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me enjoying my and @owlbats's secret version of hadestown where orpheus kisses hades during epic iii

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WAIT FOR ME (REPRISE)

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welcome to my epic fantasy world. we have many developed fantasy kingdoms with 2000 years of rich lore and history. and to the south you can see the evil sand people and to the east theres japanchina.

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there's been plenty of pushback against youtube's plan to age-check users by using an AI to analyze everyone's watching habits, but amidst that, i spotted this playlist circulating among some teens:

(picture is a reconstruction to protect the kids identity)

interesting! they're trying to trick the AI by watching videos that have a primarily adult viewer demographic? well im a curious fella so naturally i have to take a look-see, and

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thinking about that dishwasher poll and the reactions to it going around because, like, i grew up without a dishwasher, right, no one i knew in mexico had dishwashers, they were considered a first world luxury for lazy americans so it's in my culture to make fun of people who don't know how to wash dishes lol much like how no one had vacuums (indoor carpeting was completely alien) and they were associated with an inability or a refusal to put in the effort to sweep and mop. and it's part of the pattern of taking pride in hard labor + looking unfavorably upon conveniences when you can't afford them (which i think can be good and can be bad - depends, not what this post is about regardless) but in the case of dishwashers specifically, i don't think it's common knowledge for people who've never had them (like me, until less than a year ago) that they are not only extremely energy efficient but they use less than 10 liters of water when a running tap of water can use something like 5 liters of water per minute, give or take depending on pressure. unlike things like air conditioners or clothes dryers they are a solid instance of a technology that does what we want technology to do: save us time, effort, money, and reduce environmental impact. and that's really neat! now the problem is we need to kill a bunch of billionaires so that in the communist utopia everyone can have one of these bad boys in their communal kitchen

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french people will really be like “our société? culturally catholique? mais non, this country is laïque there is no public religion to be found here!” and then 5 minutes later say “oh we do not work tomorrow because it is *checks french fonction publique calendrier* the feast of the assumption of the holy virgin mary so every public building in the whole entire country is closed :)”

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The use of challenege ratings (easy/medium/hard) rather than levels of firmness (soft/firm/hard) to describe egg yolk viscosity implies the existence of higher difficulties such as "eggs over-legendary" and perhaps even "eggs over-nightmare"

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there's been plenty of pushback against youtube's plan to age-check users by using an AI to analyze everyone's watching habits, but amidst that, i spotted this playlist circulating among some teens:

(picture is a reconstruction to protect the kids identity)

interesting! they're trying to trick the AI by watching videos that have a primarily adult viewer demographic? well im a curious fella so naturally i have to take a look-see, and

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i have never understood or played magic the gathering, but i have nothing but respect for it after seeing this tittieless snake woman

you could have gone the easy route. you could have given her titties. but you didn’t. cause she’s a reptile. thank you mtg. thank you.

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God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers and I'm dodging the draft

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sex pollen is an integral part of the fanfiction ecosystem but i just don't think poison ivy would make anything that encourages procreation of even more humans. unless she figures out how to make the sex pollen same-sex specific or fertility-negating she's not making it at all. #philosophical

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So-called "free thinkers" when their friend has to pee

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i went to "mad at me" island expecting to find people i knew, something i understood. but when my boat landed, standing upon the shore were a million empty husks wearing my own face. every foot of the island was occupied, and everywhere i went, they watched me with contempt. they never spoke, never breathed. they simply watched. no matter how i grovelled and begged, snarled and cursed, tried to hide or kicked and hit, they simply stared. the hatred in their gaze was inescapable, but i could hardly return it, knowing that their doomed existence was of my own creation. knowing that the hatred was nobody's but my own. in the end i just wept, unable to stand the relentless gaze of my own infinite glare.

the guy who i accidentally cut off in traffic last week was there also

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AI art is ugly slop and will always be ugly slop because it's stealing. Fuck AI.

Oh, I don't disagree with what you mean! But I personally deliberately shy away from applying moral labels to aesthetics in every area I catch myself doing it. So when I say it can be beautiful, that's not a compliment or endorsement of its use. It's part of the problem. The really unconvincing stuff is less threatening.

God, trap card. Please, I need to vent and you gave me a really good opening. Hang on. Thank you. I've been waiting for an excuse, I got so mad about this last year and have seethed ever since. I'll show you what I actually do find threatening.

Beautiful images are kind of eating my favorite hobby alive.

Look at this puzzle:

It is beautiful, and if I knew a human had done it I would say that person was VERY proficient. I am an artist and I sure couldn't have done it. Could I fix the bits that are not quite right? Yes. But I couldn't have just...done this. This is so pretty and I am so deeply upset and frustrated by that.

That company must have, I don't know, well over a dozen puzzles like it, beautiful stained glass kitties, probably more. I would buy them all if they weren't what they are! I'm sure the company commissioned all of them for less than the price of paying someone to do just one like it with a more traditional workflow.

That's the threat. The part that scares and upsets me.

The puzzle company charges the customer the same, and someone who likes the image and can't tell what it is will look at the others and be absolutely delighted there is more of the same and buy more. That's how puzzle lines within brands work.

What happens when it gets so good I can't tell? Because that probably is already happening and will doubtless happen more and more often.

What happens when a program can convincingly imitate my favorite puzzle artist's work? What if the company she works with drops her in favor of a larger line that costs them less? Where will she go and where will I get her stuff?

Ugly stuff would never be able to displace her, or have me buying it. I wish it was ugly. I could stop feeling like it was any sort of threat.

I'm not picking on you, though.

You can obviously stick with "bad intentions and bad people make something ugly". Not the phrasing I would use, I think it's REALLY important to detach morality from aesthetics, but I'm not your dad, and it isn't like being incredibly frustrated with the situation as it stands today isn't completely justified and you should say it.

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if i ever write something set in the united states im just going to do zero research whatsoever and make stuff up to sound cool it’s equality

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Source: Vinland Saga ヴィンランド･サガ

by Makoto Yukimura