I contain platitudes

23, Dutch, he/him 💜 games, movies, books, basically anything with even a hint of a story 💜 knowledge, on anything related to stories and (modern) culture 💜 talking with people

[revivivivify]

[goodluckdetective]

So Hank Green got caught using AI and it’s a whole huge blow up, and I really don’t have much interest in adding to the pile on.

However, I do think this case is great example of what happens when smart people decide they can use these systems “responsibly.”

Let’s put aside the plagiarism and the energy use for a second (not that these don’t matter, but they’re not relevant to my point at the moment) and pretend these systems were made with entirely properly obtained info and ran on only solar, but otherwise were entirely the same. If you’re a person, you might think “okay, I’m going to only use this to come up with ideas for my next paper: I’m going to do all the research myself and the writing, I’m just gonna brainstorm topics.”

The thing is, even if you’re trying to limit use to just “brainstorming” the chatbot isn’t going to limit itself to just brainstorming. You might ask it “what should I write about involving Greek history” and it may suggest “the plague of Athens” but it’s also going to suggest some “basic info” on the plague of Athens that you might end up picking up and deciding your topic is. It’s going to provide you with “research.” And even if you decide to check that research yourself, that’s still setting you down a specific path you might not have picked organically.

And speaking of double checking its “research”, fact checking is a time heavy process. Not only now do you have to read the original text the bot provided, but you also have to compare it line by line with the summary the bot provided. That’s more time than it would have taken to just read the article by itself. And with any time heavy task, people are going to get lazy. And in original research being lazy might mean skimming a paper or an abstract, chatbots allow you to be lazy without looking at the article at all.

And soon enough, despite telling yourself you were only going to use it for brainstorming, you have offloaded topic generation, research and eventually even drafting because that’s what these bots are intended to do. They are not meant to serve as research tools or help brainstorm or serve as a bouncing off board: they are built to encourage maximum engagement. And that means if you go at them with the best of ethical intentions, they are built to tempt you to use them as much as possible, regardless of whatever line you drew in the sand for yourself.

Anyway, my main thought here is you are not smart enough to outwit the dopamine machine. It wants your attention and nothing more. Do not assume you can resist just because you know what’s under the hood.

[no-goodbyes-no-regrets]

Hoi mensen, ik ben vrijwilliger bij Dordrecht pride en we gaan 22 augustus weer een mooi feest neerzetten, maar we hebben een probleem. Op het laatste moment heeft een van de sponsors het af laten weten en heeft het budget een flinke deuk opgelopen.

Als je een bedrijf in je netwerk hebt (of zelf een bedrijf hebt) die willen sponsoren, let me know! We hebben sponsorpakketten vanaf 500 euro (maar over alles valt te praten) Check dordrechtpride.org/word-partner voor meer info.

Maar ook als je geen eigen bedrijf hebt en 500 euro kan missen, kan je helpen. Je kan namelijk zelf ook doneren - en je kan zelf het bedrag bepalen. Al is het maar 5 euro, alle beetjes helpen!

English: Hey everyone, I volunteer for Pride in my city Dordrecht, and we've got a great day planned for August 22nd, but we have a problem. One of the sponsors pulled out at the last minute which created a big dent in the budget.

We have sponsor deals for businesses from 500 euro (though there's always room to discuss other things), check out dordrechtpride.org/word-partner for more info (unfortunately the site is only in Dutch but if you're interested, you can always message me for help)

But even if you don't have 500 euro to spare, we set up a fundraiser page where everyone can donate! If you have a little bit of money to spare and want to donate, click the link below and help your fellow queers make it a day to remember!

Site in English

Inzamelingsactie door Stichting Dordrecht Pride | Samen maken we Dordrecht Pride 2026 onvergetelijk!

Stichting Dordrecht Pride Heeft je hulp nodig | Beste vrienden en supporters van Dordrecht Pride, Op zaterdag 22 augustus 2026 is het zover:

[mokerautist]

KEERT WEDER NAAR SCHOOL

De nieuwe HEMA school actie is er!

[justanapparatus]

what a good movie! i have to go on tumblr and make them lez out

[rylandsgrace]

Kissing him

[ithasteeth]

hell yeah Nicolas Cage

[blumineck]

Be yourself as best you can whenever you can.

[presenteyesonyou]

[vibrantstarfire]

“feminism is about letting women do what they want!”

so close! feminism is the movement for equal rights for women.

calling everything a woman does ‘feminism’ just because she chooses it, when when it has nothing to do with advancing the rights of women, is ridiculous and harms the movement as a whole.

[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

[hellenhighwater]

Why is sewing so very very difficult!? At every stage--even just folding, marking, and cutting fabric, there's always unexpected obstacles. It's like I'm actively fighting the dark forces of sewing at all times

Oh wait. That's Malice.

[hellenhighwater]

I have accepted that the universe (malice) opposes the creation of a yellow skirt. I have made a green skirt instead.

You may attempt to look at it.

[romanceyourdemons]

sex position: you, sitting on your throne. me, standing behind you, resting my arm on the back of your throne and sniling so sneetly at your ministers like i have any right to be there

[xalatath]

I like when you click a link and it turns purple its like youre bruising it

[slugmania]

[sugarsylvie]

Eevee finally accepts the cone!

[visenyaism]

i do in hindsight really love the concept of complaining about adaptational changes in a 3000 year old oral tradition of which there isn’t really a definitive version so much as a surviving one that is also the most adapted story of all time. my chud forebears in Roman Britain throwing rocks at a bard going nah nah nah the last one said some different other shit at that part you gotta do it again is a comforting image to me

[visenyaism]

Almost one thousand years ago a woman with my exact face and probably better bangs in rural Morgannwyg was defending to the whole village the latest iteration of the marchog gwyrdd where Gwalchmei ap Gwyar is called Gawain and gets a little gay with it even though it’s different than the tale we have earlier heard from a previous bard so that I can fight the same battle on letterboxd today. God bless complaining the worlds oldest activity

[vibrantstarfire]

hearing school aged children talking during their lunch saying “some boys have long hair actually it’s okay” is there hope is there finally light on the other side

[shinyeternatus]

they want you to care more about 'job' than yuri... don't fall for this scam