Lianhua Infested Waters

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For me a big part of “sex work is work” is that sex work should be socially viewed as totally legitimate work. I should be able to put sex work on my resume. I should be able to lean on the skills and knowledge I gain in this field and have that experience be respected. Right now I have a gap in my resume. But I’m also consistently doing advertising, social media management, inventory, merchandising, customer service, upselling!!! I’m working self directed, I’m solely responsible for every aspect of my business. I deserve respect, fuck.

I worry a little bit that people who refuse to learn about ai as a part of their anti ai position are going to be extremely unprepared to understand what’s actually scary about it and already have their digital literacy at risk tbh

not that I am some genius in this regard but if you follow ai developments even slightly you might change the things you are most worried about. do people know the extent to which ai is already eating itself and how meaningless this is making swaths of the internet. do people know that there are plenty of random mid-sized companies today buying their employees’ likenesses to create digital clones and using these to make hundreds of videos. I am so much more worried about labor and surveillance and abuse than people becoming lazy about writing emails. and idk man I sort of like and respect people who are willfully ignorant about it as a way of minimizing its force in their lives and I am in some ways jealous but also when I see posts that basically still boil down to “chatgpt will never fool me” I am like 😭😭😭 for one thing not the only thing to be concerned about, for another thing I am really sorry but I don’t think you’re right

[ID: Photo of the stacks of a library overlaid with text: This is the only data center I want funded. End ID]

i like that regina, played by delainey, mostly pretends to be the version of claudia played by bailey bass. yet another layer added to the absurdity and complexity in claudia's arc even after her death, the true memory is a monster manifestation of how she is never truly alive or dead in louis' narrative. claudia double casting you will always be famous.

Armand throwing in "Lestat lays with his mom" in the middle of confessing to 50 years of stalking Daniel is like jingling keys in front of a baby to me. or playing a subway surfers clip on top of a long video. I love them.

I love how....familiar the Loustat car scene is. The way you just need to unload all the fucked up humiliating shit you got going on that you been trying to hide from the world and there is exactly ONE person who will understand and not judge you and just accept what you're saying and the RELIEF you feel once it's out, even if you got a complicated fucking history that you haven't worked out yet and even if they're still fucking pissed at you cause you've been an asshole lately. That kind of intimacy is so fucking real. It's not sexy. It's not hot. It's not full of yearning. It's just....knowing someone fully and accepting them and being able to say anything. That is Loustat this season.

the differences between lestats hallucinations of nicki and louis are so…. nicki who keeps mocking lestat. he is loud and inescapable because he won’t allow lestat to not pay attention to him. meanwhile louis just watches. he never says a thing and remains a constant observing presence