works to parchment

Mr. Kai Hawk, Leafwalker, Purveyor of Fine Blasphemies, Mythwright of Black Mountains, Gentleman of the Dusk, Perpetual Emotion Machine, Defender of No Faith

[thememedaddy]

[distractionsfromthefood]

[eldritchqueerture]

the existence of "maybe", "perhaps", "perchance", and "mayhaps" suggests there should also be "maychance" and "perbe"

[eldritchqueerture]

CAN WE MAYCHANCE NOT 😭

[clottedcreamfudge]

Perbe you should have thought about the consequences before posting a linguistic banger

[thememedaddy]

[discoursedrome]

so "incubus" means someone who lies on top of something, and "succubus" means someone who lies underneath something, and the former also turns up in the word "incubate", which means to lie on top of an egg. To ensure closure we could therefore posit an analogous term "succubate", which would be something like this:

he is succubating.

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

Conservative beauty standards are back with a vengeance which means it's especially important to go out this summer with bellies out and bodies unshaved. Also be unapologetically disabled with mobility aids and wearable medical devices and stim toys and ear defenders and all that stuff. You need it. People need to see it. Everyone needs to be reminded that life is unquestioningly more enjoyable when you're not living inside an arbitrary set of rules created by people who are offended by all the wrong things.

[silvermoon424]

This tweet read me to filth

[jarenka]

There are some gems in YouTube comments

[the-supernatural-atheist]

deltarune

[depsidase]

[cream-chantilly]

@isuggesteatingtherich

[magnetictapedatastorage]

“power corrupts” does NOT mean “oppression purifies”

[curlymcclain]

the crazy thing about doctor who is that it really is the best show ever for 30 seconds at a time. you never know when those 30 seconds will be. sometimes they happen multiple times in a single episode and sometimes you wait years and years and years. and the best part is those 30 seconds are surrounded by the worst show ever, which is also doctor who

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[throo]

I wasn’t expecting that

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

My job had a training on AI and I was surprised how honest it was about AI’s limitations and problems, and we spent our activity time finding errors and issues with responses made by AI. But it did beg the question, why would I use this

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

The trainer was like, think of AI as an intern, student worker, or new coworker! They can do tasks for you, but be sure to carefully check their work.

We just established that this “new coworker” is racist, sexist, and can’t do math - why would I ask for their help??

[penrosesun]

The thing is, there’s a deep cultural assumption of the importance of a category of “new on the job and bad at it” that is based around aspects of those sorts of positions that just simply should not apply to AI… and AI hypemen have gotten very good at exploiting that cultural assumption. No one actually keeps around “student workers who suck at the job” because those interns are helpful. You keep them around because there is a learning curve, and if you want the reward of having experienced employees, you must submit to the mortifying ordeal of herding newbs.

An AI tool cannot learn on the job. It simply can’t. Expecting it to is like expecting that your car, once you put enough miles on it, might spontaneously decide to convert itself to a model with four wheel drive and regenerative braking. It’s an intern that will never get better. It’s a new coworker that will always be “new”. You can “help it” to come to the correct answers, but it will never learn from that help, because training a model and using a model are two different things.

The only reason that new hires who can’t do the job correctly aren’t deadweight is that they’re an investment. AI tools that you have to babysit aren’t an investment; they’re a subscription service to virtual deadweight.

[phantomrose96]

Get your ducks in a row. Now get them in a circle. Get them in a Socratic seminar with that duck in the middle. Get them in a mosh pit. Get them moshing. Get them moshing.

[dogpuppy]

[mandywondering]

I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.

[should-be-sleeping]

Trillionaires do this!

[dizzyghoast]

honestly fandom has ruined me because now any time i'm in the desert and i see two vast and trunkless legs of stone or a half-sunk shattered visage i'm like "omg just like in Ozymandias" and its like come on girl not every half-sunk shattered visage is Ozymandias