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[iamaine]

i've praised americans before for their sensible mental categorisation of 'lemonade', how it doesn't include sprite and how we are being very stupid for calling sprite and sprite-like things 'lemonade' when those two things should absolutely not be thought of as belonging to the same group.

for balance's sake i will now scorn the americans: 'red liquorice' is not a thing. 'oh i don't like black liquorice i only like red liquorice' is an insane statement, you're following up one thing with a complete non-sequitur that only makes sense because of a gerrymandered category boundary.

we call them strawberry laces here, or usually just whatever their brand name is. 'red liquorice' contains no liquorice and should not be thought of as belonging to the same category as liquorice, or 'black liquorice'

[sodiumvaporss]

i do have to say that no matter how shitty any sort of media is or how shitty your own creations are. always remember

[assignedmale]

[kcggggg]

I collaborated with the Human Artistry Project to make this strip alongside other web cartoonists to make the point that “Stealing isn’t Innovation” when it comes to A.I. usage. It seems to be doing numbers on instagram and elsewhere, so you may also read it here, tumblr.

May the discourse that ensues be long and unhelpful.

[paige-mackenzie-memes]

[stephexmachina]

genuinely insane to me that bikinis are the Default swimwear marketed & sold to women. that's nylon underwear. & if you don't want to wear one people treat you like you're childish & insecure & suggest ways to "get over it"

[stephexmachina]

"i feel uncomfortable with the idea of wearing what amounts to fast-drying underwear in front of other people, many of them complete strangers" "have you tried gradually acclimating to showing more & more skin? have you tried being more confident? are you ashamed of your body? don't you want to show off your beach bod?" girl what the fuck are you talking about!!!

[stephexmachina]

wearing a bikini is all about confidence & self-love 🥰 but remember to wax all that icky yucky body hair first!!! 🤢 nobody wants to see that 🙅‍♀️

[laranoa]

I hate what AI has done to the sparkle emoji. Give it back

[nariiminus]

[pangur-and-grim]

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

[spirkkock]

my friend just had an art show and they were communicating with the gallerist over email. They could clearly tell that the gallerist was using AI to respond to their emails, but just rolled their eyes and moved on.

and then on the day of the show, my friend asks, "where is the camera I requested?"

gallerist: "you didn't request a camera"

my friend: "I did, and you confirmed that you would have one here."

gallerist: "that isn't true."

and then she proceeded to pull up the email thread, and my friend could see that every single email they had sent had been summarized by AI, and that the gallerist had then had AI write a response to them based on the AI summary, and that the AI had detected that they needed a camera, and confirmed on behalf of the gallerist that they would bring a camera, but because the gallerist had offloaded the work of actually reading and responding, she simply hadn't actually made any note of it herself, therefore didn't bring it, nor did she even know one was needed.

so my friend had done all of this communication about their needs and expectations to be able to make the show possible, and the person whose job it was to read that information and get it done had simply.... not read the information and not done it. because AI.

[fictionalauthorityii]

Finding out AI companies are chewing through - literally, they’re pulping and burning them as they go - millions of books often including 1/1s and old texts that cannot be reprinted

Meanwhile there’s always some dipshit telling me AI is the future and we’ve got to just let companies erase human history and literature so they can train their abomination machines to pretend to think like people because a judge said it’s fine

[wageronancap]

[odessa-edmundson]

'Modern Poisoning Tools': AI Firms Buying and Destroying Thousands of Books To Feed AI Models

AI companies are buying and scanning printed books for training data, raising copyright and cultural preservation concerns as rare volumes a

[oleeeeeeeeeeevie]

what. the ACTUAL FUCK THIS IS A DYSTOPIA SOMEBODY WAKE ME UP

if u are still an active ai user. pls get off my blog

[ninjabunny]

I’ve been watching Ride or Die with my roommate the past few nights. I need everyone who reads this to go watch it. It’s such a good show. It’s so good I keep getting briefly distracted by how good it is mid episode. It’s so good that I don’t know how to properly explain how good it is. They just took two incredible actresses and put them together and Let Them Work. It’s just damn good television? Everyone go watch Hannah Waddingham be an action hero and Octavia Spencer flex her comedic chops while also knowing exactly how to grab your heart and squeeze at the perfect moment every time. It’s so good

[spacebunshep]

Please keep Scotland in your hearts. The, Cairngorms, UK’s single biggest national park is burning, and has been for more than 10 days now. They claim the fire is under control but it is not, not even remotely close for how indifferent the rest of the country is to it. This is a sacred landscape and home to thousands of species, hundreds of them endangered. Including the critically endangered Scottish Wildcat and the last remaining Capercaillies.

Aberdeen, Scotland’s third largest city, is covered in smoke.

Why hasn’t this been declared a national emergency?

[withasimplelobsterhat]

I hope it's ok to add to your post. I was in the Cairngorms just as the fire started, I learnt about the amazing natural forest regeneration going on across multiple estates and reserves in the national park and I'm so angry we are now watching so much progress dissappear.

There are nationally rare moth populations in the cairngorms, of kentish glory and dark bordered beauty. The small scabious mining bee is only found in the Highlands. Right now we can only hope the fire has not affected them too badly.

So much conservation work gone and it will take a long time to recover. The fire will damage the area even after it's put out, because of the fire we will likely see more algae blooms in the lochs in the surrounding area, there's already a blue green algae bloom in Loch Garten.

Most of our wildfires are caused by human activity, it is illegal to light fire in the cairngorms and yet people still do. I'm furious, it was likely an accident but that doesnt make this ok. We need to teach people to respect the code of conduct in beautiful places like the cairngorms. More importantly we need to be better prepared as a country for tackling fires when they inevitably do happen again.

But right now the most important thing I can suggest to anyone who's angry about this, is to join the movement to stop rosebank and jackdaw because we cannot let Westminster approve more north sea drilling. Also check out the cairngorms connect project and support them in their incredible work

Stop the Rosebank oil field

Together, we can and will stop the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK and make this a turning point in the fight against climate change

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[lasalebete]

have you read tiger tiger. do you read tiger tiger. when will you read tiger tiger

[sailermoon]

james baldwin was so right when he said “the children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

[hooved]

lemon is so so so fucking good in sweet food and savory food and spicy food and salty food and drinks. she has it all

[northirish]

Call me a godless, frothing at the mouth communist but I don't think one in ten UK adults should have to regularly skip meals to cut costs