In a strange position where I think there are massive, massive social harms to the proliferation of AI (misinfo, deepfakes, predatory 'companions', surveillance, labour rights) but also feel the mainstream arguments against it range from unconvincing (water) to actively harmful (copyright; "soul")

Like, I often hear "plagiarism machine that's killing the planet" but I'm very convinced that the copyright panic is actually *harming* artists far more than helping them. Strengthening Disney and Getty's IP rights in the name of "protecting artists" is a very bad thing, I think!

do any of my beloved mutuals wish to do an art trade.... im bored.....

i'm becoming a reply guy

now i'm just yapping into the wind but another thing that annoys me is when people use the "poor people deserve nice clothes too" argument so flippantly. i appreciate the sentiment but you're also not entitled to other peoples' labor just so you can be on-trend

on this note it drives me bonkers when people complain about a $60 something sweatshirt being "too expensive". there is no such thing as a brand new $20 sweatshirt that is of reasonable quality, environmentally friendly, and doesn't require worker exploitation to produce. it does not exist.

it's all going to happen, i can feel it

dude

harbor valorant rework is genuinely so bad, it feels like it was made by people who have no idea what the character is supposed to be. the nearsight bomb is terrible and the new ult is just way worse than the old one for absolutely no reason. holy identity crisis. put it back

i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me

waiting for more slop to hit the QA tower

i wish isekai was like. good

i do not care even if it's half life 3 i am not playing a video game that is not being run on hardware that exists in the same room i am playing it in

well well well

just took my driving test and spent the entire time battling the evil ass brakes on the prius i was in but i DID IT!!!!

The JP voice actress for Hinako streamed Silent Hill f and I can’t stop laughing at her reactions.

there's a surprisingly high chance your car runs kubernetes btw. like inside the car.

what does it say about my personality that i dont like voltron but i specifically like to read lance whump where all his friends are unreasonably mean to him until he has a mental breakdown and then they all feel terrible and apologize

i want to pour milk on him and smack him against the wall like that one hannah montana plushie tweet

sorry to giga weeb yaoipost on main but it's sooooo peakkkkkk

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i need allergen immunotherapy NOW!!!! i want a CAT!!!!!!

those memes about how men cry and wail and die and explode when they come down with a minor cold are feeling very targeted right about now

tried reading one of the short story chapters from the cyberpunk red book, ran into a comma splice and got so mad that i immediately closed the pdf

saw a post on a vegan sub earlier arguing that killing animals is murder specifically because "some (disabled) people have the intelligence of a cow." first of all how are you measuring that, you can't IQ test a cow (not to mention IQ tests are contentious to begin with). second of all wtf

reddit vegans are bad but today i think i accidentally discovered a new and even worse type of vegan: instagram reels vegans

make your software accessible or die

i want to add some more horror elements to the book plot im working on because right now it feels too shounen anime which is not really the vibe i want. i need to put some freaky shit in there

i might have to take it back.....

the fact that my top 4 most popular fics are 1 abandoned fic and 3 oldies that i cant stand to read anymore is haunting me bro gg

iiii want to write a book i want TO WRITE A BOOKKKKK chews on my keyboard

want burger

number one complainer

im tired of 'cozy' games man. we do not need cozy anthropomorphic farming animal pixel art cute relaxing rpg romance life simulator #83441824. make something else

yuri NET bag is peak i fear....

not even cs exclusive. "generatingfunctionology" does the same thing by 1) using inline LaTeX in random places for apparently no reason other than to save on line space, and 2) inventing a bunch of completely asinine "shorthand" when standard notation would get the point across far more clearly

programming/cs textbooks trying to minimize their pseudocode even when it actively makes it less readable is so infuriating. you are writing an EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE bro i promise people are not going to be bothered if you write everything out explicitly and in excruciating detail

THIS IS CRAZY

this place is turning into tumblr 2

the conflation of machine learning and genAI is so fucking asinine. obviously it's going to be hard to avoid AI if you count everything as AI dip shit

as picky as i can be with prose in fanfiction i am willing to put up with quite a bit when it comes to prose as long i think the characterization and other elements are good

saw an instagram comment where someone said they like jimmy mouthwashing as a character and the reply thread was like 100+ replies long and almost every single person in there was completely losing their mind about it

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

STOP BUYING POKEMON GAMES

mouthwashing discourse

54k and ladies... we are not close

certain people on a certain side of a certain subset of fanfiction discourse think that some teenager on tiktok saying "lolicon/incest/whatever is gross and you're gross if you write it" is tantamount to censorship and every time it happens it immediately devolves into wank it's so ridiculous

mcnulty and lester sucked so bad in the last season that it legitimately turned me off of even considering The Wire (2002) yaoi for the rest of my life. it really is that serious

you're telling me there are people out here using the phrase "alt text scolds"?????????

i just think it's kinda hollow to keep reemphasizing that atproto is decentralized as if most people even had a way to use it without being dependent on services operated by bluesky, you know just as well as i do that you control the vast majority of this "network"