you guys are so fucking stupidddd omg "rapists and pedophiles should be chemically castrated, this is a good thing" quick tell me about historical precedents of this idea and who or what ideology they are connected to......... 🤔

imagine being this much of a sociopath

come on americans, help a girl out

fuck these fascists

i wish dog owners would shut the fuck up sometimes

“he’s just friendly that’s why he’s knocking you over!” no you just have done zero training because you think owning an animal is the equivalent of having a toy

Something I don't think we talk enough about in discussions surrounding AI is the loss of perseverance.

I have a friend who works in education and he told me about how he was working with a small group of HS students to develop a new school sports chant. This was a very daunting task for the group, in large part because many had learning disabilities related to reading and writing, so coming up with a catchy, hard-hitting, probably rhyming, poetry-esque piece of collaborative writing felt like something outside of their skill range. But it wasn't! I knew that, he knew that, and he worked damn hard to convince the kids of that too. Even if the end result was terrible (by someone else's standards), we knew they had it in them to complete the piece and feel super proud of their creation.

Fast-forward a few days and he reports back that yes they have a chant now... but it's 99% AI. It was made by Chat-GPT. Once the kids realized they could just ask the bot to do the hard thing for them - and do it "better" than they (supposedly) ever could - that's the only route they were willing to take. It was either use Chat-GPT or don't do it at all. And I was just so devastated to hear this because Jesus Christ, struggling is important. Of course most 14-18 year olds aren't going to see the merit of that, let alone understand why that process (attempting something new and challenging) is more valuable than the end result (a "good" chant), but as adults we all have a responsibility to coach them through that messy process. Except that's become damn near impossible with an Instantly Do The Thing app in everyone's pocket. Yes, AI is fucking awful because of plagiarism and misinformation and the environmental impact, but it's also keeping people - particularly young people - from developing perseverance. It's not just important that you learn to write your own stuff because of intellectual agency, but because writing is hard and it's crucial that you learn how to persevere through doing hard things.

Write a shitty poem. Write an essay where half the textual 'evidence' doesn't track. Write an awkward as fuck email with an equally embarrassing typo. Every time you do you're not just developing that particular skill, you're also learning that you did something badly and the world didn't end. You can get through things! You can get through challenging things! Not everything in life has to be perfect but you know what? You'll only improve at the challenging stuff if you do a whole lot of it badly first. The ability to say, "I didn't think I could do that but I did it anyway. It's not great, but I did it," is SO IMPORTANT for developing confidence across the board, not just in these specific tasks.

Idk I'm just really worried about kids having to grow up in a world where (for a variety of reasons beyond just AI) they're not given the chance to struggle through new and challenging things like we used to.

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The map if you're curious

Lmao I love how much Washington, Oregon, and California are keeping tumblr alive

this is very unsympathetic of me maybe, but sometimes I see posts that make me go "I think you guys are just making up problems"

giving birth sucks tbh. not only do you and the baby you’re birthing almost die, usually you shit yourself and often you tear your taint. then you have to push an organ out of your body (placenta) and if even a little of that remains in your body, you can hemorrhage to death or develop an infection that essentially rots your body from the inside out. even if you had a relatively “easy birth”, you bleed for weeks on end. even after that stops, your body and brain is changed for the rest of your life, the pregnancy leeched minerals from your bones, that can cause osteoporosis later. minor urinary incontinence is not uncommon, brain scans of people who gave birth show permanent changes in their brain, you’re never quite the same.

I say all of this not to say giving birth is disgusting but it is a harrowing and visceral experience. society downplays how fucking awful it is and makes it out to be a ~magical~ experience but it isn’t a magical transformative experience for everyone. it can be an extremely traumatic experience for someone who wanted to carry a pregnancy to term, much more so for someone who did not want to be pregnant in the first place or someone who knows their baby won’t survive the birth. anyway, abortion is a right. pregnancy and birth aren’t just inconvenient, it’s fucking awful.

How is it that in this entire post you didn’t say the word “woman” once? Only one sex gives birth. Only women have these experiences, only women are at risk for everything mentioned here, women are the only people this applies to. Erasing the word enables the problem.

I’m an evil trans man with a big fat pussy and it’s my life’s purpose to erase women by using inclusive language. Everyone I make a post a random woman disappears off the planet. Clean vanishes. They’re renaming all maternity wards labor & delivery wards because of me. The word breastfeeding no longer exists in the dictionary. It’s all chestfeeding now. Many world powers are trying to stop me. They can’t. They’re too slow. I’m always two steps ahead.

Nostalgic memory loss and cherry picking annoy me to the core.

2006 features other CGI-laden flims such as...

Son of the Mask

And Ultraviolet

While 2024 featured...

Dune 2

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

This shot was literally impossible to create in 2006.

Good CGI is made by good artists who have the proper funding, time, and resources. The year doesn't matter.

There has always been bad CGI. There has always been good CGI.

Current CGI is much more advanced and allows for much bigger stories to be told. Most of it is so good, people do not even realize they are looking at CGI. Yes, Top Gun 2 shot a lot of amazing practical footage. But they still had 2400 VFX shots.

And no one could tell the difference.

But also, movies with 2000+ CG shots usually have a quality delta. They run short on time and budget and they have to prioritize which shots get the most love. If there is one valid complaint about modern CGI, it is the lack of consistency.

You might have a weird looking floating head in one scene...

And that is very easy to cherry pick and say "look at how bad CGI is these days!"

But then later in the movie you have the shadow realm moon.

A gorgeous scene that used a groundbreaking lighting effect. Using a strobe technique and a high speed camera, every frame in the scene had six different angles of lighting.

They were able to show a fast revolving sun circling around the characters without having to rig up some crazy light that flies around the room.

Again, not possible in 2006.

When artists have proper resources they will blow your mind.

CGI isn't worse. It is better than ever. It's just that the artists making Davy Jones were amazing. They had the time and money to realize their vision. They had 1400 fewer shots to make than Top Gun Maverick. (Jurassic Park only had 63.)

They also understood their limitations and didn't try to force the CG to do something it wasn't ready for yet.

Reminder that this rhetoric is causing real harm to VFX artists.

They are struggling to unionize and studio marketing is trying to hide their contributions. They turn BTS footage of green screens to gray screens. They boast "all practical" movies that have 2000 VFX shots. They keep many artists out of the credits.

The anti-CGI hate gives real artists a weak hand to bargain with.

Criticize the system and the working conditions, not the art.

People get so upset about AI taking artists' jobs but then they complain that 2 shots in a Marvel movie aren't photorealistic and ignore the 1000 that were and devalue the work of those same artists.

I love practical effects too. And I think the best VFX I've seen have been when practical and CG team up. But there are so many stories I love that could not have been created without the amazing work of VFX artists. I mean, I watch Dune and forget CGI even exists. I feel like I'm just watching real shit the entire movie even though it has giant worms and whatnot.

Change the conversation.

Instead of "Ugh, this CGI sucks."

Why not try, "Ugh, why didn't Disney give their artists enough time to make this look cool?"

she's a hero. she should dump her west brit "friends" and become friends with me instead

Do not let the English win! Welsh, Irish, Scots, and other languages native to the isles only die if people stop speaking them!

ALERTA DO BRITANICO

there's one dude on twitter that's just like "he owns palestine nothing" and like sure but i think the thing people are criticising is that his ideals are negotiable if the money is big enough. and that's lame. hope this helps.

For those unfamiliar with him, this isn't just any old sellout musician move. Stormzy was the first black rapper to headline Glastonbury, his debut album was the first grime album to reach #1 in the charts, and he's always been very politically active - a vocal supporter of Jeremy Corbyn throughout his time as Labour leader, he wrote a track in support of the Grenfell fire victims that explicitly called out the government's failures, he's given millions to charities supporting justice reform & racial equality, and he set up a scholarship fund to help black students study at Cambridge.

Stormzy is a groundbreaking musician with a reputation for being outspoken and materially supportive of justice & equality, this isn't just a scummy move but an outright betrayal of the principles he's known for.

The unfortunate thing is, this was probably a move by his management, that he agreed to. Because of course that’s really cool that McDonald’s wants to make a meal with you. But as is classic for these kinds of deals, they probably saw his social media following and pressured him to take it down, after the contract had already been signed with I’m sure a very small clause about social media presence. Messed up, but I’m pretty sure he didn’t go in with the intention that he’d have to take that stuff down.

weeee bungee jump

therapist: bungeesus isn't real, he can't hurt you

bungeesus:

[Image description: A crucifix that has been altered so that Jesus is hanging on by a wire connected to his ankles to the cross. He looks as if he is flying. End description.]

I showed this picture to a cloistered sister. I prefaced it saying, “I am going to show you something potentially sacrilegious.” She looked skeptical and when I turned my phone around she laughed but then looked sheepish, ashamed that such an image of Our Lord, her husband, could evoke such a response.

anybody else feel that being human is like being a long-time syndicated cartoon character watching the world get more complex while your own design stays the same until youre incongruous with the reality around you??

Do you ever see a complicated meme that expresses a very specific feeling, and while you wouldn’t have said it that way, it instantly resonates with you?

The Dark Site Finder map lets you get a good sense of where near you might be good for stargazing.

some graphic designer was on her good good shit that day