take care, come home

he/him, 20 last seen at your dad’s house

[fernsnailz]

so did pjackk say anything before he got bload up again or did his corpse just kinda roll through here like a tumbleweed

[redstonedust]

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

[ralfmaximus]

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

My son's tattoo hurt me deeply

When Tess Morgan's son came home with a tattoo, she was griefstricken. She knew her reaction was OTT (he's 21) but it signalled a change in their relationship

This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read

[brawlcloud]

This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so

[monkey-cat-vivi]

He says, “I’m still the same person.”

I look at him, sitting there, my 21-year-old son. I feel I’m being interviewed for a job I don’t even want. I say, “But you’re not. You’re different. I will never look at you in the same way again. It’s a visceral feeling. Maybe because I’m your mother. All those years of looking after your body – taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this – this is desecration. And I hate it.”

[jingerpi]

"reblog to give a trans woman soup"

- 144k notes

"trans women experience misogyny because they're women"

- you are now on a blocklist

[sobcat]

there's always something you have to pay for

[justfrowzy]

woke up, mxster freethem... woke up and... smell the pronouns

[pitblond]

i was tagged by @untilfurthern0tice to post 10 songs from an ‘on repeat’ playlist (or just 10 songs i’ve been listening to.) tagging @armyofshrimp @caterpilller @cripplepunx @bugmistake @boyplushie @qmarsea + any other friends who see!! :)c

Keep Yourself Alive by Queen

You Can Have the Crown by Sturgill Simpson

Mr Self Destruct by Nine Inch Nails

Common People by William Shatner

Pay No Rent by Turnpike Troubadors

Balloon by Tyler the Creator ft. Doechii

ATTACKING VERTICAL by femtanyl

Dance Yrself Clean by LCD Soundsystem

Eatin' Big Time by Tyler Childers

The Mechanical Bull at Our Lady of the Valley by Old Saw

[segamascott]

[syring3]

[dogposts]

This is Chico. He loves catching bubbles and playing with kids. 

[sobcat]

[melancholic-whimsy]

they hate me for my flat facial expressions and inability to contribute to conversations

[hotgirlcastiel]

[valtsv]

parents love giving you job hunting advice that's like Have you tried destroying and betraying yourself for nothing

[brucebocchi]

two years later and BIG MEATY MEN SLAPPIN MEAT is still the funniest thing that’s ever happened

[abigail-rytel]

Happy Big Meaty Men Slapping Meat Monday

[brucebocchi]

FOUR YEARS OF BIG MEATY MEN SLAPPING MEAT!!!

[ariesfeed-deactivated20201122]

[bebsi-cola]

health isn't a virtue.

[bebsi-cola]

people still go around acting like they've done something good in order to be able bodied and healthy. that they worked for it, that it's due to their moral fibre or good upbringing or self control. they genuinely, on some level, believe that they are a good person solely based on the strength of their physical abilities. they will resist the fact that it is largely down to chance that they were able to maintain such health. whatever they think they've built from scratch, the building blocks were already handed to them. not because they're more worthy of it, just by luck. and they really think they're worth more based on that sheer luck. i've met disabled people worth a hundred of the healthiest ableds alive.