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[novasillies]

Sincerely hope all generative AI users die like actually

[cuchufletapl]

Alternatively.

[completeoveranalysis]

[10]

Ohhh. Now that is striking. This frame in particular.

You could read as many metaphors as you like into how this matches the general Watanuki narrative here - Watanuki mirrored against a distorted image of himself. Is that his past self? Or Lava Lamp? Or the hole in the universe he's causing? His grief? The general weight of his existence? The influence he has on other people's lives? They all work well, especially with one Mokona being black and one being white.

But also (Bad Apple plays softly in the distance)

OH HELP, THAT IS TOO MUCH. 

I AM OVERCOME WITH EMOTION. 

It doesn’t even matter which Sakura is his mother, honestly it’s such a Sakura move. For his new name to be a literal promise that they will see him again. 

So, that way, his an existence proof of their promise. Every moment ‘Kimihiro Watanuki’ exists that means their promise lives on. And every time someone says his name, it’s like their words are reaching him all over again.

OH HELP THAT’S TOO MUCH. 

And that’s such a cute way to round it off! Watanuki hears Lava Lamp’s voice echo through the universe, making him promise not to vanish. And this time Watanuki can accept it honestly, because he’s already decided to do the same - for the people around him and for Lava Lamp.

[machiavelli]

when the history teacher gets the names and the dates wrong

[b-plot-butch]

as long as horrible things are happening anywhere in the world, cabaret will be relevant. which means it will never stop being a timely and devastating piece of art.

[queeringclassiclit]

Charlie Bucktin

from Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey (2009)

Propaganda

he is immediately 'thrilled' that Jasper (a rogue boy he's never spoken to) visits his bedroom in the middle of the night, and literally helps hide a body to impress him.

His best friend repeatedly calls him 'queer' because he "doesn't care for Lois (Lane)" but loves Batman because "his body is in peak condition. He's a Renaissance man."

He has a dream about the Wizard of Oz where he's "dressed as Dorothy in ruby shoes." It is never mentioned again.

He navigates his relationship with Eliza (his 'love interest') by copying things he'd "taken note of previously on television and in books"

When he first meets Jasper, he's self-conscious of his "pansy footwear, my first display of girlishness." This becomes a motif throughout the book and by the end, as his internalised shame grows, he has "traded my pansy sandals for heavy boots. Because I know they’ll come for me one day." Admittedly, this is mainly about helping Jasper hide a body, but it's also gay.

submitted by @lightupthisuniverse

[go-learn-esperanto]

I love Code Geass because my reaction to every episode is always the same

I'm always in constant state of wondering What the Fuck is going on.

[borealing]

whenever i see someone on this site summarising a scientific article that is itself summarising a paper especially if that paper is about anything pharma/medicine i feel a great sense of impending doom. not that i don't trust randomers on the piss on the poor website but i always go and fact check against the actual paper and not once has someone summarising an article thats summarising a paper ever been like. right.

[soggypotatoes]

they always say that writing down comprehensive notes of the lecture slides nd what the lecturer is saying is bad practise and not effective study

well to that I say *blocks ears* lalalalala you can prise my collection of meticulously detailed and coded notebooks that I never look at again after the semester out of my cold dead hands

[a-chuffed-floating-panda]

The parable chapter has over 30 pages:)

[capitalismwasamistake]

That is certainly a stance you can take if you want, but I believe it is the wrong one if you wish to live in a world free of oppression.

Providing people with the widest possible array of options and freedoms so that they can pursue their goals free from stigma and prejudice is a fundamental aspect of true democracy. I suggest reading Elizabeth Anderson's essay What is the point of equality (1999) for a detailed argument on how achieving equality in capabilities (what state of being a person is able to achieve) destroys social hierarchies and secures what she calls "democratic equality" - a state of affairs which realises egalitarianism's goal of freedom from oppression. I can send you a pdf if you want (that applies to anyone else too, hit me up, I got the goods). This supports my claim that freedom in personal choices works towards liberation (not just uncritical wish fulfillment, mind, but providing people with the freedom and information to make informed decisions about themselves). Allowing people to have as many capabilities as possible and (importantly) equal capabilities to each other, requires that conditions such as universal free healthcare, universal basic income, compensation for domestic labour etc, be met - these things advance liberation.

Regardless, universal free healthcare is a desirable state of affairs (unless you're a conservative, I suppose, let me know if we need to roll the debate that far back) and I already made the argument above that restricting its coverage only to things you (or somebody else) considers "necessary" is paternalistic and fundamentally against freedom. You repeating that you think restrictions to availability should apply does not respond to my argument. You need to either say you believe freedom is not desirable (and justify that claim), or claim that paternalism is necessary (and justify that claim). Or, as mentioned above, deny that universal free healthcare should be a thing altogether (and justify that claim).

The last option will be difficult if you also claim you want a world free of oppression (this claim is supported with my point about Anderson's democratic equality above, which is why I brought it up, I can expand on that point if needed).

Lastly, about the tag "trans entitlement". My argument is quite general - yes, the point it largely about bottom surgery in the context of this post, but I specifically brought up IVF and body modifications such as tongue piercings as examples. I'm arguing for a large bundle of freedoms to handle one's own body that do not stem from medical emergency, and reducing my point to "trans entitlement" is dishonest engagement with what I am saying. Unless you want to say universal, no questions, on demand IVF is trans entitlement as well. I'd love to see that justification. I am arguing that freedom and a world without oppression necessitates the availability and accessibility for every individual to do with their body as they please - the fact that this happens to include trans people stems from the fact that they're individuals, not from any desire to cater to them specifically.

Anyone should be able to get bottom surgery for any reason, and it should be free.

Cis guy wants a vaginoplasty but nothing else, and still identifies as a cis guy? ABSOLUTELY.

Cis girl wants phalloplasty? WITHOUT QUESTION.

People should be allowed to have whatever relationship with their bodies and identities makes sense for them.

(this post MUST be reblogged by EVERYONE)

[melit0n]

Sat in class and watching with horror as almost everybody in the rows in front of me pulls out Chatgpt to answer an exam question

[necessaryvictoriangargoyle]

"God is present in Jesus' foreskin."

- My notes Early Modern Period

[taegularities]

I was listening to Ed and I remembered CMI couple 😩😩😩😩

howww have i never thought of adding lego house to the cmi playlist before like 😭 "i'm gonna paint you by numbers and COLOUR YOU IN"? the canvas coded 🥺💕 stop, this is one of my top fav ed songs and now i'm even more emotional thinking about their love… :(((((((

[probablyasocialecologist]

Artificial intelligence is worse than humans in every way at summarising documents and might actually create additional work for people, a government trial of the technology has found. Amazon conducted the test earlier this year for Australia’s corporate regulator the Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) using submissions made to an inquiry. The outcome of the trial was revealed in an answer to a questions on notice at the Senate select committee on adopting artificial intelligence. The test involved testing generative AI models before selecting one to ingest five submissions from a parliamentary inquiry into audit and consultancy firms. The most promising model, Meta’s open source model Llama2-70B, was prompted to summarise the submissions with a focus on ASIC mentions, recommendations, references to more regulation, and to include the page references and context. Ten ASIC staff, of varying levels of seniority, were also given the same task with similar prompts. Then, a group of reviewers blindly assessed the summaries produced by both humans and AI for coherency, length, ASIC references, regulation references and for identifying recommendations. They were unaware that this exercise involved AI at all. These reviewers overwhelmingly found that the human summaries beat out their AI competitors on every criteria and on every submission, scoring an 81% on an internal rubric compared with the machine’s 47%.  Human summaries ran up the score by significantly outperforming on identifying references to ASIC documents in the long document, a type of task that the report notes is a “notoriously hard task” for this type of AI. But humans still beat the technology across the board. Reviewers told the report’s authors that AI summaries often missed emphasis, nuance and context; included incorrect information or missed relevant information; and sometimes focused on auxiliary points or introduced irrelevant information. Three of the five reviewers said they guessed that they were reviewing AI content. The reviewers’ overall feedback was that they felt AI summaries may be counterproductive and create further work because of the need to fact-check and refer to original submissions which communicated the message better and more concisely. 

3 September 2024