Like a Nightmare on the Brain

~30. Relapsed tumblrina A blog for talking about stories, rhetoric, modern spaceflight, civic infrastructure, history and historiography, local aussie politics and hopefully not myself. I promise I am not as heterosexual as that sounds.

[deadgenerations]

If I just followed you and you're checking this blog - I was on tumblr over a decade ago and on and off lurked since then. I'm mostly here because my partner reckons blogging will be good for my writing and aspirations. I schedule most of my original posts to go up during American hours so just because I am posting doesn't mean I am on tumblr. Right now I mostly post about rocketry, US space policy, and the space market - mostly because the popular misconceptions infuriate me; rhetoric and constructing effective heuristics; history and historiography (especially turn of the century America and Mao-era China); local aussie politics, and writing/literature (mostly genre fiction). I am bad at tagging things. give us a fair shake yeah?

[ceausescue]

ai will of course steadily improve to fill space in the workforce at whatever rate is necessary to prevent birthrates causing something to happen. and vis versa

[deadgenerations]

generally speaking if you're wondering why someone on the internet is saying something, it's because it's downstream of 4chan. if it's before the year 2016 or so, equal odds it's downstream of somethingawful or 4chan.

[vicholas]

Why are people now saying "LARP" when they mean "poser". It's confusing.

[vicholas]

Everyone is always parroting The Buzzword Of The Month without actually knowing what it means or where it comes from, make it stop

[deadgenerations]

this one is also because of 4chan.

[deadgenerations]

I'm broke as miss honest don't look at "shady company incorporated industries holdings LLC" it's not important hey

[deadgenerations]

so what did earth wind and fire have against water exactly like okay so fuck the ocean I guess

[deadgenerations]

pjackk wasn't rebanned. he was resurrected and after revealing himself to his faithful he ascended to heaven

[sreegs]

turning a big dial taht says "pjackk is banned" on it and constantly looking for approval like a contestant on the price is right

[goodgirl-inc]

[not-terezi-pyrope]

Genuinely, I think the most publicly visible AI advance so far this year is how thoroughly and abruptly the "image generators can't do legible text" problem has beem fixed.

For those who haven't been paying attention, this is a recent ChatGPT output. It can do this sort of dense sensible text in images totally one shot, so don't rely on bad text to identify AI images any more.

[crypticspyder]

Was the text also generated? was it generated before, and given as an input, or was it generated with the image?

[not-terezi-pyrope]

The text was its own invention.

Here is the entire interaction that produced this image:

I've seen other people do much more sinister things with this! You can produce 100% realistic fake screenshots of news articles, tweets, that sort of thing, if you can convince the bot it's kosher to do so.

[theothin]

[phaeton-flier]

[deadgenerations]

poor Tara Knight, if she'd only waited a few months technology could have caught up to her vision <3

[cryptotheism]

Parading his big stupid unmoving chrome body around like a sainted reliquary

[deadgenerations]

the thing I've found to be the most enduring trait of radfems by reading their literature is that they LOVE, LOOOOOVE anecdotes (especially orientalised ones but that's a different story) but they do not generally like actual data, studies, historical studies, etc. The majority of the stuff out there is just throwing a lot of very evocative anecdotes and stories at you and pretty much no numbers, studies, anything of rigour. A book will so often just be a very long sequence of very affecting anecdotes and, frankly, vibes.

[deadgenerations]

reading someone say that Harry Styles is obviously gay and that his wife Zoe Kravitz is probably just secretly transmasc is definitely the wildest thing I've read on Tumblr this week.

[shegs]

I FOUMDH IT

[princess-anri]

Regular Couple

[pawhold-deactivated20180415]

this ended homophobia

[nikoni]

happy pride month

[deadgenerations]

it's wild to me that for most of my followers "John Blanche died" means nothing rather than being the equivalent of "Martin Scorsese died" or "the moon is gone"

[deadgenerations]

John Blanche died fuck all life

rest in peace to the OG, the greatest of all time. No one else has ever done it like him.

[slunch]

if you think about it the porn ban was like a boulder falling into a narrow tidal inlet and closing off everything inside it, letting strange new things emerge over time