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Oh my god that's fucking hilarious

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

I'm so glad they got Ted Chiang -- a wonderful writer of science fiction and thinker about technology, in my opinion -- to write this essay. My favorite line was this:

Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.

slormp

Loved one got top surgery yesterday so I made this for him but I think y’all would appreciate it too

micolithe

the new rhythm heaven game looks great

dysphoria-things

everything gender criticals whine about being taken away from women ever since the transes took over is hard to take seriously because none of this has ever applied to butches

dysphoria-things

“bathrooms used to be a safe space!” butches have never been allowed that luxury. “people now have to ask if we’re women, as if it wasn’t obvious!” butches have never been allowed that luxury. “now im second guessing every woman i talk to! what if she’s a man?” yeah butches have dealt with that for a while now. “we used to be respected as women, now we’re people who menstruate or whatever dumb shit” do you think butch women have ever been respected as women

dysphoria-things

this paranoia about having to share a space with anyone they see as “not woman enough” is insane. they’re longing for the good old days when THEY didn’t deal with that, they weren’t just female separatists they were cis white monosexual gender conforming separatists.

dysphoria-things

compassion fatigue is a real word for people who work in hospitals, as therapists, at rape crisis centers, where it is part of your job to be compassionate and compartmentalize to the point where you take on trauma. why in the actual hell is this ok to tag posts by marginalized people about marginalized issues. at this point just stop engaging in activism or anything adjacent to it if you think its comparable to taking on the trauma of your patients

maviyenot

omnybus

The first rule of Fight Club is that fights can neither be created nor destroyed

omnybus

The second rule of Fight Club is to not take the Fight Club's name in vain

omnybus

Third rule: A Fight Club must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Rule

tentacleteapot

at the doctor being shown a chart with different types of man-made horrors on them while the doctor asks whether each of them is beyond or within my comprehension

crewdlydrawn

does the doc flip the options like lenses at the optometrists? “beyond or within? *flips* now these, beyond *flips* or within?

baddreamland

“Ottoman drugs containing rhubarb, cinnamon, mastic gum, Chinese turmeric, amber, musk, balm of Gilead, Meccan myrrh, white pepper, opium, rose water, cast into moulds & inscribed with healing incantations, 16C“

‡ Yasmine Seale

henk-heijmans

Knitting, 2021 - by Joseph Ford, English

clementiens

this is one of a [series] and they're all fantastic

joseph ford is the photographer and the knitter who made the pieces is nina dodd (ninadoddknits.com)

paarthursass

also "silent protagonists aren't immersive" my "immersion" in a game has been broken so much more by voiced protagonists saying The Wrong Fucking Thing than it has been by me having to use my brain to read dialogue options.

vtmb may be buggy as hell. it may have textures that load incorrectly sometimes so you've got doors that are half a stop sign. but i still get so drawn into the story that the ocean house hotel level manages to scare me every time. it's still so so tragic to watch how heather descends into her obsession with you if you make her your ghoul. it's satisfying to be able to have 5 different ways to tell lacroix to go fuck himself. and it's fascinating how, depending on which clan you pick, you have an entirely different experience - not just playstyle-wise, but interaction-wise as well! there's certain dialogue with maximillian strauss you only get if you're a tremere. your opinion of gary golden is going to change MASSIVELY depending on whether you play a nosferatu or a toreador.

voiced protagonists don't create immersion. fancy bells and whistles don't create immersion. good writing does.

omgthatdress

sonandheirofnothinginparticular

dollsahoy

Reminder that this was included on an official government USGS page [click], which not only gives credit to the artist--Ben Slyngstad--but reminds you that all government publications are public domain

ailurinae

@mothman-etd @thebibliosphere

recently-reanimated

Listen, staning politicians is bad. We must remain critical of people in power.

However it is funny to watch Republicans act like this man is the devil incarnate.

This is democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz Gov. Of Minnesota. This man looks like if a capybara was a person. He looks like he'd pull over on the side of the road and help you change a flat tire. He looks like he'd offer you hot coco from his thermos if you were out ice fishing with him.

qqueenofhades

After he was picked yesterday, Trump/MAGA literally sent out an all-caps email blast proclaiming, and this is a direct quote, TIM WALZ WILL UNLEASH HELL ON EARTH!!!

So now I'm just picturing Tim Walz, Evil Overlord of the Minnesota State Fair, standing among his evil plaid-shirt-wearing minions being like OPE, JUST GONNA BEHEAD YA REAL QUICK THERE, and then, I dunno, bringing hotdish to the End of Days Community Dinner for all the demons saying NO NO AFTER YA. In other words: good luck selling that one, turdgobblers. Lmao.