on twitter this got a bunch of responses like “wow even the evil fujoshis? the homophobic yet hypocritically fetishistic ones? what if the fujoshi is racist?” and like well no obviously not in that case.
like it just doesnt make any economic sense. replacing human labor with ai only makes sense if the output is as good or better and cheap as free. but just the fact that you have to build the massive data centers at all-- especially that gpus go bad in just a few years, but even if they didn't, the facility itself is going to be a big expense-- means it cant be cheap as free. they were banking on an uber type situation where they could crank up the prices once people switched to their business model, but the trade is literally "this will be cheaper than using human labor" so if it's not cheaper than human labor then people will just hire people again. and it's not even as good or reliable as a person. so while ai is "here to stay" in the sense that the technology exists and will find its niches, probably people are going to be sexting with them forever just maybe on local models, the current business model cannot survive and never possibly could.
it's all desperation. i do really believe ed zitron's rot economy idea, that the tech sector has been searching for a new internet or iphone or whatever that blows up and changes the world and they get to keep the profits so they'll uplift any garbage (hence nfts and the metaverse) to try and astroturf that. and relatedly, i think nvidia and the cloud compute companies and the ai companies are just passing the same dollar back and forth to create big numbers that paper over how bad the economy really is. it's all an attempt to keep the infinite growth hack going.
like i actually think all of the problems with ai are problems that already existed that are just getting a huge spotlight on them because of the massive reckless expansion and apocalyptic marketing. like people are cheating on essay assignments? no shit, they used to use fiver and other cheating services. higher ups are devaluing and trying to get rid of creatives? yeah, we've been talking about how vfx artists need to unionize for over a decade, especially people working on marvel movies. people with mental health problems are turning to the internet instead of getting support or medical assistance and end up hurting themselves as a result? yup, especially when it comes to like eating disorders, there are some really awful places that will validate you into the grave. data centers use a lot of energy and water? yeah, they also did that before they were used for ai, they do that for youtube and twitch, and tech in general is a massive source of pollution. politicians arent listening to their constituents' needs and demands, instead handing money and special privileges to corporations that wont keep up their end of the bargain? yeah, i remember the public transit proposals cancelled to hand money instead to elon and his terrible tunnels. like it all already existed, they're just doing it so much so quickly that people can actually see it in front of them
Stanley Cup days in denmark on July 22nd and 23rd, and I have work both days :((((((( praying someone can take at least one of those shifts of my hands
good news: someone picked up my shift on the 23rd so now I have the day off!!!!!
bad news: it's nikolaj ehlers' stanley cup day which takes place in aalborg and getting there with public transport is a fucking ordeal so I'm not gonna be able to make it :(((((((((((((((
to the people who said “this except alcohol”: i support you & your sobriety/preference for other substances. i hope all goes well and you have the best summer ever.
to the few people who said “this except rpf”: sorry this isn’t about you. this post is for real rpfers only and if you can’t get behind that then you aren’t invited to the BDY summer plans
sidney crosby??? you mean the tim hortons commercial actor??? no officer never heard of him *trips and coat flies open, scattering thousands of printed zoomed in images of sidney crosby locker room bj angles* woah who put those there-- *trips again and my rubber mask falls off, revealing nathan mackinnon*
tagged recently by @corporatebanana, @rcmclachlan and @frogsinflannel. tagging you all back for next time, along with anyone else who has something to share. as with most things outside my usual, idk who to tag or not tag on a post like this so consider this me bigsing my eyes and asking to see what you're working on
well! let me share a story: i claimed a prompt at hj's prompt fest over on ao3 expecting to write something short and filthy featuring reverse age gap. howeverrrrr. i ended up thinking THOUGHTS and now i'm writing something LONG and filthy (and kinda sad) that i'm not sure find the fest vibe but which IS scratching my brain just right.
things you need to know: featuring married buddie in their 50s. fire captain buck, retired eddie, tommy who is 23 and just out of the army due to injury and is a) very unhappy, b) very obsessed with buck and eddie both c) very weird about his own desires
oh and this snippet is nsfw from like, the word go.
"Can I cum on your face?" Eddie asks, so polite about it. Tommy whines around his cock, and Eddie knows exactly what that means, pulls his dick out and gets his hand in Tommy's hair. He's been letting it grow out since the the second time he met Eddie, who remarked on his military posture and told him he didn't need to look like a jarhead anymore. He thinks they like it longer, and not just for the grip it affords them. When Evan realized there was a curl to Tommy's hair he'd tossed the three-in-one cheap shit Tommy had been using and introduced him to the world of a curl routine. It had made Tommy feel weird and young and cared about, but Evan coos about how cute it is, and Eddie likes to pull a curl straight and watch it spring back when they're lazing on the couch.
Right now, Eddie's not playing with his hair, just holding it, a tight grip that makes Tommy's eyes sting just right as he desperately keeps them open right until the last second. He can see Eddie's wedding ring shining as he strokes his cock, wet from Tommy's mouth, and if he really concentrates, he can convince himself he can feel Evan's too, where his hands are on Tommy's hips. Tommy takes Eddie's low, rough groan as his cue to close his eyes and feels Eddie's cum land on his face in several long, hot spurts. He wants to lick at what landed on his mouth but he knows they like the sight of him all messy, so he just blinks open his eyes and watches Eddie smile at him.
"There you are. Hey, beautiful. Do you mind if I show Buck a picture?"
Tommy shakes his head and groans when he feels Evan, who'd slowed down to help him present a nice, steady target for the facial start to fuck him harder, faster. Eddie snaps a picture on his phone, holds it out to Evan who groans and squeezes Tommy's hips harder. God, he hopes it leaves marks, hopes they press on them later when they make him cum.
"Fuck, you made him so pretty, babe," Evan grits out.
"He's always pretty," Eddie says, and holds the phone out to Tommy this time. He lets him look for a second, then lets him watch as Eddie deletes the picture. They're so much more fucking thoughtful than he wants them to be, sometimes.
one thing i hate about english is your open compound words. what do you mean it's a light switch and not a lightswitch or a water bottle instead of a waterbottle. get real
surprisingly forward-thinking of jim henson and co. to make a female character in the 70's that's allowed to be loud-mouthed and violent and kind of overwhelmingly romantic and even a huge bitch at times and not have a moment where any character asks her to change
going through all the muppet movies in a row made me realize that like. miss piggy was made in the 70's. and it's so rare even today to have a character like her. she's loud, she's selfish, she's funny, she's extremely vain, she's obsessed with romance, she's violent, she's kind of annoying, and there's not a single moment in any of these films where she's asked to tone down any of these personality traits. i am not joking when i say that miss piggy might be one of the best treated female characters ever written
Rewatching season 6 of spn pretty much for the first time since it came out is kind of a great wild ride, actually. Mostly because I remembered it being far far worse than it actually is, but also because in addition to the whole soulless!Sam and Campbell Family Drama Special it’s also just kind of bleakly fucking hilarious too.
Like this is the first season in what becomes a long tradition of Cas having the worst time of his life but at this point in the show he’s still basically the go-to know-all powerful character, meaning that at the same time as he’s having The Worst No Good Year Ever, every few episodes the Winchesters will call him up with one bullshit (albeit valid) demand after another by ringing their convenient little Dean-shaped bell. And Cas’ll show up fresh from getting his shit rocked by Raphael crazy-eyed and occasionally actively bleeding and go “sorry everyone! it took me a second to get away from getting my shit perpetually rocked and also leading the rebellion in this Potentially World Ending Celestial Civil War we’ve got going on” and Dean’ll look him dead in the eye and go “yeah yeah whatever man we don’t have time for all of that. listen we need you to slingshoot us into the Wild West” or whatever. And Cas will give him this incredibly pissy yet wounded look which basically becomes the basis for his entire character and will still apparently try to help them, and all the while you can definitely see something’s off with him but you kind of just attribute how distant and cold and chaotic he’s being to the whole Potentially World Ending Celestial Civil War Nobody’s Even Asking Him About thing and also the fact that his human friends are apparently ungrateful assholes
and this goes on and on and gets progressively worse for 19 episodes straight and then towards the end you’re genuinely like damn I get that he’s loyal but I’d want to smite something at this point too. and THEN The Man Who Would Be King happens and you find out that no he’s been lying his ass off the entire time and that all of this actually has to do with a horrible mix of guilt and pride and perverted loyalty and suddenly it’s no longer so funny as much as it is like “ah I see! 😀 this whole mess is SO much worse than I could’ve imagined actually and also the angel is, incredibly, somehow more repressed and a worse communicator than every other character on this, the Repression and Bad Communication Show”