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just trained AI to remember all of my friends' birthdays, send an automated AI-generated email saying "happy birthday," call them using an AI-generated video of me, scan all of their online info so i buy the perfect birthday gift, which i'll deliver using an AGI robot that looks like me

Every professional translator I know has the same position on this and can easily explain the reasons for it when asked. The fact that executives don't even bother to ask and force translators to work on AI/MTL slop regardless makes it clear where their priorities lie: money trumps quality.

I love “cozy games” on an individual level but “cozy” used to include replaying resident evil 2 for the 5th time

now as a genre it’s starting to feel like it is locking people into aesthetic tradwife boot camp

Think of the munitions being used against Iran that could’ve helped Ukraine.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

what's a good written notes app for iPad that's not Ai shit?

hey remember last year at this time when they fired all the JAG lawyers? Huh, wonder why they did that.

"I hope you die" is weak. "I hope that obscure Japanese-only game you wanna play gets a fan translation done entirely by ChatGPT" is way more hurtful. It's real. It could happen to anyone.

In my time at Princeton, we've had several Army officers in our doctoral program. They've all done excellent work.

When this former Princeton undergrad says we're actually teaching them "the enemy's wicked ideology" I have no idea what the hell he's talking about but, of course, neither does he.

“We demand that senior service colleges work to sharpen our war fighters on genuine national security issues, not social justice activism…”

can’t help but point out the obvious overlap between the recent Discord ID shit and what just happened in Kansas with our Trans Siblings losing their IDs with no notice. this has always been the direction this shit was heading in. we are not reacting appropriately to what is unfolding.

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana

(Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

Not that you give a fuck but here He Is

I never thought I’d live to see the day when some Pentagon middleman was using “for-profit” as an epithet

萱野茂さん建築のチセ、二風谷の職人が修復　愛知の博物館　生誕100年・没後20年の節目：北海道新聞デジタル 【平取】世界の多様な文化を伝える民間施設「野外民族博物館リトルワールド」（愛知県犬山市）で、アイヌ文化研究者の故・萱野茂さんらが約40年前に建てたチセ（家屋）の修復作業が行われた。今年は茂さんの生誕1...

Restoration work was carried out on a cise built 40 years ago by the late Ainu scholar, activist and politician Kayano Shigeru, which is located at the "Little World Museum of Man" in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture. Young craftspeople from Nibutani, where Kayano was from, took part in the restoration.

oh I want to read this sooo bad !! I will definitely buy a copy when it's released

A happy magic frog that says poof. You are now untired and very happy.

I CAST WHIMSY ON THE SKYLINE

obsessed with the way all these online right terms get decoupled from meaning and sort of just float in this bitter miasma. the pope is a theater kid. blue-haired elite universities. the epstein files transparency act is woke

Fun fact: Wolverines actually exist simultaneously in two realms; the greater universe, and the mirror dimension.

We're assholes in both, though. There's really no difference.

the tachyon is so cute I'm going to go nuts and print it for my phone case

photograph of fanmade photocards of chibi-style characters: jungle pocket, manhattan cafe, agnes tachyon, and dantsu flame from uma musume: beginning of a new era movie.

hello, to celebrate the upcoming theatre release of #umamusume beginning of a new era, i've made some lil photocards to hand out as freebies!

i've included the files in the link below so feel free to print them out for yourself and/or distribute them at the screening as well :-)

A digital sketch of four cats squeezed into square shapes, arranged in a grid. The cats all slightly break out of their squares and have various cheeky expressions. The sketch was made with a realistic pencil brush. The Clip Studio Paint logo is in the bottom corner of the artwork.

Cat squares step 1: sketch ✏️

[ #cuteart #illustration ]

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

cartoon drawing of someone trying to clean their glasses on their shirt. she holds it to the light. still dirty. frowning. “no” “may your enemies’ glasses be always smudged, and their shirts the wrong type of fabric ♥️”

a mundane curse #comic

I need to get my hands on copies of the kabuki scripts for the ones in Kokuho so I can rewatch it and pay even more attention to the relationship between each play and the characters they're paired with

Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

splash ergo designed by rain2 a split ergo columnar where the thumb cluster is on the underside of the keeb

incredible things are happening in the pervert keyboard space

both professors who would be interested in Kokuho and the Lupin the 3rd Kabuki play both passed away so who am I going to email now about them...