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@a-insominia
So... I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about "life-changing writing advice" all the time and usually its really not—but honestly this is it man.
I'm going to try it.
I love the lawyer metaphor, because whenever I see “John knew that...” in prose writing I immediately think “how? How does he know it?” Interrogate your witnesses. Cross-examine them. Make them explain their reasoning. It pays dividends.
i'm just way too scared to take anything seriously
That escalated quickly
Something I don't think we talk enough about in discussions surrounding AI is the loss of perseverance.
I have a friend who works in education and he told me about how he was working with a small group of HS students to develop a new school sports chant. This was a very daunting task for the group, in large part because many had learning disabilities related to reading and writing, so coming up with a catchy, hard-hitting, probably rhyming, poetry-esque piece of collaborative writing felt like something outside of their skill range. But it wasn't! I knew that, he knew that, and he worked damn hard to convince the kids of that too. Even if the end result was terrible (by someone else's standards), we knew they had it in them to complete the piece and feel super proud of their creation.
Fast-forward a few days and he reports back that yes they have a chant now... but it's 99% AI. It was made by Chat-GPT. Once the kids realized they could just ask the bot to do the hard thing for them - and do it "better" than they (supposedly) ever could - that's the only route they were willing to take. It was either use Chat-GPT or don't do it at all. And I was just so devastated to hear this because Jesus Christ, struggling is important. Of course most 14-18 year olds aren't going to see the merit of that, let alone understand why that process (attempting something new and challenging) is more valuable than the end result (a "good" chant), but as adults we all have a responsibility to coach them through that messy process. Except that's become damn near impossible with an Instantly Do The Thing app in everyone's pocket. Yes, AI is fucking awful because of plagiarism and misinformation and the environmental impact, but it's also keeping people - particularly young people - from developing perseverance. It's not just important that you learn to write your own stuff because of intellectual agency, but because writing is hard and it's crucial that you learn how to persevere through doing hard things.
Write a shitty poem. Write an essay where half the textual 'evidence' doesn't track. Write an awkward as fuck email with an equally embarrassing typo. Every time you do you're not just developing that particular skill, you're also learning that you did something badly and the world didn't end. You can get through things! You can get through challenging things! Not everything in life has to be perfect but you know what? You'll only improve at the challenging stuff if you do a whole lot of it badly first. The ability to say, "I didn't think I could do that but I did it anyway. It's not great, but I did it," is SO IMPORTANT for developing confidence across the board, not just in these specific tasks.
Idk I'm just really worried about kids having to grow up in a world where (for a variety of reasons beyond just AI) they're not given the chance to struggle through new and challenging things like we used to.
I think this is an incredibly important post for a lot of reasons. You have to write a bad book in order to learn how to do something. You have to suck at playing an instrument before you can improve.
Struggling is part of the process, and I've had a lot of people argue with me that it shouldn't be who fail to see the point. When you replace an composer with an AI music generator, an artist with an AI-generated image, or an author with an AI-generated fanfic, you are missing out on the critical, fundamental experiences humans need to learn and grow. You are robbing yourself of essential skills you need as a person.
AI is not like a calculator, or a synthesizer, or a prompt generator. It's not a tool to aid in your process of understanding or creating something. It is replacing your ability to learn things, and that is going to do so much damage if you let it.
The recent hot VS cold polls have made me realise that a lot of people have no idea how to cool down.
As someone from a hot country that's regularly on fire, here's some tips:
WATER IS YOUR FRIEND! WATER! IS! YOUR! FRIEND! You can transfer SO much heat into this bad boy! You cannot cool down without water!
Wrists under the cold tap. Splash your face and the back of your neck. Fan yourself.
In some countries you can buy a little handeld fan with a water sprayer.
Damp tea towel around the neck. Stick an ice pack in there on hotter days.
Half fill a water bottle with water, stick in freezer. If you use a bottle with a straw, make sure it's lying on its side with the straw side up and out of the water. When frozen top up the rest of the way with tap water and off you go.
Desperate to cool off? Wet T-shirt. Sit in front of a fan. This will nuke it, just don't get hypothermia and don't fall asleep like this.
Cold showers are also your friend in summer. Some people get psyched up by these. Personally, I sleep like a baby, so I'm good to have them before bed. Just keep in mind that it takes a bit of time for the cool to circulate, so your body will tell you that you're colder than you actually are. I find that when I have cold showers I need to step out of the spray when I think I'm cold... I'll just wait, and thirty seconds later the temperature has evened out and I actually need to step under again. Rinse and repeat until you maintain coolness even after stepping out for a bit.
If you can't do cold showers, turn the cold shower on anyway and just stick your arms under. When they're cold, lift your arms up above your head. The sensation of cool blood draining into your body is fucking weird and kinda unpleasant but less unpleasant than being hot.
Feet in a tub of water with ice. Blood naturally flows to your extremities when hot, so take advantage of this. If you don't have a tub of ice water, sticking a wet rag on your feet in front of the fan works too, it's the less powerful version of the wet T-shirt.
Drinks lots of water but make sure that water has electrolytes as well. Stay in the shade.
Keep air circulating. Fans don't actually cool rooms down, they just help transfer heat from your body to the moisture on your skin or the air via evaporative cooling.
Block north facing windows early in the morning so the sun doesn't get in. If you're in the northern hemisphere, this is opposite for you. Keep in mind that if your home is brick, the bricks will still heat up and slowly release heat into your home even after the sun goes down so this will only do so much.
If it's hotter inside than outside, close all your windows but two, making sure they're on opposite sides of the house/unit you're in. Point a fan out of one window, making sure that the doors between the rooms with the open windows are all open. This will help create a mini pressure system in your home, pulling cooler air in and pushing the hotter air out via the fan. Bonus points if you can get that fan high up where the hot air rises; even within a single room the top is much hotter than the air by the floor. Adjust the amount of open windows based on how many fans you have, but generally you want more windows with fans open than windows without fans to keep the pressure correct.
Obviously, use your common sense for these. Not everything WILL work for you, just use the stuff that does and adjust what needs to be adjusted. Some of these will be impossible to use in the workplace but others you can still use. Others are best used at home. If humidity impacts your ability to use any of these, get a dehumidifier if that's an option, or use more ice instead of evaporation.
Also keep in mind that the skinnier you are, the faster these will work. More fat means more insulation, means more heat, so you may need to be more patient with some of these or use them in combination.
Bringing this back for my dying mutuals
Reblogging to save a life (mine. My life)
Am I getting a good grade in tumblr mutual?
Reblog to give the person you reblogged from a good grade in tumblr mutual
OceanGate, the deep-sea exploration company that created the Titan submersible, has removed its Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn a
poor things, well we should definitely make this easier on them by never repeatedly mentioning their name and deeds on the "reblog things forever" website
yea that'd be a shame
by the way, just so everyone knows what not to do, shift+r reblogs a post instantly
just make sure you don't reblog anything about oceangate because that would completely undermine their entire plan 😇😇😇
You also shouldn't queue a post, that would make people keep remembering this post for a longer time, which is the opposite of forgetting
June 18, 2023 never forgor
My pettiest reason that I hate Napoleon III: his handwriting is hideously bad.
thank you @franciscolindors for the tag <3
top 10 on repeat
from eden - hozier
crush - ethel cain
rhinestoned - kacey musgraves
in too deep - sum 41
cross your mind - shelly
jackie and wilson - hozier
la la lost you - niki
12:34 - the band camino
slow dance - clairo
remembering my dreams - griff
no pressure tags: @jvgoalie @mikkosbff @soffsh @bowiehorvat @mad-komet @mattyschaefer
kudos to @mikeyreilly for the tag <3 music ~
top 10 on repeat- not in any order:
Showbiz- Hayley Williams
Losing- Katelyn Tarver
Hideous Towns- The Sundays
Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me) - Steely Dan
Found Out About You - Gin Blossoms
Seventeen Going Under - Sam Fender
Can't Hardly Wait - The Replacements
The Plan - Build to Spill
Joey - Concrete Blonde
Portions for Foxes - Rilo Kiley
tagging with no expectations but I'd hear what you have to recco @pptiny @whitachi @stereax @calicoclutterbuck @ryangravytrain @dvar-trek @lurlur
I fairly recently switched from Spotify to Tidal so I don't think it's a completely accurate account of my listening habits. We're still learning each other!
Top ten most listened
1. Memory - Sugarcult
2. All That I've Got - The Used
3. The Suffering - Coheed and Cambria
4. Roses for the Dead - Funeral for a Friend
5. Ohio is for Lovers - Hawthorne Heights
6. The Anthem - Good Charlotte
7. Learn the Hard Way - Nickelback
8. Bleed for Me - Saliva
9. All Downhill From Here - New Found Glory
10. My Friends Over You - New Found Glory
Millennial emo disease is incurable but also this doesn't look like a particularly representative view of what's been on repeat lately.
I'll tag @outcastdeity @a-insominia @weefrightenedrabbit @elfontheshelves @kaiannanthi and @sosobriquet if you feel like playing ❤️
Current Top 10 on repeat! (In no particular order)
1. Watching Over You - Radio Company
2. Every Light - Radio Company
3. Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac
4. Pyramid - Jason Webley
5. Evermore - Dan Stevens
6. Not that Girl - Indina Menzel
7. I'll Never Fall in Love Again - Tom Jones
8. Ever Seen the Rain - Creedance Clearwater Revival
9. Whole of the Moon - Waterboys
10. Viva la Vida - Coldplay
Tagging @maggiemaybe160 @bluebell-24
> turns on my computer
> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default
> opens my email
> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default
> launches a software
> disables a new AI fea
Wanna share the pride flag I made today bisexual Welsh dragon and California bear
You mean what would he have responded to in that moment had he had the time? That’s interesting because I have an answer for that, and I had an answer for that in the next setup, camera setup after Castiel was taken and Dean’s on the floor and puts his, I put my head in my hands. In that moment I did that not because I just lost, well because I lost Cas but also because I didn’t say anything, I didn’t give him anything. And what I had in my head was I should have said, ‘I love you, too’ and hugged him.
-Jensen Ackles
Reblogging this again for absolutely no reason
Martin being completely blanked by the Kardashians
Martin wishing Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones, "the real fans," were available
"Don't push me, mate, I'm almost famous."
Karen Gillian calling him "that legendary reporter" and his reply, "No, I'm just Martin Brundle."
This was the most Grid Walk grid walk to ever grid walk
hey btw if ur transphobic don’t interact with my blog. we support trans people here
i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges
My friend and i have been saying "hold on i need to consult the duck" for duck duck go
