GIVE ME THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALSO TELL ME WHETHER YOU WANT IT DONE WITH ONE OF THOSE “MY MIX” YOUTUBE PLAYLISTS OR THE PLAYLIST I’M MAKING WHERE I ADD 1-3 SONGS FOR EVERY DAY OF THIS YEAR
OR BOTH
I’ll do both if unspecified
Okay. It's time for an AI rant.
My nephew is 13 years old. Whenever he writes a paper for school, I check it over and fix all of his mistakes for him. He said to me, "Maybe I'll proofread your paper for you in exchange," meaning one of the scholarly articles I write for work. I said, "Cool," and gave him the file. And he said, "Well, this is full of errors! See, you always say you have a lot to correct on my stuff, and look at all the stuff you got wrong!" And I said, surprised, "What? Where?" Because I'm sure there are typos in the draft I sent him, but not, like, that many.
And then he pointed to the screen and said, "Look at all the blue and red lines you have."
And I said, "Yeah, but those are wrong. Like, those are blue and red lines I'm ignoring because the computer is wrong." And then I paused and added, "You know you can't proofread a paper by just looking at the red and blue lines, right?" And he gave me the blankest look, because that clearly is EXACTLY what he thinks. And it became even clearer suddenly why, whenever I correct something on his paper, his immediate reaction is, "It didn't have a blue or red line."
There's a very good reason for that: THAT'S BECAUSE THE COMPUTER ISN'T SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT IT WAS WRONG.
I am so tired of being sold the idea that computers are better than humans and so we should just outsource everything to them, which is clearly the lesson my nephew is absorbing in U.S. middle school. COMPUTERS ARE NOT BETTER THAN HUMANS. Like, maybe they are better at humans at crawling through rubble to find people trapped inside. They are also better at preserving things in a searchable format. Things like that. Very limited circumstances.
I don't want to sound alarmist but everything I hear about people using generative AI freaks me out. It's not just that I'm freaked out by people being like, "I use it to write novels!" (Although I don't see how they do, I have tried to have it write fiction for me and the output was truly terrible.) But I recognize my bias around creative writing and so no one needs to credit my views on artificial writing. But! Other things are alarming, too! "I use it to brainstorm x, y, or z." But...why? Why not just...use your own brain...to...brain...storm? The computer doesn't even have a brain to brainstorm with! And you might be like, "But it comes up with things that my brain would never think of!" So would other people! You could also brainstorm with other people! Or even through Google to see what other people have thought before you (not AI). Please don't belittle the wonder of thinking.
I just feel like the marketing around generative AI boils down to "Wouldn't it be easier not to use your own brain to think about things?" Everyone. No. It would not be. Please just trust me on this. I'm not just an old person who is out of touch with technology or something. I promise. USE YOUR BRAINS. IT WILL BE OKAY.
Tubbo: Why have they changed it? These colors are awful. I– ew! I actually hate it! Where– what happened to the orange? Why’s it purple?
Tubbo: [Realizes] OH—
Tubbo: Oh, I'm actually– I'm actually a bigot, it’s Ace Race, I get it. Ohhh, ohhh that’s awkward. Ohhh, that's awkward. I’m a bigot. Oh, I'm a bigot. Oh, I'm a bigot. Ohhh. It’s crazy that they let bigots into MCC these days! Well actually, they’ve always done that.
THE FUCKING END LINE? ARE YOU JOKINGGGG. TUBBO. TUBBO YOU CANT SAY THAT TUBBO ITS TRUE BUT YOU CANT
A new cat color has been spotted in Finland. This is really interesting. A lot of common cat coat patterns have only evolved in the last 1,000 years. The tabby cat coloration only evolved in the Middle Ages.
they’re calling it salty licorice because of its visual similarity to the popular Finnish sweet, it reminds me of blue tick coloring in dogs or the blue roan coloring in horses and cows.
Anonymous asked:
Can i also be part of the polycule ? I dont have much to bring but i can make banana bread...
poetrylesbian answered:
i dont like banana bread
I went to hot topic with my mom and I grabbed this shirt
And she says "oh cool rainbow worms" and in my head I'm like no they're pride worms
Anyway, we get to the cashier and he said "youre buying the pride worms!" And I'm like "yeah" and then we talked about Melanie Martinez for a bit and as we were leaving he yelled "HAPPY WORM MONTH!-WAIT NO HAPPPY PRIDE MONTH!"
So uhh happy worm month guys
from now we are enemies (fall out boy) // innocence (late-august) // be calm (fun.) // innocence (late-august) // my life is a song for you (tom rosenthal) // memento (toktopus) // history has its eyes on you (hamilton) // be calm (fun.) // ozymandias (sad-ist) // not what i meant (dodie) // tears ricochet (taylor swift) // dawn of the 16th (sad-ist) // shatter (late-august) // qarameiio // ozymandias (sad-ist) // memento (toktopus) // king (lauren aquilina) // memento (toktopus) // innocent (taylor swift) // i didn’t get to say goodbye (the mad ones) // memento (toktopus) // king (lauren aquilina) // innocence (late-august) // lapse (late-august) // i’m so that guy (bloody bloody andrew jackson)
Hey did I ever tell you about my theory pacman is a hermaphrodite species? Ya know, like slugs
specifically, Ms. Pacmen are the default form of the species and the only ones capable of engaging in reproduction. what we call ‘pacmen’ are in fact just the sterile worker drones. you see more pacmen in games bc as drones it’s their job to collect the majority of food (dots) for the hive.
my evidence is what happens when you flip an image of Ms. Pacman upside down
like the flounder, Ms. Pacmen have two eyes on one side of their head. the eyes are asymmetrical but fully functional. Thus, given the unusual symmetry of the Pac Man body, we may observe an interesting phenomenon:
that’s right! what we commonly identify as a hair bow may equally be described as a bowtie. this is because, as the external genitalia of a hermaphrodite species, it is capable of both impregnating and being impregnated. The sterile drones naturally lack this appendage (whether they or born sterile or forcibly neutered by fellow hive members is a matter of scientific disagreement.)
this leads to my next hypothesis, the pacmen are the larval form of clowns.
all i ever sought from life was to cause disquietude
I mean, there’s evidence?
But if this is true, what are the other growth stages?
this leads to my third point, that pacmen regularly cannibalize their young, aka the ‘dot’ larval form. it is this act of infanticide around which gameplay revolves
Gaud why
A Queen Pacman that has reached full adult size may choose to take on a human host, depending on availability. it attaches itself to the host’s nose, which eventually withers and falls off, leaving the parasite to grow swollen and bright red as it fills with blood, and infecting the host with toxins that alter its physiology & neurology to that of the common Clown.
Interestingly, the characteristic ‘clown honking’ comes from squeezing the parasite, which is typically mistaken for the Clown’s nose. Honking is the Pacman’s way of vocalizing displeasure at the sudden expulsion of blood (after which the Pacman immediately refills itself). It is said the host organism experience rare glimpses of lucidity in these moments, but this is unconfirmable.
month ONE of quarantine. one month.
Every discord I’ve ever been in has had a pets channel. I like that about humans. Our companions will never understand this form of affection, yet we still love them so much that we make space for them even in a virtual communities. We care regardless of whether it can be understood or returned.
