LainTrain

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eh who cares where it's from. Once it's on the internet it's everyone's.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Depends on the medium. Honestly it's a much harder question than naming my favourite artists, but in film, I'd say Christopher Nolan's style of directing is something I just find abrasive, and the problem is I like his movies conceptually, especially considering that he's worthy of respect as a filmmaker right now at the very least for not just pumping out corpo slop.

But his films always have this air of "posh energy", even the infamously bad audio mix is a creative decision done in part to mix only for the biggest and best sound systems to provide what equates to big bombastic high budget rollercoaster rides, but I don't think it makes better films.

So with that I'd say he's my least favourite contemporary filmmaker.

Though If uninteresting answers are allowed, I'd say Zack Snyder for his general taste or J.J. Abrams for his storytelling style (as a fan of the og clovefield arg project). If we also allow something like a film producer who's not really an artist per se, then I'd say Alex Kurtzman & co genuinely robbed us of a chance for a positive future sci-fi when I think the world could use a bit of that.

To counterbalance that as a science-fiction enjoyer I love Ronald D. Moore's writing. I loved his episodes throughout Star Trek TNG and DS9, I loved a lot of his BSG reboot (though I've never seen the original) and I really really love what he's done with his new show For All Mankind which started as something I kinda liked but has grown on me so much I might honestly like it more than Star Trek at this point.

In music, it's hard to say as well, most artists I dislike I would not necessarily call artists, like Taylor Swift's music producers are artists who clearly know how to make a banger, a skill like any other, but she herself is just a singer, more performer than artist who's image and brand basically requires a degree of blandness that almost makes me miss 2000s era of pop performers.

But if that counts I guess that would be it, but it's not specifically her either, just the entire slop factory of pop music with it's chords by committee style of music-making. In a way I'm thankful for Spotify essentially making everyone develop their own hyper niche taste with artists that in real life around them only they know, that's all as it should be, let the bland mass appeal stuff die a slow death.

Once again, to counterbalance, if I had to think of a favourite in the past decade who people also might know, it'd be Nedarb, his production really underlines what the late 2010s Hip-Hop sounds like to me (post Bones and the cloud rap era ofc), though there's also Tyler with Flower Boy and IGOR and LUM and for something more obscure - Sweet Valley, who all also made the latter half of the last decade just a bit nicer for me. And for the first half I loved the lofi "blog rock" bands that came out of that era, lately listening to Skeggs a lot especially.

And for a total wildcard of performance art nothing makes me think contemporary like Jreg. It feels like no one really talks about him (hope I'm not ruining a joke here), but a ton of people are at least vaguely familiar with him even just really-not-very-online normal folks i've met off dating apps and in fact both of the people I last dated both knew and watched Jreg, which isn't that much but it's weird it happened twice.

-- ChatGPT. Jk.

EDIT: Oh shit! I forgot about probably the most relevant example of my favourite contemporary artist - Tomáš Rodr of analognowhere.com and unix_surrealism fame on Mastodon and Lemmy. Guy's comics and illustrations are just so damn stylish, and it just speaks to me on a deeply spiritual level, though he definitely hates AI stuff, at least I think so.

As someone who's into tech and is often called a techbro (a word that once meant someone like Musk or some brogrammer money chaser, but now means nerd/geek), but actually resents the corporate enshittification and commodification of technology, I love his stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Meh, they're really just way more polite about it. Both have the same policy of banning gender affirming care for trans folks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

You do not need friends to attend seminars no. In first world civilized countries most people snicker behind your back and behind closed doors but they will not actively do anything to break the peace.

Normies will ostracize you for everything that does not fall within extremely rigid highly defined bounds of acceptable, it does not matter if you are nice or not, once you have become the subject of jokes it's all it'll ever be. I've been on both sides of this equation.

I am neurodivergent and LGBT and I have learned the hard way there is no fitting in with normal people and even if you did - there is no trusting them, it's best to not concern yourself with them and simply carry on with your work. If you feel like you must have social connections it's best to find people who are similar.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"They don't even know I use Links2"

"We know. I literally use 9Front."

"w3m is better"

"Emacs is all you need"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wanted to work for NASA one day. I realized I was a dumb motherfucker, could barely pass HS maths, so now I'm a cybersec drone.

But my job is extremely chill WFH, so i get to explore my other interests so much more. It was never meant to be, that's okay.

Now I just want to get good at something and use that to do stuff that I can be proud of, that I can show to other people and they can be impressed by.

I feel like all my life people just do things so much more easily than what comes to me and I don't have any talent, so that doesn't help, I don't want to be some schmuck that just watches TV or scrolls social media poisoning herself with alcohol all her life.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Be glad you're not in the UK. Here all major parties are worse than US Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's def something to be said by just how alien the cishet dynamic is to me for example.

I have no concerns regarding children, no concerns regarding gender or power, I'm in a transbian relationship with another trans woman, we don't have to work very hard to be equal in terms of societal sex dynamics.

It's not all like we're super enlightened Buddhist monks or something, we fight and get pissed and get upset, but man, that kind of discomfort and disconnect and almost a quiet rage I feel that cishet men and women have towards each other because of the broader state of societal relations between the groups just isn't something that plays into it for me.

I suppose while being queer is generally more a curse practically in most of the world, this sort of freedom is some reward for surviving through it. I'm grateful to my past self for powering through all the threats of violence and suffering, through being disowned and everything and tell her that living will be worth it one day, and that everything will be alright.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

you couldn't recommend medicine to other people for self-medication. Everybody's different, and responds to medication differently.

Did you watch the video? The guy explained pretty well that he acquired the very same medication he is already prescribed. He was fairly balanced in the fact that he's not suggesting it's risk-free and neither am I. For me - the risks were 100% worth it, and I want others to be educated enough about the realities of it to make the decision for themselves.

Nevertheless I recommended myself the medication prior to diagnosis and was basically prescribed the same stuff when I was eventually diagnosed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

OpenAI is the corpo is the very antithesis of "open".

Actual Open-weight FOSS AI models ala Stable Diffusion or LocalLLaMa/Mistral are definitely a good thing for everyone one though for sure.

Corposhit is always evil.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So you want to make a frontend for emulators like emulationstation?

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