If only we were able to make active choices about what we read

An obvious scam where the promise is creating unemployed people

loser shit

two men sit at a table with a produce stand sign behind them Alt: Riley and jonesy from Letterkenny sit at a table looking at each other and clapping

Fucking bangs, honestly. It feels like the audiobook could be read by Riley and Jonesy (deeply complimentary)

In the introduction Headley talks about how she wanted it to feel like you’d met an old sailor at a pub and he was telling you a yarn. And how there original text mixes modern and archaic language for it’s time and how she wanted to capture that

“Bro! Tell me we still know how to speak of kings!” Unbeatable tbh

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New season of Taskmaster, updated list of Taskmaster fits, I don't make the rules

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We regret to inform you: loser shit

Going to be talking about my unbridled love for Theatre of Blood on Saturday

In defence of bad art (Image from Planet of the Sharks showing a shark jumping at a shack) Every so often some dipshit writes an essay about how artists need to embrace AI. I'm not linking to this week's, I'm not linking to any of them, because they're all trash for losers, but I am going to respond to one of the common arguments that has always made me furious.

The argument is this: a vast amount of human created art and entertainment is terrible, so why shouldn't we be ok with AI generated slop? Look, I am extremely judgemental about art and entertainment. I hate it when things are bad, man. Books, films, tv shows, plays, music, painting and sculpture (to the extent that I know anything about painting and sculpture). I think it's good to be discerning, actually, and I think audiences do deserve better than a lot of the stuff they're expected to accept. I am frequently annoyed by shit movies being raved about - I realise taste is subjective but honestly sometimes everyone is just wrong! The thing is bad!

Now obviously I personally believe that everything is worth making is worth taking time over, and I would much rather all the trashy disaster movies and romance novels were given the budgets they need to do that. But even if that happens, loads of them will still be dogshit. And that's good. That's the how it works. That's the creative ecosystem. Most things are bad! The way you get plenty of good things - as an individual artists and as an industry - is by making lots of things! Sometimes the bad things never see the light of day, sometimes the bad things are released, but either way, they matter. The fact that they're created by humans matters.

All art, all entertainment is part of an ancient, endless conversation about what it means to be alive; from cave art to Homer to Danielle Steel to Mark Atkins, writer director of Empire of the Sharks (2017). Whether an LLM can write Hamlet, whether an endless room of monkeys could write Hamlet is as relevant a question as whether an LLM can write Supercroc, which is to say it's irrelevant. It's not that if a Monkey wrote Hamlet, that Hamlet wouldn't have some value. More value than Supercroc, maybe. But it loses one of it's most important aspects - that it allows us to feel our own humanity reflected back at us by someone who's been dead for half a century - and gets nothing in return.

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In defence of bad art Every so often some dipshit writes an essay about how artists need to embrace AI. I'm not linking to this week's, I'm not linking to any of them, because they're all trash for losers, but I am going…

I get really pissed off whenever the "loads of human art is slop anyway" argument is made in relation to AI, even though I also get really pissed off when things are bad

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There's always a refusal to believe that people exist who are honestly not using it, always a denigration of a vast amount of human created art as "also slop," always a highly optimistic view of AIs capabilities, never an actual reason to engage

This essay is tedious but I do generally read the "writers must embrace AI" things and simply none of them have ever answered the basic question WHY

Loser shit

I've developed a new crank opinion and it is this: in a crossword, if the across word has a diacritic the down word should also use the diacritic, tyfyt

Trans people deserve to live long, fun, silly little lives and everyone who prevents that deserves to rot, tyfyt

Not to "everything's a distraction" but sometimes I feel like all the brutal and inhuman policy decisions are secondary to the fact that all these assholes are in it to get richer

Food for thought, idk

The reason the 1905 revolution in Russia failed is because the military still supported the Tsar.
Then he kept sending soldiers off to die in WWI with insufficient supplies because he was completely inept, so when the 1917 revolution kicked off he no longer had the support of the military.

The reason Russia eventually ended serfdom in the 1860s is that they relied on serfs for the military and the desertion rate was extremely high.
Because why the fuck would anyone fight for a country that doesn't care about them.

A casual awareness of how your behaviour impacts others, where is she

We need as a society to lock in some working in cafes rules tho; like also there's a place near us that has loads of single people at big tables on laptops (fine) who are often still there after like 7pm when people are meeting in groups for drinks (dickhead behaviour imo)

The party of workers' rights!

It’s not the only reason, obviously, but it’s a pretty significant one

This is why using copyrighted work to training the models is not fair use, btw. They will just spit out straightforward plagiarism and I suspect it’s as difficult to prevent that, for the same reason it’s difficult to improve the error rate

She'll never be willing to accept that she is wrong on trans issues both scientifically and ethically.
There's no arguing with her, there's no hope for her.

The thing where JKR still insists that Imane Khelif is trans I think sums up her whole deal. She is past the point of being able to consider when she might be wrong; and if she can't do it about one person she'll never do it about her views as a whole

The English speaking west currently running a demonstration on the fact that democracy and extreme wealth inequality cannot coexist