helena bottom-farter

filled with a deep & endless grief about what they're doing to online

it sucks so much that these nerds preyed on a lot of unwell ppl by spreading conspiracy theories while they were doing real conspiracy shit. they made their own base look nuts & now YOU feel nuts when you see them doing all the shit they accuse other ppl of doing. they're so sloppy & bad at it too 😭

post sesta fosta internet sucks so bad. it hurts to remember what it used to be & it makes me panic a little to not have the properly functioning tools we used to have to access info/each other

Tech Guy: I have attained immortality!

Me: Wow, you figured out how to stop aging?

Tech Guy: No, I trained an AI on my emails to create a perfect copy of my personality. Then I uploaded it into a robot dog with M3GAN’s face. It will live forever

Robot: As a businessman I often schedule meetings

no man has ever been madder online than when elon does this 🤣😂

so now that peter thiel with his big ass rubber frankenstein head is coming out of the shadows to give a few interviews it's pretty clear that he is not this super smart eccentric thinker but actually in like full on psychosis right?

it feels like we're so starved of good news on a daily basis that it's easy to get really pessimistic, but i realized last night with the mamdani win that good news hits extra hard after a drought. we were just on a good news tolerance break so that we could get extra zooted

holy shit i'm so happy for nyc my eyes are popping out of my head & i'm hooting & hollering

it's so weird & corny how the most extremist right wingers out there keep calling themselves centrists. i think some genuinely believe it, too. so many new little dog whistles these days

mailchimp often automatically prompts you to resend (at a more optimal time) of you get low open rates. it's totally normal to resend, i'd do it

what are you supposed to do when the "good" political party doesn't treat a dozen credible sexual harassment claims as disqualifying for a political candidate. how are you supposed to ignore that

What message does it send, especially to women, that the democrats will pull out all the stops to rally around a disgraced fucking rapist rather than let a socialist win a single mayoral election? I’m so tired of this shit dude

kinda shocked at the change in behavior of clients who use chatgpt a lot. they lose skills SO QUICKLY, they don't seem to understand basic communication, lack critical thinking, are super impatient & expect instant results. even if you don't use it yourself, the tech still makes your life WORSE

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

i don't think most cis people know what it's like for every fun or happy or meaningful moment you experience to be overshadowed by some tragedy affecting your fundamental personhood in some way within 48 hours on either side of it

without a doubt, meth. some of it happening in the cabinet too

every day feels like dodging projectiles, hoping i don't get hit, hoping i don't get completely taken out. some days you just get fuckin HIT, man!!!!!! i will get back up tomorrow, but it would be nice to take a break from the projectiles

every day under late stage capitalism you are SO lucky to be ok & i was ok for many years, even when things were really tight! could never afford healthcare/time off but it was fine. but whew losing your main source of income 12 days before rent is due is juuuust CLASSIC, you know?

if i can be y’all’s dad for a second:

one of the most important things I’ve learned is that acquiring a skill is literally uncomfortable

that awful moment where you feel confused and stupid and embarrassed? it means you’re about to learn something. and it’s *mandatory* if you want to get better

If random men in masks claiming to be ICE agents try to grab me, and they’re *not* really ICE, I have the legal right to defend myself against them, yes? And if they are ICE, I don’t?

So how am I supposed to tell the difference? I’m supposed to give my masked kidnappers the benefit of the doubt??

someone whose takes i usually agree with said people who don't believe ai is sentient don't believe cows are sentient either & made a case for ai "rights" based on veganism. the lack of scientific understanding is astounding, dude. we don't need to "free" the Hallucinating Autocorrect Machine 😭

keep honking, i'm imagining kristi noem in a giant cauldron full of smoking, bubbling green liquid!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😜

AI is the future and is so good at what it does all these corporations have to force it into programs where it makes no sense and the government has to pass hide it in a law saying no one can regulate it for a decade because it’s simply that good at what it does

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

I don’t care if you hate porn. Please for the love of god don’t get stuck there cognitively.

Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.

Happy Hitler Shoots Himself In The Head day to all who celebrate. The 80th anniversary. May his ignominious end, with his body doused in petrol and burned by his last remaining loyalists, be a model for all tyrants.

Americans really do grossly underestimate what a difference “walking everywhere” makes when they travel

like yeah the walking is the reason you lost weight while eating bread in Italy, it’s not because Italian bread is imbued with magical nonna sprinkles that give it fewer calories

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.
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still have yet to see anything compelling made by gen ai. there's something about the bay area/tech bubble world that is convincing my friends there that it's Really Good Actually, but this shit is mostly just doing genocide, meme videos, incorrect citations & ugly images, not solving linear a