Soup & Sunshine

I just want to create beautiful things. Late 20s ♿🏳️‍🌈 Valo/Tiby/Mars || he/it/she

[magicratfingers]

oh well i guess ill just be fat and hot

[magicratfingers]

guess ill be fat and hot and hot

[diamantefangs]

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A Secret Moment by Ricardo Cherbeluka (2400 X 1914)

[girlcodedhamlet]

it's very frustrating seeing otherwise well-structured posts about media literacy and critical thinking bookended with statements about "nowadays", "nobody has literacy anymore", "this generation is so anti-intellectual", and the like, unquestioningly falling into better past fallacies.

Do we really think the 80s and its Satanic Panic were better at critical thinking? what about the 40s? the Victorian era? societies have always had problems with critical thinking and literacy, because most societies have dealt with propaganda, corrupt leadership, difficulty providing education (due to poverty or discrimination or other issues), and/or people who resist critical thinking (due to privilege or circumstance or what have you). we can criticize media trends without pulling a "well back in the GOOD OLD DAYS" about it.

[egregore-engine]

imagine, if you will, that it's 2005. and google is around and a useful and usable tool for things. and it's also like, not perfect, because nothing is, and obviously has a lot of inbuilt problems. but imagine everyone was like "google is bad because it doesn't have a Soul." and "actually google is killing the library." and "google is something only uncreative bastards use." and then imagine you are someone who understands that google is like, a basically neutral tool, and not only that, but one which will become so mundane and banal as to basically fade into the fabric of social reality, because it is a useful technology that got integrated into how we interface with the world. this is how I feel about everybody culture warring about AI. I don't think you have a real argument for your qualms, I think you're a liberal making idealist errors and a not even particularly useful idiot.

[egregore-engine]

like there are issues to have with the technology as there are with any technology but people don't view "AI" as a technology, they view it as some kind of horrific devil homunculus golem without any understanding of how it functions or its social or political externalities. the reality is that it is here to stay and will become as integrated with your future as the internet is to you now. you are simply behind the curve.

[birgenworth]

History has proven time and time again that once a new technology is invented there is no undoing or destroying it. Every attempt to halt the progress of a new and useful technology has failed miserably and it's clear that the only way to deal with it is to accept its existence as a foundation upon which to educate people in its use so that we can collectively develop more efficient, productive, environmentally friendly, and safe ways of using it.

The ability of the masses to be able to do this is obviously limited by the economic and political systems under which we live and capitalists will of course chase profits over environmental and social safety whenever possible, but that means the solution is not to destroy and shame AI into non-existence (which, historically, we have no reason to believe will actually work), and instead to dismantle capitalism, a much more feasible goal that is historically more likely to succeed than eliminating machine learning and generation altogether.

[mevil]

[dogpuppy]

[ladyshinga]

Monogamous people with dozens of exes and the most horrifying relationship history you've ever heard of in your entire life: "Well I just can't support polyamory, because those relationships never work out"

[krasnoarmeyets]

it's kind of annoying how everyone online is american. sorry...

[were--ralph]

thinking about that sick minotaur design from smt again

[were--ralph]

this bangs

[oneheadtoanother]

[skunkmisa]

Mushroom hair pin

[prunsel]

if you've ever pet more than a few dogs you'd Know what dog residue is

[computationalcalculator]

[cinnamnt]

“it’s time to admit some of you just don’t like video games anymore” is a stupid fucking argument when talking about how critical people are about directs and game announcements these days sorry. “let people have fun” ass statement. i LOVE video games and that’s why i hate video games lol, everything nowadays is just a remake and a remaster and its hard to get excited about it and not feel disappointed that big developers are dropping the ball so fucking hard all the time now 💀 truly to each their own and if you get excited about remakes and remasters that’s awesome and i’m happy for you but pretending like people just “don’t like video games” when they give valid criticisms on the state of the gaming industry rn is kind of ignorant

[bongjoonhoe]

Love Exposure (2008) dir. Sion Sono

[plumslices]

Dawn and Twilight bed by Emile Galle

[tamamita]