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Dragon letting off some steam on a telephone pole. The breeze must be nice up there.
"What do we do, boss?"
"We go on lunch, that's what."
"But what about the..."
"The dragon will leave when she's good and ready."
"Shouldn't we, I don't know, get her to move?"
"...Do you want to go up there and poke a dragon?"
"..."
"Gyros?"
So...how much of the bad discourse surrounding Steven Universe is just because people were really hoping that the Gems would beat up Andy DeMayo in "Gem Harvest"?
I was astonished to learn that there was controversy around this episode, because I felt like it was just kind of a normal children's cartoon about getting along with difficult relatives; and then I looked it up and learned that it had the extremely inauspicious timing of airing right after Trump's 2016 victory, and, yeah, okay, I can understand why a children's fantasy about reconciling with your obnoxious conservative relatives and getting them to accept your alternate family structure would play rather poorly at the time.
I think that Rebecca Sugar probably assumed, like most of the world that wasn't my specific flavour of extremely online in 2016, that Clinton would crush Trump and that this episode would maybe help to smooth over divisions; but of course what ended up happening is that an episode about how you should be empathetic towards your bigoted relatives ended up airing just as your bigoted relatives were going around victoriously hate-criming people in the street.
Watching it now, though, it ends up feeling wistful more than anything. Like, yeah, sure, it doesn't work like that, and we all know that now...But wouldn't it be nice if it did? It feels like a pleasant dream.
Steven Universe is fundamentally a power fantasy—but the fantasy is being able to get through to people and heal things. The power is love instead of strength.
"Like, yeah, sure, it doesn't work like that, and we all know that now...But wouldn't it be nice if it did?" Yeah....
Calcium
imagine someone thinking of you and buying you flowers
ok now imagine a horse as a skeleton with a blue fire mane
the horse ! It’s bringing you flowers !
Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread
mina eating a single popcorn
can you draw her blowing up. and then promptly being okay
bless you
(To the tune of Rasputin): BLEH BLEH DRACULA, KING OF TRANSYLVANIA, HE IS A BAT AND ALSO A MAN
BLEH BLEH DRACULA
TRAVELLIN' ON THE DEMETER
THINK HE CAN'T GET YA?
WELL YES HE CAN
There lived a certain man in Transylvania, He was big and strong, but had haemo-mania. Most people look at him with terror and with fear But to estate agents, he was such a lovely dear.
He could scale the castle like a lizard And said that he did not drink wine Shifting shape like some blood-drinking wizard His brides thought he was fine.
BLEH BLEH
DRACULA
SOMEWHERE IN CAPARTHIA
HE'LL HURL A WOLF RIGHT AT YOUR BEDROOM
BLEH BLEH DRACULA
MENACING THAT JOHN HARKER
HE'LL BITE YA NECK AND THEN SEAL YOUR DOOM
himeko 💫
so. i do this thing where i wake up still half-asleep, write a note in my phone, and then fall back asleep and forget about it completely until i find the note later.
and i need to show you all some of these because ?????
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.
Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.
Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.
And so on.
The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.
But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.
If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.
But they wouldn't understand any of it.
That's ChatGPT.
And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.
But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.
I fucking hate it.
really underrated genre of strong bad moment
79 seconds left
it’s the greatest day
Bakusou Bike! Zero Gear... Henshin!
Kit as the protag is very much Ex-Aid, but the Lazer suit looks really good on her.
