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  • Ask six people to identify the 'soul' in a piece of art and you'll get seven different answers. It's an entirely subjective concept.

    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as the saying goes. Maybe we should stop gatekeeping what art people enjoy and stop brigading them when they dare to like something 'real artists' decide they shouldn't.

  • xkcd #3076: The Roads Both Taken

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  • Is that not missing an 'I'? As in

    I travelled both though I be one traveller...

  • That face

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  • Birdwatching

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  • Sorry, you know the rules: pics or it didn't happen.

  • do you hate AI generated art? why?

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  • No, quite the opposite.

    Honestly, I find the vast majority of the arguments against it to be be made from a point of ignorance, propagated by a rabid sub-set of artists looking to generate clicks for their sensationalist YouTube videos.

    Some pertinent reading/watching:

    https://youtu.be/gWmEXCJIIZ4

    https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54271-x

    https://craigboehman.com/blog/in-defense-of-ai-art

    https://www.fxhash.xyz/article/in-defense-of-ai-art

    https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-defense-of-ai-art

    https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-you-do-on-the-ai-art-turing

    https://i.redd.it/ch5wpbz7tkje1.jpeg

  • Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot

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  • shit...

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  • Zen Browser v1.10.1b - Passkey support for MacOS, and a media player controller that's fully integrated with Picture-in-Picture mode

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  • Thanks for this, but that setting was already disabled, unfortunately. This feels more like a bug than a deliberate result of a chosen setting.

  • Zen Browser v1.10.1b - Passkey support for MacOS, and a media player controller that's fully integrated with Picture-in-Picture mode

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  • I like Zen, but recently everytime I open a new window it opens up a weird, blank window as well.

  • Where do you draw the line between "staying informed" and avoiding all the stress in the news?

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  • You're welcome, happy to help. Stay positive, friend!

  • Where do you draw the line between "staying informed" and avoiding all the stress in the news?

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  • Shamelessly reposting this here, because it seems relevant:

    Negative news has a greater impact on people than positive: https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71516.pdf

    Media sites know this, and use it to drive engagement:

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4

    https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/social-media-facebook-twitter-politics-b1870628.html

    And so, negative headlines are getting worse: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0276367

    But negative news is addictive and psychologically damaging: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-we-worry/202009/the-psychological-impact-negative-news

    So it's important to try and stay positive:

    https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/benefits-of-good-news

    If you want a break from the constant negativity, here are some sites that report specifically on positive news:

    And here's 35 more: https://news.feedspot.com/good_news_websites/

    Or videos, if you'd prefer: https://youtube.com/@itssambentley

    Some communities on Lemmy you might be interested in:

    Remember, realistic optimism is important and, unlike what some might have you believe, is not the same as blissful ignorance or 'burying your head in the sand': https://www.learning-mind.com/realistic-optimism-blind-positivity/

    https://www.centreforoptimism.com/realisticoptimism

    And doesn't mean you must stay uninformed on current affairs: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/how-to-stop-doom-scrolling

    https://goodable.co/blog/tips-for-balancing-positive-and-negative-news/

  • [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company

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  • When You Block the Internet on Your Phone, Something Astonishing Happens Mentally

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  • Install a firewall app and restrict access for every app on your phone?

  • What movie is in your top list despite its absolute shit rating?

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  • Gorgeous film

  • What movie is in your top list despite its absolute shit rating?

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  • Yeah, I thought the new trilogy were all pretty good tbh.

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  • No problem 🙂

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  • You're welcome

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  • Shamelessly reposting this here, because it seems relevant:

    Negative news has a greater impact on people than positive: https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71516.pdf

    Media sites know this, and use it to drive engagement:

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4

    https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/social-media-facebook-twitter-politics-b1870628.html

    And so, negative headlines are getting worse: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276367

    But negative news is addictive and psychologically damaging: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-we-worry/202009/the-psychological-impact-negative-news

    So it's important to try and stay positive:

    https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/benefits-of-good-news

    If you want a break from the constant negativity, here are some sites that report specifically on positive news:

    And here's 35 more: https://news.feedspot.com/good_news_websites/

    Some communities on Lemmy you might be interested in:

    Remember, realistic optimism is important and, unlike what some might have you believe, is not the same as blissful ignorance or 'burying your head in the sand': https://www.learning-mind.com/realistic-optimism-blind-positivity/

    https://www.centreforoptimism.com/realisticoptimism

    And doesn't mean you must stay uninformed on current affairs: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/how-to-stop-doom-scrolling

    https://goodable.co/blog/tips-for-balancing-positive-and-negative-news/

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