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[kimbureh]

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[homunculus-argument]

I am calling this The Lord Of Fort Asshole - or How To Disappear Completely And Make Everyone Worried Sick

Portrait of my friend's cat.

[silverrdagger]

nicholas di genova - gigante studies (2019)

[melongifts]

Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.

[melongifts]

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.

[melongifts]

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

I AM SO SICK OF DEFAULT AI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[closet-keys]

"biological" really just means "state enforced" at this point

"what is your state enforced sex?" "there are two state enforced genders" "use state enforced pronouns to identify students" "transition is against your body's state enforced purpose"

[capnsoapy]

When some TERFs started saying "biological name" (instead of "deadname") it really said this out loud.

[grimark]

it’s been my observation after watching various tv shows that “lieutenant” is one of the most homoerotic ranks you can be

[mumblesplash]

no but the “”ai”” boom is crazy bc they made the entire internet so shitty that the only reason to use it is because it’s where all the people are and now they’re getting rid of the people. like i’m straight up logging off and going to the library there’s nothing on here anymore

[mumblesplash]

‘here’s how to tell if an image is ai’ ‘signs the person you’re talking to is a bot’ ‘how to tell if a song is ai generated’ ah but consider this: i am shutting my laptop and walking outside

[jedusaur]

I saw a bsky post last year where someone said their grandma couldn't tell what was real on the internet anymore so she stopped using it and I really, genuinely think the techbros currently ruining everything have never even considered that possibility. their projections and pie charts and market share research and whatever simply do not take into account a scenario where people lose interest in being online. like yeah we're pretty much all gonna keep using the internet to book travel and look up words and order pizza, but in terms of how we spend our leisure time? I'm still extremely online, but in the last few years I've been learning candlemaking and carpentry and sewing, and I was already spending a lot of time cooking and reading books and skating at the rink and hiking, and an afternoon spent on any of those things always leaves me feeling better about myself than an afternoon spent doomscrolling. I think my daily life is going to keep reflecting that more and more as the slop encroaches, and it sounds like I'm far from the only one feeling that way. silver lining to everything, I suppose.

[storybookprincess]

so back when my little brother was in high school, my mom went as a chaperone for their senior year field trip to an amusement park. which, you know, brave move to volunteer to supervise a bunch of high school seniors let loose in a wonderland of rollercoasters and sugar

my brother and his friends in this field trip group were truly great kids. but they were not above run of the mill teenage boy shenanigans. it’s the end of senior year, you and all your buddies are at the amusement park, you’re naturally going to want to act like a complete moron

there was one kid in the group who was especially prone to goofing around. committed to the bit, some may say. my mom knew that if nonsense was going to break out, he’d likely be at the center of it

so she goes up to this kid at the very start of the trip and says “hey, i’m kinda worried about this chaperoning thing. this might be a lot to ask, but can you help me keep an eye on everyone? you wouldn’t have to do anything big, just be an extra set of eyes for me.”

friends, this kid proceeded to run their field trip group like the fucking us marines. everyone is at the meet up spots at the designated time. everyone waits in line for the rides like a bunch of boy scouts. the second the horseplay gets too out of hand, this kid is getting it back under control

it’s incredible how differently people act based on the expectations you set. instead of going to this kid and saying “hey, i know you’re trouble, so i’ve got my eye on you,” my mom went “hey, i know you have influence in your peer group, so i think you can help me.”

treat someone like a problem, they’ll act like a problem. but give people a chance to help, make them feel important, and they usually rise far above the occasion. it was a stroke of genius that i’m honestly still in awe of

[bundibird]

I have a similar experience. I worked at a school for a while, and the "naughty kids" were far and away my favourite kids. They were all absolute delights, but the majority of the teachers disliked them because they were disruptive in class, and another academically minded, and prone to goofery at the drop of a hat.

There was me (support staff) and one single teacher who did not view them as pains in the ass, but who viewed them as great, fun, delightful kids. The two of us would give them tasks and errands to do, and every single time we did, those kids would become model citizens. The school had a funraiser, and at one point we had to send a good few hundred bucks from the collection point to the admin office. I sent it with one of the "worst" of the naughty kids.

One of the old school teachers who disliked troublemakers saw me doing this and was AGHAST. Didnt I know how bad this kid was? Didn't I know that he was going to STEAL all that money???

Actually, you ornery old lady, no, I dont know that. In fact, I know that this is one of the best kids in this school. I know that this kid stays late and comes in on weekends to help crew the drama productions, and I know that he comes in early to help set up the free breakfast that one of the other teachers established, even though he himself rarely takes so much as a slice of toast from that array of breakfast foods.

I know that this kid is super trustworthy, actually, but that everyone assumes he's a troublemaker because he's also the posterchild for unmedicated ADHD.

So no, actually, he's not going to steal the money. I know that that money will make it to the accounts office without so much as a cent missing, if he has to climb over a barbed wire fence to make it happen.

The teacher was flabbergasted that I would be so "reckless" with hundreds of dollars, but guess what. Sure enough, every cent made it to the accountants office. It had been counted by volunteers at the collection point and it was counted again at the accountant office and there wasnt a single bit missing.

"Troublemaker" kids are often some of the best people on the planet. You just have to treat them like they're worthy of respect, instead of treating them like irritations at best or criminals at worst. It's astounding to me that more people dont realise this.

[kimbureh]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: CT-9904 | Crosshair/CT-1409 | Echo, CT-1409 | Echo/CT-7567 | Rex, CT-9904 | Crosshair & Clone Trooper Howzer, CT-1409 | Echo & Clone Trooper Howzer Characters: CT-1409 | Echo, CT-9904 | Crosshair, CT-7567 | Rex, Clone Trooper Howzer (Star Wars), Original Clone Trooper Character(s) (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Flirting, Love Confessions, Top CT-1409 | Echo, Break Up, None of the Clones know what Monogamy is, POV CT-1409 | Echo, Pabu Island (Star Wars) Series: Part 13 of Leave the Lights on (Series) Summary:

The clones are freed and celebrate a party on Pabu.

Echo is excited to dance and drink and spend time around other clones. But none of this can distract him from the vague unease he feels about his future on the island. When Echo tries to embrace change, his relationships begin to suffer.

[tlirsgender]

Teenagers are like that because every problem feels the same amount of Catastrophic. There's no sense of scale going on there cause they lack frame of reference. This isn't the fault of The Teenager but it does explain the Discourse Circles I was in when I was younger. Like it operates in both "blowing shit that doesn't matter WAY out of proportion" and "not taking Real Problems seriously enough". This is why dni banners are like that

[tlirsgender]

I fear the only cure for this is to simply stop being a teenager. If you're an adult and still like this I hope you stop being a teenager soon

[kimbureh]

11 votes and 1 comment so far on Reddit

[marisatomay]

I was talking about this with a friend but a really interesting cultural shift over the last ohhhhhh ten years maybe is that many people in fandoms view themselves as stakeholders and not audience members. Because of that, they think that the fandom should be running things, or at least have an acknowledged say in how something is run. And every reminder that they are not in control, no matter how small, bothers them.

[marisatomay]

This has always existed to an extent but it used to be very siloed and only noticeably prevalent in certain fandoms and everyone else in fandom spaces generally agreed that it wasn’t healthy to act like that. Now it’s seemingly every fandom with an online presence and it’s all happening much more publicly than ye olde Trekkie forum.

[marisatomay]

I do think that the increase in access to creatives through social media, extended promotional cycles where you do a thousand interviews and all of them get clipped for instagram and tiktok, and an increase in entertainment and fandom aggregate social media accounts which keep people updated on all of those clips and every second of the creative process has had a big hand in creating this sense of ownership that audience members feel. It makes us feel like we’re on the team because we think we know so much. But we are not and we don’t.

[callmearcturus]

Co-signing every single word as someone who is old enough to have watched almost this entire process happen from the evolution of web 1.0 to 2.0 to whatever dark abomination it currently is.

The ONLY thing I feel the urge to add is while a lot of this was born of social media (and this horrendous notion that every celebrity from your local band to the top billed actors of the world must have their own Online Brand and frequently do their own PR work to maintain that, which is and always was bullshit),

some of it is outsiders coming into the space.

As our platforms have vanished and communities have combined on the load-bearing pillars of the internet (reddit, twitter, facebook, IG, etc), the creative teams behind our media (and their PR teams) have invaded fandom spaces. At best this has happened out of support of the culture; at neutral this happens because the artists feel creative fandom is worship of the art and thus entitled to it; at worst this happens as a calculated move because having a strong fandom around your art can lengthen the half-life of it, how long the audience will interact with it.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[quasi-normalcy]

wow if only everyone warned you about AI hallucination.

[ruusverd]

A lawyer in California who got sanctioned last year for incompetent representation because he submitted an AI generated appellate brief without proofreading it, in which 21 of his 23 citations were hallucinated (either false quotes from real cases or cases that straight up didn't exist,) objected to the sanction on the grounds that he wasn't aware AI hallucinations were a thing and therefore wasn't aware he needed to proofread the AI generated brief before filing it with the court.

The court overruled his objection saying something along the lines of "IF that is true, and we can't prove it isn't, AI hallucinations are so well documented and widely discussed that the fact you didn't know about them is, on its own, proof of incompetence. And you owe us $10k for wasting the court's time"

They also required him to personally deliver a copy of the court ruling sanctioning him to his client (ouch) AND they sent a copy to the bar association.

(The kicker is when I went to google to find a news article about the case, the AI summary offered to help me verify any legal citations if I was worried about their validity.)

[x-keeprunning-x]

"I shouldn't have had to proofread something that I was supposed to write myself" is an INSANE defense

[redlipstickresurrected]

Youran Tang aka Sleell11 (Chinese, based Chaoyang District, Beijing, China) - 思绪 (Thoughts), 2022, Paintings: Digital Art

[smokinghotpastorswife]

I so desperately want to be able to convince Trump supporters with facts and logic and empathy, but it’s so important to remember that their ignorance is INTENTIONAL. my mom didn’t let us watch Sleeping Beauty growing up. I asked her why recently and she said, “it was evil.” when I pointed out other movies had similar themes and depictions of evil, and asked what the difference was, she couldn’t. I pressed one more time and she just said, “it felt evil to me. I didn’t like it”. same thing with dune 2: she said it was “dark”, and I was, “literally, like the movie’s lighting? Or the themes?” and she said “I don’t know” and didn’t want to talk about it more. many conservatives genuinely cannot tell the difference between “I don’t like it” and “this is evil” and they do not care to learn despite many chances

[smokinghotpastorswife]

and while I’m at, this can also be true of left-leaning people!!!! please think about things. you are not necessarily smarter than conservatives and you are not immune to propaganda

[history-and-stuff-and-things]

[void-drifter]

it’s cheaper to buy vegetables here

[sparkytheandroid]

life feels exactly like this now