We’re Cloudbusting, Daddy!

JB. 31. She/Her. Irish in London. iasip sideblog: chrundle-kelly.

[iwtv1976]

iPhone counting google maps while driving as screen time is unfair and cruel I was gonna be like look how cool and unplugged I’ve been this week my screen time is barely anything and then I look and there’s hours every day from using maps while driving 🙄

[dduane]

Meanwhile, via Bluesky...

[rogue-ai-cat]

And here is the resulting image. There is at least Someone in the U.K. government who is actually doing their job, and it is Chief Mouser to the Cabinet, Larry the Cat.

Source

[elodieunderglass]

He’s 19, which is a good age for a working cat!

[iwtv1976]

So exhausted after a week’s holiday with a bunch of deaf people who can barely walk. It feels like herding cats.

[reticent-vampire]

🫪

[kristina100000]

love me love me say that you love me fool me fool me go on and fool me

[iwtv1976]

Disagree with the person who said natural disasters, like volcanoes, are something you can do nothing about. Like yes, in the moment, but increasing natural disasters are a result of human action and climate change. Theres a man made aspect to it that makes you feel stressed and guilty. Volcanoes are just fucking inevitable.

[iwtv1976]

I’m re-reading the princess diaries series and they’re so good they capture such a specific type of precocious and principled yet naive 14 year old

[iwtv1976]

Spend all holidays spouting demographics facts about towns in north riding or East Riding of Yorkshire because a year and a half ago I did a lot of research on train stations in this area and I still remember my facts

[redstonedust]

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

[sinnegantheworm]

here's my super-quick, easy-to-digest summary that i use when i can't spend more than like 15 seconds on it but need someone to know the basic distinctions:

generative AI - bad evil AI. chatbots, LLMs, image generators, etc. this the one that steals shit.

analytical AI - helpful medical AI. this the one that helps detect cancer early.

game "AI" - fake AI. 100% human created and dictated. this the one that determines game mob behavior n stuff.

[resemblingthegrave]

losing the battle with my own self-control so will briefly comment and say that categorizing certain types of ai as straightforwardly good and other types as "bad evil," even for the sake of summary, doesn't really hold water. just to give two counterexamples to the distinctions drawn above, large language models ("evil") are being used by human rights groups to parse huge datasets about police abuse while analytical ai ("helpful") is also the kind of ai that animates facial recognition software and the increasingly ubiquitous searchable license plate databases that police are using to stalk people. the goodness or badness of a given ai tool has less to do with its type and more to do with things like scale and scope, transparency, ownership, and contextual application.

[deepseasmetro]

notice as well a refusal to mention any kind of "bad" ai other than the kind that "steals shit". putting aside even what was said here about ai ethics being much more about context than the actual literal computing a particular ai does, the "bad ai" isnt the facial recognition software currently helping drive an attempted genocide in the US, it's the ai that doesn't respect copyright law. it's kind of hilariously grim how much bourgeoisie class interests have suddenly become the uniting "progressive" opinion.

[iftadwascool]

[iwtv1976]

Because the trains were all cancelled on my Monday my uncle had to rent a car but my aunt came up the next day and has advance single tickets for her return journey so she’s like I think I’m just going to get the train back while you drive back because it’s literally more relaxing. And I can crochet.

[iwtv1976]

I’m sunburnt :( I even put factor 50 on my arms but I guess I went into the water too soon after application :(

[nevver]

“He is always on the brink of suicide … because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives.” — Umberto Eco on Charlie Brown

[worldwright]

movie yapper scale (HOME movies we're not being public menaces)

0- NO talking during movie NONE. i will kill you

1- a couple comments but keep it short. no pausing

2- frequently points out little stuff ("ooh cool shirt", "are they stupid")

3- i will pause occasionally to have brief discussions about the movie

4- frequently discussing movie stuff. might talk over dialogue occasionally

5- it's just nonstop. can't enjoy the film if im not engaging with it!!

depends on who im watching with / depends on the movie

not a movie watcher

Remaining time: 11 hours 24 minutes

[iwtv1976]

never really thought about the fact that Yorkshire seaside towns are on the North Sea, not the Atlantic. That was a very cold swim.

[rihfenty]

ARMAND & DANIEL MOLLOY Interview with The Vampire (2022–) 1.06 "Like Angels Put in Hell by God" 3.02 "Toledo" 3.04 "The Devil's Road" 3.05 "New York" 3.07 "The Failures"

[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

[absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog]

I remember walking down the street and seeing a sign protesting George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, so I think that.