Cripple Chic

"Clearly I wasn't talking about disabled people-" yeah part of the problem is that the existence of disabled people just isn't considered in your worldview like that's the problem we're criticizing not a get out of jail free card

So many people are letting GenAI think for them at this point. It's sad. Like people can't do ANYTHING without asking GenAI. That was fast, right? Like... the time jump from GenAI becoming mainstream popular to people just not thinking for themselves anymore was SHORT, right? I saw a reddit post where someone was asking if they should go to the ER, ChatGPT said it wasn't that bad yet, but their hand is swelling up. LIKE GO. TO. THE. ER. Listen, I saw the thing where ChatGPT couldn't count how many 'r's are in the word Strawberry, and let me tell you, I ain't letting something that can't count letters tell me when it's time to go to the ER. It is not intelligence. It is a PROGRAM, guys. A program.

People think all these AI programs are like the AI programs in SciFi and they aren’t. Those are Absolute AIs. Those can make logically sound decisions and think for themselves with zero background input. What we have now are Predictive AIs. Very basically, they’re good at making a decision based on old data, but if the data is corrupted somehow (which data often does do), it can’t tell that the data is corrupted and it spits out a decision. What I am trying to say is that a four-year-old is better at determining that data has been corrupted than current AI models.

If I didn’t laugh at this, I’d cry

FML… Asperger’s is literally a Nazi term. They were separating those Autistic people who were “useful” to the Nazis in work camps and those who weren’t and would be experimented on and eventually eradicated under Aktion T4. We should not want to bring back Nazi terms because some people have internalized ableism and don’t feel comfortable with being labeled as Disabled.

I honestly don’t view Steve as much of a disaster, he’s just putting himself between danger and the kids which causes disaster (tell me honestly that Steve would’ve gone into half of those situations without the kids insisting on going so that Steve has to follow along)

My WIFE (ao3) has been SHOT (is down for maintenance) and is DEAD FOREVER (probably will be back up in a few hours)

what companies who sell you anti aging stuff don't want you to know is that if you're chill about aging, your perception of attractiveness changes as you get older. there is no "wall" where you suddenly become ugly and unfuckable because in my experience what actually happens is you get into your thirties and suddenly realize that people in their thirties are hot as fuck and the "flaws" that the beauty industry wants you to panic about are a feature not a bug, and based on the std statistics in nursing homes I don't really expect that trajectory to change.

SORRY BUT YOUR PASSWORD MUST CONTAIN ONE NUMBER, ONE CAPITAL LETTER, THE COW AS WHITE AS MILK, THE CAPE AS RED AS BLOOD, THE HAIR AS YELLOW AS CORN, AND THE SLIPPER AS PURE AS GOLD

Since it’s getting near New Year’s, remember that the New York Times publishes the top 10 most common passwords near New Year’s. As an IT professional I always recommend checking the list and changing any of your passwords that are listed. And SO HELP ME GOD if you use “Password1!” as your password, I’m coming for you.

For the record, this is wrong. I’ve known Baby Boomers who’ve maintained online friendships via fandom listservs since the late 60s (Star Trek, specifically).