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Pan, i just reblog a bunch of stuff (posts where i say stuff are tagged tothers speaks) (i don't know how to format this) im really bad at talking to people (sorry) pfp from front-facing-pokemon

[radiatorchains]

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[bixels]

the speed at which i smiled > frowned when i saw wuhu island > those ugly anime stick figures.

[bixels]

that is NOT a mii 😭

[bixels]

people wondering why sportsmates gets this much hate and i'll raise you this: you can't make them ugly freaks. they are designed to be as aesthetically pretty and safe as possible.

a mii could be your grandma or a talking hamburger or a three eyed mutant or peter griffin. a sportsmate could only ever be a beautiful, young, skinny person. same reason why xbox avatars never really stuck around.

[dogpuppy]

[pennaraptor]

emotional responses are deeply evolutionarily advantageous in any animals that are making complex decisions and behaviors (in many vertebrates, say) because they act as a reinforcer for a behavior. a bird taking a vigorous bath in a puddle is probably happy because if that behavior didnt elicit a positive feeling they wouldn't do it (it is dangerous to be on the ground and wet!). if an animal can feel fear, which i think is a less contested assertion to make, then it can certainly feel the opposite, that is, happy.

[pennaraptor]

Bernd Heinrich in his book Nesting Season

[theprofessional-amateur]

She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodat

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse," wrote Corey Quinn, a software-startup founder in San Francisco, on X.

Employers could wind up in court if they outright dismiss workers who request a faith-based exemption from using AI, said Ashley Herd, a former McKinsey counsel and head of North American HR who now advises managers and employers on workplace issues.

"Playing priest, and telling employees their request isn't legitimate, does not tend to bode well for companies," said Herd, also a cohost of the "HR Besties" podcast. "A jury doesn't like it when employees get made fun of by managers or HR."

[afriendlyirin]

#you can get out of using ai if you convert to Catholicism (via @quasi-normalcy)

If you put this in a novel people would say it was too absurd.

[animentality]

[scrupulosity-comics]

sometimes instead of a horrid little monk, divine visions of lesbians dance in my head dispensing wisdom

[scrupulosity-comics]

[plaidos]

videogame developers have got to stop calling their ports “Game: Definitive Edition: Platform Edition”

[agoraphobe]

[homunculus-argument]

This counts as vent art.

[pillowspace]

Just saw an AI generated image of a leaf sheep sea slug with AI generated information on it, don’t you dare AI generate my beautiful daughter ever again

[pillowspace]

[pillowspace]

(these photos are real) They have to put my daughter through AI because they can’t handle her true beauty

[catboybiologist]

I'm not even nearly as anti-LLM as most other leftists but part of approaching new technology is "hey let's think real critically about the application and scope of this so we can use it in ways that are worth it and don't cause mass scale societal damage" but the fact that it's being injected into fucking EVERYTHING makes any stance more cautious than "USE LLMS FOR EVERYTHING NOW AND FOREVER" so much more anti than the status quo that I don't even fucking want to add nuance

[catboybiologist]

Like most of the problems people have with LLMs are the natural conclusion of decades of tech companies gaining monopolies, environmental regulations struggling to keep up with new technologies, and a growing semi-privatized surveillance state, as opposed to issues with LLMs themselves. There's a theoretical reality where LLMs are implemented in useful, responsible, and sustainable ways but that reality is so far removed from our current one that none of those points actually matters

[0v9]

A truthberry might make you tell the truth... But a lieberry? A lieberry will loan you books

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Did a brand new kind of bowling shot today

we called it the "trust the Force Luke" shot or the "through God all things are possible" shot

[dapper-lil-arts]

Apparently there's a trend today of drawing terrible comics. I'm gleefully throwing my hat in. happy june all

[realifesiations]

Bastard tumblr blog: before you go outside to pokemon go, do not forget to uwu and stay safe okay!!!!!!! Fuck you

Me: wadda hell…….. ….bulnosaur