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  • The first two panels here are really top-notch. An excellent balance of thoughtfulness and humor. Bello’s question in panel 3 continues this, but the plant’s reply is less satisfying. Bello’s utterance in panel 4 is still good, but the plant’s final reply, while a decent joke, is a little out-of-tune with the other 3 panels.

    • Bello seems to be talking about something existential / emotional, while the plant isn’t really reacting to this in an interesting way.
    • maybe the point is that the plant and Bello are talking past each other? (i.e. Bello’s trying to “reach out” and the plant’s not picking up on it.)
    • It’s not quite clear what the difference between “hunger” and “munchies” is – they’re kind of the same, right?

    (I hope you don’t mind I write a comment like this, “workshop-style” like in creative writing classes.)





  • Sergio@lemmy.worldtoWikipedia@lemmy.worldPiet Mondrian
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    Mondrian’s work had an enormous influence on 20th-century art, influencing not only the course of abstract painting and numerous major styles and art movements (e.g. Color Field painting, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism), but also fields outside the domain of painting, such as design, architecture and fashion. Design historian Stephen Bayley said: “Mondrian has come to mean Modernism. His name and his work sum up the High Modernist ideal. I don’t like the word ‘iconic’, so let’s say that he’s become totemic – a totem for everything Modernism set out to be.”





  • Well let’s see… first we gotta figure out the analogy:

    • carriers = posts promoting a product
    • carrier escorts = posts commenting on and upvoting the “carrier” post
    • torpedos/dive-bombs = bot-delivered replies that disparage “carrier” posts. They “hit” if they get highly upvoted
    • fighters = bots that downvote carrier-fleet posts and upvote torpedo/dive-bomb replies
    • carrier “screen” fighters = bots that post attacks on enemy fighters and munitions
    • carrier AA fire = bots that downvote attacks by enemy fighter bots

    The analogy is still a little clumsy… are “carriers” posts, or are they the bots that make the posts? etc. But a Midway-like battle would involve a modest but strategically-positioned product-promoting community that is about to be surprised-attacked by a rival, who will make several posts disparaging the product. But the attack is identified through corporate espionage. The posts are hard to find, so the “fighters” have to search for them but ultimately they do, and after fierce up- and down-voting, the attacking posts are deeply downvoted.