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Oh god setting up a new social media in 2023 wtf aaa
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1) duh 2) incredibly, the “product” of writing college essays is not to produce more college essays. no one in the history of humanity has ever said, can we somehow step up the production of 5 page essays on hamlet?!? there is a shortage!!!

Remember: your fear of looking stupid is HOLDING YOU BACK

your regular reminder that buying Harry Potter stuff gives money to Rowling and she uses that money directly and in large quantities to fund attacks on trans people no ethical consumption under capitalism and all but “don’t buy Potter stuff” is an extremely easy baseline to follow

“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.

With the Oblivion remaster taking up the hype cycle, it's probably a good time to re-up that the Palestinian-led BDS movement has asked for a boycott of Microsoft's gaming products due to the company's ongoing and enthusiastic technical support for the IDF's ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Oh boy time to share one of my favorite discworld bits again

sharing a value tumblr post reminding you to be reasonable and kind to yourself when the world feels very deeply unreasonable and cruel

extremely important PSA

it's such a bastard to turn off AI features because we're still in the 'artificially inflating the value' part of the tech bullshit hype cycle & somewhere a man in a suit has to say "we already have x million users!" to another guy in a suit

“One flesh, one end, bitch.” The Locked Tomb series is very very good🌟

New life motto dropped.

You have a deep loneliness and alienation due to many factors within and without relating to your identity that can’t be solved by simply “loving yourself more” or “socializing more”??

I I Want To Be a Red Alligator (1/3)

join me, please, in calling them what they are: predictive models ChatGPT is a predictive text model CoPilot is a predictive code model Stable Diffusion is a predictive image model they are not generative. they predict what something you described might be like. they do not make that thing

This. I’ve not seen many people this year at all, but the few times I’ve had small indoor gatherings, we all tested beforehand. If someone didn’t feel well, we rescheduled. And guess what? None of us got covid and we still had safe and fun hangouts.

Now see the problem with getting access to _this_ place is realising I have no idea who I followed on the _old_ place I'd still like to hear from, cos I barely use it any more, and half the people I'd have liked to hear from naffed off months ago