#schrodinger's box

[mutable-manifestation]

So this post sparked a Thought

What if, when the portal turned on, Danny was caught in the middle?

And I don't mean "what if he was in the portal" - he was

what if he was caught?

When Kitty gets stuck in the portal she needs help to leave, needs to posess Jazz as her in between

The portal spat Phantom out

What if Fenton stayed?

What if Danny Fenton's body lays unseen in that portal every time he is in ghost form?

And what if, every time his in human form, his ghost half is there instead?

What if the portal is his Schrodinger's Box.

What if he can only be either in turns, form always caught at the place where he died.

I've seen takes where the portal turns off and they find Fenton's body floating there

What if they turn it off to find Phantom

The portal turns off - who knows why, maybe sabotage, maybe someone finally realized deactivating the portal to hell would probably stop the constant slew of attacks - and they find Phantom.

Phantom stands, perfectly still inside the portal.

He doesn't react to the change, eyes unseeing, body unmoving.

One of his hands lies on the portal wall, the other clutches at his chest.

His dead, dead eyes (and the Fenton's try to tell themselves he was always dead but this is somehow worse) unseeing, face contorted in a final, silent scream.

He looks like he'd died here.

Standing their portal.

Screaming.

It's their turn to scream when, in a flash of light, their precious son is standing in his place.

#danny phantom #angst #schrodinger's box #portal ideas #corpse au but not really #would human Danny in the portal were his human clothes or would it always be the non-palette swapped suit he died in #are the Fenton parents the only ones down there? #prob not if you go with the 'the city made them turn it off' idea #Danny; at school “Why the fuck do I feel like someone just walked over my grave???” #Danny; leaving school: “It's probably nothing” #Danny's parents; in the basement: 😱

[badoccultadvice]

Schrodinger is NOT allowed to build ANY MORE BOXES.

#schrodinger's box #schrodinger #quantum mechanics don't fix anything

[tangibletechnomancy]

The reason I took interest in AI as an art medium is that I've always been interested in experimenting with novel and unconventional art media - I started incorporating power tools into a lot of my physical processes younger than most people were even allowed to breathe near them, and I took to digital art like a duck to water when it was the big, relatively new, controversial thing too, so really this just seems like the logical next step. More than that, it's exciting - it's not every day that we just invent an entirely new never-before-seen art medium! I have always been one to go fucking wild for that shit.

Which is, ironically, a huge part of why I almost reflexively recoil at how it's used in the corporate world: because the world of business, particularly the entertainment industry, has what often seems like less than zero interest in appreciating it as a novel medium.

And I often wonder how much less that would be the case - and, by extension, how much less vitriolic the discussion around it would be, and how many fewer well-meaning people would be falling for reactionary mythologies about where exactly the problems lie - if it hadn't reached the point of...at least an illusion of commercial viability, at exactly the moment it did.

See, the groundwork was laid in 2020, back during covid lockdowns, when we saw a massive spike in people relying on TV, games, books, movies, etc. to compensate for the lack of outdoor, physical, social entertainment. This was, seemingly, wonderful for the whole industry - but under late-stage capitalism, it was as much of a curse as it was a gift. When industries are run by people whose sole brain process is "line-go-up", tiny factors like "we're not going to be in lockdown forever" don't matter. CEOs got dollar signs in their eyes. Shareholders demanded not only perpetual growth, but perpetual growth at this rate or better. Even though everyone with an ounce of common sense was screaming "this is an aberration, this is not sustainable" - it didn't matter. The business bros refused to believe it. This was their new normal, they were determined to prove -

And they, predictably, failed to prove it.

So now the business bros are in a pickle. They're beholden to the shareholders to do everything within their power to maintain the infinite growth they promised, in a world with finite resources. In fact, by precedent, they're beholden to this by law. Fiduciary duty has been interpreted in court to mean that, given the choice between offering a better product and ensuring maximum returns for shareholders, the latter MUST be a higher priority; reinvesting too much in the business instead of trying to make the share value increase as much as possible, as fast as possible, can result in a lawsuit - that a board member or CEO can lose, and have lost before - because it's not acting in the best interest of shareholders. If that unsustainable explosive growth was promised forever, all the more so.

And now, 2-3-4 years on, that impossibility hangs like a sword of Damocles over the heads of these media company CEOs. The market is fully saturated; the number of new potential customers left to onboard is negligible. Some companies began trying to "solve" this "problem" by violating consumer privacy and charging per household member, which (also predictably) backfired because those of us who live in reality and not statsland were not exactly thrilled about the concept of being told we couldn't watch TV with our own families. Shareholders are getting antsy, because their (however predictably impossible) infinite lockdown-level profits...aren't coming, and someone's gotta make up for that, right? So they had already started enshittifying, making excuses for layoffs, for cutting employee pay, for duty creep, for increasing crunch, for lean-staffing, for tightening turnarounds-

And that was when we got the first iterations of AI image generation that were actually somewhat useful for things like rapid first drafts, moodboards, and conceptualizing.

Lo! A savior! It might as well have been the digital messiah to the business bros, and their eyes turned back into dollar signs. More than that, they were being promised that this...both was, and wasn't art at the same time. It was good enough for their final product, or if not it would be within a year or two, but it required no skill whatsoever to make! Soon, you could fire ALL your creatives and just have Susan from accounting write your scripts and make your concept art with all the effort that it takes to get lunch from a Star Trek replicator!

This is every bit as much bullshit as the promise of infinite lockdown-level growth, of course, but with shareholders clamoring for the money they were recklessly promised, executives are looking for anything, even the slightest glimmer of a new possibility, that just might work as a life raft from this sinking ship.

So where are we now? Well, we're exiting the "fucking around" phase and entering "finding out". According to anecdotes I've read, companies are, allegedly, already hiring prompt engineers (or "prompters" - can't give them a job title that implies there's skill or thought involved, now can we, that just might imply they deserve enough money to survive!)...and most of them not only lack the skill to manually post-process their works, but don't even know how (or perhaps aren't given access) to fully use the software they specialize in, being blissfully unaware of (or perhaps not able/allowed to use) features such as inpainting or img2img. It has been observed many times that LLMs are being used to flood once-reputable information outlets with hallucinated garbage. I can verify - as can nearly everyone who was online in the aftermath of the Glasgow Willy Wonka Dashcon Experience - that the results are often outright comically bad.

To anyone who was paying attention to anything other than please-line-go-up-faster-please-line-go-please (or buying so heavily into reactionary mythologies about why AI can be dangerous in industry that they bought the tech companies' false promises too and just thought it was a bad thing), this was entirely predictable. Unfortunately for everyone in the blast radius, common sense has never been an executive's strong suit when so much money is on the line.

Much like CGI before it, what we have here is a whole new medium that is seldom being treated as a new medium with its own unique strengths, but more often being used as a replacement for more expensive labor, no matter how bad the result may be - nor, for that matter, how unjust it may be that the labor is so much cheaper.

And it's all because of timing. It's all because it came about in the perfect moment to look like a life raft in a moment of late-stage capitalist panic. Any port in a storm, after all - even if that port is a non-Euclidean labyrinth of soggy, rotten botshit garbage.

Any port in a storm, right? ...right?

All images generated using Simple Stable, under the Code of Ethics of Are We Art Yet?

#ai art #generated art #generated artwork #essays #about ai #worth a whole 'nother essay is how the tech side exists in a state that is both thriving and floundering at the same time #because the money theyre operating with is in schrodinger's box #at the same time it exists and it doesnt #theyre highly valued but usually operating at a loss #that is another MASSIVE can of worms and deserves its own deep dive

[picsfortheday]

#funny #love #cute #memes #cats #kitties #Schrodinger #box #revenge

[cynomain69]

happy cyno story quest part 2 day!!!! stream cyno story quest part 2!!!!!

#sethno #me banging on the walls of schrodingers box #let me in!!! let me into the story quest!!!!! #however tame they end up making sethos in the sq #he’ll still always be my little green tea bitch #when youre full of resentment but the man who took it all from you is hot

[0hmanit]

This joke was funnier in my head

#rain world #imagine if the ancients tried to explain the cycle system with Schrodinger's cat type of experiments #I mean a slugcat in a shelter is kind of a cat in a box #just without the deadly poison #thoughts

[chaoticsorceressztc]

Tired confessimigens

I'm either a Lesbian or I'm Ace all I know is my current physical form deters me from figuring anything else out.

Call that transfem box ahrodinger

#text #text post #trans #transgender #transfem #Ace #Lesbian #Schrodinger #box #guh night evy boday

[emmkitt]

AAAUU reposting cause i frogor soemthing

characters for me and my friends object show called Schrodinger’s Box

characters, left -> right , top to bottom:

Schrodinger, Teacup, Glasses, Sodie, Laptop

Cassette Tape, Ziplock Bag (Jimmy), Sugar Cube (Rebecca), CANDLE

our show is gonna be posted here!!:: https://youtube.com/@BoxedCat420?si=mD0yyTgAhW9Xf_i3 uhhh the trailer is coming soon

#osc #object shows #schrodingers box

[mandatoryrollercoaster]

The Box

#venn diagram #brad pitt #erwin schrodinger #the box #comic #webcomic #mandatory roller coaster

[geezerwench]

Saw this online and thought it was funny so I'm sharing it here,

I present... Schrodinger's Cat.

#schrodinger's cat #cats #cats in boxes #cat reflection

[humanveil]

goodbye elliot stabler baby of the family headcanon you WILL be missed

#schrodinger’s stabler siblings…. it’s happening….. we’re opening the box….. #terminal svu brainrot

[buggabooboo]

#fanart #my art #lukejamie #sf6 #street fighter #luke sullivan #jamie siu #schrodinger’s dick #dick in a box #making sink references in 2023

[funeralcity]

when the yuri author starts writing about waves and particles

#when the yuri author starts writing about schrodingers box!!!!!!!!!

[somebean81]

Omg look it’s Glasses from Twitch.live @2emt-bfdi-blog

#object shows #schrodinger’s box

[strawberriesinmoominvalley]

anyway i think we as people need to become more comfortable with others identifying in conflicting ways. or just having any mildly conflicting traits. it is implicit in the nature of us as humans.

my actions are significant because they impact others. my actions are insignificant because we live in a massive universe where i don't matter. if human life in itself resides within being simultaneously significant/insignificant then it's no surprise we contain multitudes

#we are not schrodinger's cat! we do not have to be in a box to exist in two conflicting states! #idk where this came from #i'm just a bit tired of people trying to put others in a box and making them stay there #and i get it. i'm autistic. i like clearly labelled things. i like everything being easy to understand #but that is not the nature of life. even myself i am both autistic and adhd and have conflicting states #and we don't have to understand why people are the way they are #we can just move on! life is large and immense and we are small and that is incredible! #there is no permanent self and that is so cool! we are so free! why should we limit ourselves? #anyway this is probably a bit philosophical and pretentious #i just want to exist and not be questioned for it #you don't have to understand me. i don't have to understand you #ramblings

[madame-fear]

I had to go to the library this afternoon so I could pick up some books I reserved and today was the last day I had to pick them up

I fell into the trap of something called fatigue and I told my mom that I was gonna nap for half and hour and of she could woke me up at 4 just to be sure, cause sometimes when I'm really tired I close my alarm and go back to sleep

She said yes, I went to sleep and I woke up and there were the three books I had to pick up next to me on my bed 💀 and when I checked my phone it was 4:30. I thought I had a fever dream for a moment because when did I went to pick those books if I was fucking sleeping?

Turns out my mom grabbed my library card and went in my place 😭😭💀

I’m sorry but this made me chuckle ASISJUDAJ You know Schrödingers cat? The one that’s dead and alive at the same time? Well, you were Schrödingers Kay — you were asleep and at the library at the same time; but it turns out it was just your mum going for you in your place IM SOBBING JAJSKSKF

The amount of times situations like that happened to me, it does feel like a fever dream AHSHDH 😭😭😭

#kay <33 #SCHRODINGERS KAY #SORRY AJSIDFJ #funny #┆ ⤿ 💌 come chat with amira .ᐟ ୭ #— [. 🫂 ] ; my mutuals <3 #loving my mutuals <3 #my mutuals <3 #ask box messages #ask box open #ask box #✧.* amiraverse