#mind you

[pratchettquotes]

"Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad."

Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

[copperbadge]

I’ve messed around with AI a little, because I like to understand a thing when I’m formulating opinions on it and I’ve found the best way to do that is to climb into the thing and start pushing buttons. I’ve been unimpressed with ChatGPT; its fiction chops are oddly saccharine, and of course you can’t trust the nonfiction it spits out because everything it says needs to be fact checked. It claims it can’t “lie”, only misinterpret data from the sets it was trained on; devs call the misinterpreted data “hallucination”.

Part of what I was testing was whether it could competently do my job, so that if my boss starts asking about it, I can give him a decent report. I asked it for biographies of a few wealthy people I’ve researched in the past, and it spat out some respectably generic information that was mostly correct. However, most of the people I research now are not like “so rich I’m famous for it” levels of wealthy, and harder generally for me to find information on, as I assumed it would be for ChatGPT. 

So I thought I’d see what it could do with someone more middle class, and asked it for a biography of Sam Starbuck. 

What it returned was like what you would get if you told me “Write a flattering biography of yourself and don’t worry that I’ll be fact-checking anything you say.” It was mostly true, but it hyped up my achievements as an author in ways that I would consider not entirely honest, and said I was also a professional editor and that I had led prestigious writing workshops in the past. That’s plain untrue, but I can see where it would be making that assumption, because my author bio sounds like a lot of other, more famous peoples’ author bios, and I would guess it just pulled in some of their verbiage for color. 

But the wildest part of the bio was that it named three of the novels I’ve written. Or rather, it named two novels I’ve written and one novel that I definitely have not. It said I was the author of a novel called “Like Clockwork”. Just in case I had written a fanfic titled “Like Clockwork” and forgotten about it, I checked AO3 and also asked ChatGPT for a plot summary of Sam Starbuck’s “Like Clockwork”. And sure enough it hallucinated a multi-paragraph summary of an entire novel I’ve never written, on AO3 or anywhere else. (It was not a good summary. Very Generic YA SF Thriller.) 

ChatGPT is very good at one thing: apologizing. When I pressed it about where it found the data it couldn’t say, when I asked why it had made up the plot summary it couldn’t tell me, when I asked if it could show me source links or data it drew on to create “Like Clockwork” it of course would not. But it always said it was sorry...

Anyway, my best theory from googling is that every year there are roughly nine million news stories about how Starbucks Coffee’s holiday cups are back “like clockwork”. 

I suppose I should be glad the novel’s title isn’t Unicorn Frappucino.

[severinaprince]

Not to call out on main, but like be honest, how many of you (us) who stan Severus Snape have experienced some sort of Trauma™️ or even PTSD?

[pedropcl]

9-1-1

S08E03: Final Approach | dir. Bradley Buecker

[nemo-in-wonderland]

I have NO idea how the game is going to be, and I am still learning about the lore by playing DA: Inquisition and whatnot.

BUT.

For now, allow me to share a first draft of what my character for Veilguard is going to be.

DARLING SPITFIRE RAVENNA CALANTE PAVAN.

I am still coming up with her backstory and whanot, but for now I wanted to share my attempt to draw her with Lucanis.

AND LEMME TELL YOU.

I have been TRAINING my whole life to draw him.

MY WHOLE LIFE.

I had less difficulties sketching him than Ravenna lololol

Well, I hope you will like this!

--Nemo

[sofieartz]

[ Fnaf Fanart ]

//Blood and Slight Gore

Well, would you look at that.

I'm back to my fnaf phase....

I drew this a couple months back, finally had the time to finish it, just in time for the anniversary!

[marsreds]

demons in sousou no frieren:

we do not understand human emotions, we do not feel them, to us it's all a game and even when we try it will inevitably lead to death, destruction and human suffering

also demons in sousou no frieren:

[magicinverse]

Jaiden and Cellbit are the people that best can understand the other

I found it so sweet that the foundation of their trust is Roier but it's not what their friendship is about, no, it's about understanding what the other is going through and being there for each other.

They can totally understand why they are doing what they do in regards of the federation, and also understand that they are totally devoted to the same guy and their respective kids (death or alive)

And it's something no one on the island other than them can understand

[the1970sdeadgaywizard-regulus]

@yesiamprocrastinating man, I wonder what this means

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I caused an apocalypse by getting on Tumblr. Bill Cipher had possessed Bumblebee (the autobot)'s body, and destroyed the whole town in search to kill me. A disembodied head of Larry King blocked the sun. It all ended after I said I was going to log out.

[tornadotree]

remember when casey and chester flirted in that one 30 second scene and then literally nothing happened afterwards lol…I fear even the messy ass writers knew subconciously that writing her in a relationship with a man was against gods will

[bilbotargaryen]

So.

Finan is against the power of friendship.

Noted.

[lurkingindoorways]

My mom: do I get the bonzo chickpea crust?

Me: banza?

My mom: oh Banza okay

Me: not you calling it bonzo, that was a jumpscare 💀