Post Am7CULserwZaSOS2ca by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #Am7Bn0CvZbckmrGH1k by DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social
2024-09-17T20:59:03Z
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Trump: When I win, the people who tried to defeat me are going to prisonhttps://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/09/trump-when-i-win-the-people-who-tried-to-defeat-me-are-going-to-prison#DangerousDonald #DonaldArlingtonTrump #GOPWeirdos #TrumpWillLose2024 #TrumpIsUnwell #Project2025 #KevinRoberts #HeritageFoundation #NoRepublicansEverAgain #FuckFascists #VoteBlue #USPol #DonaldTrump
(DIR) Post #Am7Bn0wIqtv73aUVkm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-18T03:18:35Z
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@DemocracyMattersALot I'm deeply distracted by the painting. It's like Socialist Realism but all of the things I like least about the genre and none of the fun stuff. The saccharine themes, that feeling of being manipulated by having your heart strings jerked... and then nothing is aerodynamic or flying into the sky ... It's just... A Lesson and An Obvious Message. Is this what will hang on all the walls in a Trumpian future?
(DIR) Post #Am7COIRkivEU4Lyl7Y by CStamp@mastodon.social
2024-09-18T03:25:16Z
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@futurebird @DemocracyMattersALot I don't understand what they're doing. Is this AI? Spanky is too thin, it looks like they made his hands bigger than they are proportionally, there's a Black man in a wheelchair next to him, so he's all benevolent? And that looks like Mike Pence standing next to him.
(DIR) Post #Am7CT3mseaPu3J8IVc by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2024-09-18T03:26:11Z
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@futurebird @DemocracyMattersALot it's a very specific Jehova Witness / Mormon hyperrealism. this is the kind of stuff that's all over Atalaya magazines (Watchtower in English). when the Catholic Church dabbled in abstractish art for their bibles and catechism books after Vatican II, American christofascists lost their minds and went hard on hyperrealism… that always makes BIPOC look like white people with a tan. i have no doubt all the gringo AI projects got seeded with their crap.
(DIR) Post #Am7CULserwZaSOS2ca by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-18T03:26:17Z
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@CStamp @DemocracyMattersALot I think this is real, I've seen the artists work before. It's generally uncanny.
(DIR) Post #Am7CYVAyFcvURbznLU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-18T03:27:15Z
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@blogdiva @DemocracyMattersALot "that always makes BIPOC look like white people with a tan"Ugh. That too.
(DIR) Post #Am7CzXFAfg8Ufyqoa0 by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2024-09-18T03:32:02Z
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@futurebird @DemocracyMattersALot right?!?!? two of my childhood friends were JW and it always squeaked me out that those magazines had the whitest people in the universe… even the Black & Native/Indigenous people.and i couldn't articulate why AI art, esp. the Midjourney one, creeps me the fuck out. it's not the uncanny valley. it's the memory of those evangelical magazines. LDS & JW have huge investment funds. wouldn't put it past them they're behind OpenAI or Midjourney
(DIR) Post #Am7DM63rttM923K2gy by jack@social.jacklinke.com
2024-09-18T03:36:08Z
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@futurebird @DemocracyMattersALot There are also around 30 men, and only 4 or 5 women in the painting.I mean, I guess he knows his audience 🤢
(DIR) Post #Am7pM6oEursJbsRdqa by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-09-18T10:41:57Z
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@futurebird @DemocracyMattersALot it bothers the hell out of me that I read a ton about the painter back in 2015 and 2016, but now I can't even remember the name.
(DIR) Post #Am7qFQdAvD4R0peEnw by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2024-09-18T10:51:52Z
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@futurebird @DemocracyMattersALot The case that fascinates me is Norman Rockwell: people assume he was a right-winger because he hits all the same saccharine/nostalgic/didactic notes, but he was an FDR liberal and ferociously pro-civil-rights.He was a better artist than McNaughton though.