dropoutninja.bsky.social
Lego, horror movies, and autism mainly
agender, any pronouns. it is fascinating to observe what you call me
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I stand by CoolPix, my 840 is older but it’s great for toy photography and it’s easy to grip
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every time another few hundred people block JD Vance, it is a balm for my soul
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there are plenty of ethical, legal, and environmental arguments against AI, but for me what it boils down to is the futility
I will never be impressed by AI because at its core, it is simply a self-operating napkin with tragic side effects
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and I think the idea of AI increasing efficiency is bogus, anyway
it's like using a Rube Goldberg machine to crack an egg
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it is amazing how people will contort their logic, lower their standards, and give up their agency, all for the sake of instant gratification
I will never stop being astounded at the ravenous capitalist drive for speed and efficiency
don't get me wrong, I love efficiency, I just love living more
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"wow did you use chatgpt to write that?"
motherfucker I have an MFA, eat my ass
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I have a real computer, I have a real camera, I have a real radio, and I do not need a shoddy imitation that fits in my pocket
for 40+ years, I have survived just fine without a smartphone, and I am fine without AI
what is the appeal of outsourcing my own brain to a malfunctioning robot
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well done!
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yeah, once I said I didn't like the sound of leaf blowers and someone was like "OH so you just want elderly people to slip and fall on leaves!" totally unnecessary aggression
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People when you decline to eat indoors with them because you’re taking clean air precautions.
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keep in mind that when white supremacists came to Knoxville in 2007, we ran them off by dressing as clowns and yelling "white flour!" while throwing around flour
in the video notice who the cops are protecting and how absurd it is
KPD ALWAYS protects the nazis
youtu.be/zLjs08ykI8w?...
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I know y'all never met my father and will probably never meet me
but I hope someone does see this so they can share a little piece of him too
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the only money my pop left me was some loose change
he'd tried hard to be sober, gone to his meetings, and the bottle of bourbon I found crammed in the back of his cabinet was unopened, I think he had it just in case
in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Burl Ives speaks my heart
youtu.be/CAFV2Y8Oaxc?...
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when my father died, he was living in a low-income efficiency apartment
he didn't even have a bed or table, the only furniture was one rickety metal folding chair, he slept on a blanket in the floor
I have his guitar, his copy of The Hobbit, and the Bible I'd given him for Father's Day one year
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my family is full of musicians, and my father took me to bars where I watched him sing and work the crowd
I was a nonspeaking child and learned to speak late
one night my pop brought me on stage to tell a joke I'd memorized
he gave me this new language, one I grasped instantly: I Joke, You Laugh
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my dad was homeless for a good portion of my life
when I was homeless, he was too, but he still did his best to help me
and he showed me the little joys we could still have, in this situation that was beyond our control
all he needed was his guitar, and this taught me how to hope
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my father was half Irish, with an immigrant mother
he thought the gov't meant us no good, and he encouraged everyone to get involved, protest or organize or volunteer
when he passed, my pop was running for office because our state rejected the ACA Medicaid expansion
he was uninsured and dying
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once when we passed gov't housing, my dad asked if I knew what the word ghetto meant
he explained the word's history to me and said "there aren't any barbed wire fences or guard towers, but the gov't has trapped Black folks there with poverty"
he believed it was his responsibility to teach me this
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my father spoke openly about his disabilities, and after he died many folks came up to me and said something like
"you know, your dad talked about his depression like there was nothing to be ashamed of, and that helped me with mine"
he taught me how to respect myself as a disabled person
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pop was the smartest person I ever knew
he drove a taxi, and folks always said "you could do so much better!"
but his depression was disabling— he'd left his original profession because he was institutionalized
he told me it was better to be happy and poor
this helped me forgive my own "failure"
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I'm Appalachian, I come from a family of moonshiners. it will be a cold day in hell before I lick a boot
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Brad Renfro was very much a Knoxville boy, I had so many friends just like him, except they weren't in movies
a lot of them are dead now, too
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yeah he used to run around my neighborhood a lot
the first time I met him he was shooting hoops at a church, I got introduced cause he was friends with a childhood friend of mine
one of my exes ripped him off in a weed deal, only to count the money and discover Brad had also ripped him off