No False Power

I'm a biochemist from Ohio posting bullshit about science, bits of literature and social justice, and my own forays into writing sci-fi, horror, and smut.

[worldofultimategaming]

The World of Ultimate Gaming

[worldofultimategaming]

The World of Ultimate Gaming

[parkchanwoohoo]

Ted Kaczynski was a violent eugenicist and bigot

Whoa wow that's crazy. Did the Unabomber, of Unabombing fame, happen to do anything else problematic?

[prokopetz]

There's a thing in Classics studies where you'll read surviving descriptions of Ancient Greek automata which attribute all manner of near-lifelike behaviour to them – then you look at the reconstructed plans for the automaton in question, and it's a device with roughly the sophistication of a wind-up mouse.

The broad consensus seems to be that the authors of such descriptions are exaggerating for clout. For my part, I look at all the people in the year 2026 who've managed to genuinely convince themselves that LLMs are not only sapient, but smarter than they are, and I think: hmm.

[creekfiend]

chewy dot com wants you to know that they are proud purveyors of fine Dog Exorcism Potions, btw

[creekfiend]

the ad copy says it can be used on camels. imagine someone with a camel who is struggling with camel behavior problems seeing this and thinking "hot damn, the solution to my camel misbehavior problems is CERTAINLY this dog exorcism potion"

[theartofbeingblack]

Marjane Satrapi, cartoonist and film director, best known for Persepolis

22 November 1969 - 4 June 2026

[thedouble]

“Freedom always has a price.”

― Persepolis (2007) dir. Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud

[3liza]

when you are bandying about colorized, smoothed, upscaled and retouched "historical photos", unless someone did it all by hand in Photoshop, those are AI-generated imagery. im not sure why so many people seem to think they are something else. they arent. they are generated using math and likelihoods and fiction like any other AI image. the computer is guessing about what should go under the repaired infill, it is guessing about what color the human hair and skin is, it is guessing about the types of metal in the jewelry, the color of the sky, the color of people's eyes. it is guessing about time of day. its fake pictures. fiction. and it looks ugly. i have been on my hobbyhorse about this for decades and i am only getting more pissed off. its bad when humans colorize historical photos and its bad when it's done by an AI. it's ugly, it inserts false information into historical documents, it fucks up forensics and historical research. and its ugly. i dont want to see it

[toskarin]

If you were Onan would you have cum in your brothers wife?

I'm gonna be honest with you, Onan's reason for not doing it WAS actually kind of silly

[toskarin]

the controversial theological take you've been waiting for: yeah onan might as well have, sacrificing his line and gaining the totality of his brother's holdings, given that he was taking the place of someone who was demonstrably just slain by the same god he also worshipped

[toskarin]

on one hand I don't want to believe that, on the other I remember her mother tried to name oprah after orpah

[aromanticduck]

Teaching children about fractions: Imagine some yummy cake and pizza :)

Teaching children about negative numbers: Imagine you are freezing cold and in debt.

[aromanticduck]

Teaching children about negative fractions: Um... so the pizza is frozen... and uh... you couldn't afford it.

[orangebaccarat]

Teaching children about imaginary numbers: Okay, so imagine you want to major in electrical engineering in eight years....

[pissvortex]

Mobster, pointing a gun at my head: Any last words kid

Me: I actually like to use women's deodorant because the stuff for men dries out my skin and smells like harsh chemicals

*BANG*

(3 hours later, at Walmart)

(Mobster holding Dove Advance Care in the deodorant aisle)

Hmm...

[lilyblisslys]

me with the. When she. When her. When the she her me

[mollyjames]

[trickstarbrave]

BITING YOU BITING YOU BITING YOU

[redlipstickresurrected]

Calvin Laituri (American, b. 1997, based Brattleboro, VT, USA) - Down Cellar, 2021, Ink and Etching on Clayboard

[gaygaygay-no-kitaro-deactivated]

One of the greatest lines in film history

[txttletale]

couple years ago i made a post listing a bunch of silly joke political ideologies and one of them was like "queer sex positive feudalism" and i was blissfully unaware that this basically describes the setting of vast swathes of the modern fantasy genre. Stop That

[jewishtransdyke]

Quite a lot of actual historical feudal aristocrats were queer, and they were just as terrible and oppressive as the straight ones.

[fozmeadows]

yeah it's almost like that's something queer fantasy writers might want to explore for a reason

[omercifulheaves]

Tekkonkinkreet (2007)