Louie Mantia, Jr. / is on Nostr

Designer • Artist • ダイナマイトボイス™

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WWW: https://lmnt.me
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Junior: https://www.junior.cards
Crown: https://crowntype.com

Last Notes

2024-09-20 02:19:44

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please clap

2024-09-20 02:08:17

holy shit, inbox zero. I did it. it’s been a while.
https://cdn.masto.host/pdxsocial/media_attachments/files/113/166/968/038/734/837/original/9aea6d6ba3e22ceb.png

2024-09-18 09:58:07

📖 Arbitrarily Adapting
No, I don’t think putting the URL field at the bottom of Safari years ago was “smart,” it’s just a reality of the situation we’re in now (jumbo phone hell).
🔗 https://lmnt.me/blog/arbitrarily-adapting.html

2024-09-18 04:14:32

Is anyone else having a rough time on the betas getting the Apple Intelligence Siri to do *anything* you want it to that old Siri could?
Like, It can’t understand me when I’m asking for directions, it says it “doesn’t know where” I am, despite having location services turned on for it. It can’t show me pictures of me, let alone pictures of anyone else, it just searches Bing for images instead. I can’t get it to do... anything.

2024-09-13 14:34:19

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So if you don’t have the time to learn how to make art, fine. Don’t make art. Don’t pretend to make art. Don’t generate images that sucked up all the art that we all sweat over for our entire lifetimes.
Artists have absorbed so much of the world around them to create what they have. When you use generative AI to make you an image, you’ve decided that the output from artists is yours to take. You’ve outsourced interpretation. You’ve not expanded your imagination, but instead limited it.

2024-09-13 14:29:49

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Stealing the result, using the result in training AI... it doesn’t have the context of the life experience behind it. Every piece of art has a thousand or more little things in your life that influenced it. And the thief doesn’t know about those. The AI doesn’t know about those.
I’ve had people insist they drew one of my icons. I’ve seen a penny press machine with my stolen art on it. My brush strokes on it. Like... no one can tell me they made it, because I remember the decisions that made it.

2024-09-13 14:25:54

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And non-artists, non-creative people may never, ever understand this. They’ll never get why this matters to you, why you wouldn’t fight against someone stealing your work. They’ll never get why you get upset about it. They’ll say stupid shit like, “imitation is the sincerest form of—” bullshit. Or misuse quotes like, “great artists steal.”
They will never understand that the work you put into something isn’t just about the tangible result, because the result hides years of life experience.

2024-09-13 14:23:02

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I can’t count how many instances I’ve seen of an artist helplessly flailing on social media because some big company stole their art and just shipped it like it’s no big deal. It’s happened to me, and I’ve also helplessly flailed on social media about it. It sucks. You can’t do anything because they’re just so much more powerful than you.
But this is the kicker. The time you’d spend rectifying it, against those odds... will just take time away from doing what you feel you have to do: make art.

2024-09-13 14:21:28

Basically all artists I know of—myself included—neglect so many other important things in their lives so they can make time for making art instead. Artists usually give up quite a lot to be artists. Making art is often not the most lucrative profession, so people who choose that path are doing so almost purely because they love it. They feel—deep down—that they need to do it.
After all that dedication, having your work stolen, used by companies and individuals... it its gut-wrenching.

2024-09-10 00:24:16

It’s 2024 and QuickLook on a folder in Finder doesn’t let you preview its contents in any way. You just get a jumbo folder icon.

2024-09-07 02:10:15

Leave me alone. I hate that you can’t dismiss this.
https://cdn.masto.host/pdxsocial/media_attachments/files/113/093/365/807/653/594/original/696fe8e3aa7dd3ce.png

2024-09-04 10:41:32

when ai summarizes your email is the goal that you dont read the actual email or that it helps you decide when to read it?
and how will you know if it summarized it accurately, without missing some key piece of information that would have not made you skip over it?
what I don’t quite understand is how you’ll know whether or not it’s doing a good job, thereby making you unsure if you’re doing a good job.

2024-08-14 01:57:12

And then after it’s completely flattened, it lifts up and instead of an iPad, it’s just a dollar bill, which Tim Cook casually walks over, picks up, and stuffs in his pocket.
https://cdn.masto.host/pdxsocial/media_attachments/files/112/957/419/038/873/558/original/fc5c2af4606325c4.webp

2024-08-05 00:28:13

Do you still use Twitter?

2024-04-08 14:49:49

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my conspiracy theory is that rss is downplayed as a viable solution by social media companies, and people eat that narrative up, despite rss outliving all the social media services

2024-04-08 13:17:44

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some people really think the only way to find new things is through an algorithm that determines what you’re interested in. but following specific people that you like can reveal more people you like when they link to each other. it’s possible with blogs! as it turns out!

2024-04-08 12:09:39

thinking about all the times people asked me how rss could ever "work" because there's "no discovery"
meanwhile, i linked to a friend's blog from mine yesterday. two others linked to my blog from theirs today.
anyway. i like that. it's neat.