>>>> ad infinitum

22, He/Him; Poet/Writer; Freelance Copy Editor

[rosenkranz-does-things]

From flesh removed our chalk footfall

Tempers this holy ground

Where timeless spirits meet

'Round the heart of Pottsfield town

[absolute-artlad]

some just long to be understood

[xamitras]

For many of years I had this tradition of drawing Wirt and the beast once a year to see how much I have improved, then depression hit in 2023 and couldn't continue, but it left so really amazing art in the process

[tempizza]

[epilepticsaints]

[is-the-post-reliable]

requested by @gaytomatic

RATING: RELIABLE

BP did hire PR firm Ogilvy & Mather in 2004, and coined the term 'carbon footprint' as well as creating the 'carbon footprint calculator'. This gave the impression that climate change was primarily the fault of the individual consumers.

From a New York Times opinion piece on carbon footprint (via the Wayback Machine): 'In 2004, BP hired the public relations firm Ogilvy & Mather to improve its image, in part by conveying the message that consumers of oil and natural gas bear the responsibility for their greenhouse gas emissions, not the producers of the oil and gas they use. The result was BP’s ingenious carbon footprint calculator, which allows individuals to calculate the carbon emissions that result from their activities.'

From a BBC Future article on 'how companies blame you for climate change': 'Similar criticisms have been levelled at terms like "carbon footprints" – which was first coined in a 2005 TV advert from BP. The advert appears to show members of the public being stopped in the street and asked what is "their carbon footprint".'

From an Irish Times on individualising blame: 'In 2004, it unveiled a "carbon footprint calculator", so that individuals could assess how much their daily activities were polluting the planet. The marketing campaign, led by Ogilvy & Mather, fostered the false idea that climate change was the fault of individuals rather than fossil fuel companies.'

[decrecendos-continuously]

Also! For more on this the latest episode of Citations Needed is doing a series on this!

Citations Needed Podcast

Citations Needed is a podcast about the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. It is hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, and pr

[imviotrash]

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[the-haiku-bot]

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Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[bulbekuggeleh]

This opens up a lot of possibilities for what a haiku can be

[decrecendos-continuously]

Need an emoji don’t count as syllables haiku poetry collection asap

[animentality]

[decrecendos-continuously]

And this I 100% agree on!

[sourdough-seal]

you should be able to call into work if you get a story idea. like i’m really sorry i can’t come in today im going to need 72 hours off to cope with my visions of This Guy

[space-blue]

using chatgpt and other ai writing tools makes you unhireable. here’s why

AI isn’t just pie in the sky, it’s a cow pie in the sky.

Must read. Here' s a snippet to motivate you :

For the still-not-convinced: If you need an AI to come up with ideas for you, you don’t even belong in the fucking room, because ‘coming up with ideas’ is literally the most basic level skill to have. A basketball player who can’t dribble doesn’t belong in the NBA, so why the fuck do you think you deserve a spot on my writing team if you need a computer to do what any goddamn fucking eight year old can do? Take the fucking hint, you fucking fraud: if you need AI to do the most basic tasks required of you as a writer, then you aren’t employable as a writer. Period. Fuck you. You’re a waste of everyone’s time.

[decrecendos-continuously]

I think this is a good distinction to make, that AI tools aren’t going to make you more marketable as a writer except to publications that are looking for creative uses of AI by writers specifically.

AI is going to be useful as a tool for certain jobs and tasks within those jobs that don’t require that level of creativity. AI tools should be applied to complete menial labor and to run diagnostics on tasks where they’ve been proven to be more effective than humans, with human supervision.

The lack of nuance in discussions around AI I think is due to people speaking to their own in-group about AI and applying it to themselves and projecting themselves on it— which I think is fine, but we can’t go out and apply those same opinions to every single field where AI might actually be a really useful supplement to human productivity

[animentality]

[nateconnolly]

[wheeloffortune-design]

I think the internet as a whole needs to ask themselves one simple question when they see a video.

Why was the camera filming.

There are so many videos that seem real, but when you realize the camera was already filming with a great angle, you can see that it's all staged.

Yes, there are dash cams, security footage, people accidentally filming real things happening. But so many are just staged!! And no one in the notes takes the camera preparation into consideration!

This is 2024, you need to know how to spot bots lying to you, but also humans lying to you.

[animentality]

[vfdinthewild]

"or are you the victim of a false dichotomy?"

-via a discord chat, the context lost to time

[lakevida]

i have a bookstore employee secret to share and it’s that when you buy milk and honey we all make fun of you

[lakevida]

if you pick up anything categorized as “online poetry” all the gay booksellers are already pointing and laughing at you from the other side of the store

[fortooate]

i thought you were making a grocery store post and i as liike no those are good fluids

[lakevida]

when you buy milk and honey we all panic because we thought we got rid of the guy selling unpasteurized animal products in the biography section

[fortooate]

you’ll never take me down

[caesarsaladinn]

romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering

[writing-with-olive]

when you call your reps to ask them to pretty please stop taking away your rights, remember:

In deep red areas you're a republican who is thinking of voting for someone else if they don't vote what you want on this specific bill because it impacts your republican ideals so very much

In swing states you're an undecided voter who's gonna go blue if they don't vote how you like

remember to call because that way their phone is going off and their peers can hear it because their offices are close together (emails and letters don't work like that), so it can rattle them if they get high volumes. remember that you gotta make them feel like they're losing something.

[ultirex]

go to this random coordinates generator and say in the tags how you would fare if you were dropped where it generates without warning. i’ll go first i’d be dropped in the middle of the fucking south atlantic ocean and perish