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Devoted to my ramblings, projects and love of weird horror books and psychological horror games. Occasional posts about current events, ecology and animals

[consumedbythefog-deactivated202]

[gayvampyr]

important things happening in r/cats

[xenohiraethposts]

[mongeese]

Thank gd for Avery Brooks man. Ds9 wouldn't be half the show it is without him. Yes because of his magnetic and dynamic performance as Sisko but arguably more than that his role in creative direction and shaping the story and Sisko's arc. The finale, for instance, would've been so much worse if not for Brooks's insistence that Sisko promise to return to the station one day. And there's a thousand instances like that. We owe him EVERYTHING!!!

[gokusclit]

Take my hand Let’s lower the birth rate together

[the-quasar-hero]

You can make a movie with where the only white character is a man named Ray Cism whose one line of his 16 seconds of screen time is “I seriously hate women and minorities.” and you’ll find fifty bajillion reader x Ray Cism fanfics and renaissance style drawings of him with a halo of golden light

[regnard13]

Albert Model 01

[prettiestpear]

[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.

[xenohiraethposts]

Currently reading

[weirdgirl247]

every year small towns and indigenous communities across canada are burnt to nothing by horrific wildfires and americans go on the internet to complain about it and blame us bc the smoke has spread to their state. i’m so tired.

go yell at mark carney or your own local politicians about climate change and urge them to do more to stop it. the namaygoosisagagun first nation had their community destroyed today. you can find a link to donate to them here. donate to your local food bank. go to the beach next week when the smoke clears and you don’t have to think about it anymore while the people who’s lives have been destroyed will have to pick up the pieces and try to move forward when we are already in a huge cost of living crisis across the country.

[weirdgirl247]

rbing with other places you can donate to to support those impacted by the fires!

true north aid (an organization aimed at providing support to remote/northern indigenous people in canada)

canadian red cross wildfire fund

ontario spca and humane society (links to their donate page specifically aimed at supporting pets and animals in areas impacted by the fires)

and the anishinabek nation’s page where you can donate to support the namaygoosisagagun nation who had their land destroyed by the fires is still accepting donations

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[oneheadtoanother]

[xenohiraethposts]

very disappointing when geeks are writing dark romance novels and the BDSM sessions read like poorly written D&D sessions. Is that all it takes for someone to agree to a crazy setup with 4 ppl just cause one of them starts issuing commands? I can actually buy that for many reasons except its boring and not sexy at all to read about.

[xenohiraethposts]

Again telling a woman she will get pregnant multiple times and move to the men's home to take care of the children without consulting her is not a kink of a scene, its coercive reproduction. That being the happy ending is fucking insane.

[xenohiraethposts]

very disappointing when geeks are writing dark romance novels and the BDSM sessions read like poorly written D&D sessions. Is that all it takes for someone to agree to a crazy setup with 4 ppl just cause one of them starts issuing commands? I can actually buy that for many reasons except its boring and not sexy at all to read about.

[xenohiraethposts]

Fandoms for me are just a microcosm of bigger societal issues, and as such, hope blk fans are paying attention like you need to not be so serious about yt ppl in these spaces, they are too attached to those overseer roles,rituals to be safe to be around.

[zoesupreme]

I've been trying to tell people you don't like Christopher Nolan you like Jonathan Nolan those movies started to fall off when they stopped working together. nobody listens.

[osidius-el-enfatico]

ngl babe, i didnt know jonathan nolan was a person and i thought you were from a different dimension for a second

[zoesupreme]

many such cases I'm afraid