YOU CANNOT RETURN

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

no matter how normalised it gets I will die on the hill that it is rude to record strangers in public without their consent

Cities are inherently more sustainable than returning to some idealistic agrarian world, but we can't recognize that because we have just decided the color grey means bad

This is because cities concentrate people, allowing for land to be preserved for nature, and for less energy to be used in transport as things are closer together.

The issue with your agarian solarpunk future is that moving our entire society to agarianism would require the destruction of massive amounts of open land and be significantlh more energy intensive if you were to ever move goods between locations

Also you still need industry to produce things like solar panels which hypothetically are used to power all modes of transport, unless you want to switch to horses

One does wonder whether urbanism would be more popular if cities were made more colourful. Red brick, green foliage, and just absolutely shameless amounts of pigment. My art teacher used to say something to the effect of any unpainted space being wasted, and we may need to bring that energy to the urban environment.

Also a lot of peoples issues with cities are because of the noise pollution but a lot of noise pollution in cities comes from cars. If you reduce the need for cars and what few cars you do have are electric then the ambient noise goes down significantly.

I think public transit needs to be made significantly better in order for there to be less cars. In a lot of cities you often have to go further into the city then transfer when it would probably been faster if there was a more direct route there and was set up like a wheel with spokes rather than just spokes to the center of the city.

Yeah better public transit is one of the main goals of urbanism

so embarrassing to watch yourself become obsessed with a character that feels tailor made for you specifically to become obsessed with. feels like i fell into a trap made just for me. like damn they got me. those are all the things i like and go crazy for

I took a bus to a conference today and the bus driver fully stopped the bus to identify and chastise a person who was playing music out loud on their phone. That is how you get me to actually complete the customer service survey specifically so I can give you top ratings

It's days later and I'm still thinking about this man. Full ass bus pulled over to the side of a state highway with the hazards on, stalking down the center aisle intoning "ALL RIGHT. WHO'S GOT IT. YOU CAN'T HAVE IT ON SPEAKER." I want to commission a statue of him. a hero. a king.

If you’re abled please reblog it cause like…the more ppl knows the better

we need to keep this circulating so it can find the people who are about to stay up for 3 to 4 hours

theres a big conspiracy theory going round that you can be horribly flawed and also genuinely loved. crazy if true

HA, this reminds me of a Reddit post I saw a while back (since deleted, so apol for the lack of screenshots) where someone was panicking because they'd used ChatGPT to organise their hard drive, by which I mean they opened up an LLM and said 'can you move X file to Y folder and streamline the metadata?', and of course the LLM said 'sure, no problem! I've done that for you!' and then the user asked it to make backups of all their data onto ChatGPT's server, by which I mean they literally just typed 'can you back up all of my data on your server?' and the AI replied 'sure thing, that's all saved for you!' and then the user was like 'and can you create a spreadsheet detailing all of the locations of the files and their contents?' and the LLM was like 'absolutely no problem, I've created that for you!' and then the user deleted everything at their end and asked the AI where they could retrieve the files saved on the AI's server, and the AI was like 'right here! I'm just downloading it for you now!' and then the user waited, and waited, and waited, and then they asked again, 'where do I download my files?' and the AI was like 'right here! It's coming up!' and the user waited, and waited, and waited, and then posted on Reddit like 'where do I download files on ChatGPT?' and all the commenters were like... oh, friend. Oh no.

Rereading this on my sick days 🙏🏽

Why do I feel like I should print this out, frame it, and hang it in my office?

yeah the 2020s have been difficult but at least we have the consolation that a single season of modern tv now takes 5 years to make and lasts about 16 seconds

AND 👆 costs twenty billion dollars per episode

and costs twenty billion dollars per episode

i tried explaining to this girl at a party once how i could be gay and asexual at the same time and it basically boils down to never being into anyone but like once a year i’ll find a man attractive. and she was like “so what am i if i only like girls, and i’ve never found any of my boyfriends attractive and and i just wanna do cocaine all the time?” i was like “you’re a lesbian with a coke addiction?” and she was like “woooooah”. she broke up with her boyfriend that night and had a threesome with two girls in the bathtub. rebecca if you’re out there, i hope you’re going places. well, not far, since you’re electronically tagged. but spiritually.

i tried explaining to this girl at a party once how i could be gay and asexual at the same time and it basically boils down to never being into anyone but like once a year i’ll find a man attractive. and she was like “so what am i if i only like girls, and i’ve never found any of my boyfriends attractive and and i just wanna do cocaine all the time?” i was like “you’re a lesbian with a coke addiction?” and she was like “woooooah”. she broke up with her boyfriend that night and had a threesome with two girls in the bathtub. rebecca if you’re out there, i hope you’re going places. well, not far, since you’re electronically tagged. but spiritually.