Reblog If Your Name Isn't Amanda.

a significant portion of bad AI discourse happens because people are not sufficiently rigorous in disambiguating "AI", the cultural object into which the bourgeoisie have deposited all their hopes and dreams for a world where they no longer depend upon the proletariat, and which mostly serves the practical purpose of driving investment, with Neural Networks/Large Language Models, the technologies that exist in real life with actual use cases and actual limitations--or indeed in realizing that such a disambiguation is necessary

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One must imagine Sisyphus happy, as we've probably heard before.

I'd like to argue that one must imagine Atlas cares for us all.

Atlas, the Titan who was punished for defiance of the Gods, was forced to take on four of his usurped brother's duties by holding the sky above the ground.

The sky crushes him every day, never giving him a break, never letting him rest. He's in pain every waking moment of his life, and he's unable to sleep.

Atlas has met very few humans. His one attempt at escape was foiled by his empathy for trying to trick Heracles into taking his place. Had he not given Heracles 5 minutes to "adjust his position," Atlas would have been free. Despite this, he holds the sky.

Atlas could certainly let the sky fall. The world would be darkened, life would get squashed, an extinction would begin, and he would be first. What issue does he have with this? His life is pain, his future worse than his present, his days monotonous with suffering.

He has no real reason to keep his position, for he has no reason to love nor live life. If it isn't his life he loves, it must be another. All the living things under his protection must matter to him. All of us must be considered more valuable to him than his pleasure of release.

Therefore, Atlas loves us all. He loves us more than he loves himself. He lives not for his sake, but for ours.

Realizing the bad guy in Se7en actually didn’t do his research.

I think it’s becoming clear how difficult this is to appreciate in certain social media bubbles: Transphobes (including terfs) read Discworld and don’t think it applies to them. Racists read Discworld and don’t think it applies to them. I’ve seen far-right MAGA hat gun-toting white supremacists talk about Discworld and they simply haven’t noticed that they’re openly being mocked for their narrow-minded bigotry with every page.

They’re out there, and they really aren’t as rare as you’d like to believe. When you believe that you’re the default setting, you can simply decide that you’re going to live in a world where you can just ignore anything that doesn’t align with your prejudices. They don’t even notice.

okay im giving you to the count of -3 to restore the proper flow of time

Hi. I finally finished the Spirk comic set to Johnny Cash's Hurt I have been working on for a month. If you want to, please enjoy and leave some nice words :) thank you.

CW for: blood, self-harm, spoilers for anything TOS, death

HURT

There is a part 2! Please consider reblogging and reading the whole comic :)