#Internet of Things & Machine to Machine

[raavenb2619]

I’m not sure when exactly this happened, but I think it’s clear that the aro community really is a community, now.

For the longest time I’ve felt like we were still in stasis, not quite there; a proto-community, yes, but not quite a community. But we have more history now to lean back on, more of each other to talk to and laugh with and cry with and learn from. More people that’ll go forward and make a part of modern aro history. More people that believe us, believe in us, will stand with us if we ask them.

I wouldn’t consider myself an aro elder yet, though each year I’m surprised at how long aromanticism has been a part of my life, how long I’ve been free of doubt or insecurity about my aromanticism, how far we’ve come since I was questioning. Then again, when I was questioning, some of the people I looked up to for guidance were probably close to the age I am now, so I might be there sooner than I think.

And, I’m so so hopeful for all aros, young or old, new or not, because we’ve come so far. Day by day, progress is slow (and yes, it’s unfair, it should be so much faster), but looking back it feels fast. We are our own role models, the people we look up to for guidance. We carve our own path through life, making things up as we go. I used to find that terrifying, because I had no idea what the future would bring. But it’s actually amazing, because I can ignore all these silly “rules” and guidelines about what my life should be, and instead ask, “what do I want my life to be?”

Younger me, you have no idea how awesome your future is gonna be. I’m sorry about the pain and hardship you’ll go through first; it won’t be fair and you shouldn’t have to deal with it. But you’ll make it through, and one day you’ll be me. I can’t wait for you to get here.

[uncanny-tranny]

The thing that gets me about history and humanity is that you never know what is immortalized, and the things that will be immortalized are things you would never think.

I saw a person sharing a new tattoo, and it was one of Onfim's drawings. A boy who lived so long ago he is barely a blip now, but his drawings meant so much to people that somebody is now permanently marked in their skin with one of those drawings. Do you ever look at the things you make and just sit there and wonder if this is the thing that future people look at? Do you ever look at your art, your writing, your schoolwork, or anything that is yours and just wonder who will find it, who will fall in love with a piece of your humanity and become overwhelmed with emotion over? It's not unlikely. It's not totally unlikely that somebody will find a piece of you in the distant future and devoid of any other context of who you were will still love you because you were here. You were here, and you are still here, even hundreds or thousands of years later. Treat yourself with the same love that so many have for dear Onfim.

[blood-slush]

scraped from an archive of geocitiesghost' blog

[trebuchet151]

This is jumping the queue bc some really cool people reblogged my last post of Corey and they escaped containment.

Updated sidestep design perpetual WIP

Sidestep days vs retribution. They're slowly reacquiring their self expression. Next book will probably be the full return of the scene/punk look

Bonus Corey sans most of their clothing to show off their tattoos under the cut. CW for healed SH scars

Yes that is Ortega's bedroom yes I half assed it. I drew this background in my car at work when it was like 110 degrees idgaf

[elucubrare]

using my time machine exculsively to tell people the one thing everyone remembers them for and see how mad they get

[local-lover-boy]

The distraction machine isn't distracting me enough, I still feel it

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

quick question. how do you not be. so so addicted to the internet and screens at every second.

[kineticpenguin]

This is just old Boomer advice and it’s kinda like saying “if you have to join a cult, join Scientology.”

The Air Force uses the exact same pay scale and benefits as every other branch. Troops living in condemned base housing isn’t just an Army thing, either. Also the PT thing isn’t even true like it was in the 1990s.

The fact that the Air Force enlisted are generally more likely to be technicians, medical and administrative personnel rather than combat arms will give you decent odds of not getting shot, but it will often not protect you from completely fucking up your physical and mental health through grueling shift work hours, the drinking culture, and subjecting you to the absolutely insane abuses of military hierarchy.

[crayonmilkz]

doomscrolling well have u ever heard of doomdownloading. doomsaving. doomhoarding virtual data before it disappears poof gone

[fallintosanity]

Windows 11 in a nutshell

how many important functions can we hide from the user in the name of "simplicity"

how many ads can we stuff into the handful of places we deign to allow users to see

[awkward-teabag]

I have to wonder how many people celebrating AI translation also complain about "broken English" and how obvious it is something was Google translated from another language without a fluent English speaker involved to properly clean up the translation/grammar.

Because I bet it's a lot.

I know why execs are all for it—AI is the new buzzword and it lets them cut jobs thus "save" money and not have to worry about pesky labour laws when one employs humans—but everyone else?

There was some outcry when Crunchyroll fired many of their translators in favour of AI translation (with some people to "clean up the AI's work") but I can't help but think that was in part because it was Japanese-to-English and personally affected them. Same when Duolingo fired many of their translators in favour of LLM translation. Meanwhile companies are firing staff when it's English to another language and there's this idea that that's fine or not as big a deal because English is "easy" to translate and/or because people don't think of how it will impact people in non-English countries.

Also it doesn't affect native English speakers so it doesn't get much headway in the news cycle or online anyway because so much of the dominant media is from English-speaking countries and English-speakers dominate social media.

But different languages have different grammar structures that LLMs don't do, and I grew up on "jokes" about people speaking in "broken English" and mocking people who use the wrong word when it was clearly a literal translation but the meaning was obvious long before LLMs were a thing, too. In fact, the specific way a character spoke broken English has been a way to denote their native tongue for decades, usually in a racist way.

Then Google translate came out and "Google-translated English" became an insult for people and criticism of companies because it was clearly wonky to native speakers. Even now, LLMs—which are heavily trained on English compared to other languages—don't have a natural output so native English speakers can clock LLM-generated text if it's longer than a sentence or two.

But, for whatever reason, it's not seen as a problem when it goes the other way because fuck non-English readers or people who want to read in their native tongue I guess.

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

Modern life just has...too much stuff to keep track of. Too many deadlines and logins and accounts and emails and messages on multiple different platforms and constant bombardment of information and I can tell my brain is really struggling to manage it all.

[antidotesprout]

Well kids we'll be seeing how Adderall works on the ADHD since atomoxetine didn't cut it for me (chronic heartburn, interrupted sleep).

Get ready for turbo granny hours ig

[chambersevidence]

Search Engines:

Search engines are independent computer systems that read or crawl webpages, documents, information sources, and links of all types accessible on the global network of computers on the planet Earth, the internet. Search engines at their most basic level read every word in every document they know of, and record which documents each word is in so that by searching for a words or set of words you can locate the addresses that relate to documents containing those words. More advanced search engines used more advanced algorithms to sort pages or documents returned as search results in order of likely applicability to the terms searched for, in order. More advanced search engines develop into large language models, or machine learning or artificial intelligence. Machine learning or artificial intelligence or large language models (LLMs) can be run in a virtual machine or shell on a computer and allowed to access all or part of accessible data, as needs dictate.

[sibelin]

i think we should all strive to put ourselves in uncomfortable situations if it leads to a nice social outcomes

[birds-for-brains]

Not gonna lie, being an artist is the weirdest thing in the world - sometimes, you'll just be there, pondering why you can't draw something as simple as a hand or a straight line, and then your new interests just make you feel like you can draw literally ANYTHING- Only for you to crash land on Earth again and repeat the cycle with different stuff... tragic, yet comedic at the same time. It's an irony we eventually get used to, or stop realizing it, at least. That's, on another note, a reason why I don't like social media posting either... it gets me to witness the literal ups and downs, when in reality I should just be focusing on enjoying what I make, good or bad. And when I try to figure out why people aren't enjoying the changes in my stuff, or why I'm losing "engagement", my brain just fries, since I've just been doing the same stuff... and I say that as someone who used to be really active on other socials. I wanna find enjoyment in art, coding and music again. Not in the social media sense, but the creation sense. Not feel pressured to post it, but allow myself to vibe with its creation.