LillyPip @ LillyPip @lemmy.ca

Sci-fi & horror author, UXD, software dev, composer/engraver, gamer, seamst

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You sound like a fungi. How are you at subspace travel?

Oh shit, it’s the guy!

Depends.

Are we talking TOS? That was the aspic era. in TNG, though, I can see a capri sun style meat bag with a straw…

lol, it can’t have helped Cuomo that trump endorsed him at the 11th hour.

This is hilarious. I hope trump keeps endorsing corpo libs. Like oh no, please stop. Don’t.

This should be actionable.

Seems like it’s not, though. Seems like fascism is just routine now in the US.

Even worse, many of them do this with illness, too. Because if you’re devout enough, god will heal you. If you’re not getting better, there’s obviously something wrong with your faith.

Jesus Christ.

Thank you.

Quick tip: going old-school by calling and faxing are more disruptive to their business than emailing. There are free, anonymous, online faxing services, you don’t need to have a machine.

This gave me Forwards from Grandma vibes, too, but it appears to be basically true – except that it means ‘I cry’ or ‘I shout’, not ‘I alarm’. And as a fun note, it’s been shortened over time from ‘to say boo to a goose’, which is fun.

From etymonline.com:

boo (interj.)

early 15c., boh, "A combination of consonant and vowel especially fitted to produce a loud and startling sound" OED, which compares Latin boare, Greek boaein"to cry aloud, roar, shout"]; as an expression of disapproval, 1884 (n.); hence, the verb meaning "shower (someone) with boos" (1885).

I’m an ugly bag of mostly water.

It’s not about making something useful. He and a few others are cloning everything any of their cult might use to further fence them in from external information and entertainment.

They’re having a harder time in entertainment, because artists tend to be more liberal, but they’re gaining ground there, too. After a certain point, they’ll just radically censor everything else.

I still see that button (in the mobile version, anyway).

What’s more alarming is that I’ve run across several things akin to toilet seats (things you probably buy like once every 20 years) that have defaulted to the ‘Subscribe and save’ option. I don’t know if this something the seller does or if AI is flagging things for them, but it’s insidious.

If you’re not paying attention, you can wind up an accidental collector of toilet seats.

He’s said some incredibly stupid things, but this is next level.

The hamster powering his brain is clearly just a rotting pile of sludge now. How can anyone look at this masterclass in utter ignorance and see anything other than a senile old fool who should be in a nursing home for his own protection?

Nearly 80% of republicans think this is okay? What wouldn’t they think is okay from him? It seems they’d be fine with his actual corpse being wheeled round on a trolley by Vance & co. Astounding.

You’re not wrong. But at least Canada has largely staved off the worst of the idiots (for now), mostly because the insanity to the south has been a wake up call.

Loads of people really want to follow in the US’s footsteps, tho.

I'm sorry, I uploaded the wrong image. Here's the right one:

Yeah, but with the fascists in charge, not only will that never happen, they’re dedicated to undermining standard literacy, nevermind adding media and fictional literacy.

Kinda feels like we’re doomed.

Oh, some of us know. And some of us are sick of the edging.

We’re going there, inexorably. They’re trying to pretend that’s not what’s happening, and loads of people are happy to go along with it out of… denial? Blissful ignorance?

But some of us just wish they’d drop the fragments of their mask, already, so we can stop debating where we are in the 14 steps and just fucking deal with the problem.

AI is good at some things, but terrible at creative tasks. It can make images and videos if you give it very specific prompts, but it’s awful at creative writing, for instance. It’s like a teenager who just discovered a thesaurus. Its characters are shallow caricatures, its plotting and pacing are weak, and it’s addicted to adjectives and adverbs.

It’s basically useless for anything more than emails and summaries.

It will probably get better, but right now, its writing and editing skills are abysmal. It has no soul, and it shows. And I mean the pro models. The free ones are even worse. And also, it can’t knit.

Fucking do it, pussy. Let’s see the backlash.