the stars are the same as ever

i have crossed the face of the universe, i poison it to match my grief 27 - she/her - nonbinary butch lesbian 🏳️‍⚧️

[thisaintasceneitsfob]

[mousegirlheart]

im surprised nobody has tried to mechanical turk a self driving car yet

[mousegirlheart]

[buttonsgoblin]

Well it’s a good thing international telecommunication is always 100% reliable, otherwise one of these could get disconnected for even a brief moment and cause an accident! Luckily, that just isn’t possible. Thanks tech companies, for considering the risks you cause for other people!

[vampire-loving-vampire]

hey white people . if u dont know how to pronounce an ethnic persons name *google it* or if its someone ur talking directly to *ask them*. dont fucking do that "erm i dont know how to pronounce but __" or "im gonna butcher this haha" or "im not even gonna bother trying" . ur not funny. do u know what poc think when they hear u saying that ? u sound like a loser asshole and we dont want to spend time with u . im so fucking tired of watching youtube videos about media from my country and hearing those phrases. im tired of people saying that to my face . i respect someone who clearly looked it up and is tryong but says my name wrong over someone who just goes with whatever bad first guess they had without trying. u have too many resources at ur disposal to keep doing this. for the love of god just Fucking Try. if ur confused Just Try.

[despair-tea]

I highly recommend Forvo.com, the website where native speakers of a language contribute their time and voices to read words and names in their own language. It is a fantastic way to expand your world, open up your ears, and it's way more likely to nab a hit than just googling.

[vampire-loving-vampire]

wow , I didn't know this existed, thanks so much for sharing the resource !! I will absolutely be using it now too 🖤

[hustlerose]

my coworker walked in the other day and immediately seized the aux to blast ai generated gospel/christian music. i felt like i was living in the twilight zone

[hustlerose]

forgive me if this isn't my lane but i gotta say my piece here. is there some forcefield around some ppl that prevents them from ever listening to black musicians? i'm talking abt the type of person who listens to rap, but the only rappers they could name are eminem, macklemore and tom mcdonald

to my knowledge, the coworker is question has never been interested in gospel music. it would be one thing if she was listening to like. idk. whoever gospel fans regard as their kenny g. but instead she's listening to this weird fakey shit with a facimile of a black man's voice on it

literally, if you google gospel music, you will get nothing but black artists. how did she find the one and only ai music project making a passable pastiche? "i don't really like this type of music, but this is a good one," is what she said. i'm baffled

[hustlerose]

the ai project in question is solomon ray, if you're curious. it's unclear who's actually making the music, but i'd wager it's just some record label ppl trying to make a buck

the process of record labels assembling "fake bands" with cheap session musicians and hack songwriters to shell out singles for the undiscerning pop listener, that's nothing new. it's actually not very surprising that this genre is seeing legit chart presence from ai music. the audience for this kinda christian music is, to be blunt, facebook moms. sincere-sounding (if hackey) lyrics, stock-standard production, tried-and-true song structures, it's all there. i'm surprised this stuff hasn't hit the country charts yet, as far as we know

i'd actually go further and say: solomon ray is a cut above the suno slop that gets churned out by bots on spotify. it sounds to me like it was made by actual musicians, heavily leaning on ai tools to make it quick and dirty. the singing is probably a real performance run thru one of those ai voice changers. it's shovelware, but it's not purely proc-gen. it's just passable enough for an audience that doesn't particularly care about quality, and is easily won over by mentions of prayer and jesus and all that holy shit

is it a little weird that a chatbot is writing songs about faith, to be sung and performed by ai tools, polished and released by cycnical grifters and corporate ghouls? sure, but only as weird as the rest of the tech and entertainment industries. i guess i just wish more people did care about quality. and i wish my annoying coworker would at least take a legitimate interest in black music, instead of watching it as a shadow play on the cave walls.

[milfygerard]

[memorycycle]

when you try to get into the png nightclub but you see the dotted rectangle surrounding the bouncer stretch him wider to block the entrance cus ur not on his clipboard

[memorycycle]

[kosmogrl]

one day I’ll get over it and the lump in my throat when I try to talk about it won’t exist

[my-random-fandoms]

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)

[mothwizard]

oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!

[horreurscopes]

starting a collection for my anthropology class can you guys send me more posts like these

[horreurscopes]

[testtubebabybeavis]

Here's a few I have

[chase-solidago]

if you wanna know what my dissertation is about, it's pretty much this!

[chase-solidago]

I work with definitions a lot because they’re very telling. It seems part and parcel of Western struggles with the concept of wilderness that all our words for gardening spaces are words that mean “enclosed space”: garden, horticulture, park, orchard, yard

[nightporter1980]

i would so love to know what was going on in this persons head. i would rather be shot dead than sneak food into a movie theatre. What?

[boethiah]

this reads like disco elysium dialogue

[autismgod-deactivated20250912]

this is something an NPC says to you at a bakery in the witch alps version of disco elysium

[nepenthean-sleep]

by far one of the funniest things in the world is hearing my nearly 70 year old father loudly bitch about how much he hates copilot

[johnnycrass]

u are NOT A SON OF ODIN u live in JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA

[hikes-and-moans]

UNPOPULAR OPINION: A lot of "mental health issues" disappear when bills are paid, rent is secure, and the fridge is full. Peace is expensive. And pretending money doesn't affect mental health is privilege.

[creekfiend]

> person who says "but what about people who were just bad kids whose behavior required correction and who never experienced any neglect or abuse"

> look inside the childhood that caused them to believe they were just a bad kid whose behavior required correction

> neglect and/or abuse

[nepenthean-sleep]

So thinking of your post about that straight people cant have sex movie:

Black people have always had it worse than queer people, especially white gay men. Cuz, there was an openly gay man as one of the top generals in the revolutionary army. Like he was kind of an outcast but was still respected.

Black people have always had less rights than queer people, and gay white men use their white privledge to stay safe while helping rhe racist system continue.

Anyways long way to say thank you for your posts ❤️ i like thinking

agreed, and thank you. when i wrote that post, i referenced two cases related to antiblack racism and one case related to homophobia. and yet so many of the notes on that post have EXCLUSIVELY talked about queer people and discrimination that queer people have faced and laws against queer people and i'm just like. not surprised by this kind of behavior at this point but definitely disappointed. like why is it so hard to get people to care about black people. you can mention more things in the post related to antiblack discrimination than homophobic discrimination and still get the majority of the notes talking about homophobia instead of antiblack racism. upsetting!!!

like yes queer people have been systemically disadvantaged in the united states and subject to horrible laws and discrimination, but black people have been INTENSELY and CONSTANTLY legislated against for the entire history of this country in a way that most other marginalized groups here, save for indigenous people, have not. and because this is the pissing on the poor website: not trying to deny or downplay the oppression that other groups have faced, just saying that what black people have been put through in the united states is very unique and far-reaching.

thank you for this ask, i appreciate it.