‘People are panicking about AI tools the same way they did when the calculator was invented, stop worrying’ cannot stress enough the calculator did not forcibly pervade every aspect of our lives, has such a low error rate it’s a statistical anomaly when it does happen, isn’t built on mass plagiarism, and does not obliterate the fucking environment when you use it. Be so fucking serious right now
Nature really went off with sperm whales. A 70-ton predator with teeth the size of a banana but it only eats squishy prey that it doesn’t even chew, it just schlorps them down whole like a vacuum cleaner. Big giant fat head full of goop. Tiniest fins in the world. Strong enough to smash a ship to pieces and smart enough to figure out how to do so but its first line of defense is just to shit everywhere. Possibly the most complex language in the animal kingdom and it creates sounds by blowing air through its internal right nostril (it uses the left one to breathe) into its giant fat head. It’s the loudest animal on the planet and might have the capability to create a beam of sound so loud it can shake your organs apart but they don’t seem to use that to hunt or fight. They’re highly flammable. We used them to make candles.
i am so absolutely utterly scared that my insane grandfather in his 80s who runs miles every morning is going to leave me a bird in his will and i am especially scared he is going to leave me a large cockatoo named “captain hook”. hook has been trying to make me his child bride since i was like 6 years old and every time i see him again which has only been a couple times with decades in between hook is like “you. it’s always been you. ever since you were born i’ve known we were meant to be” captain hook you are a bird and i am a LESBIAN and i don’t WANT an eternal sentinel captain HOOK!!!!!!!
WAS TOLD AT CHRISTMAS DINNER THAT THIS IS INDEED REAL, AND THAT I AM IN THE WILL TO RECIEVE THE BIRD!!!!!!!!!!!! NEVER 👏 STOP 👏 BEINGSCARED 👏
Sometimes it’s confirmation bias and sometimes the world itseld is determined to show you people are fundamentally good actually
was at a poetry open mic last night in the seedier parts of my city and halfway through a reading an unhoused neighbor comes up to the window and starts SCREAMING through it at us. Someone reached up to close the window on him and the poet –nobody famous, just a talented local artist – stops and leans into the mic and goes, “No, leave it open. Hi! Hello! We see you! I hope you’re having a good night! We see you!” And the man shouts back “hi! Hi! Hello! Good night!” And leaves. No fight, no disruption, nothing. The poet nods to all of us and says, “See, that’s all any of us want. To be seen and heard. That’s why we’re here tonight. So I say, I see you.” and then read the most banger of a poem I’d heard all night.
