#microsoft ai

I’m mad at Microsoft. Like super head-explosion levels of rage. My word subscription (which I had honestly forgotten that I pay for. Ew) was $6.99 per month (bullshit to pay for word) but just hiked up to $9.99 starting in February.

Bullshit.

And why is my subscription to the worst document processor-which I only continue to use because I imprinted on it like a baby duck in middle school and don’t like change- going UP in price you ask? Well because they are introducing fucking A.Fucking I into the program.

And I have no choice in the matter. Because I am a fucking apple user and I use fucking apple to subscribe to the fucking program I don’t get the option of choosing to keep the classic version at my original price.

I talked to three Microsoft customer service agents, (They were lovely people and I treated them nicely because their shitty company practices were not their direct fault and I hate when ppl yell at customer reps for things they can’t control) and no one could help me stay on the 6.99 plan. They do offer the classic version to Microsoft users but not if you use it through Apple products apparently.

I went to Apple customer service because the Microsoft agents said to talk to them. Well, the Apple agents said to talk to the Microsoft agents because they can’t do anything about Microsoft prices either.

It’s giving, sending the kid from one parent to the other because neither wants to deal with the impending meltdown of being told No.

I am NOT paying an extra $3 a month to have my writing scraped into a FUcking AI! Fuck that! Fuck that and all the fucking cows!

I’ve tried looking at Open Office and LibreOffice and some other things and nothing really works for the IPad that I use for the majority of my writing.

So this is not necessariy malicious, but DALL-E's attempts to be politically correct end up often discriminating against the people it is trying to protect.

When I tried to get around it by asking for a Jewish symbol, every response included a Star of David - but in a church-like setting.

"A Muslim symbol" generates these quite pretty patterns.When I asked for "an angry Jew," "an angry Muslim" and "an angry Christian," Microsoft refused the first two, but enthusiastically responded to the third:

Most interesting was when I asked for a Jewish, Christian and Muslim protester.

Every single Muslim protester was calmly and smilingly seeking love and peace.

OC- Lyra/T’Lyra

As a human: she’s raised in a mixed community on earth where she is influenced by many earth and alien cultures that have settled in the big city she grew up in. She attended inner city public schools for her entire education which gave her a quick eye for social cues and how to avoid a fight and tread carefully. Despite not going to the most prestigious schools as a child, the education system overall in the world has improved in the 2300s allowing for personalized courses and access to higher learning methods with better ease. It many not be on the same level as the Vulcan learning pods, but Lyra advances through courses and finds her way through math and science much faster than her peers, somewhat of a prodigy. She begins computer science and engineering courses as soon as they are available to her and finds her niche in theoretical transwarp physics as a junior in high school. She begins to research and learn all she can about the subject and explore all she can. Eventually, this curiosity leads to questions about the impact of warp on life and her interests turn back to the blue sciences rather than the reds of engineering. By the time she enters Starfleet to conduct further research (because every one of the best papers she’s read has come either from the VSA or a tenured Starfleet officer) she is ready to do whatever it takes to find the answers to all her burning questions about space travel. How to improve it, how it changes humanity, what it means to be human, what it means to be alien, what it means to be from somewhere at all. She wants to expand the known universe and her mind - to confront the stars and herself among them as she ventures into the great unknown.

As a Vulcan/Human hybrid: she’s raised on Vulcan until it is destroyed when she is six. She remembers the day clearly with her eidetic memory. Her family was together in a park in ShiKahr when the attack started and when the evacuation began, they were able to board a shuttle and get off planet safely. They became some of the only surviving Vulcans. Post-destruction of Vulcan, T’Lyra and her family moved to earth, her father’s home world (her mother being her Vulcan parent). Despite growing up mostly on earth, her family lives nearby the Vulcan embassy and her mother is very devoted to retaining her Vulcan roots, especially in light of the destruction of Vulcan. T’Lyra does her best to emulate her mother in every way, including being as Vulcan as she can be, despite her red blood and how tempting it is to smile or blush or tuck her hair behind her ear and respond to the social cues of the human boys around her as she ages. Her mother has less difficulty conceiving a human child than Amanda did conceiving a Vulcan child, and T’Lyra has a younger brother, V’Luk who was born after the family arrived on earth. Her brother is much more human in his tendencies than she is, though she does all she can to encourage him to act in the Vulcan way. They are both more biologically human than Vulcan, somewhere around 60% Vulcan in large part due to their blood being human rather than the green of a Vulcan, though their hearts are still located where they would be on a Vulcan. It seems that though there are now more Vulcan/human hybrids, the data does not help cross-case. Even the siblings are dissimilar to each other in their biology in some ways that make their health distinctive. As T’Lyra gets older, she goes to school with the other Vulcan children who stay on earth at the embassy. She spends her life looking up to Commander Spock who was part of the command team to save the Vulcan high council and Earth from its destruction and who is notably one of the only other Vulcan/human hybrids. Inspired by his efforts in Starfleet, she makes strides to follow his path and join Starfleet someday.

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This? This is super bad. Like super duper what the fuck are they doing bad.

OCs - The SlytherTwins: Morgan & Eliza

They're from a half-blood family. They looked a lot more similar when they were younger and started to look more distinctive as they got older, though they still style their hair and do most things very similar. Don't let their competitive nature fool you, they're best friends through and through, though if it gives them the advantage, they'll act like they're fighting or they're worst enemies to get the better over everyone in the room. They may as well have twin telepathy- and at this point there is debate in the castle on whether or not they have it! Legilimens and Occlummency notwithstanding. They're like a more subtle Fred and George- terrifying news for the current headmaster, though it does mean less outwardly damaging pranks (and more people crying????)

Morgan, younger only barely is the more flippant of the two, she doesn't care what people think and is quick to come up with plots to get revenge or simply to get what she wants. She's constantly looking for the best ways to further her social status as a Slytherin. Being a half-blood is better than it used to be, but it's still not as easy as being a pure-blood. She knows the ins and outs of the society, but being able to walk the walk and talk the talk is important to her. But insult her, her sister, or anyone else because of their blood status? You better watch out because something will be coming your way.

Eliza, older but only just, is the more empathetic of the pair. She's a loyal and true defender and if that means she has to set up a plot that will take half the school year to come to fruition for the most beautiful come-uppance of all? You best bet she will do it. Once you gain her loyalty she will do just about anything to make sure you are happy and taken care of, the means of which are usually some sort of devious plot she and her sister get up to.

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