Autonomous Biomechanical Intelligence

author of depressing sci fi/ /vocalist of Underdark/ /sober/ /she/they/ /no biz proposals unless I know you

[massacregirl]

I hate promoting stuff I wrote so much.

It made me think I should try out getting a publishing deal

Looked at what that requires these days

So it's basically still being indie but you have to share profits with some suits

Wack

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 2 days 16 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 2 days 17 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 2 days 17 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[massacregirl]

Arright let's do this shit. New fic time

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

So what we got here?

- Two F/F ships (Judy Alvarez/V, Rita Wheeler/OC*)

- Extreme violence

- a lot of yap about art (specifically braindance)

- it's a revenge thriller, my main influences for this (outside of Cyberpunk) are movies like Oldboy and I Saw The Devil.

- *sort of an OC. Ollie is named in the game, in a single archived conversation shard. Her look, history, interests-all that is fleshed out by me, but technically she's not an OC.

Still interested? Here's the specific tags:

Whump, angst, canon-typical violence, gore, revenge, trauma, self-harm, medical malpractice, trauma, drug use, spree killing, body horror, horror, murder, threat, let me know any other stuff I should mention, sorry if I missed something I wasn't trying to blindside nobody.

Okay, now see if this makes you wanna read it:

Ollie was a borgbeast gangoon like any other, lost in the Maelstrom and loving her life of violence, drugs, and doing whatever the hell she wanted, when she wanted. That all changed after her mentor and father figure, Ymir, died. Now wracked with furious grief and haunted by intrusive visions of him, Ollie must do what any borg caught in the Vengeful Rite must do: even things out. A life for a life. On her quest for revenge, Ollie must travel south and find her way into the 'ganic world she despises, leaving no stones unturned until she completes the ritual and banishes Ymir's ghost. But what really awaits her in the citadel of neon, glass, and lies? With 'ganics, you just... never know.

This is a sequel to my last fic, Reliving Dangerously. You don't really need to read it to get what happens in Born Disappeared, though—all you need to know is that Ollie blames one Judy Alvarez for Ymir's death, and that's where we kick off.

Hope anyone reading this enjoys it, it'd be great to hear from you if you do. Or if you don't—it'd be less good to hear from you, but it still beats radio silence <3

I've got this half written and I'll aim to post a new chapter every other week, unless things get busy with my band or something happens and I have to miss a week.

[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

[massacregirl]

I like this attitude. I'm going to try to go into everything expecting it to be good, and when it's not I'm going to ask people why

[massacregirl]

wrote a maelstromer that thinks about ganics the way some of y'all talk about maelstrom

chapter 1 drops tonight on ao3

[massacregirl]

Some photos I took last month.

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[tieflingkisser]

[morgan-aleghieri]

This is also on Windows 10 by the way so make sure to check your settings 👀

[nelc]

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. — William Gibson, Neuromancer

[depsidase]

[intosnarkness]

Here’s the thing: authors know when they get a rec on an older story. There’s a telltale uptick of kudos (with a 10-15% comment rate if you’re lucky) in your digest email.

The thing is, there’s no way to know where these people are coming from. In the before, when fandom was more in the corners we all knew about, you could search LJ or a message board or whatever social bookmarking site we were using. You could join the community and participate.

You could get a little dopamine hit by seeing someone tell their friends why they loved your story.

Anymore, those recs are hidden in discords, or in tiktoks or instagram slideshows that you can’t search for. They’re inaccessible, not discoverable unless you’re already there. You may never know why 27 people left kudos on an old story of yours, what they liked and found in your writing. You just get the thumbs up and a kinda lonely feeling, cause these could be your people. You could like them, maybe. You could be friends.

But you’ll never find out why they stopped by, or what people are saying about you behind your back, and that’s sad.

So thank you to the people who still do public rec lists on this webbed site. You are my sunshine, and I’m appreciative of all of you.

[massacregirl]

Corporations destroyed the internet. We had something that could have been beautiful and we traded it for misery, because that was more convenient for everyone.

[massacregirl]

Y'know Uber, I don't think "audio recording in the app" is going to make me any safer, but I get the feeling someone's getting something good out of you for that one and it ain't your customers...

[agnesmontague]

ive invented (note: dubious claim) something i call the bear diet which is mostly fruits and vegetables with fish as the main protein source and something like once a month you eat a few hyperprocessed foods of your liking because that is when you, the bear, raid a dumpster in the suburbs

[massacregirl]

This is more or less my diet currently, and I gotta say I'm in fantastic health.

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

This is still true lmao

[my-dailydreams]

[loveridden1999]

takeshi kaneshiro on the set of fallen angels (1995)

[nikoisme]

Being obsessed with your own ocs is so so good for you i seriously can't recommend it enough

[nikoisme]

The only downside is that you have to do Everything around here