Spiff

@spiff.bsky.social

| Boston | | Portrait Photographer 📸 | | Bi/Queer AF | | He/Him |

Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

linear TV was genuinely addictive because of the inability to watch what you want. Inconsistent but paced-out rewards the same as a skinner box. You got a big jackpot dopamine bonanza when your favorite Simpsons episode was randomly on syndication that day or came across an MST3k marathon

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

Not being a writer it’s been a special kind of tough spending the past few days writing up close to 40 blog posts about my photos.

Going to a townie breakfast place and seeing the people there really does remind me I’m living and operating in an entirely different world.