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Sep 22Liked by Kyle T Webster

A very clever analogy - brilliant :)

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I whooshed this one. Is it a metaphor for something specific?

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Hi, Eva - it's about generative AI.

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Oh! Gotcha!

Yeah. There's so much grunt work that AI would be perfect for (how about you keep my artboards named properly??) but instead they keep trying to get us to use it for the *good* parts of creative.

Which by the way, Kyle... I'm a fellow longtime Photoshop user (since 1992!) and caught your brushes lecture at AdobeMAX some years ago. But thanks to your latest adventures, I've branched out and am using Procreate now. It's a blast. Thanks for the push out of the nest!

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I don't want to eat that. It's artificial, processed beyond recognition, and is going to destroy my brain. Like pharmaceuticals, only sneakier.

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This was so uncomfortable, mainly because I've often found myself inside something like this, being guilt-trip into "the next best thing towards 'success'", and while I don't necessarily fold, I certainly get bothered about some illusory regret. Glad to find a recontextualization that ultimately reveals the BS of it all.

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Ya know....I'm feeling (personally) that this reflects a few different pushy campaigns I'm overloaded with right now. Like "you need to make a paid course so that you too can make 70k in passive income while on vacation in Bali". The other is all about following the best selling trends in my area of choice (surface and fabric pattern design). AI was one of those sneaking in too, but I'm getting better at ignoring that fools gold. For a good while, I was feeling the "I'm not cool enough to join that party crowd" creep into my spirit pretty hard. Now I'm proud of myself for nerding out over here in my own realm with others who are okay with being "not cool". We welcome anyone else just looking for the same. No initiation ritual, mastermind, minimum follower count or perfect/glossy/unrealistic social presence required.

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Wait. I heard this new food is a water and energy sucker. That it's worse than growing almonds in California.

Oh, don't believe everything you hear. That's an exaggeration. How could something so tasty be bad for us? Besides, the makers of this food are really smart, they wouldn't do anything to hurt is in the long run. They're even going to re-open that old nuclear facility, just to provide more energy for all this food we are going to eat.

Uhm, are you sure you don't want a bite of my apple?

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Very Good

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Sep 23Liked by Kyle T Webster

EW! Gag me with a spoon... full of convenient algorithmically averaged data sets.

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