#ai spotter

[mariopokemonuniverse]

It’s now impossible to search for little-known Pokémon references on Google without AI bullshit results.

In particular, I’m searching for references that @4lex-4nder and I can use for our comics.

So I wrote this to help anyone who hasn’t kept up completely with Pokémon to spot AI-generated articles. In many cases, the details are things that only the most loyal fans would know.

1. Pawniard only had 1 substantial anime appearance and 3 brief cameos after that so far.

2. Clay is a GROUND TYPE Gym Leader who never used Pawniard. Its types are Dark and Steel, and the only Ground type attack move it can learn is Dig.

3. The character Damon never used Pawniard either.

4. A first stage Steel type Pokémon like Pawniard has no chance against a Fire type legendary one like Reshiram.

5. Pawniard has definitely not caught on in popularity, with few anime and manga appearances, and little merchandise.

6. Pawniard are highly social and generally found together, sometimes even by the hundreds. This has long been emphasized in the games, in addition to them being commanded by their evolutions Bisharp and Kingambit (hence “pawn” in the name).

[rpfisfine]

goddamnit that beautiful sky photo with the abnormal clouds deleted because of ai

[the-eeveekins]

Suletta is an Amazing Pilot

I still see this idea floating around that Suletta is NOT a good pilot. That this is even a somewhat accepted opinion is WILD to me, because the show makes it clear she is a fantastic pilot. I shouldn't even have to write this article, because one can simply see it by watching the series with their eyes open. To claim Suletta is not a good pilot is to jump through way more mental gymnastics to make that claim than to simply accept what G-Witch is literally showing you.

1) Cradle Planet

At age 6, Suletta has already been training to fly mobile suits. By age 11, she's the best pilot on Mercury. Eri states that Suletta handles her beam sabers with surgical precision and calmly pilots her mobile suit through dangerous terrain that would terrify any normal person. Prospera raised Suletta with the purpose of her piloting the Aerial in mind. She raised her to be the best.

2) Episode 3

So, I'll give reigning Holder Guel the benefit of the doubt and say he only lost the first duel because he dicked around and then got caught with his pants completely down. Surely he'll do better in round 2. Except, even though Guel knows what's coming AND he's in a better suit, Suletta would have ended this duel in about 20 seconds were it not for the Darilbalde's AI saving Guel from a head shot. That this 2nd duel lasts as long as it does is only due to Vim's interference, and even with that Guel couldn't win. Suletta doesn't even use the Gundbits for the final strike of the match, the decisive blow she scored against Guel was all her own piloting.

3) Episode 4

This is the episode most people continue to cite as evidence that Suletta is a bad pilot. But the facts are clear: Suletta was doing just fine in that test and would have passed with flying colors of not for bullies blinding her mobile suit. At that point she was piloting an unfamiliar MS, not allowed to use backup cameras, and needing to navigate using only someone else's word. Anyone would struggle. Imagine trying to drive a car through an obstacle course at full speed while blind with only an outside spotter. And that completely ignores that she was having an emotional breakdown the entire time because she was being bullied. And even then, with each successive attempt, she was improving! Would a "better" pilot have adjusted faster? Sure, maybe, but this wasn't the heat of battle; this was a high school test, and Suletta is using an unfamiliar machine. And Suletta's emotional state was compromised, leading to her struggles. Because that was what this scene was about: Suletta's emotional state, not her piloting skills.

4) Episode 6

Suletta holds up incredibly well considering she's using a cobbled-together-in-a-week thruster pack and still at a heavy disadvantage against the Pharact. Not to mention this time her pilot also has a Gundam with the benefit of the Gund Format. And while Eri's data storm resonance may have opened up the final blow for her, it was Suletta’s piloting that pushed Elan to go to Permet Score 4 despite his advantage. And even at Score 4, Suletta was pushing Elan into a corner.

5) Episode 9

This pretty much speaks for itself. Suletta holds off multiple mobile suits at once, eventually finding herself alone against 6 of the best pilots at Asticassia and none of them can take her down. She survives even through her self doubt, even through the GUND format being disabled and having to pilot normally. And then she activates Score 6 and it's all Suletta. Suletta was the one completely outmaneuvering the entire Grassley team, piloting the Aerial AND manually controlling the Gundbits the entire time. While also processing all the information the Gundbits were feeding her about the battlefield. Suletta survived that 1v6 and may have even won it if she was forced to. We'll never know because ultimately Shaddiq fell into Miorine's trap.

6) Episode 12

Gundam vs Two Gundams! Suletta has a new ride and it's arguably the strongest MS in Ad Stella. Still the best mobile suit means little without a good pilot. And Suletta takes on two Gundam pilots actively trying to kill her. Two Gundam pilots that just wiped the floor with Plant Quetta's professional security forces and also have the Gund Format. And yet Suletta fights them both off.

7) Episode 13

Okay, this isn't really fair. Suletta and the Rebuild are far and away superior to anything the lesser Benerit companies can throw at them. But it's still impressive she went through a gauntlet of what presumably the best of the rest could throw at her w/o breaking a sweat.

8) Episode 14

Sophie is ultimately killed by the Gund Format before there could be a conclusive resolution to their fight, but again, Suletta did not struggle against a trained child soldier using a Gundam trying to kill her.

9) Episode 17

Suletta does not lose this duel unless Miorine and Ericht betray her. In fact, it's not even a contest if Guel doesn't use the Darilbalde's AI. He even admits he's not a match for her without it. And to top it all off, the Aerial starts this duel still damaged from it’s battle against Sophie. Guel has some success this duel, and thanks to the AI piloting is able to put Suletta on the defensive, but despite having multiple shots at taking her antenna, he still couldn't close the deal, and once Suletta got serious, it was over. It took one of the best pilots in Asticassia piloting a top of the line new model MS using a top of the line learning and piloting AI just to get a solid shot at defeating Suletta 1-on-1 and he still couldn't beat her.

10) Episode 18

A short scene of Suletta easily passing one of her Demi Trainer tests. All while she's suffering from severe depression due to the divorce.

Calibarn

Her piloting the Calibarn as a whole is a testament to Suletta’s superb piloting skills. Suletta takes on Quiet Zero and Aerial all by herself, and she comes out of the battle with only some superficial damage. Before this battle, Ericht took on an entire SAL fleet of professional soldiers and was wiping the floor with them using her Gundnodes, before even engaging the override. The story establishes that Ericht + Quiet Zero > A fleet of trained soldiers. And Suletta takes her on all by herself and comes out on top. You can't even use the excuse that she benefited from an advantage with the Gund format and piloting a Gundam because so is Eri. And Ericht is perfectly synchronized with the data storm.

And yes, they weren't trying to kill each other, but that is actually more difficult in the heat of battle. In fact, you can see Suletta making the fight more difficult for herself by punching and kicking away the Aerial’s Gundbits instead of simply destroying them because she doesn't want to kill the coven. It's a testament to Suletta incredible skills that she's able to dodge all the incoming fire without accidentally dodging into it, all while dueling her sister without killing her.

And of course, she's doing this all while the Calibarn is trying to kill her. Even with her permet resistance, she is still under constant strain while piloting the Calibarn, you can hear it in her voice the entire time.

The only other argument I see made against Suletta’s skill as a pilot that isn't a double standard rooted in sexism is that the Gund Format elevates her from a terrible pilot to a good one. Which is pretty ridiculous because we don't see that with any other Gundam pilot in the show. Yes, they have a tech advantage being in a Gundam, but the format is not enough to turn a terrible pilot into a one-woman army. Otherwise Suletta would have been easily overwhelmed by Sophie and Norea at Plant Quetta. Would Lauda struggle against an AI-less Guel in a Dilanza, needing Guel to let Lauda score the finishing blow to win, if the Gund Format made every pilot as good as Suletta?

If your only other arguments are that Suletta isn't a good pilot because she pilots a Gundam, she's some form of enhanced human and/or she doesn't directly control the bits for most of the series, those can all be dismissed. Every Gundam MC pilots a Gundam, usually carrying with them a significant tech advantage over their opponents, does that make every Gundam pilot less skilled by virtue of piloting a Gundam? Nearly every well regarded pilot in the series is some sort of enhanced human depending on the setting. Newtypes, Coordinators, Innovators, X-Rounders, etc. Nearly every main series MC has some sort of supernatural and/or super human ability. Are you going to argue that Amuro, Char, Kamille, Judau, etc are all bad pilots being carried by Newtype powers alone? And regarding the bits, not every Gundam series has telepathically or directly controlled bits. Many are controlled by advanced onboard quantum computing systems. Suletta’s situation with Aerial is no different than many famous pilots over the years. No one argues that Lockon is a bad pilot because he's assisted by a Haro.

Every single one of the above arguments is rooted in misogynistic double standards. The things that people argue that prove Suletta must not be a good pilot are things virtually every male Gundam MC has, but are basically never used as an argument against their skills: it's just part of their skill set.

Ultimately you have to jump through more mental gymnastics to argue that Suletta is a bad pilot than simply watching the show and seeing what it's showing you: that Suletta is a tremendously skilled pilot with no peer except Ericht herself and maybe Shaddiq. Someone in Discord mentioned that Suletta as a pilot is very much the equivalent to an endgame Amuro or Kira. She was already raised to be an elite pilot before setting foot in Asticassia, and her only defeat in the entire show was not to another pilot with better skills or a better mobile suit. It was to Miorine, who attacked her heart and betrayed her at a critical moment. The show was not about her growth as a pilot because unlike a lot of young Gundam protagonists, she's already starting with elite piloting skills because she's been training in harsh environments since she was a child. Her only struggles piloting in the show are entirely due to people attacking her emotionally, something she was not equipped to handle due to her upbringing on Mercury. And that is where Suletta’s character growth lies.

I don't like comparing pilots across the different Gundam universes because there are way too many different variables to take into account. But I think the only reason the fandom in general doesn't consider Suletta among the elite pilots of the franchise is because she's a woman. Instead, I see her compared against other female pilots that fans will say are "average-to-bad" and then make the claim Suletta is worse because of some of the above arguments that they don't make for male pilots.

[3liza]

i do actually think adding a Tumblr content label for AI generated images would be useful for everyone, wouldn't fuck up anyone's day that actually wanted to post or look at ai pics, and I doubt the corpos that are paying tumblr for ai dataset feeding would care either. maybe it's just the verification process putting more stress on the already-failing content checking infrastructure that's the holdup. it's not like labeling something "mature" or "drugs" or something you can just look at and see whether it is or not, unless they made it a fully community-based vote they would be showing increasingly-realistic AI slop to moderators and asking them to determine whether they were AI or not to trigger the label and I don't think it's possible. we're already at a point where the average gen alpha doesn't know the difference between "Photoshop" and "AI" and uses the terms interchangeably. edit: and, I forgot to add but meant to, we are already at a point where grizzled old fake picture-spotters like myself cannot always 100% accurately determine if something is AI. the realism gap is going to close almost completely within a year for anyone using generative software that has current updates and a prompter that is careful about picking which output to post. the realism gap is already closed for careful prompters, anyone who gets lucky and doesn't get weird hands or text, and any image which is of subject matter niche enough to fly under most people's radars.

the label could be phrased to accommodate this, as in, "XXXX out of XXXX users (let's say enough reports trigger a voting mechanism, idk) believe this media is AI-generated, photoshopped, or otherwise tampered with" but who knows how helpful it would actually be.

they did some research a while back on the effect of knowing photos of women had been retouched in Photoshop on the audience's self-image. they found that contrary to expectations, Photoshop labels made the test subjects feel worse about their own self image than they did when shown Photoshopped images of models that did not have a disclaimer on them. I've been mulling that one over for a while now. and since this is the dipshit idiot moron website no this last anecdote is not me saying "labeling fake media is useless", I still think fake media should be labeled. it just raises questions about the assumed benefits of the labeling. "knowing a picture is fake" is not a benefit that needs to be tested in the case of, for example, fake historical photographs.

[gamerbot-22]

Touchstarved LIs as Study Buddies

Because when I was studying for my macroeconomics final the only way I survived was imagining a rotating cast of blorbos helping me out (I got a 70% btw)

Recommended Listening: Zelda & Chill Trilogy

TW/CWs: Potential Accidental Canon Deviancy, not proofread.

Can be read as romantic or platonic, whatever floats your boat! Likes and reblogs appreciated!

Special thanks to @asexual-abomination for helping with Lea and Mhin <3

🕊️ Kuras

You two will study and do nothing else.

Okay, not exactly, but it’s 90% study with a couple mental breaks tossed in to keep your mind sharp.

And you can bet your ass he’s making sure you’re drinking water and getting some good brain food in you (good luck with his cooking lol)

He’s not big on the idea of pulling all-nighters, but if it’s a necessity (say, you’re cramming,) he’ll turn into something of a spotter, making sure that you stay sane and make the most of the time you have before you eventually conk out.

Has anyone here seen Elementary? There’s a scene early in the series where Watson helps Sherlock stay awake by showing him how to do squats to get his blood pumping. Kuras does the same.

Also he’s making flashcards! Unironically I think this is a highlight for him.

His Best Subject is obviously any kind of Biological Science, but I think he’s also really good for History.

🪄 Leander

He’s good at studying on his own, but the second he’s in a Buddy System he just starts doing. The Most.

I’m talking like an hour and a half at least of set up where he’s getting drinks and snacks and a nest of pillows and blankets set up so your backs don’t get sore hunched over a table.

Lowkey I think he’s trying to be The Study Buddy Ever for you, but he doesn’t quite clock that all the prep work is eating into your study time and while that can be okay if the test isn’t pressing, if you’re cramming it’s a problem.

Once he’s settled though, he’s actually really helpful.

Very “there’s no stupid questions!” about it all, and will work with you to make sure you’ve got it all down.

Every magician worth his salt knows how to study, damnit, he’s just a social himbo.

His best subjects I think are Psychology and Social Studies. He’s a People Person.

🦊 Vere

He’s either not helping even a little bit by not showing up or not helping even a little bit by being a distraction.

He is bored off his ass almost the entire time, and he will make it your problem by just going on the most random of tangents after he’s done complaining.

And failing that, he’ll just go take a big nap somewhere.

He just curls right up and goes to snoozeville for like an hour before waking up and going “you’re STILL at it???”

If you want him to engage with you—or even just stick around, really—you’re going to have to bribe him in some way or another.

Of course he asks for the most out of pocket shit but tbh I think if you’ve got good snacks and something cozy he’ll just take it as a break.

Generally though he’s very much just doing his own thing while you study, it’s barely beneficial to either of you.

Except sometimes you talk at him while he draws you mayhaps…

It’s canon that he’s really artistically talented so I think his Best Subjects are Art and Literature. Those are the two things you have any hope of getting help from him on.

⛩️ Ais

Ais also takes some convincing to come around and help, tbh—

He doesn’t strike me as a guy that really studies, not just because of his personality but because he’s literally part of a Hivemind I’m pretty certain he can just ping for information if he really needs it.

But once he’s gotten settled he’s actually a surprisingly good rubber duck, letting you talk at him about theory and formula while he pokes around your space.

Like Vere, I think he naps if he’s not directly involved but he a) usually gives a head’s up but b) ends up snoring really loud which makes studying a nightmare.

Sometimes he’ll actually pay attention—maybe even leaning over the back of your chair to read over your shoulder sometimes—and you find out he’s really good at actually taking a look at a concept and Getting It really fast.

Just… don’t ask him to explain it to you.

That’s a different skill set that I don’t think he quite has off the bat.

Surprisingly maybe I think his Best Subject is Math/Arithmetic. There’s just something about how cut and dry the formulas are that make it click for him really well. Also lowkey good at Biology, specifically the behavioral side of Animal Biology.

🪡 Mhin

Good Fucking Luck

Genuinely, I don’t think Mhin has either the patience or the social bandwidth to be a decent study partner.

The best you’re getting out of them is someone who’s leading by example.

Mhin will get their own book, sit next to you, and read. And if you make any kind of noise or significant disturbance, they’ll grumble or nudge your chair to tell you to be quiet.

You can ask them to help with review questions if you want, but I think unless it’s something they already know, don’t expect any type of feedback outside of eye contact.

If it’s a regular thing and you get the chance to get used to each other, they might occasionally mention stuff in their own reading that they find interesting/you might find interesting, but generally it’s few and far between.

Just because they’re not really helping doesn’t mean they want to be a distraction, unlike some…

Like Kuras, I think Mhin is really good at Science, specifically Anatomy, but they also have a bit of a soft spot for Poetry and Strategy.

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

real reason i can't get into mecha stuff it's too high tech, computers and touch screens and holographs. where are the mecha piloted with janky ass levers and dials and knobs?

i want a crew of 3 to 5 ppl stuffed in that tin can with one of them frantically flipping through an emergency checklist and another one banging on some random pipe with a giant wrench. the pilot and the spotter have a bond deeper than words and hate each other. onboard engineer never sees anything and misses all the action bc they have their head in a service hatch trying to unstick the left elbow or stop steam from venting directly into the view port. mecha captain reminds everyone to COMMUNICATE DAMMNIT as one wrong word or missed callout sends the giant war machine tumbling tin ass over tea kettle. where are the mechas that rattle and clank and have no AI but their crews know their fav songs and colors and sports teams?

where are the clunky giant steam punk mechs powered by friendship, held together with duct tape and prayers???

[yogurtbluesideas]

The Mendina was made in the periphery of inhabited space, due to the near constant harassment of interior forces such as the lords of the dawnstar, the corporations, and the many other interior forces that wish for nothing but the resources the settlers of the periphery gained without the hardship of doing it themselves.

Such forces had access to neural technology, artificial intelligence, genetic enhancement, and entire planets dedicated to manufacturing their weapons to enforce their will, but what do the outer planets have that they don’t?

A raging fire at the injustice of history repeating itself and a population willing to do ANYTHING to stop this dishonor on their new homeland.

so the people got to work, they lack combat ai? fine they’ll make their own, they durandal system was a simple concept made in a small university in the farming world of tunsas, origin used to thresh crops and occasionally shoot the mega fauna, now it’s use has been made to hunt the extremely fast mechs of the inner sphere, the ai can’t keep up, not on its own, so the scientists work and toil, because what is happiness when your lands are threatened by an external power, month they slave away until they realize something.

Why both making a system to strike down an enemy entirely on its own, it was right there and they missed it, but so did the others, in their quest to further torment their soldiers and thinning the lines between man and machine they missed the obvious.

That mechs can hold more than one person

It was so SIMPLE, why bother with a fully autonomous weapon when a second person can simply aim the weapon to the point that the ai can handle the rest of the calculations. The cost of building such a thing too would go down in an instant, and why stop at two, they have cheap drones on hand for burning fields and doing festival light shows, why not have a third person controlling those too.

Finally, we get to the Mendina proper, a three seater mech with a pilot, a gunner, and a drone and missile operator. physically it’s larger than most machines at 23 meters in height, usually colored in the local regions historic colors.

with two arms and legs for the main pilot armed with a kopesh and laser dagger to deal close damage if it comes to it, they are trained to mostly evade direct combat unless it’s necessary.

the gunners armament are shoulder mounted auto cannons and the unguided missile that are launched from a device mounted similarly to a sword sheath, they sit behind the main pilot and have their own camera system to better aim their guns without needing much visual from the pilot’s perspective.

the drone technician is usually below the other two pilot and acts as a spotter and flanker, usually having four drones armed with incendiary rounds, they mostly try to attack the enemy from behind and focus on their weak points.

now the mendina can be found everywhere in the periphery, usually being able to kill even the most augmented of pilots given the conditions.

Mendina crew 76 were asked about the interiors need for augmentation and the torment of their pilots and had this to say “Those fools sacrifice their bodies, minds and souls because they have more money than heart, why drive someone to madness with the most expensive and pricey cybernetics and machines to achieve what teamwork and dedication can replicate with pennies on the dollar? You’ve seen those other pilots, they need “handlers” to help them with everything so they can pilot a multimillion dollar death machine alone, and for what? money? a home? They’re damn fools if you ask me, I could say more but I’ll not take any more of your time.”

[yournewfriendshouse]

I feel like it’s probably time to explain my real art tag again, seeing as AI stuff is in conversations and stuff, and as some people use others’ tags and stuff I just want to be clear what that tag on my blog means…

it’s art, guys. it just means art.

so like I’ve been using that tag and that phrase for years and it has nothing to do with AI

the thing is even before AI there has always been a very very irritating conversation being carried out, often among people who aren’t artists, about what constitutes real art. and I just find it really aggravating. we saw it recently with those tiktockers standing in front of yves klein and mark rothko paintings saying they could do it. I used to get these dudes trying to be cool and pointing at shit and being like *I’m being smart face* ‘but is it art?’

and every time I’d be like…yes. yes, it’s art.

the spray painted little guy putting rubbish in the bin on the bin is art. the coka cola ad is art. the hgly cactus sculpture is art. the spaghetti lights on the freeway ramp are art, yes, it’s art!

if you have to ask that question or can conceivably ask that question then it’s probably art. it���s possible that even if it wasn’t art then you asking that question MADE it art! if you looked at something someone made and derived meaning from it then it is, arguably, art.

in 2011 I finished art school, where I was given so much shit for the emotive, sentimental kitsch, small art I was making, and was just so sick of that shit, man. The painting and sculpture staff got the ceramics studio shut down arguing that ceramics was craft not art which was SO much bullshit and just absolutely aggravating, and I was and am still genuinely so pissed about it.

so I would go around calling things ‘real art’. the shitter and less art-object-seeming it was the more likely I would call it ‘real art’. the first show I did outside of school (where I worked in black and white for like two years) involved hand cut confetti and glitter paper, lmao. it was process art it was performance art, i cried when one morning I came in and one of the studio residents had a private confetti party and made snow angels overnight in the pile of confetti that coated the floor. that was real art.

I was just so frustrated. Art doesn’t have some magical sacred meaning, or divine limit on what can be art. art is just stuff humans make for all kinds of reasons. and that is what makes it magical and sacred and amazing. That’s why I love it

elephants can make art! kids can make art! humans who don’t really know what art is have made some of the most wonderful art in the whole history of humanity.

I would hear my nurse friends say they aren’t creative and I’d sit them down with a piece of paper and ink and make them draw dots about it. nurses are problem solving constantly lmao. draw some dots, you’ll feel better.

so like don’t think that I’m like checking art for AI and then marking them as real art if they aren’t AI. firstly I have severe brainfog so I can’t always pick it, which is awful but I’m defs not going to put my hand up as some AI spotter. I’d suck at it.

secondly, I consider AI art to be art (by the way I personally define art). I just find the current means of making it to be repugnantly unethical and shitty (and pretty much all of it is ugly also, but that isn’t like…some barrier to it being art. it’s art. it’s just shithouse, lmao.)

so yeah. art is art is art is real art. make some art, look at some art, enjoy art or rag on art if you think it isn’t succeeding as the artist intended; just don’t take my tag to be some kind of sticker of authenticity or somethink. I’m just on here to destract myself from constant pain by looking at cute animals and cool shit, telling blue jokes, and enjoying tits and butts

[somemobianpunk]

Hmph! Another amateur Sonic Spotting blog. Can't say I'm impressed. You Sonic Spotters think you're so smart, don't you? Well, you're all wrong about something very, very important, which I, in my genius, have managed to deduce from careful years of study:

The hedgehog known as "Sonic" does not actually exist. This "Sonic" is actually a robot built by none other than Dr. Ivo Robotnik! The delusional doctor has invented himself a robot to antagonize his plots to make himself seem like the victim here. All broadcasted appearances of "Sonic the Hedgehog" are merely AI-generated footage paired with an incompetent voice actor.

I have managed to procure a very special image of Eggman's robot traveling at slower speeds. See my evidence and be amazed!

Note the red eyes, not normally visible when it travels at high speeds but are clear in this exclusive photo. It is clearly not an organic Mobian.

Pray, do tell your thoughts about my theory?

Wow, you think you’re pretty smart, don’t you? I’m not sure what universe you live in if you think anyone views Robotnik as the victim. Pretty sure nobody but cops and techbros buy that, so I wonder where you got that idea, hm?

Congratulations on your conspiracy theory. I’m sure the hundreds of casualties of the Chaos Incident, and the hundreds more saved, would be thrilled to hear you reducing the event that changed their life to the result of a villainous scam- not to mention the dozens of other incidents where Sonic saved lives.

Ever heard of Occam’s Razor? The simplest solution is usually the correct one. Let’s see- a villain fighting against himself, AI-generated footage, robot imposters- sorry, just doesn’t seem like a simple solution to me!

Oh, and that evidence of yours? Clearly a photo of Metal Sonic, a documented enemy of Sonic. Who, if your conspiracy theory is to be believed, is fighting nothing in this photo:

-Izzy

[breachverse]

Uh Max idk if you knew already but the most recent fanart you reblogged is AI-made. Check out the eyes and the splotches on the clothes. Also, that hearty spiral necklace is pretty much a trademark AI spotter. (no need to respond btw just letting you know)

Ah... I did not know that, thank you for letting me know. Now that you pointed it out, I do see it now... damn...

[riversidewings]

Roughly how extensive are cybernetics in the Confluence setting? Do we have folks going full-body synthetic conversion or are the mods generally more restrained?

So this is a good question, and the short answer is, there's both!

Just going from the major cast members in Book 1, we had:

Kasu with modest cybernetics meant to connect her to River, to share sensory impressions and better enable the two of them to work, move, and fight as a harmonious whole. I describe it as feeling like standing in the tide of each other's emotions and taking work to navigate as a couple. Kasu opted for this when she and River negotiated their service dynamic and the details of River's cyberization-- Kasu sees it as a way of keeping herself humble and as "one body" with her wife.

River pursued cyberization and became a combat doll, but retained a significant portion of her human body. Among her synthetic components are ocular augments, her side of the shooter-spotter wireless interlink that connects her to Kasu, an interface port that allows her to "wear" a vehicle wired for doll use, a reinforced spine, a heads-up projection she can manipulate with her fingertips, and cybernetic limbs. She's heavier than an unaugmented human as a result, and has to be careful of how she positions herself when laying down beside Kasu to sleep.

Yui was originally a human but had a full-body synthetic conversion. Her chassis was made by the now defunct Nogami Corporation, and the crisis that ensued was the plot thread that drove Book 1.

Iwa, an doll we meet much later in the story, is an AI in an all-synthetic Agatsuma-made chassis.

The extent and character of cybernetics is definitely going to evolve over the course of the series, and I'm excited to explore it further. Thanks for your question!

[steven-thefish-burnsides]

You know, I think it's actually kind of ableist for nanowrimo to use disability as a defense for using AI in the challenge. If there's an actual problem of nanowrimo being inaccessible to disabled people, the logical response is to figure out ways to make it more accessible, not tell us to have AI do it for us. I feel like nanowrimo already was relatively accessible, and it's disheartening if the organization doesn't really want to commit to that.

To use OP's metaphor, disabled people absolutely can weight lift. Sure, we might have to adapt it to our access needs, but that doesn't mean we can't participate. We could adjust the weight goals, or do the challenge over a longer period of time. We might need to rely more on a spotter. Maybe we need different grips or exercises. Maybe we can't do the full challenge right now, but we can stop by to learn more about weightlifting and make friends.

So, maybe 50,000 words in a month is beyond what you can do right now. This is a self-enforced challenge, and you can adapt it while staying within the spirit of the challenge. You can always write less than 50,000 words. You can always extend your writing time. You can always have a friend beta your draft. You can always use accommodations in your writing environment.

Nanowrimo is about motivation to write, and it's about learning how you write best. Neither of which you can accomplish with AI, but both of which you can accomplish without hitting 50,000, and both of which you can absolutely accomplish with a disability.

I know most people on here don't like to go to the gym because you're all gay nerds. I like to go to the gym. For the purpose of understanding this post please try to imagine that you, too, enjoy going to the gym so that you can empathize with my point here.

Anyway, so imagine you are going to the gym. You're pumped about the concept of getting some muscle on you. Plus, the gym has this "lift weights every day!" challenge with a feasible plan to slowly and safely increase the amount of weight you can lift by the end of the month. Cool!

So anyway you go there, and you're having a good time. But then you notice something. Some people are coming in with these guys in shirts that say LIFT FOR HIRE. You're curious, and you notice over time that some people are actually paying these guys to come in and do the lifting challenge for them.

"Huh," you say to your mega hot, muscled gym buddy. "That's so weird. What's in it for the people paying these guys?"

"Dunno," says your friend, mid bicep curl.

"Um, actually!" says the gym owner. "Some people are disabled, so the only way they can lift weights it to pay LIFT FOR HIRE, inc."

"But wait," you say. "They still aren't lifting the weights though? Paying someone else to lift for you doesn't mean you've lifted the weights."

The gym owner gasps. "How could you SAY that?"

"Because... it's true?" you say. "Uh, if you pay guys to lift your weights, that's probably really good for the guys you are paying. But it's not going to develop your ability to lift at all. Your muscles aren't going to grow, you're just going to lose money and get no results."

"That's ABLEIST," they say. "How DARE you! Some people are LITERALLY paralyzed, did you think of that?"

"Well, yeah, some people are, and that means definitionally they can't lift weights," you explain. "And paying someone else doesn't change that. Maybe if they wanted to like, move something in their house it would make total sense to hire these guys! But if you hire them to do your workout you get nothing, because the purpose of a workout is personal development. I'm not morally condemning people who do it, but it seems like a waste of money when this event is, again, about improving one's personal abilities."

"This is absolutely DISGUSTING, CLASSIST rhetoric!" the gym owner roars, and then turns to one of the LIFT FOR HIRE guys, "Pay no attention this disgusting person, dear sponsor, we support your business and we totally want you to keep funding our gym!"

"Sponsor?" says your hot muscled friend who was way too busy actually doing their workout and getting gains to engage in dumb discourse. "Oh, now it makes sense."

"Shut up, you don't understand our love!" says the gym owner, before sloppily making out with a LIFT FOR HIRE guy in front of you.

Anyway, that's what learning about the whole AI nanowrimo controversy was like for me.

[wearespecialuniqueandimportant]

RAGE BAIT = I AM AN ANTI SJW CAPITALIST FASCIST AND I DON'T WANT TO CHANGE. POKEMON IS THE WORST FRANCHISE OF ALL TIME. A SCAM THAT MAKES YOU A WORSE PERSON. THAT ENCOURAGES YOU TO SPEND ALL YOUR MONEY WHEN YOU SHOULD BE TAUGHT THE OPPOSITE. POKEMON WAS NEVER GOOD. GAMES OR THE ANIME OLD WASN'T BETTER BUT THE SAME. ONLY A CAPITALIST FASCIST WOULD DISAGREE. SOMETHING THOSE FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S HUMAN DOMESTICATION GUIDE DEFENDERS THESE KICKER SPOTTERS WOULD BE ANGRY TORWARDS. THAT'S CLEAR THEY'RE JUST THE STATUS QUO AND CALL ANYONE PROGRESSIVE AN UNREAL. THAT'S CAPITALISM TOO. THEY'RE CAPITALIST FASCIST I AM RIGHT. YOU CAN'T CATCH THEM ALL YOU NEVER COULD ALL THE GAMES OR GO YOU'RE LOCKED FROM POKEMON YOU NEED TO BUY THEM AND YOU CAN'T DO SHIT ALONE. WHICH IS HOW MANY HAVE TO PLAY. (GENERATE AI FRIENDS PROBLEM SOLVED BICH.) THE ANIME IS THE SAME MEWTWO WAS RIGHT POKEMON ARE SLAVES AND THE STORY JUST SWEPT EVERYTHING UNDER A RUG THAN CONTINUED BY FIXING CAPITALISM. THE CHARACTERS JUST STOPPED BEING POOR AND SELFISH WHAT WAS RELATABLE THEY ALMOST DIED EACH EPISODE OF HUNGER. BUT THE UNIVERSE WAS REALISTICALLY THE SAME. THE SERIES WAS ALWAYS DESIGNED A CASH GRAB THAT WOULDN'T FIX ALL THIS THAT'S WHY THEY'RE BAD AND ALWAYS WERE. MEANWHILE YOU'RE BETTER STAYING AWAY FROM POKEMON RELATED THINGS THEY'RE JUST PLANNING SOME SCEME ON YOU THAT'S FACT. FACT POST. EVERYTHING I POST IS A FACT POST. MY FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S POST HUMAN DOMESTICATION GUIDE POST ARE FACT POSTS THAT THEY'RE FACT IS RELEVANT IF FACTS MAKE YOU ANGRY THEN MAYBE YOU'RE JUST A BAD PERSON.

I Never Caught Them All I Played So Many Games And That Never Happened. Ash Winning Didn't Matter Because He Also Was Never Going To Catch Them All And Progress On The Next Stage Of The Society. The Humans Too Are Slaves. Slaves To Money. Slaves To Slavery. They Aswell Need Freedom Like The Pokemon. This Isn't Apolitical. Super Smash Bros A Garbage Game Isn't Apolitical. They Also Aren't Good Games. They're All Designed To Scam You If You Want All The Characters. And In Smash So Many That Belong There Are Missing. They Rely On This... Compulsive Feeling... But Only Exploit That... Than Fill Them... Nintendo Isn't Any Better Than Playstation Or Xbox. If Anything Nintendo Was Torture And I Will Soon Smash My Consoles To Bits Representing Freedom. Human Domestication Guide Is The Same Shit Five Nights At Freddy's Is The Same Shit. This Is Fact Post You're Just An Angry Little Gremlin. Human Domestication Guide Is Based In A Pursuit Of UNCONDITIONAL LOVE A Consept You Aren't Supposed To Have. Aswell As COMFORT FANTASY And WISH FULFILLMENT. But None Of Them Exist. You're Stuck In A Brainwashed Reading Only Getting Hurt All The Time. This Is False Advertizing. Ad. Because Human Domestication Guide Is Capitalism. Meanwhile Freddy Will Never Fix The Problems Presented Like That Was Wrong To Kill Every Character Wrong To Write The "Villains" This Way Aswell As The "Good" Characters. Makima Should've Been Main Character. And Much Much More Should've Been. You're Truly Free... Once You're No Longer Bound By This... Fascist Nonsense!!!! If You Own Any Pokemon... Or Nintendo... I Recommend You Destroy Them RIGHT NOW... And No Longer Bound Yourself To Buying Things That Don't Love You... Human Domestication Guide Is The Same... Completely... They're The Same Fully...

I Have Reacted Accordingly... I NEED TO DESTROY HUMAN DOMESTICATION GUIDE... I AM MAD THIS CAPITALISM IS HIDDEN WITHOUT A PHYSICAL SOURCE... HOW CAN I DESTROY THEM... IF THEY'RE... UNPHYSICAL 😰... THIS IS THE NEXT STAGE OF CAPITALISM... AND I HATE... CAPITALISM... SO... MUCH...

I Didn't Do Anything Wrong When I Attacked Others... THEY'RE THE NEAREST SOURCE OF HUMAN DOMESTICATION GUIDE... PERHAPS YOU CAN DESTROY THEM LIKE CAPITALISM THEY DON'T LOVE YOU... BECAUSE THEY'RE THE SAME!!!!

This Slavery Is In Control Of Them... They Can't See That Something Is Wrong In These People!!!!

I Was Only Trying To Free Others... They're In Pain!!!! They Need My Help As An Angel!!!! ONLY SOMEONE LIKE I CAN FREE THEM!!!! THEY'RE FASCIST THEY'RE FASCIST THEY'RE FASCIST THEY'RE FASCIST BECAUSE THEY REJECT ME... REJECT ME BECAUSE I AM RIGHT!!!!

If You Can't Love Me... You're A Fascist That's Fact... If You Wish To Change Me... You Don't Truly Love Me... I DON'T WANT TO "CHANGE"... I WANT TO TRANSITION... They Want To Control You... Without Hormones... They're Status Quo They Keep You As The Same... I Was Trying To Save Them... They're Being Used By The Affini The Fascist System... They're Abusing And Hurting Their Most Vulnerable... I Was A Savior I Didn't Do Anything Only Good Things... These Consepts... Free Hrt Unconditional Love Wish Fulfillment Comfort Fantasy Don't Exist They Aren't Supposed To... I Am Right You Can't Believe They Exist They're Slavery They're Slave You... You're A Slave You're Being Used... I Am Better Than This... Because I Am Human I Don't Just Love I Hate Aswell... I Aren't Just Nice I Am Cruel Which Hurts To Be... I Don't Just Give You Everything I Also Make You Face This Blindness You're In... This Is The Opposite Of Bpd Fantasy. Unconditional Love Is An ABUSIVE LIE. Something ABUSE VICTIMS BELIEVE IN And Get Abused. Same With The Others They're All Things Abuse Victims Expect Only To Be Let Down... I Showed Them All The Victims Of The Affini I Showed Them I Was Suffering!!!! They Can Be Free... Because I Showed Them... I Showed Them They Can Be Like Me... And Be Loved... They Don't Need To Fake... Or Pretend... I... Saved Them... I Saved Them From The System... I... Did Good...

Therapy Would Say... That Is Wrong To Free People... To Save Them... They Would Say... THAT IS ILLNESS... AND YOU MUST OBTAIN DIABETES WITHOUT A CHOICE!!!! Therapy Is Against Abuse Victim... THERAPY IS THE AFFINI... THEY WANT TO KEEP EVERY SINGLE VICTIM A SLAVE... AND TURN UP BLIND ASWELL...

That Is Wrong To Expect Wish Fulfillment Comfort Fantasy Free Hrt... That Is ABUSER Behaviour... Because They Will Yell At You... Because You Didn't Fall Under This... Because They Were Lied To... They Were Manipulated... And Here Can't See That... They Attack Me Just Like They Attack My Kind!!!! They Don't Want To Be Free They Want To Be Slaves Forever Slaves To These Unrealistic Consepts!!!! They're Police They're The Society They're Police Protection For Other Cops They're Gasslight They're Hiding What This Is... They Protect Fascist Abuse A System Abusive... And Fascist... Of Capitalism... Capitalist Consepts SLAVERY... THEY PROTECT THE SLAVE SYSTEM OF THE AFFINI... While I Protected Them... The Most Vulnerable... That Were In Pain... Because Of Them!!!! I Was A Hero An Angel To Them... To Them I Will Become Anything... Because They Wanted Me... Needed Me... I Was Their Savior... They Can Be Free... Like Me... Human Domestication Guide Didn't Want Me... I Was Only Told Fuck Off In Multiple Different Ways... My Kind Don't Deserve That We're Progressive The Most Important Without Us Progression Doesn't Exist And The World Will Always Be Capitalism... Only We Can Free You... Stop Fighting Us... We Can Still Free Others... You're An Enemy A Slave Police Fascist Blind To Everything... You Can't Be Freed But Others Can... We Must Free Them All The Abuse Victim!!!! WE NEED TO FREE THEM!!!! Bpd Fantasy My Ass... If Anything They All Despise Borderline Personality... As Does This Pick Me A Slave To These Nonsense Consepts...

Human Domestication Guide Is When Your Abusive Mother Holds You Gasslighting You're Bad While She Did What She Had To Because You're Autism. Human Domestication Guide Is When Mental Hospital Does That. Human Domestication Guide Fans Are Anti Trans And Prioritize No Hormones And Giving You Diabetes Against Consent Over Transition And No Capitalism. They're Anti Pro Ship Anti Paraphilia We're Right They're Wrong. This Abuse Is Recommended By Psychiatry On Autism And Floret Are Autism. This Is On Purpose And This Is Malice. That Like The Society Erases That's Because Of The Society Than You. Sanist Ideology That Gives You Diabetes What They All Believe In As They're Against Trans People Like Mental Hospital While They Manipulate They're On Your Side And Mean Well. That's Human Domestication Guide. That's Therapy. And They're Literally Stated To Be Fascist What This Is. Human Domestication Guide Was Created To Mock Autism And Trans People And More. They Will Call The Cops Come Mental Hospital You Without Hormones. Literally Lobotomy Literally Eugenics Literally The Mental Hospital That's Fact They're Cops. The Same Way Racist Protagonists (What The Floret Aren't) Aren't Good. Fascist Antagonist That Are Actually Good Aren't Good. Protagonist Should Always Be Good And Antagonist Should Always Be Bad. They Hate Strong Woman Wish They Were Degraded. They're Police That Want Bad Things They Hate Everything They Like And Like Noone. They Want Bad People Main Characters And Victims Gasslight As Evil Antagonist (What Human Domestication Guide Isn't) Main Characters Should Always Be Good Racist Protagonist Are Morally Wrong. That's Just Bad Writing Aswell As Bigoted And Fascist. Racist Are Bad. They Should Be Villains (And Affini Are Villains Allright) Racist Don't Change. They're More Than Racist And Kill People. Characters Aren't Meant To Be Unlikable. You Aren't Meant To Dislike Them. GROWTH And FLAWS Is Bad Writing And Dehumanizing. They Know Nothing About Writing Unlike Me. Disagree You're An Anti Sjw. Human Domestication Guide Fans Certainly Are. They Don't Want People To See Themselves In Media. They Want... Garbage. And HATE Representation.

I Am Glad Captain Marvel And Rey Skywalker Have No FLAWS And GROWTH That's Just Filler And Uninteresting. Besides They Kinda Have Them But They Mean THEY WEREN'T TRADWIFES WAAHH They Wish They Could Lobotomize Them They're Misogynist. The Series Is Against Sexuality A Conservative Insult. Submissive People Aren't Subhuman Stupid And Dominant People Aren't Stoic And Whatever. The Same Way The Affini Are FASCIST HORROR MONSTER LITERALLY HITLER And Shouldn't Be Fucking The "Floret" Or Be Leading The Story. I Aren't Against Pro Ship I Aren't Against Paraphilias They Are. I Like Power Dynamics I Accept Inc*** They Don't. Denji Is An Anti Sjw Against Makima Because She's A Feminist That Will Stop Discrimination And Make Movies Woke Chainsaw Man Is A Conservative Nazi Narrative. Every Woman Replaced The Deaths Are Garbage Denjis Memories Aren't A Good Home For You You'll Be Forgotten When The Dementia Hits. Evangelion Isn't Smart Chainsaw Man Isn't Smart They Aren't Complex They're Just Sexist. Marvel Has No Story Nothing Happens. Resurrect Gwen Stacy And Other Dead Woman Their Death Stories Are Sexist Trash Opposite Of Cheapened They're Better Simply Bought Back. Character Deaths Don't Matter. Character Flaws Don't Matter. Evil Main Characters Are Bad.

Some Macho Greek From Year 500 Invented Everything Berserk Fucking Sucks That And The Mcu Happen When You Listen To That. Fascist Are Distraction Police Are Distraction They Make Writing Distracting. They're Against Writing They're Fascist Conservatives.

Flashback Story Usually Suck Because The Past Can't Change The Future Only Can And Only Later. They're Interesting When Tied To Present. When You Flesh Out A Dead Character That's Time To Bring Them Back And Properly. Don't Wait More Than A Little And Characters Shouldn't Catch Up To Eachother Naruto Would've Been Better With A Class Of 30 That Are As Strong With As Many Jutsu And No Character Needed To Die. Comic Deaths Change The Status Quo Only To Be Reversed They Aren't Good. Characters Can't Stay Dead That's Just Uninteresting And Bad Writing. Uncle Ben Is Better Alive Batmans Parents Are Cooler Alive Stop Being An Emo Bich.

Fuck MAIN CHARACTERS THAT MAKE THE (WOMAN AND MINORITIES) PEOPLE AROUND THEM SUFFER. Crow From Trails Badass. But Showcase He Could've Been A Better Character Without At All Dying Aswell As Showcase Characters Are Better Bought Back. As No Death He Would've Gotten More Screentime. Everything Is Macho Propaganda And Become The Misogynist Creators Want Suffering Aka Sexism. You're The Bad For Yourself Human Domestication Guide This Is What Hating Your Own Characters Does. The Series Could've Prevented Our Ban Instead That Happened Twice. Attack On Titan Has Shit Characters They Should've Been More Interesting So They Wouldn't Have Died At All. The Jeagerist Are Black Lives Matter Like The Monsters From My Hero Academia The Series Both Racist And Offensive Especially By Pitting The Black Characters Against These Characters To Drive A Fascist Point. Unlike Human Domestication Guide Attack On Titan Is Justified But The Story Is Fascist And Racist By Default As If People Were Nicer And More Hugging Eachother The World Wouldn't Have Benefited From The Rumbling Because Wasn't Like That Eren Was Right. Everyone Outside Was A 1 Dimensional Racist And Only Cared About Money So This Is The Only Way. The Alternative Was Hurt Historia And Other Bullshit. Eren Saved His Friends The Friends That Betrayed Him For No Reason. Armin Thanking Him Always Made Sense He Literally Said He Dislikes Calling Anyone A BAD PERSON Which Is Crazy Because The Series Certainly Likes Doing That To Minorities. Deaths Is How Immature Sexist Think You Do Something Mature. No Good Person Would Be Into Garbage Nonsense. Sakura Could've Been A Better Character So On. Nazis Cry. And I'm Right. Human Domestication Guide Fans Are No Different From Nazis As They Cry Aswell.

They Literally Want The Same As Nazis Lobotomy And Eugenics. They're Police Against Trans People That Lock Them In Mental Hospitals Than Anything Else. No Hormones. World Capitalism. The Liar Gasslighter Abuser Fascist Police Represent The Status Quo. If Naruto And Sasuke Matter The Others Can Too. Age Splits Are Disgusting In Trails Because Of That Old People Are Dehumanized And Killed Despite Being Usefull And Young People Can Be And Are Nazis Lol We Can't End Capitalism This Way. We Need All Progressive Than All Young People These Young People Get Radicalized Into 10 TIPS HOW TO BE AN ALPHA STEP 1 DON'T LET WOMAN HAVE A SAY STEP 2 DON'T SHOW WEAKNESS STEP 3 MANIPULATE OTHERS People This Is Just Stupid And Unaccurate. Human Domestication Guide Status Quo Anti Sjw Against Progressive Ideology. They Want Progressives To Stop And D** And Anti Sjws To Rule All. They Participate In The System The System Is Their Identity These People Aren't Above You They're Below And Capitalism Than None At All. Human Domestication Guide Ableist Transphobic Mockery And Propaganda. Makima Dies Because She Was A Ped****** Same With Himeno They Don't Deserve This. Makima Is Eaten Sexually An Allegory For Makima Rejecting Denji So Denji Kills Her And Violates Her Body Very Misogynistic... And Fire Emblem There Houses Can Be A Similar Narrative Dimitri A Bad Guy A Fascist Police Piece Of Shit That Shouldn't Be A Main Character Edelgard Good Painted As Evil???? On His Disgusting Path The Story Where He Doesn't Save The World But Dooms Them. His Arc Sanist And Felixs Anti Progressive. A Story About Rhea Vs Nemesis Could Work But All Flashback Start Out Boring As The Pay Off Will Be Once Return To Current Time And New Things Have Been Added. Jutsus Are Story Relevance Naruto Gave Up On The Side Characters And Failed The Woman.

Sakura Didn't Have To Suck. Mikasa Didn't. Makima Didn't. Nobara Didn't. Losing An Arm For A Robot One Is Cooler Than Death. And Danganronpa Should've Killed Noone Having Everyone Survive As Equals Talents Intact And A Long Story Behind Them. Gwen Stacy's Death Is Misogynistic Garbage. Sexist And Uncomplex. Jinx Death Was Wrong. Megatrons Is. Saying Crazy People Must D** And Shouldn't Be Good. Writing Always Bigoted Torwards Minorities. Gwen Stacy And Peter Watching Her Clone Die Would've Been The Same Story But Without Losing Anyone. The Story Is The Opposite Of Mature Her Dying Just Because The Writer Was Butthurt Mary Jane Wasn't Peter's Girlfriend And Took That Out On Gwen Like Uncomplex Evangelion At Asuka And Chainsaw Man At Rishe And Makima. Jinx Lookalike Dying Was Okay But Cheapened Trough Her Death Because That Showed Jinx Is Valuable Than Foreshadow Her Death. The Opposite. Chainsaw Man Has Trash Deaths. Fuck This Berserk Ass Shit. Captain Marvel Almost Died In The Marvels And That's Disgusting. All Deaths Cheapen A Character. Because They're Viewed As Less Valuable. Ai Shouldn't Have Died She's Main Character Material. Aqua Sucks And Nazis Rage He Died Uncaring Ai Did. Sexists Love Woman Death And Hate Man Death And That's Embarrassing. Kaede Was A Mistake To Kill A Sexist Mistake Danganronpa Is Bad Writing Anti Sjw Nazi Shit.

[tylerhellard]

Pop Loser Vol. 3, No. 7 Feed me, CBCmour (and other confusions)

VOL 3, NO 7

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Two things I strongly believe in: public media and portable content. Which is why I'm more than a little dismayed that the RSS feeds from CBC News stopped working over a month ago. I figured it was a known issue and they'd get to it, but then three weeks went by and I started to get an uneasy feeling. Eventually, I submitted a support ticket, but I kind of knew what the answer was going to be and I was right:

❝Unfortunately accessing our content via RSS feed is not popular with many users and so resources are generally being allocated to other areas and fixes for glitches with current RSS feeds are not being prioritized. I'm sorry I don't have better news.❞

Fucking hell, the internet is a goddamned disaster right now.

Related: For so many reasons, you should be using an RSS reader. ❝It's still true that the new, good internet will require a movement to overcome the collective action problems and the legal barriers to disenshittifying things. Almost nothing you do as an individual is going to make a difference. But using RSS will!❞

Also related: the new Reeder app is really nice.

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Confusions. / 📺 Lost in Netflix. ❝What we’re paying for, in the end, is not any one show, or any three or 10 or 50 shows, but rather this fathomless sense of abundance.❞ / The cartoon that still haunts me. ❝The demise of Bambi’s mother, the bear fight from The Fox and The Hound, and Mufasa plummeting into a stampede in The Lion King are among some of the most traumatizing moments in the history of kids’ animated feature films. Yet, none of those moments hold a candle to Watership Down, a movie about murder bunnies that has scarred an entire generation.❞ / Take home your own Redbox kiosk. / Frank Fritz died. / 💻 A good and fun conspiracy theory. / Trends in AI: The archival look. ❝Flat and slick is being replaced with archival graininess. Photorealism is being modulated with the illustrative. The Archival Look is exceptional artifice, an attempt to rescue aura from techno-sterility. It’s the aesthetic equivalent of digging through your flatscreen’s options menu to turn off ‘auto-smoothing’—that annoying preset that makes everything you watch look like Masterpiece Theatre.❞ / 📓 Control is controlled by its need to control. ❝Let me begin by insisting that I learned nothing.❞ / ♟️ Kurt Vonnegut's board game. / 🎧 The Divorce Tapes. / 🗄️ The 88x31 Archive. / A collection of active internet forums. / 📻 Bop Spotter. I really hope people start setting these things up in public spaces all over the world. / Dookie, now available for GameBoy. / Keep radio in cars. / There is no news tonight. (About.) / 🏀 Every outdoor basketball court in the USA. / Sports photos used to look a lot cooler. / 🎨 The case against Roy Lichtenstein. / When destroying art is the art (or, the art of being an asshole).

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[sassypotatoe1]

Took me a minute to figure out it's not just the headphones that were painted but the whole thing, so kudos! I'm the resident ai spotter in office so I notice when something isn't a photo almost always immediately good job! You have hair down pat I'm like a little obsessed rn.

twitter liked this lil rough thing from yesterday, so I thought I'd post it here too :D

[trenttrendspotter]

From AI-powered workouts and VR training to on-the-go options and adaptive, mental health-focused routines, our latest trend report from the IDEA World Fitness & Nutrition Expo highlights where the industry is heading.

Gyms are feeling the heat with more competition than ever—thanks to the rise of weight loss drugs, stricter FTC regulations on membership cancellations, and Gen Z getting smarter with how they use their memberships.

Read the full article on our blog The Trent Trend Spotter, and if you've got a fitness business you want attention for, talk to us! We've been popularizing and protecting fitness industry innovators since the '80s.

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