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  • there was more to the story than what the Wikipedia page says

    There is! But I'm not an art historian so I don't feel confident laying it out for you. You can blame me for talking out my arse (but don't we all on social media) - but there is much more to the story.

  • Ever since I learned about Camille Claudel I'm not so fond of Rodin anymore.

    In 1892, after an abortion, Claudel ended the intimate aspect of her relationship with Rodin, although they saw each other regularly until 1898.

    Le Cornec and Pollock state that after the sculptors' physical relationship ended, she was not able to get the funding to realise many of her daring ideas – because of sex-based censorship and the sexual element of her work. Claudel thus had either to depend on Rodin or to collaborate with him and see him get the credit as the lionised figure of French sculpture. She also depended on him financially ...

    And that does not even take into account the drama of the rest of her life because I don't know to what extent Rodin was involved in it (positively or negatively).

    She also made better sculptures imho.

    PS: imo "zaddy" translates to stylish, privileged machism in this case

  • It was the DEMOCRATS fault that Trump (...) passed this Bill!

    No no no, the Bill is Big and Beutiful and it's Good that Trump passed it! But it's the DEMOCRATS fault that everything in it turned to shit, and specifically against devoted Republicans!

    [Granted, that's the "politcally literate MAGA" version]

  • The facility received its first prisoners the next day. Almost immediately, DeSantis’s team began selling merchandise for the facility, for Trump supporters who want to advertise their enthusiasm for mass deportation.

    It has long been a feature of Trump’s regime that displays of domination and cruelty have to be made in public, in a style of vulgar, over-the-top obviousness. Branded like a low-budget movie, the Everglades site combines the extraordinary racism and contempt for human rights of the Trump anti-immigration effort with the sleazy camp of his movement’s style of masculinity. “Alligator Alcatraz” is the kind of place the hero would have to escape from in a television show, or in a level of a video game, and its stylized cruelty is supposed to seem hyperreal, even uncanny. Perhaps this sense of scripted unreality surrounding what is in fact a concentration camp is supposed to help Trump’s supporters and the rest of the American people partake in the pleasures of domination while avoiding the recognition that the horror and pain they are inflicting is real.

    But it is real. The camp has been open, now, for just over a week, and already one prisoner has been hospitalized, reportedly as a result of the camp’s inhumane conditions. According to news reports, many of the men there were not permitted to shower for days. Broken air conditioning left men alternately freezing and sweltering in the heat. Detainees report that they are only being fed one meal a day, and that the food has been infested with maggots. There is no secure line by which the prisoners – who, again, are being detained on civil, not criminal, violations – can speak to their lawyers without being monitored. Toilets don’t flush, and the facility is infested with bugs. It is not clear that the concentration camp, housed in the low-elevation swamps of south Florida, can withstand the rains and winds that are typical of the east coast’s summer hurricane season. It has already flooded.

    Perversely, I'd like to see that merchandise.

    🎶 How low
    are they willing to go 🎶

  • Imagine the USA being the new North Korea, Donald Jr. eventually following his father to the throne. Ostracized by the world. Global hacker scams and their own version of Juche. The parallels are astounding, esp. if you make a few simple deductions into the near future: distribution of wealth, collapsed economy while claiming it's booming...

  • Another one? I'm still reeling from the preacher murders.

  • He's a fascist nut, easy to dismiss. But mainstream media are spreading the same lies.

  • Sorry to say but this is just one aspect of dropping out of all climate contracts national, international and global. And yes, AI is making this much worse.

    “Hyperscale data centers are the really large data centers that are being built now for [generative] AI, which is really driving a lot of the growth in this sector because it requires vast data processing capabilities,” said Volzer. “The trend is larger and bigger centers to feed this demand for AI.”

    Much of the water used in data centers never gets back into the watershed, particularly if the data center uses a method called evaporative cooling.

    Think about that the next time you "ask ChatGPT" something.

    Just one more reason not to use servers located in the USA for anything.

  • "Please buy Tesla again! We kicked him out already, all is good now!"

    Talking to family, coworkers and friends: the public image of Musk took a long while to destroy (thanks to no-one but Musk), and Tesla is connected to it 100%. These my peers only just about got to where this is now the majority opinion.

    FWIW I'm seeing more and more new electrical cars on the roads, none of which are Tesla. And a lot of those who drive one feel compelled to apologize for it.

  • And they’re running into issues due to increasingly ingesting AI-generated data.

    There we go. Who coulda seen that coming! While that's going to be a fun ride, at the same time companies all but mandate AS* to their employees.

  • IDK; my father is one or two generations before boomers and what they did was not better.

  • Thank You! Yes!

    So ... A-not-I? AD? What do we call it? LLM seems too specialised?

  • True; I just hate headlines that ask stupid questions.

    But then again, there's always the premise that it could work, in such attempts, which annoys me no less.

  • No need to wait for Linux to listen to internet radio. With individual song metadata. Soma.fm. Bagel Radio for guitary stuff. 9128.live for amazing Ambient mixes.

    There's also NTS.live, Lyl Radio, Dublab etc... but they don't always show per-track metadata.

    Or right here on Fediverse. Just search for Music communities. I already found a few new artists here.