now i want a whole collection of wrongly illustrated state T-shirts: the barren deserts of Seattle, the gator-infested mists of the London bayou, the neon glamour of Jackson Hole's theater district by night...
meanwhile I'm over here staring at the way queer people used to refer to themselves in the 1990s in the most charming, snarlingly unpolitik way and wondering if some of y'all would just melt like a chocolate bar left on a sunny dashboard to hear it. language is a full-contact sport and if you react with disgust to any jargon that is even mildly outre you are handing ammunition to people who wish you overt harm
Hey, is anybody else playing King of the Castle or willing to pick it up? I'd love to get a game together.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1839880/King_Of_The_Castle/
I feel less safe and secure as a modern adult now knowing that I can, at any time, buy an Optigan for only $4,000.
re: POKER FACE, "ESCAPE FROM SHIT MOUNTAIN" (S1E9) SPOILERS
I mean, her whole banjo leitmotif is straight out of a "lost lovable miscreant dog" show from the 1970s ferchrissake... Gonna start callin' her Boomer, or Benji, or Wishbone. XD (Or Coyote Doggirl, h/t to Lisa Hanawalt...)
She's such a good scragglepuppy though. You just know that in her last canid life she had a reluctantly adopted little flock of ducklings following her around, or something...
perv gear, zeerust, black ICE(?), extremely large polynomials and yes that is a euphemism for something
So @anthracite has new breast pumps. They are shiny and solid black and make her look rather like a cyborg. I want to dress her up in a trenchcoat and have a hot night of shadowrunning on the town together, maybe pennyskim the Orbital Bank of Zurich with her four terabit nipples.
AI discourse, New Yorker link
3. worse, we have an uncanny ability to anthropomorphize anything we interact with whether or not it has intelligence in that way.
basically people are computers for working with other people and thus like how a hammer makes everything look like a nail, we make everything look like a person
AI discourse, New Yorker link
and it hits me, the comparison to how rephrasing is often a good sign that people understand something but is not a good sign that computers do gets to some points that I've made several times:
1. that these relatively simple statistical models "work" says much more about how _we_ think than if the models think
2. that we don't have a non-anthropocentric model of intelligence and thus are doomed to fail to recognize intelligences we can't interact with
a mileage marker; cw: vague and hollow tiger grump; eminently skippable
there is a thing that i have ardently stopped caring about just now and quite suddenly and finally
it is not a person
but it is not something that will make you happier if i tell you i really have entirely stopped giving a shit about it
there is nothing i can do about it but this
so i leave this marker in the dirt
...but it's one of those "tiger markers" if you know what i mean so you might want to step around it anyhow
this is just a faintly more satisfying solution than doing nothing at all
you know -- poopin on it
sorry folks, the rain should get it in a couple days
cw: queerphobia, grumbling
Beyond the obviously disgusting nonsense of queer elders constantly undergoing a systematic campaign of erasure, the hypocrisy of 'I can tell a 14 year old he needs to go kill foreigners to Be A Man but you can't tell him it's okay to love who he wants' makes me want to barf.
cw: queerphobia, grumbling
I am incredibly tired of the way conservatives demand access to young people to inject paranoia and xenophobia directly into their hearts, while simultaneously insisting a queer adult can't ask anyone more than 2 years younger than them for directions without it being sinister.
SilicaGel Do-Not-Eat #GoodBabyNames
financial and material aid request (survival, amazon wishlist + paypal)
Hey. I'm Lex. You may know me from other assistance posts, such as this one: https://vulpine.club/@LexYeen/108342705477387037
I'm effectively living in the place now, but it's still overflowing with boxes of other people's things and I'm still unemployed, disabled, neurodivergent, and queer as fuck. For history, see the linked thread.
If you've got any cash to spare, literally anything helps. Survival has been turned into a subscription service by the greedy assholes of the world, and I cannot afford to pay it on my own. Paypal email still has my deadname attached to it, because I have had *so many more pressing issues* than fighting Paypal, and it's: glowhore [at] gmail [dot] com
Sorry for not using the link method, but I'm an oldhead and don't trust Paypal to not fuck me or you over with stealth-changes to their TOS.
If you'd rather not use Paypal, I do have a wishlist set up on Bastard Bezos's Bargain Basement as well. Previously I stated it was delivering things to the address of my most trusted friends. As of this post, this has been changed to the address I'm currently living. Items will disappear from the list as they're purchased. https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/20F0QGQ0KNBOL?ref_=wl_share
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read this, pitiful humans:
http://egypt.urnash.com/parallax/