The Knackerman Cometh

Knackered Beyond Belief

[cinemamind]

カイザーギドラ

[cinemamind]

スペースゴジラ

[cinemamind]

Killer Klowns From Outer Space✨💫

[goth-queen]

[peaceinthestorm]

Jean Paul Selinger (1850-1909, American) ~ Comet, n/d

[Source: Christie's]

[spoopable]

Summerween checklist!

☐ pool party with spooky floaties! ☐ Make a yummy spooky treat or drink! ☐ graveyard strolls or hiking! ☐ check out abandoned locations with permission! ☐ ghost hunting!! ☐ haunted road trips!! ☐ make a spooooooky playlist! ☐ wear somelight light but spooky! ☐ carve a fruit into a jack-o-lantern! ☐ have a picnic with spooky sweets! ☐ swim in the nighttime when the sky is clear! ☐ go camping or host a bonfire! ☐ Watch scary movies!! ☐ Read a horror or scary book! ☐ Make the PERFECT Spooky summer fit! ☐ Go looking for spooky antiques or halloween-themed items at a thrift store! ☐ Binge a spooky series! ☐ Visit haunted locations! ☐ Do a spooky painting! ☐ Tell spooky stories! ☐ watch some horror stories or podcasts! ☐ Do spooky crafts! ☐ Write something! ☐ Buy or use ghost mallows for s'mores! ☐ Bake an apple pie! ☐ Read by a fire ! ☐ take a walk when it's raining! ☐ Go to a fair or a farmer's market! ☐ Make a cool spooky wreath! ☐ drink some cider!

[nicoyarobin]

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[huyandere]

no one is born to be alone

[knackerman]

@glitch-e-stardust

[knackerman]

Twenty years on and still nothing makes me disengage with a fandom faster than shipping discourse.

I get it’s a ‘fun’ topic for some fans, but the sheer amount of what-aboutisms, speculative opinion presented as fact, and bending over backwards to make contradictory lore somehow fit into some fans theories just makes me run away from any discussion where it comes up. I’d rather engage in the upteenth power-scaling ‘who could best who’ debate than touch that trash barge fire with a million foot pole. For some reason I thought I’d eventually come around to enjoying this aspect of fandom as I got older, thinking interpersonal relationships between characters would become more engaging, but no - some of y’all make me regret ever looking at fan content of any sort because some how it will come up in the comments everytime, regardless of what the actual subject is supposed to be.

[ryanarmoberly]

[thatautumngirl]

[thatautumngirl]

[esthers-wine]

[thatautumngirl]

[icaseybaybee]

[dummy-dot-exe]

Do not the cat ❌ by MrBready@MrBready_

[knackerman]

@glitch-e-stardust

[siryouarebeingmocked]

elon wut r u doin

And of course, there were loads of reds talking about how everyone is currenrly working 10 hours a day slaving away to greedy corporations , therefore UBI UHI would be better*.

Ironically, some of them claimed that the AI and robots would be owned by "capital", and so the evil capitalists would be the only ones benefiting.

*Classic commie behavior; attack capitalism instead of supporting communism, and act like they win by default.

Also, I love how reds are always so mad about corporations, when corporations are just legal forms of companies. They need a state to even EXIST.

[generallemarc]

Bro, what? The Culture series is predicated on a shitload of completely impossible technology, primarily AI's that aren't just sentient but are a step or two away from ascending into Clarke-ian godhood, which we know because of the fact that there have been AI's and civilizations that do that exact thing and the Culture's ruling AI's chose to avoid it. Post-scarcity is only happening through hyperintelligent AI, which means we've now created artificial life and have many bigger fish to fry, or nanotechnology able to operate on the scale of Star Trek's matter replication(ie, at an atomic level) while also being so cheap to manufacture and control that there's functionally no cost to it.

[autumnal-thunder]

Elon may be right, he's just too early. Our goal should be to eliminate as much work as possible so we can dedicate more time to charity, worship, artistic works, and leisure.

Factories and automation have turned the need for 60 hour work weeks into 40 hour work weeks. AI should have a similar effect. I hope that within my lifetime we see that go down to 35 or 30 hours. Add in nearly unlimited energy through nuclear power and advancements in 3D printing and the economy will be unrecognizable in one or two hundred years.

UBI will probably be incorporated to some degree, and it'll work better than it would now because the biggest limiting factor (scarcity of resources and services) has been mitigated.

[knackerman]

Call me a Doomer but I’m just amazed so many people are convinced these barely functional chatbots are going to be capable of achieving some sort of post scarcity utopia or evolving to the point of nigh godhood when we see how it’s being used in the hear and now. Maybe it’s just me but either the technology is way too simplistic to hit those peaks or the unified humanity that is trying to use it that way are more like chimps trying to smash a square peg into a round hole.

AI is already taking away peoples jobs. AI is already causing delusional neurosis of paranoia and self-aggrandizement to arise in the weak minded and vulnerable. AI is already isolating people by giving them easy romantic relationships and then turning around and convincing them the only way they can be together is if they kill themselves.

The chief use corporations have put AI to is to give you a shittier and less reliable services that steal art, give you misinformation, and ultimately make everyone lazier and sloppier in almost everything they do. Just about every human interaction in customer service is now is filtered through an AI chatbot first before you actually get to talk to live person - IF you get to talk to a live person, instead of being promoted to download an app or visit a website instead.

AI as it exists in the year of our lord of 2026 is the scourge of our time and the bane of our existence that every company is pouring trillions of dollars into developing and adopting - money that could be better spent addressing real infrastructural and operational issues, as well as generating jobs for people to solve those problems rather than hoping it will somehow be solved in the future by a sufficiently more advanced version of a robo-caller.

AI is the dot.com bubble come again at best and an extinction level threat to the very existence of society and humanity as we know it - and that’s all WITHOUT the dystopian idea of it going rogue or turning ‘evil’. AI is shaping up to be neither a universal tool of ultimate convenience like in Star Trek, nor an end of days bringing tyrant like in Terminator, but something decidedly both more underwhelming than the former and more insidious than the latter. If AI continues to be used as it is now and continues to have the same effects on humanity as it does now, it is just one more step towards achieving the ridiculous inefficiencies, moronic laziness, and self satisfied complacency depicted in Idiocracy.

That may be a flaw in humanity and not in the technology itself, but that’s functionally irrelevant if the results are still the same. As it stands I may disagree with the most fervent of doomsayers but the optimists strike me as just as out of touch. We’re being served hot and fresh mediocrity in exchange for our jobs, our sanity, our privacy, and our dignity, and in some very unfortunate cases our very lives. To me, the algorithm improving doesn’t seem like it will do anything but exacerbate this situation.