, and/or your work and use for any marketing in perpetuity."

They sent this as a pdf, asked me to send it back as a pdf. I altered 8 to read: "We expressly wave any and all rights to photograph or video you, and/or your work and we will never use any that or any similar material for any marketing in perpetuity."

They emailed back stating all looked good, see you in 2 months.

When the show began the walked around with a DJI camera and I asked them to stop when they got to my booth. There were a lot of people around, so they did not make much of a fuss. But one of them took me aside and said: "I'll be back where there are less people." I smiled and said: "You should read the contract."

I already knew it was invalid since they never gave me a signed copy from their end.

Social media "influencers" are the most insufferable kind of narcissists.

@ricci ROFL

@JulianOliver Freteration: The wash of anxiety one feels thinking about presenting something you just created and people may think it was AI generated.

EG: Jill sat in sweat as the gallery owner looked over her art. Freteration overtook her thinking her paintings may look like they were made by MidJourney.

Origin: Fret: intransitive verb (frettˈing; frettˈed)
To vex oneself
To worry

Worrai: The anxiety one feels when people think what you just created may be AI generated. A lexical blend of worry and AI.

EG: While waiting to give his speech, John was filled with worrai thinking his professor would think he used AI instead of writing it himself.

@AccordionBruce Cheers

@Ourladyofpoetics Cheers

Which one is visually more appealing to you? Please comment.

#scifi #cyberpunk #graphic #logo #indicia #sciencefiction

@sarajw @tg I feel, as we reclaim the net with "our" sites, strong firewalls that block them and their tools are essential. There is no reason for google to be poking around my site, so it and all their ilk are summarily blocked. Humans are welcome, broligarchs and their enshitifications are not.

@batkaren If you don't have that friend... maybe it's you.

@dilmandila Sadly, we all know why.