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Gathering my Mormon-Cosmere posts so I can pin them: Starter list
Yazad as Ammon Mormon Doctrine that spiritual and temporal laws are linked annnnd I just found the best article on Mormon themes I have ever read, after months of trawling the internet for this kind of stuff. May or may not add. Depends on how much thinking about these things keeps me up at night.
Marquis de Sade, caveat emptor and ‘take me as I am’
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I'm afraid I'm going to mess up the spelling, but I love how Elliot talks about what a delicate flower Cyril Lee is, and that Cyril Lee breaks down crying twice--but "Lee" doesn't sound like a bordelands name, and Cyril comes back after the summer even though many of Elliot's students don't after his (very reasonable) rant about all the risks that come with being in the other lands when that's not where your from. I think it's a little nod to people who are more overtly emotional or sensitive, but that doesn't mean they aren't tough or daring or brave or adventurous or curious. Cyril is the one who bursts into tears during the rant, but he stays.
This kid is so fucking good holy shit. I love how into it the audience is, too
i just think committing genocide is worse than telling your friend to kill himself but maybe i’m a freak
I need more people to read the Time Of Iron series with me (Long Live Evil and All Hail Chaos so far) because I started them for a silly, light-hearted humor story about a girl being isekai'd into a horrible Game of Thrones-style alternate world where she has to get the Flower of Life to save herself from her cancer in the real world and she's a delightful bitch about, but suddenly I have FEELINGS ABOUT RAE??? She wasn't just delightful, she was positively burning with rage under the surface of her character because of everything that got fucked up in her life. She has humor about it, she is slowly growing to character about the characters in the story as real people, she is an absolute hot mess, she has to deal with so much shit that's not her fault (being vaulted into a villainous character who was cruel to everyone around her, so nobody in this world trusts her), and it's all just a scream. I can't count how often the comedic timing of the story has gotten an irl laugh out of me (the audiobook is really good!)! I'm so curious to see where this is going! The other characters are charming their way into my heart! There's a side pairing that I'm hoping isn't just subtext but may actually go there! There's gently poking fun at the tropes of the genre, but in a way that never feels mean to me, but instead done with love and joy for them! If you enjoy women getting to be hot messes, if you enjoy murder gremlins being utterly unhinged and falling in love with the hot mess lady because she's so fucking unhinged that his freak is ready to get down on his knees for her freak, if you enjoy laughing through a book that will eventually snare your feelings, then you should read Long Live Evil (by Sarah Rees Brennan) and let me yell at you about all of it.
All Hail Chaos Spoiler...
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So the night before Key kills Glacier, he's about to explain to Rae why he's going to choose her, but Rae cuts him of to say "yes do that, you don't need to explain yourself, everything's fine, why would I even object?" etc. And so we don't actually hear Key's explanation. For me, killing Glacier is the only thing that seems "a little excessive" even for Key's (loosely) moral code, and I suspect there's an added reason beyond "just to demonstrate I want no one but Rae." Maybe not, but if Rae's gonna end up with him than I'm hoping so for her sake.
I think you should know that I heard Fatalis as Fat Alice in the audio book and was charmed by his affection for his faithful pet. Kind of disappointed when I saw the text.
Oh man that is hilarious.
Torhell would definitely love his mystical saber tooth tiger at any size.
I have been really looking forward to seeing you all meet the Count and finding out his Deal and the fact this is the first ask I got about him would please him.
one thing i like about tumblr is it's customizable. usually. except when I can't say "not interested in this post" if it's a mutual.
i don't have to like every post a mutual posts but if i don't like and scroll by, tumblr keeps showing it at the top of my feed like "please interact with this post we chose it just for you cause ur mutuals <3" and im like. but i don't like it. i like them but not this sorry. you just won't let me hide it, and i don't want to unmutual or block them. which does end up in me blocking a bunch of random poor people who a mutual is just reblogging cause i just don't wanna see that post.
Octavian, to Key: You're such a pussy
Key: You are what you eat
Marius: *spits his tea*
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tysm to @marsskaterboii for tagging me!
Last Song: i love you by Billie Eilish! it was a rec from a friend but it was added to my playlist IMMEDIATELY
Currently Watching: nothing but if anyone has ideas I'd love to start a new show! last show was Who Rules the World but I stopped halfway through
Current Obsession: aside from the permanent space rote carved in my brain, I have to admit it's the Office.
Currently Reading: nothing :( technically Perks of Being a Wallflower but I don't see myself finishing it, the big twist was spoiled for me 😅
Last Google Search: "hudson williams canada fleece" yeah.
No pressure tagging @sarbofarbie @tragediegh @lostdaughterofgallifrey @warged @neatbay @moashdeservedbetter
that's not 10 and I don't know who's already been tagged but yeah, have fun!
last song: ummmmmm "The Cuntiest" by Spilata haha
currently watching: nothing :) I did watch the Pitt though and I loved it obsession: perpetually rote. currently reading: just finished all hail chaos, also rereading assassin's apprentice, and may or may not finish A Little Life (so much to love and a few things... for me... to really not love. Haha). last search: "people who don't have insomnia are lucky." lol. thanks!! This was fun :) optional tagging of @rhythm-of-lesbianism @somerunner @little-cute-pink-horrible-being
Whenever I see middle-aged adults being called creeps for dating 18 year olds, a lot of people call that "infantilizing". They insist that its wrong to make a blanket assumption that someone lacks the mental capacity to make their own decisions just because of their age.
And when taken out of context, I completely agree. Ever since I was a teenager, I've felt like young people are an oppressed class. I always hated when someone's young age was used as an excuse to deny their autonomy.
But when standing up to oppression, it's important to make sure you're counteracting the oppressive forces that exist, not just declaring an action to be inherently oppressive or liberating.
Young people are frequently oppressed by being treated like children as a way to deny their autonomy. But they're also frequently oppressed by being treated like adults when it's an excuse to downplay abuse toward them, to expect more of them, or to otherwise selectively treat them like an adult when it's convenient at the time.
It's not as simple as "treating them like a child is oppressing, treating them like an adult is liberating". It's more like "oppressing them is treating them like both a child and an adult depending on what gives the oppressor more power at any given time".
And when someone much older than them is sexualizing them, that's an example of them being treated like an adult when it's convenient. They're often not even treated like adults other times. 21+ age resrictions pass easily. Middle aged adults rarely hang out with 18 to 20 year olds as peers. Middle-aged adults would never respect an 18 year old boss. When a middle-aged adult has an argument with an 18 year old, suddenly the teenager becomes a child as an excuse to dismiss their side. It's very clear that middle-aged adults as a whole consider 18 year olds to be children. Only when trying to dodge being seen as a pedophile do they suddenly insist that an 18 year old is just as much of an adult as they are.
Liberators need to counteract what the oppressors do. When oppressors are treating them like children, liberators should be biased in favor of treating them like adults. When oppressors are treating them like adults, liberators should be biased in favor of treating them like children.
i’m sure it’s been said before but the pale woman and regal would have been such divas on page together…. the furs the jewels…. nemeses of a speck child and a mostly silent nephew…. those babies pissed them both off so bad they crashed out about it for the rest of their lives. the abuse torture murder wasn’t enough to quench it it was lifelong hatership. they should have been lavender married
My favorite quirk of American English is that since we're constantly exaggerating, sometimes it's more intense to say something slightly less intense. Because like, it means you actually thought about it.
"you look great!" - normal. Anyone could say this. Could be true or could just be lying to be nice. Very normal expected thing to say to someone
"you look good." - gay as hell thing to say to someone.
i can think of a better way to shock the bresingas
generative AI literally makes me feel like a boomer. people start talking about how it can be good to help you brainstorm ideas and i’m like oh you’re letting a computer do the hard work and thinking for you???
There are many difficult things that were replaced with technology, and it wasn't a bad thing. Washing machine replaces washing clothes by hand. Nothing wrong with that. Spinning wheel replaces drop spindle. Nothing wrong with that.
Generative AI replaces thinking. The ability to think for yourself will always be important. People that want to control and oppress you want to limit your ability to think for yourself as much as possible, but continuing to practice it allows you to resist them.
"This tool replaces thinking," is a technology problem we (humans) have faced before. It's a snark that I've seen pro-AI contenders take as well: I bet these same people would have complained about calculators! And books!
Well. They did, at the time.
We have records from centuries -- even millennia back -- of scholars at the time complaining that these new-fangled "books" were turning their students lazy; why, they can barely recite any poems in their entirety any more! And there are people still alive today who remember life before widely available calculators, and some of them complained -- then and now -- that bringing them into schools dealt a ruinous blow to math education, and now these young people don't even know how to use a slide-rule.
And the thing is:
They weren't wrong.
The human brain can, when called on, perform incredible feats of memorization. Bards and skalds of old could memorize and recite poems and epics that were thousands of lines long. This is a skill that is largely lost to most of the population. It's not needed any more, and so it is not practiced.
There is a definite generational gap, between the people who were trained on slide-rules and reckoning and the generation that was taught on calculators. There came a year, when that first generation grew up and entered the workforce, when you suddenly started encountering grown adults who could not do math -- not even the very basic arithmetic needed to count down from one hundred. I would go into a shop, buy an item for sixteen dollars, give the cashier a twenty and a one because I want a fiver back, and have them stare at the money in incomprehension -- what do? They don't know how to subtract sixteen from twenty-one. They don't know how to calculate a fifteen-percent tip. They did not exercise the parts of their brain that handle this, because they always had a calculator to do it for them.
Nowadays, newer point-of-sale machines compensate for this; they will automatically calculate and dispense the change, no subtraction necessary on the part of the operator. Nowadays everyone carries a phone, and every phone carries a calculator, so if you need to do these calculations, the tool is right there. As more and more transactions go electronic and card, and cash fades further and further out of daily life, these situations happen less and less; it's not a problem that most people can't do math (until it is.)
The people who complained that these tools-that-replace-thinking would reduce the ability of the broad population to exercise these cognitive skills weren't wrong. It's simply that, as the pace of life changed, the environment changed so that in day-to-day life these skills were largely unnecessary.
So.
Isn't this, ChatGPT and Generative AI, just the latest in a long series of tool-replaces-thought that has, broadly, worked out well for us? What's different about this?
Well, two things are different.
1) In the previous instances of tool-replaces-thinking, the cognitive skill that it replaced was a discrete and, on a day-to-day basis, unnecessary outlay of energy. Most people don't need to memorize thousands of lines of poetry, or anything else for that matter. Most people don't need to do more than cursory levels of math on a day to day basis.
This, however, is different. The cognitive skill that is being obsoleted here is more than "how to write essay" or "identify what is the capital of Rhode Island." It encompasses the entire field of being able to generate new thoughts; of being able to consider and analyze new information; of being able to follow logical trains to their conclusions; of being able to order your thoughts to construct rational arguments; or indeed of being able to express yourself in any structured way. These cognitive tools are not occasional use; they are every day, all the time.
2) In the previous instances of tool-replaces-thinking, the tool was good at what it did.
Calculators may have replaced reckoning, but calculators are also pretty good at what they do. The calculator will, as long as you give the right input, give the right answer. ChatGPT cannot be relied on to do this. ChatGPT will tell you, confidently and unhesitantly and dangerously, that 2+2=5, and it will not care that it is wrong.
Books may have replaced memorization, and books certainly could be wrong; but a fact, once in a book, is pretty stable and steady. There is not a risk that the Guy Who Owns All The Encylopedias might wake up one day and decide -- to pick a purely hypothetical example -- that the Gulf of Mexico is called something else, and suddenly all the encyclopedias say that.
Generative AI fails on both these counts. It fails on every count. It's inaccurate, it's unethical, it's unreliable, it's wrong.
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I remember some time ago seeing someone say (it was a video about medieval footwear, actually) that "humans have a great energy-saving system: if we can be lazy about something, we are."
This is not a ethical judgment about humans; this is how life works. Animals -- including humans -- will not do something the hard way if they can do it the easy way; this basic principle of conservation of resources is universal and morally neutral. Cognition is biologically expensive, and though our environment is not what it once was, every person still goes through every day choosing what is valuable enough to expend resources on and what is not.
Because of this, I don't know if there is any solution, here. I think pushing back against the downhill flush of the-easy-way-out is a battle both uphill and against the tide.
So I'll just close with this warning, instead:
Generative AI is a tool that cannot be trusted. Do not use it to replace thought.
