maximum effort

guys I (american, never heard of robbie williams until three months ago and then listened to “candy” and was like ‘oh yeah I know that one’) did in fact just watch the robbie williams chimpanzee biopic and I genuinely feel I will never be the same. this is an inflection point in my life. there is no way to explain this movie to anyone who hasn’t seen it. no one else cares. they have to see it to understand but they won’t because they won’t care until they see it. robbie williams and his nefarious team of filmmakers have made me a cassandra in my own house; I bear cursed knowledge none will ever know.

Musste mir heute den Satz anhören "Das Sandmännchen sieht ja schon irgendwie aus wie ein Funko Pop" und ich weiß nicht was ich mit der Information anfangen soll.....

mom, dad… i’m…. RANDOM!! LOL XD

The bible said Adam and Eve not Adam and TACO PANCAKES!!!!!!!!!!!!! xDD

Both of these accounts still exist. I hope they see us peering into the corpse of their former selves.

been reposting my tumblr posts on bluesky. don't tell those chumps i'm feeding them my leftovers lmao

whenever i find a good world heritage post i do my best to carefully remove unnecessary "why is this so funny!!" or "i cant believe i found the original" reblog comments. sometimes it takes a bit of work digging back through the reblog graph to accomplish this but fine art restoration is tedious but important work

you get it

ahhhh finally the weekend is beautiful and wide open ahead of me. surely this will be the weekend I finally get my whole life in order and do the twenty-seven things I've been putting off and fix my sleep schedule and make memories with friends and discover my purpose in this world. surely

I hate it when people ask me what genre of music i listen to because i genuinely have no clue. It's called Music I Like genre. The best genre out there

if tumblr shuts down you'll find me like this

The End

On cute bears and 'ungrateful' refugees...

There are lots of people in the notes asking 'PADDINGTON...?' And while I can't speak for OP's intentions in including him in the list, I absolutely agree that in the case of Paddington you missed the point by idolising him.

The Paddington story is about how we welcome refugees. It was written in the 1950s, reflecting on the experiences of children in the Kindertransport and children evacuated from British cities. He is different - he's a bear! - but he's a child, alone, in a foreign place. He is called Paddington because no-one in England can pronounce his actual name. The story shows that we should help him, support him, learn to live peacefully alongside him, and be understanding when there are misunderstandings.

Paddington is polite and kind and principled because that makes it easy to like him, and because it's a children's story and those are good things to model.

But the point is not to idolise Paddington.

Because it shouldn't matter if the bear is polite and kind, or roaring and snappy - he's a child, alone, in a foreign place and *we* should be kind to him.

Far too often, we're willing to show kindness only to a "perfect" victim - someone beyond reproach and responding in all the ways *we* think are right. And this means that actually, we're not kind at all.

Dina Nayeri writes about the importance of the ungrateful refugee better than I ever could.

someone’s hands have always been inside of you

I feel like the big push for AI is starting to flag. Even my relatively tech obsessed dad is kinda over it. What do you even use it for? Because you sure as hell dont want to use it for fact checking.

There's an advertisement featuring a woman surreptitiously asking her phone to provide her with discussion topics for her book club. And like... what. Is this the use case for commercial AI? This the best you could come up with? Lying to your friends about Moby Dick?

One of the big pushes tech companies are making for AI is entirely in the tool of convenience. Take Gemini for example, one of Google's really big pitches for it is in features like Help Me Read and Help Me Write, which are like the lowest tier use case for deep learning models but are also the two AI features that the average consumer will actually care about. Sure they advertise the GenAI stuff Gemini Advanced is able to do, but they've woken up to the idea that the average consumer does not care about GenAI and non-AI Bros fundamentally loathe GenAI.

Every company with a language model got sucked into the venture capital pitfall of AI and now have to market the one set of features the general person actually cares about.

I work in advertising and the culture shift surrounding AI even from January until now (end of March) has been drastic. At the beginning of the year, the company I work for was using AI to design most of their assets. Clients started coming back and requesting that we no longer use AI generated images or videos for copyright liability reasons. Basically, there's no way to tell whose art or photography was scalped to make an image, so as companies who are trying to make a profit using potentially stolen images, it puts them in a gray area, legally.

Also, companies do look at their comment sections. Anti-AI commenters on social media ("this is not a real image" "I don't trust companies who use AI" etc) are seen by higher ups of a company. Basically, keep bullying brands who use AI, it's working. Now my company uses almost no AI for deliverables, which is a huge win.

What tumblr fails to grasp is that I’m not interested in community groups for the things I like because fans of my favorite things are often very wrong about them

HEARTBREAKING: band you just discovered doesn't have any other songs that sound like that