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Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, United States of America

Nikhil Mistry

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being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?

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im incredibly conflicted by the phrase ‘the question is not who will let me but who will stop me’ because on one hand its so fucking raw and powerful but on the other hand it’s derived from ayn rand but on yet another hand the first and primary time ive ever seen it was on a picture of a lawnmower flying through the sky which is the perfect level of absurd and nonsensical that would piss ayn rand off

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may all your favorite fanfic writers never lose their hyperfixation and love for your blorbos so they keep writing fanfics about your blorbos forever

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Haddon Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England

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Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.How to Turn off Word’s AI Access To Your Content

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”:

File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”

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Did u guys know that Charles Perrault (the guy who wrote the most well-known version of Cinderella in the West) also did his own take on Sleeping Beauty, and it is objectively the best version of that story by a long shot.

First of all the actual Sleeping part is only the first half of the story. He does not stop at her waking up and getting married, oh no, that's only the beginning. But even if you don't take the other half of the story into account, Perrault's version is still probably the most unabashedly romantic and best-developed version. The princess actually knows ahead of time who her prince is because her Fairy Godmother (who hand-picked the Certified Best Boy of the Century to pair with her goddaughter) sends her helpfully informative dreams about him, so that by the time he shows up to wake her, she is already as down bad for him as he is for her. And the prince is so in awe of her when he finally sees her for the first time that he doesn't even touch her. He just kneels down next to her, completely dumbstruck. But that's fine, because this version of the sleeping spell only requires him to come within a five-foot radius of the princess in order to break it, so she pops awake, and the first thing out of her mouth is basically "What took you so long?" Which is indisputably iconic of her. Then they just sit there talking for four hours, and in perhaps the cutest line ever written for a love story, Perrault informs us that "Their discourse was not well connected, they did more weep than talk--little eloquence, a great deal of love." 💕🥺💕 The conversation only stops because the servants (you may recall that her parents and staff were all under the spell with her) start yelling up the stairs for the princess to come eat her dinner before it gets cold. After a nice dinner with her parents, the prince marries the princess, and chills at his in-laws' place for a couple of days.

But like I said, that's only the first part of the story. See, there's a slight complication: the prince's parents have no idea where he is or what he's been doing. Additional complication: he can't tell them the truth because his mom is half-ogre (this crucial piece of information is just dropped like a bombshell in the middle of the story with no preamble whatsoever, and I love it), and not only is she jealously overprotective of her baby boy, but she also periodically eats children. So for six years, the prince is hopping back and forth between his parents' kingdom and his wife's enchanted castle, miraculously managing to dodge his mom's increasingly-suspicious questioning, despite being the worst liar to ever exist. He and the princess have two cute kids named Morning and Day, and Perrault makes a point of letting us know that Day is considerably better-looking than his older sister, which does not factor into the plot in any way, and only serves to reinforce my theory that old Charlie had some major beef with his own sister. But eventually, the prince's father dies, and he has no choice but to return to his kingdom full-time to rule as the new king. So in what is possibly the most awkward homecoming ever, the prince, the princess, and their two kids all move back to the prince's castle, and he has to explain to both his mom and all of his subjects that "oh by the way I've been married for six years. Sorry, forgot to tell you guys. Also I feel it goes without saying, but as your new king I should still remind you all that there will be no eating of minors or beautiful women in this kingdom, MOTHER." Surprisingly, this actually works to keep his mom from eating his wife and kids....for about two years. Then a neighboring kingdom decides it's been a while since they've invaded anyone, and the king has to ride out with his army to repel them. He's gone for maybe all of 12 minutes before his mom goes full mask-off, ships the queen and her kids to a prison, and starts menu-planning. This is, of course, very illegal, but also, she's an ogre and the former queen, so it's not like anyone can feasibly stop her.

Thankfully the head chef (who is the real hero of this story, tbh) is able to pull some shenanigans with some roasted lamb, goat, and venison respectively, to make the ogre-queen think she's eaten her grandkids and daughter-in-law, when in reality the three of them are all bunking at his place until the war blows over and the king comes home. Also worth noting that during all of this, Sleeping Beauty spent several days believing her children were dead, and was genuinely relieved when she thought it was finally her turn to be eaten, so she's going to need lots of therapy after this is all over. And as if that wasn't bad enough, children are, of course, notoriously Very Loud, and it only takes maybe a week for the ogre-queen to hear them making a ruckus in the servants' quarters (I know I said the head chef is the real hero of this story, but even I will readily call him out for keeping them in the flipping castle). At this point, the ogre-queen is more upset about being disobeyed than she is about not getting to actually eat anybody (in all fairness, the chef's replacement dishes were delicious), so she just goes "screw this," and has an enormous tub filled with venomous snakes, plus some toads for intimidation, and orders the queen, the kids, and all the castle servants to be thrown into it. And this totally could have worked too, except for the fact that the king turned out to be really good at warfare, and was also in a hurry to get back home to his wife and kids. So he shows up at the castle way earlier than anyone anticipated, walks in on the attempted execution of his family and staff, and presumably says something to the effect of "WTF," though the text does not explicitly confirm this. The ogre-queen, finally realizing that she can never have nice things, throws herself into the tub of snakes in a fit of despair, and dies immediately.

This is how the story of Sleeping Beauty truly ends--with two thankfully uneaten children, their thoroughly traumatized parents, an ogre's corpse, and a tub full of snakes and toads to deal with. And this is also why fairy tales continue to be my absolute favorite form of literature, because where else are you going to find stuff like this??

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Y'all notice they don't make ocean spray commercials anymore. Ain't seen those two white men in the cranberry pit in a long time. The bog spiders musta got them.

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Just make it exist first, you can make it good later

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if yaoi is so good then why aren't they women

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YouTube is implementing an AI policy that tracks your watch history and determines your age with it. The only way to be able to continue watching the videos you want on YouTube if you've been falsley flagged as a minor by their AI is to give YouTube your government ID. This is being implemented in the US right now. It is essential to rage against this and put YouTube in the fucking ground if they continue with it—that may be the only way to make them backtrack. But damn isn't that hard to do when responding to this announcement with a polite but negative comment flags you for violating community guidelines and bans you from even posting it?

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I was walking around the neighborhood one day and suddenly came across this tree with a branch the formed a spiral

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IM LOSING MY MIND?? WHERE DID THE BREAD COME FROM. WHY IS IT SIDEWAYS. WHAT IS HAPPENING