Sound familiar?
That same siren song of laborsaving technology echoed throughout the twentieth century, with vacuums and dishwashers and personal computers and 5G networks and on and on and on.
Yet the average number of hours worked (both waged work and housework) hasn’t budged.
The present-day fiction of so-called AI is the same story, second verse.
The people urging AI on us won’t save labor; they will try to degrade that labor, to further alienate us from it, to demand that we work as long and hard and hopelessly as ever.
Unless we refuse.
— @aworkinglibrary, Laborsaving
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/laborsaving
#AI #Humanity #Life
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112703268806446880
#ai, #humanity, #life
People spend too much time on the last 24 hours and not enough time on the last 6,000 years.
— Will Durant
via the #FarnamStreet newsletter, https://fs.blog/brain-food/may-19-2024/
#Life #History #LifeLessons
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112467327590321757
#FarnamStreet, #life, #history, #lifelessons
Public performance eats art.
True.
Fame doesn’t rub off.
Also True.
Fame doesn’t always pay the bills.
Too True.
This industry doesn’t owe you a living, and it doesn’t pay you to dwell on the past.
Very True.
Most of the people in this industry are garage bands wondering why they’re not the Rolling Stones.
So Very Very True.
Don’t get into comics to get rich. Don’t get into comics for fame. Don’t get into comics for any reason except to make comics.
Fame and money are never a guarantee in the arts, no matter who you are or what you create.
Making your comic is about the truth of your love for the art.
Not about fame. Not about money.
If the audience comes, then yay.
If the audience doesn’t come, you made a comic.
And that’s the hard truth that makes you stronger.
— Colleen Doran, These Things Are True
https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/these-things-are-true
#Art #Career #Life #ColleenDoran
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112375317207965215
#art, #career, #life, #colleendoran
Make Bad Things
https://janusworx.com/blog/make-bad-things/
#100WordHabit #Art #Life
Original: https://amandaswork.tumblr.com/post/731449232798760961/sadbuddies-pssssst-stickers-available-now
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112273617721766940
#100WordHabit, #art, #life
Suits think EVERYONE is a spark plug. They don’t have a clue why this guy they paid to draw Batman didn’t wake up one day and become Frank Miller. They can’t tell the difference between Frank Miller and another creator.
They think it’s luck. A trick.
There is craft and then there is creation.
And the suits don’t know what that is.
Suits, of course, love AI art.
Processed cheese pictures made up of the real pictures made by real human beings, easily replaced on the cheap.
Like spark plugs.
— @ColleenDoran
https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/artists-sell-themselves-so-cheap
#Art #Creation #Life
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112074656810190095
#art, #creation, #life
Ursula Vernon on Unrealistic Expectations and Eating Bread
https://janusworx.com/blog/ursula-vernon-on-unrealistic-expectations/
#UrsulaVernon #Art #Life #100WordHabit #mjbWrites
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112043147093848451
#UrsulaVernon, #art, #life, #100WordHabit, #mjbwrites
Cal Newport’s Minimalist Note Taking System
https://janusworx.com/blog/note-to-self-cal-newports-minimal-notes-system/
#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Reading #Books #Syntopica #Productivity #CalNewport #Life #NoteTaking #BookNotes
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112026068067140361
#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #reading, #books, #syntopica, #productivity, #calnewport, #life, #notetaking, #booknotes
The world has told you lies about how small you are.
— Heather Havrilesky
https://www.tumblr.com/mythologyofblue/679127486490099712/the-world-has-told-you-lies-about-how-small-you
#Quote #mjbQuote #Life #Strength #Resilience
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111412455353213238
#quote, #mjbquote, #life, #strength, #resilience
I have no words to offer which may comfort the reader who is also a castaway, except that rescue may come at any time but not necessarily when you expect it;
and that even if you give up hope, you must never give up trying, for, as the result of your efforts, hope may well return and with justification
— Dougal Robertson, Sea Survival
via @mariapopova
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/02/28/sea-survival-dougal-robertson/
#Life #Hope #Desperation #mjbDoTheWork #Resilience #AntiFragile
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111378013882569363
#life, #hope, #desperation, #mjbdothework, #resilience, #antifragile
Theoretical research in the sciences is the unfallen version of Fuck Around and Find Out. 😀
— Diane Duane
https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/733143720787132416/theoretical-research-in-the-sciences-is-the
#Science #Art #Life #Tinkering #Exploring #MakeMistakes
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111362249469987959
#science, #art, #life, #tinkering, #exploring, #MakeMistakes