Stream of Consciousness

I put most of my random stuff here

[tumbwr]

saying words is often like chess in that you have to construct sentences very specifically sometimes otherwise they fucking get you

[tumbwr]

Communication is PVP

[calware]

it's really sad how whenever a disabled person accomplishes something extraordinary (which deserves recognition in its own right) suddenly everyone expects all disabled people to be able to accomplish that too, as if it's a bar everyone is now expected to clear, as if it's suddenly easy, let alone possible

[hyper-red-girl]

TME trans people will immediately throw trans women under the bus and they continue to.

Yet when trans women and their allies call this trend out they're attacked.

No wonder trans women don't want to be in the same community as you all

They will throw trans girls under the bus, falling into the sports bs, and deny them healthcare

Truly evil

[hydrachea]

> 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

[sluttygrandpa]

Honestly, at this point, if you're still bitching about AI but not moving to open-source and nonprofit software/tech/services, you deserve it. Shut up or stop using it. Those of us who've put in the effort to switch to non-evil tech are sick of the purposeless whining.

[hydrachea]

I've been nicely letting everyone suggest open source on this post because it might genuinely be useful to someone but because you've decided to be a condescending little bastard- this might be a hard concept to grasp, but some of us actually have jobs. Some of those jobs also provide us with computers equipped with an OS we have zero say over, to use software we also have zero say over. Kindly get off your high horse and suck my dick.

[sage-nebula]

As someone who has worked in IT for the past 17 years, I'd also like to say that there is often a higher barrier of entry for open-source software / operating systems when it comes to technical knowledge and ability, and those who can't jump that barrier still deserve to not have AI programs installed on their devices without their knowledge or consent. Someone who struggles with Windows is not going to be able to just hop into Linux, especially when they probably have other things going on in their lives and don't have the time to sit down and learn a brand new operating system. Someone who doesn't even recognize that there are different browsers, much less open-source ones that aren't Chromium forks, isn't going to be able to seek out one they can both a.) safely download, b.) install, and c.) use instead of the shortcut they know as The Internet.

And sure, you can dismiss these people as lazy, as stupid, as being elderly and so who cares. But from my 17 years of experience, I can tell you that technical instinct and ability varies widely across the entire adult spectrum. And I can also tell you that people have different strengths, and that just because someone isn't good with computers doesn't mean they aren't smart as hell.

And I can also say, again, that it really doesn't matter.

Companies like Microsoft and Google sneaking AI software into devices and software without the consent of those using the software or devices is wrong. It's invasive and raises major security concerns. People should not have to learn entirely new operating systems to escape this nonsense. It's an unreasonable expectation, and it fails to hold companies like Microsoft and Google accountable for their malicious behavior.

[aorish-deactivated20251222]

Recent discourse reminds me of that cult indoctrination trick that's often used to weed out more difficult marks early on, where they tell you all that you aren't allowed to eat rice on Tuesdays and then if you protest they go "wow SOMEBODY likes rice a little much huh" as if you're the fucking weirdo who cares too much about how much rice is consumed between Monday and Wednesday instead of them.

And this forces you to decide whether your autonomy matters to you more than the approval of the group - while they'll still act like you're on thin ice either way, if you give in at this point they know you're theirs forever, because now they've established a foothold, you've shown a moral weakness, which they will brand you with so it can be used against you in the future ("hey RICE-addict here doesn't want help break into the city records office") to force you to double-down and isolate you further.

And if instead you do decide to push back further, after your abrupt departure from the group ("You're seriously leaving us over RICE?!? Seriously?") and subsequent ostracism, you can then be used as a demonstration to the others who were more pliable, of how the outgroup is full of people like you who are obsessed with violating the No-Tuesday-Rice rule to the point where they'll abandon all their friends, who cared so much for them, so it clearly isn't an arbitrary restriction, you're the kind of monster these rules are intended to protect them from, thus all the other wise and esoteric precepts of the charismatic leader are implied to be equally justified.

[doomhamster]

This isn't just for cults either! Shitty partners, bosses, friends - they all do variants of this where if you kick back the first time they make an unreasonable request, it proves you weren't ever committed since you'd let such a small thing ruin everything. And of course, if it's the third or the tenth unreasonable thing they ask of you, it's SUCH A SMALL THING to be a deal-breaker at this late point in your relationship!

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

These fucking techbros are so fucking childish. "Let's rebuild the twin towers as AI Bots With Lasers" is the most 8 year old idea I've ever heard.

Then again, 9/11 TWO on the AI Laser Buildings would rule

[anarchistmemedistro]

also… they’re already rebuilding them. four of the six towers are already done.

[pinkplushiestar]

my favourite Calvin and Hobbes strip

[hellallamerican]

a ton of people have unexpectedly followed me over the last 2 days so here is my rent-lowering gunshot:

the american south is the most racially diverse and poorest region of the united states, and any political sentiment that treats the south is stupid or expendable is inherently racist and classist. a lot of y'all are racist and classist. the south is also the heart of american culture. argue with a wall. you cannot deny that everybody in the entire world does not emulate artists from atlanta. there is vested interest in keeping the south poor and uneducated BECAUSE this is the most racially diverse region in this country. if you actually give a fuck about progress, you would fight for the south, not mock us.

[squeakitties]

still thinking about the apparent 2006-2007 epidemic of rabid swarms of wii remotes descending on helpless televisions like locusts

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

wii sports was invented by nefarious television manufacturers to break people's televisions

[puppygirllaika]

What a very funny joke that definitely did not happen because Nintendo definitely did not buy up almost a third of the shares of the top five TV manufacturers in the time between the announcement and release of the Wii, shares which definitely didn't skyrocket in value over the next two years due to an increase in flatscreen sales, nearly half of which independent analysts attributed to people replacing damaged TVs with newer, more expensive models from electronics stores that relied on high-pressure sales tactics to upsell people and get them to buy more expensive models on credit which they couldn't actually afford.

[arcadiansolitude]

Dog years this, early dying grace that. Didn’t Rocky still get exposed to a high dose of radiation in the taumoeba leak incident? Like, more than he ever passively experienced on Erid in his entire life, period?

Give that rock cancer. Doomed queerplatonic relationship. They both die at the same time and Adrian turns the biodome into a museum to their sacrifice.

[green-armadilloette]

#consider: rocky dying before grace #grace gets told about how tragic it is that he will die so young #his lifespan is nothing compared to an eridian's #rocky preemptively grieves for him #as do the other eridians #and then #when grace is in his 50s maybe 60s #starting to get old but still so much time left ahead of him #rocky starts to falter #his carapace cracks and his vents don't properly function #the eridians have no idea what they're looking at #and grace is no medical doctor but when they describe the foreign cells growing in tandem and overtaking rocky's little biomatter #grace knows with a sinking feeling deep in his gut that rocky will not make it. the radiation got to him after all. rocky is dying of cance #and there's nothing grace can do #over the next 5-10 years grace tries to play with his friend and keep him company but rocky can do less and less until he can only lie ther #the change starts slowly but accelerates exponentially #grace and adrian take turns watching over him as rocky sleeps more and more #the news leaks and suddenly they aren't the only ones watching #some eridians make pilgrimages to watch over the savior of erid in his last moments #when he finally dies there is a massive day of mourning across the planet. #grace and adrian cling to each other as best they can but it's not the same. it will never be the same #and grace is left with a horrible all-encompassing clawing feeling of guilt. it should have been him. it should have been him. #it should have been him. he was the one meant to die first. what does he do now? without rocky? without his best friend? he dies soon after

via hivemindofevilbats

[yaldabaothadeez]

A story set in a D&D-like world where the 4 classical elements are the basis of magic, but the characters are aliens on a very cold planet trying to work out why water is classified separately from all the other types of rock.

[starlightxraven]

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

[appalachian-werewolf]

"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

It fucking better.

[mrsjdavis]

Like to charge, reblog to cast?

[newbarktownalumni]

[felesrubrum]

"The court also seemed to take a dig at Google for expecting users not to “blindly trust” AI overviews, noting that the AI tool’s utility “would be significantly diminished if the ‘AI overview’ were generally regarded as unreliable and if every single displayed link required independent verification.”" hilarious, massive win for germany

[mousegirlheart]

If Funko Pops weren't evil enough they once shut down itch.io for a little bit

[whaile]

late summer / early fall thoughts

[valtsv]

rocky phm makes me unwell to even think about because what do you Mean he haunted that ship like a ghost clinging to its unfinished purpose for decades until another lonely ghost found him by following a trail of death spanning time and space and they loved each other back to life

[valtsv]

like i get the appeal of the angst of being like "ohhh rocky is going to be the eridian equivalent of someone who 'came back wrong' with all the human mannerisms and cultural knowledge he's adopted from and learned to accomodate for grace" but it literally doesn't matter because he came back. and grace is the only one who could have brought him back at all. if you even care.

[kushblazer666]

araki in nebraska: fuuuuck dude what if there was an enemy

[turing-tested]

IVE BEEN HANGING OUT WITH MY FRIEND FOR LIKE A YEAR NOW AND IT TURNS OUT WE KNEW EACH OTHER AND WERE FRIENDS WITH EACH OTHER PRETRANSITION

[turing-tested]

we we’re talking about how we had a mutual friend and how that was so wild and then they mentioned another friend i knew and i was like “yeah i played soccer with them both in the park” and my friend was like “wait does your deadname start with a C” and it turns out she was also there and we just had no idea who each other was this entire time till now

[asymbina]

This is fucking wild

[lesbianredpanda]

[professorsparklepants]

This is half a plot for a modern Shakespearean comedy of errors.

[mananabuffins]

Romcom where two people meet cute and bond over how awful their exes were and plan elaborate revenge schemes but it turns out they both transitioned and are helping to plan revenge plots against themselves