in the midst of innumerable stars

literally real life though

there is nothing a corporation hates more than having employees, but a close second is having to provide a good or service in order to make money. these two reasons concisely explain is why the ai bubble formed in the first place.

Abdul El Sayed winning in Michigan against a candidate in which AIPAC poured enourmous mounts of money is another big blow for the establishment democrats and their unconditional alliance with Israel. The voters are clearly saying it. First Mamdani in New York, now El Sayed, more to follow. I am sure the elites will try to downplay the result, but the message from voters is very clear by now. Genocide is the red line. Gaza has totally taken over the conscience of people worldwide and it will never go away. People that will continue to look the other way or defend what has been done will continue to get booted by voters on several levels. Despite all the mainstream media (certainly in USA) being heavily slanted one way, despite the decades of dehumanization of anything Arab, Muslim (in politics, popular media and beyond) and fearmongering, the shift in the perception is slowly but surely changing. May it be the first step to real and radical changes that actually have an impact on the lives of Palestinians and others. May the new generation be the end of AIPAC type of politicians.

god the horrible urge to vague post is eating me alive but i must

someone wronged me once

i have a lot of thoughts on the matter but i will say that fandom moving from semi-private blogs and communities to extremely public and algorithm-driven social media was a huge mistake that has changed fandom culture for the worse

the person who believes every day that the winds of winter is getting released tomorrow is a fool every day but one

white people please just purchase native artwork and jewelry from native people i keep seeing idiot white people be like “waaah i wish i could support native creators but its cultural appropriation” girl why would beaders sell you their earrings then. just dont get a medicine wheel or a thunderbird then like damn it is that easy

http://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html?m=1

If Native folks are making it to sell to white people with the approval of their tribe, it’s not “appropriation”–its support and appreciation! So yes, buy that native-made dream catcher, but not the mass produced fakes made by white people. Like, you can go to a pow wow and buy native crafts there, too.

Everybody say "thank you south america" for the humble potato

They’re on Reddit saying texting “hi” is low iq and gives people the ick and that’s why they got ghosted. They don’t let u say hi no more….. we’re in a loneliness epidemic bc everybody is a weirdo about every little thing im cracking up

Thinking any texting habit is weird while using Reddit is funny as fuck the irony

it’s amazing how women are able to navigate crowded rooms without ever touching a palm to a man’s lower back

you'd think occasionally men would need to touch other men like this to manoeuvre them out of the way but it never happens

i am board certified to practice “hamletting” if you have an excess of ham causing you distress or a ghost father

close your eyes and imagine freshly roasted root vegetables perfectly seasoned and crispy as far as the eye can see

Sam trying to get Frodo to take one more step

Sam psychologically tormenting Gollum

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.

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.