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when the extremely popular widely beloved male character receives the tiniest sliver of pushback to his reputation and his fans start viewing themselves as christ on the cross over it

it's interesting that the only female characters warriors fans don't completely hate or treat as too boring to possibly consider engaging with are the ones who are like, superficially aligned with an aesthetic of subversive girl power rebelliousness and/or righteous cause but if one is to actually look at their actions and consistently expressed beliefs it becomes undeniable that their main concern is affirming the status quo to their own benefit at the expense of the vulnerable individuals around them

haven't gotten anything yet

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.

notice as well a refusal to mention any kind of "bad" ai other than the kind that "steals shit". putting aside even what was said here about ai ethics being much more about context than the actual literal computing a particular ai does, the "bad ai" isnt the facial recognition software currently helping drive an attempted genocide in the US, it's the ai that doesn't respect copyright law. it's kind of hilariously grim how much bourgeoisie class interests have suddenly become the uniting "progressive" opinion.

the term 'toxic yuri' has been driven into the ground. Enough

every time a fandom buzzword starts being used in marketing copy it should be immediately be retired and humanely put down

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Do you think tumblr will ever learn the difference between “I’m defending this person because I agree with them wholeheartedly and I am also like this person” and “I’m defending this person because your behavior is dangerous and you need to stop”