dont tag me in tag games don’t do it im not going to do them . dont tag me in them theyre annoying and i Will Not Do Them .

sarahphin:

Seeing lots of talk about OFMD and fan service - whether positive or negative. But what I am feeling and loving is the fan respect. Particularly when it comes to callbacks to season 1. I don’t even want to think about how many shows I’ve watched and couldn’t help but yell out loud at my own screen, ‘did the writers even watch the first fucking season?!!?!?!’ or even earlier episodes in the same season.

And that stuff may not really bother a casual watcher, but the fans, we know. We have seen the episodes over and over and have read the fic, written the fic, played the scenarios. We know exactly who said what to whom and when. And the writers for this show write like they, too, have watched the show on repeat, like they love it too, like they know that we’ll get it when they call back earlier events and lines and we’ll know it if they ignore important parts of the past. They respect our familiarity with the show and they respect how much it means to us. Not like, 'wow, it’s super weird that some people care so much,’ but like 'wow, it’s amazing and wonderful that some people care so much and it matters to me that my work is important to them.’ I appreciate it so much.

weird-mcgee:

continent-of-wild-endeavor:

Job interview tip I got from a tiktok but it’s genius:

If you were unemployed for a while, they’re going to ask if you can explain the gap in your resume. Unless you were actually doing something cool & relevant, this is hard to answer in a way that makes you sound like a good corporate cog. So here’s the best and infallible answer -

No you cannot, because you signed an NDA.

You now sound mysterious, desirable, worldly, experienced. They can’t even really ask you more about it! Perfect.

This tip isn’t genius.

You can give general details even after signing an NDA, and the interviewer can absolutely ask about them. What type of work were you doing? What references can you provide for that time period? What sector was the job in? What skills did you learn from it?

If you’re going for a non-office job, claiming to have an NDA will sound weird at best and might make the interviewer decide you’re not worth the drama. If you’re going for a professional job, the interviewer will be familiar enough with NDAs to be suspicious.

There are plenty of reasonable excuses for a resume gap that won’t raise any red flags. You had a family situation which has now been resolved; you took time off to explore starting your own business but found you preferred working in a more traditional employment structure; you had a baby; you took classes; there was a fucking pandemic on. Your interviewer doesn’t care too much, they just want to know it’s something that won’t be a problem during employment (so no “I sent bomb threats to my workplace and that was when the case was ongoing”).

Please don’t learn professional skills from TikTok. Most of them are coming from teenagers who have no idea how interviews actually work.

orcboxer:

One thing that’s vitally important to remember is that feeling “weirded out” is not a form of harm. It is a completely normal part of socializing. It is the feeling of encountering something unfamiliar. In order to be a kind person, you must learn to how to distinguish between “harmful” and “weird.” And then you must accept the weird.

roach-works:

flowergirlmiwa:

noragesimus:

idk how anyone can look at how expensive fast food has gotten and think we’re doing okay

there used to be a dollar menu. like. one dollar. that was the gimmick. whole wide selection just one solid dollar (only one). and this was in my lifetime. i remember seeing ads for this shit. wha

i shouldn’t be spending 45$ at mcdonalds to feed three adults. that’s insane. six years ago that was a good dinner at a sit down restaurant and now im forking it over for cheap hamburgers? fuck off

afloweroutofstone:

My favorite way to handle conversations on immigration with people who obviously disagree with me is to start: “The problem with illegal immigration isn’t the immigration part, it’s the illegal part.” This gets them off their guard- you’re using their term for the phenomena, you start to sound like their idea of what a reasonable left-liberal should be. Then you hit them with “that’s why the only solution is to legalize all of it”

sailermoon:

“I’ll just rest my eyes” is the biggest lie you’re going straight to snorkmimimi land

bonesbuckleup:

Been thinking a lot about fiction-writing AI software. Been thinking about how people want to be writers but don’t ever put a word down because they’re scared of getting it wrong or doing it badly. Been thinking about how using bots to create the parts of a story you struggle with will stop you from learning that skill and will make you a fundamentally worse writer. Been thinking about how some writing communities get mean with new writers on wobbly baby horse writing legs who call unpolished or unpracticed work “cringe” or “bad” or “not worth salvaging” and don’t give feedback in good faith. Been thinking about how people aren’t allowed to be bad at things anymore. Been thinking A Lot about how writing communities are a large part–not the only part or biggest part, but still–of what’s driving these new or wannabe writers to the AI platforms so they can avoid being shamed when they share their work.

Anyway. Be nice to each other. One way to push back against AI fiction and AI stories is to foster kind and encouraging writing communities where we all help each other up vs. tearing someone down so you feel taller. Don’t let the bots win.

thebibliosphere:

allalrightagain:

wondersmith-and-sons:

jackaxed:

wondersmith-and-sons:

if you can’t handle richard siken at his “i also want to get bruce wayne pregnant” you don’t deserve him at his “everyone longs for a father figure. even those with fathers. even fathers. that’s why we invented god.”

excuse me op but when did he say that first thing

what, you think i’d just lie about this?

@thebibliosphere

#i don’t even go here but I’m contractually obligated to enable antics

Your commitment is appreciated.

whats-this-mustelid:

I just think that ‘animals are living intelligent creatures that have feelings and deserve to be respected’ and 'when done properly farming is beneficial to both people and animals and there’s nothing wrong with raising and killing animals for food, clothing, and other products’ are concepts that very much can and should coexist

chatwiththeclouds:

1) You should assume good faith (good intentions, the most flattering interpretation of their speech) when taking with people, 2) it is normal to do so unless you have a serious, ongoing reason as to not do so, and 3) if you do not regularly approach people, especially strangers, in good faith during discussions, then that is a sign of something wildly unhealthy within your psyche.

4) You do have options to change how you think, 5) it will require work to train your brain to approach people sincerely and 6) you may have to stop hanging out in spaces that are toxic or destructive.

But, 7) by tempering your mind, 8) taking accountability for how your words harm others and 9) not hanging out in places that give you an addicting, self-righteous, sense of anger, 10) you can move towards having meaningful, adult, conversations, honestly and openly with others, 11) in such a way where social safety and kindness allows you to be intellectually curious, exploratory, and to grow.

adorkastock:

professionalchaoticdumbass:

flightyquinn:

theconcealedweapon:

Some other bangers;

• “Jack of all trades, master of none” … “but ofttimes better than a master of one.”
• “Blood is thicker than water.” “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the waters of the womb.”
• “Money is the root of all evil.” “The love of money is the root of all evil.”

there’s also “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” which conservatives are oh so fond of saying

bootstraps are, well, straps on your boots. you cannot physically pull yourself up by them, and that’s what the original phrase meant. “pulling oneself up by the bootstraps” is meant to be an impossible task

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”

The second part really matters.

onetruesirius:

averagefairy:

does anyone else think it’s crazy how we just casually reference “the pandemic” now. i catch someone in conversation saying “during the first quarantine…” and as comfortable as it feels to hear and say now, there’s still a twinge of like…. i cannot believe we’re using these words in real life in reference to real events. this isn’t a scifi movie this isn’t a young adult post apocalyptic novel we’re literally casually discussing a global pandemic that ravaged the entire world and it was REAL ?

you keep saying it like this is a past event, that the pandemic ravaged the entire world, that it was real, etc

The pandemic is still ongoing—hospital admissions jumped 16% in the United States last week, and 30% in my state, as of 9/7/23.

BA.2.86 is on the uptick and we’re not 100% sure if the fall vaccines we’ve made will be effective because once again

we were such eager beavers for the “emergency” to be over, we shut down the metaphorical fire suppression system before the fire department even arrived so we BUNGLED the response to an emergency, and then MORE fire spread to more floors because there was no fire suppression and hey guess what the fire department finally arrived but the building is still fucking burning.

The pandemic is real. Actively real. The most vulnerable people in our communities are still at incredible risk. And yet the world chugs on.

So just a casual reminder, when we speak about the pandemic in past tense: the disaster is not over yet, the only thing we’ve actually stopped is our disaster response.

puraiuddo:

javert:

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sorry but if you write or read fanfiction and are cheering about THIS as the basis for an anti-AI lawsuit, you’re an idiot and a rube. signing up to join the “I didn’t know lawsuits would come after MY beloved transformative works” party

So unfortunately OP seems to have misinterpreted supporting evidence for the legal argument as being the legal argument itself.

Let me explain.

The problem (what’s being sued over) isn’t that ChatGPT can spit out derivative work, it’s why it can spit out derivative work.

Ground rule fact that must be understood: it is impossible for anything produced by ChatGTP to be original content. It does not “learn” it can only “copy”.

And what’s it called when you copy someone’s work? Plagiarism.

We’ve all been saying it. Everyone knows it. But if you’re suing then you have to prove it. So what is the evidence? The quote above.

The plaintifs are arguing that if ChatGPT hadn’t been fed (in this instance) the various copyrighted works of George RR Martin, then it wouldn’t be possible for it to produce canon-accurate and/or “detailed” outlines using “the same characters from existing books”.

In other words, if ChatGPT didn’t have all the plots/nouns/names/etc from A Song of Ice and Fire loaded into it—which is only possible by being fed books that it doesn’t legally have access to!—then it wouldn’t be able to spit anything related to that topic back out.

The second part, which should make fanfic authors feel even better, is that the only reason any of this is going anywhere is because

That plagiarism is then being monetized by people selling ChatGPT-produced books.

It’s already been established that fanfic isn’t “protected” if money is changing hands. The fact that fanfic is free is why it’s safe.

Meanwhile, this whole issue is being brought to court, because of money.

The authors couldn’t be arguing to have lost anything and couldn’t win anything if there wasn’t money involved—meaning that they couldn’t have even brought the issue to court and made an argument in court that ChatGPT needs to be taken down if they couldn’t prove they were robbed of something.

What should fanfic authors feel even even better is that

The real reason so many authors have banded together on this is for the preservation of human-made literature.

“It is imperative that we stop this theft in its tracks or we will destroy our incredible literary culture… Great books are generally written by those who spend their careers and, indeed, their lives, learning and perfecting their crafts. To preserve our literature, authors must have the ability to control if and how their works are used by generative AI.” — Authors Guild CEO Mary Rasenberger

It’s not some “gotcha” for them to turn around on fanfic authors… which, again, wouldn’t work, because the argument is and always has been about money.

gaystardykeco:

women are filled with lust and adoration for me when they hear about my encyclopedic knowledge of scooby doo