Creature of the Black Lovegoon

Florida Man(atee).

Oh definitely. But setting up local solutions requires enough time, effort, know-how, and hardware that’s getting more expensive by the minute, meaning that a lot of regular Joe & Jane Blows who got used to free ad-supported options or cheap pay-to-play services might drop out of the game.

Of course, anyone sufficiently motivated to generate images/video at scale is already building out their infrastructure regardless of cost since, presumably, they are going to be state-actors or mercenary influence operations.

I wonder where it would leave the millions of Facebook/Twitter social media engagement-farmers, once their marginal costs start to skyrocket.

The genie is out of the bottle, but at some point, LLM/image-gen providers are going to have to raise prices for their services. While this won’t do anything to stop self-hosters, it might cut down on the number of casual users just a tiny bit. At least I hope it will!

She’s not reluctant to break up with boyfriend, she’s reluctant to break up with a meth connection.

The court granted him 33% custody of the resulting man.

Thanks for the link! Love the art, but I’ve got to admit the story sounds real depressing. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that!)

fr, the KGB used to grab people off the street in less than 30 seconds while wearing suits and ties. Get together, ICE! You are an embarrassment to thugs everywhere!

“I are you certain of that?”

“Pretty sure.”

“YOU’VE JUST TRIGGERED MY TRAP CARD!”

Swolbraham Lincoln.

Or we live in a fully deterministic universe and I’m being flung through it against my will.

I love starting projects!

At this point, twitter fights are slime-on-slime violence.

It’s okay, the season 6 drapes were actually “plum” instead of purple! We don’t have to cancel the Simpsons now!

Oof, yeah–

Not until we’re married, anyway.

🎵Big Iron,
Big Iron,
Big Iiiiiiron,
Big Bad Iron 🎵

“DON’T MIND IF I DO!”

(electrocution noises)

Ew, we know that hand’s been 🤮