otter on da phone

She/her - 19 - pfp is from onlysushicat shoutout my wife

[sugarbeea]

i have returned from the depths of evil to the beautiful home of dirkjohn fics and im cooking up some major heat with this one im SO excited.. this fic will get out of the drafts and actually be written im locked in on it...

im currently writing a kiss scene and im kicking my feet and giggling sooo hard at what ive written so far!!!!!

[sugarbeea]

as usual i am procrastinating writing actual dialogue or story because i am lost in the thematic elements and worldbuilding that is important for MUCH later in the AU setting bc i am an evil little shit who cant resist foreshadowing but i need to know what im foreshadowing first...

oh dirkjohn i will torment you for a thousand eons..

[lefishing]

hi guys

[cakwened]

Original.......

[rizsnt]

break out of your role 🌻🌟

[blobbei-art]

My take on those hollow bugs drawn before Silksong release.

Now I finally finished Silksong 100%. Maybe I can return to real life and drawing now?

[sharksdancing]

Video games are great, they let you try your craziest fantasies. For example, on the sims, you can have a job and a house

[deltaruneyuri099]

look at them go

[charcherbert]

TOBY. TOBY WHEN I GET YOU TOBY.

[trapped--under--rice]

please behold the 24 Hours of Lemons race, in which you can only spend $500 total on a car to cross country race for 24 hours

named after the legendary 24 hour Le Mans race, Lemons rallies barely legal cars in an endurance race across America. had the privilege of sharing the freeway with this race and seeing the absolute art od this event

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

This is so American I could CRY

[hogmilked]

oh this is nothing. some of my favorite lemons entries are:

an airplane stuck on a toyota minivan

this miata built by rocket scientists

the mr2 boat

the nyan cat bmw that i think actually played the song at all times

the homer simpson car built by uranium workers

this limo whose brakes caught on fire

the dumbest corolla and supra wearing funny hats

and so much more. 24 hours of lemons my beloved

[toast1862]

like it just doesnt make any economic sense. replacing human labor with ai only makes sense if the output is as good or better and cheap as free. but just the fact that you have to build the massive data centers at all-- especially that gpus go bad in just a few years, but even if they didn't, the facility itself is going to be a big expense-- means it cant be cheap as free. they were banking on an uber type situation where they could crank up the prices once people switched to their business model, but the trade is literally "this will be cheaper than using human labor" so if it's not cheaper than human labor then people will just hire people again. and it's not even as good or reliable as a person. so while ai is "here to stay" in the sense that the technology exists and will find its niches, probably people are going to be sexting with them forever just maybe on local models, the current business model cannot survive and never possibly could.

it's all desperation. i do really believe ed zitron's rot economy idea, that the tech sector has been searching for a new internet or iphone or whatever that blows up and changes the world and they get to keep the profits so they'll uplift any garbage (hence nfts and the metaverse) to try and astroturf that. and relatedly, i think nvidia and the cloud compute companies and the ai companies are just passing the same dollar back and forth to create big numbers that paper over how bad the economy really is. it's all an attempt to keep the infinite growth hack going.

like i actually think all of the problems with ai are problems that already existed that are just getting a huge spotlight on them because of the massive reckless expansion and apocalyptic marketing. like people are cheating on essay assignments? no shit, they used to use fiver and other cheating services. higher ups are devaluing and trying to get rid of creatives? yeah, we've been talking about how vfx artists need to unionize for over a decade, especially people working on marvel movies. people with mental health problems are turning to the internet instead of getting support or medical assistance and end up hurting themselves as a result? yup, especially when it comes to like eating disorders, there are some really awful places that will validate you into the grave. data centers use a lot of energy and water? yeah, they also did that before they were used for ai, they do that for youtube and twitch, and tech in general is a massive source of pollution. politicians arent listening to their constituents' needs and demands, instead handing money and special privileges to corporations that wont keep up their end of the bargain? yeah, i remember the public transit proposals cancelled to hand money instead to elon and his terrible tunnels. like it all already existed, they're just doing it so much so quickly that people can actually see it in front of them

[autumnlly]

my favorite chapter 5 ralsei line

[sugarbeea]

i have returned from the depths of evil to the beautiful home of dirkjohn fics and im cooking up some major heat with this one im SO excited.. this fic will get out of the drafts and actually be written im locked in on it...

im currently writing a kiss scene and im kicking my feet and giggling sooo hard at what ive written so far!!!!!

[sugashook]

watching a movie

[ihavemints]

hugs you hugs you hugs you

[alien-bottle]

Go, my everyone-is-lowkey-crushing-on-eachother-HARD propaganda

[enba-and-luka]

[anthillarchivist]