baked sweet potato

Here since 2011. 

[garrett-hannah]

SHERYL LEE RALPH accepts her award for Best Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series at the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards (January 15, 2023)

[ayeforscotland]

Incredible recent British unionist bit:

“Scots language is xenophobic and is specifically spoken to make foreigners feel unwelcome when visiting Scotland.”

Imagine visiting Japan and going “Too much Japanese language here, clearly this is a hate crime.”

[meatswitch-deactivated20231107]

That does very much sound like something an English speaker would say

[sliversoakley4]

[samatonin-deactivated20231101]

[paaxindigenous]

[ibetteracethatinterview]

[doomdaysdecays-deactivated20251]

hearing a lady in a commercial say “Anti-aging starts at 25!” with disturbing enthusiasm, followed by an ad that encourages women to get laser hair removal so they can “finally be themselves”

[doomedvoyages]

wow almost like everyone saw this coming and it was grossly irresponsible to get rid of the recommendation in the first place

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

your full potential is your own. it will not be the same as everyone or anyone else’s.

[unichrome]

"soulless AI art is destroying artists!!1!" fucking shit get over yourselves. If something so "soulless" is supposedly producing better art than you and soon nobody can tell the difference then what does that say about your art.

Those "shitty little programs" took years of work and dedication to make, it's not a 15 minute hackjob to create a machine learning algorithm how to make pictures, considering it's a fucking piece of metal with electricity without eyes or, you know, sentience, that has to create something humans can recognise not only as a picture of something but one that doesn't look bizarre as fuck. Using only math.

That requires a skill in not only programming, but art as well. You don't write a line of code saying "hey computer pls make a cool drawing by copying this artists picture?". You'll have to specify every little detail in composition, colour, lights, recognition of what the fuck a frog looks like without having even seen the picture the machine will use to compose one that actually looks like a frog and not a random lump. You'll have to specify every little detail about how it should become better.

If something from your works are being used, it means that it's so well made that a machine can recognise what it is and learn from it. The asshole move are those who claims that the generated artwork is their own. It's not.

Real artists "copy" each other all the time because we're inspired by each other. Maybe try entering a query into the soulless machine pictures and get inspiration to make your own take on whatever you get. Or at least stop panicking about how machines are ruining art by idk really. Like I've seen so many posts on this but none of them make sense on how AI art is going to kill every artist like wtf kind of mental gymnastics is that.

Of all the concerning machine learning algorithms (I really don't like to call them AI because they aren't), this is the lowest concern you should have. Another algorithmic machine learning software fed you fear-mongering because it started trending. Imagine what other bullshit is going on.

[blooooom]

it can be tempting to live your life like a prequel. to live as if you’re setting up your own story.and once you lose the weight, once you have the money, once you graduate school, once you’re in a real relationship, once, once, once. then finally, you’ll begin to live, and everything you do up until that point is some kind of half-life, some unimportant foreword you can skip. don’t do this. inhabit your life completely. sink fully into the wealth of your existence. the power to manifest is in the fearless owning of who you are, so that you can shape where you’re going.

[cleopatrachampagne]

not enough ppl talk about the multilingual issue of staring at a basic object as your brain cycles through wtf it’s supposed to be called in the language you’re using like an rpg protagonist scrolling through their inventory mid boss battle.

[despazito]

Your daily reminder that the web is not a neutral place and to always check your sources bc there are literal conservative think tanks that ghouls donate millions of dollars into specifically so that when you google something like "Che Guevara" the first result will be a website named something like The Truth and Justice for Peace Institute telling you he murdered 2 million people or whatever

[despazito]

Useful list for Americans:

[unbossed-deactivated20251218]

I know that it goes without saying, but these shitbags are not to be taken lightly. The Project for the New American Century were one of the direct, and deliberate, causes of the war on Iraq. These institutions have very real power and they use it to kill for even more.

[theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt]

And remember that google as a search engine has moved toward putting all the BS sources that pay them money at the top of every search. I hate to say it but if you want to see less of these, I’d recommend you stop using google to get all your information.

[jb-blunk]

you naturally grow out of a lot of unhealthy habits and I think that something that seeing obsessive self improvement culture in the early twenties crowd makes me sad about like. you will start to drink less as your world changes, you will get better at habits as your world stabilizes. your sense of self will solidify as you make mistakes waste time and figure out what works for you and what does not thru your own bodies rejection of it. you’ll be called to sleep earlier and wake sooner and to move your body bc it won’t bounce back with out stretching it out first like there are reasons older people are more regimented bc they don’t need to experiment as much anymore to find out what’s functional. It’s not 1 size fits all

[love-is-here]

I think we should say no to hyper self analysis more often and just be

[academicssay]

[cryptotheism]