The thingyness of the thing

[angell-of-filth]

[formlab]

The Myth of Sisyphus, Kyla Dooley. 2024

[priezpourlui]

[mostlysignssomeportents]

I think we’d all prefer it if chatbots never emitted sentences such as 'You should kill yourself.' However, for all the times that 'honesty' is mentioned in Claude’s constitution, I would argue that it is fundamentally dishonest to have a machine emit many categories of sentences, including any sentences using first-person pronouns."

-Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

[lisamarie-vee]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

oh fuckkkk man not the SERIAL UNALIVER

[thebrightshapes]

I’m in my 30s and I’m back on tumblr posting like a sad teen at 3am. Love is so painful. Even when it’s returned.

[brucefromfamilyguy]

[thebrightshapes]

Help I have fallen in love and all it has done is made me sad

[innerchildabortionclinic]

there are people in your life who will never see any effort you make as good enough and you have to realize this and direct your efforts to people who value you instead. so many people have this problem with family members--endlessly trying to justify their existence to a parent, grandparent, cousin, whoever--but you will literally never win, because a person constantly putting you down and dismissing you has their own unresolved issues and that's not your responsibility to fix

[arinewman7]

Nightmare at Noon

Marion Adnams

ca. 1945

[abwwia]

Marion Adnams (1898 – 1995) https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2023/12/03/marion-adnams/

Marion Elizabeth Adnams (3 Dec 1898 – 24 Oct 1995) was an English painter, printmaker and draughtswoman. She is notable for her surrealist paintings, in which apparently unconnected objects appear together in unfamiliar, often outdoor, environments.

Some of her paintings depict landscapes and landmarks close to, or within, her native town of Derby. via Wikipedia

[icaseybaybee]

[sunflowers-and-scales]

“this character did not act in the most objectively logical way possible!” is not ! actually valid literary criticism

[sunflowers-and-scales]

i have trust that the media literacy enjoyers will find this one idk

[acceptableduraz]

[starrynet]

words to live by

[altcomics]

[periodinteriors]

Robert Blemell Schnebbelie (1790-1849), Interior of Drury Lane Theatre, 18 November 1817, ink and watercolor.

[vickir0se]

When I realized that a lot of social media discoursers treat politics and queerness like how people count watching streamers as actually experiencing a game, so many things clicked into place.