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I'm not even nearly as anti-LLM as most other leftists but part of approaching new technology is "hey let's think real critically about the application and scope of this so we can use it in ways that are worth it and don't cause mass scale societal damage" but the fact that it's being injected into fucking EVERYTHING makes any stance more cautious than "USE LLMS FOR EVERYTHING NOW AND FOREVER" so much more anti than the status quo that I don't even fucking want to add nuance

catboybiologist

Like most of the problems people have with LLMs are the natural conclusion of decades of tech companies gaining monopolies, environmental regulations struggling to keep up with new technologies, and a growing semi-privatized surveillance state, as opposed to issues with LLMs themselves. There's a theoretical reality where LLMs are implemented in useful, responsible, and sustainable ways but that reality is so far removed from our current one that none of those points actually matters

innerchildabortionclinic

anorexia as class signaling in the US needs a dissertation atp because that's genuinely why celebrities are like that. it's not just being thin but underweight to the point where if you didn't have proper resources, you would be unable to function in daily life. that's where class comes into play. it's a way of saying you can afford to live on the edge. I fully believe this

anton--rayne

If saying "I am a woman now because I have a vagina / I am a man now because I have a penis" will keep you safe and prevent violence on an interpersonal level then you should say it, but you cannot base your political goals off that appeal forever, your aim should be that you shouldn't have to prove your gender to people ready to violate you in the first place by being forced to give them information about your genitalia.

This can only be accomplished by destroying the structural forces which marginalized you and caused them to dehumanize you in the first place, forcing you to give them private information. This requires the abolition of legal sex, which is justified through the social fiction of "Biological Sex", just like how all systems of oppression have social fictions to justify them. You had to struggle to get in through appeals to rules made to exclude you in the first place, an appeal those who don't have easier access to surgery can't make (majority of trans people on Earth!) an appeal which can still fail through other so-called "biological" factors, also structured that way to exclude and oppress you. After your personal safety your true political aim must be that you shouldn't be put in this situation in the first place. You must become a communist.

2mo3cm-man

patchoulism

closet-keys

I think every single hot take, study, article, video essay, comedy bit, etc etc that you encounter about social media (especially involving the idea of youth on social media) needs to be consciously and deliberately processed within the context of an international pressure to surveil the populace (e.g. through age-verification laws) and censor anything perceived as threatening to imperial hegemony (e.g. support for Palestinian liberation).

like there may even be some good points made about issues young people are facing online, but you cannot engage with any of them responsibly without accounting for the broader sociopolitical context that takes all of these general social problems and attributes them to the scapegoat of social media.

this moral panic is literally just "young people in our country can communicate with other people around the world, and that's why everything is bad." reproducing that messaging uncritically is reactionary, no matter what other legitimate issues are being discussed within that packaging.

anyway apparently ai companies are buying up physical copies of rare books, scanning them, and shredding them so that only the ai's digital copy exists, so this is actually a pretty good argument for piracy i think

carrieonwriting

some highlights from my writing seminar with honestly one of my favourite authors of all time who shall remain nameless bc i dont want her to know i was spilling her secrets online

The first trick is to detach yourself from your idea. You don’t have just one novel inside you, and it’s not a big deal if you don’t finish this novel.

She was skeptical of the common advice “just write!!1!” - she talked about how long ideas for her most popular novels were marinating inside her before she properly wrote them

As a continuation of that, she was a big believer in knowing what you want to write before you write it. Not what you’re going to write, what you want to write.

The first thing she decides about a novel is what the mood is going to be, and this informs every other decision (e.g. the mood for Shiver was bittersweet)

Ideas should be personal, specific, exciting and they should exclude secondary sources. A personal idea isn’t necessarily autobiographical (which should be avoided), but it speaks to your emotional truth.

She said she had been read Ronsey fanfiction and she couldn’t view her car in the same way since.

Story is the thing that seems most important to reader but is most changeable to the author - story is subservient to your mood and your message. Change what you like in the plot as long as your book retains its sense of self.

Story is conflict, exploration and change. A good story has active tension -the characters want something, instead of just wanting something not to happen (e.g. wanting to kill an enemy instead of simply defending a stronghold against an enemy)

A story needs to have a concrete end, something to be done.

Satisfaction is important - deliver what you promise to the reader. The other shoe has to drop. Ronan Lynch doesn’t ever talk about his feelings, so its rewarding when he does.

Earn your emotional moments (she threw shade at Fantastic Beasts lmao)

Forcing a character to be passive is dissatisfying to the reader.

Characters are products of their environments, consistent/predictable, nuanced and specific, moving the plot, and subservient to other story elements.

She always starts with tropes for ensemble casts like sitcoms. Helpful for building good character dynamics.

Write scenes with characters saying explicitly what they’re thinking and then go back and make them talk like real people in the edit.

An action can also prove what they’re thinking, instead of making them say it or another character guess it (e.g. Ronan punching a wall).

Move the reader’s emotional furniture around without them noticing.

All her books follow the three act structure. Established normal -> inciting incident -> character makes an Active Decision -> fun and games -> escalation -> darkest moment -> climax.

Promise what you’re going to do in the first five pages.

Read your book out loud. Record yourself reading it.

If you have writer’s block, it’s because you’ve stopped writing the book you want to write. She likes to delete everything she’s written until she gets back to a point where she knew she was writing what she wanted to write, and then carrying on from there.

#writing

occidentalist

Consumer choices are not praxis 4 sure but if u in no way apply your principles to your life in a meaningful capacity, those more principled than you in that regard are probably going to judge you for it a little and you’re just going to have to get okay with that and then go get your Labubu Dubai chocolate McChicken with the Sodastream matcha on the side or whatever knowing you will be judged for it

fangs4faggots

i think we should start openly mocking male creatives who can't figure out how to write women. like actually i think it's embarrassing that it took elliot page transitioning for christopher nolan to give him a good role. why did it take like ten years to get the first female lead in a marvel movie? why is it a Known Fact that stephen king can't write women? why is 50% of the population omitted from large ensemble works? i asked my friend to name a movie directed by a man with a majority female cast and he said ghostbusters 2016. ghostbusters. ghostbusters. g

rottingtrouble-child

I saw this video about a doctor who performed an MRI on a 5 year old and discovered she essentially had “brain damage” from excessive iPad use, as the white matter in her brain couldn’t form properly due to an understimulated environment.

Hmm it’s almost like there’s supposed to be adult figures responsible for monitoring her screen time and making sure she develops properly… certainly this isn’t the result of neglect at the hands of her parents…

rottingtrouble-child

“This 5 year old is brain damaged by excessive iPad use”

Translation: This 5 year old is developmentally impaired by neglectful parents who used an iPad as a stand-in for social and environmental stimulation / interaction for hours at a time during critical early stages of child development. The iPad is the cop-out.

rottingtrouble-child

“Children don’t have the strength to hold pencils anymore because they only use screens.”

Translation: Parents aren’t making the conscious effort to help their children develop necessary skills and letting iPads raise them.

When are people going to realize the iPads and whatnot are the instruments through which the neglect is happening through and not the cause? How the fuck do you let your child have such a severe lack of physical strength in their hands that they can’t hold a pencil properly?

rottingtrouble-child

People will see a study suggesting children with higher screen times have poorer or negative developmental outcomes and immediately say it’s the screens causing this, and not the more likely fact that higher screen time = less engagement time with their environment, physical exercise, parents, family, and their peers, all of which are NECESSARY for a healthy upbringing as a social species.

It’s like saying a dog who was kept in a cage all its life and left with atrophied muscles was damaged by the cage, and not by the fact its owners were too lazy to play or walk their dog in order for its muscles to build properly. The cage is the instrument of neglect and the owners are the perpetrators, in the same way parents are the perpetrators and weaponizing screen time as an excuse and painting themselves as helpless bystanders.

rottingtrouble-child

Okay, people keep misunderstanding my point and somehow interpreted this as me saying iPads and screens cause brain damage, even though I am literally arguing the opposite.

I put "brain damage" in quotations for a reason, I believe it's fear mongering nonsense and am well aware screens don't cause tissue damage. I am repeating the words the video I mentioned used, which is that the young girl sustained brain damage from an iPad, those are NOT my words and I made this post in the first place because it's a load of nonsense that's commonly repeated. I don't know how to make that more clear. What people are mistaking for tissue damage is just the outcome of child neglect, like I stated multiple times already. I repeat, I do not believe and am literally arguing against the notion that screens rot children's brains, I am well aware it's repackaged "TV rots your brain" rhetoric. I am, however, stating the obvious fact that parents neglecting their kids does cause impairments (note how I didn't say brain damage) and sometimes they use screens to perpetrate that neglect.

Yes there are parents in very shitty strained circumstances because of capitalism. However, I am very very sick of people expecting me to comfort and prioritize parents in discussions about abused and neglected children. I already reblogged another version of this before acknowledging parents in these difficult situations.

This is not solely about screen time, this is about the lack of proper care for children and how iPads are often the blame for bad parenting, and how the usual outcomes of abuse / neglect are being misunderstood as something else. A lot of these parents would likely still be neglectful of their children whether they had more or less screen time, whether they have iPads or not, because I am specifically referring to parents who do have the means but don't put the effort in because they don't care.

rottingtrouble-child

Directing people to this again because people are mostly reblogging the very first addition and it’s leaving a lot of extra context out and additional clarification.

#child abuse