Chwiggy's World

she/they/it/fae, neuroqueer, Artist/Geography Student

[knightofleo]

Cats by Léo Forest

[sapphling]

i do probably need to learn to react to "person with understanding of a subject so rudimentary as to be completely incapable of understanding your nuanced and researched point on it takes that misunderstanding to mean that you're incorrect and then semi condescendingly 'corrects' you by providing the elementary-school-curriculum version of it like it's new information to you" with something other than immediately vividly picturing biting all the flesh off their body

[r2x2]

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

[cbarc]

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

[lizardho]

The hardest part of getting bottom surgery and then having a vagina is any time someone’s like “How are you healing?” I’m so excited that I have to stop myself from saying “Wanna see?”

[insomniac-arrest]

The Onion Headlines as Ghibli films

Spirited Away

Princess Mononoke

bonus:

Castle in the Sky

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Howl’s Moving Castle

Kiki’s Delivery Service

Ponyo

The Cat Returns

My Neighbor Totoro 

Porco Rosso

[prokopetz]

Trolling my biologist D&D player by sending the party on a quest to prevent the destruction of a mystical seal, and when they finally get there it quickly becomes clear that I'm actually describing a walrus.

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

(via op)

[punkedupfae]

Alright ive seen enough

Someone put a blanket over my cage.

[girlballs]

Have YOU considered neopussy in tights with nothing underneath today?

[toast1862]

like it just doesnt make any economic sense. replacing human labor with ai only makes sense if the output is as good or better and cheap as free. but just the fact that you have to build the massive data centers at all-- especially that gpus go bad in just a few years, but even if they didn't, the facility itself is going to be a big expense-- means it cant be cheap as free. they were banking on an uber type situation where they could crank up the prices once people switched to their business model, but the trade is literally "this will be cheaper than using human labor" so if it's not cheaper than human labor then people will just hire people again. and it's not even as good or reliable as a person. so while ai is "here to stay" in the sense that the technology exists and will find its niches, probably people are going to be sexting with them forever just maybe on local models, the current business model cannot survive and never possibly could.

it's all desperation. i do really believe ed zitron's rot economy idea, that the tech sector has been searching for a new internet or iphone or whatever that blows up and changes the world and they get to keep the profits so they'll uplift any garbage (hence nfts and the metaverse) to try and astroturf that. and relatedly, i think nvidia and the cloud compute companies and the ai companies are just passing the same dollar back and forth to create big numbers that paper over how bad the economy really is. it's all an attempt to keep the infinite growth hack going.

like i actually think all of the problems with ai are problems that already existed that are just getting a huge spotlight on them because of the massive reckless expansion and apocalyptic marketing. like people are cheating on essay assignments? no shit, they used to use fiver and other cheating services. higher ups are devaluing and trying to get rid of creatives? yeah, we've been talking about how vfx artists need to unionize for over a decade, especially people working on marvel movies. people with mental health problems are turning to the internet instead of getting support or medical assistance and end up hurting themselves as a result? yup, especially when it comes to like eating disorders, there are some really awful places that will validate you into the grave. data centers use a lot of energy and water? yeah, they also did that before they were used for ai, they do that for youtube and twitch, and tech in general is a massive source of pollution. politicians arent listening to their constituents' needs and demands, instead handing money and special privileges to corporations that wont keep up their end of the bargain? yeah, i remember the public transit proposals cancelled to hand money instead to elon and his terrible tunnels. like it all already existed, they're just doing it so much so quickly that people can actually see it in front of them

[kesslersymbolic]

tech companies are looking for anything that keeps them as Growth Stocks and not Value Stocks, the former sells at its future higher value making borrowing cheap via selling shares while the latter trades based on the dividend offered now and so makes borrowing expensive.

[storm-of-feathers]

a severe thunderstorm warning that doesnt follow through is worse than orgasm denial

[st-just]

'whoever came in second becomes Vice-President' was a self-evidently terrible idea from the moment it was written and there's surely no world where it lasts much longer past the development of real partisan divides. But the 'reads history books for entertainment' part of me is kind of sad it didn't last quite long enough for anyone to follow the obvious incentives and slip the white house chef a $50 to reverse some bitterly-fought election.

[s3xv1o-deactivated20191026]

[drtrinitysantos]

sdxfcgvzdxfcgvhzdxfcgvhbjnkmlcgvhbjnk science

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

#the reason that lab safety regulations are the way they are is because literally all chemists are like this #as in 100% of them #no exceptions (via @prokopetz)

[jager-bruder]

[queen-scribbles]

[this-site-isnt-safe-for-me]

[strawberry-crocodile]

jk rowling kills children

[rockergiirl]

everytime i remember keir starmer i remember the really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really bad stock photo he was in that.

yeah.

[molly-mimi]

nothing bad is gonna happen, Sir Kid Starver isnt real

Sir Kid Starver:

[arueshalaetablebuildingsociety]

The children believe they are safe, unable to see the danger lurking around the corner. The Audience, however, sees the threat, and this is an example of Dramatic Irony. Kier Starmer sees the Audience, and his expression demands we keep quiet, an example of breaking the fourth wall.