also known as: papa ~ the archivist ~ lorekeeper ~ winter or wintersoul
english, queer, autistic, elder millennial, linguistics grad
[[i love words // writing systems my beloved // stuff about or in non-english languages is tagged '<language name> language']]
it’s always ok to dm me about something i’ve posted about or talked about in tags, but messages that just say "hey" will not be answered
asks are usually open, do knock yourself out. i'm always happy to share factual information related to inside no 9, the league of gentlemen, reece shearsmith’s acting work, pembersmith lore etc
[[answered asks // asks game]]
tags are sometimes for categorisation, sometimes for yapping and trauma dumping. i have other blogs where i'm a lot stricter with my tagging, so i cut myself some slack in this, my diary
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fics'n'fanworks masterpost of my fics, fanvids, podfics and webweaves. also tagged stuff i made along with gifs and creative stuff that doesn't fall under the pembersmith fanworks umbrella
TAGS OF NOTE
percy irl ~ personal things // percy werk ~ stuff about my job // percy.wav ~ audio things // percy.mov ~ filmmaking things // photo diary ~ pictures i have taken
i like to go digital dumpster diving or talk about just archivist things. as part of that you will find examples of transcribed audio
other things i enjoy include illustration and (stop motion) animation ~ skulls and bones ~ fyeahgayvampires ~ spaces and places ~ greek mythology ~ folk and fairy tales ~ electronic music ~ podcasts ~ improv comedy ~ sci fi ~ general goth shit ✌🏻
ANGSTY THINGS
the bats on the ceiling are spelling out the word turmoil // modern life is rubbish // ai bullshit
JOYFUL THINGS
cats make everything better // this is so stupid i love it // hope as a radical act
dividers by @uzmacchiato 🖤 profile pic by @not-xpr-art
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Yeah baby, first edit is donnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne! Just under 15 minutes without credits - longest piece of original content I've worked on and I doubted myself a lot and wanted to give up on more than one occasion. But I powered on and got it done! If our director is happy, that'll get shipped off to the composer so they can work on background music while I mix the dialogue.
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.
Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.
Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.
And so on.
The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.
But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.
If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.
But they wouldn't understand any of it.
That's ChatGPT.
And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.
But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.
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Some cyanotype experiments inspired by Inside No. 9
I recently discovered this wonderful sun-printing method and I’ve been enjoying experimenting with all its possibilities!
I’ve included the separate scanned images under the cut (and one additional print that I didn’t really like but I’ll show anyway, because it’s all experimental! Oh, and also some process pictures).
Do check them out for better quality if you’re interested 💙
And here are some process pictures:
The second one was made using double exposure, which is why the image is already blue 😊
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