People they come together People they fall apart No one can stop us now ‘Cause we are all made of stars
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There’s something deeply political about which fears are normalized, regardless of how irrational or statistically unlikely they may be. To tell the truth I really don’t think much about crime. Have I lived an easy life? In some ways, but there are people with lives a lot easier than mine who are afraid to the point of total dysfunction of getting stabbed or mugged. Who then gleefully endorse the excessive isolation, codependence, and gender-based hierarchies that enable the more likely violence committed by people who actually know each other.
I told my bosses at my last job I was taking a weekend trip to Chicago and they said “gosh, be safe,” as if Chicago is nothing more than the Fox News “Chi-raq” depiction and not a multifaceted region with world-class museums, beautiful scenery, and endless joys and new experiences to be had, even (especially) outside the glitsy tourist areas. They are depraving themselves of all this joy and think all the sensory experiences they need can be found at an Olive Garden surrounded by a sea of asphalt.
Meanwhile, to be afraid of getting hit by a car is a problem for whiny libcucks who should just buy a truck instead, to be afraid when politicians and TV personalities explicitly call for your murder as a queer person is a matter of “hurt feelings,” and women are told to fear serial killers who jump out of alleys with zipties and told to get over their anxieties about intimate partner violence. None of it makes any sense.
From Westminster Choir College’s 1948 yearbook.
“The end?” Vintage “Finis” imagery.
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i finally got around to soaking the molt from last week here's proof of how huge biglarge jailbird is. i always feel like im lying when i tell people her legspan is almost 6"
No “dark adventure time theory” will ever compete with “Mitski survived the atomic bomb and that’s why Marceline knows Francis Forever”
Donald trump live from turbomax brandonprison on a computer screen at a podium: Ron DeSacraligous sleeps outside in one of those plastic igloos for dogs, it's true.
Ron: It's not outside
80,000 notes for this absolute bullshit
Last election cycle, Target gave $333,000 to congressional Republicans while they were in the midst of the current renewed assault on LGBTQ rights; this was $91,000 more than they gave to Democrats. In fact they actually increased the Republican bias of their campaign contributions since 2020. They're not standing by you, they're standing against you!
The problem with corporate pride because is not just that it's corny and insincere, it's that corporations are part of the problem. Their lukewarm signals of pro-LGTBQ sentiment mean absolutely nothing in comparison to the ways that they actively support homophobic political movements. Target would sell throw every gay person in this country into a meat grinder if it meant a 0.1% reduction in their corporate tax rate. Y'all need to be able to distinguish between activism and a shopping trip
In 2004, when the Republican party turned gay marriage into a major campaign wedge issue, Target gave twice as much to the average congressional Republican as they did the average congressional Democrat. But sure, they've totally been there for us the whole time, be sure to keep buying their shirts with pastel rainbows on them everyone
There’s a Russian variant of Beauty and the Beast that describes the beast as a sort of 3 headed serpent…. Just sayin’ Disney…….. It’s a lot cooler than a well dressed furry………….
i get so scared. and i get scared again. yuo are never gonna calm me down. i get so scared. and i get scared again. you are never gonna calm me down. i drink a nervous drink. i drink a frightened drink. i drink an anxious drink, i drink a scary drink. i fear the scares that remind me of the scary times. i fear the scares that remind me of the horror times
all the frothing-at-the-mouth posts about how “don’t you dare put a fic writer’s work into chatGPT or an artist’s work into stable diffusion” are. frustrating
that isn’t how big models are made. it takes an absurd amount of compute power and coordination between many GPUs to re-train a model with billions of parameters. they are not dynamically crunching up anything you put into a web interface.
chances are, if you have something published on a fanfic site, or your art is on deviantart or any publicly available repository, it’s already in the enormous datasets that they are using to train. and if it isn’t in now, it will be in future: the increases in performance from GPT 2 to 3 to 4 were not gained through novel machine-learning architectures or anything but by ramping up the amount of data they used to train by orders of magnitude. if it can be scraped, just assume it will be. you can prevent your stuff from being used with Glaze, if you’re an artist, but for the written word there’s nothing you can do.
not to be cynical but the genie is already far more out of the bottle than most anti-AI people realize, i think. there is nothing you can do to stop these models from being made and getting more powerful. only the organizing power of labor has a shot at mitigating some of the effects we’re all worried about
this post had over 10k notes and lots of people in replies getting very angry and panicky and threatening imaginary bad actors and begging people not to put their fics into chatgpt. the reply is authoritatively saying “anything that is given to AI it can use it later to draw from.” no source! like - i don’t know if they save your prompts. they probably do for some other nefarious purposes. but:
these are the size of the training sets used to train gpt-3. as a rule of thumb in natural language processing, one word is on average two tokens. the common crawl dataset alone is around 205 billion words; for gpt-3 they don’t even manage to use all of it. this is the scale of the data they need. they are not re-training their model with the little prompts you put in, and even if they did, it’s like… a drop of water in the ocean. it’s not gonna have an effect on how the model behaves. i think people are, on a gut level, still understanding these models as “collage machines.” they’re not. they are not borg-assimilating all your best ideas from your fics to frankenstein them back together. they are statistical models. they are compressing gargantuan amounts of data down into smaller (still huge, but much smaller) models of that data by looking at trends and likelihoods and repetitions. i’m not saying you’re a great person if you use gpt to autocomplete old fics but even if they were for some reason adding your prompts to their datasets, it’s not gonna have an effect. the culture on here about anti-ai stuff has approached, like, mythology - making up shit about what they can do, talking about how scary they are, ghost stories, moral panic. this wild overstatement about what they can do only benefits the companies selling them, and those trying to use them as pretense to undermine labor.
