good-fwiend-in-wome:

i think it’s worth remembering this xkcd from 2013 that’s still equally true

im-the-antonymph-of-your-mom:

im-the-antonymph-of-your-mom:

The new xkcd just made me cry

https://xkcd.com/3184

adoravke:

escuerzoresucitado:

I seriously do not get how people don’t understand this. The absolute dependence so many have with AI, so quickly, is utterly baffling. They’ve completely given up all thought, all pursuit, all effort because it’s the Cool New Thing.

We will NEVER be able to look at content online any more without thinking “Is this AI?”.

From funny voices and videos of famous people playing CoD, to fake smear campaigns, product placements and scams using those very same voices and faces.

How about academics? Why bother writing a paper on a subject when AI can do it for you? Teachers not bothering to create course work because it’s easier to have an AI plan a lesson for you. Doesn’t matter if the information is incorrect because the person checking the work isn’t real! It’s yet another AI, working off of the same bungled data that yours spewed information from.

People are giving up the very idea of THINKING, of CREATIVITY and CONNECTION to a machine purely for the sake of convenience.

Tech-bros stopped reinventing the train for once, instead they created The Torment Nexus

We all thought it was going to be some over the top, horrid machine of endless pointed blades. It’s not. It’s a recursive river of information, slowly poisoning itself on it’s own bad data while people unknowingly or without care, drink from it deeply.

People will suffer, knowledge will be lost and those terrible few will use it to obscure their crimes more so than they already do.

Please, don’t use AI.

Be human. Struggle. Grow.

deep-space-netwerk:

[Link]

Under the “has cleared its orbital neighborhood” and “fuses hydrogen into helium” definitions, thanks to human activities Earth technically no longer qualifies as a planet but DOES count as a star.

superpunkjellyfish:

mapsontheweb:

Most-used word in each US state.

the amount of people in the notes that haven’t read the fucking map is astonishing

worst-egirl:

worst-egirl:

willowhelmiam:

hbmmaster:

willowhelmiam:

hbmmaster:

hbmmaster:

xkcd fans are the only fandom I’ve had direct experience with where people do the stereotypical nerdy fan thing of referring to installments of the thing they like by their release order numbers instead of their titles

like I’ve never heard anyone just say “the simpsons season 7 episode 21” without also saying the episode title but I have heard people say “xkcd 2501” without also saying the title of the xkcd

Yeah, we shouldn’t expect everyone to know every comic by heart. The average internet user probably only knows 1053 and 936.

and 2501, of course.

Of course!

sigh

hold on

xkcd 1053:

xkcd 936:

and of course, xkcd 2501:

asteraceaeblue:

minjiminjiminji:

XKCD’s excellent presentation on historical global temperature and anthropogenic global warming. 

[After setting your car on fire] “Listen, your car’s temperature has changed before.”

For the “Earth’s climate has changed before” crowd.

sandandglass:

Randall Munroe, xkcd, on The Colbert Report.

ext0r:

comic: http://xkcd.com/896

the-fandoms-are-cool:

sociopath-for-hire:

rumshop:

planetbrilliant:

_{Saying ‘what kind of an idiot doesn’t know about the Yellowstone supervolcano’ is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.}

School teaches you that ignorance is shameful, rather than being a person’s default AND ENTIRELY FIXABLE state. Sucks the fun outta learning, if you let it.

Will always reblog.

XKCD is my favorite comic of all time, for this reason. Tumblr could learn a huge lesson, especially from this comic.

if someone doesn’t know something, or says something wrong, do not shame them, teach them.

the-fandoms-are-cool:

sociopath-for-hire:

rumshop:

planetbrilliant:

_{Saying ‘what kind of an idiot doesn’t know about the Yellowstone supervolcano’ is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.}

School teaches you that ignorance is shameful, rather than being a person’s default AND ENTIRELY FIXABLE state. Sucks the fun outta learning, if you let it.

Will always reblog.

XKCD is my favorite comic of all time, for this reason. Tumblr could learn a huge lesson, especially from this comic.

if someone doesn’t know something, or says something wrong, do not shame them, teach them.

staff:

We are honored to be the punchline of today’s xkcd!

Make sure to click through and read the alt tag. :)