#machine thinking

[neenarchive]

not being able to borrow an ebook because someone else has it on loan is stupid as hell. like babe this is Document. these are pixels.

[lastoneout]

"Violence only leads to more violence" TRUE! The thing is tho, a lot of people in power seem to think the start of the violence was the CEO getting shot, but they're wrong. The start of the violence was that very CEO running a company that turns immense, endless human suffering into money.

Violence did lead to more violence, decades of needless death and suffering willfully enacted by millionaires so they can make just a little bit more money, that was the start of the violence. If they didn't want it to escalate eventually, they should have maybe not made killing people the core functionality their entire company hinges on.

The people being tortured and killed by the health insurance industry are not the ones who started the violence, and tbh I don't really think it's on them to end the violence, either.

[almondcroissantsandink]

the punch-in-the-face difference in vibes is so so funny to me

[digitalmyyth]

Shenanigans ensue

[chloesimaginationthings]

Fiona’s voice will forever haunt Edwin in SOTM…

[deep4ried]

Who says machines don’t have souls? / Aren’t we machines, too?

[bogkeep]

there's something so deeply dystopian to me how tech companies don't understand that a forced convenience is not a convenience at all. i'm sure autocorrect is helpful for many, but a function that forcibly changes my actual written words and punctuation is taking away my language. photo filters can be nice but i need to choose using them myself or else i have lost the ability to take the picture i want. i don't want a machine to draw or write for me. taking away the option for me to do things manually feels like violence!!!! all this talk of endless opportunity, why are you RESTRICTING me

[variousqueerthings]

we need more dials and knobs and levers again. this world is lacking in dials and knobs and levers. it's one of our biggest issues.

[jaypentaghast]

AMC's Interview with the Vampire (2022), Season 1 Episode 7 | Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt

[rooniearts]

espio going through severe amounts of white boy withdrawals </3 Sad!

bonus under the cut:

[birdhand-art]

anotha one. yall went crazy for the last one and these are a fun quick exercise for me so get rosed on

@kazzzled credit to my beautiful wife for calling dibs on which one i should do next

dirk version

[itsybitsybatsyspider]

i want that slut covered in blood and traumatized by his actions

[tinnedmarlin]

v1, but spider

[heph]

Gravity falls comics compilation Volume 1 download here!

[sophiebaybey]

Not to preach to the choir but I wonder if people generally realize that AI models like ChatGPT aren't, like, sifting through documented information when you ask it particular questions. If you ask it a question, it's not sifting through relevant documentation to find your answer, it is using an intensely inefficient method of guesswork that has just gone through so many repeated cycles that it usually, sometimes, can say the right thing when prompted. It is effectively a program that simulates monkeys on a typewriter at a mass scale until it finds sets of words that the user says "yes, that's right" to enough times. I feel like if it was explained in this less flattering way to investors it wouldn't be nearly as funded as it is lmao. It is objectively an extremely impressive technology given what it has managed to accomplish with such a roundabout and brain-dead method of getting there, but it's also a roundabout, brain-dead method of getting there. It is inefficient, pure and simple.

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

hehee ty for all the love on my redesigns post :3, heres a full ref of all of them!