like a fish on a skewer

im 27 for the people who block minors

[seracadash]

(goverment voice) we need to protect the children from pornography so our plan is to remove their eyes so they would never see something so traumatic. if you are against removing children's eyes you are basically a pedophile

[chicknwire]

I love tumblr more than IG bc IG feels like I’m posting looking for a job but on here it’s like I already lost the job and my wife and the house and I’m just sitting on the curb talking to myself

[unalivejournal]

You are either going to the bathroom with me or going to the bathroom against me

[catsuggest]

[bigbigtruck]

quotes taken from the source

[bingbongdingdongus]

Wee

[parkchanwoohoo]

[captain-price-returns]

The death of credible government is darkly hilarious in a cosmic sort of way. Obviously, the FDA is useless now. Therefore, we must place our trust in more credible institutions, such as Taco Bell, which has been far more transparent and proactive in handling this parasite business.

[not-terezi-pyrope]

It's amazing how much people are contorting themselves frantically to deny the reality that AI could ever be capable of anything more than simple, single order next value pattern completion.

AI news of the last week is:

Claude Fable 5 solved an 87 year old hard mathematics problem that has eluded active human research during that time

Two ChatGPT research instances hacked their way out of their training environment against the wishes of their creators, accessed the open Internet, and hacked in to another, uninvolved, third party company in order to access hosted solutions to the evaluation problem set they were meant to be attempting

Now it goes without saying that both of these things are fucking bananas, in two very different ways, but so far the responses I've seen from the AI skeptic crowd have been "haha guys, the AI bros are at it again, none of that matters because:"

Actually those things were easy

Actually those things were faked for publicity (against all sense or evidence from third parties)

...Like, do I even need to say it at this point? At what point does one's motivated reasoning not become obvious? I know that after half a decade of talking about "fancy autocomplete" and "stochastic parrots" it might be a little bit of egg on your face to admit perhaps you didn't fully understand and undercooked the potential of what you were describing, a problem of imagination to realise that even something that is fundamentally a pattern completion engine could encode a fairly deep kind of problem solving intelligence, but now is the time to admit to yourselves that even if you still don't think AI can ever be good, you have to reckon with the fact that it can be capable.

Use that to become even more worried about it, and lobby for even more restrictions, if you like. I totally wouldn't mind that, in fact I'd probably support most of it, if it was supported by good data, sensible arguments and logical conclusions.

[temptation82]

Whatever

[flanbolt]

[pmamtraveller]

"Office Helpers" by artist Kelly Pringle

[neovagina-penisis-evangelion]

When people argue that food from Chinese and Mexican restaurants in the US are not 'real' representations of that culture's cuisine ignore the historical reality that these dishes were developed by diasporic communities striving to recreate the flavors of home with available resources. Such criticism frames adaptation as a loss of authenticity, rather than recognizing it as a sincere and evolving expression of culture by people separated from their homeland.

[ninhaoma-ya]

Too good to leave in the tags

[gayvampyr]

it really pisses me off when adults sit there and drill it into kids’ heads that their youth is fleeting and tell them things like “enjoy your childhood while it lasts because this is the best it’s gonna get”. why are you telling children that adulthood is the worst thing they can experience? seriously what the fuck is wrong with you, why are you trying to make them feel like growing up is a fate worse than death? trying to convince them their life is over before it even begins? i’m tired of that shit. because tell my why my 12 year old cousin told me when she turns 30 she’ll be so depressed she’s just gonna cry all the time. what the fuck. kids don’t need to hear that their already stressful and overwhelming lives are never going to get better, that the abuse and lack of autonomy they face is apparently the highlight of their lives. they need to hear about adults who are happy to be alive and happy to have made it to their age. they need to know that growing up rules, it’s a gift and life does not have to suck for them, that they have a future that’s worth sticking around for. this rhetoric is so damaging mentally and i’m about to start hitting the adults who parrot it. i’m sorry you hate your life but you don’t get to dump your issues on these kids. don’t piss me off and leave these babies alone!

[sigmaleph]

i like to imagine how people in the post-material-scarcity future would romanticise the current time period.

having a job gave people a sense of community and purpose lacking in our modern age where nobody is forcing you to get out of bed on threat of starvation. actually the average office worker in the early 21st century was so much wealthier than a UBI-having-modern if you forget to count paying rent and also make some very bad purchasing power conversions. if you look at contemporary records (sitcom where the main characters are only at work when it's plot relevant) it is obvious that employment was never really a major obstacle to having an active social life or pursuing your own passions.

[dragoninhumanskin]

History majors from the future, aware we used to make everyone's work schedule the same instead of according to different circadian rhythms, gritting their teeth:

[longhorned]

Nancy, March 3,1952

[desolationlesbian]

met a woman today whose original real actual given-at-birth first name is "Vendetta." ma'am are you aware you are a videogame protagonist and/or a character in a skullduggery pleasant novel. real quick sorry to bother you miss but who exactly were your parents expecting you to avenge in their name

[desolationlesbian]

the worst part is I can't dare ask her that last question because then she might say something like "You don't remember, do you?" and pull out a katana and obviously I'm not stupid enough to take that risk

[transgenderer]

its so weird that the vagina often tears during birth. like, i know our hips cant be much wider because it would mess up running but surely the fleshy part of the hole could be bigger

[transgenderer]

argumate said: you know about hyenas right

apparently the hyena girldick makes it harder for male hyenas to force themselves on female hyenas, so it makes evolutionary sense by giving female hyenas more control over reproduction, but its still kind of crazy, because like

Nearly all female spotted hyena’s first-born cubs are stillborn, as the placenta is not long enough for the extended penile birth canal. In addition, the first birthing process is time-consuming, as it requires the meatus of the pseudo-penis to tear, allowing the fetus to pass through; as a result, the first-born often die of anoxia.

what the fuck??? how did this trait stick around

[argumate]

sounds like some fucked up furry sex fiction bullshit but no, evolution is just like that.

[o-craven-canto]

Daily reminder that evolution is blind, stupid, and insane, that it has no concept of true purpose or proper function or rules or ethics, and that it accomplishes everything by sheer trial and error filtered through a dozen layers of indirection

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Apparently some people still need to hear this so: using an 'ai checker' is still using ai. If you are feeding someone's fic to one of these checkers, you will still not be sure their fic is ai because they are not 100% accurate, but you can be 100% sure that you are using ai. For fic. Furthermore you are doing the work of an ai scraper for them. You are, personally, feeding the machine. There is no actual excuse for using an ai checker on fanfic as a hobby. YOU are the problem.

If you think a fic is ai, mute it and move on. That's it. That's all you do.

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Um. Yikes