Just started watching Pluribus and this show has reached levels of toxic yuri I would have previously thought impossible. What if we kissed but you're a female version of my hot OC and also you're the reanimated corpse of a woman I don't know and also you're an eldritch abomination from beyond the stars and also you're my dead wife and also you're every human being on Earth and every time I get upset around you, you kill millions of people. And we're both girls.
Writing would be so much easier if I didn't have youtube or computer games Right There.
"Derin you can get timed apps to block -- " No. I don't want to block them. They're too fun.
Me when I block myself from my games.
IVE BEEN TORMENT NEXUSED
If I lived near Silicon Valley and was just slightly more audacious I could make such a killing as Tarot Reader To The TechBros.
is it a hot take to say that i think you need to understand why something is bad, not just that it simply is?
ALTthis is a part of the problem
you need to be able to explain why you shouldnt use ai rather than “oh well its obviously bad and you shouldnt use it or else youre a bad person” because that isn’t logic. “ai generates child porn based off of real children and whether or not it does is entirely up to how it is built and if pedophiles are able to find ways around those safeguards, because ai cannot in itself discern right from wrong” is a genuine criticism. “amazon tried to build a data center the size of tuson outside of tuson just to power their ai that would’ve increased the inability to stay alive outside in parts of arizona” is a genuine criticism. even “using generative ai teaches you not to learn how to do things yourself even when they’re difficult, devaluing necessary skills out of practice” is a genuine criticism when you look at the amount of people who think they are able of doing a difficult major when they couldnt write their own papers in high school.
but “ai is just bad because it’s bad” will convince no one and is a morally lazy position to take. about anything!
you need to know why reading someone’s diary is wrong if you want to learn about privacy and respect. you need to know why child sexual assault is wrong if you want to be able to help children form healthy age appropriate relationships. you need to know why capitalism is bad if you want to replace it with something else. you need actual concrete ideas and ideologies rather than “you should agree with me because i have the right vibe”
Learning about AI and how it works is what made it so clear to me that it's not useful not for any nebulous reason but because it straight up cannot do 99% of the things the people selling it say it can. It borders on false advertising. And ofc the environmental cost which cannot imo be compared to anything else as AI is useless.
I don't like the plagiarism but I think focusing on that misses the biggest problem which is the fact that it wastes tons of resources on something completely useless. And I was against crypto and NFTs for the same reason. Doesnt have any real use, horrible for the environment, and most of the people selling it are lying to get your money.
"a vague disclaimer is nobody's friend"
4x07 The Initiative
Y'all this is a piece of history right here. Every single time you see a reference to a "shovel talk" in fic, defined here as "someone threatening harm to a potential romantic partner of a friend/loved one," it's referencing this scene. This scene specifically. Everywhere else that is not fannish internet, that interaction is referred to a "shotgun talk," referencing the father threatening a daughter's boyfriend with a shotgun. This scene gave a lot of people a chance to reframe that interaction in terms of a protective friend rather than a possessive father, which for a lot of obvious reasons resonated with people a whole fucking lot, and it immediately spread like wildfire into fannish and then general internet lexicon. I've seen people try and backronym it into an extension of the shotgun talk, as in, "I've got a shotgun and a shovel to bury you with," but I've asked a lot of rednecks from a lot of different necks of the woods and no one has ever encountered that variant in brickspace life. It's all Buffy, babey. This shit is linguistic history in the making.
wearing sky-colored shoes to hide from the devil. earth colored hat to hide from god
Iron breastplate to ward off fairies, Fishnet leggings to ward off cod.
You're evil and you know it
good thing they're hidden from god and the devil
Sometimes you make a post, then, fifteen minutes later, you get another idea. And you expound upon the post in a reblog. And then you do it again because this is not the website of well organized coherency. We make cracks about poor reading comprehension here, but honest god, we have some bad habits when it comes to communication.
But so anyway, then your post gets popular. It spreads. Like mold. People who have never heard of you in their entire fucking life are appending their opinions to your shit. Because the topic of the original post invites the topic of the second and third reblogs, there are strangers in your notes who are squawking to address the thing that you already talked about.
And because you are a patient and understanding person you try to default to the assumption that they are working with a fragmented manuscript, that they can only form their rather derivative opinions off of the small piece of your writing that they actually have access to. The internet is vast and plenty of nuance gets lost in the wide blue wilds of this hellsite.
But that isn't actually how reblogs work on this site. These are not people studying what little they can to form their opinion. These are people who cannot be bothered to flip over the page and see the rest of the thoughts stapled to the original thought. No, it's not great archival etiquette. But it's not as if the rest of the conversation is off floating somewhere in the ether. It's in the notes. It's at the very top of the notes as the first additions.
If you're looking at a post and there's a kind of obvious implication that hasn't been addressed. It's been addressed. It's not directly in front of your face and you are required to hit a couple of buttons to see it. God damn those intellectual elitists, demanding your emotional labour.
I don't want to hear your opinion if you couldn't be bothered to actually finish reading mine.
Aspencore
the tone makes this sound like they have a recurring problem with people trying to join after a bad breakup and are just sick of this shit
'People who are getting away from a bad breakup' was a major source of recruits for the French Foreign Legion.
I have worked a lot of remote jobs and you have no idea how common it is for someone who just had or got out of a bad interpersonal relationship to decide that they need to find themselves out in the woods and work on their issues, so then they go and get a job that requires close contact with limited group of people and no one else for months on end. And then when they make their bad decisions, (the rebound boyfriend, the one night stand, the long drawn out cry sesh with a bottle of booze in the middle of the night on a work day) they're still stuck with the same 6 people on a mountaintop for another 7 weeks who are all forced into front row seats to bear witness to the ongoing character development until the guy who is nominally in charge has to make a rule about no fucking in the cook tent, because its the only structure big enough for us all to get out of the rain and while we're all glad that Sarah is taking charge of her own life after her boyfriend cheated on her by fucking literally the only eligible man for 200 miles in every direction, the rest of us would like a hot meal.