Known only to the insatiable passage of time

guys oh my god they invented a thing called friends. and they love you and want to talk to you and be around you. has anyone heard of this

Michael Banning, Light at the Top of the Stairs, 2024, Oil on canvas over panel

Michael Banning (American, 1966)

Keeper of the Key to the door between Worlds.

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I know this is a tiny part of the wider problems born of diet culture, fatphobia, classicism, and racism but like god the idea that "healthy" food must inherently taste bad has completely ruined us as a society.

Every time you feel bad for having coffee with cream and sugar or ranch on your salad or putting extra butter and salt on your veggies I want you to imagine the spirit of John Harvey Kellogg in front of you and then I want you to kill him with a real gun and eat your delicious food in peace.

i love 90s television all these high quality fabrics got me so turned on i almost passed out

i fucking knit this

nothing has made me feel like an ancient grumpy crone more than the “using chatgpt for school is fine actually” sentiment among youths

if you use chatgpt to write your english assignments that is bad. you should not do that

this has been accelerated by watching my roommate who teaches freshmen composition slowly become ben_affleck_smoking.jpg as he has to fail multiple students every semester for using chatgpt

like. this is bad and this person should feel bad lol this completely misses the point of writing assignments. the point is the production, not the end product

critical thinking is a genuinely important life skill, whether or not you pursue higher education. fascism relies on anti-intellectualism!

AND IT’S TERRIBLE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. what are we doing here

Your ability to think for yourself is one of the most valuable powers you have, and one of the only things no one can take away from you.

Do not give it away willingly.

How does this stuff not count as plagiarism?

It is plagiarism, and it's plagiarism even if you disclosed that you used chatgpt, because chatgpt cannot cite its sources and plagiarism in academia is less about "intellectual property" like disney type shit and more about being able to trace an idea back to where it came from.

Without the power to follow a line of citations back to the original source, human knowledge falls apart like a sand castle. You cant criticize an idea if you don't know where it came from. You cant even tell if it's true. If there is no source, you don't know if it came from a reputable scientific journal or some pamphlet titled Why White People Are The Superior Race.

i think some professors are well meaningly openminded about these technologies and don't really truly understand how they work. Which is not their fault, the technologies have been consistently called something they're not.

ChatGPT creates sentences based on probabilities of what words are likely to go together. This is especially dangerous because it's likely to say things that "everyone knows," things that lots of people believe, the very things that seem the most innocuous simply because they're commonplace, and are the most dangerously wrong because they're commonplace.

ChatGPT's training data contains all of the racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, and other prejudice, hatred, and bigotry of the society that produced that data. The developers can stop ChatGPT from saying slurs and other disgusting stuff its training data certainly provides, but censoring the filth that is present within this machine really makes it more dangerous: the bigotry is still there, it's just that the text will only be generated if the bigotry is subtle enough to escape these filters.

If ChatGPT's training data shows that someone named "John" is more likely to be described as "brilliant" or "great" or "strong" and someone named Mary is more likely to be described as "pretty," it's going to make sentences that reflect that. If the data shows a statistical correlation between the words "Muslim" or "Islam" and the words "extremism" or "war," it's going to put those words together more often. Can we see how this might be a problem

Kinda fucked up when you watch something and you're like wow, this would have been really good if they had changed almost everything

laughed out loud

google search how to know if i'm friends with someone

Blueberries - Teija Lehto

Finnish, b. 1965 -

Woodcut , 43 x 60 cm.

— Vincent Van Gogh

- Vincent van Gogh

[ID: Tags: #This actually made me tear up #van gogh had such a hard life #if even he #poster child of historical depression can have hope #i can too /end ID.]

*does this to you*

Frankly beautiful way of phrasing it