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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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Delicious. We love to see it.

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i really do fucking love the train. i sit it goes we arrive etc

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Growing up is wild, especially when someone you vaguely knew gets kinda famous, because I can just be scrolling and suddenly the girl from my English class who used to leave plastic spiders on my desk because it freaked me out is trying to sell me mayonnaise.

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the second and third doctors’ beef is so funny. “god this guy is so annoying, he fucking SUCKS.” girl, that’s YOU.

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I get there are reasons for this people people are so fucking cynical nowadays. It's two swinging pendulums and a box with some LEDs in, literally what about this stretches belief so far that people just assume it's fake?

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Only a year out, pretty impressive. Probably only skewed that little bit because I paid fuck all attention to popular music until the last couple of years, so there are some newer songs I know but could definitely not sing along to.

30-Song Guess Your Age Quiz

Fwiw, they thought I was MANY years younger than I am. Just made me feel good all over. 😊

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Ian Danskin really put the argument the best I've ever seen someone make it:

"Now it's true that at it's worst, the porn industry is a misogynist hellscape of unregulated capitalism, but there are a lot of people ready to blame that on [the porn bit] rather than [the misogynist bit] and [the unregulated capitalism bit]"

And, like OP said, that actually makes it harder to make the industry safer for the workers, because the whole thing gets treated as a cancer to stamp out and not an industry that should be regulated in ways that actually keep the people within it safe without blowing up their entire source of income.

someone got really mad at me for being pro-pornography so i'd like to be annoying for a little longer:

-there are enormous problems with exploitation in the porn industry that harm and endanger the people within it, and that harm is carried out mostly against women and minorities

-this is Bad

-however the last century of passing laws against pornography hasn't actually helped any of those problems, and what sex workers tend to advocate for is the legitimization of their labor, so that they can then access the same protections and regulations that people in other industries can access

-for instance football players, miners, roofers, and warehouse workers are also exploited and endangered by their professions, have to work long hours, and can end up traumatized and disabled by unregulated and unsafe working conditions. these people are used up and thrown away by powerful bosses they can't individually challenge.

-however because these industries are not de facto illegal to participate in, when these people form unions and demand better working conditions, they can at least fight for their rights.

-sex workers, who engage in heavily stigmatized work that's also often illegal, have little recourse to demand better treatment.

-even if you don't like porn, and especially if you don't like porn, if you care about the women who are exploited in pornography, you need to advocate for the legality of pornography.

-the more illegal the porn industry is, the less safe and fair it is, and people will still be working in it, no matter how illegal it is.

-again: the porn industry should be regulated like any other industry and subject to laws guaranteeing fair compensation for labor, safe working conditions, and legal resources for workers suffering exploitation and abuse.

-once it is legal to do sex work, then women can bring charges against the men who have broken their contracts and abused them.

-and that is why i push back against posts saying that pornography is evil. it is an entertainment product, made by people, to meet an ongoing demand. criminalizing the consumption and production of it may slightly lessen the demand at the incredible cost of endangering everyone involved. and i think that is what's evil.

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Update on this:

My counsellor, who I've been seeing for over 18 months now, is leaving in a month and a half so I've got to deal with all this shit with someone new, I did buy that tarot deck, and in fact am now actively identifying as a Christian Witch. Wild times, gang. Wild times.

2025 has been absolutely batshit so far. I got a fucking tattoo, I seem to be having a new groundbreaking realisation in counselling every month, and apparently I'm doing significant research on tarot within a Christian context. As in, like, the two things being able to coexist and tarot as, effectively, a prayer rhythm. Me. Looking at buying a fucking tarot deck.

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there’s something almost sexual about jacking off

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it pisses me off SO bad how transphobes have so effectively used sports to launder transphobia and misogyny to people. like does nobody remember like ~5-10 years ago when it was a MAJOR feminist talking point to argue for desegregating sports and going by skill level instead of gender separation??? and now, because so many cis people hate trans people so violently and think we should be excluded from all aspects of public life, you’ve got a whole bunch of women who call themselves feminists laundering misogynistic talking points about how “women are just inherently weaker and worse at athletics than men :(( it’s just biology and women are inherently inferior :(( this is definitely not misogyny that’s unsupported by science, women are just weaker and worse at things :((“ like girl open your ears and listen to what you’re saying!!

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God dammit

I thought about 'Class' and now I'm sad again. That show was so fucking good and so deeply let down by the BBC. So much potential that just got tossed to the side because they couldn't be bothered with it.

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Most of this is (reasonably) about why this guy's approach to AI is dogshit, and quite right too, it is dogshit. But can we also talk about approaching university as 'buying the accreditation' as if it's not, like, a school. That teaches things.

Like, I know, in the modern world where the job market is so fucked that even just having an undergrad degree is often not enough, it's possibly a tiny bit too much to ask that everyone is at university entire for the joy of learning about something they're deeply interested in. I think if that were true, business and economics courses would have died a long time ago. But there's got to be some of it, right? You can't drag yourself through 3+ years of uni while deeply hating it and having no interest in what you're learning.

This guy's entire mindset is based on rejecting the basic concept of learning being a good thing that enriches your life and is worth it for the sake of it. I work in radiology, I'm just an admin and could do 90% of my job without knowing shit about radiology or medicine - I certainly didn't know a whole lot when I started - but I adore learning about stuff, I've quizzed radiographers before about stuff I have zero need to know, purely because I want to be able to know it. And yes, I do also think that makes me better at my job, but it still doesn't need to.

'Buying an accreditation'? You should be at university to learn! If you also pick your subject because you think it'll get you a good job afterwards, great, go for it, it wouldn't have worked for me but that's fine. But if you think all you're doing is buying a qualification and all that matters is the piece of paper at the end, of course you'll think putting actual work in is pointless. But you'll have a hell of a lot more fun if you actually try and care about the process of learning.

Why are you using chatgpt to get through college. Why are you spending so much time and money on something just to be functionally illiterate and have zero new skills at the end of it all. Literally shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to waste thirty grand you can always just buy a sportscar.

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Does anyone else see different US regions as “coded” as specific seasons?

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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Nothing hits like "romantic couple and a third guy who's not dating either of them but is definitely a part of this dynamic"

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Here's one smaller detail of this I've just noticed. When we see the 'perfect' world, 'John Smith' and Belinda's home, the UNIT office, it's all got this sanitised, very 50s-esque look, and that extends to things like the fashion and hairstyles as well. And yet when we see Ruby, and Shirley, and the disabled camp as a whole, it looks modern.

Conrad thinks so little of people who he can't force into the simple roles of his world, that not only are they marginalised by the people, but even the wish itself. They literally live in a different world, they visually stick out like sore thumbs. I quite like that choice

DOCTOR WHO Wish World