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i'm here mostly to talk about natasha pulley and sometimes other things. i'm on ao3 as assigned_cryptid.
[updated march 2026]
i had planned pulleyverse fanweek stuff but i’ve been feeling like absolute garbage for entire months, and during the brief stretch of time in which i did not feel like garbage, i did projects other than writing
so
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
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 :(
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
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
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Let me preface this by saying I too am anti- genAI, anti- mega data centers, etc, etc.
HOWEVER I am a museum professional and am also a member of a lot of the big-name museum organizations in the United States: AAM (American Alliance of Museums), AASLH (American Association for State and Local History), NAI (National Association of Interpretation -- interpretation as in how to tell about a subject, not language interpretation. A lot of park rangers are members of this one), and smaller local ones that I won't name cause I don't want to dox myself.
Just like OP is, a lot of museums (if not every museum) are trying to figure out their AI policy. There is a lot of discourse about this in these associations too. There seems to be a new webinar on the topic of generative AI every other week and lots of panels on this topic at conferences. I was literally in a webinar yesterday where ethics around this was the topic.
I've seen comments and tags on this post saying "I will never visit a museum who uses AI". So instead of going through the arguments of pro or con, I want to discuss the why. Why might a museum resort to generative AI. I'm lucky enough to work at a fairly large museum. But I know plenty of museums that only have 1 official person on staff-- not because they don't want to hire more, but because they literally cannot.
A lot of museums are funded through the local government and have to fight in the legislature to get what they can. The rest they make up for in memberships, donations, IMLS grants, foundation partnerships, etc. These smaller museums? Have you ever gone to one and realized it was free admission or had admission under $5? This is due to that outside funding. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to continue having a museum serving that community. That one official person? Might not even work there full time due to that lack of funding.
And in order to get the public to keep coming back? They have to come up with changing exhibits while also 1. Running the museum 2. writing those exhibits 3. managing the collection 4. fielding donation requests (y'all tell your uncle to stop trying to donate confederate money to museums. They already probably have 500 copies and are themselves trying to figure out if they can de-accession any of it) 5. Market their museum 6. Build that exhibit. 7. Train volunteer docents who think they know what they're talking about but don't 8. Manage the gift shop 9. Schmooze other organizations and the legislature into giving them money. oh and maybe possibly at some point 10. start digitizing their collection onto software that's older than some of you are.
So yes. Museums, especially smaller ones, are starting to consider using close-sourced, open-sourced, etc and what their policy should be around it. A lot of the consensus I'm seeing is that it should Not be used to write exhibitions. A lot of museums professionals across the board are extremely worried about that happening because of the "hallucinating" and not understanding "nuance".
But they are interested in what can make it easier for them to be able to run their small museum more efficiently on the limited budget and manpower they have. If that is having marketing graphics made by genAI because the person running the museum went to school for history, not graphic design, and can't work with a graphic designer because they don't have the ability to pay for the services of one-- they're gonna seriously consider it.
If that is asking perplexity to find research sources for them to then review and it saved them time to have a list of sources generated instead of digging through databases themselves, they're going to consider utilizing that tool.
Those thousands of donations requests? That can be streamlined through a form to, again, be reviewed and be automatically compiled into a report to be sent to the museum board all via Microsoft's AI program.
Again. I am NOT saying generative AI is a blessing in disguise to the Museum community and will save small museums from extinction.
I am saying that museum professionals are having to make a choice in a political climate where money is not being handed to these cultural institutions to keep their doors open and better serve their local community.
Instead of judging museums for why they might turn to this and saying "I will never visit a museum who uses/markets with AI", tell your city, county, and state legislatures that you want more funding going to museums. Tell them this often. That investment in museums is an investment in the community they serve. This funding could help museums to instead hire the people to fill those roles they couldn't previously afford to hire.
And visit museums often! The number of people who visit museums helps drive local governments into allocating more money their way. This is why I ask you to please, even if a museum does decide to use AI, please don't walk away from museums. They need you.
the purpose of friends is to have people who unconditionally hate your shitty exes & relatives. like maybe YOU have a complex relationship with your father but i sure don't. i'm outside his house with a gun. he's not the unforgivable asshole who raised me he's just an unforgivable asshole
Thinking about the whole "there is no platonic explanation for this" thing and how it doesn't account for intense platonic situationships and anyways I think we should start saying "there is no casual explanation for this" bc really what we're talking about is the way the characters in question are Obsessed with each other
“Thus did I declare — whomsoever cradles the flame and keeps it burning unquenched, need not descend into that darkness”
If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading
PLEASE CHECK THE NOTES. sooo many good books being read my librarian heart is so full
words of wisdom from wikipedia this evening
much to consider
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
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 :(
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
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
🫶
never let the fact that you were born a girl stop you from being the gayest man alive
not aromantic but I believe in their beliefs.
"there's no platonic explanation for this" try harder bucko
love is a beautiful wonderful multifaceted nebulous thing that shouldn't be reduced to the strict bounds of Tier One: Romance and Tier Two: Friends. get weird with it. love your friends deeply, wildly, passionately and platonically. cowards
in absolute tears about the pride module at my work
HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY
Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...
Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).
happy first day of pride everyone
QUICK. RB THIS WITH THE FIRST SONG LYRIC THAT COMES TO YOUR HEAD WHEN YOU SEE THIS POST. THAT IS AN ORDER
a funny thing about having a Problematic Blorbo is that you'll periodically come across a post along the lines of "um let's not forget that [Blorbo] is a bad person..." listing their various crimes, and if you have a modicum of intellectual honesty you find yourself nodding along and saying yeah it's true... but it's the greyness of their character that makes them so compelling... At the same time though you have a little Saul Goodman in your ear going "your honor in their defense: who cares like omfgggg who caresssssss like come onnnnnn"
yes i do ship those characters but i ship them in an infinitely more aroace way than you will ever be able to comprehend
they're not "dating" they're not "a couple" they're intrinsically connected and intertwined with each other for eternity. they're bound together like the stars. get with the program
About 'Hands of the Emperor'
It occurs to me that my recent Tumblr feed has not made clear the extent to which Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard has eaten my brain lately. (Technically it was the sequel, At the Feet of the Sun, that ate my brain, but you know how getting into a fandom gives you new appreciations for the parts of it you overlooked at first.) Hands of the Emperor is... different, compared to your typical fantasy book, so it's hard to describe. But in case anyone is curious, I think I've figured out how to convey the gist of it:
1) Imagine a book that somehow manages to integrate all the best transferable elements of:
Moana of Motunui boarding her boat, sailing across the sea, and restoring the Heart of Te Fiti
A multiclassed sorcerer/bard leading his adventuring party through a series of increasingly improbable random encounters
Two distinct retellings of Sleeping Beauty
A multiverse-spanning apocalypse
Alexander Hamilton writing his way out of hurricanes literal, personal, and political
King Midas acclimating to a complex system of coping mechanisms and magical safeguards meant to allow him to continue ruling without turning his entire court to gold
2) Now imagine that you never read this book. Instead, you read a charming but admittedly somewhat bloated 300k-word fanfiction set after the end of the hypothetical book, wherein the main characters bond over shared trauma, flirt with each other, patch up strained relationships with their families, pass a universal basic income bill, and other heartwarming miscellanea. The fanfic author assumes your familiarity with the events of the hypothetical book. If you have questions about these events, there are several companion novels and novellas you can read for additional context. They are equally charming but will not answer your questions.
And that's Hands of the Emperor.
(And in case you want a teaser for the sequel: There is somewhat more adventuring, and a roughly equal amount of bonding over shared trauma. The protagonist is genre-savvy and his genre is "epic myth cycle." Hamilton/Midas QPR is endgame. And that's At the Feet of the Sun.)
has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing
“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”
