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THiNGS YOU NEED BEFORE YOU DO BDSM:

first aid kit

tourniquet

narcan

at least 8gb ram

childhood photo album

acetone

thirty decoy safewords (zero real ones)

headlamp

updated wills for all participants (preferably notarized)

getaway vehicle

a pack of cigs and a few beers

PSAT score of at least 90th percentile or higher

spare tire

working knowledge of microsoft excel and powerpoint

small bills, for the tip

an up-to-date road atlas

a drive to succeed and innovate in a fast-paced, forward-thinking environment

noise-cancelling headphones (one pair per participant)

bolt cutters

at least C1 knowledge of standard chinese

gamefaqs guide

permission slip signed by a parent or guardian

spare penis

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I’m a legitimately incredibly powerful psychic and I get everything I want every time. Actually. The way I have willed some really specific shit into existence this year is astonishing

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My 5 year plan is for mulholland drive to happen to me

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CRASH (1996) dir. David Cronenberg

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in order to survive work you must have a coworker that you can just say whatever to

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A lot of supernatural is just this

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seven nights of carnal passion in my lean-to

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honest togod i thought the white stripes members were related

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Video sculpture by Nam June Paik, 1986: "Family of Robot: Grandmother (L), Grandfather (R)."

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“The things you criticize AI for is stuff most of your tech does” is not whataboutism for a simple reason: AI literally is built into the same industry as the rest of the tech you use, bc it’s the tech industry. Thus, trying to reject AI alone for what is essentially a product of a hyper capitalist tech industry is functionally useless.

For example, it’s very reasonable to be concerned about the new Twitter data center that’s poisoning Memphis right now, and single out the LLM, grok, as a source of it. However, generating an image using locally run stable diffusion does literally nothing to contribute to this. Conversely, using Twitter without using grok absolutely contributes to the polluting Memphis. If we try to simply boycott AI entirely and nothing else, we still contribute to that data center. However, if we single out Twitter/X as a company, then we can actually have an effective boycott.

If your problem is the environmental cost of all data centers, and you single out AI as the source, but still continue to stream video (ie Netflix, YouTube, TikTok etc), use social media, etc, you are still contributing to the stuff that’s at least 90% of current datacenter output. I know this is news to people but data centers didn’t just. Suddenly become a problem post-AI.

People pointing this out are not being contrarian for no reason. Current anti-AI thinking has done literally zero for actually combatting the issues we need to care about, because a lot of these problems go beyond AI. This is the tech equivalent of banning straws.

The point of this isn’t to go “oh and yet you participate in society…interesting”. The point of this is to show how you need to be thinking systemically about these issues beyond the superficial shit you hear in op-eds and tweets, which by the way, frequently misreport the actual data/info regarding the situation.

You want actually effective movements that combat the tech industry? Check out notechforapartheid and BDS’s tech boycott list.

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Anxious in my room listening to Rufus Wainwright. Yupp this is what it’s all for

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Trevor Grimshaw - Poles and Pools, 1973

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I even tried to get a job at the municipal animal shelter and in the interview I was like “I’m totally cool with killing the dogs” and they didn’t even hire me. The economy is in shambles

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Seriously though I need a new job bad. I can’t even remember what I did today I just clocked out mentally

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My work pissed me off so bad today I was applying to jobs at animal testing laboratories on Indeed and when I clocked out my mom texted me like “Hope the rest of your shift wasn’t too annoying” but like, it doesn’t even matter. It’s wincest wednesday and I’m getting to AHBL in my rewatch tonight who gives a shit about my lame ass loser idiot job

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I love early SPN dawg. Do NOT ask Dean to go more than fifteen minutes without laying eyes on Sam or he is going to biblically crash the fuck out for days at a time

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This blog is about two boys striking out across America while desire, like a monster, crawls up out of the lake