Last night at dinner talking about subculture stuff and I bring up my standard boring/reductive Q about “how punk skate hip hop etc had monoculture to rebel against, so what now?,” and a brilliant friend answered straight up, “AI will be mainstream monoculture-esque, and is at its core boring and average and uncreative, and that is what people will... See more

i think we’re heading into a second renaissance. a stretch where people start caring about craft and quality again instead of chasing volume. you can feel the shift already. people are tired of ai slop flooding their feeds. there’s this quiet desire to go back to something simpler, where things were made with intention... See more

it’s unclear to me people understand second & third order effects of tasteful ai visual generation. most ppl still think of gen images as “tools for artists” when really it’s post art. we’re exiting the scarcity economy of visuals & entering something way weirder—where