“Public Libraries Are Such Important, Lovely Places!” Yes But Do You GO There. Do You STUDY There.

Happy Lizard Fashion Day to those who celebrate.

ed zitron, a tech beat reporter, wrote an article about a recent paper that came out from goldman-sachs calling AI, in nicer terms, a grift. it is a really interesting article; hearing criticism from people who are not ignorant of the tech and have no reason to mince words is refreshing. it also brings up points and asks the right questions:

if AI is going to be a trillion dollar investment, what trillion dollar problem is it solving?

what does it mean when people say that AI will "get better"? what does that look like and how would it even be achieved? the article makes a point to debunk talking points about how all tech is misunderstood at first by pointing out that the tech it gets compared to the most, the internet and smartphones, were both created over the course of decades with roadmaps and clear goals. AI does not have this.

the american power grid straight up cannot handle the load required to run AI because it has not been meaningfully developed in decades. how are they going to overcome this hurdle (they aren't)?

people who are losing their jobs to this tech aren't being "replaced". they're just getting a taste of how little their managers care about their craft and how little they think of their consumer base. ai is not capable of replacing humans and there's no indication they ever will because...

all of these models use the same training data so now they're all giving the same wrong answers in the same voice. without massive and i mean EXPONENTIALLY MASSIVE troves of data to work with, they are pretty much as a standstill for any innovation they're imagining in their heads

funniest reactions to the new junjou romantica art style reveal

“Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?”

— Charles D’Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum: Stories

Ok new game. What's the thing you're a fan of that you're the most pretentious about. NOT the most pretentious thing you're a fan of, I mean the thing that makes *you* act like one of those "oh yeah? Name five of their albums" people. There is a difference

@ ALL MY FOLLOWERS I am rebranding this blog, since it's my primary blog, into a reading and reviewing blog. Sharing art online has become way less important to me over the years and I no longer wish to share my own art online at all. I will be making a side blog to share art I find here on Tumblr. And I will share that link later. But this blog will be dedicated to me talking about books instead, as I try to move away from heavy use of Instagram.

☆ sleepover saturday ☆

i wanna talk to you guys a little, so come at me:

rant/vent/complain about something that bothers you

have you ever..?

confess something/tell me a secret

would you rather..?

unpopular opinions

ask for advice (and i’ll do my best to be helpful lol)

tell me about your crush or best friend (or both)

ask me personal questions

tell me what you like most about yourself

make me choose between..

tell me about your dreams

send me headcanons

my top 5 of whatever

send me puns, jokes, and memes

your favourite fictional character and why you love them

send me recs (movies, books, anime, fics, music etc.)

ask me for recs (…)

fuck, marry, kill

tell me about your pet (or post pics of them and tag me :D)

…… 

these are just some suggestions that came to my mind right now, so feel free to send me whatever! and feel free to reblog if you want to have a sleepover too ☆

Thinsecurity is a seductive thing. It tells thin people that feeling badly about one's own body is the worst-and only-outcome of difficult experiences with our bodies. They cannot fathom what are such commonplace experiences for very fat people: A stranger recommending a surgeon. A familymember withholding food until you look like you need it. Fat camp. Being recommended for The Biggest Loser. And on and on and on. Those experiences are too far from their own, unimaginable to someone who has so long been locked in place by their perception of their own body. So straight size people reinterpret them, make them something easier to understand. Rather than talking about body-based oppression, they revert the conversation to their thinsecurities.

When fat activists talk about body-based oppression, thinner body positivity activists paint it over, replacing it with a more palatable insecurity. But when we don't talk about body-based oppression, we're strangely lauded for our confidence.

What we don't talk about when we talk about fat - Aubrey Gordon

“What was archaeology to him? It was the opposite of killing things. It was trying to will life back into stuff that had been forgotten and buried for thousands or millions of years. It was not about shards and pieces of bone or treasure; it was about kneeling down in the elements, paying very close attention, and trying to locate a spark of the human life that had once touched that spot there.”

— Marilyn Johnson, Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble