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@orbularborbular
Do you ever think about how so much of the deadly anti-science rhetoric that fills America today and is killing countless vulnerable people can be directly traced back to one fucking guy who decided to just straight-up lie about vaccines causing autism because it would make him a profit? Do you ever think about that? Because I think about it a lot.
Look itās me
Listen, I'm having fun playing with the ultra patriotic voice, but after a couple years in blue-collar landscaping jobs, you really do need to phrase things like that.
"I'm pretty sure that fella ain't here legally."
"Well, that ain't your business Chip, it's his."
They hate being preached to. If you pull out words like 'gender wage gap' they'll tell you you're brainwashed by the far left media.
"He's one of them transgenders."
"He got freedoms too, Jimmy."
Also, please understand that SO often the real issue these people have is that they just want to say something inappropriate. They don't like being told they can't say "fag", so they'd say it for a reaction, just like a teenager would.
Shut down the conversation without reacting.
"His dick, not mine" will get you much further to shutting that guy down than "well it's really inappropriate to call someone a slur while I'm the job site".
And that's the point. To shut them up. To make them quit saying shit like that. The first one makes him seem kinda weird for caring about what that guy does with his dick. The second one gives him something to fight against and make a big deal about.
code-switching matters for communicating across cultures of all varieties
Cannot overstate how many flavours of bullshit disguised as political opinion can be shut down by ānone of my businessā or ādonāt be rudeā
Yes!
scientists are experimenting on cross-breeding a crab and a cheetah; things could go sideways real fast
there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.
short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.
meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.
bunny moment
the baseball crowd loves unexpected animals far more than the baseball game
you come into our house and say something so brave and true
Jurassic World and other media things: Have their raptors have ridiculously wiggly tails
Actual raptor tails:
the tail is so stiff the tendons became bones
ā¦ thatās not a result of fossilization? I am genuinely asking out of confusion.
nope! Those are ossified tendons, and they were important for raptors - their tails being so stiff helped them balance, which aided in hunting as well as mobility. In fact, their general lightweight nature meant they could engage in a variety of interesting behaviors with their fully-fledged wings (like raptor prey restraint and wing-assisted inclined running), where a stiffened and straight tail would help immensely for balance
In fact, the stiff tail of the dinosaurs closest to birds became stiffer, eventually shortened, and became the modern stiff pygostyle of living birds! So it's also an important step in the evolution of avian tails. Birds now have stiff tail feathers and only the pygostyle in terms of bones, the evolutionary conclusion of this trend. If you look at a roadrunner, a dinosaur with much in common ecologically with extinct raptors, you can see how the stiff tail feathers aid in pursuit.
This is EXTREMELY common in a lot of dinosaurs. You know what dinosaur DIDN'T have ossified tendons in its tail? STEGOSAURUS. Smackity smack.
yup! as a general rule, dinosaurs had stiff tails - unless they were using them for something else
Stegosaurs are a great example, but so are Diplodocids!
wing-assisted inclined running
are you telling me these raptors were naruto running? is that what you're saying to me?
god forbid 5000 year old girls do anything
holy shit bronze age pro sheep bone gamer girl
credit to @juniperhours i could not leave this in the tags
I'm gonna say something incredibly 30-year-old and I'm going to ask you to not judge me while I'm trying to be genuine and real. Okay? Here's my truth.
A piece of lettuce can really elevate a sandwich. The fresh crunch? Unrivaled. Peak. Poetic cinema.
earlier this year 2 boys got expelled from my school for going on a teachers email and sending another teacher an email that says āyouāre a disgusting little manā and i laugh about it all the time because imagine opening an email from your coworker and thinking itās important and then it says that
Gemini had the fucking GALL to get in my email and summarize a 3-line email, taking up more space than the email did visually.
Hit the āthumbs down.ā Itās like, whatās wrong??? Was our summary wrong? Were there offensive words? Thank you for helping us improve our AI tools :)
I selected āother.ā
Text box popped up. Please elaborate!
Wrote in āI can fucking readā submit comment
Then had to spend several minutes torching all my settings with a flamethrower. Let me be clear: Iām (a lawyer) notoriously picky with my words FOR GOOD REASON (lawyering) so I overwhelmingly reject Gmailās āhelpfulā little assistance. My privacy settings were set to āfull paranoiaā a little less than a year ago when I saw the writing on the wall and knew public defenders could become a target in the future. Better to lock it all down now.
Gemini had crept in there and turned ALL that shit back on. And showed itself by saying āJane Doe says sheās so sorry for your loss and offers to reschedule for Thursday at 3ā over an email from Jane Doe saying āIām so sorry for your loss. We could reschedule for Thursday at 3?ā
Why would I possibly need this. In what universe would I need this. I have eyes and a brain and a reading speed that twenty years ago was measured at 1500 wpm with full comprehension on dense scientific text. Furthermore! If I read a summary, Iām not reading what they actually wrote. If Iām not reading what they actually wrote, Iām not using my own judgment on the words and phrases that they used.
I literally donāt understand why this is helpful at all. This is just avoidance. Using LLMs to write is specifically Not Writing. Using LLMs to summarize is Not Reading. Using them to make art is Avoiding Making Art. Just READ! Just WRITE! I was not put on this fucking planet to not read and not write and not make art! Avoidance is an anxiety symptom and indulging it gives it more power.
If I had an AI to do my most dreaded task, answer the phone for clients, I wouldnāt use it. Because an AI cannot help them. An AI cannot hear the facts of their case, make appropriate noises, be thoughtful and insightful, and then give them a realistic estimate of what could happen in court. I am unique. I cannot be replaced by machine learning. I have style. I have expertise. I donāt hallucinate unless Iām having a really great Friday night and Iām off the clock.
When I need to outsource tasks from my own brain, I give them to people I know can do them and that I trust to do them right.
Fuck, it just sneaks up on you, doesnāt it?? Goddamn Gemini jumpscare right in my own fucking email
Its not even an anti AI post. Its just a rant so they can brag about themself
No itās a rant post, I would be less subtle if I was just blowing up my own ego. The post would be titled ācool facts about meā and I would have gotten the wpm figure right.
Just want to note, though, that humans should brag about what makes them better than gen AI. I love the responses to this post that are just bragging.
You weren't subtle regardless.
Cool facts about me:
I have a great job
I can do a great New Zealand accent and a decent Aussie
I live my life embodying the energy of James Holden from the Expanse
Once an octopus fell in love with me
I worked for a celebrity notorious for a sex abuse related scandal and it was the most boring zero-event job of my life (before the scandal broke)
Once got a fanfic of mine mentioned on official Wired magazine content
You should brag about yourself too
Iām also not in this world to bring other people down
Yes yes i know love is love. But they are still killing CHILDREN. over this.
The Weather Channel's AQI is broken (apparently the entire planet is hazardous to breathe right now, oops) but the scale only goes up to 500 so I am in tears at how the little indicator loads in upon a refresh.
@jorality
We know who has all the brain cells
It makes the dream work
Being smart enough to know when to consult and listen to someone more knowledgeable is in fact quite smart! Many humans cannot manage this!
text: [ āSome of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we canāt do things weāve been doing for 5000 years.ā ]
And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.
They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?
I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.
AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and to make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.
