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There is a special place in the voidest part of my heart for people who think exclusion is the answer to illiteracy

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forcekenobi

was thinking about bear/bare

great-and-small

Yeah okay there are like 11 species of heron native to the USA and yes fine I’ve only managed to spot 10 of those species. You might think I’m bitter about that one species evading me but I’m not. I’m actually the Least Bittern person about it in the entire world

A lot of Tumblr (and social media as a whole) is argumentative in a way that has to admit in the body of the text the first person was making a perfectly valid and correct point and the rest is just “but that doesn’t matter, because I said so” which is both Libertarianism, anti-intellectualism, and annoying

#not fiber arts #off topic #meta tumblr #social media

lacewise

I am not nearly as anti-text and image generators as other people because I have very nuanced thoughts—informed by a little familiarity with the history of poorly working machines—I won’t discuss here beyond “it should be regulated heavily” and “the public shouldn’t have access to general use computer generation which is a corporate and regulatory and not an individual issue”

That said, the ways I am hearing people actually use text generators scares me

What do you mean it is doing your homework for you and you aren’t going over everything carefully? What do you mean you’re not fact-checking the bot? That bot cannot tell you the truth because it doesn’t know what the truth is!

What do you mean you are unquestioningly asking it things and then regurgitating those mad libs phrases as if they are real

I don’t think focus on the demand curve of AI has been very helpful in holding companies accountable for malfeasance but the lack of integrity, accountability, or curiosity on display is a pretty massive problem

Cut corners are cumulative and the most convenient things are often very, very bad for you and that’s the tradeoff

yarnings

One of my husband's techs has recommended one which ticks a lot of the boxes for ethical use (isn't going to steal the text they put into it, was carefully trained, etc), and they're looking at training a version up to help people do some of their standard paperwork (especially because so many of the grad students aren't going to do well with large blocks of text in English).

It's still going to offer links so you can doublecheck the info it's putting in.

lacewise

Yes and carefully screening heavy machinery and putting hard limits on its use makes sense because that! is what a language model is

Hopefully special training around it becomes commonplace going forward whether it falls into obscurity or not

yarnings

Oh, and I forgot one thing: apparently you can tell the LLM to let you know how confident it is about its answer, so you know when you need to be more careful. Because a lot of the problem with the regular AI usage is that thing that was going around earlier, pointing out that having it admit when it doesn't know things wouldn't be good for the monetization. If it doesn't know, and it says as much, that's a lot less dangerous. It's just a lot harder to monetize this sort of thing (that really works best in a highly technical situation).

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derinthescarletpescatarian

I am constantly seeing people trying to puzzle out what's "ruining books" and it makes me more and more tired. Read a different book. You have more choice in reading material than at any other point in all of history. No one thing can be ruining ALL of them.

derinthescarletpescatarian

"Are trope-obsessed tiktok book pitches ruining books?" Go read something that wasn't marketed on tiktok. There's so much of it. Is this a problem for would-be authors trying to get traditionally published? Possibly, I don't know, I'm not familiar with the market. Is it a problem for readers? Of course not. Stop being stupid.

derinthescarletpescatarian

"Okay Derin, how can I find books without scrolling tiktok or booktube for them, or only looking at the goodreads front page?":

Try a genre that isn't currently On Trend. If you don't like the current romantasy bestsellers because they all follow the same tropes in order to game the tiktok algorithm, try something that isn't romantasy.

Read something written before 2010. There are plenty of amazing books being written right now also, but if your problem is with current trends specifically, go read the books that people were complaining were "ruining literature" twenty years ago. They're great.

Walk into any second-hand bookshop and just start looking around. There will be a lot of the thing you don't like there and there will also be a lot of other stuff, some of which you do like.

Make friends who like the same sorts of books as you.

This might only apply to me, but I get a lot of recommendations by simply being into vaguely philosophical video essays. If you follow a lot of the Jacob Geller Types on youtube or nebula then you will get more truly awesome science fiction recommendations than you know what to do with.

Write a web serial and every few days somebody will pop into your inbox saying "this thing you wrote kind of reminds me of [x], have you read it?" and it's almost certainly something you've never heard of in your life but now you have another story to check out that you know touches on themes you've demonstrated interest in.

If you find yourself in truly desperate straits, go to tvtropes.org and type in a trope you like. Scroll down to 'examples'. There's a whole long list there of stories about a killer on a leash, or battle couples, or whatever else you're in the mood to read about today.

Read Time to Orbit: Unknown, which is a story that I'm super unbiased about, you can definitely trust me when I say that you specifically will like this no matter who you are, I totally wouldn't lie to you.

nellydreadful

I would like to add: follow authors! If an author you like is active on a social media platform you are also on, follow them. Writers are nearly always readers themselves, and they like to write, obviously, so it is very common for a lot of them to write about things they read. Books that were a big influence on them, books they like right now, books their writer friends are putting out, whatever.

If you follow a lot of authors, not only will you keep track of what books those particular authors are releasing, but you’ll also probably learn a lot about a bunch of other books and media. (thank you for the CJ Cherryh recs Mr Derin sir)

superbfairywrench

You can also talk to a librarian! Or, see what's on the featured or new release shelves at your library and give something a try.

yarnings

The new release shelves are the dangerous part. That is a large part of the source for my newly-formed opinion that books need to be clear about if they're romantasy vs the adventure fantasy book that it appears to be trying to market itself as. (To be fair, I'm not sure how much of this being more of an issue with newer books is a "all the crap books got pulled from the shelves" problem vs a "this is a new problem" thing, but I don't remember having this much trouble a decade ago.)

meyerlansky

just. please know. that giffing scenes like that is a fucking nightmare labor of love.

to wit:

bottom's the raw capture, middle's just flat curve correction to make the footage visible, top is the final coloring with /counts seven adjustment layers to add back in Literally Anything But Yellow

every giffer i know does it out of love for the game, but for the record it's not... easy. it's not just slapping the footage in a cap grabber and posting whatever it spits out. "professional" lighting and color grading has only gotten waaay murkier and flatter in the fifteen years i've been giffing on here, so uh. don't repost gifs, please!

infiniteeight8

I thought the bottom was a black bar. I didn't even realize that was footage.

Everyone say thank you to your neighbourhood GIF maker! Giffers are so important to the fannish ecosystem, but to so many people the amount of work involved invisible.

galileosballs

"Why is it a problem if students use AI to get through college"

Because if you demonstrate to me that you're willing to set aside concern for truth, evidence, and verifying things with your own eyes whenever it happens to be inconvenient for you, I have a solemn responsibility to make sure you don't get into medical school.

galileosballs

"oh, but this course is just a distribution requirement, it's not for my major"

Does saying things that are true and that you know are true only matter when someone is giving you a little prize for it?

galileosballs

Tumblr doesn't like to do this kind of ethics, so I have to phrase this carefully, but it's a question of character. And a person's character is clearest when they're being asked to do the right thing even when it doesn't matter to them.

I don't want to live in a world in which doctors and lawyers and politicians just ignore the responsibility to research and verify when it's inconvenient for them. When they're busy. When they have something they'd rather be doing. The world I live in is already too full of those people in positions of power. I'll be damned if I let there be more of them.

moniquill

dannyvantass

It's waterproof. It's windproof. It's lightweight and durable. And it's made from the intestines of two bears, painstakingly cleaned and sew

I really wanted to know more about this, especially how the water proof stitching works. Here's more information on this project, and hopefully more in the future!

tehnakki

This is amazing! I need to make a note to play around with that water proof stitch technology soon.

My husband found me a linen cone that I lost months ago and then saw me interrogating it

Then, instead of asking me why I was interrogating a cone of linen thread, he just looked at me quizzically and told me, “I am explicitly NOT questioning it”

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lilithsaintcrow

"That was the intent, but the decision we made was an abandonment of the core counterculture, f*ck the establishment spirit of Kickstarter, and it left our community vulnerable."

Last week, we released a set of updates to our rules around mature content. It was our first time publishing a set of detailed, specific gui

lazarus-lazuli

i have no comment this is just the funniest fucking thing i’ve seen all day

sorcererslittledragon

@thatlittleegyptologist i think this is your wheelhouse? Whats it say. Is it anygood or is it pure aesthetic.

thatlittleegyptologist

I’ve already posted something longer on my blog because I was trying to avoid spoiling the fun but (as loud as I can - not reflected on you): THIS IS AI. IT’S NOT HIERATIC (that looks different) IT’S BARELY EVEN CURSIVE HIEROGLYPHS.

Look closely:

Do they really look like hieroglyphs? No.

Do they really form things other than birds? No.

Do they distinct groups that could be words even if you can’t read them? No.

When you spot the same sign on another part of the door, why does it look like the person carving them (because Reddit OP says an exacto knife was used) suddenly forgot a script they are apparently fluent enough in to carve on a toilet door? Because it is AI.

TL;DR: Reddit op was karma farming using AI to generate nonsense “hieratic” onto what is probably a real photo of a toilet door. Because Hieroglyphs in the public consciousness are considered a funny ha ha picture script rather than a real script belonging to a real language capable of literature, people’s brains skip over the obvious faults. If you searched for “hieratic examples” or “cursive hieroglyphs examples” and compared them to the above image, it’d be very quickly apparent that it wasn’t real.

lacewise

Finished Object Friday here! Show me your finished object and let me hype you!

lokking

Finished this collaboration piece today!

lacewise

That chicken looks fierce and those colors are gorgeous! There’s something so captivating about that kind of determination

lacewise

Finished Object Friday here! Show me your finished object and let me hype you!

lokking

Finished this collaboration piece today!

libraford

Are YOU gonna let THE GOVERNMENT tell YOU what YOUR GENDER is? That doesn't sound like Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness to me! PROTECT your individual FREEDOMS and call your senator: we want the GOVERNMENT to stay OUT OF OUR PANTS! GENDER FREEDOM NOW!

libraford

Two men in your neighborhood are married... to EACH OTHER? Congratulate them for exercising their AMERICAN RIGHT to follow the footsteps of our FOUNDING FATHERS! They've got a fully AMERICAN spirit of FREEDOM and REBELLION! GOD BLESS THE USA.

libraford

Your coworker has a different RELIGION from yours? Well, that's just INTERESTING and you should talk about it on your UNION-APPROVED LUNCH BREAK. The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA was FOUNDED on Freedom of Religion and ANYONE should be allowed to seek the AMERICAN DREAM!

libraford

You think someone might be in this GREAT country ILLEGALLY? NO YOU DON'T! No one is in this country illegally! The minute anyone steps on our SOVEREIGN SOIL they're your FELLOW AMERICAN and where they come from is NO ONES BUSINESS.

rosslynpaladin

it's funny yeah, but guys this is actually how you reach the people who prefer these terms to frame all things Good and Correct.

prismatic-bell

If he wants to come to a tractor pull dressed like THAT, that's his gaaaahdamn RIGHT! What the fuck do you think "freedom" MEANS, Earl??

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