#This is why i hate the internet

[carriesthewind]

Ok. I am maybe kind of losing my mind just a little bit.

A few days ago, I mentioned in a post that the IA only cares about information being digitized, not about actual digital access. And I mentioned that access includes patrons being able to actually find what they are looking for, and suggested IA did not prioritize that critical aspect of access. But I didn't really go into any more detail.

So someone over on bluesky linked to this write-up of a talk Brewster Kahle gave about using so-called AI. And one of his reported statements made my mouth drop open in shock.

...and then I read further in the article and realized it was incorrectly reporting basic facts around Hachette, so I had to go and listen to the whole speech myself.* (And I want to say, briefly - he raises some legitimate potential uses for LLMs! He's kind of a dick about some of it ("it's up to us to go and keep [Balinese] culture alive"), but some of the things he's talking about actually seem useful.)

*Incidentally, while Kahle doesn't lie about the ALA brief in the speech, he absolutely misleads about the nature and facts of the case and deliberately omit the part of the story where the IA decided to suspend the one-to-one owned-to-loan ratio thing, despite repeatedly emphasizing that one-to-one was what the IA was doing with their lending program.

And oh my god. He really said what the article reports. (This portion starts around 20:10.)

He says that the IA has scanned over 18,000 periodicals. And that they used to have professional librarians manually create descriptions of the periodicals in order to catalog them. (Sidenote: there are existing directories, but he describes their licensing terms as "ridiculous." This is not a field I know much about, but I spoke to one person who agreed, though for different reasons. His reason is that you can only license, not purchase, the directory descriptions. The person I spoke to was instead focused on the prices demanded for the licenses. Regardless, the idea of creating an open, free directory seems both like an incredible amount of work and an amazing resource...if it was accurate.)

But according to Kahle, it took 45 minutes to an hour to create a description and catalog each periodical.

And so now, instead, they're using AI to make the descriptions and so it only takes 7-10 minutes!

"And yes it hallucinates, and it has some problems, and whatever — but it’s a lot faster than having to write it yourself!"

Oh. My god.

Just.

YOU ARE KNOWINGLY INTRODUCING AI HALLUCINATIONS INTO YOUR CATALOG?!

(And yes, he says that they are "confirmed by a librarian" but it can't really be, not if it's only taking 7-10 minutes! Maybe the librarian can do a quick check for super obvious errors, but actually checking a AI's summary work requires actually going back to the source and reviewing it yourself!)

I just....

I need to emphasize for those of you for who aren't familiar - if a book or article is miscataloged, it is effectively lost. Because it doesn't mater if a library or an archive owes it - if someone can't find it when they are looking for it, it is not only inaccessible, the only way to find it again is through chance. Imagine if you went into a library, but instead of organized shelves (where if even if you can't find what you're looking for, the librarians know where to look), every single book was just piled in a heap.

If a book is miscateloged, it still exists, but it is lost, not truly accessible. And they know that this is happening, "but whatever." Because Brewster Kahle doesn't actually care about real, practical, digital access. (Much less non-digital access.)

(And then to top it off, he goes on to criticize the Library of Congress for not being "access oriented.")

I just. 18,000 periodicals. And they've knowing, recklessly lost who knows how many of them. I feel like crying.

18,000 periodicals.

[insonniacaotica]

WHY IS THIS NOT A CANONICAL TAG? WHAT ARE YOU DOING, FANDOM? GIVE ME THIS TAG AND NO ONE WILL GET HURTED

(Yes, I know that the tags "Duke Thomas is a Batfamily Member" and "Good Siblings Duke Thomas" exist but IT IS NOT THE SAME THING)

[damian-lil-babybat]

"Eventually, I will no longer drown from the overflowing of an empty cup"

Pre-Morrison Talia would be the kind of love poets would write for.

Talia al Ghul, with all her history, faults, and flaws, have no means to have had so much love for the people she cherish. But she does...she does.

"We are immortals, Habibi. When others say they love forever, they lie. But we don't have the same luxury. For people like us, forever means eternity, beyond death and even after. It is a curse, my heart. Our curse. For such promise meant to taint such noble feelings— And yet, I will never apologize for loving you."

"Boy Wonder" (2024) #4 by Juni Ba.

[amygdalae]

I think when getting along with other people, its perfectly natural (and entirely inevitable) that you're going to bump elbows with others and treating confrontation/discomfort with a kneejerk "well we have to beef now and turn this small miscommunication/moment of friction into a Whole Thing" reaction, instead of doing your best to give your fellow people the benefit of the doubt, even if you got off on the wrong foot is really key. and in fact an essential skill for any grown adult. especially when operating within and without other communities or cultures

[intimidaid]

literally only JUST saw this and.... 💀💀💀

cw drama. bullshit. fallouts. immaturity. partially from me, i'll admit that, but not solely from me

first of all. i thought we were on decent terms??? saying this is wild when they had no base for saying i did what that. also they went right back to being friendly to me literally two days later??? pick a side and stay on it

second of all, if you're gonna accuse me something... maybe tag me????? this seems like common sense to me i fear

third of all. i do not care about this person enough to try to start drama between them and hrrtshape. i don't even follow this person. i know them from some drama from months ago, and we have maybe three(?) moots in common, and that's it. who do they think they are to me???

i was just going on their profile to see what the hell the hrrtshape "drama" was actually about, because i had never heard of it before speaking to this person myself and then i never questioned it, and i just learned that they've apparently been harassing hrrtshape even though she's blocked them on all her accounts??? and i wanted to see what actually did happen. so i searched "hrrtshape" on their profile and scrolled down and ???? saw this post???

criingee. criingee. idk who they think they are but they're definitely not the morally grey, lovable villain they're portraying themself as. this person has some serious issues if they're harassing one person and baselessly accusing another person at their big age. blockeddd.

[alcairsei]

i'm so tired. EVERY time i see a video of a middle eastern recipe, i go into the comments and see people saying stuff like "careful, or israelis will steal it and say it's theirs" "make sure it's clear where it's from so no one can claim they invented it".

guess what? most israelis DON'T claim that middle eastern dishes are solely israeli with no other roots. what a way to show everyone you don't know history. jews came to israel from all over the area and brought their dishes with them. that's why we make similar dishes. but these people just want to continue to assert jews as people without a homeland and a culture. well, fuck you.

[buggachat]

legitimate question ....... why do people like to tell me all the reasons they don't like miraculous ladybug? i know i complain about the fact a lot, and i find myself on the defensive a lot, and i keep telling myself i'll stop and let it go, but it really is hard when people are always coming onto my posts, in my replies, in my comments, on my art and my fics and my text posts and anything i make, and telling me blatantly all the ways that they don't like the thing that i so blatantly find enjoyment in. "the show is bad". okay? good for you? why are you on my post about it? why don't you make your own? why are you telling me, specifically, this, on the art/fic/analysis i made that i assume you found by searching through the tag?

it's kind of a behavior that i legitimately don't understand. I'm a human being and I hate a lot of things, too. there are things i've loved at first and been disappointed by and have strong opinions about. there are things i like to complain about. so i'll complain about them to my friends or my family or my cat. but i have never, once, not even for a single moment, thought, "oh let me go into the tags of this media, find a positive post about it written by someone who's having fun with it, and make it that random stranger's problem". never once.

i just don't get it. i really don't get it. i sometimes worry that i come across like i'm heavily critical of people who just personally don't like the show, when really i'm just trying to defend my interests to the droves of strangers who are always coming specifically to me to tell me all the ways they hate the thing that makes me happy.

just.......... why? where does the urge come from? what do you get out of this?

[maladaptivewriting]

people in this fandom are way too comfortable saying that don’t like an artist’s fanart

[ashleygravesfeet]

Coffin fans be like OH MY GOD STOP HARASSING AND MAKING FUN OF ME FOR LIKING INCEST GAME then turn around and bully selfshippers and people who headcanon the characters in a way they disagree with

[musicalmoritz]

Actual take I just saw on TikTok: People shouldn’t blame Alluka for Killugon splitting up, they should blame Bisky!! She said before she met them that she wanted to ruin their friendship and then she did!!

First of all, why do you have to blame a woman for a conflict between two men? Nobody forced Gon and Killua to part ways, they did that because they had reached two different places in their lives. Killua needed to take care of Alluka, and Gon needed to go home to Mito. I don’t doubt part of it was also due to the turmoil between them after the CAA, it’s natural they would need some time apart after something major like that. But Bisky did not single-handedly cause that either. I literally don’t know what to tell you guys. Killua lived with a fucking needle in his head for years, his family tortured him every day of his early childhood to the point that he can tolerate lightning. Bisky being mean to him is not the singular reason he’s codependent. A lot of his actions throughout that arc can be attributed to him living without the needle for the first time, so if you’re going to blame anyone else for his behavior (he’s still his own person btw) why not blame, I don’t know, Illumi???

And onto their main source of evidence “she said she wanted to ruin their friendship and she did.” Bitch. She said that before she knew them. It’s true that she only started following them because she wanted to mess with them but she very notably grew attached to them. She is not as superficial as she makes herself seem, she cares about those boys. Ya’ll will go on and on about Leorio and Kurapika being Gon and Killua’s “parents,” and even talk about how Hisoka and Illumi care for them deep down (and they do, in their own ways), and then proceed to ignore every woman who played an important role in their development. Bisky herself said that if she stayed with Gon and Killua too long, she’d get “too attached to them, like a parent.” Those don’t sound like the words of someone who wants to ruin their friendship

It’s just interesting to me that people are able to see the good points of outright abusive male characters like Illumi, but when an overall very caring and helpful female character like Bisky happens to have some flaws and imperfections, they decide to blame her for everything that goes wrong in the series. And again, I don’t mean this as hate towards Illumi, I do sympathize with him in many ways, but many fans appear to be incapable of sympathizing with any female characters and it’s annoying. Why do we have to blame Alluka, who literally cannot survive on her own due to years of severe isolation, for Killua and Gon parting ways?? Even if she was the only reason, why would that be her fault?? Why do we have to blame Bisky, who did more for those boys than any of your faves and damn near viewed them as her sons?? Again, why do we have to find a woman to blame for a decision made by two men???

And look, you are not a misogynist for simply disliking a female character. What’s misogynistic is disliking a female character and then doing mental gymnastics to blame her for breaking up your male faves. That’s a little misogynistic. And even if it’s not, it’s still a dumb thing to say. No, Bisky did not mastermind Gon and Killua’s fallout. She cares about them very deeply and if you can’t see that then I’m going to assume you’ve been biased against her from the start, and that’s why you’re making this shallow analysis

Anyways, get behind me Bisky

[uzi-x33]

im sorry but I beg your finest fucking pardon??? did we watch the same anime? did we read the same manga?? I don’t fucking think so bc what the fuck. And don’t get me started on the caption “we love our p3d0 king” he’s not a p3d0????💀💀 like plain and simple he’s not. he’s more likely to kill a p3dophile prove me wrong.

[admiringlove]

why dont u post abt palestine or israel or gaza? do u also support bombings and terrorism? ur indian so might as well 🙄

because i, like a sane person, actually donated to palestine instead of being a keyboard activist on my fanfiction blog on tumblr, of all places. and genuinely, i don't appreciate the comment on my nationality or ethnicity. please keep your racism, that you so clearly feel entitled to, to yourself.

[silverstone2024]

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[natjennie]

I'm actually so autistically attached to drawfee, getting rid of the intro might make me have a breakdown right now. does horse divorce mean nothing to you.

[v88sy]

Babe, I ain't even done anything. I'm just sitting here watching some YouTube because my hockey team was sucking it in the playoffs, drinking my cold brew, and thinking about how happy Buck looked when Tommy said he was there for him.

No one is making you watch a damn thing you ain't wanna, not sure why you're wasting your time commenting on it like I even care.

Smooches.

[thereasons28]

I have been TRYING to be balanced here. I don't think Z is like...the antichrist that some fans are making her out to be. For instance, I hesitate to flat out call her a a racist for saying the N word in a song (it was stupid and out of line and tone deaf for SURE...but putting the label of "racist" on someone is a serious thing to do, you know?) Is she selfish? Careless? Vapid? Not very bright? Yeah tbh. But the sum total of things I am seeing are really starting to get to me. The stuff about her ED documentary was TROUBLING. And now I'm seeing this???

Anyone who went on frivolous vacations in the early days of COVID is on my shit list tbh.

When my aunt died from cancer in February of 2021, my family and her friends had to attend her funeral IN SHIFTS because there couldn't be more than 10 people in the funeral home at once. But yeah, her and Sam got to spend New Years Eve 2020 in the Maldives. Good for them.