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[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem to) view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

for clarification, AI here is referring to generative AI, rather than closed or custom-made LLMs

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Voting ended on20m

[golongbyjoannanewsom]

obsessed w this person in the replies

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[conjuredrabbit]

I work selling diamonds. While I've handled diamonds worth $10,000-$50,000 daily, and sold just as many, my household struggles.

I've been on and off food stamps. We struggle to see which bills we will put off until the next payday.

All while at work the value of a diamond holds nothing to me. $10k might as well be $1 might as well $100k that I am holding in my hands. Clients talk to me about getting their rings in before their Europe trips. I've never even been out of the country.

It's increasingly so hard to watch these people and not comment on how detached they are, to the point where I start to become momentarily detached just to get through a work day.

I will never afford where I work, I can't even afford to live where I work.

[may12324]

Dyke Knights ⚔️

[may12324]

✨️HAPPY PRIDE✨️

[masterqifrey]

[thisthinghasclaws]

My boyfriend keeps making fun of their pointed hats...

[demenior]

ever since making the jester-elmo-fire drawing, i have dreamed of making one for veth. and finally that dream came true!

Behold!

these should be transparent for whatever needs you may have of them. go forth and spread my girl.

(note: edited to fix the sizing of the images)

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 17 vs Artemis II

[mementochao]

Despite everything, it's still you.

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[heartswellz]

this is like beyonce's pregnancy announcement but for nerds (part 2)

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[drulalovescas]

everybody say thank you, fanfiction

[hoaxghost]

holding on by a god damn thread

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[galacticjonah]

For those of you who have been missing my CR fanart (some of you have asked, I'm so sorry), there's some wild news: I'm actually being paid to do it now!

I had the huge honour to provide illustrations for both the soldiers and seekers table recaps on C4 -- and what an amazing story is being woven for us.

These characters mean so much to me already, so to be trusted with them like this is honestly surreal.

[space-cattle]

boxer garnet

[3hkowalski]

The difference of Leon & Grace's inventory belike:

god knows how I felt the moment i saw Leon's inventory

I felt saved

Grace's grids were NOT ENOUGH for me to pick up all the stuff I needed oh my gawd💀