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this is mostly a problem with youtuber analysts but i feel like we seriously need to look into why there are so many people who believe the way to understand a piece of media is by "solving" it as though the author is trying to fool you into thinking about a world that's not real and you're trying to cut through their storytelling in order to extract some kind of singular fact. it's a weirdly antagonistic way of engaging with art
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Writers cannot watch a movie normally. we are sitting there going "oh that's the inciting incident" and "they introduced that object too early it's obviously coming back" and "this dialogue is doing three things at once good for them" while everyone else is just. watching the movie. having a normal experience. feeling feelings without labelling them. i envy that so much and i would never give it up.
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like it just doesnt make any economic sense. replacing human labor with ai only makes sense if the output is as good or better and cheap as free. but just the fact that you have to build the massive data centers at all-- especially that gpus go bad in just a few years, but even if they didn't, the facility itself is going to be a big expense-- means it cant be cheap as free. they were banking on an uber type situation where they could crank up the prices once people switched to their business model, but the trade is literally "this will be cheaper than using human labor" so if it's not cheaper than human labor then people will just hire people again. and it's not even as good or reliable as a person. so while ai is "here to stay" in the sense that the technology exists and will find its niches, probably people are going to be sexting with them forever just maybe on local models, the current business model cannot survive and never possibly could.
it's all desperation. i do really believe ed zitron's rot economy idea, that the tech sector has been searching for a new internet or iphone or whatever that blows up and changes the world and they get to keep the profits so they'll uplift any garbage (hence nfts and the metaverse) to try and astroturf that. and relatedly, i think nvidia and the cloud compute companies and the ai companies are just passing the same dollar back and forth to create big numbers that paper over how bad the economy really is. it's all an attempt to keep the infinite growth hack going.
like i actually think all of the problems with ai are problems that already existed that are just getting a huge spotlight on them because of the massive reckless expansion and apocalyptic marketing. like people are cheating on essay assignments? no shit, they used to use fiver and other cheating services. higher ups are devaluing and trying to get rid of creatives? yeah, we've been talking about how vfx artists need to unionize for over a decade, especially people working on marvel movies. people with mental health problems are turning to the internet instead of getting support or medical assistance and end up hurting themselves as a result? yup, especially when it comes to like eating disorders, there are some really awful places that will validate you into the grave. data centers use a lot of energy and water? yeah, they also did that before they were used for ai, they do that for youtube and twitch, and tech in general is a massive source of pollution. politicians arent listening to their constituents' needs and demands, instead handing money and special privileges to corporations that wont keep up their end of the bargain? yeah, i remember the public transit proposals cancelled to hand money instead to elon and his terrible tunnels. like it all already existed, they're just doing it so much so quickly that people can actually see it in front of them
The vast majority of One Nation MPs quit before the end of their first term. They're either expelled or quit because of internal bickering and dysfunction. Pauline Hanson herself was kicked out of the party and wasn't part of it from 2002 to 2013.
Barnaby Joyce will not be a One Nation MP by the next election. David Farley will likely quit or be expelled by the end of this year.
What's missing from all this media obsession with how much One Nation is rising in the polls because of all the oxygen and hype the media is giving to it is the issue of longevity and stability. One Nation has never been stable. Barely any of its members maintain party allegiance after a year in office. Why aren't journalists bringing that up?
One Nation is not a viable alternative. It's the gutter where those too dysfunctional to be part of real political parties go to see if they can whip up enough racist scaremongering to keep their paycheck at the next election.
It doesn't matter how many seats One Nation wins at the next election. It won't have kept most of them by the time the next election afterwards happens. One Nation is a grift. A con. A trap for the disillusioned and angry who want change but don't realise One Nation is the worst way to make that happen.
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you know how in greek myths people who die tragically sometimes get placed among the stars by the gods?
call that
call that a
Its okay, take your time
constellation prize
in my defense they did not specify the order in which i was allowed to take my time!
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genAI companies are now buying up rare and antique books so they can scan them and use them to train their AI. then they're destroying the books afterward.
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
they've had to face settlements against stealing from current authors, so they'll just go for the old books now. they're also doing this so they have the only copies of rare books.
they're taking water, power, natural resources for their data centers. they steal. they're book burning, essentially. i'm just so angry, i'm at a loss right now.
"But the Greens just vote down good Labor legislation in pursuit of the perfect!" Wrong. They don't. They understand they're not the government and negotiate like every other minor party. Literally the only example Labor supporters ever bring up is the deeply flawed Emissions Trading Scheme back from 2009.
A) Literally only one Greens member from 2009 is still in office so why are you criticising people who had no input on that?
B) The legislation was bad and the government should've worked with the Senate to improve it - LIKE IT NORMALLY DOES ON IMPORTANT LEGISLATION.
C) Labor and the Coalition do terrible things that are criticism worthy every other week and yet the biggest criticism of the Greens is from nearly 20 years ago.
You know what productive thing Greens have been doing? Here are but a FEW examples:
Strengthened Australia's environmental laws to protect native forests.
Negotiated $3 billion in funding for public and community housing (as opposed to Labor's previous promise of $0 guaranteed money)
Dental in Medicare for children under 18
Right to disconnect
Made it harder for new gas projects to proceed and protecting the climate
Secured $1.7 billion for homes and businesses to lower energy bills and transition off gas.
Greens could've blocked SO MUCH legislation during Labor's last term if they chose to but they didn't because that's not how parliament works. Many Labor achievements were made possible by Greens. Many Labor achievements are achievements because Greens negotiated amendments to fix the problems in the Labor legislation.
Sometimes even Labor policy IS JUST GREENS POLICY that they stole or eventually realised was popular enough to adopt! And then Labor claims it as its own!
Labor recently held a party conference to discuss policy where they decided to back under 18s being paid superannuation, regardless of hours worked. They voted down a Greens motion to do just that in Parliament weeks prior.
Greens aren't obstructionists preventing Labor from getting work down.
Labor would suck without the Greens to make them better.
This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.
This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).
Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct
If your business can only be reached and all info about it only be accessed via Facebook or Instagram, know that it isnβt reachable or accessible AT ALL.
The whole metaverse can no longer be properly viewed without an account and I am definitely not making one just to see your contact info or opening hours.
Get a fucking WEBSITE. It can be just a static landing page with the relevant information. But get off the metaverse!
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Spider-Man appeared as an unlockable character in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (Neversoft / Edge of Reality, Activision, 2001).
This phrase has already entered my vocabulary re: media criticism where like. The viewer has a concrete view of what they expect a story to be based on the tropes and cliches they're used to seeing together, and when that doesn't happen, they judge it as a failed depiction of what they assumed it was going to be instead of judging it as what it actually is.
"This show is problematic because the hero didn't kill the villain at the end": When does he steal the bread?
"These two characters who were close friends throughout the series don't kiss at the end! What the fuck?": When does he steal the bread?
"This feels like it's missing a conclusion! Like, the protagonist does bad stuff and because of a critical decision he makes as a result of his major character flaws, meets tragedy in the end! Where's the part where he learns better and brings is love back from the dead and becomes a good guy and gets a happy ending?": When does he steal the fucking bread??
I heard this out as "When criticizing something, you must judge it for what it is, not what it isn't"
#this is why so many of us urge people to get a wider diet of stories
Just saw my doctor type "FUCKED FOR LIFE" on my chart then he turned the screen away and stopped making eye contact with me
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I can't fuck with people who are fundamentally uncurious.
I also can't fuck with people who are fundamentally unkind.
