Spartanburger

@spartanburger.bsky.social

Multi-disciplinary artist | 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 | 33 | he/him | mostly sfw | always open for a chat Fair warning: I have no idea what I am doing. https://linktr.ee/thespartanburger

HEY YOU! Yeah! YOU, SPECIFICALLY. This is your permission-NO! Your MANDATE! Draw the thing. You know the thing. The thing you're waiting to do until you're "good enough" Fuck the waiting, you're good enough now. DO THE THING! Because I said so, damnit

YESSS this has been true for decades and has been decried by techies and netizens since the beginning. Algos are now so ingrained is our everyday lives that we atrophised our ability to search and discover for stuff, not to talk about developinf taste. IMHO this is also part of genAI's rise.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 5d ago

As Leek puts it: "Once prediction shapes the choices in front of us, we lose the ability to tell the difference between what people wanted and what the system made easy to want." 14/