Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org
- Closetspace
- http://dolari.net/cs
- A Wish for Wings
- http://dolari.net/awfw
- The Dolari Library
- http://dolari.net
- Everything Else
- https://linktr.ee/dolari
Artist for Closetspace and A Wish for Wings
Creative Text Writer for MTG: Universes Beyond
Writer for Sea of Legends
One enchilada short of a Mexican Platter
Joined Dec 2022
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If you meet a MAGA influencer, be sure to treat them gently — they have defended Putin for free for two and a half years, and they just found out, others got paid 10 million for doing that.
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what was i assigned at birth? unrealistic expectations
I want to know why an itch I scratch on my foot causes a corresponding itch in my shoulder blade.
Woke up early today and took a trip up to Bellingham to meet up with @Aminorjourney . Nikki is the voice of Carrie in the Closetspace comics, and author of all her music, and because of that, a dear friend I would do most anything for.
Also got to meet the entire @show crew and a had grocery store lunch with them and caught up for an hour. It was good to see Nikki, @amerikate and @pyoor and meet the names I've heard over the years. :)
I'm sad we didn't have much more time, but they were on a work trip, and a schedule, and time was short. I gave her some signed prints and a sketch I did last night just for her.
I need to see them more often.
I took a little time getting back home, enjoying the summer and because I rarely roadtrip these days to save money. Ended up booking it back home to make physical therapy in time, then got groceries than came home and napped for an hour in the Air Condiitioned office.
Safe travels, TE. Have fun up there. :)
Jenn Dolari
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150 miles, physical therapy, and groceries later, and I'm exhausted. ::collapses::
Ooooh, this looks like a good recipe. One serving, but I can scale that up if necessary. Just calculate this nutritional information and...YIKES.
I've been unemployed for about a year and a half. I don't doubt that I've put in a couple of hundred job applications. I've gotten five interviews and a LOT of spam from places I've applied.
I sometimes wonder if this just isn't a way to get email addresses to feed marketing.
To Ice Cream, or Not To Ice Cream....
I haven't made Teaberry Ice Cream this season. So I'm leaning Ice Cream....
James Darren
1936-2024
Of all the loveable characters to come out of Star Trek, a 1960 Las Vegas lounge singer was not what I expected. And he was GREAT.
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As a teenager in Neustrelitz (East Germany), I painted small stones purple and left them all over town. Did it for years. It drove the police and Stasi nuts. It meant nothing. It just felt good to do something they couldn't control or understand.
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Jenn Dolari
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Google Maps: Now with more Squamish than any other map!
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Ted Chiang as eloquent as ever:
"The selling point of generative A.I. is that these programs generate vastly more than you put into them, and that is precisely what prevents them from being effective tools for artists.
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Many novelists have had the experience of being approached by someone convinced that they have a great idea for a novel, which they are willing to share in exchange for a fifty-fifty split of the proceeds. Such a person inadvertently reveals that they think formulating sentences is a nuisance rather than a fundamental part of storytelling in prose. Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium. But the creators of traditional novels, paintings, and films are drawn to those art forms because they see the unique expressive potential that each medium affords. It is their eagerness to take full advantage of those potentialities that makes their work satisfying, whether as entertainment or as art.
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The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world."
Read the whole essay. It's brilliant. #ai
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art
- Closetspace
- http://dolari.net/cs
- A Wish for Wings
- http://dolari.net/awfw
- The Dolari Library
- http://dolari.net
- Everything Else
- https://linktr.ee/dolari
Artist for Closetspace and A Wish for Wings
Creative Text Writer for MTG: Universes Beyond
Writer for Sea of Legends
One enchilada short of a Mexican Platter
Joined Dec 2022
