to a happier year

an indescribable being agnes|they/them|23

[victusinveritas]

[polishwave]

[afurioushawk]

[afurioushawk]

[frustratedasatruar]

Real and growing possibility of him dying live on tv and nobody in the room noticing for minutes on end.

Likes charge, reblogs cast.

[la-rascasse-volante]

Růže jsou rudé jak prasklá céva,

občas se člověk dozví věci

[gentlier]

What is your eye color?

A 10, 17, 40, or 50

A 20, 30, or 60

C 20, 30, or 40

D 10, 30, 37, or 50

D 20, 34, 40, or 60

T 7, 10, 15, or 17

T 20, 30, 40, or 50

BOTH of my eyes are two different colors.

ONE of my eyes is two different colors.

I don’t have eyes.

Remaining time: 4 days 6 hours

[vergak]

[xylophonetangerine]

[were--ralph]

i think about this so much

[cheaphalloweencostume]

*asks a question* *gets an answer* “im not reading that”

[raibura]

Is this unethical

Yes

No

Remaining time: 5 days 12 hours

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Will turn their noses up at "ethnic smelling" food but wanna eat yeast from inside a corpse 😭 I just don't get it

[juniperjelly]

i get that it's kinda weird, but ya'll know they don't do this sorta shit for no reason, right? it's isn't just some researcher going "oh i wonder if i can make bread from this dead italian guy" just for fun, this is experimental archeology and anthropology. yeast that's been on otzi the iceman (he's the mummy in question!) for over 5k years is going to be very similar to other yeasts from around the time he was alive, so by making things like bread with the yeast sampled from him we can learn what those things would've been like in that region when he was alive! not to mention making bread is just a good way to test the properties of a yeast strain, stuff like how quickly it reproduces or produces CO2, and from what i read otzi's yeast might prove to be incredibly useful in medicine due to its ability to break down toxic phenols! and it's not like someone just decided on a whim to dig some goo out of otzi's guts n throw it into a sourdough starter, the study of his gut microbiome grants incredible insight into the diet of people and state of the ecology in his time and locale, and its been under study for a while now. also, the yeast wouldn't have been directly from otzi's body, that's unsanitary at best and illegal n likely to get your funding cut at worst, they propagated a sample of the yeast from his skin on something like an agar plate so they could make the starter using a clean sample of the yeast without any of his skin cells in it. it'd be a lot like if i propagated yeast from my own skin for a sourdough starter; sure it's weird and some people would understandably find the idea of making bread from it gross, but calling that cannibalism is either misinformed or just dishonest. archeology undeniably has roots in weird racist shit, and people treating the long-dead like objects to do anything they want with, including grinding them into a powder to consume because you've misunderstood some ancient medical text. this isn't an example of that. you're understandably grossed out by reductive headlines n shock reporting, and just not knowing lab procedure. ethics and regulations in archeology have come a long way from what used to be basically just grave robbing with a written record of what you stole, otzi the iceman is treated like the holy grail. if they can't study something about him without badly damaging him, they won't do it until they figure out a better way! he probably has as much care put into keeping him safe as the next most popular italian mummy, by which i mean the pope.

[raibura]

Is this unethical

Yes

No

Remaining time: 5 days 12 hours

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Will turn their noses up at "ethnic smelling" food but wanna eat yeast from inside a corpse 😭 I just don't get it

[ramalamacreatures]

HANDMADE Polymer clay Armadillo sculpture.

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 4 days 17 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 4 days 17 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[i-wear-the-cheese]

Hi OP! I have a friend who works in the heritage sector and thought you might find this useful. The place they work was having an exhibit on Experiences of a Certain Demographic Group in a Certain Period of History (vague to avoid doxxing) but instead of using human written copy from archival examples of real humans, the company they hired to build the exhibit used AI copy derived from archival examples.

What it did was make it impersonal, inaccurate, and unacademic. The voices and stories of the people weren't real so they didn't relate directly to the materials on exhibit, nor were they fictionally derived from a specifically curated amalgam and the experiences ended up a mismatch of class and racial norms for the time so a human copy editor had to fix it for a sum that far exceeded the original budget.

It cost them a lot of money but it also cost them audience attention and the "yes and" factor because stewards working the exhibit couldn't easily relate the work back to the artefacts they displayed (as the LLM had no ability to do this) and the public couldn't on their own initiative look up more about a person.

The friend in question is really pissed because the heritage sector is not all that well funded and he works for an organisation that is well known for its positive approach to rural life and natural preservation. And then the higher ups dumped more than he earns in a year into an initiative that funded environmentally disastrous data-centres, left skilled copy-writers out of a job, and alienated visitors. It was Bad.

[frogandtoadstanaccount]

I recently worked on preparing two educational trails as a part of a class I was taking. It involved choosing the stations, taking pictures for each one and writing the texts themselves.

Our professor was quite pro-AI, recommending we feed our texts to AI and have it check for grammar mistakes as well as the whether the texts follow the writing guide. He did recommend we do not use it to generate the texts for us, but we were allowed to use it to heavily edit our texts.

And you know what, I tried it once. I do not like gen-ai at all, but I was curious and stressed about doing well on the projects. I fed it the guide (which included such things as no heavy metaphors, simple language, explanations of scientific terms etc). What it spit out was BAD. It omitted important facts. It used dumb metaphors and fairy-tale like language. It left me disgusted and vaguely disappointed in myself that for a moment I thought maybe there could be something to it.

I wrote the trail completely without AI. It was praised as an example of great work and will be getting published.

[my-dailydreams]

[rinnegami]

[butchfagminotaur]

the sims will never not be one of the funniest games on the planet

[frogandtoadstanaccount]

XXXLutz

[blondebrainpowered]

Rick Astley's father Ossie Astley celebrating "Never Gonna Give You Up" making it to #1 on the UK charts in 1987.

[kosmogrl]

[glowingghosty]

[diserbillyti]

Honestly man I kind of love telling able people I used to be a support worker. The response is always ableist but sometimes it's in a surreal and fascinating way.

Once I had someone do the whole "that seems so hard, you must be so patient" standard routine. I ask her, "why's that?" You know, why do I need to be some kind of virtuous martyr to watch 90s cartoons with other disabled people for $30 an hour?

And she says to me, with full seriousness and a look of utter dread on her face,

"All the biting."

OK mate. What do you mean. What biting. What are you on about.

"The biting," she repeats, as if it's obvious and I ought to intuitively know what she means. Then she kind of snaps her teeth to demonstrate. "You know?"

No I don't know. What do you mean biting.

"They bite," she says. Eyes wide, dead serious. "The, um, the Slow People. They bite."

Melany, I says to her I says, they're not damn draculas.