“You in a rush or something?” Lance laughs, a little breathless. Effortless. The nonchalance of a person somehow totally at ease in their body, comfortable in any situation. Hair mussed and eyes darkened with anticipation and a smile always tugging on his mouth. Keith can’t stand him. They should stop this right now. They should do it every day. — When Keith’s now-ex surprised him with a threesome, that was the last straw for their crumbling relationship. He’s resigned himself to heartache and being alone forever, but then the most annoying guy in class offers to partner with him for a project. The only problem, besides everything? Lance was the third guy in the room when Keith’s life fell apart.
it’s 100% crucial that anywhere you see or hear the word “calories” you mentally replace that with “energy” and you will see how insane everyone in the world is acting for no reason
while i hope the AI boom dies out i also hope we start acknowledging data center water overconsumption as it’s own unique issue because like. it’s not AI itself that harms the environment it’s the hardware hosting it, right? same reason nfts and cryptocurrency were also bad for the environment. the root problem isn’t going away so long as we allow big companies to continue hitching their wagon to the next big tech trend. i worry if they don’t get stronger regulation we’ll just be repeating the same issue whenever the next toy comes along.
being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. “you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas”. studies have proven its making people dumber. “i asked ai to generate this meal plan”. its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. “ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign”. its spreading misinformation. “meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid”. its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. “i was talking with my snapchat ai-” theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. “youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification”. my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more “well at least-” “but it does-” “but you can-” im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?
I understand WHY, ethically and practically, you can’t just keep whatever animal you want as a pet, but I also think that I, personally, should be allowed to adopt a colossal squid
I’m glad you asked! it is easier to relocate a human than to relocate a colossal squid, so the plan is for me to walk into the ocean and never be seen again
