i know everything is structured around this 9 to 5 capitalist hellscape “business hours blah blah blah” but that’s kinda my point. so many people can’t go places because they themselves are working during the only hours businesses are open. they’re forced to go within right before they go to work and can only visit for maybe 15 minutes, or the opposite, and be forced to visit 15 minutes before closing.
yes, this is about banks. but it’s also about grocery stores and aquariums and clothing stores and public libraries and theaters and museums and toy stores and just all of it.
for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the "question only a human can answer" which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet.
luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.
if you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?
Bruce: Will you watch when the sun swallows the earth?
Clark: Bruce, that's in five billion years
Bruce: ...
Clark: No
Bruce: I would
Clark: Morbid Bruce.
Bruce: I understand why you wouldn't-
Clark: I wouldn't becuase I won't let it happen.
Bruce: It's physics Clark, you can't stop it.
Clark: I can.
Bruce: How? You're going to feed it more hydrogen?
Clark: Sure, why not. I am a farmer's son.
I need a break from the fullbodies, so the weekend headshots are back! 10 slots available, $25 each. They will be drawn live on stream this Saturday and Sunday (each day starting around 2 p.m, GMT + 01:00) Claim a slot via this form: https://forms.gle/rgVTbdch6KaDiCH49
hey, i hate to do this, but my rent is due in 2 days and the commission i was absolutely relying on didn't happen, so if you like my fanart, I'm opening for a few custom commission slots!
i can draw humans, furries and monsters no problem. you can find my TOS/all the rest of my commission options here, but for now i'm opening for these two types:
COLORED SKETCHES (FULLBODY): $150 USD ($75 per added character)
CLEAN PAINTINGS (FULLBODY): $250 ($125 per added character)
(and if you prefer, you can elect to have either of those finished in a pixel style for no extra charge!)
please consider buying something if you're able, even one colored sketch would mean i get to keep a roof over my head this month!