a little of a lot

pirate everything

[relevanceneverforgets]

I'm just another writer, claiming he's the best.

[classically-lit-memes4u]

defend my thesis? like with a sword?

[plvpwaa]

someday we’ll learn there’s always a relevant xkcd

[measureyourlifeincake]

don’t forget the snake fight portion of your thesis defense

[darkestcinema]

renaissance in the 21st century

[blogitalianissimo]

[tinyphantomsalad]

some more

[kitsunebattleboxer]

the WHAT??

[personification-of-anxiety]

okay, found her

[whenstarsfall]

[whenstarsfall]

some more good replies from the notes

[whenstarsfall]

[camellianswer]

i didnt expect these to hit so hard but then they kept going and going….my god

[maswartz]

[fractally]

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

[quasi-normalcy]

[draconym]

It's nuts how common it is to not allow children to be angry, even (especially) in households where adults are angry all the time. As a child I knew my own anger was unacceptable--not just expressing it outwardly but feeling it at all. So now as an adult my immediate reaction to my own anger is often to feel guilt instead of like. Noticing when someone is being rude or unfair or my boundaries are being violated or whatever. fucked up.

[fellator]

this fetish stuff is getting out of hand what the fuck is word play

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[modeus-the-xenofeminist]

People who defend AI are the epitome of Petite Bourgeois.

They wish for access to things without working for it, they wish for a sniveling yesman who has no method to usurp them, they seek to be praised as smarter than everyone else for doing things that others seem unable to figure out. (Aka, things other people have but are just unwilling to do for moral reasons.)

They admonish the Corporate CEO who burns billions and is still offered chances to burn even more, for how theg behave, for their foolishness, whilst wringing their hands over how that lifestyle should be theirs. Because they would be a little less manipulative, a little less eager for power, a little less cruel.

When the inability to convince them that even now, they could be wrong shows the only difference between them and the CEO, is the CEO can act upon their whims more easily.

[the-haiku-bot]

People who defend

AI are the epitome

of Petite Bourgeois.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[dragonofthedepths]

Reblogs were turned off but I wanted to be able to find this again

[violetrose-art]

40 English words you never thought existed

Weird, huh?

[adhd-languages]

i’m obsessed with these…

(From DepthOfWikipedia on Instagram)

[z0ruastudyblr]

The most revolutionary thing I've learned about Blackness is that our English is not at all "broken"

It was 2012 and I was a "white washed" (not real but you know what that means) junior in undergrad and an entire chapter included in this textbook was dedicated to our pidgin/dialect whichever your argument. 14 years later and the amount of borrowing with and without permission of rest of English is truly a marvel to the point where things I know damn well are just AAVE are attributed to wide ranging sources such as "Gen Z/Alpha slang" and "gay lingo" and "internet speak" in general. Our range

These are just a few of our many common grammatical rules:

Habitual "Be": In Standard English "He is working" means right now or generally. In AAVE "He be working" specifically means he works regularly or habitually, a distinction that Standard English can't make without adding extra words.

Copula Deletion: Dropping forms of the verb "to be" in places where Standard English requires them ("She tired" instead of "She is tired" or "They going" instead of "They are going")

Double Negatives: In Standard English, two negatives make a positive. In AAVE, using multiple negatives ("She ain't never going") simply adds emphasis to the negation, a common feature in many of the world's languages.

Metathesis: switching sounds within a word, the most famous example being "ask" as "aks," a pronunciation that has roots in Old English.

Remote "Been": When you say "I been knew that" the stressed "been" means you've known it for a long time, remotely in the past, which doesn't exist in Standard English without adding extra words.

Completive "Done": "I done told you already" is a way of saying the action is finished and the matter is settled with an emphasis on finality or frustration.

Subject-Verb Disagreement: In AAVE verbs are often uninflected for the third person ("She walk" instead of "She walks") to simplify conjugation.

I love being Black, we're so smart! We been developed our slice of language despite the slavery and diaspora

[evelynmooreartt]

"A Thread of Stillness"

One of my three latest paintings from a connected series, available on my website

Each piece feels like part of the same quiet passage, tied together by light, water, atmosphere, and a subtle sense of transition.

Oil on canvas, 18x14" #oilpainting #art #artlovers #sunset #paintingprocess

[liirker-at-thresholds]

I really like how the scientology speedrunning trend is developing, in this clip we see that the participants are

Not deterred by the closed door

Working as a group

Protecting their identities

Inflicting material costs to the institution via property destruction

Getting away at the end

These ideas were not all here from the beginning. They are genuinely gaining experience that can be applied elsewhere

[liirker-at-thresholds]

The church of scientology is on tumblr and they are sending me anon asks telling me that they can't even commit to reporting a post

[mothballdoll]

the moon by yuina yaguchi

[enki2]

[ariesrin]

I love characters who would die for each other but will not, under any circumstances, communicate a single honest feeling.

[mindsmist]

always think of this meme when this scene comes up