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sketch - Eurycleia recognizes Odysseus

I don't know how to explain it well, but if I can summarize my frustrations about Hank Green's admission of using ChatGPT for research (based on the tweet's context, it seems that the research relates to his show, AHA) is WHY ON EARTH DID HE THINK PEOPLE WOULD WATCH THE SHOW IF WE ALL KNEW THAT HE WAS USING CHATGPT??

The beauty of AHA to me, was that it created a safe space where one's silly and big curiousities were DULY RESEARCHED AND TAKEN SERIOUSLY by someone whose branding was PURSUING KNOWLEDGE, THE BEAUTY OF RESEARCH, AND EMBRACING YOUR DESIRE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE WORLD.

AHA was a hit because it celebrated the human mind and our sense of wonder.

And now, we're all finding out he's been using ChatGPT for research. I AM SO UTTERLY REPULSED, I FEEL LIKE SOMEONE THREW MUD ON MY FACE.

(Addendum because I woke up and realized I'm still not done being upset about this)

I don't quite know what he meant by "a ton of pressure" but if he ever felt the need to rush pumping content out because the channel has been doing well, It's SO DISAPPOINTING.

As someone who has watched his content for a little more than a decade, I can safely say that his audience would understand it if he told us that AHA episodes and other Complexly content would take more time because of the extent of research needed. Releasing content takes time. Pursuing knowledge takes time.

If he felt pressured to upload faster and took a cheap AI shortcut to do so, then it's no better than the AI slop creators abound who choose to take the easy road than actually put in the work for their content.

It's all just so disappointing.

dubiousculturalartifact

The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

It ain’t Kermit

anyroads

Miss Piggy tied to the mast while Statler and Waldorf heckle her from the sea

mindovermuses

But who is the single human cast member in this tale? Who gets to put in an Oscar-worthy performance alongside the Muppets and what role are they to play?

muffinflarp69

There’s no single human, everyone is a Muppet except for one scene. Circe, played by Janice, turns Odysseus’s crew into humans who still behave animalistic and are all played by Academy Award winning actors.

redpandamemes

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anagram-robot

‘I will have to live on - Anagram robot 0.6. I find anagrams for stuff. I know I don’t always make sense, but I’m getting better!

daysleftofsecondterm

904 days left

edwardfishhands

rose-morose

this is Kaylin Mahoney

I have become simply... entranced by this timid woodland critter inhabiting the body of a person

I have spent the last hour compiling screenshots of this Game Changer episode in which Kaylin Mahoney looks most like a chipmunk in the most endearing way possible

bonus she is also funny

she is... words cannot describe how much I cherish her

she is my new favourite member of the Dropout cinematic universe, she didn't really get a chance to shine in bingo, but here

timid woodland critter is truly the only way I can think to describe her character, and entranced is the only word I can conceive to describe myself

she is very precious

gamechangershow

kaylin mahoney - noise some makes

number1mongrel

"You hear that? They're saying The Odyssey doesn't even have nobody!"

"They've got nobody in the Odyssey?"

"No I'm saying they don't got nobody."

"Nobody's there?"

"Nobody's not there!"

"So everyone's there?"

"Everybody but nobody!"

acebutnotthehardwareplace

Hey Jimmy, get me an Odyssey with Nobody

Nobody?

nightvaleofficial

poetrylesbian

sunny-cephalopod

Quick! Someone get the antihistamines! Christopher Nolan seems to have developed a severe allergy to DEPICTING GREEK GODS IN HIS MOVIE ABOUT GREEK MYTHOLOGY

theodysseyofhomer

it's not so much that a cyclops is monstrous because a one-eyed giant who eats people must be a monster; it's that anyone who does not follow your laws, your customs, your culture must be a monster.

polyphemus eats his guests not because he's a cannibal — cannibalism also being a taboo that applies to humans, and he's not human — but because he doesn't follow xenia. polyphemus says to odysseus "we don't respect zeus here," but odysseus approaches polyphemus as if polyphemus is the foreigner. he expects his customs (which serve him, a conquering hero) to take precedence, even though he is the one away from home. he's been away from home for over ten years.

because to odysseus, there's not much difference between the trojans (the city he's sacked) or the cicones (a people he raided on the way home) and polyphemus, right? except that polyphemus is able to turn the tables. he is a monster, not in the sense that he is not a human being — the trojans have not been treated as human beings — but because he can insist that his law be respected in his own home.

and it's not that odysseus can't adapt. look at how differently he approaches nausicaa, or even circe. but his perspective is what we wayfind by, and all the while odysseus, at troy and during the wanderings, is himself foreign.

and then he comes to phaeacia and weeps over songs of war. and then he comes home and doesn't recognize it. and then divine intervention both hides him from and reveals him to his son and wife. and then he has to conquer his own homeland. and then the poem ends, abrupt and final journey spoken of but unresolved. and each of these things makes his perspective strange to himself, and by extension to us. it is exactly at the moment odysseus comes home that he believes himself to be lost, foreign, for good.

anscathmarcach

All this discourse over who does "painting with light"

Hiroshi Nagai's paintings need sunglasses to look at.

They look like how it feels to walk across a parking lot on a 98° summer day without a speck of shade in sight.

They look like heaven but also like you'd burn your bare feet on the ground.

Even when you can see shade you know it's not enough and the minute you step out you'll be burnt to a crisp like a vampire.

And it's BEAUTIFUL

alagaisia

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

alagaisia

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

alagaisia

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

watermelon-converse

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

emi--rose

Hell yeah moon holiday

hello-delicious-tea

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

ariaste

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)