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@skeptrune I like that it looks like an ad from a video game

i try to not be negative about startups, but goddamn this ad is bad deeply unfortunate that it’s basically the only AI ad i’ve seen since being in New York giving all of us in San Francisco a bad name

@CharlotteFang77 Health goth was a mistake

It’s amusing and sad how the only vestigial public intellectualism left is the NYC millennial art-cultural commentary class reduced entirely to trying to coinage farm in “thinkpieces” that feature no thought at all, just a description of a recognizable phenomenon and trialing out words to describe it, designed to hopefully go viral enough that other people use the term enough to get you on wikipedia—uniquely able to exploit one’s position as a media millennial to ensure you get the credit as opposed to anyone else engaged in the natural neologism factory of hanging out and slinging slang online. They’re sesperate to relive Doctorow’s enshittification and K-hole’s normcore, feigning relevance by words they used first accidentally finding uptake in the memetic discourse, just so the word can placed in their bio as a pulitzer-level career achievement, with their credit prepended on each use in their professional network—like below—while embarrassing everyone else who used it without realizing there was someone cataloguing and career farming every use of it despite the person not actually contributing anything beyond the coinage itself—whatever happened to developing a distinct body of thought, idiosyncratic perspective and pointed stances in great debates over a long spanning career? This is what you are supposed to be chasing with coinage-clout; actually new ideas, developed in argument, not just making a career practice out of trialing out various portmanteaus to see if any get used later, basically a patent troll for language.

@quasimatt Yayy

@peace_node This is complicated > no depression

The ambiguities this video presents are almost unfathomable—there is meaning to be created in every nuance. It questions the role of technology in replacing or augmenting other sectors and engages with ethical issues facing those who architect tech’s economic context.

It delivers commentary on clout monopoly and questions norms of competition. Its critics and detractors incorrectly interpret as an assertion, while those with the intellect to more deeply engage with meaning understand it as a series of questions they are invited to answer.

@petkevichdan plus the guy on the left is dressed cooler

first time i watched this i couldn't figure out why GC would make an ad making fun of themselves. Then I watched it again, listening closely, and turns out the guy on the right is GC. GC sounds a lot like VC. Risky script. And now I'm hearing the guy on the left is supposed to be Marc Andreesen? Anyone who's met @pmarca in person knows he doesn't look anything like the guy on the left. Totally different cranial structure and way taller. The man created netscape. NETSCAPE. Have some respect.

@yitong Guy on the left trusts the next gen will find its way, guy on the right says he knows whats best Im going guy on the left every time

man this ad is so derivative, snarky, mean-spirited, and in bad faith. exactly the opposite of what you'd want from your investor. i'd take money from the guy on the left 10 times out of 10 i'm sure gc is a great firm, but this video just makes them look like douchebags

@metapreston The cortisol spike it drove is a bit of a mog but moral positioning via narrative is weak aura

Let me explain how this mogs a16z: Marketing is a statement of values... VCs are seen as soulless profitmaxers funding slop and casinos. GC is attempting to create an alternate category here. "We fund stuff responsibly" Its a bit corny, but GC comes off seeming higher-end. Like the classic Mac ads: "We're not a computer for accountants, we're a computer for creatives" What's funny is GC led the round into a literal gambling app

@PopCrave tfw the algorithm shows me shit im interested in vs what the music industry wants to sell me :(

Lizzo says the algorithm is negatively impacting music marketing: “Ever since the algorithm has been showing us things out of order, baby, there’s no way to successfully promote your album where everyone knows your album is coming […] I have a private page with over 280K people who follow me because they support me, because they love me. Even when I post on that page, I’m not hitting their algorithm.”

@SHL0MS If i didnt learn it in tv advertisements, or off the back of a semi trailer, i learned it from john berger,,, dropping this in the comments in case its helpful for chat youtu.be/8wxRxSfhw6I?si…

i just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting

@zachlieberman Relentless beauty

Printing again

@tszzl Correct mode is genius

no bro you need to turn on “/extrausage”. dawg are you sure you have “/fast” mode on? Did you check the “no mistakes” toggle? are you sure you picked “correct mode”? did you turn up the “autonomy slider”, that’s how the pros use it,

@shadcn Agree

Unpopular opinion: I don’t care if most web apps look the same. All I care about is whether it does what it says and does it fast. Make it fast. Make the UX obvious. Put the right things in the right place and little to no animations.

@evilrabbit_ Really interesting serif!

Since I don’t have the final font file yet, I still wanted to keep playing with it a bit more. So I created this playground to see how it behaves, spot the issues more quickly, and move forward from there.

@ExaltedFoks youtu.be/gbbVEakvnbQ?si… Always felt this promo was slept on

Give me more metal recs please

@13yroldwithcc @banteg Take rest sir

@banteg Less to track them and more to start new ones while I’m asleep. Codex is far worse from experience as the high level researcher

cancelled anthropic sub, i don't think i use claude enough to justify the expensive tier.

upscaling some images of my mom's great aunt that recently passed away using AI are we for or against AI for this use case?

@blknoiz06 @sandylikesfrogs cc: clavicular

@sandylikesfrogs why

if you really believed in agi you would be looksmaxxing as hard as possible rn

@poof_eth Swag

Founder puff pieces be like: At 6, he was the world champion of cup stacking. At 12, he sent Peter Shor a letter, which inspired Shor's algorithm. Today he’s building God for spreadsheets, and insists he will make sure AGI spares at least half of the population.

@josephdelong @colossuspay Wish my bank was on ts

Sending off test cards

@benjitaylor This is actually a higher bar than i would have anticipated

I’m quickly realising the bar for design opinions on this app is “I have eyes”