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[mikufanclub]

[sandmandaddy69]

John Blanche

[randomencounters]

Encounter: Precarious Jones; on the one hand she is reasonably handy with that axe despite the heels, and on the other hand she’s so covered in spikes that even if she does lose her balance she can cause melee damage by falling on you

[argumate]

Many people feel that LLMs are a fundamentally unethical technology because they are built on the theft of intellectual property, rely on exploited labor, waste natural resources, spread misinformation, deskill workers, stunt the cognitive development of students, and contribute to a consolidation of power that is unhealthy for a democratic society.

I feel like this critique applies to YouTube and Google, among other things.

[argumate]

it's awkward that many people clearly have a visceral dislike of LLMs as a technology and every company involved in their promotion (although less so the actual people behind their development, that's more complicated), and it compels them to find LLMs deeply immoral in every possible way, even if these critiques would apply more strongly to other technologies that pass without notice.

[understatedocelot]

There is (or at least was) a reciprocal relationship between content authors and youtube/google. You let google index your site and you get traffic. And you could block them through robots.txt. for youtube there were at least semi-serious competitors like vimeo. LLMs have none of the consent or reciprocity

[argumate]

YouTube wouldn't have achieved its current level without pervasive copyright infringement though, and early search engines including Google were often considered to be infringing copyright by "deep linking"! some of that even had to be hashed out in the courts.

[pissmoon]

Catholic church doesnt even allow divorce if domestic violence is involved and vatican city wouldnt exist nowadays without the help of Benito fucking Mussolini and yet theres always some motherfucker being like i hope the next pope is pro gay marriage. I hope I get a house from Santa Claus this year. I hope a horse is going to buy me cheese in the grocery store

[argumate]

I must have seen dozens of fictional astronauts come to grief in EVAs gone awry and float away into eternity when this has literally never happened in reality, although I did read this terrifying story of an Italian astronaut on the ISS:

In 2013, Luca Parmitano experienced one of the most dangerous EVA emergencies ever. During a spacewalk, water began leaking into his helmet from the suit's cooling system. The water eventually covered his eyes, ears, and nose, making it difficult to see or hear. He had to navigate back to the airlock partially blind. Had the leak continued longer, drowning inside the helmet was a real possibility.

I thought space was the one place you wouldn't drown, damn

[soup-mother]

Hi I'm American movie director, here's my idea for a live action movie based on a widely beloved series: Ok so a team of US soldiers are transported to another world.

[soup-mother]

Bold new direction for the zelda CDI series

[soup-mother]

I was gonna make a joke about sonic, then remembered the sonic movies, then I was gonna make a joke about pacman, and remembered pixels. So really the point here is that the United States is Satan.

[maidthings]

buckshot roulette is such a funny game because you'll spend a full minute concocting a series of moves that will give you a tiny statistical edge over the next 2 rounds and then the dealer will fire on himself w one charge left on a 50/50 chance

[amiyayuri]

When too much drinking happens~

@methane731

[slitherpunk]

but do you play shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less 🤨

[slitherpunk]

the thing about "I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding" is that these games exist and are out there and you have to make the conscious choice to seek them out instead of just expecting the big companies to deliver this, because they will not

[slitherpunk]

addendum

[ryo-maybe]

You really should reconsider man

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[justchukwa]

I am a fucking treasure to be protected at all costs

[factual-entropy]

[donutdrawsthings]

I was thinking of a pride art challenge people could do with their OCs, because I thought it'd be cute! A queer/trans artist with their creations.

but then I realised that same challenge would be infinitely more funny with folks who have atypical or horror OCs

[malama-art]

miku sama redraw

[pengucolas]

Ocean man

[maidthings]

you meet a cute girl who wants to hypnotise you and you go in expecting some sex stuff but she mostly just has you relax there for a bit which is a little disappointing but its still always great to spend time with an old friend