LEVEL UP!

Hi. I'm over 30 years old and cbf updating my age, cis (more or less (use whatever pronouns you'd like for me,)) and I mostly just reblog stuff I like. Expect a lot of stuff related to social justice things. I forget to tag things and common triggers may be missed. Anon is on if you're shy.

[allthefights]

But there might be something much more valuable inside that you can't yet see.

[knightofleo]

😾

[jackdawsfavorite]

bonus

[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.

[sinnegantheworm]

here's my super-quick, easy-to-digest summary that i use when i can't spend more than like 15 seconds on it but need someone to know the basic distinctions:

generative AI - bad evil AI. chatbots, LLMs, image generators, etc. this the one that steals shit.

analytical AI - helpful medical AI. this the one that helps detect cancer early.

game "AI" - fake AI. 100% human created and dictated. this the one that determines game mob behavior n stuff.

[resemblingthegrave]

losing the battle with my own self-control so will briefly comment and say that categorizing certain types of ai as straightforwardly good and other types as "bad evil," even for the sake of summary, doesn't really hold water. just to give two counterexamples to the distinctions drawn above, large language models ("evil") are being used by human rights groups to parse huge datasets about police abuse while analytical ai ("helpful") is also the kind of ai that animates facial recognition software and the increasingly ubiquitous searchable license plate databases that police are using to stalk people. the goodness or badness of a given ai tool has less to do with its type and more to do with things like scale and scope, transparency, ownership, and contextual application.

[whattheficus]

Just remembered playing tekken at the same point in time I was doing martial arts and being able to intuit feng just from what I would do sparring.

Felt pretty good

[earhartsease]

[uss-emberprise]

‘I shouldn’t have eaten that last pilot’ GUILLERMO 😭😭

[greelin]

taking sleeping meds then not sleeping really will have you like this

[soggyskinflaps]

Mustelidae family in a nutshell

[mogblin]

the thing about job searching is i see all these job postings and im like i dont wanna do any of this for any of you

[oars-deactivated20250629]

girl are you sure???????????????

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

She is experiencing the natural hormone of happiness

[maddie-grove]

I really like this website because somebody will be like “there’s nothing wrong with darting out from behind a parked car into traffic, bootlicker” and you can be like okay this clearly evolved from a valid point about how the US is too car-centric. But something happened to it.

[jamiemccrimmon]

[virtualgirladvance]

[anh3-donia]

insane goodwill pickup

[im-mender]

It's important to note that Chekhov's Gun was not originally about foreshadowing, but a piece of advice to playwrights about how every element in a play should have narrative relevance. The corollary to Chekhov's Gun is that if a gun mounted on the wall in act 1 is never used at all in the entirety of the play, then it should be omitted from the play entirely.

[im-mender]

also very true

[anarchautistic]

Very funny example of writing advice that is very specific to its medium getting overapplied outside its scope. Can you imagine how awful set design would be if people tried to apply this to movies. 60 minute post credits scene in the Matrix where Neo has to fire every gun that appears in the "lots of guns" scene

[tortellinigirl]

men really be like “well this woman has studied this subject her whole life, and i am a man, so we have equal knowledge on this”

[hcrzallerliebst-a-deactivated20]

it’s ok you could have just said “i hate men”

[tortellinigirl]

okay, i hate men

[segamascott]

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