marianne eloise

saw someone ask grok if something was funny or not 😔

A summer catch up New projects, ley lines, Cornwall, and one very immortal dog

i wrote a blog. happy summer

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on friday i’ll be posting the insider’s guide to brighton 🌊 ft. my favourite vegetarian indian food, authentic tacos, independent shops and more. please subscribe and share!:

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The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.

Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:

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In search of England's ley lines A century-old quest • Featuring vape shops • RIP Evie

recently went searching for ley lines and ended up hanging out with some mormons. please read:

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The Cholla Gazette: issue 002 Shoes made from grapes? Whatever next? Cheese made from peas?

good vegan cheese! shoes made from grapes! slow fashion! labubu fatigue! here are the things i recommend (and hate) this month:

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Vox piece with headline: "You’re being lied to about protein" and description: "Yes, protein builds muscle. No, you don’t need as much as lifting influencers say." It has an illustration of several people shoving steak and a chicken leg into a giant prop stomach. Salami and other meats are on the ground surrounding.

A certain fitness writer has brain-poisoned women of my generation into thinking they need 1g protein per lb of bodyweight to gain muscle, they can't be fully plant-based, etc. It's all horseshit (as a muscular girlie, I would know!). So I decided to write about protein science🏋️‍♀️

for a start vegan leather is made from mushrooms, cactus, grapes…it isn’t always plastic. second the vegan goal is kind of no death ever for any reason lol either burgers or shoes

big push against vegan leather atm. seen some people arguing that vegans should be fine with it because it’s a byproduct of the meat industry. how fucking stupid are you

god i can’t stop thinking about this. it’s just pure fucking evil

unfortunately as a vegan i can’t do the “propaganda i’m not falling for” trend without being annoying

had a gorgeous time with my gorgeous family last week 🌿🍄🧚🏻🌊🌴🌸🌱

now why has no one commissioned me on this yet

i think the real reason professors won’t just revert to paper essays is bc students just wouldn’t go to college anymore and college is a business

You know what? Let's talk about why this bubble actually inflated! So, let's start simple: the term "artificial intelligence" is bastardized to the point it effectively means nothing and everything at the same time. When people hear "AI" they think of an autonomous intelligence that can do things for them, and generative AI can "do things for you" like generate an image or text "from a simple prompt." As a result, it's easy to manipulate people who don't know much about tech into believing that this will naturally progress from "it can create a bunch of text for me that I have to write for my job just by me typing in a prompt" to "it can do my job for me just by typing in a prompt." Basically everything you read about "the future of AI" extrapolates generative AI's ability to sort of generate something a human would make and turns it into do whatever a human can do, all because tech has, in the past, been bad at the beginning and linearly improved as time drags on. This illogical thinking underpins the entire generative AI boom, because we've found out exactly how many people do not know what the fuck they're talking about and are willing to believe the last semi-intelligent person they talked to. Generative AI is a remarkable con — a just-good-enough simulacrum of human expression to get it past the gatekeepers in finance and the media, knowing that neither will apply a second gear of critical thinking beyond "huh guess we're doing AI now." The expectation that generative AI will transform into something much, much more powerful requires you to first ignore the existing limitations, believing it to be more capable than it is, and also ignore the fact that these models have yet to show meaningful improvement over the past few years. They still hallucinate. They’re still ungodly expensive to run. They’re still unreliable. And they still don’t do much. Worse still, ChatGPT's growth has galvanized these people into believing that this is a legitimate, meaningfu…

Think of it like this: if almost every single media outlet talked about one thing (generative AI), and that one thing was available from one company (OpenAI), wouldn't it look exactly how things look today? You've got OpenAI with hundreds of millions of monthly active users, and then a bunch of other companies — including big tech firms with multi-trillion dollar market caps — with somewhere between 10 and 69 million monthly active users. What we're seeing is one company taking most of the users and money available and doing so because the media fucking helped them. People aren't amazed by ChatGPT — they're curious! They're curious about why the media won't shut up about it!

Generative AI is a remarkable con — a just-good-enough simulacrum of human expression to get it past the gatekeepers in finance and the media, knowing that neither will apply a second gear of critical thinking beyond "huh guess we're doing AI now." It's a disgrace.
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/

Whenever I post about AI, without fail, someone ALWAYS defends it as a tool of convenience or short-term efficiency. You would think the past several decades would have taught people the lesson that short-term convenience doesn’t outweigh long-term consequences, but the lesson continues unlearned

yes you ran very far we’re all very impressed now how about you turn around and pick up all that shite you dropped

the amount of litter and plastic waste dropped during marathons lol it’s so nasty we’re still finding energy gels in brighton and hove

it’s me on john oliver

lol

The false climate solution that just won’t die A star-studded film explains the hope and hype behind regenerative agriculture.

Last week, I watched the popular regenerative ag film Kiss the Ground, and the new follow-up documentary Common Ground. The films' claims -- esp. around climate -- are even more hyperbolic than I knew: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

My Body is a Bouquet How botanical tattoos help me immortalize what is impermanent.

“Flowers, like seasons and people, are temporary." How botanical tattoos help @marianneeloise.bsky.social immortalize what is impermanent 🌏:

From Sex To Ghosting, These Are The Realities Of Dating With A Disability When Frances Ryan began researching her new book Who Wants To Be Normal?, she discovered that there's one part of life that's stuck in the dark ages for disabled women

“To some, a woman sat in a wheelchair snogging her boyfriend is akin to seeing a fish on land. It just ain’t natural.” 

I wrote for Elle on attitudes to disability and sex (with some snippets from Who Wants Normal?) www.elle.com/uk/life-and-...

whether you mean it or not it gives “i’m not like THOSE autistics”. i am! we’re not different! i have so much more in common w a high support needs autistic person than i do with a sub human like, say, RFK

lower support needs autistics please be better at supporting the more vulnerable among us and resist the temptation to insist on how much you can do. it’s OK if a person won’t ever live a “normal” life. it doesn’t dictate their worth, joy or quality of life

disabled people deserve full lives and rights and support even if they will never “contribute” to society btw. obviously

love talking to vegans. two smart empathetic bitches telling each other “exactlyyy”

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we need to make people who use AI feel stupid because they are. maybe then we’ll get somewhere