Quiet Birds

[magnetictapedatastorage]

“power corrupts” does NOT mean “oppression purifies”

[inkskinned]

my most ungrounded and unresearched fear is that so many companies are pushing AI in part because it builds them a pathway towards a subscription model for a huge number of things that should not be subscription, but theoretically could be:

do you want to talk to verizon's help desk because there's an error on your bill? to access a real agent, you have to pay for Verizon Access+, only 5.99 a month.

want to filter out all the fake job postings from the real ones? subscribe to Indeed: Advanced Tactics and only verified postings will appear on your dash.

sick of the infinite ai slop? buy Google Premium; it'll automatically detect ai within a site and gives it a credibility score. with premium plus, you can shuffle high-credibility results to the top.

do you want a "luxury" experience? well, you'd have to pay for that luxury, and since the company sure doesn't want to pay its employees; the cost would fall to the consumer.

when automation has made every experience unpleasant; the experience of genuine humanity will be commodified.

[marzipanandminutiae]

This is already happening – one of the softwares used by a museum I work at only lets you talk to a human help agent if you have their premium subscription. It's such bullshit

[inkskinned]

the fact you are not the only one in these notes saying "no this is already happening; i have to pay money to speak to a representative" is just... really awesome! you said a software used by museums is doing this shit? okay! great! wonderful!! anybody know where i can scream

[lettuce-tv]

don't go into the humanities because they're unprofitable and don't go into stem cuz its getting torn apart right now and don't go into buisness because it's competetive and speculative and don't go into education because it pays like shit. Just lay on thr ground. Just lay on the ground.

[impeccabletasteinmusic]

Visit Original Link

Miley Cyrus | Wrecking Ball (Stripped)

[buttplease-deactivated20140614]

THE END OMG

[tangl3d-web]

THE END

[shenotbusybeingborn-isbusydying]

“Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace”

— Eugene O’Neill (via words-and-coffee)

[shenotbusybeingborn-isbusydying]

me: let's do something productive

brain: too stressed, can't focus

me: ok, then let's do something enjoyable first

brain: can't do that either, feeling too guilty for not being productive

[danivergesart-deactivated202409]

[inkskinned]

there is something so ... small. about knowing, suddenly - oh, you don't actually want to hear me, do you?

knowing with crystal clarity: you're trying to communicate, and they're just trying to win something over you.

knowing you can never explain how this feels to them, because, of course - even if you did, they wouldn't fucking listen in the end.

[srdcovka]

[vetchtibbles]

despite everything, it’s still you (derogatory)

[vetchtibbles]

wait hey man wait whoah hey

[cytherae-rubin]

[tofutomato]

you gotta read, you gotta write, you gotta draw, you gotta watch films and shows. there is literally NO time to be employed

[monstermonger]

Friend in an alleyway | my wife sent me this photo the other day and said "you HAVE to draw this." and I agreed completely <:

[queerofthedagger]

I'd truly be the worst person to stick into a timeloop because I'd really just spend the first 5 years catching up on my book tbr, the next 7 on all the movies and shows that've Been On My List for ages, and then another decade on ao3. like sure nothing may stick but my memories will and i can just go into a supermarket to get snacks and wine each day, and i have art to indulge in. like thanks for the hints on how to get out but respectfully, I am busy

[lesbiansforboromir]

You actually cannot skip to being good at a creative endeavour that you haven't put much practice into. You cannot trick your way out of the 'knows that your work is not what you want it to be but don't know how to improve it' stage by planning or reading or talking about it really really hard. At some point you just have to craft through it until your brain finds it's own unique way back to the 'everything I make slaps' stage and be prepared to start the cycle all over again. You just have to make that project you're excited about slightly less good than you want it to be. (Says this standing in a pool of blood and covered in blood and also coughing up a little blood)

[dr-cassie-mckay]

@pscentral​ event 49: literature ↳ Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir – Okay, if I'm going to die, it's going to have meaning.

[luck-system-shenanigans]

i feel like im a weird age where i got just a blurry glimpse at the world Before. it used to be cold in the mornings and websites had fun games and the search results showed you what you searched for. covid wasn't a thing. can anybody fucking hear me. did i dream it all????

[murkymarco]

Caught myself spiraling and then remembered it's just my body not wanting to exist in these temperatures