Just here to Spectate

Popcorn and a show

[greelin]

being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

[yves-and-scessernee]

with faith and perseverance, one day we will sauté the horrors

[so-much-to-read-deactivated2025]

[half-giant-fighter]

[newvegascowboy]

"Tumblr is my bedroom" this "tumblr is a pinboard" that

Tumblr is an apartment complex with thin walls and every so often you just have to listen to your neighbors say the most deranged shit imaginable

[bingomann]

[thememedaddy]

[thelawfulchaotic]

Gemini had the fucking GALL to get in my email and summarize a 3-line email, taking up more space than the email did visually.

Hit the “thumbs down.” It’s like, what’s wrong??? Was our summary wrong? Were there offensive words? Thank you for helping us improve our AI tools :)

I selected “other.”

Text box popped up. Please elaborate!

Wrote in “I can fucking read” submit comment

Then had to spend several minutes torching all my settings with a flamethrower. Let me be clear: I’m (a lawyer) notoriously picky with my words FOR GOOD REASON (lawyering) so I overwhelmingly reject Gmail’s “helpful” little assistance. My privacy settings were set to “full paranoia” a little less than a year ago when I saw the writing on the wall and knew public defenders could become a target in the future. Better to lock it all down now.

Gemini had crept in there and turned ALL that shit back on. And showed itself by saying “Jane Doe says she’s so sorry for your loss and offers to reschedule for Thursday at 3” over an email from Jane Doe saying “I’m so sorry for your loss. We could reschedule for Thursday at 3?”

Why would I possibly need this. In what universe would I need this. I have eyes and a brain and a reading speed that twenty years ago was measured at 1500 wpm with full comprehension on dense scientific text. Furthermore! If I read a summary, I’m not reading what they actually wrote. If I’m not reading what they actually wrote, I’m not using my own judgment on the words and phrases that they used.

I literally don’t understand why this is helpful at all. This is just avoidance. Using LLMs to write is specifically Not Writing. Using LLMs to summarize is Not Reading. Using them to make art is Avoiding Making Art. Just READ! Just WRITE! I was not put on this fucking planet to not read and not write and not make art! Avoidance is an anxiety symptom and indulging it gives it more power.

If I had an AI to do my most dreaded task, answer the phone for clients, I wouldn’t use it. Because an AI cannot help them. An AI cannot hear the facts of their case, make appropriate noises, be thoughtful and insightful, and then give them a realistic estimate of what could happen in court. I am unique. I cannot be replaced by machine learning. I have style. I have expertise. I don’t hallucinate unless I’m having a really great Friday night and I’m off the clock.

When I need to outsource tasks from my own brain, I give them to people I know can do them and that I trust to do them right.

Fuck, it just sneaks up on you, doesn’t it?? Goddamn Gemini jumpscare right in my own fucking email

[theanishimori]

I WAS NOT PUT ON THIS FUCKING PLANET TO NOT READ AND NOT WRITE AND NOT MAKE ART!

[queen-of-andor]

Bastien.chd, one of the animators of one piece episode #1173, posted this beautiful art of Loki:

[zloro]

don’t remember if I posted this here

anyways elbaf arc is great I love loki

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[oshadefiant]

my feelings right now as an academic

[devilleworship]

saw this on Insta and the idea that people who are anti-AI are just using it anyway like... willing to give it up? I ACTIVELY AVOID THAT SHIT BUD! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?

ALSO

It's not as if this shit has been around SOOO LONG. We all existed JUST FINE before this shit became THE THING someone decided to shove in our face like...

[bolasaurus]

Dude, I wouldn't even fucking notice until I go to Google something and the search actually works again.

[serenitynerd]

The only reason I would notice is my life would suddenly get easier

[maswartz]

Yes! I'd actually be able to trust my eyes and ears again!

[thebellekeys]

adolescent boarding-school girl-toff emerald fennell developed a fantasy about falling for one of her father's stable boys after she read wuthering heights and now we all have to suffer for it because the marlborough college dorms had fanfiction.net blocked

[slowset-is-dead]

Emerald Fennell describing her film as her imagined version of Wuthering Heights from when she was 14 or something is not the flex she seems to think it is because its just highlighting all her privilege and prejudices she has had all her life and that she probably wasn't a very good English student

[journoeil]

what bothers me most about Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights is the discourse that continues to be propagated (often by women themselves!) that because it was written by a woman, the novel must reflect the kind of relationship the author secretly dreamed of, that she was quirky, dark, perhaps secretly romantic in a morbid way. if it had been written by a man, everyone would say: “oh, the author is analyzing toxic relationships through these characters. he’s criticizing them.” it always bothered me that Brontë was immediately branded as a weird lovelorn woman, when in reality there is not much in her biography to attest to that. she was just a very intelligent writer who thought about a very intelligent subject like any of her male counterparts.

the canon always sees men as universal observers and geniuses who undertake social studies, but when it comes to women, they are reduced to being mere subjective chroniclers of interiority, supposedly recording their personal romantic fantasies.

many novels contain a romantic thread. among other things, Wuthering Heights opens with one. but most of the book is about revenge, cruelty, trauma, inheritance, generational damage etc. and yet, because it was written by a woman, only the love story is treated as significant.

if Wuthering Heights had been written by, say, F. Scott Fitzgerald, critics would likely praise the ruthless anatomy of obsession. I am just so sick of this. I sure would love to see the day when The Great Gatsby is marketed as the greatest love story ever told, overflowing with loose erotic scenes, rather than the highbrow social critique it’s usually presented as. the idea that women write “from emotion” while men write “from intellect” is still too deeply sedimented in how we talk about art.

[al-404]

Watched the film "Red" recently.

I'm mad at Shanks.

Like there was not a single braincell on that ship. "Ah, let's make the child think we hated her and used her her entire life just to steal a treasure so she doesn't find out she killed an entire island"

Instead of "Let's take Uta and tell her a monster woke up midnight. We don't know how woke or why, but we defeated it". Tell her she fell down trying to escape and that's why she can't remember. Burn the song down. And when Uta grows, tell her the truth then, if they want to. Without blaming her. Assuring her they will be with her no matter what.

But no, they had to take my girl away.

I kinda liked Uta a lot so now I'm sad and I need a way to cope lol

[lots-o-doodles]

Captain, Fearsome Pirate, Emperor of the Sea...fighting with a 3 year old.

[jcalexandrewrites]

No. No. I'm sorry. But you do not have to "hand it" to the Soviet Union.

I know we're living in a late-stage capitalist hellscape, and many of us are still recovering from the generational social conditioning of American Exceptionalism, but that doesn't mean you need to go flying in the opposite direction by claiming totalitarian dictatorships like the USSR and China were "the good guys, actually!"

Please stop embarrassing yourself, tankies!

[marxspissbitch]

Now tell me how many of your perfect revolutions have actually succeeded? Yall love every revolution but a successful one.

[ivyroseiris]

Tell me when have marxist leninists achieved a classless moneyless stateless society where the workers own the means of production and the adage to each according to their ability to each according to their needs?

Or has it always been state capitalism with socialist reforms

Btw I disagree with this persons demonization of the USSR, the USSR did materially improve the lives of many people, but it did also worsen for many ethnic minorities and queer people under Stalin among others

And Lenin was far from perfect

Also when has the ruling party not turned into a new elite?

[marxspissbitch]

The goal of Marxism leninism isnt immediate abolition of commodity production, currency, etc. Thats the goal. I do disagree with China opening their markets, the illegal dissolution of the ussr after market reforms from Gorbachev, social Conservatism, etc.. but to ignore their material conditions is impossible. As well as that, do you give up on a child who you think is struggling to walk (who was also shot in the knees) or do you wait and help? My problem isn't criticism of the ussr, its unfair and non marxist demonization, which ignores material conditions. And yes the ussr did make mistakes with ethnic minorities and queer people, but also improved their lives, and compared to the rest of the world at the time, the ussr was progressive. Also it just depends on what you consider elites

Sorry if this is rambly im tired

[ivyroseiris]

Thanks for the genuine answer btw!

And nah rambly shit is good

Honestly I do very much understand marxist leninists

One of my biggest issues is just how big of an issue campism is

Like the USSR and Cuba both Supported Franciso Macis Nguema because he was a "marxist" even tho he described himself as a hitlerian marxist (his rule of Equitorial Guinea was horrifying and chaotic)

[marxspissbitch]

IMO we should take lessons from past socialist experiments and avoid mistakes which means having fair engagement with such countries

[unsolicited-opinions]

If we took lessons from all that is consistent in past communist experiments, we'd stop conducting such experiments.

They all failed miserably. In the 20th century, communist regimes (most notably under Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, and Pol Pot) had the highest cumulative death toll inflicted by a political ideology on their own populations with at least 80 to 100 million deaths.

Nothing has lifted more people out of more suffering than left-leaning liberal democracies.

You glaze communists because you know fuck-all about them, you only read their ideology and their fanfic, not their actual histories.

You're as stuck in a bubble of thought-terminating cliches as any MAGA dittohead, and couldn't reason your way out of a wet paper bag.

Get a library card. Read something other than the ideology that appeals to you through emotional resonance. Learn to think critically. Start by reading Orwell.

When you hit about 25 and your prefrontal cortex is online, critical thinking may get easier.

[mastomysowner]

Wonder how he feels about snow by @Shiibeex

[yuki2sksksk]

More of this crossover ship because I am not done with them yet, apparently.

Naming this Strawberry & Cigarettes AU