Maybe you could devastate me

27 she/they California 🌊

[sacred-portal]

Who up????

[important-cat-pics]

[alhwrites]

here’s a list of things I love about AI:

1. nothing

[yourtryhard]

[petitetimidgay-deactivated20240]

do you ever have a conversation and think “I am not heterosexual enough for this”

[vintage-tigre]

[caspercryptid]

The really unfortunate thing about mental health progress is that sometimes you realize you've made it in the form of "wow, I haven't felt this bad in a fucking while"

[theconcealedweapon]

[lustcannibalism]

the desire to engage in my hobbies leaving my body as soon as I have the day off even though I was looking forward to it all week

[socialistfremenist]

[ctimenefic]

Seasonal Affective Disorder is just emotional scurvy, all my core wounds are reopening and they won't be fixed until the big lemon in the sky comes back

[hollowedskin]

So the funniest difference between me and kiddo's previous foster mother is that she was telling me I've gotta call ahead and make sure all the staff at the hairdressers know kiddo is trans so they don't misgender him, and make sure they know he's a foster kid so they understand why it's me taking him and not his real mum and all that, and I've just said nah that's not how you do it.

I go to the barber, I say "my son would like a haircut", they do not question me about whether he is my son on either point. This has worked perfectly so far. You just don't give anyone a reason to question you? If I say he is my son it is so unbelievably rude for someone else to go "um are you sure?".

But yesterday the barbers apprentice looked at him and asked if he is getting a woman's cut, and instead of arcing up and explaining trans theory and respect for kiddos gender to someone who I knew heard me the first time and had clocked him, I just channeled the spirit of a Christian Mother In The Toy Aisle and said "well, he is a boy so no, he will have a boys cut".

Shuts down bullshit immediately! Nobody wants to be yelled at by someone's Karen mother! Kiddo does not hear this little pricks opinion on trans people or get humiliated by being outed in the barbers. You do not have to tell people all your intimate details! You certainly do not have to tell people all your kids intimate details either, especially if you think they'll be a target.

[sowecoulddance]

its christmas eve and look whos on tumblr

all of us

[sharper-and-bigger]

Jesus also spent Christmas in a barn full of animals

[missmitchieg]

PSA because apparently, some people are still unaware: ChatGPT is HIGHLY likely to give you outdated or straight up false information, so I would strongly advise against using it for homework or test taking. It hallucinates false information and spits it out at you, and ChatGPT also consumes (and evaporates) a fairly significant amount of water the more it's used and contributes to climate change. THAT contributes to habitat loss and animal endangerment and extinction.

[noah-wyles]

she's the best of us

[penandinkprincess]

my non-nuanced and un-researched opinion is that if ai were actually so great, tech companies wouldn't have to work so hard to convince us it's literally the key to salvation

if it can't speak for itself, why the fuck are you SCREAMING about it

[vergess]

My highly nuanced and extremely researched opinion is: yeah, correct, exactly this. AI is a powerful niche tool with great implications for SOME, SPECIFIC types of research, automation, communication, and data generation.

It is not some kind of superintelligent panacea for all industries, which is the big lie being pushed by tech bros.

They are screaming about it because they want to be the next Jeff Bezos, and they are idiots who will be proven wrong, but not before their burst bubble destroys millions of lives along the way.

It's an old metaphor, but a good one:

AI is an electric blender. It makes a lot of difficult tasks fast and easy (whipping cream! Blended soups!), and a handful of impossible tasks possible (food pasting for liquid diets!).

Now imagine your boss coming to you and saying this blender is going to replace half your team.

Fucking unhinged behaviour! The blender is a great tool that is totally fucking irrelevant in 90% of places!!

AI is much the same.

It has valid, valuable, niche applications.

It is being used outside those applications to great misery and little effect.

[evenlyevi]

Dandelions