[peachpitdiaries]

i know for a fact lestat would go all out for pride parades

[babyjanedough]

Already know I wanna send this to people on June 1

[spoopyandtired]

ITS TIME

[literalliterature]

[Video description: A short clip from the show Make Some Noise. Erika Ishii, imitating Ebenezer Scrooge, points dramatically and yells, "You, boy! What day is it?" Brennan responds, "It's pride, bitch!" End description.]

[moltengoldveins]

@lilshineythingsworld

[lilshineythingsworld]

ITS PRIDE BITCH

[vampifae]

i dont post about taskmaster but i was watching cats does countdown reruns and i thought some of u might enjoy this clip of greg from like... 11 years ago

[vampifae]

itwv is good because the vampires are such unreliable narrators. but iwtv is GREAT because daniel malloy is such a reliable heckler.

[vampifae]

iasip and south park are like cousins in my eyes

[vampifae]

hj wingstreet is who peter loew (nick cage's character in vampires kiss) thinks he is

[vampifae]

not a comfort character, not a kin, but a secret third thing (this character is such a mess that they, somehow, distract me from my own mess)

[vampifae]

sometimes your comfort character is not comforting at all. sometimes your comfort character is prince gerard of greenleigh.

[redstonedust]

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

[ralfmaximus]

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.

[vampifae]

hi here's a venn diagram of my latest (and greatest?) realisation

[vampifae]

5 years. wtf

[vampifae]

what can i say? im a lot. im not perfect.

[vampifae]

french, redheaded, sapphic vampires named madeleine.

madelaine d'artois, city council of darkness // madeleine eparvier, interview with the vampire (out of character image)

[vampifae]

tomodachi life is so dangerous for crossover ships. why am i suddenly hard shipping bg3 gortash with dc catwoman

['fuck the rich' thief, who always ends up actually fucking the rich / archduke ex-thief, who only respects people bold enough to stand up to him]

[vampifae]

honestly i think its sad how nintendo games are so much more susceptible to being pirated, and its clearly due to infantilisation and maybe even sexism. games aimed at men are still taken more seriously and anything deemed 'cozy' is perceived as feminine and childish, and from this disrespect comes a refusal to actually buy the product.

disclaimer. this is not about nintendo AS A COMPANY. and its not about the capitalistic morality regarding piracy. i think its weird how piracy seems to be more accepted for games that are marketed towards people other than adult men.

[vampifae]

OH AND dont get me started on how anything aimed at non-men is immediately deemed a 'cozy' game. i've even seen baldurs gate 3 be called a cozy game. it just implies that women can only game casually, and men game competitively.

and its led to many men using cozy games as a way to show they are non-threatening and should be trusted by women. it is being warped into the laziest branch of feminism.

[vampifae]

honestly i think its sad how nintendo games are so much more susceptible to being pirated, and its clearly due to infantilisation and maybe even sexism. games aimed at men are still taken more seriously and anything deemed 'cozy' is perceived as feminine and childish, and from this disrespect comes a refusal to actually buy the product.

disclaimer. this is not about nintendo AS A COMPANY. and its not about the capitalistic morality regarding piracy. i think its weird how piracy seems to be more accepted for games that are marketed towards people other than adult men.

[twoplayer-game]

maker and maître

[simoneashley]

Modern day Loustat Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid for Entertainment Weekly