Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

a couple of years back I worked for a company that packaged AI with their sales software - it'd scan emails and roughly flag them for salespeople. I curated sets of data to feed the algorithm - f'rex, if an email says "go fuck yourself" you and I know that's a "do not try to sell me your product," but without that input the AI's got no context and guesses.

They were ultra super ethical about this, in contrast to how AI's come to mean "we can freely raid your images and text."

And I came to the conclusion that AI would cause WWIII not because of actual autonomous malevolence, but because it'd come to correlate an increased level of hostility with say, specific sandwich orders, and one evening it'd pick up on a lot of those sandwiches being orders and decide launching missiles was the next logical step.

marginalized experience is that you're either villains, invisible or occasionally whatever heroic role (you know; Athlete, Musician, Comedian, Computer Scientist)

and I am noticing this holds true for how trans people are treated only there's also a gender binary where it's trans women who get to be villains or occasional heroes; trans men get to be invisible.

emailed senators again, asking them to please do something about the EPA's role once again as the Administration's means of advancing an anti-environmental profiteering agenda.

Do you think for a moment I LIKE emailing or calling my reps?

#drawings from/finished yesterday

Hot biological nomenclature take;

Any genus with the suffix –don sounds indistinguishable from minor Doctor Who villains

*rubber lizard suit*
*Dr. Who villain voice*
You are an enemy of the IGUANADONS! It is pointless to resist!
*thumbs fall off revealing guns*
*UNIT troops open fire as is tradition*

So Mozart wrote his 34th symphony for the occasion of visiting Prague, but he didn’t write his 41st symphony for visiting Jupiter

And in fact, as far as we know, he never even made it as far as low geosynchronous orbit

Kinda makes you think

Well THAT just now was so Australian I would like tea and Tim Tams to go with the barely repressed anger

These boots are made for walkin’
And that’s just what they’ll say
One of these days, these boots
Are gonna be aboot you, eh?

shit, I think I just proved to myself I get gender dysphoria

People keep saying to stop Doomscrolling but idk if it were actually Doomscrolling it’d look more like this

From a DM to someone I know, over on Bluesky;

I'm not entirely sure how much I want to transition or whether occasionally getting rid of my body hair, use she/her pronouns, and wear skirts is enough. What I know for a fact; I'm never especially stoked about maleness, it's usually a fairly neutral description, but I HATE feeling like it's this role which I HAVE TO PERFORM because it's very important to someone ELSE that I perform it. You can see how recent events would be really stomping on that variety of dysphoria really hard.

... then I realized that's my baggage about childhood, adulthood in general. Who I AM doesn't matter, it's what I HAVE TO DO for some loud pushy ass adult who's decided what's mandatory now.

@kurgarru sooooo at the beginning of the year you introduced me to the song, and as of today I found a surf guitar cover

https://youtu.be/Qd3j3vXqMTI

#drawing last night

#drawings finished up yesterday

TIRED: Orks are like The Hulk in being green muscly dudes punching stuff

WIRED: The Grinch is like The Hulk in being green dudes who like animals but would just like people to stop annoying them

INSPIRED: Orks are like The Grinch in being green dudes zipping around in structurally dubious red vehicles

Literally the second time this 40K lore video starting with “time to childproof the kitchen and stairs, here come the Emperor’s Children” prompts listening to

https://youtu.be/LE1wSSZ-iFs

when you consider how completely un-fun being a Space Marine sounds* it's amazing they don't lose more Astartes to Slaanesh especially

* with the exception of the Space Wolves, who are definitely the fun chapter

then I said [we live in] the sort of dark cyberpunk future where if you want LEDs on your translucent PVC raincoat, it's a monthly subscription service

Dude! Naxatras dropped a new album!