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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

If you are actually curious here's some links:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

This is an anarchist comm. We aren't masquerading anything. We fight against all injustice: state, class, gender, sexuality. You know. Liberty for everyone equally.

 

More important than opposition to the current system is the prefiguration of an anarchic one. So much online discourse is about attacking, a lot less is about building. I drew this to remind myself and others that confronting the state is only a part of the puzzle and building new systems without it is also important.

Licence (as always): CC-0, No rights reserved.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Your sentences inspired me to make my own.

If your quest for kindness leads you to violence, remember to use violence with kindness.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

If your quest for kindness leads you to violence, remember to use violence with kindness.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago
 

Original work by me. Made using the wonderful Krita.

License: CC-0, No rights reserved.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

This comment got me thinking about what an anarchist solution to school shootings is unsurprisingly crimethinc have an answer: https://crimethinc.com/2018/03/20/gun-control-no-youth-liberation-mass-shootings-school-walkouts-getting-free

or in shorter poster form:

simply put the solution is to reform education and let the students themselves build networks to protect themselves from violence, just like every other group.

or anecdotally: the solution to school shootings isn't to get rid of guns it's to get rid of schools.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The reason I actually responded to you're comment is because it was long and interesting so I thought I could get a nice discussion out of it. I'm glad to have been correct.

I didn't come across as you trying to police AI. You were just being very critical of a tool that I think has a lot of uses. I was trying to bring an alternate point of view to the discussion.

I also don't believe in artistic disability, my example wasn't about being unable to make art, it was about making art being just difficult enough for someone that they don't want to try. Perfection only exists in tightly defined systems, art most certainly cannot be perfect. But I do think some people have who are capable of art don't wish to learn how do make it to the degree that they can express what they want. I'm not saying they don't have ability. I'm saying they don't have the desire.

And even then you can use GenAI do only to small parts of your piece. An artist I follow used GenAI to create videos for their music. The creator of this meme uses it to create small intro pictures for their blog. GenAI has uses in the hands of creative people as well.

I'm an anarchist. As soon as you talk about corporations and value I point to the meme this discussion is under.

Also I don't use GenAI. I made a couple of pictures and did try to touch them up in order to actually be presentable but in the end it just didn't work out. I do have a drawing tablet and use it to make drawings. I've posted them in my community lemm.ee/c/anaval. I also know the basics of playing a bass guitar. I'm not defending GenAI out of my own need, but because I see potential in it for others.

and like I said previously It's made some stuff that I really love.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Your technique is so cool (/sincere), but a lot of people do not have the time, persistence or passion do develop skills like these. If they get a good idea for something I want them to be able to express it, to enrich the world with the chaos of their mind, and sometimes GenAI is the only tool they have for that.

Everyone has the potential to create something cool, and I don't want to take away what might be their only tool.

The core of my opinion on the topic isn't based on anti capitalist rhetoric, it's a lot simpler than that. I like the things GenAI makes so I like GenAI. If you don't consider that art I'm fine with that. I still like it and think it has value.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

GenAI does have a place in art. Computer generated art gives people a chance to express themselves in a way they otherwise never could. Some people lack the ability to imagine shapes in their minds. This would obviously hamper their ability to draw but with a Image generator they could just write something and have the computer imagine it for them. They then could take a part of that image and add something to it, generate something else that fit with it. This is art. A human using a tool to create something, something that would not have been created otherwise. Or "AI gives a voice to those that don't have time, dedication or ability to learn a medium"

A practical example. The primary form of art I interact with is music and so when I hear this: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RYJAUfCkIaQ I think "Wow this is good", and it wouldn't have existed without AI.

But there is always a place for human created art and as long we have enough computing power to use AI there will be a place for AI Art. They are both important because they are both different.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No. But I bet I could. After all, prisoners do it every day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't need it. I like it. While I have it I'll use it. but I don't need it. The only things I need are water, food, shelter, and companionship. Everything else is just extra. Good to have, but not a necessity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

read until the end of the sentence silly.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/56400451

Started with blender but when the eraser started lagging I switched to krita.

CC0 - No Rights Reserved

 

Started with blender but when the eraser started lagging I switched to krita.

CC0 - No Rights Reserved

 
 

I'm a young anarchist thinking about moving to a different country (in my case UK or Ireland). I'm wondering what the best way to begin would be.

I imagine that having some contacts in the country would be a good place to start, but how to get them? Maybe you could share some tips?

 

I'm making a language with a lot of inspiration from rust and was experimenting with alternative enum syntax. It relies on literals to be types in order to convey information on the different options.

I don't really get on well with Typescript but having the ability to use literals as types is something I really liked as a lot of the times I use static string literals as errors. and having all the variants upcast through types makes it easier to do pattern matching.

Plain-text transcription of the image:

// using rust like enum syntax
Option<T> (
  | "Some" T
  | "None"
)

fn match_demo() {
  let some_option = Option "Some" "text";
  let none_option = Option "None";

  match some_option {
    "Some" "hello" => print("oh hi there"),
    "Some" text => print("Option is {text}"),
    "None" => print("Option is {text}"),
  }
}

// Or maybe more experimental syntax
Option<T> (
  | T
  | ()
)

fn match_demo2() {
  let opt = Option "something";
  match opt {
    "text" => "matching directly",
    var => "bind to variable",
    () => "nothing",
  }
}
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/52336135

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Original in this post: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33311504

I thought it was cool and spent an hour in Inkscape trying to recreate it.

 
 

After needing to find a small delimiter for my data format I started wondering if I could use 0x1E-0x1F?

They are part of the control codes so I thought they might do something weird?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes#Field_separators

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