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@betsumei

(she/her) Just your typical geeky thirty-something mentally ill trans lesbian polyamorous lady from Edmonton, posting about whatever I feel like. Frequently it's cats. Check the about page if you want details. I try my best to ensure posts are captioned and tagged for accessibility, please let me know if I miss anything. Rebecca/Becca/Becky/Bex/etc., she/her/hers. Tag things #betsumei if you want to make sure I will probably see it. I'll totally reblog your selfies if you tag me or ask. I use the same name on most services, so feel free to look me up on Steam or Twitch or whathaveyou.

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elwenyere

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

oldshrewsburyian

I'm so glad they got Ted Chiang -- a wonderful writer of science fiction and thinker about technology, in my opinion -- to write this essay. My favorite line was this:

Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.

thepioden

I'm developing a curiosity and interest in fiber arts, someone please stop me before it's too late

thepioden

Girl help the fibercrafters who live in my phone are calling out to me like the sirens of legend, entreating me to dash myself upon the rocks of Having A Yarn Stash

elen-aranel

fibe Crafts perfec t hobby for give tumblr user s\omething to do! yarn and fabric very Soft and Comfort tumblr user touch tumblr user do Fibre Craft. Tumblr User Do Fibre Craft. no problems ever with fibre ccraft because very Entertaining and Practical for tumblr user weak of things to do. Afibre Craft yes a place for tumblr user do fibre craft can trust fibre craft for pleasantly occupying tumblr user. friend fibre

netscapenavigator-official

Installing apps on…

macOS: I’m just a single isolated package! Just drag and drop me to your “Applications” folder to install me. Don’t want me anymore? Right click my icon and put me in the trash. All gone!

Linux: Want me installed? Ask the package manager. Want me uninstalled? Package manager. Got an AppImage? Just click it to run, then trash it to uninstall. Easy peasy.

Windows: I am going to infect your file directories and registry like the roots of a bamboo tree. You will never fully remove me. Go ahead and try the “uninstall” button in settings. I fucking dare you. You can remove the executable, but you will never fully remove me. I am infinite, and I will outlive Microsoft Inc. ten fold. Fuck you.

ashes2caches

a really big tgirl cuddle pile might just fix me. especially if there’s some casual groping involved.

virtualgirladvance

call me when the cuddle pile whips out the competitive groping cause i wanna go pro

astralsideburns

btw don't ever allow yourself to think it's a coincidence there are so few black users on tumblr or even that it's some sort of cultural mismatch. it's because black users were driven off the site by racist fanbases and staff witch hunts. don't forget about how when ferguson started trending, the tag was purged of all posts and users were deleted, which staff then justified by calling them russian bots and foreign agitators

geddyqueer

there is this thing called a "kitty cat". and you can get one for inside your home, and it will sit on all of your surfaces, and you can pet it.

fibro-memes

joelletwo

[ID: a venn diagram of people who are heat intolerant and people who are cold intolerant, with a narrow intersection of people who can only tolerate a very specific range of temperatures like a delicate orchid]

utopicwork

You could eliminate basically every issue with smartphones by banning online advertising which is what creates the perverse incentives to make horribly designed software/ux for them.

utopicwork

Like is it really surprising to anyone that android is getting so locked down when google is an advertising company?

foone

The problem with the daylight savings time is that eventually you run out of other people's daylight

seren-starlight

The issue with the daylight savings time change is that people aren't used to falling back an hour or springing forward an hour, and people struggle as they take the time to adjust. But of course, if you only do something twice a year you'll never develop a talent for it. You need to practice if you really want to be good at something! Under my proposal, which absolutely everyone will hate,

quasi-normalcy

PALO ALTO, CA - A group of Silicon Valley tech CEOs assure North Americans that job losses from artificial intelligence could easily be miti

“I know that people are scared of AI, which nobody asked for, destroying jobs,” explained OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “That’s why I’m asking all you little people out there to focus instead on how UBI could supplement lost income and allow workers to enter a golden age of leisure time and artistic pursuits. I mean, we billionaires are never going to let that happen, but we’d still rather you focus on that.”

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg “It’ll frankly make it a lot easier to turn you all into powerless feudal serfs if you’re focused on a pipe dream fiscal policy that we’re going to lobby into oblivion.”

Reports show a consistent trend of tech CEOs responding to interview questions about AI-fuelled layoffs with a consistent “We’ll do UBI probably”. When pressed to elaborate on this complicated economic plan, most CEOs answer by bragging about the Hawaiian island they just bought, repeating the previous answer louder, or demonstrating an AI deepfake of your mom committing a hate crime.