Rewrites and Cul-de-Sacs

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[headspace-hotel]

Asunder is basically the most classic way to be torn, and if you're looking to be cleft, in twain is a vintage but stunning choice

[dukeofriven]

But what about just being outright riven?

[dukeofriven]

Avatar: The Last Airbender's New Aang Movie Sparks AI Backlash After SDCC Reveal

Avatar: Aang: The Last Airbender faces backlash after a San Diego Comic-Con panel revealed ChatGPT was used for research.

Aaaand there's my interest in the movie suddenly dying completely.

[ben-the-hyena]

Finally an article about it

[dukeofriven]

So a follow-up suggests that this was aspecifically discussing the art book and there's some confusion whether the research for the movie was ChatGpt, or the art book

[dukeofriven]

Forget GTA6 what if Rockstar had instead spent all that time and money fixing the eighty billion QoL problems in RDR2? Imagine that glorious universe.

[dukeofriven]

Avatar: The Last Airbender's New Aang Movie Sparks AI Backlash After SDCC Reveal

Avatar: Aang: The Last Airbender faces backlash after a San Diego Comic-Con panel revealed ChatGPT was used for research.

Aaaand there's my interest in the movie suddenly dying completely.

EDIT: By some accounts the AI slop was used in the creation of the art book, not by anyone on the film production team. But while film production crew have firmly said 'no AI' there's been no official statement.

[striders]

making wetfood slop for the beasts and all three of them are weaving around my feet and desperately begging like “MOMMMM PLEASE GIVE US THAT WE LOVE THAT WE WANT IT PLEAAAAAAAAASE CAN WE HAVE IT” like. yeah guys i wasn’t planning on keeping it for myself i don’t think any of you have ever seen me decide to drink salmon pate soup out of your three individual cat bowls. but i guess you never know

[dukeofriven]

One of the tricks they teach you in dog training is pretending to eat the food in the bowl before you give it to your dog (if memory serves its to guide them away from being aggressive around food via the instincts of pack dynamics), but the flabbergasted look they give you when you do this is always one to treasure.

[favorite-steam-reviews]

Rimworld

[rosepaya]

[xx-obliviousfantasy-xx]

Okay she is NOT hideous, I love her

[dukeofriven]

They gave birth to Frida Kahlo?

[lesbiiundyne-deactivated2015112]

it gets easier everyday

[cheaphalloweencostume]

remember when things were simple

[stellarblade]

this is the saddest fucking image on this website

[miiilowo]

you lost yourself to the woke agenda. Stop being a trans man and go back to a cis man

I don't know what to add in response to this ask it's perfect on it's own. I don't want to soil it

[xtec]

This is what the average YouTube thumbnail looks like now

[noneuclideangarf]

spent too long on this

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[isaactea]

[roycohn]

stop saying "gen z brought back bush-era purity politics" i grew up in the bush era and even then people weren't saying that you're a sex addict for having boring marital sexual congress in the same house as your children. this is just plain unhinged

[prof-grace-aspen]

Literally almost every millennial I know has a memory of accidentally walking in on their parents or hearing their parents having sex. It's fucking normal. Human beings have sex. Your parents fuck. Get over it. Being weird about it isn't healthy.

[whatsnewalycat]

I really loved Robert Evans’s response to this

[dukeofriven]

The need to pathologize every aspect of one's life is so much more damaging that the umpty-billion pathologies people self-diagnose to have experienced.

[dduane]

Oh great, who needed THIS?!

(Info's here: https://www.seriouseats.com/salmonella-egg-recall-july-2026-12026708 )

[dukeofriven]

Someone who urgently needed 1.6 million eggs, clearly...

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

art by @carol_caocao

[ificouldlookoutyoureyesiwould]

girl on club dancefloor has her feet cooled by a friend pouring smirnoff ice over them (2000)

[2000three]

Mary Magdalene washing Christ's feet

[spaghetti-machete]

@apocrypals

[dukeofriven]

Every time I see this photo a wave of revulsion washes over me. Look at the state of that floor.

Why the fuck is she in bare feet?

[tpwrtrmnky]

Tbh I think the "but data centers are important infrastructure, not just AI" talking point misses that like

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

That is the problem.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Oh and the road infrastructure project is buying up resources other people could have used for literally anything else. With money they promise they'll be making from Wide Car sales any day now.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Okay so what I'm getting from the notes is that when you try to transplant some techbro nonsense into an offline equivalent, you have to be careful to avoid simply inventing something the Americans are already doing in real life

[dukeofriven]

I will also note that roads are particularly important for our car-dependent infrastructure; that it is logical to build roads in furtherance of that doe not make the base concept a good idea. The future we are facing is, to borrow a phrase, going to be fairly radical one: the question is just how many things we want to build that will be useless to our descendants trying to get buy in that future. Datacentres in particular have massive footprints and short useful lifespans.

[dukeofriven]

These are, I am sure, all designs probably stolen from an Etsy artist and/or reference some milk shake duck kind of meme but I won't pretend you didn't get my attention for once, Facebook ads.