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hey. dont cry. 566 california condors, okay? 369 free flying.[1] it's gonna be okay.
the father who stepped up.
"...who stepped up" ONTO THE KIDS
Pigeon: she has no father cat? She takes care of the cat chicks all alone?!
Quick! We need to build cat and her chicks a nest!
At the end of my rope and it keeps getting longer like some sort of clown handkerchief bit?
When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on"
When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.”
When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“
Love that we’ve elevated the conversation to such a degree that, if you’re going to be grimdark nihilistic in fiction, you need to argue philosophically against 4 seasons of The Good Place.
@hopepunk-humanity
ed zitron, a tech beat reporter, wrote an article about a recent paper that came out from goldman-sachs calling AI, in nicer terms, a grift. it is a really interesting article; hearing criticism from people who are not ignorant of the tech and have no reason to mince words is refreshing. it also brings up points and asks the right questions:
if AI is going to be a trillion dollar investment, what trillion dollar problem is it solving?
what does it mean when people say that AI will "get better"? what does that look like and how would it even be achieved? the article makes a point to debunk talking points about how all tech is misunderstood at first by pointing out that the tech it gets compared to the most, the internet and smartphones, were both created over the course of decades with roadmaps and clear goals. AI does not have this.
the american power grid straight up cannot handle the load required to run AI because it has not been meaningfully developed in decades. how are they going to overcome this hurdle (they aren't)?
people who are losing their jobs to this tech aren't being "replaced". they're just getting a taste of how little their managers care about their craft and how little they think of their consumer base. ai is not capable of replacing humans and there's no indication they ever will because...
all of these models use the same training data so now they're all giving the same wrong answers in the same voice. without massive and i mean EXPONENTIALLY MASSIVE troves of data to work with, they are pretty much as a standstill for any innovation they're imagining in their heads
if i am saying “drive safe” to you it is not a wish or command btw. i am casting a spell. Get fucking cushioned and shielded and protected idiot
Honestly bizarre that tomatoes get all the flack for “not being a vegetable” because they're technically a fruit when:
A) There are a ton of fruits that get categorised as vegetables. Like this also applies to pumpkins, squashes and cucumbers.
B) The fucking mushrooms are standing there at the back of the crowd in this witch trial, trying to look inconspicuous because they somehow got into the vegetable club with no fucking controversy despite the fact that they're not even plants.
"technically tomatoes are fruits--" THAT MUSHROOM OVER THERE IS MORE CLOSELY RELATED TO A FUCKING SHIH TZU THAN IT IS TO LITERALLY ANY PLANT
build a bear? yeah i give my boyfriend his t shots i know how to build a bear
go to settings > dashboard > interface and turn on show timestamps. please. do this for me i'm begging
i'm so serious about this. without timestamps you don't know when a post was originally made. every day on this website i see people reblogging years-old articles, freaking out like something is recent news. i see people getting slammed for shit they long apologized for that's getting dragged out as if it just happened. old outdated science and history posts, recall warnings from five years ago, politics discussions that make no sense now.
this isn't just an issue with tumblr's settings, although the fact that timestamps are opt-in is fucking bonkers. people do not read dates on posts, on articles, on anything, and behave as if everything they see on the internet, now over 30 years old, is brand new and currently relevant. look at dates! remember that things from 2022 are not as relevant as they might appear to be! stop mindlessly repeating things you don't even pay enough attention to to know when they happened!
this is the only post of mine i've ever actually wanted to blow up please use your big beautiful brains to actually know when something happened
bat at hornets nest maybe but "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" refers to low income communities needing to choose between survival vs being eco friendly. not you continuing to watch the harry potter movies
See also: death of the author is a form of literary theory and analysis not an excuse to give J.K. Rowling money
Diversity win! Vic Michaelis has stolen Sam’s wife
this episode has convinced me that it is vic, not brennan, who is sam's true narrative foil. his archnemesis. a worthy adversary who does not hesitate to throw his psychological torment right back at him
the analysis going on in the notes is delightful so to summarize:
sam is brennan's foil but vic is sam's foil
brennan poses no real threat to sam because at the end of the day he wants to win by following the rules. vic is a more effective adversary because they will do anything to get at sam, points be damned
why does this game show have narrative foils
thinking abt how fucked up steam engine boiler explosions can look. theyre just pipes under there
gives me the idea of a ghost/monster engine that looks normal, albeit a bit battered, only to swing their smokebox door open and a myriad of pipes come bursting out like fucked up tentacles
I didn’t know a train could be an eldritch horror, but here we are.
The Call of C'thchoochoo.
In 2019, Sam Reich decided to use his contestants romantic partners in his little internet game show and 5 years and 7 months later Vic Michaelis had an idea
I swear to god Gunnie came back to Lou in a dream and told him the correct way to invest that $1,000 was to gamble it all. You can not convince me otherwise.
The true unsung star of that episode was Elaine. Sam created the Game Changer Intelligence Agency but had no way of knowing that there was a mole in his own home. She'd been there the whole time! Elaine. Queen. Is 51st base planting a camera in your own kitchen to help your partner's employees get petty revenge on him?