We are beyond fucked at this point

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An Insult to Life Itself the quote from Hayao Miyazaki that is very much coming right back into the forefront today.

I’ve not been keeping up with whatever the AI bros are up to, but I did hear about the Ghibli filter that came out from the depths of the soulless void of fash adjacent dipshits like the ever so punchable face of Sam Altman. Then I saw some of it on Instagram when making my bi-monthly visit to catch up with people in that ecosphere.

When I said it leaves a sick taste in my throat, I wasn’t being dramatic. It really does.

I love Ghibli and watching a Ghibli film gives you a feeling, the art created by the studio radiates with humanity, feeling, and care. These cheap knock offs suck all that feeling out of the room leaving the stench of disdain for people who have really put everything in to their work to create films that outlast time. Princesse Mononoké, released in 1997 but you probably couldn’t tell it’s nearly 30 years old.

I’m not exactly unbiased when it comes to companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, considering I’m in the midst of a war against their theiving shit bots launching a DDoS against my website for the audacity of it being online.

That on its own is bad enough, but we’re in 2025 and we all know this can’t be made worse

Let me present to you, the actual fucking Whitehouse

Facist imagery from stolen art, violence against immigrants, the artist, and humanity itself

As Erik Uden puts it quite clearly

I think we’ve all seen the White House Ghibli AI image, but did you know that the person shown in the image crying is an actual human being?

The White House claimed she was an “illegal” immigrant who had committed a crime, and used an image created at her arrest (which they also publicly posted) to create this Ghibli AI version of her.

Just the picture alone was terrible, but do people just no longer have the rights to what happens to them or their image when they’re arrested? Since when is the White House account talking about random arrests, just accelerating the already warped perception people have that migration is even an issue in the first place.

Yeah. I have no words to add. Everything about this is fucked.