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I don't know what that person was interviewing for but I hope they got it, because bullseye.
You actually need HEALTH to "eat healthy". Ill or disabled people are not famously great at preparing three flawlessly nutritionally-curated meals a day. I haven't cooked anything more complicated than rice or an egg in...several years.
Have you ever looked at a creacher and wonder would it would look like f!#$d up? How about with sun and moon from the hit game security breach? Well do I have news for you! For $5, or a simple tooth on ko-fi, you can suggest a creacher for me, and I take 3 creachers to mash together into a monster design for either sun, moon or eclipse!
"ai is making it so everyone can make art" Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity
Oh gee, you're right! Why didn't the people who can't even move their arms think of just making a painting? /s
And before anyone starts spouting some "art is more than just painting" spiel, you don't know what kind of art someone might need to make in order to express their vision. An artist may have a very specific idea in mind to create the perfect piece of graphic art, and using music, performance, etc. just won't cut it for them. AI is a tool that can help the disabled in so many ways. Not even just with art. Get off your high horse and accept that disabled people have different needs and, guess what, ABILITIES than you do. Fuck you, asshole.
you are a tar pit.
and you are ableist.
you're fighting against a tool that makes art more accessible, and actively dismissing the notion that it could even possibly be doing that. this IS ableist. YOU are the tar pit in this situation.
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Hi I’m disabled I’m crippled I have a disorder that makes my fingers suddenly dislocate while I’m holding my pencil I have a spinal issue that makes it hard for me to bend over a desk half of the time I have leg issues that make it difficult for me to get around etc etc etc. I also have a bunch of other issues I don’t want to tell you about.
I’m also in art college. And even if I wasn’t, I’ve been doing art for almost a decade now. I’ve been disabled the whole bloody time.
AI, isn’t art.
There are many disabled artists and we have adapted our own ways of dealing with how we create. Fuck you, we have been doing this forever.
Vincent Van Gogh had temporal lobe epilepsy; Henri Matisse became a wheelchair user after surgery for cancer; Michelangelo had osteoarthritis, limiting mobility and causing pain in his hands and feet.
Paul Smith had a severe case of cerebral palsy and created art using typewriters.
Peter Longstaff has no arms due to Thalidomide, and paints with his feet.
Frida Kahlo not only had polio that disabled her as a child, but of course as we all know was injured in a bus accident at the age of 18, which caused her lifelong pain and medical problems.
Fuck, you want a personal annecdote? I knew a girl (we have lost touch since) who was paralysed from the neck down and she painted with her mouth and there are other artists who do so too! And with eye tracking technology I’m sure disabled artists will be getting more and more tools as the years pass. But we do NOT condone AI art. All that does is put us, real disabled artists, who exist and need support, out of jobs and commissions.
Fuck you.
hi, another disabled person here for more personal anecdotes! here is an art piece i made entirely with my non dominant hand 1 week before my most recent shoulder surgery on that same arm. i also wear splint rings to keep my fingers from dislocating while painting (or playing bass guitar cause i do that too). i make most of my income off hand painted art despite having hand tremors, frequent wrist dislocations/subluxations, and migraines.
my friend and her wife also make their incomes off wig making, leatherwork, and digital collage prints. both have chronic pain as well.
our lines arent perfect because we have shaky hands but thats ok, make it a feature not a flaw in your art. fuck AI.
Anyone who thinks physically disabled people need to use art stealing AI to make our own art is the ableist, actually.
Mine isn't as drastic (yet) but I've been having to wear wrist braces and finger splints since childhood off and on because using my hands in a repetitive motions causes them to be in pretty excruciating pain.
What is my art medium of choice? Knitting. You know, that thing where you have to do a repetitive motion over and over again. I hold my needles a bit strange, I knit through the pain, I sometimes have to give up working on it for weeks at a time. But I will not stop because it's what makes my heart sing.
Disabled artists don't need your pity, we've been getting by, doing what makes us happy despite the pain and hardships for thousands of years, probably longer, I bet there were neolithic disabled artists.
No actual real artist wants or uses AI, including disabled artists. AI is for losers who are scared of the extremely important phase in art where you suck and want to skip it by stealing and not even in a cool "I'm emulating your style because I wanna learn from it" way.
Go suck at art for a couple years like the rest of us and stop talking over disabled artists.
And also if you just really really really really cannot create your vision and need someone else to do it for you. Then just hire a goddamn artist. Save up your money if you need it so badly that you're willing to enable thieves that care as little about art as they do about the real people who make it.
I'm disabled, I'm a writer, and I will absolutely fistfight anyone trying to say they shouldn't have to put in the twenty years of fucking EFFORT that I HAVE EXPENDED in BEING A GODDAMN WRITER behind a goddamn denny's at three AM
Disabled people don't exist as a pretext for you to steal the creative works of others.
People who actually create things will continue to do so in countless numbers of ways, regardless of our disabilities.
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Reading up on him, he was a pretty cool guy. He was one of the first people to stand up to John Money about his theories of gender development and position that intersex infants should receive surgery and never be told about it using his abuse of David Reimer as ‘proof’, asserting that Money didn’t have the evidence and standing his ground even when Money straight up started screaming at him. And then later he was proven right when he got into contact with David Reimer, not only discovering proof that Money was wrong but also how abusive and horrific Money had been. He then went on to write advocating for intersex and trans rights and to avoid unnecessary procedures on intersex people without full informed consent and that intersex people are part of natural human variation and that we deserve acceptance and not to be treated like a disorder.
A quote I really like from him: ‘Nature loves diversity, society hates it’
advice i think we should tell children is that when adults say stuff like ‘now that i’m an adult i get really excited about stuff like coffee tables and bathrooms and rugs etc’ they don’t mean ‘and now i don’t care about blorbo and squimbus from my childhood tv shows anymore’ bc your average adult still loves all the same pop culture stuff they always did; they just have a greater appreciation for the mundane as well. growing up just means you can enjoy life twice as much now. you can get really excited about a new stuffed animal AND about a new kitchen sponge. peace and love
You get bigger so you can store even MORE love and appreciation for the world inside of you
It means you'll be at the antique mall looking at a coffee table and thinking "blorbo and Squimbus would LOVE this coffee table"
Amazing Art by @amber_emmi
Facebook engineers yesterday
IIRC correctly the writers admitted that they wrote this scene because they were tired of all the criticism that their hacking scenes weren’t 100% accurate, and/or included visual elements like a GUI instead of just command lines, so they decided to have an unofficial internal contest about who could make the tech scenes more and more ridiculous, continuing to ramp it up until we got to this specific moment - the peak of bullshit mountain.
not gonna lie thats Chadlike behavior and i applaud it
ok.
“Cringe culture is dead” isn’t just about letting 15 year olds cosplay MHA (but is also an issue). It’s about letting 50 year olds dance at clubs even if they’re “bad at it”, it’s about letting 10 year old’s wear random bits of clothes to make an outfit that’s “weird”, it’s about letting adult men experiment with artsy makeup looks even when they’re “messy”, it’s about letting teens scream music even if they “sound bad”.
“Cringe culture is dead” means letting people learn new hobbies at any age, experiment with their identity at any time, expressing themselves in ways outside the norm just as much as it means let 20 year olds play roblox.
Cringe culture is just social norms being forced on people rebelling against societies value consensus, it’s keeping people in brackets that are easier to market to.
Let cringe culture be dead in every aspect of life outside online spaces.
Drawing in mspaint? Cool, impressive, But whenever I see that, I think about the person who makes their art in power point Every time I see them it boggles me
Y'all if you like this PLEASE check out @lylahcomorbid she paints in Microsoft Word and it looks AMAZING
I can barely put an image and text into word what magic is this
If you have a big, emotional, self hating meltdown every time someone tells you that you hurt them or crossed a boundary of theirs, then that means you’re not a safe person to say no to - and that’s something you need to work on. Even if you’re genuinely just really upset that you hurt someone, if every attempt at communicating a boundary to you results in the person you hurt having to repeatedly reassure you that you’re not actually a bad person, then you need to work on controlling yourself and taking constructive criticism.
Here’s the thing you need to remember, the most important part of someone coming to you to let you know you hurt them is that it isn’t a personal attack. It is an attempt at comunication. Generally, because you are their friend.
They are telling you this so that you will know to avoid doing the thing that hurt them in the future.
Imagine if it hurt them and they didn’t tell you. Then you’d just keep doing it, over and over, because you’d have no way of knowing it was hurting them unless they told you.
It isn’t better for your friends to suffer in silence. It isn’t better for them to start avoiding you because they’re being hurt and they don’t want to tell you. You don’t want your friends to be in pain.
They don’t want you in pain either!
They don’t want you to lash out at yourself, they don’t want you to hate yourself, they don’t want to watch you drag yourself through the mud. It hurts to see your friends suffer, which means it hurts them when you do that to yourself.
Putting them in the position of having to comfort you when they’re trying to communicate something that will improve your relationship is just going to make them not want to communicate when you do something that hurts them.
And you don’t want that. You want your friends to tell you when you hurt them, because the alternative is that they don’t.
Yes, it sucks to feel guilt and self directed anger when you make a mistake, but you can’t turn on yourself like that. It affects other people, and it’s not healthy for you, either.
Accidentally hurting someone doesn’t make you a bad person. It means you made a mistake, and you need to own that mistake. Apologize, and then work on not repeating it.
If you need to step away and collect yourself, that’s fine. If you need to have the conversation over text, there’s no harm in asking for that. Emotions are what they are, they get difficult to handle sometimes.
But you have to remember that someone telling you that you hurt them is doing so anticipating that you’ll acknowledge the harm done and seek to rectify it. They aren’t doing it because they want to hurt you. They don’t want you to feel like the worst person ever, and if they do want you to feel like the worst person ever then they probably aren’t your friend. Friends do not want you to hate yourself.
I promise the noise this person makes as they fly past me into the abyss is worth turning your sound on for
aaaaand this is why i didn't try to transcribe it
art takes so long and its so tiring but if i dont make art for the rest of my life ill die
i dont understand AI tech bros. "it streamlines the process so you dont have to spend as much time making it" why do it at all then if you just want to skip straight to the end? isn't that the fun part? don't you love sketching and redoing concepts over and over again and making it better and going over it again and again until you make something that really feels like it's yours even if it's not "perfect" in a technical sense? isn't that the whole point?
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Okay but WHY THIS PICTURE LMAO
“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
- Vincent van Gogh
