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Hopefully this bubble is gonna burst soon and AI art will fall off in a big way

Tired baby

Many don't know this

It’s their first Halloween, and none of them got the memo

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first Halloween, and none of

them got the memo

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

I actually meant to put this in my drafts so I could come up with a response more articulate than the incorrect buzzer sound that went through my head when I read this, but I guess I didn’t do that, so let me just say: both of these are bad.

This is not a competition. Both of these are bad.

It’s also baffling because this is the opposite of what we’re seeing from AI editing software geared towards professional writers, which is deliberately designed to “simplify complex words” for “greater legibility.” (Often with questionable results.)

Programs like Grammarly and PRA use their “integrative AI” to simplify everything down to the bare bones because it thinks words like “devoid” are too complicated for the average reader to understand.

It’s why so many of the newer books read kinda samey right now. Writers are being trained out of using complex language by AI to appeal to readers (supposedly), and kids and non native English speakers who are using “complex” language are being marked down for using AI when they’re not.

It’s a fucking nightmare.

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real ones remember

A bit of Moby-Dick oceanography context:

Up until the mid 1870s, it was generally accepted that life could not exist below a depth of 550 meters. This is why some of Ishmael's whale theories are so off and why Ahab pictures the sea floor as a vast wasteland of bones and shipwrecks. 🌊

I mean. Can you blame them

Oh here it is!!!! The most unsettling thing Ahab/Ishmael might’ve believed about the deep sea

Ever seen a Golden Tiger sneeze?

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“my trauma made me funny” and the trauma in question is their upper middle class parents getting an amicable divorce. and they’re not funny

dems didn’t “throw” the election. neither side ever “throws” an election. as i said before, the cool kids call that idea “coping.” there’s no such thing as losing when you’re a ruling class politician taking turns on who gets to press the big red lockheed martin button.

democratic candidates don’t need to “learn their lesson” “learn from their mistakes” “listen to their base” “wake up from their incompetence.” you are still persuaded by their trickery if these are your conclusions. they are not rivals to republicans. they are allies; they represent the ruling class. again and again i’ll reiterate—they’re not making mistakes and they are not incompetent. they’re doing very well for themselves because the working class still consents to this process no matter what.

the ones who are incompetent, refusing to learn lessons, and the ones who are not learning from their mistakes are the american working class, because we are the ones who refuse to listen to politicians. if we listened to “our” candidates, we would quickly find out that no one represents our class interests. we have no candidates. we simply get to choose who sits at the helm of a bloodthirsty empire that will cannibalize its own servants. americans are the enemy to world peace.

Remember how the Democrats were so sure that Trump was going to put Hillary Clinton in prison in 2017 if he won because of the whole “lock her up” thing? And then Trump didn’t do that, and was convicted of actual crimes but did not go to prison? There’s definitely theater being performed here. Heck, there has been a tacit agreement for decades that the two parties won’t prosecute ex-Presidents for crimes committed in office, no matter how much they incite hatred in their voters in the election using those crimes, so that their own ex-Presidents won’t be prosecuted later. Clinton didn’t prosecute Bush/Reagan for Iran-Contra, so GWB didn’t prosecute Clinton for lying under oath, so Obama didn’t prosecute GWB for the Iraq invasion, so Trump didn’t prosecute Obama for Libya, so Biden didn’t prosecute Trump…

We’ll see if it holds; the longer it goes on the worse things will get, but unless there’s a third-party win somehow, the minute either party breaks the unspoken agreement there’s going to be a lot of fallout which the public does not expect.

I love everything about this.

@headspacedad Is this true? Because I love the concept of bunnies practically flipping the bird

this is TRUE!

Rabbits rely on body language for the majority of their communication.  They also rely on manners in a way that would make the Heian Era aristocrats look uncultured.  And you don’t get manner dictates like that without ALSO knowing how to be passive-aggressive with them. 

Rabbit flops are super vulnerable for a bunny.  Their stomachs are exposed and they’re in a position that means if danger shows up they have to waste precious seconds getting up before they can sprint for safety.  A rabbit flop means both ‘I’m so happy I can’t contain it’ and ‘I feel so safe I am going to be vulnerable and really let go’.  Rabbit owners love seeing it.  It means that your bun really does feel that safe around you.  It’s a pretty high compliment from an animal that knows everyone’s out to kill them.

However -

it can also be used passive aggressively in the ‘you mean so little to me you’re not even worth acknowledging as existing’.  It’s right on the same level as walking into a room and greeting everyone but one person.  An enemy rabbit would be a threat.  This rabbit?  This rabbit isn’t even important enough to be a threat.  They’re a nobunny and so I will flop because there is nothing in the area worthy enough to bother being aware of.

To humans it can look very much the same but trust me, the bunnies know exactly which is which.

There are four types of fish scales!

Trump voters on tiktok are EXTREMELY mad about the following: