Yoshi and Kirby respectively

I just think they’re neat.

I learned some years ago that Rand wrote erotica before she wrote ““philosophy””

Then I read some of her porn. And everything clicked.

She let her self-indulgent porn fantasies leak into her philosophy, that’s all.

You got any idea how easy it is for those with power to convince a few thousand suckers to defend their evil interests, WHILE genuinely believing they’re doing the right thing? That’s like 90% of content on social media.

I just like getting my dumb blorbos without having to have a spreadsheet of where to find them scattered over 20 different services

Portuguese Wikipedia

I misunderstood the line that says “O Brasil se soma a uma lista de mais países que reconhecem o Estado Palestino,(…)Reconhecendo também a Organização para a Libertação da Palestina (OLP), desde 1975 como “legítima representante do povo palestino”.” as meaning we’ve recognised the state of Palestine officially since '75

Apparently, according to the govbr site OP linked in reply to me above, stuff is a bit more complicated than that but ye.

The list from english wikipedia says my country (Brazil) only recognised Palestine in 2010

But in portutugese wikipedia it is said we’ve recognised them since 1975.

I don’t know which one is right, so.

Bitch

Buying a game during a trip to another town, being away from your computer for a week, and spending the entire week just fondling the game box, reading it, reading the papers that came inside, doing game foreplay.

I am confused.

[shakes head]

Writers (both storytelling and informative) have a set of skills that is very useful but also entirely redundant unless in a well-developed society.

Humanity will always share information because d’uh. And we will always tell stories and make art, because that is just part of the human experience. But without the overload of information and media AND overspecialisation of labour that comes with an industrial society –

– We’d just revert to the olden ways where information spreads from person to person organically (there is a lot less of it to go around, after all) and stories/art are just made up by whomever.

Before television and radio, before most people were able to read, people would make up stories to amuse themselves and their friends while doing work. Tall tales around the campfire. Spooky stories while churning butter. These were all things people did in pre-industrial times.

But there would be no need for someone who is ‘just’ a teller of stories or a sharer of information. So I’d either drop dead or, more realistically, get my ass down with doing manual labour (hey, I might not know how to grow plants, but the amount of time I spend at the gym has gotta be good for something in post-apocalyptia) and save my creative skills to amuse my community during downtime. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Good use cases for AI already exist

And I’m saying this as a certified hater of GenAI

Machine Learning as an invention has already been used for good, useful things. It’s just that it never got caught up in hype like the modern wave of Generative Transformers (which is apparently the proper term for those overhyped chatbots and picture generators)

Me, a writer: [chuckles] I’m in danger

Yes but what is most likely to happen is that some violent mofos will take over large territories and make up their own rules and (…)

Which is what happened the last time there was a societal collapse.

Mind you there -are- TTS tools that use machine learning (which is what advertisers call “AI” now) for more realistic voices. No idea if the radio was using those at all though.

I will die on the hill of calling them computer programs.

I particularly “Love” that a bunch of like, procedural generation and search things that have existed for years are now calling themselves “AI” (without having changed in any way) because marketing.

There are proper words for them, but they are ~technical jargon~. It is sufficient to know that they are different types of algorithm, only really similar in that both use machine learning.

And would the meme work better if it wss used

No because it is a meme, and if people had learned the proper words for things, we wouldn’t need a meme at all.

Call me a luddite, but I don’t think going through a phase where bad actors have the power to set every democracy back by centuries through misinformation and other bad actors have an infinite kiddy porn machine is worth it for what ultimately amounts to a luxury VR Video game that, if even possible to exist (the holodeck isn’t a “technology”, it is a narrative device), would be something that realistically only the ultra-rich would be able to use (because let’s face it, Star Trek’s post-capitalist utopia isn’t happening)

The blanket term “AI” has set us back quite a lot I think.

The plant thing and the deepfakes/search engines/chatbots are two entirely different types of machine learning algorithm. One focussed on distinguishing between things, the other focussed on generating stuff.

But “AI” is the marketable term, and the only one most people know. And so here we are.

Rats have a lifespan of 2 years, how do you hold a grudge against something that is less durable than a tube of ketchup?

She DID lose the mascot contest back in '96, buuuut queer hackers rediscovered her and are keeping the flame alive now

Which is good, she’s adorable.