#GARBAGE PROBLEM

[darthmatthewtwihard]

This is so true.

[captainpirateface]

[isawthismeme]

REBLOG THIS!!

[adharagranley-writer]

there are two moods reading something you wrote months ago:

this is garbage

i am a GODDESS

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Dumb gender thought of the day: "Sure, you could say I'm a woman - in the same way you could say that a dolphin is a fish."

If your first thought was: "okay, so you're definitely not a woman, got it." Congrats! You're correct!

If your first thought was: "well, actually, that depends, as the cultural definition of 'fish' has varied throughout time and context, such as in kashrut, which classifies all fully aquatic animals as 'fish,' with only the ones having fins and scales being kosher, and that's not even getting into cladistics, wherein 'fish' is not a category that you can meaningfully define without including all mammals, and...." Mazel tov! You're also correct (and also a nerd)

[thedepressedjuggalette]

An amazing, Pennsylvania dad Darren Lausten delivers an epic takedown on book banners. He slams Moms for Liberty for claiming classic, award-winning books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, "Push" by Sapphire and more had porn in them, and they needed to be banned. He doesn't want far right groups trampling on children's First amendment rights, and he demands action from politicians to stop far right extremists from having their way.

[kiawritesstuff]

Sick! I feel sick. Please, all the women out there, I am begging you to stop sleeping with XY Chromosomes. Males don't see us as humans; they are not making love to you; they just want to dominate you, force you, and brag about it to their male friends because they see us as a sex toy that needs to be broken and bragged about. Females, separate yourselves from these demons. How many examples are needed to see that males are not capable of love? They say we are submissive, but they have to continue demeaning us.If submission was our nature, they wouldn't need to always force it upon us. In reality, all males crave validation from other males; they don't love us or even like us because they are in love with their fellow males. That's why they protect the abusers, the rapists, and monsters like the man mentioned above. They like to hype those men because they crave to be like them. Like demons!

[i-amusemyself]

me: peer review is an essential part of the scientific process and helps maintain trust in and integrity of the research we publish

also me, the second anyone suggests an edit to my work:

[bananonbinary]

i keep seeing people compare AI to the machine-generated books in 1984, and i don't think it's entirely fair for 2 main reasons:

in 1984, media is controlled by the state. the books are not just written by machines, they are specifically engineered with an agenda to control the masses. current AI books may be slop, but they are not malevolent slop. at least, not any moreso than any other corporate garbage. we should be paying attention to what propaganda may be in these books, but then, that's true of normal books too.

in 1984, EVERY book is written this way, which is what makes it an effective form of control. i truly don't think we're in danger of that here. AI books ARE slop, and are never going to replace real writers as long as we have freedom of expression. they are getting churned out now because they are a novelty, and cheap to produce; they aren't really seriously competing with actual intentional books. or preventing writers from making new art, because writers LIKE making new art.

the problems in 1984 were never the specific tools, it's the system of oppression and how it uses those tools. AI books may superficially be similar to what's described here, but they just aren't part of a wider system that can have that sort of impact. they're just kinda. there. being bad books. we can survive bad books.

[robbyykeene]

So let me get this straight. Johnny can verbally berate and bully his students, throw them in a cement mixer, hogtie them to a punching bag to punish them for successfully landing a hit on him, set a pack of rabid dogs on them, and hurl glass beer bottles at them all in the name of “training,” and we’re supposed to laugh and clap and cheer. But then I’m supposed to think the hot new sensei from China is the epitome of evil because he cuffed one of his students with a foam pad?

[captainpirateface]

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

There is no way to defend this at all, the stnadards set only allow for bibles specifically created by trump given that the bibles need to 'be bound in leather or leather like materials and contain founding government documents' which 99.9% of bibles do not have. Besides the issue of forcing bibles into schools this is a naked attempt to help Trump make money by making the state government buy his bibles in bulk which would really help him given he's facing lawsuits and a expensive presidential campaign. Trump has been and will always be a businessman first and foremost, that's we need to vote blue as he simply views being president as a means to hold onto and expand his power. Vote blue 💙💙💙 and save our American democracy from corporate and religious influences!!

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4916077-oklahoma-trump-bibles-schools-ryan-walters/

[darthmatthewtwihard]

“The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and speak out loudly about it.” —Madeleine L’Engle

[governmentmandatedryujinstan420]

I FORGOT TO THROW OUT AFTER THE EPISODE RELEASED NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[desterea]

more mystic malfunction posting! my second favorite scene from the latest chapter, I want @vanillavengeance to know it was very much appreciated

[sadkachow]

You cannot claim to be anti-AI while still actively seeking out and using AI.

Once again.

You cannot claim to be anti-AI while still using generative AI, no matter the reason.

(Bold/italicized text: You cannot claim to be anti-AI while still using generative AI, no matter the reason.)

Even if you’re just using it to make fun of it or show how bad it is.

Even if it’s only for your personal use, and you don’t plan on sharing it with anyone.

Even if you’re “just” roleplaying on Character AI.

If you are willing to justify your usage of a system created and profiting off of stealing from artists and writers, a symstem that is destroying the Earth, then you were never as “against that system” as you think you were. Being anti-AI isn’t something that exists only in name. You can’t claim to be against AI if you are willing and able to use it as soon as it benefits you. You can’t say you’re for writers’ and artists’ rights if you’re using the very thing that is causing them harm. You can’t claim to care about climate change and saving the Earth if you are participating in the system that is destroying it.

There is no middle ground here.

There is no “Oh, but I-“.

If you have the knowledge of what generative AI is doing, of how it is hurting people, and you choose to use it anyway, you aren’t  against it. You aren’t fighting against that system, you’re upholding it.

You can say how much you hate AI and how horrible you think it is, if you choose to use it anyway, then your actions and your words are not lining up, and the former reveals so much more than the latter.

Stop pretending like AI is something you can condemn only in name, while using it to your heart’s content in your free time. All it does it tells writers and artists that you don’t really care about us, and that any actions you claim to be taking to protect us are performative at best and lies or even outright malicious at worst.

You are—and I mean this in the kindest way possible, even with the fury that generative AI invokes in me—a complete and utter hypocrite. AI is not your friend. It is a tool, and it is a tool that steals from writers and artists in order to function. It is a tool that is using levels of energy and emitting amounts of polution in order to be maintained that are actively damaging the Earth. No matter how much you try to justify using it to yourself, that doesn’t change.

Stop hiding under the guise of being anti-AI while continuing to use it yourself.