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1. How Does Your Avatar Look Today?

2. Disappointed to see AI generated content in world.

   They might not have 3 years spare to lock themselves in a dark room and study something that hurts people's brains. But won't they be proud to emerge from that dark room three years later having mastered buggy whip maintenance? Having said that, I'm underwhelmed by AI's recent advances: it seems technically plateaued except for human-originated innovation in how it's used (and a bunch of old-timey Software Engineering and standards, e.g. MCP, building baby-safe environments for it to play in). How many instances do we have of AI inventing a tool for its own use? or a means to improve its own scalability before it consumes the planet's resources to barely edge-out human intelligence in some domains? I'm glad that people have found ways to get Claude Code to work effectively, but the main advance has not been in Claude's actual coding skill (which happened, but rather glacially); rather it's in all the integration engineering that went into making it "effective on the job", engineering done by humans with only the grunt work by AI. Admittedly, the only place for intelligence to have any practical value currently is integrated with human endeavors where intelligence matters, so maybe AI can be forgiven for needing humans to lead it by the nose. (Typical of our times, much of the actual AI scale is devoted to an even less tolerable Bing that now boils the ocean while still nobody wants to use it. That, and a pesky augmentation of everyone's favorite Nazi pedo porn bar. Can't blame AI: that's good ol' human ingenuity for ya.) Oh, speaking of Blender, it's contagious: the latest Gimp caught some of that notorious Blender UI. It is to weep.

3. Disappointed to see AI generated content in world.

   My deepest feeling on the whole subject is that it's just petty jealousy. Anyone who wants to be seen as an artist can cry out against AI destroying creative expression and feel like a "real artist". It's as insidious as what they claim AI is doing to all of their art jobs. Most of which likely never existed in the first place. Literally every single artist I know who wants to thrive in the cutthroat world of selling art takes any shortcut they can to reduce the effort, fatigue, and time spent in making their art. Those who think it's all just black magic boxes pooping out witchcraft are just voodooing themselves, and it's just another form of virtue signaling in my opinon. Want to look like an expert with mad skills? Pooh-pooh anyone who isn't doing it the hard way. Meanwhile they all watch entertainment produced with the help of AI, and listen to people sing with autotune, and drive cars made by robots, and talk about how if something isn't made by squishy flesh and blood humans it's trash not worth investing anything into.

4. The Non Linden Home Picture Thread - Mainland Only

   I decided to take my Outlands 2xPPNS+Group-Bonus parcel off sale and while I wait to get around to building my own underwater research station I nabbed a Steampunk Hobo freebie one from Flotsam in Mieville Pond region.

5. Disappointed to see AI generated content in world.

   Good point, considering that most software produced will now have some use of generative assistance. This only further muddies the waters as to what is authentic creativity, inspired by the most pure of biological integrity, and what is produced by silicon. If people use software that was produced by generative AI, does that sin, not also transfer into their work? The taint, spreads! You can't wash it out! There is only one option, to burn it, to burn it with fire!