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social media websites should aggressively seek out, identify, and hire their most prolific and oldest shitposters specifically to tell them whether feature ideas are stupid or not. it is the number 1 mistake i see social media sites make and the easiest one to avoid. i would be willing to advise tumblr on a professional basis for minimum wage. every website is currently being run, advised, and speculated about in meetings by people who do not use the website

thedistantone

No one cares about my opinion, but hire 3liza, you fools

3liza

when you are bandying about colorized, smoothed, upscaled and retouched "historical photos", unless someone did it all by hand in Photoshop, those are AI-generated imagery. im not sure why so many people seem to think they are something else. they arent. they are generated using math and likelihoods and fiction like any other AI image. the computer is guessing about what should go under the repaired infill, it is guessing about what color the human hair and skin is, it is guessing about the types of metal in the jewelry, the color of the sky, the color of people's eyes. it is guessing about time of day. its fake pictures. fiction. and it looks ugly. i have been on my hobbyhorse about this for decades and i am only getting more pissed off. its bad when humans colorize historical photos and its bad when it's done by an AI. it's ugly, it inserts false information into historical documents, it fucks up forensics and historical research. and its ugly. i dont want to see it

afloweroutofstone

My favorite category of government program to run across is "program you've never heard of doing extremely important work to solve a major problem which you have also never heard of." On that note, the US drops millions of pounds of sterile bugs over Panama each week in order to prevent a parasite infestation from moving into North America. Everyone say thank you to the Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of the Cattle Borer Worm (COPEG)

afloweroutofstone

This program had its funding cut during the DOGE cuts last year and now the parasitic worm they were trying to slow the spread of has officially arrived in the United States.

thedistantone

In case you weren't sure, this is really very bad.

animentality

kyraneko

The utterly soul-searing ugliness of choosing to outsource acts of love you're perfectly capable of just so you don't have to be bothered with it, to lie to your purported loved one about the nature, structure, and presence of your love for them, is the ghastliest thing I've yet read about AI's overwhelming omnipresence in our lives.

theweirdwideweb

Hey check your titties for any lumps

gunsandfireandshit

And ur balls if applicable

theweirdwideweb

And your balls

ailithnight

Assess the orbs for irregularities.

thedistantone

Ponder your orbs in an investigative and tactile manner, on occasion.

fireleaptfromhousetohouse

ittybittymattycommittee

#raise your shields #because you’re about to get wrecked

jewishgarygreen

#this is the star trek i wanna see#like when somebody asked gene roddenberry why piccard was bald#because wouldn’t they have found a cure for male pattern baldness by then?#and he was like ‘no by the 24th century no one will care’#i wanna see that attitude with disability and neurodiversity#it’s not that we’ll have a magic cure for everything#there’ll always be something new#but disabilities and neurodiversity will be celebrated and seen as part of the norm#it will be accomodated#so blind people can serve in star fleet#and so can people in wheelchairs and autistic people and people with prosthetics and people with chronic illnesses (via @hunterinabrowncoat)

kiapet2

This episode ends with Geordi saving the planet by using something derived from the technology found in his visor (an adaptive device that lets him sense things around him). So a disabled man literally saved the lives of an entire culture that wouldn’t have considered his life worth living, using technology they would have never deemed necessary without the presence of his unique needs.

scholarlypidgeot

I don’t watch Star Trek, but I can’t stress enough how important this message is

fictionadventurer

My favorite thing about this episode is that, while the rest of the characters are taking a more Star Trek philosophical approach to this situation, calmly debating the good and bad points of this colony built upon eugenics, Geordi is just seething. Troi is having a romance with their flippin’ president, but Geordi never hesitates on his morals. He’s always aware that this world’s supposed perfection is built upon the despicable philosophy of killing people like him. He barely even bothers to hide his anger as he has to work alongside their scientists. He’s snappish and short-tempered and bitter, clearly only working with these people because lives are at stake. When he discovers the solution is based on his VISOR, he is viciously triumphant, his joy at saving the people boosted by a bitter sense of righteousness that these people were only saved because someone like him was allowed to survive.

And even though this anger and bitterness are very un-Star-Trek-like approaches to diplomacy–it works. The scientist who works alongside him is the first person who decides to jump ship and leave the colony behind. She sees the stagnation of their bland “’‘‘‘‘utopia’‘‘‘‘‘ and realizes that diversity and adaptation create a much better society. And while the other Enterprise crew members have some wishy-washy lament over how this will destroy this planet’s ‘‘‘culture’‘‘, Geordi never waffles. He has far too personal a stake in this to lose sight of the fact that peoples’ lives are more important than any high-falutin’ philosophical justifications. The episode might waffle over the Prime Directive points of this society’s decline, but Geordi’s perspective is the one showing clearly why it needs to die.

theconcealedweapon

The assholes openly admit it. The whole point of college is to enforce the hierarchy. When those who were supposed to be low on the hierarchy started going to college, the assholes get angry and want to make them suffer for challenging the hierarchy.

theconcealedweapon

This is what's so fucked up about "nothing that requires the labor of others is a human right".

The labor is already being done under capitalism. The laborers are already being underpaid under capitalism.

When you propose removing the greedy profiteers and paying the workers a reasonable wage, people call that "slavery" while they have no problem with the current system.

They're not even trying to make sense.

theconcealedweapon

maarvarq

Always bear in mind that there is absolutely no legitimate evidence that Luigi was actually the one who killed the insurance company guy.

theconcealedweapon

Of course he wasn't. He was at a party with me that day.

tiny-space-whale

No but like literally, actually. All bits aside.

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.

arborealgargoyle

get absolutley peer reviewed @cipheramnesia this breakdown of capitalism’s thirst for blood isnt staying the tags

#state imposed guilt #he's a real human the state is basically burning in effigy #not the first time but maybe the highest profile #innocence and all supposed due processes blatantly suspended to make sure everyone sees swift and violent punishment #ants begging for forgiveness to their corporate gods look we have a body to sacrifice on your altar #as long as some human is punished the bloodlust is sated #like on some level we kind of know that's more or less how capitalism and state power and police work together #we just don't usually see the mask off on such a nationally and internationally broadcast level basically #idk it's just awful and there's so much like low key all the people prosecuting luigi acting like hollywood action protagonists #but instead of make believe its a real and innocent person getting the treatment but the behavior is so analgous to fiction #it's a whole other conversation but there's something so dark in that component

swiftrunnerfelidae

every so often I remember when they crashed a train into a nuclear waste storage container, on purpose, to demonstrate how durable they were, and the storage container didn't lose any measurable containment whatsoever.

meanwhile, coal power plants can spray radioactive coal ash willy-nilly into the atmosphere all day and all night, but noooo, it's nuclear power that's the scary bad polluter.

tpwrtrmnky

I do think "literally zero evidence indicates that gatekeeping medical transition does anything to prevent regret, but the harm done by gatekeeping is extensively documented" is a much stronger argument than "regret isn't real" cause there's always going to be some anecdote that puts you in a weak-looking rhetorical position for the latter, but the former is pretty unassailable.

tpwrtrmnky

"People do stuff they regret all the time" is a principle/moral argument rather than an empirical one and attracts weird outrage farmers like flies to food you've left out on the counter for too long, so PLEASE stop putting it on my post when I'm clearly arguing "regardless of how highly you prioritise preventing regret for any reason, this shit just doesn't work." It distracts from the actual point I'm making. Which is that specific policies purporting to reduce risk Do Not Fucking Achieve That.