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20+ |Trans Girl | Any Pronouns | Pansexual | Likes: A lot | Dislikes: not much!! | God of Curses and Poisons | If one is not free then none are. Your grudge does not take precedent over liberation.

[pansexualkiba]

[skipppppy]

Astarion eye colour debates doing the rounds again on twitter

[worldofultimategaming]

The World of Ultimate Gaming

[libraford]

Knowing how stuff works at the municipal level is a fucking curse because you can do your best to relay information to the community and they still assume the worst of you.

To the average person, it looks like we're just tearing up all the parks for development. But there were meetings and posts and announcements, and there was community input and awareness programs and we did our absolute best to keep everyone in the loop but some people still fell through the cracks.

So they think we're destroying all the parks.

"Why did parks and rec get rid of the fence at this park??? All parks should have fences!"

The fence was damaged and we thought it might be more convenient to open up the area so that people using the shelter didnt have to walk all the way around to get into the playground. The fence was damaged because people would climb it as a shortcut. (I personally disagree that all parks should have fences.)

"Why did they tear down the playground at Miller Park? It was perfectly fine- they wouldn't have to tear it all down if they bothered to maintenance it like they're supposed to."

Playgrounds are suggested to be replaced every ten years to keep up with accessibility updates. Likewise, it was decided that while we're updating the playground it would be a good opportunity to address the safety concerns brought to our attention in the past decade.

"THEYVE COMPLETELY TORN APART WILLOW RIDGE PARK! How dare they take away our precious few greenspaces and line their pockets with kickbacks from high density housing???"

-deep breath-

If you had bothered to go to any of the four public meetings, read the announcements, or looked at the giant sign in front of the park, you would notice that we are remodeling the park to include a wetland restoration area to address the flooding issues, which was voted on by the neighborhood it is adjacent to.

Yall are gonna feel real silly when these projects turn out to be massive improvements.

[libraford]

"Why doesnt our town have a community garden?"

Well the answer is very simple: we do.

[autumnapologist]

Literally me everyone time someone says to me "i really wish i lived somewhere that has (community garden/arts center/public rec center/any nice community thing)" you do!!! Its right here!!! You just dont bother googling to look for it!!!

[libraford]

Part of this is the problem i run into every time as an event organizer, and that's-

How the FUCK do you reach the most people with your information?

Our little queer nonprofit does its best with a monthly newsletter, facebook, Instagram, meetup, physical posters, and our good old fashioned schmoozing. All that for about.... 500 people to show at pride, out of a city of 34k.

City management has 31k followers on facebook, a monthly magazine with a calendar of events that citizens get for free, open monthly meetings, an email list, and all the resources available to them and we STILL have people asking why we dont have amenities we already have.

I feel the city manager's pain.

[the-quasar-hero]

Yoooo, you gotta meet my friend! He’s an insufferable prick that’s so mired in his misery that just the thought of others being happy for any reason makes him lash out with vitriolic comments for no other reason than to upset you! And, he’s racist too 😃

[the-quasar-hero]

Ahh, I can’t wait for you to meet my other friend! She’s developed an extraordinarily myopic mindset that anything she comes across, that doesn’t mesh with her pointedly narrow filter of experiences, will be treated as a violent attack on her way of life and she will not hesitate to act in inordinate retaliation to it. She’s racist as well 😁

[the-quasar-hero]

No waaayyyy! Here comes my other friend! Oh, you should def meet them! They’ve never once challenged, questioned, or analyzed any school of thought they’ve been taught or presented with, taking everything at face value and unequivocally believe that life is an even playing ground. They genuinely think that there are no oppressive factors in our society that affect ppl’s lives save their own bad decisions. They are also racist 😉

[tartrazeen]

Wow, it's like my high school reunion 😍

[stillgotscars]

this part of stevie nicks’ interview with rolling stone is taking me out

[goodluckdetective]

So Hank Green got caught using AI and it’s a whole huge blow up, and I really don’t have much interest in adding to the pile on.

However, I do think this case is great example of what happens when smart people decide they can use these systems “responsibly.”

Let’s put aside the plagiarism and the energy use for a second (not that these don’t matter, but they’re not relevant to my point at the moment) and pretend these systems were made with entirely properly obtained info and ran on only solar, but otherwise were entirely the same. If you’re a person, you might think “okay, I’m going to only use this to come up with ideas for my next paper: I’m going to do all the research myself and the writing, I’m just gonna brainstorm topics.”

The thing is, even if you’re trying to limit use to just “brainstorming” the chatbot isn’t going to limit itself to just brainstorming. You might ask it “what should I write about involving Greek history” and it may suggest “the plague of Athens” but it’s also going to suggest some “basic info” on the plague of Athens that you might end up picking up and deciding your topic is. It’s going to provide you with “research.” And even if you decide to check that research yourself, that’s still setting you down a specific path you might not have picked organically.

And speaking of double checking its “research”, fact checking is a time heavy process. Not only now do you have to read the original text the bot provided, but you also have to compare it line by line with the summary the bot provided. That’s more time than it would have taken to just read the article by itself. And with any time heavy task, people are going to get lazy. And in original research being lazy might mean skimming a paper or an abstract, chatbots allow you to be lazy without looking at the article at all.

And soon enough, despite telling yourself you were only going to use it for brainstorming, you have offloaded topic generation, research and eventually even drafting because that’s what these bots are intended to do. They are not meant to serve as research tools or help brainstorm or serve as a bouncing off board: they are built to encourage maximum engagement. And that means if you go at them with the best of ethical intentions, they are built to tempt you to use them as much as possible, regardless of whatever line you drew in the sand for yourself.

Anyway, my main thought here is you are not smart enough to outwit the dopamine machine. It wants your attention and nothing more. Do not assume you can resist just because you know what’s under the hood.

[goodluckdetective]

Whenever you decide to use a tool, you should consider “what is this tool designed to do” and for LLM’s that answer is “maximize user engagement.” Anything else is in service to that goal.

[goodluckdetective]

My read of this came from Hank’s own response to the situation which you can find here. I’ve screenshotted the part in particular that drew my attention and spawned this post below:

Obvs, Hank’s situation is not the same as the scenario I laid out but I think the snippet above gets back to my main point which is these tools are built to encourage interaction and that’s a hard thing to avoid, regardless of intentions.

Some other notes:

1. As stated, I don’t bring this up to add to a pile on, just to use this as an example of something I’ve seen happen with folks trying to engage in this tech with an ethical framework. This is because-

2. Frankly, I think shame is a shit motivator. I bring all this up to try to draw attention to something I find under discussed which is what these LLMS are meant to do, and what they are advertised for which are often very separate lists. (I didn’t even get into how they’re meant to train off user data but that’s another can of worms). If you want to discourage AI use, it’s a far better strategy to listen to why the person is engaging with AI and then address that reason.

3. I don’t want to come off as someone trying to scare folks that they’ll get addicted just by touching the stuff: my point is merely that is it critical to know what something is made for before engaging with it. This actually goes for a lot of tech besides AI like Google or social media (which are also designed to 1. Capture your attention and 2. Show you advertisements). AI isn’t a special kind of evil in this way, merely a continuation of a tech trend where a product is sold to a consumer with the goal of the time of the consumer becoming the source of revenue.

4. I have book recs on this topic. As you can guess, this is an academic interest of mine. But that’s another post if folks are interested.

[pansexualkiba]

the tally hall problem. you pick a door. dont go in there

[pansexualkiba]

4chan and Kiwifarms are of Naraka, reddit is the preta reincarnation of Quora, and Substack is the animal incarnation of Google Docs. That isn't to imply bluesky or tumblr or anything is of Asura nature - strictly speaking, no form of media whatsoever can ascend beyond human. Devaloka remains right out for anyone who considers themselves a "user" of "social media". If you have a private pinterest board you will reincarnate as a flea.

[pansexualkiba]

centipede girl biting and poisoning and killing and eating a dragon girl (natural prey for centipede girls) but getting more and more annoyed that the dragon girl is obviously horny over this. stop acting like that you are genuinely ruining the hunt. i don't even use that thing to reproduce it illicits nothing from me.

[pansexualkiba]

Behold my empire of dirt. over there's the fractured monuments to hubris. that there's long-lost artifacts of the masters. and those are the ruins of my discontent #mydiscontent

[pansexualkiba]

cancelling my cable subscription as foreplay so that i can have sex to the hold music

[pansexualkiba]

i'll be on my deathbed in 140 years and my descendents will be like "harabogi what's the meaning of life" and i'll just turn to them and go "one time... your halmoni was watching love is blind season three on netflix. and a guy fake cried using eyedrops and they left the footage in. and i still think about it to this day." and then i die. ave maria. 🔔. they come to dress me for the funeral and my body has vanished without a trace and the only clue to my wherabouts is a single note on the bed reading "you're next."

[redstonedust]

characters in movies love to wake up from surgery and immediately start ripping off all their medical equipment like theyre a sexy werewolf breaking their chains. brother you dont know if that tube is the only thing keeping you alive right now. calm down.

[mothboiy]

He tripped

[beesmygod]

one of the most embarrassing parts of the internet archive debacle was looking at the checkout rates for the artists involved in bitching the hardest and the loudest and the vast majority of them had been borrowed a single digit number of times. libraries, and even piracy, are not a barrier between you and millions of dollars, fame, and fortune. your barrier is public disinterest

[chambaeli]

I feel like contouring is lowkey racist

[heartof-au79-deactivated2024090]

Is this a joke?

[chambaeli]

Noo lol I knew I’d regret phrasing it that way. This is tumblr, after all…

It’s not “people who contour are themselves automatically racist” but that the desired face shape created by contouring is one that, at the end of the day, pretty much reflects existing white standards of beauty. A thinner, pointier nose, smaller chin, high angled cheekbones and (on occasion) smaller lips. Also if you’re darker skinned you have to use a much lighter shade of foundation  thus ending up with an overall lighter face.

I probably could have phrased that better.

[burmeseauntie]

No, you are absolutely correct. In fact it is not even lowkey in the performance arts/entertainment world. I’ve known how to contour since I was 9, because I was in ballet. I was taught by an older Asian dancer who told me that I was already darker than everyone else, my face couldn’t look different too. So she showed me the basics, then left me with a picture of a white person as the goal to emulate. 

It’s always been explicit and intentionally racist in terms of what is considered correct contouring technique is to emulate white associated features. Which is not to say that contouring is bad, but it is good to ask ourselves why we do not contour to make our noses look wider and more distinguished. Or why we don’t shadow and highlight to make the face look perfectly round? While contouring is not bad ( and is actually very cool to literally be able to control the way people perceive your face, it’s like magic) it’s good to ask ourselves why we contour the way we do.