Anything I’m Interested In

im glad no one can read my language

Some Wicker thoughts from Threads.

dehumanizing abusers is not effective at doing anything other than make people think they're ontologically incapable of violence

if you dehumanize the hypothetical abusers you create incentives for false accusations as a means of dehumanization whenever dehumanization is desired for other reasons

HADESTOWN NATION WE STAY WINNING

goat dog

Oh this is an excellent new beaft. Look at that thang. I'll take a dozen

Profoundly unserious, yet strangely majestic. Much like us all.......

Characters in media fighting back against the mind control:

Talent counts for jack all if you're attacking yourself the moment you start for not being perfect and then quitting to punish yourself.

Not that most of us can DO anything about it, but at least this is validation that we're not crazy and the world really is running full tilt over a cliff. It's really refreshing to have someone describe this in plain language, with specifics. Someone on the ground, not an outside commenter: This was a terrible mistake. It backfired in the most predictable way imaginable – every lukewarm client that saw the chatbot in action, even with us telling them that it was not going to accomplish what they wanted, wanted to buy it immediately. Every other consideration, including millions of dollars that we could plausibly help them achieve by non-AI means, was swept aside. It was like a dark and terrible force seized control of their limbs, plunged their hands into their own chests, and presented their still-beating credit cards to us in grim supplication. We were so mortified by the inexplicable shift in energy that we (wisely) declined to take the money and ended the sales process, and soon thereafter removed Cortex from our list of demonstrations.

Last Night in the Garden

Aoi Tokunaga

my favorite fantasy world is tortall

Típico de belgas malinois

They've gotten very popular recently and I suspect theyre also being dumped in shelters at a high rate

Which is one of the reasons I reblogged this, I vaguely hope it might make someone somewhere reconsider their choices