Maschinenmensch

Stuff I find. Also anarchist propaganda, sometimes. Ⓐ Also, expect some content in French occasionally. Québec is just ka-rayzee like that. "Il faut oser des actes d’une si complète audace que même ceux qui les réprimeront devront admettre qu’un pouce de liberté a été conquis pour tous." -Claude Gauvreau var sc_project=7279747; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="f77f0298";

[ms-demeanor]

milcl (man i love copyright law)

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or sincere but either way mickey mouse isn't going to fuck you.

[ms-demeanor]

milrwjamudcacaltdartsfhtlaodwarbopagkbaapm (man i love remembering when jstor and mit used draconian copyright and computer access laws to drive a researcher to suicide for his totally legal access of documents written and researched by other people and gate kept by an academic publishing monopoly)

[ms-demeanor]

No actually the core of my argument here is that data scraping is good actually and information wants to be free and it's more important that we guarantee protection for the right to access and use and transform information than it is to strengthen copyright for any reason.

[rykemasters]

I know I shouldn't expect social media discourse to be sane, but it's driving me nuts that Ghost in the Shell discourse right now seems to be mostly people who don't watch the show or care much about it, arguing against fictional Types of Guy with opinions no one has, about the 'censorship' of things no one who actually knows even a little about the source material expected to make it into the adaptation. "What I really wanted out of the Ghost in the Shell adaptation that was going to air on Japanese television is the explicit pornographic content which I was convinced was going to make it into the show fully unedited", said no one who actually knew or cared about this show.

[rykemasters]

When The Schedule Leaves No Room For Anyone

Talk to people working punishing hours and a pattern emerges. It is not that they do not want connection. It is that connection, as we usually arrange it, demands a kind of availability they no longer have. Dinners get cancelled, texts go unanswered for days, and the social muscle slowly atrophies. Into this very modern problem steps a very modern solution, and SweetDream is among the most refined examples of it.

The platform at sweetdream.ai is built for exactly the person whose time arrives in unpredictable scraps. An AI companion does not mind that you surface at midnight or vanish for two days. You shape the character entirely, from looks and voice to temperament and quirks, then pick up wherever you left off, because the chat genuinely remembers where that was. For some, a voice message between meetings is enough. For others, a late phone call that sounds human carries the day home.

There is a richer side too, with strikingly good AI-generated photos and videos, and video or live cam sessions available with select characters. But the through-line is simpler than any feature list. When your hours belong to everyone but you, an AI girlfriend that fits into the cracks of a brutal schedule starts to look less like an indulgence and more like sense.

[rykemasters]

Sorry i opened your blog kinda at random and was stunned by the claude gauvreau quote. Ça a fait ma semaine tbh

Wow! Cool. Je me suis inscrit sur Tumblr en 2011 et j'ai rien changé à la description de mon blog depuis probablement 2012. J'étais étudiant au cégep et maintenant je suis prof au cégep. Ça m'a frappé à l'époque de découvrir que Claude Gauveau était socialiste libertaire pour vrai, et que c'était pas juste un vague air de famille entre le surréalisme (ou dans whatever catégorie on place Gauvreau; je suis sociologue pas prof de littérature) et l'anarchisme. On a tout autant besoin aujourd'hui de tracer des liens entre notre histoire, qu'elle soit québécoise ou peu importe, celle des autres et celles des générations passées, en particulier en ce qui concerne la libération dans tous les aspects de nos vies. Je ne sais plus trop aujourd'hui si je suis anarchiste, mais close enough. Cheers.

[robinade]

In conversation with multiple posts going around discussing technical literacy and typing skills…

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 Words Per Minute

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM

I'm on mobile/ vanilla extract option

Remaining time: 4 hours 12 minutes

➡️ Take a typing test here (and you need an actual, physical keyboard for this):

1-Minute Typing Test — TypingTest.now

The industry-standard benchmark used by employers and typing certifications worldwide.

➡️ 'Typing classes' refers to computer skills classes you might have had in school; you can also count games or other related typing training your parents might have had you do.

➡️ Across 3 different typing test websites*, the (english language) world average typing speed is 40 WPM.

*typingtest.now, typingtestgo.com, typerworld.com

[cheaphalloweencostume]

do any of you even enjoy reading or watching fiction at all? if i wanted the plot with virtually nothing else i would read the wikipedia page

[lordsausage]

shoutout to the words "overmorrow" and "ereyesterday". english losing these words was stupid. "the day after tomorrow" "the day before yesterday" clunky-ass constructions. revolting. i'm bringing overmorrow and ereyesterday back in my idiolect and there is nothing you can do about it

[deathbypickles]

crime and punishment heritage posts. to me.

[rykemasters]

I've been playing Timeguessr lately, and I would've gotten a pretty good score on this 1973 picture of Budapest if it weren't for the Pepsi ad that drove me to choose Frankfurt as a location. The language looked more like Slovakian or Hungarian, and the Mongolian flag had me thinking Eastern Bloc, but the fucking Pepsi really threw me off.

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Voting ended onJun 11

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Voting ended onJun 11

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Voting ended onJun 11

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[kropotkindersurprise]

this terrible poll has some of the most tumblr-brained opinions and understandings of "AI" that you could imagine in the comments and replies. There's so many tumblr people who hate AI because they Believe they care about accurate information, but who have no problem with a museum apparently trying to base their policies on tumblr polls on a topic that tumblr famously has an extremely one-sided opinion on. Like, this is clearly a poll designed to tell someone's boss that people dont like AI. That's fine, but dont then pretend you care about the veracity of data. All the questions are so nebulous about what they even mean by AI that it is completely worthless as information. I'm personally very skeptical about how AI is implemented and being forced on everyone by the big investors in the technology, and how it relates to labor and social issues, and i think that LLM's like chatGPT are pretty much garbage, but the general tumblr user is just so incredibly infantile and uninformed about it that it hurts to read their opinions, so please join me in torturing yourself by reading them.

I wasn't going to engage but I was pushed over the edge by reading this in the comments: "If the person cared they would make something using clip art and gradients that shows passion."

[rykemasters]

there would be a bunch of angles to criticize it from in terms of survey design (it's a tumblr poll!!!), but what immediately struck me is the third question doesn't have a neutral option. There may be times when you don't want a neutral option because you want people to take a position (in some agree/disagree questions for example, it can make sense to force poeople to either "slightly agree" or "slightly disagree" rather than just pick neither) but this is a case where it's possible and very likely that most people would give a neutral answer.

I think you'd have to be braindead to go to a museum because you learned they implemented AI (then again, whatever gets people interested, I guess), but at this point everyone and their dog is implementing AI, so it would seem insane to not set foot in a museum because they implemented AI! Any impact AI would have on my opinion of the museum depends entirely on actually going there and seeing what it's like. Sure, if it had any impact, it would likely be bad, but they could easily implement it in a harmless way that I can ignore.

The most obvious answer to the question "what would happen if a museum you planned to go to implemented AI" is "I would roll my eyes and then go there anyway", and as long as that option is not in there, it's really obviously driving people into answering more negatively just because that's the only answer available. But then again, I hope and believe that OP's boss, ostensibly a person who takes substantial decisions about a museum, would not take any of those decisions based on a tumblr poll, so the obvious bad design probably doesn't matter.

[nyantara]

We thought we’d get a boy. Matthew is getting up in years, you know—he’s sixty—and he isn’t so spry as he once was. His heart troubles him a good deal. And you know how desperate hard it’s got to be to get hired help. There’s never anybody to be had but those stupid, half-grown little French boys; and as soon as you do get one broke into your ways and taught something he’s up and off to the lobster canneries or the States. At first Matthew suggested getting a Home boy. But I said ‘no’ flat to that. ‘They may be all right—I’m not saying they’re not—but no London street Arabs for me,’ I said. ‘Give me a native born at least. There’ll be a risk, no matter who we get. But I’ll feel easier in my mind and sleep sounder at nights if we get a born Canadian.’

Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery

There's atleast 3 types of racism in here, against French Acadians, against Arabs and the purpoted race mixing happening in the wilds of London and general settler colonial erasure of indigenous Canadians because tbh that is what pastoralist fantasy is. This is just the first chapter.

Home boys here refers to the practice of rounding up street children in London, housing and feeding them for a bit and shipping them off to the colonies for labour, with all the abuse that follows at institutions that hire isolated children.

According to the British House of Commons Child Migrant's Trust Report, "it is estimated that some 150,000 children were dispatched over a period of 350 years—the earliest recorded child migrants left Britain for the Virginia Colony in 1618, and the process did not finally end until the late 1960s." It was widely believed by contemporaries that all of these children were orphans, but it is now known that most (88%) had living parents, some of whom had no idea of the fate of their children after they were left in children's homes, and some were led to believe that their children had been adopted somewhere in Britain.

From wikipedia

[afloweroutofstone]

Foods costs are expected to rise at some point in the coming months once the shipping industry fully runs out of fuel reserves and wholesalers run out of existing stocks, causing the full inflationary impact of the Iran War to emerge. Shortly after that, on October 1, a new set of SNAP food aid cuts from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 will automatically go into effect. I think there is a real chance that hunger will emerge as a political issue by the end of this year (and if it doesn’t, then it should.)

One explanation I’ve heard for why the stock market has been so nonchalant about the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is that they are fully convinced it will end before any of that happens. Someone (I think it was JP Morgan?) said in a recent release that the assumptions for their short-term inflation expectations are all based on the idea that Trump will pull back from the war at the exact right second and miraculously reopen the Strait in full. In their mind, Trump dragging the war out any longer than that would be committing economic suicide right before an election, and Trump as a rational actor would not allow that to happen. Buddy, do I got some news for you

[firebendinglemur]

JP Morgan sees Brent staying in low $100s even if Hormuz reopens in June

JP Morgan's revised framework assumes that ‌the pace ⁠of ⁠oil inventory depletion will ultimately force the Strait to reopen "one way or ano

JP Morgan expects Brent crude to remain in the low-$100s for much of 2026, even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens in June, as accelerating inventory draws and logistical bottlenecks keep the oil market tight, the bank said in a note. JP Morgan's revised framework assumes that ‌the pace ⁠of ⁠oil inventory depletion will ultimately force the Strait to reopen "one way or another," ​with the bank's base case anchored on a June 1 reopening following a ​credible announcement confirmed by both sides.

[thewingedwolf]

do you think the catholic church effectively utilized wokeness by funneling money into the colonization and rape of the americas after issuing the doctrine of discovery which effectively legalized the subjugation of indigenous peoples?

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

"Scam" you mean people are fighting back against housing discrimination??? I don't think these people know what the word scam means

Scams are designed to trick someone into giving up money based on lies. This is just.. asking for information then legally enforcing the law??

Fuck landlords

[ac1752]

I guess you dotards don’t know how Section 8 works, do you! 1) The property owner has to apply to the government to qualify. 2) As a property owner you are not required by law to accept Section 8 applicants! 3) If property is approved then the answer would be “YES” otherwise the answer required by law is “NO”.

This post is a scam designed to keep dividing us and fight amongst ourselves! Wake up America! This is another attempt at DIVERSION!

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

Actually, you're wrong! It's illegal to not accept section 8 in California. Also, you're using the word dotard wrong. You're wrong on every point here.

[leviathan-supersystem]

source:

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[thinkingabout-girls]

the funniest moment in dungeon meshi is when marcille is having her nightmare and brings up her dead bird while also talking about her dead dad, saying “papa and pipi” and laios automatically assumes pipi is marcilles third nonbinary parent on top of her mom and dad

[ouppygirlcity]

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[donjuaninhell]

Y'know, I've largely moved on beyond pointing out and lamenting at how openly corrupt the Trump administration is, but holy shit the Trump administration is so unbelievably corrupt.

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