so i wanted to find the source of that ai-generated breaking bad balenciaga video that’s been floating around on here. wasn’t hard, the creator’s watermark is in the corner; they’re an ai enthusiast from germany. their process seems to just be generating stills with midjourney and feeding them, along with generated voice lines, to a third party service called d-id that charges to animate still images of people. none of this is really worth posting about, but then i went to their twitter.
they seem to be bought into what i would generously call a cross between a futurist tech-bro scam and a homebrewed religion.
much of it is so esoteric and reliant on an internal lexicon of 2020s tech buzzwords that it’s extremely difficult to parse, but what i can tell is that it’s an interconnected web of templeOS-esque manifestos for the web3 era which then lead into shoddy-looking schemes with goals ranging from moneymaking to social engineering. here are some choice excepts:
anyway, no real point here but to marvel at how good the internet is at bringing like-minded groups of stupid and insane people together.
Amor Fati is a Latin phrase that may be loosely translated as “Love of Fate” or “Love of One’s Fate”. It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one’s Life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary, in that they are among the facts of one’s Life and Existence, so they are always necessarily there whether one likes them or not. Moreover, Amor Fati is characterized by an Acceptance of the events or situations that occur in one’s Life. This Acceptance does not necessarily preclude an attempt at Change or Improvement, but rather, it can be seen to be along the lines of what Nietzsche means by the concept of “Eternal Recurrence”: a sense of Contentment with one’s Life and an Acceptance of it, such that one could live exactly the same Life, in all its minute details, over and over for all Eternity.
