You Can Use Any Travel Method You Like, Walking, Public Transport, So On. You Can Get An Uber But Their

kudos’ing a fic is not enough i have to take the author out on a date

Any time I draw hands and they look too big I get worried. Like no…. Please I’m not trying to draw yaoi hands… please… spare me..,

"I am aware, sure I am aware. Catastrophically aware."

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

#I feel like I’ve just been introduced to a major character in a Wes Anderson movie

i can't do this anymore! i mean i can, and i will, obviously. but i can't fucking do this anymore!

Current read! The closest I'll get to being a ballerina.

February hopefuls:

🦢 City of Night Birds by Juhea Kim

⛵ Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

🏺 Empire of Exiles by Erin M. Evans

☠️ Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (audiobook reread)

Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

SHES MAD AS HELL❗️‼️

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