#tech hell

[r0semultiverse]

I’m so glad google glass never became a real thing. I used to be young and ignorant, excited about those kind of technological advancements. Now I can’t help but wonder how much built in spyware and surveillance bull shit is on every piece of tech that gets advertised. I can’t help but to think how every advancement will only serve to make everyone’s lives that much worse.

#google glass #google #tech hell #tech #surveillance state #informatics #computer science #mine #OP

[dykeredhood]

The app I had to download in order to use the washing machines in my apartment complex is hawking lottery tickets to me

#i am going to become the joker #TECH HELL #personal

[apparentabstractions]

Some unstructured thoughts

My reaction to the trend of "AI artists" has been pretty viscerally negative—it's a clear off-shoot of the same Silicon Valley tech bro bullshit that gave us NFTs—but I've also been left grappling with the reality that there are very real similarities between much of my APPARENT ABSTRACTIONS work and images generated by AI. The latter involves someone inputting text and hoping for the best. My edited ROM corruption screenshots require similarly little "effort"—ask a program to inject some junk data or alter a few bytes, then wait for the results. In the end, we both have very little control over the actual output. I often make edits to the shape or color to make mine stand out more, but that's not a tall task either.

Furthermore, both are built off the backs of others' work. I think my only real saving grace here is that the "sources" I pull from are commercial, mass-produced products. Of course video games are an art form, and artists worked to create the graphics which I then ask a program to mangle, but at the end of the day I'm pulling from the works of corporations. Fair game for editing? Fair game for collages and sampling? The music enthusiast in me has always felt that way, at least. I wouldn't have a guilty conscience screencapping and editing something from say, Ninja Gaiden—as opposed to trying the same thing from some DeviantArt user's work. One like myself, maybe. I also illustrate as a hobby, and yeah, I don't want my drawings used in AI training datasets. And these days, it's getting harder to trust the websites we host our work on to protect us.

Maybe the big difference between what I'm making and what "AI artists" are doing comes down to ethos. AA is a project that's been going on for four years now. The works have always been released into the public domain. I just think what I'm doing is cool, and I wish more people would do it. It's not really even about the individual pieces but all of them as a unified gallery. I've always viewed AA as one singular ever-expanding art piece. I think it's why I enjoyed making the Tower Unite gallery so much. Very few "AI artists" ever seem actually interested in art. Or at least, they weren't interested in the concept of "art" until they saw that it could be an easy way to make them popular or rich. But you probably know that already.

We saw it with NFTs, too, though maybe less so percentage-wise—I saw a lot of legitimate artists I admired become grifters. I almost bought a John Karel (jjjjjjjjjjohn, the one with the low-poly skeletons) shirt and now I'm glad I didn't. Mark Vomit, the guy who made that "you are not immune to propaganda" meme, is actually a talented audiovisual producer that I liked a lot. Ironically, he tried making NFTs but threw a fit when no one wanted them and people started making fun of him. I don't think he's tried again since. Probably my biggest disappointment in this field was Osamu Sato—the guy behind LSD: Dream Emulator among a slew of great albums. And don't forget a bunch of musicians who were probably forced to engage with NFTs by their labels. But also, like, 80% of the people making "abstract digital art" like my own started getting into it! I had to unfollow the vast majority of them. At their height, it was so bad that you could just tell someone was probably doing NFTs by looking at their art because it had become so popular with certain cliques—my own included. I started using the "AGAINST CRYPTO / AGAINST NFTS" avatar around that time not just because I wanted to make a bold statement against it, but also because I didn't want people to have to check.

#text post #tech hell

[nickshutter]

I'm not 100% on-board with my prev reblog because actually I am Type 3, the Bitter Hater: "The Silicon Valley tech bro guys who were crazy about NFTs last year love this AI shit so it probably sucks and is annoying."

#tech hell

[barissoffee]

if we get a Bucky Barnes Winter Soldier/Tech moment I'll eat glass

#mine #tbb spoilers #the bad batch #tbb #i need tech to say “who the hell is tech” LMAO

[kiddokori]

they gave link a fuckjng hoverboard

#venting my frustration at no confirmation of loftwings #sorry for being a joyless traditionalist but i think modern technology in fantasy is lame as hell #nintendo direct #totk #loz #loz link #loz fanart #like ok technology can be very cool and fun #but they literally just gave him an atv #give me like. beetle cars. give me fantasy influenced tech #dont just slap glowey green on a straight up car #my hatred is partially fueld by a distinct lack of loftwings #ever since they gave us that shot of link running and jumping off one of those floating islands like he does in sksw #ive been hoping for loftwings i didnt even consider it before but now it is a meed #NEED #kiddokori

[papanowo]

no amount of canon is going to stop me from believing the batch were delta squad fanboys when they were kids

#same goes for omega and the domino twins but thats another story #but like srsly tell me im wrong. thats right you CANT because scorch and wreker would LITERALLY be besties if it werent for filoni #FUCK YOU FILONI #anyways. #my art #star wars #tbb #bad batch #delta squad #republic commando #repcomm #scorch #tbb wrecker #wrecker #tbb hunter #hunter #tbb tech #tech #this is bad cus its 5am and im artblocked as hell but oh well lol #but yeah lol next episode predictions ^_^

[your-turn-to-role]

AT DAWN WE PLAN

#im so glad that made it in there #when zanror paused in the 'at dawn... we whet our blades against the dragons hide' i may have shouted WE PLAN in the gap #i love vox machina for moments like this honestly #neither the m9 nor from what i can tell bells hells would care this much about a plan they'd just run in #vox machina were like hold up we need three business days to let percy be a weird tech freak and also get all our complicated emotions out #and THEN we fight a dragon #for those who did not watch c1 this episode was literally named at dawn we plan #cr liveblog #cr spoilers #the legend of vox machina

[hellonearthtoday]

sometimes all you need to get through writing block is to draw the guy you're writing about

and sometimes you need to hit yourself over the head with a brick. might be both this time around. Why god

#tommyinnit #tommyinnit fanart #i fucking lied I never learned how to tag #dsmp fanart #????? #ctommy my speedster oc #hes sonic but if sonic ??? said acab??? that might happen in sonic actually #the one where he's fast #amen #and a tech nerd #art #hell on art

[r0semultiverse]

New ad saying McDonalds now has cashierless places they’re rolling out

Me: HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE

#I HATE CAPITALISM SO MUCH ALSO FUCK CEOS & EAT THE RICH #customer service #McDonald’s #mcdonalds #mine #OP #ai takeover #tech hell #AI #robots #tech #anti capitalism #fast food workers #fast food worker

[phantom-of-the-keurig]

I’m tired of your games, Star Wars marketing team

#I grow weary of your torment #the bad batch #tbb tech #tbb wrecker #release me from this hell

[sreegs]

microsoft engineers in the 90s: hey so uh now that we're a real company we have to screen potential employees and we were thinking of implementing a process where you solve these complicated logic and mathematical problems

microsoft execs: oh so you're gonna screen to make sure you have the most mathematically and logically minded people and not screen things like ethics and critical thinking

engineers: oh hm when you put it that way maybe this is a bad idea, especially if the whole industry does this. we can-

execs: no no this is great. start doing the puzzles

#tech #programming #jobs #careers #coding #microsoft #hell

[nickshutter]

You know what? Yeah, I'll start calling it "X." It's not "Twitter" anymore. People will be like "that's stupid" and I will be like "yeah, yeah it is, isn't it?"

#tech hell

[vizreef]

Pye PTC8007 // VHF Radio Telephone (UK, 1955)

#vintage radio #50s aesthetic #tech #calling all cars #hell yeah khaki green and baby blue and red

[toadslug]

Back from watching the new episodes and I am SCARED and AFRAID.

More Tech in my goofy ass style because I'm trying to manifest something here 🙏🙏🙏 (Also his helmet is just fun to draw)

#i can't move on i'm sorry #and project necromancer????? #aw hell nah #the bad batch #tbb #star wars #tech tbb #tech the bad batch #digital art #art #my art #fanart #illustration #digital illustration #tbb tech #tech star wars #star wars fanart

[cupophrogs]

I'm running backwards up a halfpipe/pos

Welcome to the game, Daneilla (Danny)Darling! I’m still working on her main-world design, so her Space Riders fit is all I have for now. I’m almost done though! I think y’all will like her!

Anyways, Danny is a young Aerospace Welder and Engineer, and lives on the Intergalactic Emergency Sub-Station: a company, and space station dedicated to preserving life and safe travel through the cosmos. When she’s not traveling with other crews as an on-call engineer for dangerous voyages, Danny is dispatched across worlds to complete maintenance checkups on passing ships and other space stations.

Personally, Danny is a flexible, relaxed young woman with a steady hand and a quick mind. She loves her job, and she’s not working or napping, she enjoys dancing and debating silly questions like weather there are more wheels or doors in the world (she will always say wheels). She isn’t put on the front lines often, considering her lack of supernatural abilities, but her cunning and resourcefulness always keeps her opponents guessing. Her favorite drink is Horchata!

(Space Riders au belongs to @onyxonline)

Alt ref and close ups!

#I love my badass donkey girl <33 #okay but can we talk about cold welding? That shit is fascinating #“Cold welding requires the removal of oxidation from two similar metals and apply sufficient force to bond the parts to each other by” #“EXCHANGING ELECTRONS” #(Mac-Tech inc. 1) #LIKE WHAT #you literally fuse atoms together #and Daneilla chills outside of space stations and does that shit for a job #and she looks cute as hell doing it 💅 #as she fucking should #she absolutely has put a cold-welder to someone's eye socket in a fight #phrart #art #space riders au #poppy playtime oc #poppy playtime #Danny Darling #She specializes in Flamenco! #I'm almost done with her normal ref and oml she's so sad #holding her so gently #character design #she’s so cutie