this blog is honestly a bit of a mess

you can call me willow - she/her - 25-

[starlightxraven]

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

[appalachian-werewolf]

"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

It fucking better.

[mrsjdavis]

Like to charge, reblog to cast?

[newbarktownalumni]

[felesrubrum]

"The court also seemed to take a dig at Google for expecting users not to “blindly trust” AI overviews, noting that the AI tool’s utility “would be significantly diminished if the ‘AI overview’ were generally regarded as unreliable and if every single displayed link required independent verification.”" hilarious, massive win for germany

[alivingtypo]

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

[today-till-tomorrow]

op how does it feel to be the most correct person on earth

[drdaanvondutch]

in law school, my mom took me to this stress retreat because my family was vaguely aware i was a suicide risk. and they didnt allow phones, so i brought this huge bag of books. and one of the options for "destressing" was this fake cave grotto thing, where they'd decorated a room to make it look exactly like an underground cave and the air was like -10 degrees, but there was a like 4ft deep pool in the middle that was kept super super hot, so you would just switch between the hot and cold. and they would bring you an endless supply of this weird syrupy drink thing that was like super caffeinated and tasted like sugar and mint. and so i spent multiple days sitting half submerged in this fake grotto drinking mystery liquid and reading. and i have to be honest i really did feel less stressed

[batsandbutch]

[toomanymessythoughts]

it’s tuesday and Heat of the Moment by Asia just came on on the radio…. should i be worried?

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

IT GETS WORSE

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES

[marougus-the-dragon]

AI is a freacking plague, I share this for any windows user.

[rocktheholygrail]

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[mynorthernattitude]

locked in? no. i'm tucked in. goodnight

[fluoresensitives]

Personally I hate AI because it uses slave labor, is killing the planet and is making people stupid, but that's just me. The soulless art aspect is just one little piece of my grander disdain.

[castrolle]

wait how does AI use slave labor? Do you mean the human works that are stolen and not credited or compensated? Because technically under capitalism everything is exploited but there are varying degrees

[postillfastill]

Aside from the scraping, AI tech companies, including openAI/chatGPT, have outsourced training their models to countries in the global south, specifically Kenya in openAI's case. These workers are working in sweatshop conditions for less than 2 bucks USD per hour. I'm on mobile, but if you search 'openAI Kenya slave labor' and related keywords, you can find multiple articles about it.

[almostdefinitelydying]

Kenyan workers with AI jobs thought they had tickets to the future until the grim reality set in

Training AI takes a heavy toll on Kenyan workers, who say they earned $2 an hour to label and sift through gruesome content for American com

[brightlotusmoon]

[superohclair]

some might say that the villain in season 4 of Dark Winds feels cartoonishly evil, in that there's no real motive or backstory or any reason for her to be the antagonist except that the story simply needs her to be, so it doesn't matter.

but then you look at this cartoony villain, and it's just kind of...brilliant?

here's this white woman -- and not just any white woman, but a white woman who is heavily implied to be of the Aryan super-race waiting-for-Hitler's-return type--who takes one look at Joe and becomes weirdly sexually infatuated with him and obsessed with his race and ethnicity and culture and openly indulges in fetishizing him and his Indigeneity...

...much like the way 99% of the world fetishizes Indigenous peoples, culture, and religions.

like, it's not even on the nose by the season finale! the script has this weirdo lady behaving in the most bonkers anti-Indigenous way by going hard in on her fetish, becoming a caricature of a caricature that is both so uncomfortable to watch and honestly just the best kind of satire for the way a lot of people actually think and behave.

and in this way, the villain becomes a neat little indictment of the cartoonish ways anti-Indigenous racism permeates so much of everyday life, never mind Hollywood, television and film, literature, music, poetry, and general popular culture to this day. it's everywhere and the show really goes in on how ludicrously everyday this kind of racism and fetishization is--a sobering take on a real phenomenon.

anyway, this was a great season, and this show continues to deliver excellent storylines and acting choices and good mysteries episode after episode, year after year. I continue to recommend it highly.

[toomanymessythoughts]

completely agree with this! i initially wanted to write my own post about the same topic but you've laid it all out perfectly op.

Irene is my favourite villain so far mainly because she is cartoonishly evil and obsessed. What made her fascinating to me is not just sexual obbession with Joe but also her perverse white saviour complex, which is put on full display in the last episode. In that episode she tells Joe that she grew up reading Karl May's Winnetou books and how she has spent her whole life dreaming of coming to Arizona and finding herself a "Winnetou" whom she could protect and stand by no matter what. This moment further highlights how she does not view Joe and other Natives as fully human but merely as accessories to her personal fulfillment.

I love that the writers have used this character to point out how white saviourism is intimately linked to and even rooted in racism and white supremacy and relies on the simultaneous infantilization and objectification of (in this case) Native Americans.

[cybermanes]

Liquor? Um yeah bud if she’ll let me

[celticcanon]

Gideon the Ninth ass post.

[soulren]

“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do

[simply-a-dream]

“don’t take it personally” how would you like me to take it then? professionally? romantically? academically?

[creative-anchorage]

[suriandtaal]

[uwillneverknowwho]

Literally always take headphones with you. If you decide that you probably won't need them today, that's the devil talking. You will. You will

[achillesinhighheels]

Training my nervous system to choose an unfamiliar heaven instead of a familiar hell

[finaltribalcouncil]

this is the funniest thing in the entire world

[angelbud]

derry girls be like i can excuse hatred for the english but i draw the line at homophobia

[fecktrecool-deactivated20220314]

[bennywiththebedhair]

Iconic.

[catboybiologist]

Imagine if a like 8 foot tall guy that looked kinda like an alien species just kinda showed up at the house you rent a room in and crashed on the couch and at first everyone hated him but you kinda just accepted this weird massive kinda-human alien species thing as a part of your group even though he's like twice the size of everyone else there

[catboybiologist]

Cuz that's literally happening to sea lions in San Francisco right now

[catboybiologist]

So there's two species of sea lion in North America: the California sea lion, ranging along California (including Baja) but not ranging into the north coast or into oregon

And the Stellar's sea lion, which are WAY bigger and live in Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska

A male Stellars sea lion showed up in SF like a month ago and just kinda. Didn't know what to do, and joined a colony of California sea lions, and is just kinda chilling there now.

[catboybiologist]

Weird vagrant species happen from time to time, but this is just a particularly funny instance of a highly social species getting very lost, and just trying to blend in with its closest nearby relatives

[hodgepodge-collage]

He’s so large!!! Here’s an NYT article about him