idk

silently judging God's decision to make me

[orphic-mysteries]

If it keeps you from killing yourself it's not stupid. This applies to anything btw.

[brb-on-a-quest]

Bestie. How dare you leave “do not mock the life preserver…” in the tags.

@onewingedsparrow

[insomniac-arrest]

Taylor Tomlinson, Look At You (2022) Netflix special

[theehorsepusssy]

[fishpondfish]

[ID: a tweet by hannah @/shamediarist that reads: "they knocked down a historic porn theater in rochester to make a walgreens parking lot and now the walgreens is closed. what was it all for". a quote retweet by @/Saveydro is a picture of joni mitchell with a speech bubble. /end ID]

[melon2109]

For the 250th anniversary of my country, my partner and I are watching the s1 finale of Unsleeping City, cause I want to watch genuine good hearted Americans from NYC beat the shit out of the ideals ruining my life and the lives of the world around me

[trinketbird]

kind of dont like but eeuh

[bluemuffin-draws]

Saving stars spinning

[voltaspistol]

[noah-wyles]

all i want for 2026 is that gigantic rancid AI bubble to finally burst in such a catastrophic way that the consequences will be so good and i'll never have to see another AI generated image ever again

[fluoritegalaxy]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[pearlisadollgirl]

As much as I hate AI I think it really is worth remembering that when the bubble inevitably pops it will only be people like you and me who take the hit. Every c-suit exec and wall street investor is going to be perfectly fine and I guarantee you Sam Altman already has a golden parachute lined up for him at Microsoft, Google, or Meta. We’ll be the one suffering the consequences in the end.

[animentality]

[graceonpaper]

I ABSOLUTELY agree with the overall gist of this post - but Hellen Keller very much did have touch, smell, taste, and intuition… unless this is sarcasm and I’m just missing it??

Am I neurodivergent but I’ve never been diagnosed??? Or just getting old? Idk. Lol

[rayne143]

writing affirmations for 2026:

at least you didn’t use AI

at least you didn’t use AI

at least you didn’t use AI

[itsclydebitches]

Something I don't think we talk enough about in discussions surrounding AI is the loss of perseverance.

I have a friend who works in education and he told me about how he was working with a small group of HS students to develop a new school sports chant. This was a very daunting task for the group, in large part because many had learning disabilities related to reading and writing, so coming up with a catchy, hard-hitting, probably rhyming, poetry-esque piece of collaborative writing felt like something outside of their skill range. But it wasn't! I knew that, he knew that, and he worked damn hard to convince the kids of that too. Even if the end result was terrible (by someone else's standards), we knew they had it in them to complete the piece and feel super proud of their creation.

Fast-forward a few days and he reports back that yes they have a chant now... but it's 99% AI. It was made by Chat-GPT. Once the kids realized they could just ask the bot to do the hard thing for them - and do it "better" than they (supposedly) ever could - that's the only route they were willing to take. It was either use Chat-GPT or don't do it at all. And I was just so devastated to hear this because Jesus Christ, struggling is important. Of course most 14-18 year olds aren't going to see the merit of that, let alone understand why that process (attempting something new and challenging) is more valuable than the end result (a "good" chant), but as adults we all have a responsibility to coach them through that messy process. Except that's become damn near impossible with an Instantly Do The Thing app in everyone's pocket. Yes, AI is fucking awful because of plagiarism and misinformation and the environmental impact, but it's also keeping people - particularly young people - from developing perseverance. It's not just important that you learn to write your own stuff because of intellectual agency, but because writing is hard and it's crucial that you learn how to persevere through doing hard things.

Write a shitty poem. Write an essay where half the textual 'evidence' doesn't track. Write an awkward as fuck email with an equally embarrassing typo. Every time you do you're not just developing that particular skill, you're also learning that you did something badly and the world didn't end. You can get through things! You can get through challenging things! Not everything in life has to be perfect but you know what? You'll only improve at the challenging stuff if you do a whole lot of it badly first. The ability to say, "I didn't think I could do that but I did it anyway. It's not great, but I did it," is SO IMPORTANT for developing confidence across the board, not just in these specific tasks.

Idk I'm just really worried about kids having to grow up in a world where (for a variety of reasons beyond just AI) they're not given the chance to struggle through new and challenging things like we used to.

[sapphic-luthor]

i’m going to hold your hands when i say this and i am only going to be kind about it once: ai does not belong in fandom spaces, ever. not in writing, not in art, not in video, not at all. it does not matter how bad you want to see your favourite characters kiss, or how much you need a bit of help finishing a chapter, or whatever.

make friends with artists. commission somebody. learn to draw yourself. ask for a beta read. try a writing partnership. fandom spaces are communities, so engage with them! it is about the journey and the fact that we all love something enough to create and build together about that thing.

spending 30 seconds to kill a tree and get an AI to push out some soulless empty piece of “content” is antithetical to the entire point of being engaged with fandom, and if you’ve taken to doing this you should really reconsider if you belong in these spaces with the rest of us.

[simandy]

Btw. If you're a teacher and you catch one of your students (kids, tweens, teens) using AI for the first time, please be gentle with them.

Last week i was looking into one of my teen's homework when I noticed she was writing words she "wasn't supposed to know" in english (like "furthermore", for example. They only know very intermediary english) I got a bit mad for a second. I wear an "anti-AI" button all the time, i even told them before why i was anti-AI, yet she didn't listen to me and thought she could get away with it... But i decided to keep it cool because i didn't know why she would do this, since she never did.

Okay, one week after, this Wednesday, it was time for their class again and, when she arrived, i told her to come to my desk and asked her: "what is furthermore?" She went pale when she noticed the paper in my hands. I asked again: "darling, what is furthermore?" Then, she shuttered: "I don't know, teacher. I'm sorry, I had to ask Gemini because I had no time..." then I sat her down, she was clearly upset (she is just 13) and I asked her what happened. "I didn't have any time left because of my exams and there were too many units to go through. So I asked my mom to help me and she told me to use ChatGPT but I asked google instead." Okay. So I looked into her eyes and told her it was okay, that she didn't need to be upset, but she would have to re-do that paper and bring it back to me by the next week. I told her she didn't need google or gpt to do her work, because she got a very high score at her english exam (both at school and at the course). She got right back on her feet and we started class as normal.

The only reason why I'm telling you this is because I hate AI. I hate it SO much. But, as a teacher now, I hate ANYTHING that takes the learning process away from kids. I hate the GLOSSARY in my kids' books as well for the same reason bc they don't want to figure the words out with me, they want to check the answer as fast as they can to get rid of that boring thing and I don't blame them for wanting to get rid of the boring task! But I blame ADULTS for allowing the kids to go the fast way, when they need the slow process to learn something! Her MOM told her to use ChatGPT to ace her homework. You know, the person PAYING the course bills so her daughter can learn english at an early age doesn't care about her learning process. But I do. I care. And you should care too. It's not my student's fault, it's about the learned helplessness, it's about wanting to be the fastest, it's about the knowledge scrapping, the way nobody cares anymore. And the kids are being affected by parents who don't care anymore. They're byproducts of this. So please, when teaching them why AI is bad, be gentle. It's not their fault the world around them is teaching them how to be dumb in a smart, sneaky way.

[gloriousclio]

Luke Skywalker put away his targeting computer to destroy the Death Star so I don't need AI to help me write an email.

[animentality]

[ot3]

as annoying and off the mark as i find the truly hardline obsessive anti AI people i do like watching tech companies lose money and their ceos whine about it. wahhh wahh people don't actually want our product and it's hurting our bottom line and people online are meaaaan about it. ok dipshits isnt that the free market y'all're so obsessed with. try making shit that doesnt suck

[6qubed]

I like to visualize the importance of Demand in "supply and demand" by asking people to imagine a tire repair shop that got new management and started selling spaghetti without changing their signage.

and while yes, the spaghetti might be cooked to perfection, and the sauce is an old family recipe (that you found online), and you've ensured that there's loads of spaghetti to go around no matter how many customers you might have, none of that will matter because your customers came into your shop looking to buy fucking tires like the sign out front says, you moron

and the bigger problem is ai techbros trying to sell you spaghetti when you ain't hungry and/or don't even like italian

[hikikomoricomplex]

I see we’ve reached the “blame your failures on communist subterfuge” phase of the AI business plan

[depsidase]

[morgan-le-gay]

OR CLEAN AIR!!! OR BALANCED ECOSYSTEMS!!!

AI technology needs to become more environmentally sustainable (in addition to its myriad other problems that should be addressed) before being deployed at the scale that companies are pushing for right now.

And of course, we need to keep AI out of creative fields as well.