האַק מיר נישט קיין טשײַניק

מֵיטַל. 23. Meital. Ashkenazian.🍊🧿🧶🥯. Proponent of doing shit in real life. Interests include glitter, feminism, and soup. I block tankies, terfs, and antisemitism. Learning Spanish Italian Yiddish - B-something in all 3

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consensus

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

1k - m - Kleya Marki & Luthen Rael - gen

lll)- Como una niña de tiza rosada en un muro muy viejo súbitamente borrada por la lluvia. - Alejandra Pizarnik, “Caminos del Espejo”

She had begun to bleed the year that he took her. Something blackish and gloppy that stained the edges of her underthings, no matter how she folded old rags in the way that her mother had showed her how to do. She did not tell the man when she woke up hot and wrong, she was embarrassed. It was a need more embarrassing than dinner.

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Premium quality science fiction

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I realised that the whole fucking expedition is the perimeter that tv mensah is going out to check to avoid her own interpersonal drama

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the Kleya Marki and murderbot comparison is really brain melting because that is legitimately how both the narrative and Luthen treat her. And we don’t even know her favorite show

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Jyn rogue one was really showing some Shane Hollander levels of autism, disassociation, and being after that dick. What a delightfully odd woman in this here war movie

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and violently hitting things with sticks. How did I forget the number one

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I keep thinking about mensah’s 2 spouses (at least three in the tv verse) and 7 children of whom 5 still don’t have canon names after six murderbot books which is…. Not the setup one would most strongly associate with very dear and beloved children she talks about with any frequency.

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they like each other not in a weird way

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So Hank Green got caught using AI and it’s a whole huge blow up, and I really don’t have much interest in adding to the pile on.

However, I do think this case is great example of what happens when smart people decide they can use these systems “responsibly.”

Let’s put aside the plagiarism and the energy use for a second (not that these don’t matter, but they’re not relevant to my point at the moment) and pretend these systems were made with entirely properly obtained info and ran on only solar, but otherwise were entirely the same. If you’re a person, you might think “okay, I’m going to only use this to come up with ideas for my next paper: I’m going to do all the research myself and the writing, I’m just gonna brainstorm topics.”

The thing is, even if you’re trying to limit use to just “brainstorming” the chatbot isn’t going to limit itself to just brainstorming. You might ask it “what should I write about involving Greek history” and it may suggest “the plague of Athens” but it’s also going to suggest some “basic info” on the plague of Athens that you might end up picking up and deciding your topic is. It’s going to provide you with “research.” And even if you decide to check that research yourself, that’s still setting you down a specific path you might not have picked organically.

And speaking of double checking its “research”, fact checking is a time heavy process. Not only now do you have to read the original text the bot provided, but you also have to compare it line by line with the summary the bot provided. That’s more time than it would have taken to just read the article by itself. And with any time heavy task, people are going to get lazy. And in original research being lazy might mean skimming a paper or an abstract, chatbots allow you to be lazy without looking at the article at all.

And soon enough, despite telling yourself you were only going to use it for brainstorming, you have offloaded topic generation, research and eventually even drafting because that’s what these bots are intended to do. They are not meant to serve as research tools or help brainstorm or serve as a bouncing off board: they are built to encourage maximum engagement. And that means if you go at them with the best of ethical intentions, they are built to tempt you to use them as much as possible, regardless of whatever line you drew in the sand for yourself.

Anyway, my main thought here is you are not smart enough to outwit the dopamine machine. It wants your attention and nothing more. Do not assume you can resist just because you know what’s under the hood.

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I keep thinking of the horrible horrible possibility that dr mensah and the team developed some kind of horrible story about mensah having developed some kind of erotic attachment/use for murderbot as the cover story for why they all just so desperately had to get ahold of an old model on the verge of being scrapped for the price the company was charging and that story was still going to raise less attention than the alternatives of a construct going rogue. Like how are they selling this so no one gets suspicious. How is mensah explaining this to her three spouses

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Just so incredible here for the specific trope of the scheming cynical and yet deeply earnest well meaning middle aged politician lady trying to hold a rebellious group together with chewing gum and group therapy she herself will not be taking part in in the face of unbelievable violence and imperial control. And well killing people is bad obviously but if this assassin I picked up along the way were to do some killing and be super loyal about it well wouldn’t that be something

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Sci fi performances of our generation they need to be in an extended universe together. The epic struggle between Guy at the office using work hours to watch shows versus guy at the office who keeps blocking pirating sites from the office server to stop people from watching shows

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Jyn rogue one was really showing some Shane Hollander levels of autism, disassociation, and being after that dick. What a delightfully odd woman in this here war movie

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my friend Nina Zenik and my friend murderbot. Considerations

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I don't believe murderbot ever wrote fic but I know in my heart it was making fanvids of navbot from sanctuary moon killing the entire crew set to look what you made me do without a shred of irony.

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murderbot tv holds up so fucking well to a rewatch oh my god