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Not going to "The Odyssey" for even a hot second, at any price.

#sure that's fine #being in obsession is honestly not that bad #if you're not a jackass #I'd take my one wish #and wish for a million dollars a month for the rest of my life #and since one wish willows aren't monkey paw items #I'm set!

bruzum

lastvalyrian

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

depsidase

derinthescarletpescatarian

I'm reading Blindsight and Peter Watts' take on vampires is insane actually

derinthescarletpescatarian

Sure they were real but went extinct and we found their DNA and resurrected the species to capitalise on their extreme intelligence for corporate interests. Sure their natural ability to go into stasis for long periods of time as part of their hunting and survival strategies is great for genetically engineering hybrid humans so they can be put into stasis for extremely long-distance space travel. Sure they're stopped by crucifixes because a flaw in their fuckign. Multidimensional hyperanalytical predator thought processes makes their minds bluescreen when they try to comprehend right angles. Why not.

unfortunate-beetle-and-friends

I was on board until the right angles. XD

derinthescarletpescatarian

The right angles are the best part

derinthescarletpescatarian

#vampires stopped by sugar cubes#wait... doors are fucking right angles#vampires would be fucking useless in modern society#my math notebook could destroy them

They have to take mind-dampening drugs to go out in public. In the lab they're kept in oblong rooms where the lighting is designed to not create right angled shadows. It's a whole big thing and probably a big part of why they went extinct, humans fucking love making rectangles.

#blindsight #one of my favorites #along with watts' stuff in general #and the vamp angle glitch gets even better #because the corporations went “ya we could fix this”#but they deliberately decided to not edit that out #because having the glitch was useful #to keep their hypersmart lab monsters under control #because losing them hurts profits

tedcruzisthezodiackiller

#okay the character changes suck #but it's very #VERY #fucking disappointing that those are the thing that people are focusing on #rather than the fact that they hired a sighted person to play a blind character #i thought we had all agreed it was bad to do that #when it was someone in a wheelchair #so why is it different when it's a blind person?#you think it's easy being blind/VI?#you think we don't need work too?#the amount of people I've seen defending this because “toph technically isn't blind she sees through her feet!”#or #“a blind person couldn't do the martial arts”#is disgusting

your-weekly-ish-pod

SILENTIUM

SILENTIUM is a solo-narrator horror fiction podcast following Vatican linguist Father Tommaso Lanza as he investigates deaths for the Custodia Ultimae Vocis, a secret Church institution studying an impossible language that manifests at the moment of death.

This podcast made my horror enthusiast's little heart thump with joy when I first heard it. The way it does eldritch horror by mixing it with catholic and body horror is simply delicious. The mystery behind this otherworldly 2000 years old language, and what this institution is hiding, is intriguing, and the episodic stories are even better.

Episode three has to be my personal favourite: A small girl in a convent is believed to be a saint after a halo appears around her head. Except the halo isn't made of celestial light, but of something far more tangible and horrific.

SILENTIUM is currently airing and usually releases episodes monthly.

#silentium

vethyourhalflingmother

my biology professor has such a chaotic energy about him, last week i went to his office hours and somehow we ended up on the topic of gay marriage:

he said that when he lived in texas they changed the law to define marriage as “between a man and a woman in a house of religious worship with the intention to have children” so he filed his taxes as single and when they called him up like “you filed married last year” he was like “you changed the law, i was married by a judge in a courthouse and i have no intention of having kids” and they told him “you know who that law was for” and i guess he hung up on them and did not, in fact, pay taxes as a married man that year

fromwolfsandgods

Chaotic good

swordshapedleaves

NO! This is Lawful Good! He is following the LAW! Chaotic doesn’t just mean cheeky!

dragkingandreweldritch

this is like how Sweden stopped classifying homosexuality as an illness because people started a campaign of calling in gay to work

malicious compliance is one of the best tools in the arsenal of civil rights activism

dracogotgame

Always reblog for malicious compliance

findingfeather

sometimes following the letter of the law works even better than ignoring it.

ltleflrt

In Utah the new book banning laws apply to the bible, and there’s already someone petitioning to get it removed from schools and libraries.

hulking-godless-child-beast

I hope no English teacher ever puts up with “banning pronouns” for even a moment

gehayi

Update: The Utah book ban has, in fact, resulted in the Bible being banned in elementary and middle schools in Davis County, and high schoolers now only have limited access to the King James Version, due to “vulgarity and violence.”

Now the Book of Mormon is under consideration for a ban as well. The parent who complained said that it was very violent.

what-even-is-thiss

Health classes really ought to teach people what the beginning stages of addiction are like because a lot of people don’t realize they’re addicted to something until they’re years deep into it.

what-even-is-thiss

Signs you might be getting addicted to something:

If you go without it you feel unwell in a way that you never usually feel unwell. Sweating, tired, sleepy, headaches, irritable, depressed, etc. For example when I was in opium withdrawal I got incredibly depressed in a way that I’ve never been before or since. When you quit caffeine you might get super bad headaches even if you never usually get any headaches.

Thoughts of it regularly bother you and the thoughts go away once you’ve taken it but only temporarily. Unlike with a food craving which usually stays away once you’ve satisfied it or distracted yourself from it.

You find yourself rationalizing with yourself why you should break your own rules about how much you can take and how often. For example you might only let yourself drink alcohol every four days but start thinking that three days is actually close enough to four days, right? Especially if this happens regularly.

You’re using it so often that you feel the need to lie about how much you use because other people might think it’s concerning

If the substance or activity is nearby it’s genuinely difficult to not consume it or participate in it in a way that’s really frustrating.

You feel bad when you’re not on it and your brain tells you “if you just take the thing you wouldn’t feel this way”

You can only feel “whole” or “normal” when you’re on a substance even though it’s a recreational drug

And if you read this and think you might be addicted to something, don’t panic and don’t feel ashamed. Realizing you’re addicted to something isn’t a failure. It’s more information about your health that you can use to manage your condition, whether you want to get rid of your addiction or not.

asteroidtroglodyte

You can’t Abstain your way to a Better World.

asteroidtroglodyte

The Burger still gets made, even if you go Vegan. If you don’t buy it, it just winds up in the trash. If you want to do something meaningful about waste, you need legislation: It must become a crime to waste food in those ways.

If you care about Animal Cruelty in Factory Farms, you need to get legislation passed. It must become a crime to mistreat animals in those ways, and when malfeasances occurs, the onus of responsibility for those crimes must fall upon wealthy shoulders. That, also, requires legislation. It requires regulations, and regulators.

The largest source of Microplastics is wear and tear on automobile tires. It doesn’t matter what brand of shampoo you buy. It doesn’t matter which company you support with your dollar. The issue of Public Transit is too large-scale to be handled at anything less than the municipal level.

It’s not enough to just not participate in society

If you want the world to Change, you must leverage the mechanisms of political power.

You need Government.

asteroidtroglodyte

STOP PROPOSING INDIVIDUAL SOLUTIONS TO COLLECTIVE PROBLEMS

melongifts

Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.

melongifts

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.

melongifts

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

I AM SO SICK OF DEFAULT AI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rainintheforecast

Spin the wheel. Tomorrow, you wake up in this country with, however implausible, a passport for both it and your home country. How do you feel?

This is awful; I’m booking a trip home immediately.

I really don’t like this; I’ll stick it out briefly, but I’m heading home soon.

This isn’t great; I’d rather be back home, but I’ll manage until I can get back.

Being here isn’t better or worse than being in my home country.

This is pretty nice; I’ll stay a little while, but go home eventually.

I love it here; I’ll be staying a long while before I go home.

This is amazing; it’ll be a long time before I go home, and I may stay here.

Voting ended onApr 20

Picker Wheel is a wheel spinner for a random picker. Various functions & customization. Enter choices or names, spin the wheel to decide a r

#macedonia #welp #free healthcare is nice #the trans rights are not nice #but it's not necessarily worse considering how things are going here #so eh

transfaguette

mostly I don't fault anyone for skirting jury duty because they truly do less than the bare minimum to compensate you for your time & transportation & circumstances and it's annoying as fuck. but it is also a big "put up or shut up" moment for your actual dedication to justice and care for your community. it's literally the government saying to you "hey come watch this trial and make sure our legal system is functioning justly and fairly."

#yeah like #the time I was called up I would have been happy to do it #I'm a law nerd! I'm thinking of changing career to be a lawyer!#this is My Shit #BUT #there's no public transit to get me there #and the uber in the morning would have taken all of the paltry compensation they were offering #because of surge pricing and requiring me to be there when everyone is trying to also get to work #and then I wouldn't have had money to get home #and when I told them all this the response I got was essentially a “it's your responsibility use transit or uber”#aka THE THINGS I JUST SAID WON'T WORK #gee it's almost like people would be more willing to do this if you actually paid them properly for their time #and didn't dismiss accessibility concerns

hacash

someone at the marketing department had a little too much fun with this

villainessbian

a challenger

anxietyproblem

disappointingcabbage

Having both ADHD and autism has made me develop a shitload of hyperfixations that became special interests. Anyway I made a list of almost all of them as one liners

Horror Podcasts

Archiving job ASMR (gone wrong) (gone spooky)

Civil service ASMR (gone wrong) (gone spooky) (into the multiverse)

John Doe and the Sad Pathetic Wet Cat of A Man: The horror podcast you didn’t expect to become a musical

The weirdest radio station you’ll ever listen to

The all-American toxic yuri road trip

Dracula Daily got an audiobook in podcast format!

Carmilla got a Dracula Daily style audiobook in podcast format!

Video Games

This mountain unlocks Double Jump and self acceptance unlocks Triple Jump: a trans allegory

Plot twist: the moth IS the Lamp

Plot twist: Grandma’s got issues and the void won’t help

The Blocks that shaped my childhood

I fell in a hole and now I have to save the world with the power of friendship

I don’t know if the power of friendship is enough to save the world this time, guys

In space, no one can hear you sob from this heart-wrenching bittersweet lore *banjo noises* *harmonica noises* *oboe noises* *drums* *alien piano noises* *whistling* *eerie elk noises*

I’m just a little guy in a Big Forest

I’m just a little guy in a Big Forest 2: where’s my owl sister?

Solving puzzles while being roasted by a robot

Solving puzzles while being roasted by a robot 2: Now With More Puzzles AND More Robots!

What if the aliens were fish?

What if the aliens were Arctic fish?

Why is the ocean Blood?

Oh hey this game PointCrow is playing has a really cool art sty- JONATHAN SIMS????

Crab Game with the funniest accessibility feature I’ve ever seen

Who knew making lines out of blocks was goated with the sauce?

Books

Hey why does this house have an extra room in this movie that doesn’t exist?

Quincy Morris: Vampire Hunter

The OG lesbian vampire story 💜

The Greek gods owe child support

The Egyptian gods sure do love possessing people

The Roman gods owe child support

The Norse gods owe child suport

Apollo finally pays his child support

Stop sending children to war because Sandwich said so: a tale in five books

Stop sending children into the arena: a tale in three books (plus two prequels)

This 13-floor London apartment building is fucked up and haunted

The prospective princess to revolutionary scholar pipeline

Movies

This cool Swedish cult can get you out of your toxic relationship with just nine human sacrifices!

Why are there sex aliens in a mansion in Texas?

Why is the movie so much better than the board game?

They were never skeletons, were they?

Damn, these vampires are really desperate for blues music

The most wholesome idiots you’ll ever see travel through time

A lesbian horror trilogy set in 3 different time periods? Sign me the fuck up!

Oh my God, Regina, you can’t just walk in front of a bus

Silence! I’ve made my decision. Bring back the dinosaurs.

Maybe the giant floating allegory for nuclear weapons in the sky should stay hidden

Apparently the local forest spirit provides free babysitting services! Yippee!!

My son’s best friend may be a magic fish but at least he has a friend his age

Maybe we wouldn’t be killing the planet if nature fought back.

These bathhouse spirits really need to unionize

YouTube/TV Series

Sonic but Funnier

The haunted house of drag

That one Really Big drag reality competition show. You know the one.

Saving the world with the power of friendship and also throwing rocks at people and also wind blasting people and also throwing water at people and also fire blasting people and also-

Saving the world with the power of friendship and also dragons

Saving the world with the power of lesbians

Mark and Ethan’s Excellent Adventure

Plays/Musicals

Fuck Capitalism, Become Trees

Trying to fit in as a lesbian alien is super fucking hard

Fuck you Dad, I’m running away to the woods because you banished my cousin

Sorry Horatio, I vengeanced too close to the sun and now I can’t make it to date night

Let’s be real, the ending is Friar Laurence’s fault.

Am I making an ass of myself or is it just the fairies in the woods?

So… who’s coming back to life?

Wednesday Addams comes out as straight

Your Honor, he deserved It

Your Honor, her perm is intact and therefore her lies are not

Fuck Around and Find Out: Fairy Tale Edition

Don’t ask what’s in the pies

Child laborers unionize: The Musical

The Greek gods owe child support: The Musical

I said wait for me, why’d you ruin it?

Racism and classism ruined the love story and the Gods actually felt bad about it

Unpopular opinion: The musical is better than the movie (Green Edition)

Saving the family business with the power of drag

We’re poor artists in New York City in the middle of the AIDS epidemic, of course we can’t make rent!

Hey maybe sex ed is a good idea, actually (ft. some Absolute Bangers)

A British murder mystery: Now with Clowns! And an absurdly small cast!

Oscar Wilde, you glorious bastard, you’re right. It is important to be Ernest.

Working on Broadway can be a nightmare sometimes. Let’s tap dance about it!

The Greek muses can roller skate?

This fandom doesn’t realize that you can sympathize with a character’s backstory and also acknowledge that he’s a creep whose sense of entitlement towards the female lead literally drives the whole plot forward: a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Love, Death, and Sand Worms

Tall Tales and Terminal Cancer

It’s not easy being green in Oz

Unpopular Opinion: The musical is better than the movie: edgy high school satire edition

On Wednesdays We Wear Pink: The Musical

Henry VIII sucked. Wish we knew more about his six wives.

Never mix telekinesis and hardcore Christian parenting

Starkid Specifically

The best parody of the worst author’s work

Joey Richter as himself and Joe Walker as his penis: The Musical

The best parody of the worst author’s work: The Sequel?

Bug wants to be human (big mistake)

The best parody of the worst author’s work: The Finale

Fuck IP laws, We’ve got Marvel AND DC characters singing and dancing!

It’s all Jafar’s fault… or is it?

Star Wars interpretive dance battle and pod racing tournament

Dysentery is, like, the least of our wagon party’s concerns.

The Scooby Gang peaked in high school

Live Chorn Reaction

CONSUME THE BLUE GOOP BECOME ONE WITH THE THEATRE KID HIVE MIND

Capitalism kills. Beware Black Friday.

Guns don’t kill people, vengeful zombies kill people! Your gun cannot stop him.

What if you put Labyrinth style puppets into Cinderella?

disappointingcabbage

I have no idea what fandoms/pieces of media these are but they sound cool please elaborate

yeomanrand

Happily. :)

The first one is a horror movie, Late Night with the Devil starring David Dastalmachian as a 70s late night TV show host one Halloween night on his last chance to finally take the #1 spot from Johnny Carson. I do have to caveat this one with the note that I did not know at the time I saw it that some of the station interstitial were made with AI.

The second is The Usual Suspects, and honestly the less I tell you about it the better. It has the proverbial star-studded cast (including a very young Giancarlo Esposito) and is kind of a heist movie and kind of a thriller and very much a story about stories.

I also recommend "no, seriously, my dad had a religious epiphany one night after his bowling trophy told him who he was and how to detect demons" with Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, and the late Powers Boothe. Or, alternately, "you only thought you knew how sinister 'Time is on my Side' by the Stones could be" starring Denzel Washington and John Goodman.

#oh I know most of these #my current fixation that no one is aware of is #translation job ASMR (gone wrong) (gone spooky)