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#extradirty
Claire Keane
we're not kids anymore.
KIROKAZE
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
Sweet Seals For You, Always
will byers stan first human second
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Jules of Nature
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Discoholic 🪩
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Peter Solarz
Andulka
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@my-collected-quotes
“To have inward solitude and space is very important because it implies freedom to be, to go, to function, to fly. After all, goodness can only flower in space just as virtue can flower only when there is freedom. […] And space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that it can come upon something totally new.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known
"Friend" is an AI wearable device designed to provide "companionship + emotional support"— i.e replace human friendships. Its literally an AI chatbot that you wear around your neck. "Friend" just paid for the largest ad campaign in NYC subway history
And Every. Single. Poster was vandalised, it literally looks like some of the most beautiful art you have ever seen
I see a lot of arguments nowadays about how translation as a field is easily replaceable/should be replaced by AI. Arguments like that are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what actually goes into translation.
Believe it or not but: Translations are not a 1:1 correspondence into the target language. There are an infinite number of factors that go into producing a translation including, but not limited to; metaphors, nuance, meter and rhyming scheme, wordplay and puns, etc etc. These are core components of social and literary aspects of language that AI does not correctly model, replicate, or produce.
Furthermore, AI in the context of language reproduction (not modeling) cannot think for itself. The micro-decisions that you as a human being make in just your native language, it is incapable of doing. Thus, AI must rely on a set of previously established data, must be coded for particular factors, and must be trained in an agreeable lexicon. AI may be able to replicate common phrases in standard dialects of languages, but it will not understand nor be able to reproduce more complex language tasks.
Yes, languages can be considered as having their own set of rules (grammar, spelling, etc etc). However, the ways that human beings actually utilize language is infinitely more complex than the prescribed rules of that language--especially in dual or multi-language communication.
AI cannot translate from the unknown with any amount of accuracy. AI cannot explain the reasoning behind its translation choices. AI cannot process language the way human beings do.
Think of it this way: AI uses a finite set of predetermined flash cards from which it attempts to guess further patterns, with no guarantee of accuracy. This is often why GoogleTranslate has grammatical errors for rather complex sentences, it often infers patterns in sentence fragments and not in view of the whole--as a human being would.
Translators, whether they work with historical documents or in a more modern context, make incredibly important decisions when they work with languages. AI does not have the ability to make those decisions.
You make incredibly important decisions when you use your language(s). AI cannot replicate you.
“It’s not ‘natural’ to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little–have few verbal means. Eloquence–thinking in words–is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality.”
— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh (via the-book-diaries)
… In groups, it’s more natural to sing, to dance, to pray: given, rather than invented (individual) speech.
Past The Webcam
I am watching a middle-aged man. I have been watching him for some months now. Not always. Just in the moments his laptop is on and he is in the frame of his camera. His face is a nice kind of round, and on it a pair of rectangular glasses. His hair is greying: some bits of his beard are still black. Often, he lightly bites his bottom lip, shrinking his already small mouth. And every now and again, he’d leave his laptop and come back with a mug. I’d say he did this about two or three times each day before ending his night.
I am watching him. He is on the same bus as I. I can see things from here that I could not see from the screen, such as how his hair flowed in a rather flattering way that covered the bald spot at the back of his head. He is seated next to a lady, and they are speaking. I cannot hear them from back here or over the hum of the bus. I like how he looks at her when she speaks. He looks directly at her, right in her eyes, he hangs on to each word, and when she’s done speaking his eyes point at the floor for a moment, as though he’s taking it all in. When the roles are reversed, and he’s speaking, his eyes wander. They peer up at the signs above us, at the railing running overhead, at the stop buttons on the poles. He repeats certain actions; his left eye—no left for me, so his right eye—twitches. A lot. Especially focused on her speaking. He runs the back of his palm under his nostrils. He fingers the gold wedding ring on his hand.
Eventually, the lady gets off the bus. A couple stops later, he does so too. I decided to get off too. I crossed the road and followed him. He got back to his house, and I sat at the bus stop opposite it. A couple moments later, he comes out the house with two girls. His. Only one seems familiar. He watches them cycle on the lawn for a fair bit. Both tricycles are pink; one of them has tassels on the handlebars.
The bus came to the stop. It was not my bus, come to think of it, I’m not sure what bus runs from here back to my place. I shook my head at the bus driver, and he left. The bus pulled away, leaving him in sight. He looked at me. I looked back.
I smiled.
And when you're ready, you try again.
“Never apologize for being sensitive or emotional. Let this be a sign that you’ve got a big heart and aren’t afraid to let others see it. Showing your emotions is a sign of strength.”
— Brigitte Nicole
You can't take the psychology out of the psychic experience.
Michelle Belanger
“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.”
— Paulo Coelho
I am actually begging some people to just let some spaces exist untouched by real-world issues and horrors.
Like I've lost count of the amount of times peaceful game or fandom servers have been ruined by people stampeding in with political rants, bitching about world issues, demanding internal activism, demanding vent channels so they can whine about their shitty parents, ect.
Like. Respectfully. Not every single space has to be inclusive of and welcoming of outside topics. The real world sucks. We don't needed to be reminded of that absolutely everywhere.
Offense is taken , not given.
“I am so afraid of disappointing the people I love, I often forget that I am someone I love too. And I need kindness just as much as I believe the people I love do.”
— Nikita Gill
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, ‘So what.’ That’s one of my favorite things to say. ‘So what.’”
— Andy Warhol
“We all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss.”
— Paulo Coelho
