This has to be one of the most photographed people on the planet, but i actually wonder if there’s any footage of him running? Like even a light jog? We’ve got footage of Bernie in a light jog, can you picture Trump jogging in your mind? If you asked an AI to show you, would it fail because no reference footage exists?

I’ve been to many protests, and oddly enough i enjoy the feeling of freedom. Normal traffic rules don’t apply and there are no cars, suddely you can walk in the middle of the street which is normally a forbidden space. You can dance, you can shoot fireworks in the middle of town, you can do loads of things that you normally can’t.

Normally there’s a nebulous sense that this space doesn’t belong to us, it belongs to landlords and the state maybe? You don’t feel a sense of ownership. But when it’s being taken over by people in an unorganized way, now it feels like this space belongs to you.

And yes i’m french lmao

I can understand why you wouldn’t want to draw this, it’s a very room temperature 20th century take; but that doesn’t make it okay to use genAI for it, that makes it worse. Now it’s also cheap tacky and supports garbage companies.

Yes, the worst thing about this is that it’s a shit idea, it doesn’t refer to anything specific and there’s something annoying about the binary format itself; but it’s made way worse, not better, by also using technology developed for profit, through theft, by sillicon valley tech firms, at the cost of an enormous waste of resources, for no purpose other than shareholder value.

It used to be that women couldn’t open their own bank accounts. Depending on how far back you go, they couldn’t even own property. In this context, women really needed to get married if they wanted to do anything. For this and many other reasons, the bar was lower, men could get married with less effort. Nowadays women can do anything and the only reason for them to want a man is if they want to, so you actually have to put in effort now.

Also, gender roles are changing and there’s no clarity as to what being a man is supposed to mean in 2025. If it’s not protecting and providing, if it’s not dying in war, then the purpose of men is undefined as of now, and there’s a tendency to want to return to the older gender roles.

And late capitalism is stressful, and men aren’t going to college as much these days. There’s lots of reasons but this is what i can remember in five minutes

Further listening material

☑️ Does it have Tier 5 intelligence or greater?

☑️ Is it of sexual maturity for the species?

❌ Can it communicate with subatomic gamma waves?