Ugh, So True. One Of My Worst Pet Peeves Is When I Go To Click On One Thing But Another Appears Suddenly

UGH so true!!!! this is what i keep saying. AI/ML is an incredibly useful tool. we can catch cancer earlier, speed up design processes via structural optimization, catch industrial accidents before they happen, and figure out where fruits are on a tree and which are ripe to automate farming!!! but everyone is focused on genAI and stealing from artists. it's so infuriating to watch

at my university, ai use is a pretty hotly contested topic. cheating with it is a problem. and now the university is partnering with openAI to give us all free chatgpt??????? that's insane to me

a friend at a different university sent me a video of their chancellor talking about ai use and its benefits. the entire video was ai-generated. and it was really fucking convincing.

thought they needed a little reminder that they still have far more to lose if they double down on this stupidity. spread the word, it seems they're... very forgetful about this.

day 1 at the communal puzzle club: i see a puzzle with a sign next to it that says "please help with our communal puzzle" and i say to myself "don't mind if I do" and did the whole thing

this is like lingerie to me

wait that post was about the 'valley girl' accent right?

i say this as a fellow californian, aren't the standard hollywood california accent and the valleygirl accent two different things? like they sound different to me and i know for certain i have the regular california accent

wait is the valleygirl accent just an exaggeration? do i sound like that to other people????

one of the funniest things I see people say about "standard english" btw is californians who are like "yeah basically all american english speakers speak the same way so it makes sense to call that 'standard american english'" because you know they only perceive it that way because californian english has like every single vowel merger simultaneously so they can't tell the difference between other american english varieties. they're fish who don't know they're wet

hmm tomorrow i will write an absolutely unhinged post on car headlight design despite knowing little to nothing about design

truly beautiful to see an outer space alien and an anti-alien racist come together in appreciation of kasane teto. i expect nothing less of teto. teto can stop wars

you’re sitting across from me in a shitty diner in anywhere, america, and i watch you pour too much creamer in your coffee and i think “i love you.” you look up, catching me staring, and for a moment i think i’m brave enough to say it, but i take too long and the moment passes. i take the balled up straw wraper and flick it at you, pretending that was my plan all along. you laugh. i never want to go another day without hearing that laugh. i think i will have all the time in the world to say it.

So, like, universal basic income.

One of the things I’ve heard people say is how, you know, you need income as a motivation to make people work. And I’ve heard some great arguments against that.

But also.

There are a lot of low-paid jobs that actually make the world a crappier place. Like, if we could just pay everyone in the fast fashion industry to stay home and not go to work, the world would be a much better place. If we paid people enough that they didn’t need to work in factories, then large-scale manufacture of crappy stuff wouldn’t be feasible anymore.

Like, we’re basically in a post-scarcity society. We have more than enough food and clothing for everyone. This manic capitalist mindset where we force people to go to jobs they hate to remove value from the world is insane, right?

And maybe if we instituted this we’d lose fast food corporations and stuff. But I bet they’d be replaced by small restaurants run by people who are passionate about what they do.

He made her an offer she couldn't refuse