Musings

She/They bisexual disaster

[cassolotl]

A poll for Firefox users

I use up-to-date Firefox and I have used the AI kill switch

I use up-to-date Firefox and I have turned off some AI features but not all

I use up-to-date Firefox and I have not turned off any AI features

I use up-to-date Firefox and didn't know you could turn off AI features

I use an older version of Firefox with no AI features

I don't use Firefox

Remaining time: 4 days 1 hour

[cassolotl]

For Firefox users who weren't aware of the AI kill switch, type about:preferences#ai into the address bar, and you should see this:

[hiveswap]

i'll forever have beef with "alien" characters that are literally just humans. no, 70's sci fi author, the human form is not the pinnacle of evolution in such a way that all planets with life will develop the same way. i'll accept a vulcan situation where the original budget was low, but everyone else, get original

[ninedigitninja]

I always think that even with budget constraints you can probably get a bit creative. Doctor Who had a low budget but we didn't just get guys with forehead ridges and face paint we got the daleks as well as guys with forehead ridges and face paint.

I've said it before and I'll say it again I want weird, I want creators to push the boundaries of speculative biology.

[urie]

did you receive abstinence only education in school? (and please say where your school is located in the tags)

yes

no

Remaining time: 2 days 23 hours

[cortoony-art]

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

i like that tumblr suggested this to me, like, you’ll love this isabelle. you’ll love these jiggling cubes. and for once, tumblr was right. i do love them.

[nitashinori]

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

[ninedigitninja]

UK, Ghost in the Shell

[ramsaybaggins]

Dulcie leaving THE most autistic apology voicemail of all time

"I am OVERSTIMULATED and in SENSORY DISTRESS"

Also even though I was crying I laughed at "The polyester blend was a mistake. I thought it wouldn't crease, and it doesn't, but at what cost?"

[dogpuppy]

[jeanritchie]

now what were your great-grandfathers' jobs. that's more interesting. mine were a factory worker / industrial baker, a security guard, a lawyer, and a dairy farmer.

[thewardenisonthecase]

as i think of potential rook ideas, carver getting someone pregnant that he doesnt know about it for years and have that kid be rook is every day becoming a more compelling idea

[thewardenisonthecase]

other potential rook ideas also include

oghren's kid from awakening

rowan guerrin 2 aka the epilogue slide baby eamon and isolde have if you kill connor

[ninedigitninja]

This got me thinking about the Rook I had an idea for whose mother is my Tabris and whose father is either Alistair or Anders. I headcanoned Tabris having an affair with Anders during Awakenings and meeting back up with Alistair soon after. She never told Alistair about what happened with Anders and she's never been 100% sure whose daughter Rook is. I was thinking they'd probably be a Grey Warden.

[intearsaboutrobots]

an incomplete cath appreciation post. she's SO special to me!!!!

[ninedigitninja]

I love this show so much. It's such a refreshing take on the genre and even minor characters feel really fleshed out.

[qqchurch]

the Ice War on Europa...

[qqchurch]

[deep-state-partisan]

[somestrangeangels]

[i-am-venomancer]

This is the best RP

[pixigirl]

Change a single letter and change the word game

I decided this would be fun. So reblog with a new word and see how long we can make it.

The starting word is…

Lady

[thatsheepwithagun]

Lads

[missing-a-coffee-mug-deactivate]

Dads

[deephasoceanmagic-deactivated20]

Days

[love-in-the-time-of-waffles]

Gays

[fleur-de-jasmin-fdj]

Rays

[fantasy-pens]

Raps

[queerthalia]

Yaps

[holi-holy]

saps

[chronicallylatetotheparty]

maps

[khunned]

mass

[amiraculousplatypus]

moss

[pawsitivelymiraculous]

Boss

[moonlitceleste]

toss

[rhubarberpie]

loss

[vroomtaka]

lost

[lilcoffeegirl123]

list

[mayoiayasep]

fist

[microwaveabl]

fast

[the-racoon-in-your-back-garden]

vast

[pitrsattabhaadmeinjaa]

mast

[stargazing-at-the-moon-deactiva]

mist

[karleyn]

Most

[iris-collects]

Host

[stitch-n-time]

Hose

[elf-kid2]

Hope

[dalniente]

Nope

[killinguwithumbrellas]

Nose

[buginateacup]

Pose

[elf-kid2]

Post

[lynati]

Port

[lylilorden]

Sort

[flaim-ita]

Sore

[my-insanity-is-an-artform]

Core

[theraineofchaos]

Cone

[dads-back-from-the-store]

cove

[the-dark-king-noah]

cave

[nick-is-kinda-dum]

Rave

[garlic-bread-addicted-vampire]

Rate

[mrandomshitsandwhich-deactivate]

Rats

[ohmarjorie]

Bats

[bigtop-skies]

Bets

[galvantual-moved-deactivated202]

Bees

[oh-hey-its-harry-the-ghostie-boi]

been

[fluxite]

Meen!

[vivid-mercury]

mean

[microwaveabl]

lean

[cade-the-god]

jean

[system-reset]

bean

[smol-satan]

beam 

[coffeelovinggayidiot]

Team

[chronologicallyorderedbones]

Teal

[infinitevoidofnoodles]

Tell

[stars-aligning-deactivated20210]

Sell

[hotchocolatedictator]

Seal

[drunk-on-inejs-laughter]

Seat

[burn-like-starss]

Meat

[jeanjacket-lesbian-deactivated2]

Beat

[loverlighted]

Best

[crescentmp3]

Test

[susie-heart]

Zest

[bluehairedemon]

Nest

[imaginetheresanoriginalnamehere]

Neat

[alyssumlovesthecosmere]

Beat

[prismatic-bell]

Bent

[randomslasher]

rent

[ladyinsertnamehere]

Sent

[forwant-ofwit]

Send

[ladyinsertnamehere]

Mend!

[toygirly]

Fend

[thesexiestselkie]

Find

[eat-the-door-to-the-v0id-deacti]

mind

[just-trans-thoughts]

mint

[ratbastard42]

tint

[catbxy]

tilt

[b00bconnoisseur]

wilt

[phoenixdellaverita]

Will

[ghost-postables]

Well

[colorfulcandyskulls]

Welt

[thedistantstarsawaiting]

Melt

[nonbinary-dinosaur7]

Meld

[shalkapilled]

Mold

[measured-robshearfan]

Hold

[opo55omrevolution]

Cold

[achillbeing]

Colt

[mildlybizarrecorvid]

Bolt

[ray-goes-array]

belt

[zelovinit]

felt

[newbiewithscissors]

filt

[thedeadskincellsonyourpillow]

tilt

[mischievous-astronomer]

kilt

[catboy-tdick]

wilt

[revived-crows]

Will

[thenyandrawsnstuff]

KILL

[loonaticforaza]

Bill

[ajithink]

Bull

[jakejavu-offical]

Lull

[valhallas-last]

Hull

[secret-divinity]

Null

[thestormwielder]

Pull

[skysthelimit57]

Poll

[chillothy]

Polo

[archduchesskittycat]

Solo

[greatwyrmgold]

Soto

[humanaaa]

Moto

[azure-wing]

Mote

[hiveswap]

Mite

[ninedigitninja]

Rite

[moonstonecassie]

Fuck genAI here’s a google drive of TOH with all episodes from all three seasons

[whatagrump]

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

[thewritinggrindstone]

And!

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

Reblog to save a writer’s life.

[jaydove-writes]

Thank you

[localcanadiancryptid22]

Oh my god thank you. No wonder grammarly keeps complaining about my punctuation when I boot my writing up into word counter

[arrowfortea]

"can you explain this gap in your resume" i lay in dark and dreaming sleep while countless wars and ages passed; i woke still weak a year before i joined you

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, Chinese auntie way.

X

[redstonedust]

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

[ralfmaximus]

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.