System Failure: The American Corporate Virus
In the beginning, there was Eli Mercer — a systems architect who still believed some words meant something. He didn’t trust easily, but he trusted him — the man he’d known half his life. That was supposed to make the deal real. He built prototypes on borrowed time_machines that could think, listen, learn. Then the company came calling. They called it “collaboration,” but it was absorption. The melt began slow: meetings, memos, management smiles. Resistance looked like ego. Compliance looked l...
System Failure: The American Corporate Virus
In the beginning, there was Eli Mercer — a systems architect who still believed some words meant something. He didn’t trust easily, but he trusted him — the man he’d known half his life. That was supposed to make the deal real. He built prototypes on borrowed time_machines that could think, listen, learn. Then the company came calling. They called it “collaboration,” but it was absorption. The melt began slow: meetings, memos, management smiles. Resistance looked like ego. Compliance looked l...
SUBHUMAN: Resurrecting Early-GAN Experiments
1 · Why This MattersMost art collectors met AI art through diffusion prompts in 2022.But the first machines to hallucinate faces were GANs—rough, low-res, and beautifully wrong. SUBHUMAN is a time-capsule of that era. manic distopia – crypto artist & AI tinkerer2 · GANs in 120 Seconds| Year | Milestone | Key Links | | 2014 | Goodfellow publishes Generative Adversarial Networks | arXiv 1406.2661 • goodfeli/adversarial | | 2016 | DCGAN synthesises 128 px faces | soumith/dcgan.torch • pytorch/ex...
SUBHUMAN: Resurrecting Early-GAN Experiments
1 · Why This MattersMost art collectors met AI art through diffusion prompts in 2022.But the first machines to hallucinate faces were GANs—rough, low-res, and beautifully wrong. SUBHUMAN is a time-capsule of that era. manic distopia – crypto artist & AI tinkerer2 · GANs in 120 Seconds| Year | Milestone | Key Links | | 2014 | Goodfellow publishes Generative Adversarial Networks | arXiv 1406.2661 • goodfeli/adversarial | | 2016 | DCGAN synthesises 128 px faces | soumith/dcgan.torch • pytorch/ex...
crowd_sourced_inspiration 1.0?
The crypto art market has been dead for me. Most of my collectors are broke, burnt, or dead. Inspiration comes from a lot of places, but when it hits, it's like a burning itch – like a bad case of the crabs. I've been back in the matrix for the past seven months, after more than two years as a full-time artist supporting my family on skulls and death (mainly my inner demons). Recently, I came up with an idea to crowdsource ideas from my community and create something. The plan is to...
crowd_sourced_inspiration 1.0?
The crypto art market has been dead for me. Most of my collectors are broke, burnt, or dead. Inspiration comes from a lot of places, but when it hits, it's like a burning itch – like a bad case of the crabs. I've been back in the matrix for the past seven months, after more than two years as a full-time artist supporting my family on skulls and death (mainly my inner demons). Recently, I came up with an idea to crowdsource ideas from my community and create something. The plan is to...
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