The ineffable brainrotting

We all know sports fan activities tend to be masculine-coded and therefore socially acceptable while story fan activities are coded feminine/queer and therefore looked down on.

So don't worry about it. It would be nice if we could all meet around the water cooler and chat openly about our feelings without censoring ourselves or fearing judgement from those who don't necessarily understand. But that's why we have cons and tumblr etc.

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

I think for a lot of us it utterly failed and we are left with exactly that - a cruel writing choice that people tried to pad to make it a bit less hurtful. The analogy that’s coming to mind is cushioning broken glass with cotton candy so you can eat it. Like, that’s not how that works. If someone tries to feed you broken glass you refuse and then try to make sure they don’t do that again. And also cotton candy dissolves with the slightest moisture so it’s ineffective anyway.

We have a meeting scheduled for next Tuesday to discuss my "valid concerns" so now I need all of you to send me anti-AI resources for that meeting because I am extremely bad at defending my viewpoints on the spot. I get flustered and forgetful and avoidant, so I need to have key arguments and evidence to back it up at the ready. Unfortunately, all my searches for "how to defend my anti-ai stance in the workplace" are only returning articles about "How to convince your employees that AI is a good thing"

Relevant information:

They are mostly looking at MS co-pilot and claude ai

They would be unlikely to use it to make any graphics so stolen art is only fuel to the ethical argument, not a main concern

Good Omens was about not choosing sides for the husbands, while ignoring the ones set for them and choosing 'us'. Shades of grey.

Everything is the same except for them.

It is so fucking bleak. All of their fiddling and meddling about didn’t matter, just as they always said, it was always the humans who made their own choices. Humans came up with it all themselves.

It didn’t matter that there was a god and a heaven and a hell and angels and demons because the world turned out exactly the same.

Except for the characters we loved. They’ve all been lobotomized.

But, that’s right, their lives were traumatic, so they basically get a do-over. It’s a good thing.

I wonder how many souls throughout history had the exact same life in both universes. Not a drop of change for them.