Not bad, will have a white christmas with snow in forecast (altho its been warm here too and it may just rain insread)

I took a pet sitting gig, mostly alone in the woods at an anarchist-esque community space with a dog and cat in a cabin without electricity or water for 9 days.

I kind of prefer this, my mental health is way better than it usually is this time of year. I dont do christmas well.

Its astroturfed— fake grass.

Jungles are complete, holistic ecosystems of abundance, which provide food and sustenance for every living being that contributes to it?

“Behold a Human” 🐔 haha

Diogenes takes aside,

would this be art? Is this artistry? Has deepseek become an artist? Why so? Why not?

would this be art? art is a creative expression intentionally articulated in form. The process can be intentional or not, defining the form determines the art.

So by that definition, art is determined by an artist.

has deepseek become an artist in the sense that it may define processes it creates, co-creates or incidentally finds, yes. in the sense that it may not know what art is unless prompted to do so, no. The prompter is the artist. If it has full automony on deciding its own prompts for art, then by the definition i use, we have to ask whether these prompts are articulated expression induced to produce form. so, maybe? If an LLM can articulate and express.

why so or why not is expression articulated? can an LLM express, or is it recursive and memetic? Does it articulate? Can it express? In the manner of putting forth words, action and meaning, yes, it can express. Can it express feeling? If programmed to, in memetic form (derivative of what appears to be feeling and emotion, or programmed to convey qualities that indicate emotion). This means LLM can convey expression as words and intent, but not as feelings and emotion.

Since LLMs cannot express emotionality, they cannot invoke emotion in art. Does an artist need emotion to create? Not necessarily. But a human is an emotional being, they necessarily invoke emotion, even incidentally, into their art.

Therefore, I draw a distinction of AI artists being emotionally unable to express art, and non-AI artists (including non-humans, such as a crow, dog or horse) as emotionally able to express. This can be simplified to emotional art and non-emotional art. Regardless, it’s not art until it’s intentionally determined as art by an artist. Which both humans and LLMs can do. And, a non-emotional art piece can still convey emotion in any viewer capable of emotion. So there is emotional legitimacy in non-emotional art.

Literally buying out every media firm to turn into a panopticon. The bitter irony is that the reactionary unconsciousness of the US-liberal base is inclined and encouraged to spy on each other through a private surveillance arms race. From Ring cameras, smart devices and Amazon Neighborhood, in absence of justice, in dystopic despair, we see more and more mistrust and paranoia.

Oh gosh what a contentious discussion. I used to be anti AI and am still reluctant about it. But for reasons i admit that are not practical. And when it comes to practability… art has always been both practical, and ideal. The first cave paintings are of practical use, they serve as guideposts and acts of communication. However, their depiction— of humans playing, dancing with animals— are ideal. They set intentions to reverence, even though the practical reality of humans and animals is predator and prey. They give a moment of awe and imagining to other possibilities. Worship is implored, and through this culture an interconnection cosmology forms… humans arent just predator, they are receiever/giver. This translates to practical understanding of cycles and relationships both important and integral to hunter-gatherers.

At a more personal level, I recently had a partial finger amputation. I’m a musician of 30 years. You can imagine my grief. I felt ruined, that my art could never be seen again. Yet now i have even more drive as an artist. I use electronic instruments and incidental sounds which perform themselves. I do the orchestration, composition and conducting. I, having an ideal objective, am letting go of my decades of training as mandatory for that practical expression.

Maybe I can never play music the way i could ever again. But I am still an artist and still I express. Whether its ability or accessibility aids, an artist articulates the material as expression in form. A brush stroke or stable diffusion are tools, just as a violin or algorithmic synth program are tools, to express their ideals in practical, material ways.

horrified, but not surprised. Palantir developed their surveillance tech for the IDF, and is now being used in the USA.

How sweet. and it can be sad too. I love pigeons, I wish I could raise some but we have a lot of hawks in my town, and besides my landlord would not accept it unfortunately. thank you for sharing!

Look at how countries like USA treat their homeless— people displaced from housing and denied a gainful living. The worse scenario is already happening to them. Nevermind Gazans being killed to turn the whole strip into a resort for these presumed philanthropists

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I agree with Greatsquare about elevation, infrequent strength exercises, and icing. Ice is good to “power through” pain and reduce the swelling, but the swelling is there for a reason, your body is pumping blood into an injury to help heal.

Heat is what i prefer, as it dilates blood vessels and improves circulation, which is what your body is already trying to do. The pain may be more but this is only for when you are in treatment (and to prepare for PT/stretch/strength, as you will be warmed up and more limber)

And when you are resting your foot and leg, especially while sleeping, its good to put medicine on. I make a compress (a bandage holding medicine) of camphor oil (of tiger balm, or chinese white flower oil) and epsom salts, whipped into a paste with hot water. The camphor promotes circulation and the epsom salts help with tissue repair. If you can spread this over your heels, and wrap a bandage for it to sit overnight, it has always helped me tremendously.

You can also try drinking comfrey tea which helps with tissue repair but its a strong medicine and depends on the individual

Also… stretching and strength/flex exercises. You want to do for stretching what feels deep but not painful. This can be tricky at first… basically if your joints pop or strain its too far. It gets easier with consistency.

Try yoga… alignment is super important. But the standard sun salutations will be painful to do in full motion with your injury, so only reach as far as feels just slightly uncomfortable. Your body will loosen over time. Even if your injury and stroke is on one side, its good to do mirror exercises on the uninjured side for alignment, core strength, and balance.

I hope you find this information helpful, comrade! Feel free to ask any clarifying questions.

Are you open to advice, comrade? Ive had to deal with injuries all my life from work and being in isolation, housing insecure, malnourishment, and reinjuring myself because of all these complicated stresses. In the past ive healed sciatica and achilles tendonitis (in both feet … at the same time…) as well as a serious ankle sprain last March.

I am 42 and i havent experienced all you have. And i dont have issues from secondary physical or nervous system conditions when i can heal physical injuries (except mental health). And all my experience is anecdotal of course. But maybe it would be helpful 🙏🏻

The West encourages the dysfunction and malignancy of so called disorders. Ive heard it said and I agree that in general CEOs and other executives lean sociopathic, if not psychopathic, because the asocial characteristics of this behavior are emphasized encouraged and awarded in those spaces. Whereas a socio/psychopath without power is liable to take out the asocial conditioning of capitalism on their own communities.

It really feels that way. Did you see that they have designed intact vegetable/mushroom eco systems for deep sea and arctic ships, too?? Absolutely incredible

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“Those who demand freedom and democracy in the abstract regard democracy as an end and not as a means. Democracy as such sometimes seems to be an end, but it is in fact only a means.”

This is an important distinction. Democracy in the West suggests abstract means and is virtually aesthetic. If we have democracy for democracy’s sake, we have won, apparently, and apparently too, all contradictions can be resolved by “democracy”. I can see how abstract democratism can ignore the economic base, which brings a contradiction between the electorate and elected, who the electorate, in a position of class antagonism, cynically deploy the abstract, absolutist fetishization of democracy by giving the masses hopium in speech and presence yet in action do everything for their class interests and collaborators.

yes

I’m starting to read Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant, which goes into how sometimes what we desire are obstacles against our own success. The American Dream is an example, which is unobtainable to most, but nonetheless they try, and end up in a constant state of crisis while trying to achieve it. Also Berlant argues in this process people don’t attach to ideological underpinnings as much as they attach to the emotional quality of these desires and the relationships we form around them. And also, when our fantasies erode and fail around us and we don’t see an alternative, this is a turning point to overcome. So far it’s a dense read, i’m almost done with chapter 1, but I may have taken on too much!

no relation to Victor Jara, but “El Derecho Vivir en Paz” is still going through my head.

How does the world “grow” with US money printing schemes and sanctions? What world is this?