SmilingOctopus

He/Him, 30s, Random mix of things, still newish here, it's a nice place

[lostinhistory]

[fouroclockwren]

YES OMG BRÜNNHILDE

[official-library-posts]

official library post

[thememedaddy]

[isuggestrevolution]

i suggest not letting it get this far

[smilingoctopus]

Building or repairing a pc really makes you feel like a mad scientist, just swapped out my PSU after the last one broke and had to restrain myself from yelling "IT'S ALIVE!!!"

[smilingoctopus]

If I'm in a work meeting too long I should be able to wriggle like a cat that no longer wants to be held and just be allowed to leave

[skipppppy]

So there’s a trend going round where you draw Miku inspired by your own culture and normally I just sit those out bc i’m from England but then the image of her covered in fake tan with the full chav makeup and sloppily bleached blue pigtails popped into my head and i almost threw up laughing. So here’s bri’ish Miku. She smells like impulse body spray and spent the last 30 minutes arguing with the teacher who told her to take her coat off. It’s chewsday innit

edit: i fucked up with the cigarette i know it’s the wrong way round blease stop making fun of me 😔💔

[skipppppy]

Dusting her off like a talisman for tonight (we are fucked. we are so fucked)

[swagophile]

important reminder that most people you follow online are significantly lamer than you think they are including me. and if you feel insecure comparing yourself to someone online: DON'T. theyre probably also lame and weird. most people on the internet are

[most-sane-classicist]

reblog if you're also lame and weird.

[dumbfuckingmuttt]

Wagging my tail everytime I see this

[smilingoctopus]

In this weather we should be allowed to drag the souls of fossil fuel companies from the depths of hell to burn to keep cool, you know their souls burn cold.

[penny-anna]

what the hell is going on

[penny-anna]

i believe in you Binface. you can do it. this could be your moment.

[penny-anna]

Please god it would be so funny

[penny-anna]

there is no downside to voting for Count Binface. its not taking away from other candidates bcos they aren't any and the more votes he gets the stupider Farage looks.

[penny-anna]

for people out of the loop:

Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK, a far right party who are currently in the process of a serious bid to become the UK government. they are just straight up evil.

Count Binface is an intergalactic space warrior with a bin on his head. he likes to run as a novelty candidate in general and mayoral elections. a big thing he likes to do is run as a candidate against the incumbent prime minister:

(Also pictured: Boris Johnson, Elmo)

Anyway, in brief:

Nigel Farage is currently in the midst of a big scandal about his finances

He has decided to deal with this by 1) making a show of nobly resigning from parliament and then 2) immediately running in the resulting by-election

He has stated that he is letting 'the people' judge his actions and implied that if he wins that will prove that he has been exonerated in the court of public opinion

His goal was presumably to get a big resounding win over the other parties, proving that The People still love him.

the other parties have thus far decided that this is a 'vanity election' and, well, there is one very easy way to ensure that he will not beat any of them, and that is simply not to play.

and as a result the only person who has so far confirmed they are running against him is Count Binface. no matter the outcome this makes Nigel Farage look like, u know, a fucking clown.

[rainbow-egg]

These AI ads are getting pathetic. Ohhh you want me to give up thinking so bad it makes you look stupid.

[melissymo]

I apologize in advance for how insufferable I’ll be when Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Walpurgisnacht Rising comes out. 💜

[girldraki]

[girldraki]

[bruzum]

[lastvalyrian]

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

[smilingoctopus]

Is it possible to voluntarily go into the backrooms? I don't even care about the monsters, so long as the emails can't find me there.

[phosphoplier]

[smilingoctopus]

Why must I add disabling a new unwanted AI feature on my phone/pc to my daily routine?

[apollosunn-moved-deactivated202]

anyone else relate

[midnightclover]