TheSpectreOfGay [hy/hym, she/her]

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Cake day: January 2nd, 2021

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  • honestly, the criticism of AI i often see is wrong/exaggerated. i think there is a deep, existential horror to the usage of ai that people do not like, but have a hard time actually describing why it makes them so uncomfortable, so they go for talking points they see in the discourse. that’s why a lot of ai bros dissuade all criticism with “they just think ai is evil lmao”

    it isn’t good for the environment, and regardless of how not good it is for the environment, it’s being used to disadvantage the working class further for profit. that’s bad! so i wish it was less “ai burns an entire forest with each use” and more “no amount of energy usage is an acceptable amount to generate dogshit”

    or something idk i spent like all day reading ai discourse and i think my brain is fried rn






  • liberal protests are very interesting. it was very effective to make them feel like they had some agency in life over the ruling class by doing gestures that don’t actually affect change.

    I’ve been following the Infinity Nikki drama, where players are mad at the game for introducing some anti-consumer practices. It’s not a very shocking thing to happen, as it’s 1. a gacha, 2. targetted at women. The company that makes it basically has a monopoly on gacha games targetted at women, so they can be as shitty to their playerbase as they want. Anyway, aside from bitching online, the players also are boycotting purchases in it (which, we all know how effective "voting with your wallet is). Obviously this did not get a good enough response from the company’s PR. So the protestors have a new plan, which was not to play the game.

    For a singular day.

    Not a week, not a month, not until their demands are met. A single day.







  • first bit sounds like being understimulated, which’d probably be an ADHD thing

    I have these rich fantasy worlds I’ll daydream in. Like legit world building where I need things to make sense.

    if you’re daydreaming a lot and it gets in the way of functioning, it could be maladaptive daydreaming. if you just do it for fun and it doesn’t, then that’s just pretty normal

    It feels like I’m distracting myself from my life sometimes. I’m not in a great place, and I know I’d start tasks when I’m stressed. Sometimes I’ll drop make plans and then drop them immediately. Other times I’ll freeze and stall before making a decision.

    I do this too, for me it’s that i get super anxious about low-productivity when im anxious, so i try to do something, but then physically cannot focus due to the anxiety

    i have disassociative identity disorder, so i have a lot of experience with disassociation. personally none of this feels similar to me, aside from the daydreaming (but that’s coupled with other symptoms). needing to do things in silence, for example, is the exact opposite for me. when im dissociating i prefer silence, and then i kinda blank on what im doing and then it’s done. since i have pretty hardcore amnesia barriers that might just be me, though