Happy New Year!!! IWNDWYT, have a wonderful evening and a great 2026 you lot 🥳

I genuinely hate Generative AI and agree with also disliking everything that you mentioned too. I was just sick of hearing myself whinge about how much I hate these things lol, it was sort of just a joke for myself really.

The way it generated “See that ~/ at the end? That’s your entire home directory.” is so funny. It’s like a threat 😂

So you say it’s irrelevant who saved who, in a conversation directly related to somebody stopping a shooter, then sarcastically call Islam a religion of peace when saying the shooters were Muslim “yet again”, then accuse me of banning people which I don’t do? What are you on about? You need to get your head checked mate.

Too cowardly to just openly say what you’re trying to imply? You’re already very openly bigoted, just explain the contradiction you’re trying to point to. Say it plainly, and without trying to weasel around it.

Explain the contradiction.

Dickhead.

I was just making a joke about how common school shootings tragically are ✌️

Isn’t that just graduating?

If somebody said “laughs are on them”, you’re telling me you simply can’t understand what the sentiment that person is trying to get across is?

Of course not; you clearly know what the phrase would be for native English speakers - well done - but I just don’t find much value in nitpicking easily ignored syntax or grammar issues honestly.

Is that the lesson? What do you mean “at least get yours in”?

Do you reckon they might have been trying to spell another word? Gosh, but what word could it possibly be?? If only we could have ANY clues at all!!!

OP probably got this idea from AI cos their brain don’t work too good

Please preemptively ban me from your spam communities!

What’s mald?

I’m failing to connect the punchline here really. Charlie Kirk was shot, so I get that. He was white, so I guess I get that bit. But… mulled wine? A white mulled wine? Is there a pun I’m not getting? And with a shot? I must be missing something really obvious but at the moment I feel as though this joke has two almost-punchlines but just sort of doesn’t quite get there.

Please go and hang out with your little chatbot friends, and leave us humans alone. Thanks 👍

Bad news; John (the photographer) wasn’t involved in choosing images for projection, so he reached out to the art director, but the art director doesn’t remember. He thinks he found them in an old book, but can’t remember which book specifically. A tragic end to our search, for now 🥀

But, in brighter news, John was happy to hear that the album is still being talked about!

I was responding to your comment about consumers not being able to tell if Generative AI has been used. I can’t tell the difference between battery farmed eggs and free range ones, but I still avoid eggs that aren’t free range. That doesn’t seem like I’ve lost track of the point, to me.

I then expanded what I was saying, by explaining that I don’t agree with battery farming, which is why I avoid eggs produced that way, despite not being able to actually tell if an egg is free range or battery farmed. This relates to the point about Generative AI use because I also don’t agree with using Generative AI in art and media, and might or might not be able to tell if it’s used.

To respond to your latest comment about my actions and beliefs being irrelevant because my not supporting something I disagree with won’t stop it happening; you’re right. Hens are still battery farmed. As much as I wish it wouldn’t happen, it does. Does that make me sticking by my own morals and feelings futile or irrelevant? I don’t think so.

As for the objections I have with Generative AI, there are a few: I think it’s inauthentic. I want to experience art that was made with intention. I want to see what people are capable of making, and how people tell stories. We’re a storytelling species, I think it’s really important for us. I feel like I’ve been lied to when art is generated by an unthinking machine and then presented as though it was made by a human.

For me, art is a connection between me and the artist. If somebody writes a sad song, and plays it, then I get to experience and understand their feelings in that moment. It’s a communication. I feel something, and they’ve given that to me. If a chatbot did it… Well nobody communicated anything. It’s a lie. It basically catfished my emotions.

There are other objections, too; the plagiarism of actual human work without recompense. The fact that these chatbots are making people mentally unstable, the fact that these chatbots only exist to enrich the already wealthy. The fact that all of this is being sold to us as some way to remove effort from our lives, even the fun parts of our lives. I think effort and hard work are their own reward a lot of the time, and I hate to see laziness championed because it leads to uninteresting and lame shit.

Sorry, that was a long one, and I’ll cut it off here before it gets any longer 😂

Oh goodie, the insurers are fully engaged! I’m sure they will help clear the quickly rotting food off the beach just as much as the volunteers who are physically there doing actual work.

God I hate pencil-pusher culture, it’s so weird 😂

Thanks for the quote! I realise I replied snarkily - I’m not mad at you of course, just at the quote