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It’s been the kind of day that culminated in my telling someone moments ago that the date was the fifth of Wednesday.
I hope you all have a really good fifth of Wednesday.
you fool
you just created another tumblr holiday
Bold of you to assume that was not my intent!
Happy Fifth of Wednesday everyone!
Omg I almost didn’t see this in time
The fastest way to shut down my "freelance life means I have to constantly be working" thoughts is to remind myself that if I was a boss holding a worker to the standards I hold myself to, their union would hunt me for sport and nobody would blame them.
Not me immediately screenshotting this and posting it to the OPP freelance writers chat I'm in
I tell myself: "I'm the owner of the company. But more importantly, I'm also the head of Scriveners Local 23, and I have some demands."
So what that means is that I have a four day work week. I work monday-tuesday and then Thursday-Friday. Fuck the boss if they don't like it.
I have a workplace wellness program that means I can take breaks for yoga, meditation, exercise, and naps.
I have unlimited paid personal days thanks to my project oriented work structure--I get to decide what's the best balance between production and restoration. Fuck the boss if they don't like it.
I have five days each quarter for vacation. attending a convention, conference, expo, bookstore event tour, or a writing workshop *is not a vacation.* that's business-related travel. taking a day or two for a weekend jaunt *is not a vacation.* that's unlimited paid personal days. Five working days. Each Quarter. Vacation. and since I always have wednesdays off, it doesn't count.
I know there's a piece of your brain saying "I have to hustle, I have to hustle"
I know
My brain does that too
And without the union boss in my head, I'll just work until I drop. That's what I did for years. And then I burnt out so bad that this is the first time I have actually made real, noticable progress(1.) similar to my pre-burnout rates in years.
Because the union boss went on strike, and the boss' bottom line was *destroyed.* If I have to crunch now, the union boss enforces recovery time. that's all overtime. but since I don't get paid a wage, I get all that back in time.
The boss never wants to see a strike like that again.
There is power in a union, even if it's only the union in your head.
(1.) only it's not similar. it's half the "speed" of pre-burnout. It's probably my actual true real speed and not my sweatshop labour hustle culture speed. FUCK THE BOSS IF THEY DON'T LIKE IT.
This is outstanding advice for all forms of freelancing.
teacher izuku
Happy new year! Here's the end of the 1953 EC Comics adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains," first published in Weird Fantasy #17.
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kiribaku to one of my favourite songs ever
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Eartha Kitt performing in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1955
✨ 5 SHELVES 5 BOOKS ✨
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If you’ve read any of these, let me know what I should prioritise!
I've read Swordheart and Take a Hint, Dani Brown. Both are great! You should definitely do Swordheart before Daggerbound as they are in the same universe. I have that one on my netgalley too!
I feel like I hate AI slightly less than the average Tumblr user, but it still scares the shit out of me to see how many people now engage in internet arguments by submitting their opponent’s argument to an AI bot and saying “explain why this is wrong and I am right.” It is concerning first because most AI models are sycophants that will tell you exactly what you want to hear, which makes then extremely potent delusion-confirmers. But it’s even more concerning because learning how to argue for yourself— how to evaluate claims, to assess an argument, to find and check sources, to spot flaws in someone’s case— is one of the most important skills you can have in life. If you don’t have that, you are unable to evaluate what is true for yourself. You will walk right into the arms of the first crackpot or cult that talks to you when you don’t have Claude available. Extremely grim portent that many people seem to find this acceptable
#filed under: man who argues for a living says that arguing is important
I think this gets at something that's been bouncing around in my head for a bit about how people use AI, and how others perceive that use. And maybe it's not an original thought, but I haven't seen it laid out plainly and directly.
Generally, the use of AI models is essentially delegation. Essentially, you delegate the labor that you wish to happen, but don't want to do (or can't do) yourself. As a programmer, when I see my coworkers using AI to generate code, I instinctively get a little defensive and frustrated; programming is important, interesting, and fun to me and a part of me wants to shake them and shout, "Just do it yourself!"
But of course, there are many ways to use AI as part of the profession of computer programming. Maybe there are some repetitive or nearly-trivial tasks that might as well just be shoved off onto the program that's essentially an incredibly quick intern. But it's when people are using the AI for categories of tasks because they find the task hard, and the AI can do a better job then them, where I think my frustration is more justified. Because aside from just delegating the task, they are delegating the process of learning how to do the task, and any potential long-term benefits they (and by extension, the team as a whole) might gain from them developing those skills.
Now, outside of the workplace, the situation is different. Somebody with little or no programming experience might find they want a program that can do a particular task or automation for them, but making it themselves would be more time-consuming than the end product would be worth to them, and that's before the time they'd need to develop the skills to do it themselves. So they just fire off a request to an AI and get what they want. They basically have a cheap and quick contractor they can get mediocre work out of, and (through gritted teeth), that's fine. Developing programming skills and doing the work themselves are not priorities to these people; they have other uses for their time and energy that they find more valuable.
And of course in general, this isn't something new that comes with AI. I distinctly recall in 2012, overhearing a college student in the frozen foods aisle of a grocery store say that nobody should be buying a full frozen meal that just needs to be heated as that's too lazy and reflects poorly on the purchaser. Of course this is nonsense; people must eat very frequently and not everyone has the time, inclination, or ability to spend the time and effort involved in cooking every meal from scratch (or cooking most meals from kits, or preparing any meal outside the microwave, etc). I mean, I enjoy cooking and developing my cooking skills, but I often have things I'd rather be doing, and while I can often make something that tastes better than a frozen prepackaged stir-fry or pasta-with-sauce, I'm perfectly fine regularly delegating that work to a factory that mass-produces such things so I don't need to spend an hour plus in the kitchen every night.
And I think that thinking about this in terms of delegation makes sense when it comes to interpersonal communications as well. When you have Claude compose a text message to your friend, that's basically going "I'm not going to speak with you, I'll have my personal assistant do so on my behalf." Now, I'm not going to make a moral or ethical judgement about that, but just in terms of what that tells the other person, of course that's going to be perceived as rude! You are delegating the task of maintaining a friendship to something else! You are signaling that the friendship is not enough of a priority to do it yourself.
And then, to (finally) bring it back to the topic of arguing online with strangers: this isn't even something that you need to do or get a direct benefit from. Arguing with strangers online is almost always completely optional! You do it because you want to do it; delegating this to a bot is, in addition to being rude in the sense of delegating your interpersonal communication, pointless! I would characterize it as akin to getting a bot for an online game, and instead of doing something like using it as an opponent to practice against or using it as a way to get an edge over legitimate players in game, just setting it to run on its own while you watch. Except as afloweroutofstone says, doing this arguing yourself helps develop real skills that are actually useful!
I’ve been cackling about this for like five minutes now
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O-okay, let’s get into this, shall we?
*grumbling* Would you rather work for Lex Luthor or the Joker- *shouting* Lex Luthor, by like, a fucking mile!
Yes, yes, working for Lex Luthor is basically like being an Amazon employee that makes weapons of mass destruction, which is bad. Lex is like Donald Trump mixed with Mark Zuckerberg mixed with Jeffrey fucking Bezos, it’s not a great mix. He does not treat his henchmen well. Their lives still suck, and they are probably monitored on how long they take piss breaks for.
But let’s analyze what working for Lex Luthor is like versus the fucking Joker. With Lex you probably get a dental plan, a health plan, a paycheck, and the guy that you’re fighting really cares about human life. Superman will hit you just long enough to knock you out, so you’re not a treat, so he can stop the problem.
If you work for the Joker, your payment is you’re not fucking dead. You say one wrong thing? Bang. You don’t laugh at his jokes? Bang! You do laugh at his jokes? Bang! You think Joker gives a fuck about a henchman?
Who’s Lex Luthor’s right-hand-man? It’s a woman, you sexist, her name is Mercy, she’s awesome. Who’s Joker’s right-hand-man? Bob? Nah, he’s dead. Harley? Tried to kill her multiple times. Slappy? Who the fuck is Slappy?
The best case scenario of working for the Joker is that you fight the fucking Batman! And that presents its own fucking list of problems. If you stop Superman as a Lex Luthor henchman, Lex’ll be pissed, but he’ll be at least happy that Superman was caught. If you stop Batman as a Joker henchman, you better have a fucking coffin picked out yesterday.
This isn’t a fun hypothetical question, this is a screening technique that the doctors at Arkham use to determine your mental health! There is a right and a wrong answer to this question, and the correct one is Lex fucking Luthor. Thank you for coming to my fucking Ted Talk, have a nice day.
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Bitch neither I work for Wayne Industries, they got better offers than work these clowns:
batmans secret special attack is offering all of his enemys henchmen a living wage and guaranteed healthcare
MY DEAR TUMBLR USERS!!
WONDERFUL NEWS!!
NETHERFIELD PARK IS LET AT LAST!!!
What a wonderful thing for our girls!!!
How so? How can it affect them? 🤨
My dear Merian! You must know I am thinking of his reblogging from one of them!
Is that his design in blogging here?
Design? nonsense, how can you write so! But it is very likely that he may reblog from one of them, and therefore you must follow him as soon as his blog is online.
I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may follow him, or they may follow him by themselves, which perhaps will be still better for them, for as you are as clever as any of them he might reblog most from you of the party.
My dear, you flatter me. I certainly HAVE had my share of cleverness, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up mutuals, she ought to give over thinking of her own reblog counts.
In such cases, a woman has not often much of a reblog count to think of.
Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!
Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.
Text: A PDF version.
Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.
I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.
!!!! Today is the only chance we’ll ever have to listen to this absolute banger of apocalyptic fiction on the very day the story is set 😲✨
Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!
(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)
I paused the robot vacuum so I could listen to this 1950’s story predicting the robot vacuum.
this must go so hard if you're stupid
Research finds that porn-related problems are predominantly caused by religious conflict. Clinically, this means people need help, but not n
The obsession with pornography somehow being addictive or damaging is just stock-standard reactionary moral-panic, and the science backs me up. I cite my sources when making claims, they never will because the sources don't exist, or are opinion-piece drivel.
You hear about "porn addicts relapsing" and it's never like "I spent the rent money on OnlyFans" it's "I rubbed one out and cried about it for hours after"
"It always was [internalized sex-negativity and 'sinfulness', maybe self-directed homophobia, perhaps even repressed gender dysphoria]?"
"Always has been."
When I was a young boy, my father took me into the city to see the Kiribaku parade
happy birthday keeeiigooo
