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smells like updennys in here goth shitposter type a personality natural born workaholic clown blog for clowns [ they/them ]

[alporquia]

[arockandrollsuicide]

[slutdge]

the prettiest babygirl in the whole world (crinkly old man)

[startrekprodigyfan]

One of the most common complaints about Star Trek I saw growing up was “why don’t they use the holodeck more? If you were living in that time period and you could just make anything you wanted anytime you wanted and live out fantasies forever, why aren’t more people addicted to the holodeck?”

And then generative ai was created.

And now I get it. I get why nobody on Star Trek spends all their free time in the holodeck. I get why all the crew are putting on stage plays, and holding music recitals, and building models, and playing poker. I get why everyone was so skeptical and mean to the Doctor on Voyager. I get why the ONE TIME we see someone obsessed with the holodeck it infringes on people’s likeness rights and permissions.

Because fundamentally at the end of the day we are human beings and we ENJOY working with our hands and making REAL human connections. A person who learns to play an instrument is always going to be viewed as an artist over someone who asks the computer to generate music for them.

Even as recent as Lower Decks they were making fun of the fact that the crew were putting on amateurish plays and holding music recitals. But after living with Ai for so long and seeing how detrimental it’s been to the world… I’d much rather watch my friends put on a stage play than “participate” in a holodeck movie.

What’s most amazing about this is that it was completely unintentional. I do not for one second think that the writers of the time in the 90’s were really thinking about the larger issues that generative ai and chatGTP would cause. How could they? Text to speech back then was still robotic as heck. More likely they wrote that stuff in because it was cheaper to film on sets the owned than try to build, film, or rent out different locations each week.

That’s the down to earth logistical real reason Data is reciting poems about his cat or Riker is in a play put on in ten forward. It’s just cheaper to do that than to build a whole new set or move production to a new location.

Yet at the end of the day, I think that unintentionally speaks to a very human need that ai is making more and more prevalent to us day in and day out.

And that’s the fact nobody wants to deal with generative SLOP.

[esthers-wine]

[sandmandaddy69]

[666syntareli]

chris + his hair

[alienfartz69-deactivated2026051]

[custer-mp3]

20 years ago today me & my best friend skipped school to ride around on the backroads with her sister & her sister's boyfriend listening to Black Sabbath & trying to get the metal station out of Flint to pick up and then to find the Amish to get a pie & we did find them but it was the wrong day for pies so they would not sell us any & we honestly made it all the way to Otter Lake & it was her 15th birthday & we haven't spoken in almost 17 years but i still know where her dad lives and how many kids her & her sisters have

[dajo42]

need a polite way to say "im not engaging in a discussion on this topic with you because the conclusions you have reached are based on so many interwoven layers of misconceptions it would be easier to just like, hard reset your whole brain, just start over as a baby and try again"

[redhotpussyliqours]

cleveland fucking rules dude

[nyancrimew]

if english speakers can learn just one more german word to use it should be "ticketficker" ("ticketfucker", derogatory slang term 4 "ticket inspector")

[scatt3r3d-r3mains]

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

This insane update from Neocities

[utopians]

it's so funny that italian futurism was a fascist art movement while also looking extremely Global Village Coffeehouse

[teaboot]

Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year

[teaboot]

"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade

[teaboot]

At this point if anyone is trying to exclude anyone benignly pro-queer from a pro-queer space I'm just going to assume you're a fed or something idk like something something destabilize the movement from within or whatever

[willgrahamscock]

you’re always posting about some faggot shit

hell yeah brother