The World Is Much Brighter

Hey it's Courtney, she/her. Icon credit to candy-kingdom-keeper

[mistycatt]

pada-wan

[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

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[lonelyroommp3]

cats are genuinely fucking useless man

[lonelyroommp3]

okay sure that’s progress i guess

[lonelyroommp3]

WE’RE SO BACK

[lonelyroommp3]

are you enjoying your One Cold Paw

[polarity-disturbed]

I’d like to imagine the Torchwood team is so catastrophically bad at internal management that there’s just… some guy on payroll they do not actually remember hiring.

Like a man named Jeff who got through orientation, saw one alien corpse twitch unexpectedly on a metal table, immediately decided “absolutely not,” and simply never came back to work again, yet continues receiving paychecks for YEARS because nobody at Torchwood has enough organizational stability to notice.

And the funniest part is I genuinely believe this could happen because which of these chucklefucks is realistically auditing employee attendance.

Jack Harkness absolutely would not notice. Half the time he barely seems aware of what day it is.

Toshiko Sato would probably notice discrepancies eventually but immediately assume Jack knows about it because surely there’s no way the organization is that dysfunctional. Surely Jeff is on some classified long term assignment. Surely there is a system here. There is not.

Owen Harper is simply not paying enough attention to anything around him for this to register as unusual unless Jeff is actively on fire.

Gwen Cooper might question it at first, but she’s also new enough to assume this is one of those weird Torchwood things she just hasn’t acclimated to yet. Like “okay apparently there’s a Jeff who’s never here but everyone acts like that’s normal, maybe he’s undercover in space or trapped in another dimension or something.”

And Ianto maybe knows. But the idea of this random civilian continuing to siphon government money from Torchwood simply because nobody can get their act together enough to realize he vanished is so deeply funny to him that he refuses to say anything.

[daughterofheartshaven]

In which Polarity proceeds to demonstrate that they fundamentally understand the main cast of Torchwood.

[zangoonse]

i love the phrase "cruel and unusual." not only is what you're doing mean but it's also quite frankly fucking bizarre

[kettle-bird]

As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.

Little cover design doodle from like a week ago that I never posted :') more to come. Maybe. Eventually. We'll see.

[skinilivein]

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[muttsandmustelidae]

From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!

[perkyshelley]

chose a hill but i won't die on it. feel free to come and be killed on my hill

[oronge]

think about it long time

[phantom-of-the-keurig]

I love that the fandom at large has agreed that Commander Cody cannot stand Anakin and despises working with him and I will carry this headcanon until my final breath. In fact I’m pretty sure one of those character encyclopedias that came out within the last few years also supports this which is hilarious.

But what I think would be even funnier is if Anakin had literally no idea Cody can’t stand him and truly believes they’re good friends. While arguing strategy during a briefing he’ll genuinely say, “Cody back me up on this” despite Cody never once backing him up on anything

[tuatara-time]

this is how that scene went, right?

[bisonwares]

Showing off the Arapaima I made! (Pattern also made by me)

This was the test of the new pattern and I love her. 🎏💕

[andthepeople]

always funny to remember darth vader is anakin skywalker. the adrenaline junkie chucklefuck who used to dive head first out of speeders and built a pod racer in his yard when he was like six is now upper-middle management for the evil empire. half of his appearances in the original trilogy are Meetings. vader spends like 80% of his time dealing with bureaucratic bullshit. status updates. team meetings. holo-Zooms. budget rundowns. anakin betrayed the jedi and caused the fall of the republic and his punishment is being CC'd on every email forever. and you know what. he would hate that. the punishment fits the criminal

[womanguy]

you should get a second evening for reading fan fiction. And you should get an extra day in the week to do arts and crafts.