nasty woman

I'm a fake geek girl and I don't care if you like it. I am always in flux but currently you will find star wars, farscape (because I am all aeryn all the time), and disney. I like science, dana katherine scully, things the patriarchy dislikes, AUs and very detailed alien biology headcanons.

[roycohn]

do it scared. do it stupid. but most importantly, do it bitching and moaning the entire time

[itsclydebitches]

Something I don't think we talk enough about in discussions surrounding AI is the loss of perseverance.

I have a friend who works in education and he told me about how he was working with a small group of HS students to develop a new school sports chant. This was a very daunting task for the group, in large part because many had learning disabilities related to reading and writing, so coming up with a catchy, hard-hitting, probably rhyming, poetry-esque piece of collaborative writing felt like something outside of their skill range. But it wasn't! I knew that, he knew that, and he worked damn hard to convince the kids of that too. Even if the end result was terrible (by someone else's standards), we knew they had it in them to complete the piece and feel super proud of their creation.

Fast-forward a few days and he reports back that yes they have a chant now... but it's 99% AI. It was made by Chat-GPT. Once the kids realized they could just ask the bot to do the hard thing for them - and do it "better" than they (supposedly) ever could - that's the only route they were willing to take. It was either use Chat-GPT or don't do it at all. And I was just so devastated to hear this because Jesus Christ, struggling is important. Of course most 14-18 year olds aren't going to see the merit of that, let alone understand why that process (attempting something new and challenging) is more valuable than the end result (a "good" chant), but as adults we all have a responsibility to coach them through that messy process. Except that's become damn near impossible with an Instantly Do The Thing app in everyone's pocket. Yes, AI is fucking awful because of plagiarism and misinformation and the environmental impact, but it's also keeping people - particularly young people - from developing perseverance. It's not just important that you learn to write your own stuff because of intellectual agency, but because writing is hard and it's crucial that you learn how to persevere through doing hard things.

Write a shitty poem. Write an essay where half the textual 'evidence' doesn't track. Write an awkward as fuck email with an equally embarrassing typo. Every time you do you're not just developing that particular skill, you're also learning that you did something badly and the world didn't end. You can get through things! You can get through challenging things! Not everything in life has to be perfect but you know what? You'll only improve at the challenging stuff if you do a whole lot of it badly first. The ability to say, "I didn't think I could do that but I did it anyway. It's not great, but I did it," is SO IMPORTANT for developing confidence across the board, not just in these specific tasks.

Idk I'm just really worried about kids having to grow up in a world where (for a variety of reasons beyond just AI) they're not given the chance to struggle through new and challenging things like we used to.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

I think this is an incredibly important post for a lot of reasons. You have to write a bad book in order to learn how to do something. You have to suck at playing an instrument before you can improve.

Struggling is part of the process, and I've had a lot of people argue with me that it shouldn't be who fail to see the point. When you replace an composer with an AI music generator, an artist with an AI-generated image, or an author with an AI-generated fanfic, you are missing out on the critical, fundamental experiences humans need to learn and grow. You are robbing yourself of essential skills you need as a person.

AI is not like a calculator, or a synthesizer, or a prompt generator. It's not a tool to aid in your process of understanding or creating something. It is replacing your ability to learn things, and that is going to do so much damage if you let it.

[recycledstars]

I'm like, obviously not around these parts much anymore. But I love checking my mentions to see this is still going strong.

And people are still cursing me in the tags.

[jumpingpuddles]

Farscape: Terra Firma

[jumpingpuddles]

Farscape: Terra Firma

[jumpingpuddles]

Farscape: Terra Firma

[jumpingpuddles]

Farscape: Terra Firma

[jumpingpuddles]

Farscape: Terra Firma

[sirkrabs]

did she lie? no

[moki-dokie]

This is such a millennial/gen x mood holy fuck

[nyctosaurid]

i think we, as a culture, have moved too far away from fantasy films where every plot thread is like “the dragon rider and the werewolf joined a crew of sky pirates and hit a storm of cloud-eels but luckily they were saved by a friendly pod of star whales” or whatever the fuck was going on with movies like stardust and time bandits . it’s doesn’t necessarily make a good film but i feel like there’s something deep in our lizard brains that craves stories entirely made up of weird bullshit 

[radio-silents]

see you space cowboy

[afacelesschampion]

STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI  + (letterboxd reviews)

[jumpingpuddles]

Farscape: Terra Firma

[teaboot]

1.7% of people are intersex, 2% have green eyes, and 1.5 percent are redheads, but yeah red is a natural hair color, green is a natural eye color, and being intersex is a 'deformity'. Keep pretending gender isn't a social construct

[rogha]

0.0006% of people in the world live in Ireland and we all agree that People Live In Ireland.

[recycledstars]

You’re my present this year.

[rainglazed]

Y'all need to STOP

[folgersincest]

Merry Christmas y’all

[sensitivesiren]

[easytolovehardtokill]

@bitchnamedwyatt plz explain this to the class

[soup0ftheseus]

There is a notorious commercial from 2009 by Folgers that’s a reimagining of the old “Peter Comes Home” commercial. The new one absolutely makes it look like the brother and sister are fucking. It’s deeply unsettling. Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker are brother and sister and because of the kiss and a few other awkward moments before their relation is revealed in the series, there is always a hint or undertone of incest in Luke and Leias interactions. This is a joke tying these things together.

[recycledstars]

^ this is a great explanation A++.

[cookie-sheet-toboggan]

“there are only four seasons”

true true just curious tho we talking earth’s rotation around the sun or warehouse 13

[rustyliver]

To clarify, there was a fifth season of warehouse 13 – no relation with the four seasons of warehouse 13.

[winged-mammal]

sorry sir this is fifth season total landscaping

[jollywithyourhair-blog-blog]