Huh, my posts where I enthusiastically talk about something I love seem to get ten times as many notes as the ones where I explain why I hate something.
it really isn’t acknowledged enough how mentally draining it is to consistently fuck up the same thing over and over again. The kind of thing that make people ask “how could you possibly fuck that up again, you’ve been doing that consistently for the past 10 years” and all you can give for an answer is “if I knew how I manage to keep doing this wrong, I would simply stop doing it wrong.” And they don’t like that answer, either.
Your brain isn’t designed to do that. The hunter-gatherer survival instincts that are pretty good at determining what’s sensible and what isn’t will just go “don’t do that, then.” There’s nothing in the natural environment that human beings developed in in which consistently doing something that you find unpleasant that consistently yields no reward would be worth doing. If you keep failing at the same thing again and again, then clearly the thing cannot be done, and wasting your energy doing something impossible to achieve that isn’t enjoyable to do is detrimental to your survival. Your brain punishes you for trying to do that.
And there is no way to explain to my caveman brain that I cannot simply stop doing laundry.
Huh, my posts where I enthusiastically talk about something I love seem to get ten times as many notes as the ones where I explain why I hate something.
A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled “Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I’ve ever seen. And yes, that sound you hear is the slow deflation of the bubble I’ve been warning you about since March.
The report covers AI’s productivity benefits (which Goldman remarks are likely limited), AI’s returns (which are likely to be significantly more limited than anticipated), and AI’s power demands (which are likely so significant that utility companies will have to spend nearly 40% more in the next three years to keep up with the demand from hyperscalers like Google and Microsoft).
This report is so significant because Goldman Sachs, like any investment bank, does not care about anyone’s feelings unless doing so is profitable. It will gladly hype anything if it thinks it’ll make a buck. Back in May, it was claimed that AI (not just generative AI) was ”showing very positive signs of eventually boosting GDP and productivity,“ even though said report buried within it constant reminders that AI had yet to impact productivity growth, and states that only about 5% of companies report using generative AI in regular production.
For Goldman to suddenly turn on the AI movement suggests that it’s extremely anxious about the future of generative AI, with almost everybody agreeing on one core point: that the longer this tech takes to make people money, the more money it’s going to need to make.
In New Zealand, there is a man legally known as ‘The Wizard’ who is an educator, comedian, magician and politician. Some of his political ideas include:
Abolishing old-fashioned gender roles
Travelling to find the “center of the universe”
Replacing God and the Church with Wizardry and the World Wide Web
“Wizard, The”
This is The Wizard, reblog in 35 seconds to reveal the secrets of the center of the universe and abolish old fashioned gender roles.
The Wizard of New Zealand is not just legally named “The Wizard” so he can appear on his driver’s licence that way. He is actually, literally, officially, the Wizard of New Zealand and was appointed to that role by Prime Minister Mike Moore in 1990.
💛 for two weeks, i’m opening up chibi commissions to help Gazan families escape their current hellish living conditions. These fundraisers are from people who reached out to me personally. Any amount makes a huge difference.
These are the lowest I have ever and will ever offer commissions, so please take advantage of this before July 22!
you have to stay alive. you’re going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.
I made it. I made it. I made it!!!!
I am old enough to be a parent to a college-aged kid. I made it. It sucked. It was hard. I lost parts of my self I may never get back. But I made it.
You can make it too. You DON’T have to change who you are. You might have to hide things from time to time, but I want you to know that it shouldn’t be about shame. It’s about protecting those beautiful parts of yourself from harm and having the joy of them robbed from you. It doesn’t make you any “less”. Eventually all of those ‘secrets’ will be like spring bulbs. Beautiful bursts of color and life just waiting for a good, safe, warm day. You just gotta hold on.
You can make it. One day you’ll be an old weirdo with creaking, crunching, knees. You will live long enough to see your own crow’s feet. You’ll stop caring about what other people think and honestly other people will stop caring about what you do. Eventually you get the “adultier adult” pass, and barely anyone gives you a second look. And if they talk shit you’ve got decades of practice under your belt and you can verbally eviscerate them for it. You can make it.
I got gray hair!!! I never thought I would. I love every one of the little wiry motherfuckers. I made it. You can make it.
serious post but: seeing how quick white queers are willing to throw people of color who are queer (mainly black and brown folks) under the bus while spouting bigoted rhetoric is not only scary but solidarity only exists when it benefits them or makes them look good. tired of seeing trans folks of color be absolutely terrified and scared they’ll be exiled from community for even daring to speak their mind or because they sucked as a person in the past. people gotta realize the world wants to kill marginalized folks, especially if they’re poc. you either are with us or not.
I think people forget the LGBTQ+ community was literally built from trans women of color and queer folks of color. they helped kickstart everything only to get treated like dirt beneath the pavement(god forbid if you are a trans woman of color too) this has happened to me and my siblings and we are so tired. if you care about us please raise our voices instead of invalidating our experiences while simultaneously using us as a prop for talking points.
Why when a rat boggles its eyes when happy it’s a cute thing, but when I do it all of a sudden I’m a “Freak of nature.” and “Need to get in the FBI van.” like what the hell? God forbid a trans man does anything. Ffs.
You reblogged a post that was pretending to be all “don’t apply appearance to morality” by saying not to call terfs mean things, but then just went on to justify and spread anti-trans rhetoric
Thank you for bringing this to my attention
I don’t remember what I was thinking when I queued said post but I know for a fact that I’ve always been against TERFs and everything they stand for
“oh I’m too old for stuffed animals” skill issue. sorry you can’t appreciate little creatures made to hang out with you, I on the other hand am full of joyous whimsy and therefore vastly superior.
So I just made a joke that “more women should poison their husbands” to my cool boss and then immediately found out that he got divorced because he was poisoned by his ex-wife
I’m apologizing profusely and he’s like “oh it’s fine it was funny” and then he offhandedly mentions that his next girlfriend tried to poison him also
ELMO DOES NOT LIVE ALONE. HIS PARENTS ARE CLEARLY SHOWN SEVERAL TIMES IN SEVERAL PIECES OF SESAME STREET MEDIA. YOU’RE A FAKE FAN. HIS PARENTS NAMES ARE LOUIE AND MAE. HE EVEN HAS EXTENDED FAMILY.
ELMO DOES NOT LIVE ALONE. HIS PARENTS ARE CLEARLY SHOWN SEVERAL TIMES IN SEVERAL PIECES OF SESAME STREET MEDIA. YOU’RE A FAKE FAN. HIS PARENTS NAMES ARE LOUIE AND MAE. HE EVEN HAS EXTENDED FAMILY.
Funniest thing in the whole wide world is opening a completed fic and seeing the author’s note for the first chapter say something like “unlike my other fics, this will be a shorter one! Expect it to be complete within three months or so” and then you look at the stats and the fic is 100k+ words and took two years to finish
Second funniest thing is progressing through a fic and reading the authors notes and every three or so chapters they’re like “you might have noticed the chapter count has increased from five to eight! Some scenes have gotten away from me” and “okay so the chapter count is updated from 14 to 19. just. just ignore that” and the actual completed fic is 37 chapters long
Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol
the thing about adblock detection stuff is that for popular websites where the demand exists for an adblock it’s such a losing battle. best case scenario for the corporation is that the adblock will be broken for maybe a week before someone circumvents it again and adds that to the public blocklist. there is no adblock detection method that’s immune to the adblocker just lying to the website
“you know where the real money is? the set of people who go out of their way to avoid being advertised to. they’re probably ESPECIALLY susceptible to advertisement, I’d imagine”
trying to figure out the funniest crackpot stance on who is the current Roman emperor, and accepting suggestions (tenuous historical justification required)
i literally fucking blinked and this shit happened istg y’all are insane—
Fuck it. Spread this post to every nook and cranny on tumblr. Prove to everyone that this site is ALIVE and FLOURISHING and that it will last for fucking DECADES
Ao3 subscriptions are so fucking wild to me. Every time I write my silly fanfictions and post them 124 people get an email just to let them know that this idiot is posting their fanfictions again. I send 124 people an email every time I write smut. Imagine sending 124 physical letters out just to be like “hello everyone, I put some guys we made up in our heads through the horrors again.” Absolutely absurd. I am kissing all of you on the lips.
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