James and Catherine reconvene to ponder Twitter, fawn over vintage Legos, and marvel at 3-D printers while saving the planet using freeze dried coffee.

 - 00:20 - Plaything formerly known as Twitter

 - 00:50 - Hello Mastodon!

 - 01:45 - Algorithms are (21st century) life

 - 02:30 - Lego redux and 3-D printers

 - 03:35 - Fancy hot glue gun (AKA 3-D printer)

 - 07:25 - Paraglider drops in, smashes house

 - 10:50 - Coffee is ruining the earth

 - 12:28 - Lifecycle of a coffee bean

 - 15:40 - Landfills are for sequestering

 - 17:55 - "Dose" is key and freeze-dried wins!

 - 19:20 - James saves the environment, one cup of Keurig at a time!

 - 21:55 - How about just drinking less coffee?

 - 22:28 - Gas stoves fuel culture war

 - 24:00 - Most of Florida passes (on) gas

 - 25:05 - Induction is magic!

 - 25:45 - The Nigerian AI artist reimagining a stylish old age

 - 26:30 - "Fashion Show For Seniors" via AI

 - 27:30 - Finally, the fingers look like fingers!

 - 28:25 - AI comes through (again) as creative tool!

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Twitter’s “Meltdown” sets a festive mood as our SubRant co-hosts continue their AI deep-dive via ArtStation protests and opt-out image training before going to war over Christmas!

Show Notes

00:05 - Moods and (tile) meltdowns

01:15 - The “bots” have spoken!

02:15 - “Are we having free speech yet?”

02:45 - Dear Elon, links are the web…

03:15-  Just dial “1-900-Twitter”

04:35 - A CEO fall-guy?

06:10 - Tesla, SpaceEx, Star Link

07:18 - NFT’s are flying off the shelves!

08:45 - It’s only a head-shot!

10:45 - Real tough guys wear Aviator glasses

12:15 - Drive-by Vegan burger

12:50 - Artists Protest After ArtStation Features AI-Generated Images https://www.kotaku.com.au/2022/12/artists-protest-after-artstation-features-ai-generated-images/

13:45 - “Explore” the flood-plain

14:05 - Artstation Website https://www.artstation.com/?sort_by=community

14:55 - Your lane is over there!

15:10 - Art station makes it worse? https://www.kotaku.com.au/2022/12/artstation-responds-to-ai-controversy-makes-things-worse/

16:05 - Opt-out, opt-in?

16:30 - Issues, issues, issues https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/stability-ai-plans-to-let-artists-opt-out-of-stable-diffusion-3-image-trainxxing/

18:17 - Was it doxing?

20:18 - “We’re all re-compilers!”

21:12 - What’s your definition of free speech?

22:43 - Christmas soap opera

22:59 - Riffusion’s AI generates music from text using visual sonograms https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/riffusions-ai-generates-music-from-text-using-visual-sonograms/

24:26 - Six prompts yield similar results, all bad

25:04 - “Gayatri Mantra” AI-style

25:57 - “One Minute After New Year’s Eve”

26:22 - Battlestar Galactica finale disconnect

27:31 - Costco membership woes? https://www.thestreet.com/retailers/costco-plans-to-raise-its-membership-prices

28:30 - Christmas every 4 years? NOPE

29:00 - Blame SubRant!

29:50 - Durable Medical Equipment Festivities

30:00 - Wrapping dog presents!

SubRant cohosts touch on eyeballs and pie while drafting their own conspiracy theories and pondering the place of AI in art history.

 - 00:15 - Cream pie and a left eye

 - 01:15 - No turkey, no salmon!

 - 02:30 - Sweet words at Thanksgiving

 - 03:25 - Uncles and conspiracies

 - 05:05 - Crazy takes a "right"?

 - 06:18 -  Twitter chugs along

 - 06:55 - Swastikas are not in vogue

 - 08:00 - James unveils a conspiracy theory!

 - 08:45 - How Is AI Changing Art History?

 - 09:55 - Up in arms about detachment

 - 11:00 - Directing AI or minions, what's the difference?

 - 13:15 - Circuitous discourse on historical bias

 - 14:00 - Modern Dream: How Refik Anadol Is Using Machine Learning and NFTs to Interpret MoMA's Collection

 - 15:08 - Hold the hallucinations!

 - 16:05 - Are we all just machines?

 - 18:50 - "I see cubism"

 - 19:50 - No talk of the show disappoints

 - 21:30 - All ones and zeroes are the same

 - 22:30 - Digital vs Physical

 - 24:00 - The art of James

 - 26:00 - Connection without nostalgia

 - 27:45 - Mash-ups create new ideas

 - 28:30 - AI is part of art history

The "Second Annual Thanksgiving Show" where James and Catherine exude more delight for a Western image of China than for the holiday while pondering the benefits of video games.

 - 00:20 - We are Thanksgiving-holes!

 - 01:35 - Costco unhinged over missing turkeys

 - 02:30 - No chickens, eggs, or parking rant!

 - 05:10 - Anything important already happened

 - 05:55 - Missing Oreos

 - 06:55 - Drop-bars, drop-bars everywhere

 - 07:35 - FIFA shit show, Twitter meltdown

 - 08:00 - It's also a gaming franchise!

 - 08:40 - "If you want to play soccer, just go outside!"

 - 09:00 - Gaming friendships

 - 10:45 - Guy talk: weddings and kids?

 - 12:00 - They came to his wedding!

 - 12:50 - "Bit of stick" explained

 - 14:10 - The begging billionaire list

 - 16:00 - Smart but not so savvy?

 - 17:30 - The "Twitter tone"

 - 18:20 - Polling cop-out, still no landslide!

 - 19:35 - Burning down the wealth

 - 21:00 - Jung Kook at World Cup

 - 21:30 - Playing lots of video games may benefit kids' brains

 - 22:15 - Surgeons who game get good results

 - 23:10 - Jen hides from the aliens!

 - 22:20 - More research needed

 - 25:00 - Strife, violence, and Marvel

 - 25:30 - Finally some art to ponder!

 - 27:00 - "This isn't China", it's how we see China

 - 28:10 - Dior calligraphy

 - 29:00 - "Fashion is art"

James and Catherine view a Christie's art auction and the banning of E-bikes through the lens of classism, while questioning the goals of AI

 - 02:10 - James and the GIANT bike!

 - 03:00 - Finally, a good Oreo cookie?

 - 04:55 - Update: Christie's auction

 - 07:00 - "They were all bangers"

 - 07:30 - Thought we banned "art-speak"

 - 07:55 - Through the lens of classism

 - 09:00 - Swollen lithium batteries = havoc

 - 11:20 - Bent iPhone battery ignites!

 - 12:52 - "Lithium likes to burn a lot"

 - 13:34 - Lovingly roasting Samsung

 - 15:45 - James solves E-bike storage issue

 - 16:50 - PSA: Risky in-app browsers

 - 18:20 - inappbrowser.com

 - 18:50 - Just stop clicking on ad links

 - 20:45 - Crypto setback, so wait 5 years

 - 21:55 - What's the AI goal?

 - 23:00 - Triggered by ultrasound AI

 - 23:45 - Judy Schweibert won & AZ midterm update

 - 26:30 - Where are the visionaries?

 - 27:05 - AI steamrolls, but who sets standards?

 - 29:00 - James predicts break-through tech

 - 29:55 - Runway re-run (next episode)

 - 31:00 - Blown away (in a good way)

James and Catherine unload on new phones, hyperlink irritants, and copyright restrictions before uncovering a tsunami of AI image generator talent

 - 00:03 - Late (again) for Halloween

 - 00:35 - Old people get new phones

 - 01:40 - Hell is in the link

 - 03:10 - "Free your Apple news"

 - 04:20 - Chihuahua eats AI "homework"

 - 05:55 - James dabbles and hits gold!

 - 07:30 - AI vs. living artists

 - 09:15 - Copyright doesn't protect your vibe

 - 10:08 - "Always room for robots!"

 - 12:20 - Are they coming for all of our jobs?

 - 12:58 - Copyright primer

 - 14:45 - Is there protection for AI art?

 - 16:00 - Legal vs. moral, plus trademark

 - 17:40 - AI advancement moving fast!

 - 18:20 - Removing references to living artists makes it harder (but not really)

 - 19:50 - The value of knowing

 - 21:45 - How Much "Art" Can There Be In Artificial Intelligence?

 - 22:52 - Second place winner speaks out

 - 24:24 - Who really owns the creative output?

 - 25:40 - Save time, just draw it!

 - 26:05 - AI selfie filter fail

 - 26:50 - "Draw Anyone" (with three arms?)

 - 28:15 - Backwards AI gets snarky!

 - 28:42 - Selfie roast

 - 30:55 - Spicing up a "too nice" internet?

 - 31:27 - James appeals to human kindness, then recants

Catherine and James riff on Cezanne, plead for curatorial intelligence, and dismiss "Process Art"

 - 00:10 - No disarray here!

 - 01:05 - "Kay-enne" got too hot for Adidas

 - 02:20 - Flat Earth AI Zombies push a button

 - 04:24 - James is a bit of a troll

 - 05:24 - "Wait! We get a lot of hate?"

 - 06:35 - SubRant t-shirts not disappointing

 - 08:00 - We see, therefore, Cezanne

 - 10:05 - Static, roving, is it that deep?

 - 11:00 - Teardown of the stare-down

 - 12:41 - Impressionism interrupted

 - 14:00 - Plea for curatorial common sense

 - 15:30 - From Impressionism to Midwifery

 - 16:10 - Addressing Western-centrism

 - 18:00 - Distortion and evisceration gone wild

 - 18:35 - "Cezanne, I'm glad he did it!"

 - 19:40 - Imagining Cezanne's process-timeline

 - 20:40 - Process + end product = art?

 - 22:00 - Thinking of Da Vinci

 - 23:05 - "The work is the art. and everything else is a prelude"

 - 24:00 - If the "process" is also art, how does this apply to AI generated images?

 - 24:30 - Stay tuned for more AI

Catherine and James laud a MET facade, but trash "art speak", selling dead people's collections, cold soup, and burning ‘art'.

 - 00:03 - "Constant state of bicycle shopping"

 - 01:47 - James is "The Surly Straggler"

 - 03:05 - Ding your bell, it's "Biking Story-time!"

 - 04:06 - Good morning, or not!

 - 05:00 - James freaks out road bikers

 - 05:45 - Walking into walls & delayed synaptic response

 - 06:27 - MET public art (not MOMA)

 - 08:40 - "Gilt & Guilt" or "Ownership & Superficiality"?

 - 10:15 - Artist's words versus "art-speak"

 - 11:09 - James bans "curatorial studies"

 - 12:17 - Appreciating a facade (on a facade)

 - 12:30 - The power of Paul Allen

 - 13:26 - "So, regular people can't buy art?"

 - 15:30 - "Norm" or not, just buy what you like!

 - 16:48 - Back to the museums to raise value!

 - 19:00 - Van Gogh plus soup is good art

 - 19:15 - SubRant Throwback

 - 19:35 - "Just Stop Oil" (painting)

 - 21:00 - Gone haywire on "The Haywain"

 - 24:50 - Hirst kicks off his own "Burning Man"

 - 26:30 - "The Haunting of Word Soup"

 - 29:03 - SubRant Throwback (Koons)

 - 29:08 - Nod to DeGrazia'z taxation protest

 - 31:10 - Maximize that carbon footprint!

 - 33:15 - Dust in the wind

James and Catherine "nerd rant" about tech platforms, Minotaur teeth, and the curious trend of whole house doodling.

 - 00:05 - "Old people don"t need new phones"

 - 00:20 - "Prey" panoramic followup

 - 02:00 - 300 year evolution of "The Predator"

 - 03:05 - Hollywood butchers technology

 - 04:20 - James repos quote, shoves Plato off cliff

 - 05:05 - Google nerd-rant - Stadia: DONE

 - 07:00 - Treading water with Search and Mail

 - 09:30 -  Hey YouTube, remember Flickr?

 - 10:27 - Silly Google, Docs is for kids!

 - 11:00 - Lame VR and the developers who  won't use it

 - 12:00 - Instagram hack!

 - 13:07 - Secure your passwords and don"t use Facebook log-in

 - 14:35 - "Mr. Doodle does" wall drawings!

 - 15:18 - Gettin a superficial Haring vibe

 - 16:45 - Buys house and doodles it!

 - 17:13 - "Graffiti Spaghetti" for lunch?

 - 18:15 - Do doodles need color?

 - 19:30 - Mr. Doodle freestyle

 - 20:22 - Revisiting Polina Rayko, self-taught Ukrainian artist

 - 22:36 - James is a doodler

 - 23:10 - Ron's House: Minotaur Head And Lion Is Discovered In Rented Birkenhead Flat

 - 24:45 - Nerds contemplate minotaur teeth and other points of fiction

 - 26:25 - Put some effort into your art!

 - 29:40 - "They always go for the ceilings"

 - 30:50 - Doodle camouflage

 - 31:13 - Halloween t-shirt plug!

Catherine and James waffle on selling their cars while dissecting potential changes to S. Korean net neutrality and crowning RM as the best art critic!

 - 00:05 - Selling our cars?

 - 02:35 - Forget new tires, just buy a new car!

 - 04:10 - Hybrid Maverick: The "exciting" choice

 - 07:10 - The biggest issue of the week! (Or not)

 - 07:35 - James explains net neutrality and data access fees

 - 08:55 - No more "Baby Shark or BTS" scares Catherine

 - 09:30 - S. Korean ISPs want to charge more, James breaks it down!

 - 12:12 - Just don't interrupt Catherine's Korean content!

 - 14:00 - James calls out a "dick move" and rights a "slippery slope"

 - 15:35 - "The world is coming to an end and we're all going to be isolated"

 - 16:45 - A usage fee bill from Argentina?

 - 18:00 - SubRant saves the Internet!

 - 18:58 - Appeal to S. Korean legislators to not mess with success!

 - 19:50 - Temporarily annoyed with "art critic" RM?

 - 21:45 - "RM is the Liz Cheney of the art world!"

 - 22:45 - James implements a usage fee to deliver thoughts to your head

 - 23:30 - Bad analogies, free speech, and TV

 - 25:15 - The expensive neighborhood road

 - 26:34 - A soothing perspective

 - 28:10 - Territorial women's wear (for a new Arizona reality)