steep ravines and flying cascades

live blogging also there was pictures and stuff about the Caucasus (Georgia mainly) for a decent amount of time

[matty-boops]

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[rudjedet]

And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", but it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.

[matty-boops]

good album, also very good for driving

[shamesonlydaughter]

i really love this video it’s a poem to me

[easternblocrelics]

Fun in the garden somewhere in Hungary Color positive 1980s

[matty-boops]

I was fondly thinking of all the masking tapes I had when I worked at the library. Always tagging various walls, fixtures, and furnitures.

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

[matty-boops]

I had an interview today and I was so sleepy I almost cut it short to withdraw my interest

[thevideogameartarchive]

Beyond The Mind ‘Um Jammer Lammy’ PlayStation

[miscellaneacuriosa]

remnant of the past

Dilijan, Armenia, May 2016

[matty-boops]

why the hell am i taking an accounting class

[matty-boops]

i'm becoming increasingly coarse.. my nose hairs grow back quicker than ever

[polishwave]

Polak potrafi.

[matty-boops]

in a panic I signed up for an accounting class at the community college. It starts in two weeks and now I'm like "guh.. do I really want to take an accounting class"

[kata4a]

Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so, And spedde as wel in love as men now do.

chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde c. 1380

[youzicha]

glossary: eek also and even tho at the time prys great value wonder a cause for astonishment nyce stupid spedde succeeded

You know the form of language, too, can change. Within a thousand years, even the words that were most precious then, seem strange and foolish to us; yet they spoke them so and did no worse in love than we now do.

[matty-boops]

ah...it's time for my annual charity raffle entry with the million dollar prize...

[matty-boops]

having a crush will make you do the most wild things

like damn now I gotta build a trellis on my balcony so I can cultivate some green beans