#discourse ?

[prancingpedris]

The calculator, created centuries ago, also is not built on the well (https://hbr.org/2019/10/what-do-we-do-about-the-biases-in-ai) documented (https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/shedding-light-on-ai-bias-with-real-world-examples) history (I can keep going) of bias and discrimination that AI has in a few decades

'People are panicking about AI tools the same way they did when the calculator was invented, stop worrying' cannot stress enough the calculator did not forcibly pervade every aspect of our lives, has such a low error rate it's a statistical anomaly when it does happen, isn't built on mass plagiarism, and does not obliterate the fucking environment when you use it. Be so fucking serious right now

[cquackity]

the glorification of suicide in response to the cq ending has been horrible. are you guys stupid. go underwater idiots

[conarcoin]

i think most people by now understand c!slimecicle is not written to be a child but i think there's still not a huge understanding that this is specifically because he is written to be a cultural outsider

and like this makes sense because it's hard to express that there is a language barrier between characters that the viewer only sees speak the same language (for their convenience), but like, allegorically, slime is meant to be a character who does not speak human language very well.

and when an audience doesn't realize that, they're going to take his behavior as him just not understanding the world and basic concepts in it, which they associate with being childlike. but he does understand the concepts behind the words - just not the words themselves, that's the thing.

and it starts to get into some very uncomfortable territory (even ignoring the autistic-coding), some rather uncomfortably anthrocentric territory where because he is unfamiliar with human culture, that means that c!slime, an adult man of his species, must be on par with a child for not understanding a culture that is not his.

[velvetvexations]

wildest think about the Punkitt situation is someone who's reblogged callouts of me she's privately admitted she knows are false came into Punkitt's inbox like "hey...listen...I obviously know you're still a good person it's okay for me to like it's just what you said sounded kinna like you were talking about...transandrophobia..."

[nicepots-and-furrymonsters-blog]

I don't believe in suffering for your art. It was one of the things I was constantly struggling against in college, listening to faculty talk about how you should take care of yourself as a student and then saddle students with a curriculum that demanded they burn themselves down in order to finish assignments or prepare for critiques.

Causing yourself harm in the form of denying your basic needs does not make you a greater, truer artist or make your work more profound. It just keeps you from making more art when you need to. Take care of yourself, folks.

eat drink sleep play

[myfandomrealitea]

I am actually begging some people to just let some spaces exist untouched by real-world issues and horrors.

Like I've lost count of the amount of times peaceful game or fandom servers have been ruined by people stampeding in with political rants, bitching about world issues, demanding internal activism, demanding vent channels so they can whine about their shitty parents, ect.

Like. Respectfully. Not every single space has to be inclusive of and welcoming of outside topics. The real world sucks. We don't needed to be reminded of that absolutely everywhere.

[nervousmonolith]

figured out why i dislike the term non-man so much thanks random screenshot

[kuchipatch1]

yall have got to be more normal about Southern people and I'm not kidding. enough of the Sweet Home Alabama incest jokes, enough of the idea that all Southerners are bigots and rednecks, and enough of the idea that the South has bad food. shut up about "trailer trash" and our accents and our hobbies!

do yall know how fucking nauseating it is to hear people only bring up my state to make jokes about people in poverty and incestuous relationships? how much shame I feel that I wasn't born up north like the Good Queers and Good Leftists with all the Civilised Folk with actual houses instead of small cramped trailers that have paper thin walls that I know won't protect me in a bad enough storm?

do yall know how frustrating it is to be trans in a place that wants to kill you and whenever you bring it up to people they say "well just move out" instead of sympathizing with you or offering help?

do yall understand how alienating it is to see huge masterposts of queer and mental health resources but none of them are in your state because theyre all up north? and nobody seems to want to fix this glaring issue because "they're all hicks anyways"

Southern people deserve better. we deserve to be taken seriously and given a voice in the queer community and the mental health space and leftist talks in general.

[sk-lumen]

Facts. Treat a woman like a queen and provide her a castle, and she'll treat you like a king. You can't keep a queen in your life when you don't even have a table to sit at.

[apollos-boyfriend]

“it’s a good thing that the minecraft movie isn’t about the intense loneliness of minecraft’s world and finding growth and hope in a post-apocalyptic society because it’s for children” Have You Ever Spoken To A Child

[acrowseye]

i'm conducting an experiment. everyone who's from an english speaking country state your country, regional area and what you call the following images. i need to see something

[takashi0]

Adam's entire reason for helping Cinder burn beacon to the ground was because he was mad Blake dumped him because he wanted to murder innocent people who had nothing to do with Faunus Racism, if anything RWBY's way too on point with how fucking corrupt so-called """Activists""" are these days.

can we stop doing this trope

[transexualpirate]

this might be slightly controversial but i really hate how bioessentialism has dug it's claws in trans spaces. we used to prioritize individual identity but now it's like afab and amab are the new mbti. yall put it in your fucking bios

[reachartwork]

stealing this from twitter

[seasonallydefective]

The very mundane reasons for this are EXACTLY why people need to avoid getting complacent with their Things having access to the Internet and the ongoing surveillance of the public:

- Tesla likely has a service similar to OnStar, where you can remotely have your car unlocked in the instance of an accidental lock out. Handy if you leave your keys in the car (or if your cats managed to lock themselves and the keys inside … not speaking from experience or anything here 🙈), terrifying if the company in control of that will happily comply with law enforcement for any little reason.

- It sounds like Tesla has security cameras wherever their charging stations are — nice if someone tries to break into your vehicle, but terrifying if you come under investigation for literally anything and the company who owns the cameras sends over all the footage of you with a neat little bow.

Not trying to be an ass, genuinely. These are just shockingly normal things (Tesla’s access to your car and footage, not the exploding Tesla … although okay maybe that one too, but it’s a different topic), and we all need to be asking ourselves how comfy we feel with the companies that own this shit being chummy with the cops.

How much convenience is your privacy worth?

Hey how come the truck automatically locks when it explodes and bursts into flames