Funnily the rabbit hole I tried to go down yesterday that was flooded with AI, was a Vietnam War one. I came across a lot of stuff that glorifies wartime activities.

It was a messed up thing to do during the Vietnam war, but stolen valour adds another layer of cringe.

Tried to go down a rabbit hole today, but it was flooded with AI slop. :C

Grew up watching American media, I had no idea what calculus was and why it was so vexing. I decided to watch a video of 5th grade calculus. And this vid was about how kids struggle because they didn't get the basic foundational concepts of it. there's some cart before the chicken happening here.

When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a tip to Bunnings.

If we didn't have art we wouldn't have written language to communicate the complexities of everything else we value.

Was laying in bed when a spider dropped from the ceiling onto my pillow. Excuse me, but does that look like a bloody tuffet to you, Sir???

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

Was looking into girl guides for my kid because my sister suggested it as an option to get her into. (I'm not keen on team sports) I was dubious because it seemed like one of those "white" institutions. Filled with people who wanted clout but didn't become members of the clergy.

The madman got to Gwen!

I hate spider season. The other day I had finished with lunch and scraping the remainders off my plate, only to discover a daddy long legs under my rice 🤮

There's these plastic tubes that I have to chew on while wearing aligners to help my teeth move into position. I've gone through 3 of them so far and judging by my dentist's reaction that's not normal. Mr. Dire joked that I need to get a Kong chew toy.

Needed to go exchange a faulty case fan, dude at the returns desk called out for help checking the fan I brought back and out from the back appeared a near identical dude with the same voice inflections and speech patterns. It was like meeting Pumat Sol.

I was disappointed with those little pleather Goromi makeup bags the Sega shop was selling so I made a SaeMaji themed leather Goromi purse for @diyferret.bsky.social for Christmas

"look we're not using AI in the final product we're just using it to speed up the conceptual stage" is what a lot of dopes affecting an enlightened middle position keep saying. I truly do not get that one. You hate imagining stuff? You don't like thinking and conceptualizing? Get a grip

I watched a lot of movies this year. None of them in the cinema or streamed. I rewatched movies I owned in physical format, or privateered. I've gotten thinking recently about the lack of media savvy. Not just in young people, I see it everywhere.

Do you think if the Emperor of America dies, his sons will attempt to fight each other for the crown? Because that would be hilarious

you have been visited by the Quail of the Double Top Knot. Like for good luck. Ignore to go fuck yourself.

In the comments of a Young Sheldon clip I saw some dudes arguing about what it meant to be red pilled in the context of "nice guys finished last so never be nice to women" I don't think any of them have seen the matrix. It's been stripped of context and is now just part of their Incel-ese lexicon.

People will say stuff like "there's so much we don't know about the world" then go on to say "aliens must have built the pyramids" Who is this "we"?

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

Today I said one of my coworkers was like a CD-R and not a CD-RW. I then had to explain what those were.

Bloody starving at work so I got myself a big sandwich and some peripheral snacks. Sat down, opened up social media, looked at some funny memes then wasn't hungry anymore. I guess I must have spoiled my appetite with dopamine or something.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy. No offence, but that spelling (*You're) needed correction.

The technology basically peaked. It's all incremental tinkering now. Like with digital cameras - the technical differences between the highest end products are only of interest to a tiny percentage of experts. Which might be part of the reason for "AI" being pushed in everything.

This has got to be a fucking troll

Going through my inks and nibs (another victim of baby proofing). 3 of my nibs I had won in an art comp at a now defunct anime con. On a whim I wondered if the store supplying the prizes was still around. They are! And it looks like they haven't updated their website since 2005.

*Making eye contact with the bot account that liked my post because I mentioned SEO*

At some point in the baby proofing process, so much of our things got packed away. The switch to streaming media assisted in the process of packing away all our CDs into emptied boxes of huggies.

The thing that kills me about the LUMI AI stuff is that kids should be, and frequently are, bad at stuff. Allow them to have the experience of being bad at stuff by themselves.

I'm watching Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. It's like Elizabethan 'Dude, where's my car"

When on my period I used to quote Heavy weapons guy from TF2 "SO MUCH BLOOOOOOD!" I stopped because I had told my co-worker, and she kept mentioning how funny that was I trained myself out of it. Instead I now quote Lady Macbeth.

Wisdom from Mini Dire: "Farts are poops breathing."

Saw an old man the other day casually dressed like Freddy Kruger.

If anyone needs a jolt of climate-related optimism, here's the Great Green Wall. In just 10 years these simple, small, moon-shaped troughs halted the spread of the Sahara Desert, cooled huge swaths of land, and are still growing lush ecosystems for local food www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBd...

Of course, the men of Gondor were unable to protect Middle-Earth, and the threat of Sauron was only stopped when hobbits and men teamed up with those of other races and cultures, and worked together for the betterment of all.

Read a thread about how hard it is to actually be an astronaut and how our billionaires will never experience low orbit Elysium. But like, couldn't NASA just lie? We could load them up on a rocket, with like champagne dispensers and wanky LED gamer set ups. And then just fire them into space.

www.instagram.com/reel/DQUPiwg... "A succulent Chinese meal" but Shakespeare wrote it 🤣 it wasn't far from it to begin with

I wonder if ant logistics take into account scout parties that don't return. Do they just keep sending scouts to certain areas unless they hear a report that is negative? Should I let one go after feeding it something nasty?

I don't know why it's so contentious to believe people should be paid well for their specialised skills or paid well to sacrifice their time for a menial job. People around me are definitely not ready to find out I think people who can't contribute to society should also get to live with dignity

sounds like we should maybe make a list of people who hung out with RFK jr ever and prosecute them

Amazon just turned every single Ring camera into a potential ICE camera for sending your neighbors to concentration camps.

Wow, they've gentrified post-it notes.

Does this guy have a shame kink? Was it not embarassing enough asking grok "is this true?"

In case folks don't know, you don't actually have to yeet windows 10 for shitty 11 this month. Pass it on! And comments off bc this is not an invitation to rec linux

I just watched a video where a dental tech gave themselves fangs with dental resin. And previously watched a nail tech make pointy claw nails. Feen. Unfortunately I'm not allowed fancy nails at work, and I'm in aligners so I can't make big changes to my teeth. I can dream.

Wong was born October 25, 1910 in Taishan, Guangdong. At age 9 his father brought the boy to the US, leaving Wong's mother and sister behind. He would never see them again. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made immigration a tricky process, and Wong was separated from his father at Angel Island.

We already have 1000+ reasons to hate """artist""" James C Mulligan (see below), but it was extra enraging to see him stealing and taking credit for the work of actual Bambi artist and all-around Disney legend Tyrus Wong, so here's a mini Ted Talk 🧵

Awesome bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...

An American on Instagram got defensive that I said their voltage was weirdly low. I think I've discovered the new fahrenheit. I'm sorry you've only known shadows on a cave wall all your life.