#yes worse than currently

[lunapwrites]

Just had a very terrifying conversation with my partner about AI and the future of uh. Society as we know it. So naturally I'm in a bit of an anxiety spiral about it.

The short version is that the plagiarism concerns are the tippy tip of the iceberg, and if AI doesn't get regulated quickly, we could potentially be looking at some uhhhh BIG FUCKING PROBLEMS. Like I'm not trying to be alarmist or paranoid but shit is very likely to hit the fan in a big way. Keep your eyes peeled, particularly over the next 18 months. And pray that he's wrong.

Anyway, just uh. Something to think about the next time you see one of those funny AI generated vids of Obama and Biden dunking on Trump in Minecraft or something.

[wolfythewitch]

TikTok don't take down my videos unnecessarily challenge FAILED

[iamfuckingsorry]

"Do you know where we are going next?" I asked ART.

Y'know what, I think maybe I don't need any more Murderbot books. I think maybe ending things here is fucking perfect and as much as I love Wells's writing I'm genuinely not sure it can get better for me.

Like, so much of the books are about MB learning how to be a person, about becoming okay with being a complete individual with everything it entails. The first thing it does once it's actually allowed to decide on its own is it runs away from it all (admittedly to go on a mission to confirm some things about its past, because it genuinely just wants to be *good*). It shoves all its emotions away as much as it's able to. Then shit happens, and it makes its first friends, makes decisions based on these friendships, goes through a lot of emotionally intense situations...

And we get to this point here. MB having zero doubts about going with ART says a lot about its relationship with ART, but it also says a lot about its relationship with its humans - it knows that wherever it goes, when it comes back, the humans will still be there. Its humans actively acknowledge its struggles with being a now-free SecUnit and MB is willing to entertain the discussions to an extent and share information about its deeply personal experiences. Hell, System Collapse ends with MB admitting it might be somewhat broken, but that's okay as long as it can keep doing its job, and agreeing to basically do counselling - this is the guy what would rewatch its favourite TV show again and again in order to avoid acknowledging it even had Emotions a couple books back.

Reading this, I know that MB will be okay. It has hopes and goals and genuinely believes in itself and it has an amazing support system that its willing to lean on for the first time in its life. I'm convinced it'll go on to do great things with ART. And that's really the only thing I need to know.

[sysig]

Softly, slowly, I want to love you anyway (Patreon)

[art-o-gant]

MALEVOLENT ART FROM MONTHS AGO HTAT I SOMEHOW NEVER POSTED ???

[iloveacronix]

Sighhh. Dear mutuals. Please stop sending me smut fanfictions, ESPECIALLY the ILLUSTRATED ONES, when you know damn well I'm less than 18, know my SPECIFIC age, and KNOW I do not feel comfortable with smut.

I am VERY uncomfortable when you do this and you, as someone older than me, should know better. I do NOT care if you like the ship, I do NOT care if you think its good, I DONT WANT TO FUCKING READ IT, and I DONT WANT YOU SENDING ME LINKS TO THAT SHIT. I AM NOT INTO IT, BUT SOMETIMES IM CURIOUS AND IT DISGUSTS ME. LIKE COULD YOU NOT?? I do not mind if you mention the word it's not specific at ALL, but if you are going to fully talk about it DETAILED OUT shut up. I don't want to hear it. Don't want to read it. And I do not want to see it. Also don't have the crappy mindset where you think that suddenly because we're mutuals it means we're bestie best friends and you feel privileged to send me inappropriate shit, because that's not how it works. None of you, AND I MEAN NONE OF YOU, are "PriViLEgEd" to send me smut FICS or links, and it will never happen because im not looking forward to reading it. Don't use that excuse again. You know who you are.

So please. Stop. This is the third time. I don't care if you're a friend, if you send me smut FICS or links WITHOUT WARNING, I'm blocking you. I blocked two people already for it, I can do it many more times. Your bullshit only makes me feel more fucking tired and reluctant to make more online friends. So stop. When I say I'm a kid(not that young but still) on my bio, I'm serious. It doesn't matter if it's "just a written story and it's not a big deal," it is for me because it just shows me how much of a freak you are to have the audacity to show it to a minor THAT HAS ALREADY "SAID I DO NOT WANT TO READ SMUT."

Thank you. Good day.

[lenievi]

Each Other's Light [Valjean&Cosette drabble]

prompt: new beginnings

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The little girl's existence kept him sane when darkness and desperation threatened to swallow him again under the scorching sun in Toulon.

Cosette. Her name was his last thought at night, his first thought in the morning.

She was his reason to bear it and move forward day by day.

She was his light, calling for him, guiding him, giving him hope.

She was his strength that allowed him to escape.

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She only knew darkness, loneliness, and pain.

She called.

Nobody listened.

Nobody answered.

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When he finally found her, his heart bloomed.

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When she was found, her world lit up.

[ao3]

[batsplat]

sort of not really related to being unable to separate honda characteristics from marc’s riding style—one of the reasons i really enjoy the idea of him on a ducati is that i think it’s cooler to win titles with more than one manufacturer like it speaks to your longevity and adaptability plus it just adds class lol. i mean he has ridden some tricky hondas so his adaptability was never really in question but you know. and granted it won’t be as cool as vale’s switch to yamaha just cause like ducati is by far the best bike on the grid and his teammate is not someone i particularly rate (hope i don’t eat my words) but nevertheless very pleasing to me. side note i would have loved to see him ride a yamaha but sadly that shall remain a fantasy

yeah I mean I don't massively care about the big picture legacy debates because it's just. not my thing in sports. but I DO care about stories and it's basically always more fun to have more variety in someone's career. this last year has already done wonders for that for marc's career... I have felt for like,, a long time that it would be a terrible shame for marc to spend his whole motogp career with honda. pretty sure I've already said this somewhere on this blog but I was extremely un-thrilled when marc signed a four year contract extension in 2020. not even necessarily because it seemingly guaranteed him more titles - though his dominance was undoubtedly making me a bit tired of the sport - but also because it was just... the most boring option. you'd kinda seen everything you could possibly get from the marc/honda relationship by that point (I mean, I suppose we hadn't seen 'abject failure and misery' so good on them for mixing it up after all). changing things up is fun! put him in a satellite team! put him in factory red! it added something neat to the post-season test! sports is about putting athletes in Situations. this is a good development for the sport

(and yes I'm very happy it's made my spreadsheets more interesting as it gives me another variable to tease apart which marc performance patterns were down to the honda and which are due to his own riding style, though this next current year will really tease apart that distinction. if that's the kind of thing you care about. putting a lil asterisk next to qatar and mugello, just to see something. it would've been interesting to see him ride a yamaha OR a suzuki which was MY personal completely unrealistic 'come on marc don't u want to try it out :))' 2019 era pipe dream for where I wanted him to go (arguably a wish that aged extremely well given how the 2020 season panned out). from the limited amount I understand of riding styles and differences between manufacturers, I would've thought those bikes would suit him the worst, so that could've been interesting. but alas)

but yeah, idk, I mean valentino said himself in 2018 that marc didn't need to prove anything by switching manufacturers and that it just came down to what marc wanted. and like,,, valentino's right. it's not like anything about this ducati transition is all that shocking either. this isn't to diminish marc's achievements this last year, but... in spite of the past few years and his age and his arm and his own cautious rhetoric (which idt was all lies but I never quite bought)... I would've been surprised if he'd done worse than he ended up doing this year. I do think adapting to unrideable bikes within a manufacturer is significantly different than adapting to a completely different bike (not least because those poorly handling bikes were built specifically around marc's skillset), but again. it's deeply unsurprising he managed the switch well. and yeah, it's good for the cv to show off a bit of range. I will say that if you're looking to do prop, marc fans really need to be doing more talking up of their opps. you want to say the opposition is super strong so it means more when you beat them! it's like the valentino impulse with erasing sete, this isn't doing your own cause any good. pecco is just objectively a respectable title rival and if marc demolishes him then congrats to marc and full credit to him - that would be a truly remarkable achievement. you don't want to be beating a fraud! you just don't! and if marc remains a competitive factor for a few more years, he should be coming up against other title rivals sooner or later. so y'know. hopefully he does have at least one more marginal title fight at some point

[featherymainffins]

Trying to remember where I first encountered humanity as a horror to see if this has a root the same way you can trace literally all of my thirst for fictional characters back to WITCH, but ngl I genuinely cannot remember anything like that.

[sp4ceboo]

rant but im a bit scared im going to get attacked

[molinaesque]

Sometimes when people are being passive aggressive in the tags when they reblog stuff, I wonder... Do they just NOT realize the OP of that post can see everything? Because SOME of y'all really can be the biggest, unsocialised asshats istg.

[brittlebutch]

kind of astounding how innocuous conversations with my younger siblings can make me feel like dogshit... what are the good things about being the oldest kid supposed to be again??

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

so i googled my current favourite play that i'm absolutely obsessed with and ended up on the english wikipedia site bc my browser is set to english and. it's so bad. the fucking plot overview leaves out basically everything that happens ever except for the end result. several key figures aren't even mentioned. "this guy dies for freedom" well, yes, but actually no, plus you're implying his sacrifice is actually worth it. that's not true. in some other section a dude is mentioned who claims this play is basically star wars. that someone familiar with the play but not star wars could look at a star wars poster and tell you which characters are narratively similar/equal to characters of the play. i am baffled. i have never, not once in my life, ever seen someone be so wrong. dude must have read an entirely different play. i'm tempted to dig up the english version and read it just to see how fucking wrong he is. he is *so* incredibly wrong. jesus fuck. how could you possibly say that

[qumiiiquinnquin]

i think we will have to have to say goodbye to my dog in the next few months, end of the year, if she is still alive by then. she is miserable and in constant discomfort that we cant do anything more than we have to help. anything else will just hurt her. but my dad wants her to live as long as possible. but none of us want her to suffer anymore. i dont really know what to do and it is a really difficult conversation to have

[adelle-ein]

remarkably not okay overall really but at least there's my little video game guys

[linagram]

sorry for talking about the possible second linagram again but i think i've mentioned before that i'm working on the character designs rn and tbh i've been feeling a little insecure about them and i showed them to my mom and the moment she went "ohhh i love their color palettes and some of them look kinda dead inside" i was like "nvm. i'm doing a good job"