God's eepiest soldier

My name's Finite -- 22, they/them, agender aroace, ADHD, depression -- i like a lot of things -- e.g. pokemon, music, worm webserial, cosmic/eldritch horror, httyd books, etc

[naptime23-7]

catch me waxing poetic about rice with meat being universally one of the best foods on the planet after i eat a really good biryani

[szynkaaa]

All four cover variant for Project Hail Mary is done!

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[lcb-57]

My magnum opus

[naptime23-7]

excited for his canto

[sockstealerr]

His personas are plentiful as they are inclined for demise

[buglikethecomputer]

i hate reddit as a whole but r/kitchenchads is the best fucking thing to come out of any website. look at these. look.

“i have had sex before” absolutely hysterical

[punkitt-is-here]

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[feministfandomforever]

Can't help but giggle is my favorite genre

[sandmandaddy69]

[cryptvokeeper]

[newtnoot7]

HERO - Don Quixote

SAIKAI | TIAN TIAN | Coming Soon

[pinkcadillaccas]

Im listening to a podcast ep about AI usage and the guest is saying he completely understands why people refuse to use it out of fear because he shares the same fears, and it's just so weird to me that it's never ever acknowledged that some people don't use it not because they're afraid but because it just holds no appeal. There are things I'm sure learning models are very useful for but none of them have anything to do with me. Yes I'm a bit of a ludite but I completely failed to resist the lure of the phone, or social media, I've never used chatgpt because I have just never wanted to. I feel like the entire debate is instantly reframed once you acknowledge that it's not a necessary service that people either work to resist or avoid out of fear. For most people it's just an online tool, and for me and I know for lots of others too it's just not that important.

It's not that interesting or useful to me, it's holds no appeal, I am resisting nothing. I could already do everything I wanted I don't need a new tool. It really is that simple and I would feel this way even if it wasn't worrying and evil in various ways. We HAVE to resist this narrative that AI is everywhere because people want it, because it's necessary, because it's an improvement, because people can't live without it. AI is everywhere because tech CEOs and investors want to make something from their massive investments. It is incredibly resistable to me. Just don't have an interest in it. This needs to be part of the AI conversation if we have any hope of saving ourselves from the data mining clutches of big tech (AI specifics aside)

[andmaybegayer]

> looking at a new popular collectible

> ask the people if it's objects or gambling

> they don't understand

> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is objects and what is gambling

> they laugh and say "it's a good collectible sir"

> look up how to buy a collectible

> its gambling

[andmaybegayer]

> #wait are labubu's blind bags?!

Labubus are blind bags but they're also blind bags with some of the most insane dark patterns stacked on top. The online store for them has a thing where they tell you what you got the second you order it online so that you can immediately try again if you didn't get the thing you wanted.

There's also a shake feature that is designed to encourage you to buy more than one by narrowing down the possibility space on a crate of options so that if you're hunting a specific model you can verify that it's guaranteed to be in one of these three IF you buy all three right now!!!!!

[girlishgamine]

You can read more about what dark patterns are and how to spot them here.

Deceptive Patterns (aka Dark Patterns) - spreading awareness since 2010

The original website about deceptive patterns (also known as “dark patterns”) - tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things tha

[ralfmaximus]

That is a fucking awesome site everyone should visit. Don't skip the Hall of Shame.

[dailymanners]

I just thought of this post, which was actually how I learned what Dark Patterns are, because I tried to cancel my Adobe Acrobat subscription, and it took much longer than I anticipated because several times throughout the process it felt like it was intentionally trying to trick me into thinking I'd cancelled my subscription when I actually hadn't yet.

Please read up on Dark Patterns and learn how to recognize them.

[melodyburst]

NOOOOOO! The Polyhedron! That's where I work!

[lakevida]

i went to navy pier as a child and clowns took my father away and built a table out of him with three other dads and i always thought this was some unpleasant and vivid dream and i mentioned it to my mom one day a couple years ago and she was like Yaa when we went to chicago they made him do chair tricks with other men

they did this to him

[pseudomantis]

Why do they keep taking away their swag/cuteness

[pseudomantis]

The raptors one is the most painful one for me they literally had a dinosaur playing basketball in their logo maybe the coolest thing in the fucking world and they were like let's get rid of him

[a-book-of-creatures]

[slygirlboy]

does anyone remember the maplestory 2 Closed Beta Tester hat

[slygirlboy]

[sweerlyc]

color practice, picking off colors from a chef boyardee can

[poppytheaxolotl]

Peak cinema