Ditch daisies in June

ao3 @ The_great_and_powerful_Nelly

[writingdose]

I'd go to war for archive of our own

[swagvo1d]

[jacobwren]

"But AI can't do your job. It can help you do your job, but that doesn't mean it's going to save anyone money. Take radiology: there's some evidence that AIs can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss, and look, I've got cancer. Thankfully, it's very treatable, but I've got an interest in radiology being as reliable and accurate as possible. If my Kaiser hospital bought some AI radiology tools and told its radiologists: "Hey folks, here's the deal. Today, you're processing about 100 x-rays per day. From now on, we're going to get an instantaneous second opinion from the AI, and if the AI thinks you've missed a tumor, we want you to go back and have another look, even if that means you're only processing 98 x-rays per day. That's fine, we just care about finding all those tumors." If that's what they said, I'd be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look, you fire 9/10s of your radiologists, saving $20m/year, you give us $10m/year, and you net $10m/year, and the remaining radiologists' job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed, and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it's catastrophically wrong. "And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis." This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes. This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble." - Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI

[aya--bb]

genuinely I'm so sick of people wanting all fiction to be ethical. can we all just get a little gross with it. the point of fiction is that it's not real. we can be unethical in fiction; same goes with being perverted with fiction, being unrealistic with fiction, and being grotesque with fiction. not all fiction has to be ethical, not every character has to be ethical, and that's okay. can we stop with the puritanism. be gross. be unrealistic. be whatever. if I don't like it it's not my business as long as we're all clear that its fictional.

[notemily]

via ered.bsky.social, the only kinds of unethical fiction:

people in the replies are going "what about books glorifying unethical things" and "what if it's propaganda" and you, my friends, are who this comic was made for

[habken]

fuck harry potter and fuck jk rowling’s transphobic racist ableist ass

[queenaegon]

is that song actually character-coded or is your brain a character-shaped hammer looking for lyrics to nail down somewhere

[verittean]

[ditchdasiesinjune]

Life Is Reason!

I've finally contributed to the phm fandom, I can die in peace now.

[roomwithavoid]

"pronouns dont equal gender" doesnt just go one way btw. most people seem to get you shouldnt assume gender based on pronouns, but you also shouldnt assume pronouns based on gender and i dont understand what's so difficult about that

[this-is-trans-joy]

MY BOYFRIEND IS NOW MY GIRLFRIEND AND SHES THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD AND IM SO HAPPY FOR HER

This is trans joy!!!

[the-punforgiven]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

the P in HP stands for PISS

[ditchdasiesinjune]

Health Piss

[no-one-offical]

Hey no one did your tumblr activity get erased, i know of 3 people including myself who's activity menus are completely empty now

Nope, that's strange

[no-one-offical]

NVM IT'S GONE! ANON! IT'S GONE! WHERE DID IT GO!!!

[no-one-offical]

EMERGENCY VANILLA EXTRACT EVERYONE

[starryvbs2500]

SOUND THE ALARMS OR SOMETHING TUMBLR IS EATING THE NOTES I REPEAT ITS EATING THE NOTESSSS

[ditchdasiesinjune]

I swear people have found me funny, but yeah it's gone <:(

[no-one-offical]

I like your hat

<B(

I found an identical one what do you think

[ditchdasiesinjune]

Artist's rendition of emoticon

But yeah, I like the hat

[no-one-offical]

Hey no one did your tumblr activity get erased, i know of 3 people including myself who's activity menus are completely empty now

Nope, that's strange

[no-one-offical]

NVM IT'S GONE! ANON! IT'S GONE! WHERE DID IT GO!!!

[no-one-offical]

EMERGENCY VANILLA EXTRACT EVERYONE

[starryvbs2500]

SOUND THE ALARMS OR SOMETHING TUMBLR IS EATING THE NOTES I REPEAT ITS EATING THE NOTESSSS

[ditchdasiesinjune]

I swear people have found me funny, but yeah it's gone <:(

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

if you write something, you're a writer. if you make visual art, you're an artist. it really is that simple.

the online discourse about whether or not fanfic writers and fan artists are "real writers / real artists" is not only tiring but it also makes no sense. because by saying "fanfic writers aren't real writers, fan artists aren't real artists, because their art centers around pre-existing characters and because their art cannot legally be monetized" you're saying "art, to me, is not about art itself but about whether or not the thing I consume is about pre-existing characters", you're saying "art, to me, is not about art itself but about whether or not it is profitable" and that makes no sense.

art (creative writing included) doesn't care if the characters it portrays already exist in a piece of media, it doesn't care about profit or money. that's not what art is about. what art is about, is the artists'/writers' love and passion that they have for the worlds they create. and fanfic writers and fan artists create purely out of love and passion that they have for their stories and their comfort characters. that's the precise definition of being a writer/an artist.

[kittyote]

when youre aromantic you still get dead wife flashbacks but its just about that really fucking good sandwich you ate last week

[theatsthetic]

female-presenting vitruvian

[theatsthetic]

i appreciate the amount of people reblogging this despite me not really tagging this at all. im glad many of people feel the same anger i do.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[letshareapapou]

Me writing stuff for me

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I think ao3 is literally the only site where no censorship means no censorship. you can post the most vile things on there — things that will get taken down on any other platforms — and ao3 will protect you, your works, and your rights to create whatever you want, however you want.

and no, this isn’t me saying “write that messed up, disgusting thing” because while, yes, write it if it’s what you want (I myself enjoy writing dark fics, something I believe would be considered “vile” to a lot of people), this is me saying in a world of censorship and capitalism, ao3 really is a treasure.

everybody say thank you ao3