so this just happened...

snippits, thoughts, visuals, moments, hopes, music, madness... no theme or agenda

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.”

— Ray Bradbury

[viralfrog]

[islamprotestan-blog]

only 5 seconds

[zanyflowerpizzatrash]

i wasn't ready for that..lol

[suffer-no-humiliation]

Immediately recognized that look

[anjomecanico]

The fact that there's no word counterpart to "emasculation" for women just shows that what this world actually means is "reducing a man to the level of a woman". It presupposes men have an inherent dignity that women don't for the fact they were born women, and because of that they are already inferior, so there's no way to reduce them more.

[fictionalauthorityii]

Finding out AI companies are chewing through - literally, they’re pulping and burning them as they go - millions of books often including 1/1s and old texts that cannot be reprinted

Meanwhile there’s always some dipshit telling me AI is the future and we’ve got to just let companies erase human history and literature so they can train their abomination machines to pretend to think like people because a judge said it’s fine

[wageronancap]

[odessa-edmundson]

'Modern Poisoning Tools': AI Firms Buying and Destroying Thousands of Books To Feed AI Models

AI companies are buying and scanning printed books for training data, raising copyright and cultural preservation concerns as rare volumes a

[raddnapqueen]

Can we please go back to putting summaries on the back of books?? Idc what Susan thought. I want to know what the book is about.

[ankle-beez]

surprisingly forward-thinking of jim henson and co. to make a female character in the 70's that's allowed to be loud-mouthed and violent and kind of overwhelmingly romantic and even a huge bitch at times and not have a moment where any character asks her to change

[ankle-beez]

going through all the muppet movies in a row made me realize that like. miss piggy was made in the 70's. and it's so rare even today to have a character like her. she's loud, she's selfish, she's funny, she's extremely vain, she's obsessed with romance, she's violent, she's kind of annoying, and there's not a single moment in any of these films where she's asked to tone down any of these personality traits. i am not joking when i say that miss piggy might be one of the best treated female characters ever written

[theprofessional-amateur]

link to bluesky post

[theprofessional-amateur]

In addition to how to turn various things, it includes:

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to spot AI Hallucinations like a Reference Librarian (originally on Substack)

Library Freedom Project has a lot of handouts about AI on their Resources page

[harveyguillensource]

Harvey's not flirting, he's naturally adorable 💪

[dubiousculturalartifact]

The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

It ain’t Kermit

[anyroads]

Miss Piggy tied to the mast while Statler and Waldorf heckle her from the sea

[mindovermuses]

But who is the single human cast member in this tale? Who gets to put in an Oscar-worthy performance alongside the Muppets and what role are they to play?

[muffinflarp69]

There’s no single human, everyone is a Muppet except for one scene. Circe, played by Janice, turns Odysseus’s crew into humans who still behave animalistic and are all played by Academy Award winning actors.

[rongzhi]

变脸 (Bianlian; "face changing") in Sichuan opera

[ratn]

holy shit

[fenrir-kin]

"It is difficult to see the masks being changed" listen if you haven't hit play there is nothing that can prepare you for how freakishly understated this sentence is. press play. do it. watch it. see if you can spot the moment. you can't spot the moment because IT'S FUCKING MAGIC

[directoaltacho-deactivated20201]

[sarahmaraerobson]

“The Favorite” by Omar Rayyan

[jade-cooper]

Favorite what? Demon?!

[cheesey-toast]

Loving the fact that whatever it is is wearing a matching flower.

[221cbakerstreet]

18th century Lilo and Stitch

[ringingofraevolution]

so i looked up some of this guys other stuff and I

uh

what the fuck

sexy parrot girls yeah ok

oh look the demon has little babies

[rooksandravens]

HOLY WOW IT GOT EVEN BETTER.

[dduane]

…Goodness.

[turretangel]

Dearie me, what is this that just popped up on my dash.

[estrellafiore-deactivated201711]

What is that orange dragon doing? Yoga or ballet? 😱

[jumpingjacktrash]

his best!

[jewishdragon]

I went to his website and he has a photo of himself:

I love??? so much???

[gingerjab]

The orange dragon thing is obviously having a spa day, damn.

We all deserve a little pampering.

[noisypaintersong]

My personal favorite from his website:

“Tea Time in the Land of Monsters”

[shiftythrifting]

getting some mixed signals (found them like this)

Admin Ten sez:

[tictacpbandai]

[magicmistral]

My uncle is really into warhammer and would win every miniature painting competition he was in. I have not very steady hands and he saw me messing up my nail polish for prom. He sat with me and carefully painted my nails and that moment meant so much to me all these years later.

[thefaultinourchickennuggets]

Hi im a librarian amd that's not now this works. If a library allows you to have a digital card and not live in the area, you are NOT taking away resources from other people, that's not how anything works. Please keep doing it!!! The more people that use our services, the more money we can get from funding sources!!! Please use us!!! We are not utilized enough, by people in or out of our community. Thanks.

[feminist-space]

[ghostlyarchaeologist]