Should AI generated pictures be considered art?
AI generated images are not “Art”. They can be beautiful, even transcendent, but that doesn’t make them art any more than stepping in paint makes my cat the next Picasso.
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No Billionaires: How to solve the billionaire issue – Pt. 1
I have wanted to make a website for a while now promoting the idea that billionaires should not exist. Capitalism is a deeply flawed system and billionaires are the by-product of that system. There should be a limit upon how much wealth an individual person can accumulate. And that as …
Antiwork – part 2
For me, that equation and the breaking point was reading “Your money or your life“. I had a good job. I was well paid, I liked my colleagues, and really had no reason to complain. But I was also terribly unhappy. I had anxiety about going work everyday, frequently hoping …
Thoughts on corporations
I wrote this ages ago, but for whatever reason I never I published it, it seems half finished but reading it I think it is still valid. _____________________________________________________ I have been thinking a lot about corporations lately. I went to an Accenture Christmas party at the ROM on the weekend …
Rick Mercer unloads on Timmies
So this image is us currently at the top of Reddit Canada, posted by /u/JeffLaRue. And I cannot help but laugh at how easily Canadians get played by their media. This entire post is nonsense. Do you really think Rick Mercer gives a shit about minimum wage workers? The Liberal …
Cycling’s image is tarnished enough
Pinarello shat the bed this week with their ad suggesting women should buy electric bikes to “keep up with their boyfriends”. Now to be honest this is a bit of a logical leap, what Pinarello posted was: Nytro aims at a wide target from one that has no time to …
Cycling’s image is tarnished enough
Pinarello shat the bed this week with their ad suggesting women should buy electric bikes to “keep up with their boyfriends”. Now to be honest this is a bit of a logical leap, what Pinarello posted was: Nytro aims at a wide target from one that has no time to …
Top Posts of 2016
I like to look back at what I have written over the past 12 months and look at the data coming out of Google Analytics. What is interesting is the top posts are not from this year. It’s older content that is getting searched. And then I was 40… And …
Salary caps for corporations
So I was bouncing this idea around in my head for awhile. Originally I was thinking of a maximum salary. Like if we said you can only have a maximum income of $1M and every dollar after that gets taxed at 90% or something. But when I watched this video, …
Who are you wearing?
So I had this shower thought last night about the Oscars. I don’t normally think about the Oscars, I don’t really care. This year the hot button issue was race and the lack of people of colour amoung the nominees. I think it’s an important issue to raise and perfectly …