McBethins's Lair

McBethins. she/her. I'm a friendly nerd who likes to do science and ship Subscorp. Please enjoy my rebloggings and the occasional rat post 🐭. (Mortal Kombat, RWBY, Marvel, Star Trek and Wars, assorted fandoms, and random shit I like).

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

[chilewithcarnage]

'the masculine urge to/ the feminine urge to'

[pansy2025]

goo goo dolls if they were in dune: and i don’t want the worm to see me

[nonbinary-bosmer]

Star Trek Title Card Generator

Make your own era-accurate Star Trek episode title cards in seconds. Boldly go!

Every wanted to make your own Star Trek title cards, without needing to mess about with editing software?

Well now you can! (credit to Josh Mayfield as the creator)

Go wild and lets see what you can make

[espanolbot2]

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Let's keep this going this is a wholesome thread :D

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😂😂😂😂

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#fire at will and gotdan ramsey beats neelix to death with a chair are my faves

I was VERY proud of those so that makes me happy :D

HUGS

[mcbethins]

AW YAY *HUGS*

[slunch]

tl;dr: all "algorithmically" pushed stuff on a newsfeed is mostly ads. nothing that's really surprising form this vulture article, but it is dismal and makes me grateful for one website where you only see things from people you follow WITHOUT horrible short-form video content

[bitchking-of-angmar]

The Feed Is Fake

What if every viral song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama in recent memory was the result of a stealth marketing campaign?

https://web.archive.org/web/20260515113210/https://www.vulture.com/article/social-media-feeds-chaotic-good-projects-clipping.html

Have a paywall free link to the source!

[nonbinary-bosmer]

Star Trek Title Card Generator

Make your own era-accurate Star Trek episode title cards in seconds. Boldly go!

Every wanted to make your own Star Trek title cards, without needing to mess about with editing software?

Well now you can! (credit to Josh Mayfield as the creator)

Go wild and lets see what you can make

[espanolbot2]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

[emilreloaded]

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Let's keep this going this is a wholesome thread :D

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😂😂😂😂

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[redstonedust]

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.

[ralfmaximus]

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.

[depsidase]

[emkini]

Let's be unicorns with papa

[silverbridge-harbor]

Velociraptors are scary but really they aren't that scary because they can't change speed. They always move at exactly the same rate, so they're predictable and you can avoid them. The real one to look out for is the acceleraptor

[merrimentsmight]

U dont understand i had to write the first 70,000 words because if i didnt the sex wouldnt be as perilous or emotionally fraught. Which is the POINT.

[jukolybov]

Leek Dragon 🥬

[mafuyuh]

let's copy papa

[agvarina]

"Stay out of harms way"

"we May share Blood, but we arent brothers"

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[ixtaek]

[shanerozanov]

shane & ilya by todoga_k on twitter!