Universal Love - R30 Issue #3
This week I checked out a podcast about Origen, specifically History of Philosophy without any gaps’ focus on the late antiquity church father from Alexandria. Read more in this week’s edition of the R30 newsletter.
Accused of heresy by fellow christians, and tortured by the romans, he believed in concepts such as the pre-existence of the soul, as well as universal love. Everyone would be forgiven, in the end. Even demons and the devil. Which was not a teaching everyone liked, since it weakens the authority of the church by making its rules “optional”, and not necessary to get to heaven. Anyway, interesting guy. He was part of a line of Christian philosophers heavily influenced by Plato, you should check out hopwag to get to know them all.
Other things: Started getting into AI image creation with Flux and Stable Diffusion over at Graydient.ai. If you meet a pretty lady on the web who tells you to buy my book, it wasn’t me. But holy crap, this is getting too easy and too good, fast. If you don’t want to generate people, just fake your handwriting.
Random AI bits: Perplexity.ai is some kind of AI search engine, I still prefer ChatGPT to tell me what Wikipedia says. Not sure. Try it out. Or maybe you want to read about the underpaid workers in Kenya who have to label pictures and video so the AI can classify them. Which means they watch a lot of crap humans shouldn’t watch. Think rape, murder, incest, all that shit. Since we’re already on the topic of murder, people are making AI versions of Luigi Mangione to call for the slaying of additional CEOs. Yep, people are doing that.
If you want something real, maybe jet to St. Moritz in Switzerland and check out Jean-Michel Basquiat’s love of the Alps. He had a swiss dealer that really liked him, so this expo showcases some of the stuff he did in Confoederatio Helvetica while visiting. The article is worth it for the picture of Basquiat in a fur coat and ski hat alone. The expo runs until March 29, so plenty of time to fuel up your private jet. Alternatively, fly to Rome and watch Gerhard Richter’s latest film titled Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019–24) at Gagosian. I like the colors.
If you’re poor and want to stay at home, just read about how the korean feminist movement influenced art.
Cars. I really like Kimera’s restomod of the Lancia Rally 037. Those lines. All the cool cars are 30 years old. At least. Or older. Looking at you, BMW. And everyone else.
Skibidi Toilet Mystery Surprise Toilet! You know you want it. Maybe as a Christmas gift? If you want to escape the Christmas frenzy by going on a trip, just follow the old Hippie Trail down to Goa and beyond. Or let Ranger Sarah do the exploring for you.
There are a lot of “Top 10 of Whatever 2024” lists currently floating around, but I’ll just leave you with the Top Ten Music Albums of 2024 as chosen by Melbourne’s PBS.fm radio station. Good radio station, I always listen to it. Nice programs.
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I’m not using spellcheck on this issue, so you know it’s not AI.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origen?useskin=vector
https://historyofphilosophy.net/
https://historyofphilosophy.net/origen
https://graydient.ai/
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0DQHM6KYW
https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1he5xm0/i_trained_a_handwriting_flux_fine_tune/
https://www.perplexity.ai/
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/30/meet-the-underpaid-workers-in-nairobi-kenya-who-power-openai/
https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-versions-luigi-mangione
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/12/18/new-exhibition-celebrates-basquiats-love-of-the-alps
https://archive.is/hQow3
https://hyperallergic.com/973404/how-did-the-korean-feminist-movement-influence-art/
https://kimera-automobili.com/en/evo37-eng/evo37-eng/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSVTuJfKPws
https://mathstodon.xyz/@onlmaps@mastodon.social/113673344127286690
https://mathstodon.xyz/@AdventuresofRangerSarah@mastodon.social
https://www.pbsfm.org.au/news/top-feature-albums-2024
Image shows Dante and Beatrice gazing upon the highest Heaven; from Gustave Doré’s illustrations to the Divine Comedy, Paradiso Canto 28, lines 16–39
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