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Every time I express that I think it's shitty to say that genAI "hallucinates," people get weirdly pissy and combative with me.

But until real human beings who experience hallucinations are treated like human beings worthy of respect and dignity...I think perhaps it's shitty to keep associating hallucinations with being non-human, dangerous, and a liar.

It actually really fucking sucks that hallucinating is seen as monster-movie-scary, dangerous, inhuman, and worthy of scorn and/or mockery. It actually really fucking sucks that people who hallucinate or experience delusions can't get compassionate help or understanding, because everyone thinks it's an automatic sign of being dangerous, violent, and a liar. It's a massive problem that people look at hallucinations as "dangerous crazy person shit" that should be gotten rid of or locked away.

I find it crass, at best, to flippantly use the term "AI hallucinations" when real-life people get abused, imprisoned, and killed because they experience hallucinations.

But what do I know, I'm just a crazy person. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

renthony

People in the notes keep proposing alternatives or asking me what they should say instead, and I really think y'all are overthinking it. You don't need to coin an entire new term. You can just say "AI generates misinformation." If you need it as a noun, "AI misinformation."

If you want to be provocative, "AI spits out garbled bullshit" works, too.

phinniastuff

My spouse is a computer programmer. 'AI hallucination' is the real term that you are meant to use. It doesn't matter if people like it or not. It matters that it's factual and correct.

#ai sucks

this is all the stuff I wrote for this year's 007 fest; most of it's complete.

- Like weddings weren’t complicated enough - Moneypenny/Tanner, James/Alec. (Table 5 - mutual pining) (Craig!Bond)

- Apricot jam and vodka - (table 6 - first kiss and first mate - James/Alec) (Brosnan!Bond)

on report - (table 6 - first impression - James/Alec). (Brosnan!Bond)

ponzanzi opening -(table 5 - hurt/comfort) (James/Alec). (Brosnan!Bond)

arm candy (table 5 - shared bed) (James/Alec) (Brosnan!Bond)

- chicken with artichokes and polenta (table 5 - fluff) (James/Alec) (Brosnan!Bond)

- soaking - on the water (James/Alec) (Brosnan!Bond)

- there are more things in heaven and earth (table 4 - HQ) (Mansfield!M)

my bloodied valentine - (table 4 - at home) James/Alec (Brosnan!Bond)

we all float up here (table 4 - in the air) James/Eve, pre-James/Q/Eve (Craig!Bond)

come home, in the morning light (table 4 - safe zone) James/Alec (Brosnan!Bond)

the velveteen Cossack - (table 5 - fake dating) James/Alec (Brosnan!Bond)

oh! Canada! (Table 4 - enemy territory) James/Alec (Brosnan!Bond)

vacation, all I ever wanted (table 4 - on holiday) James/Alec (Brosnan!Bond)

I can lock all my doors it’s the only way to live (table 4 - on the road) James/Alec (Brosnan!Bond)

- pub night (table 4 - free space (pub)) James/Alec, Q/James/Eve (Brosnan!Bond, Craig!Bond)

#007 fest 2026 #mi6 cafe #writing stuff

moringmark

baygeethefirst

yetanotherdayofdrudgery

Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet." Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution. Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any visible measure, suffer from it. Doris is, immediately afterwards, a noticeably more comfortable animal in the British summer. The fleece weighs approximately 3 kilograms. It is sold to the British Wool Marketing Board for, depending on the year, between £0.40 and £2.50 per kilogram. The shearing costs more than the wool fetches. Brian is shearing Doris at a loss. The wool is then: - Naturally flame-retardant - Naturally antibacterial - Moisture-wicking - Biodegradable - Renewable, annually - Carbon-storing while in use The replacement, in performance fabrics: - Polyester - Polyamide - Acrylic - Polypropylene - All petroleum-derived - All shedding microplastics on every wash - All requiring fossil fuel inputs to produce - All non-biodegradable, with a typical landfill lifespan of 200-500 years A single wash of a polyester fleece can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres into the water system. These fibres are now in: every tested water source on earth, every tested human placenta, every tested rainfall sample, the deep ocean, the Arctic ice, and the lungs of marine mammals. A single wash of a wool jumper releases: nothing. The wool, when eventually disposed of, returns to soil within a few years. The fabric being marketed as the "ethical" alternative to wool is plastic. The plastic is "ethical" because nobody has been asked to slaughter the polymer. The polymer also has not been asked. Doris, by being a sheep on a fell, is producing the most thoroughly sustainable performance fabric humans have ever made. Brian is selling it at a loss. The fashion industry, meanwhile, is selling petroleum at a profit and calling it ethical. Reject plastic. Wear wool. Doris is, this morning, growing next year's batch.

Note: if you're allergic to wool, you might be allergic to the dyes and fine with undyed wool. Maybe not, but it's worth a try.

posttexasstressdisorder

I will always chuckle at the memory of comedian Rip Torn on one of the mid-day talk shows (Merv Griffin, probably). He comes running along the aisle through the audience and stops at this one poor woman, points at her blouse and shrieks:

"DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY POLYESTERS HAD TO DIE FOR THAT???"

redarmyscreaming

Sheep was found coated in five years-worth of wool that all needed shearing off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyEFQghn3IE

posttexasstressdisorder

"Oh, Doris...you've just let yourself go...tsk-tsk, so sad, old girl..."

phinniastuff

They can die from this condition. The sheep can fall over and not be able to get up again, the wool is so heavy. It's called riggwelter. So shearing the sheep is actually doing them a service.

#sheep looks pissed off

depsidase

phinniastuff

oh, these are definitely horrible things with legs. What. the actual.

#horrible things with legs

One of these days that chocolate guy is going to stay out in the sun too long and he's going to melt and we're going to find out that he's been made of chocolate the whole time. And no one, no one, will be surprised.

#that fucking chocolate guy

It's been said that we just have to do the centre square, which is 'anything 006 related'.

I did a wing-fic a while ago which has a lot of Alec in it. An angry, heartbroken Alec who was left behind after his beloved James was murdered in Korea, and he has to deal with this new ... agent ... that just blew up an embassy, and then he has to babysit that same agent through a poker game in Montenegro.

You know this story. It just has more feathers.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

#mi6 cafe #alec trevelyan #006 #wingfic

halfbaked00q

thinking of a scenario where Bond & Q are bickering about. something or other. and M comes down cuz he needs to talk to Q about something. He does that, and at the end kinda pauses, looks warily at Bond, and is like, Bond, stop pestering your Quartermaster, then exits stage right.

Meanwhile, Bond is actually a captive audience for.. some reason or other (testing something for Q Branch? Such that he physically can't leave and hence why he stuck around, other than his natural penchant for nosiness? Something with... I dunno.... really strong magnets? some kind of test restraint or tether/leash thing that. zaps him or sth if he gets out of radius of the control unit which Q is holding?? ....did I just accidentally reinvent some kind of fucked up e-collar lmao). and has been desperately trying to weasel his way out/fckn.. Escape, for the last like hour and a half lmao.

and how he's trying to escape AND seething at the indignation. of being deemed the problem. when HE, TOO, WISHES HE WEREN'T THERE RIGHT NOW >:( >:(

halfbaked00q

maybe I am overthinking this- maybe Bond lost a prank war and his shoes are glued to the floor. he was in the middle of trying - and failing - to negotiate for the solvent, and WAS gonna just fuckin... step out of his shoes and Leave lol, but then MALLORY showed up. and he's not going to be shoeless in front of Mallory (disgusted face). What if Mallory is some kind of pervert?? (*manga-style aside of Mallory, deeply exhausted* he most definitely is Not..) And so you see. he was Forced to stay through all of this. >:c

phinniastuff

I would like to point out that what if Mallory was some kind of pervert? I mean, he might be a pervert. Maybe he's ogling Bond's feet? The foot fetish is the most common fetish that exists. (It's a bit of crossed wiring between the pleasure centers and the feet. Strange.)

#strange brain stuff #mallory

tsunflowers

the sun is a sickly orange color today with a haze of smog blurring its edges. it truly looks like something you would use in a scifi movie to clue the audience in that something has gone very wrong

tsunflowers

here’s a pic from the local reddit that honestly looks even scarier than what I’m seeing now

phinniastuff

It's because someone forgot to take Canada out of the oven.

No, seriously. It's wildfire smoke from Canada.

#canada's on fire again mom

chicken with artichokes and polenta

"What are you making?" Alec pokes his nose in the ingredients.

"Chicken with artichokes, you can have some when I put it together. Right now it's 'ingredients for chicken with artichokes'.

"It looks delicious." Alec dips his fingers in the jar.

"Will you stop filching my artichoke hearts." James slaps his lover's hand. "Otherwise it's going to be chicken with nothing."

"So what are all these lemons for? And the cream? The onions? The stock? The wine? All of this other nonsense?"

"Oh, that's plastic, because someone nameless was eating the artichokes."

"Those don't smell like plastic onions."

"Incredible, the smells Q-branch can make these days." James flips a piece of chicken over.

#mi6 cafe #mi6cafewipwednesday

byjove

Look, I don’t like Pete Buttigieg, I know you don’t like Pete Buttigieg, I think it is extremely concerning that someone filed a completely unfounded and fairly outlandish CPS report against him and that CPS took it so seriously they would not allow him to be in the same home as his children AND I doubt they would have done that if he and his husband were a straight couple.

phinniastuff

Whether they took it seriously or did not is not the issue. They have to check it out --they are mandated reporters, like 911, they must investigate every call.

(How I know this ... *dry chuckle* I sympathise with the man. This sort of thing happens more than you think, unfounded CPS reporting.)

#I do like pete buttgieg #he was a great transport secretary #passed the air carriers access act which is really important for disabled people traveling #disability rights

hello fest people!

My friend and distant cousin Larry the Cat from 10 Downing Street sent me over. (We are very very distant cousins but we look something alike, or so people have said).

You can call me double-oh-bubbles! I have made two kills.

(okay, they were flies. But I killed them! myself!)

And I will be cheerleading for you, and keeping an eye on Six for Cousin Larry.

#my name is double-oh-bubbles #007 fest 2026 #007 fest admin

i consistently forget wednesdays

James pulls the pan off the hob and rushes over to Q, staring at the bloody body on his doorstep like he's seen a ghost. "Alec?"

"This is the right flat, isn't it?" he replies woozily. "James?"

"Alec, it's all right. It's me." James kneels beside his friend. "I'm going to help you over to the sofa."

"I want to complain." Alec wheezes. "Your floor bit me."

"I'll get on that, next thing."

"Great." He looks up at Q with a bleary smile. "I'd probably hit on you right now, but my everything hurts."

#mi6 cafe #mi6cafewipwednesday

quiet-doll

recently saw ppl discuss whether they put their medicines in a kitchen cabinet or a bathroom cabinet and i was shocked by the fact that many ppl said kitchen cabinet. so now i need you to reblog this and say where you keep yours

prismatic-bell

I do indeed use the kitchen cabinet.

This may be slightly less shocking if you consider that I have ADHD, and the closer my meds are to the box of tea, the higher the likelihood they'll be taken.

phinniastuff

I keep all of mine in an art supplies box next to my bed. It has stickers on it, and I have timers set on my computer to tell me when to take my meds. (I have ADD, and my insurance does three month-refills, which is why the art supplies box.)

#meds