redstonedust:

when boy bands sing a love song addressed to the listener does that imply all 5-10 of them are in love with you at once. that seems like a lot of pressure i don’t know if i want to be the nucleus of the boyband polycule.

imatmywormrightnow:

I seem to be living a very expensive lifestyle called eating food regularly

darling-peony:

Do not go gentle into that good knight. He likes to be fucked much harder than that.

newtype-lila:

rb to tell prev they’re being so brave right now and pat their head a little please

sexchangedotcom:

sexchangedotcom:

my beautiful baby who i’m naming untitled document

i can’t seem to find my baby

tousey-mousey:

andthentheywilleatthestars:

anexperimentallife:

I have started unironically doing this. It is DEVASTATINGLY effective. You make friends SO easily.

Stop wishing people would do this and be the person who does this.

kalgalen:

Is there any better feeling than stumbling upon a character that sucks in the Exact ways you need them to at this point in your life

ms-demeanor:

This is a really excellent deep dive into AI water use and how a lot of discourse around it is at best inaccurate and at worst deliberately misleading.

A great example of how it’s misleading is the NYT story about an AI datacenter causing local wells to dry up for residents, but the story is actually about the construction causing water issues - the datacenter wasn’t active, hadn’t been finished, and the construction could easily have been for a shipping hub or housing development. Framing “construction company did not do appropriate groundwater surveys and fucked up the water table” as “data centers guzzling up water” is extremely disingenuous.

The substack article I linked is quite long and quite technical, and if you’re not interested in reading it Hank Green has made a video discussing the fact that there is a lot more nuance in the discourse around AI water use than the most vocal Pro-AI or Anti-AI people are interested in examining.

There are a lot of people who say that all AI use is theft. I think that’s uncomplicatedly wrong, that if you’re using “theft” the way that the DMCA uses “theft” you’re wrong. For more on that, I’d recommend reading the “Expanding Copyright is not the Answer” section of @mostlysignssomeportents’s adapted speech on AI criticism or the EFF’s comments to the copyright office RE generative AI. (You should actually read both, and you should read Doctorow’s article in full because it is a criticism of AI that moves beyond thought terminating cliches to really explore why the AI industry as it stands is bullshit).

I do not, generally speaking, like AI. I think that most AI products create shit results. I think most AI art looks like shit and most AI writing is awful bordering on unreadable. I think that there’s a massive bubble built up around AI and I think AI is absolutely fucking the personal computing market.

And, all that said, it is deeply annoying to dislike AI as much as I do and still feel the need to point out that the way that a lot of people criticize AI is shortsighted, reactionary, and just flat-out incorrect. There are real things wrong with how we are approaching AI as a society and how AI is being sold to users and forced into our environments, and “art theft” is not one of those things.

(And this is everyone’s reminder that fair use is the best, I love it, and you are allowed to copy, distribute, remix, sell, and do whatever you want with my art and writing whenever you want to. Every time I write something like this people come into my inbox to say “I hope your art gets stolen” and I’m like “Bitch, me too, the fuck?”)

roxaro:

ruixrose:

roxaro:

“who’s your blorbo?” is singular? in this economy?? I don’t know how y'all are doing it, but it costs me 6 blorbos minimum just to get through the fucking day. due to inflation. :(

I just assumed they meant current at this second.

unfortunately, my blorbos travel like schools of fish. that’s their emotional support soccer team of other blorbos. 😔

fullmetalist:

f1ve-more-minutes:

saywhat-politics:

The best shot of the year

Those in the notes worried about this being AI, it’s not - her name is Pan Xiaoting and she’s a badass billiards pro