Not enough people realize that the "Turing Test" as originally presented was "can a gay English man in 1945 tell the difference between a chatbot and a femme-coded woman" over a teletype connection.
(Turing was very gay and had a sex-segregated education and then work life: he basically didn't know women and his alienation is palpable. But today's techbros don't have any such excuse, and the emphasis on femme-coded AI is ... telling.) https://mastodon.xyz/@pmorinerie/112506480363973206
@jynersolives My least favorite moment of the game was during phantom liberty when idris said we were going to a fancy party, so I drove all over town to find the perfect dress and accessories, only to be forced to put on a not-fancy lizard skin suit instead.
@scy I liked the relationships and interactions between Peggy and Jarvis. Papa Stark was also tons of fun in the episodes where he showed up.
However, in general, it seemed like an accurate representation of what a female super-spy would have faced in the old-boy's club in the era of the original James Bond.
a friend told me about two sweet rituals i thought i'd share w u all:
every day, go out or open the window where u live, and hang out there for a bit until you hear/see a bird. maybe some days u only hear them, or u end up seeing a squirrel or smth. the idea is that if you bring yourself to be present in a place u think u know well, unexpected things will happen!
take more things spontaneously and sometimes arbitrarily to be good omens (see a cool cloud = good omen, leaf fell near u = good omen). this is a practice to both resist the tendency to fixate on things being bad omens (tripping, messin up at work over small things) and shift the idea that the environment is working against u, rather for u
I've always been confused why people in #scifi stories are so dismissive of #AI and #Robots, but I guess I never considered all the VC hype that initially lead to their creation.
I wish the tech industry didn't make me hate technology so much. In the 1990s I absolutely coveted the #WearableComputers that #SteveMann was creating, and now the #AppleVisionPro is so much better than anyone could have imagined and I absolutely hate everything that it stands for.
@qurlyjoe@SecularJeffrey@timo21 Well, if white wall tires make a comeback, curb feelers will be close behind, though they would likely be laser powered.
@krisfreedain Now that you mention it (or gif reference it) it is weird how there is no asynchronous workplace communication in the #GhostInTheShell universe. People are always talking directly into other people's brains in real time. Slack would actually be an improvement.
“Anti-shark cages have worked well at keeping divers safe - we ask, are they still necessary and should we stop using them given the risks are now so low?”
@andymoose@Edelruth I'm glad that sharks aren't like covid, and when someone decides to not use a shark cage, it doesn't lead to inadvertently bringing sharks home to eat their family and friends.
@lothcat Do you think a moopsy can just eat the bones on their own, or do they need to inject something into living creatures in order to dissolve and drink them?
Not sure what's happening. Having a bevy of new problems. Might be long covid, or MCAS, or just ME/CFS flaring badly, don't know. Days of testing strongly suggest it's not a 2nd case of covid but of course this is all one big uncontrolled experiment so who knows.
I'm mentally in a bad place. I had been getting a bit better so this sudden severe downturn hits hard. There are a lot of tears. Hugs to everyone else out there in the same boat.
@hollie@chronicillness I just went through weeks of not having the energy to get off the couch most of the day, without testing positive for covid or having any other symptoms (except maybe some sneezing). And since I don't suffer from ME/CSF it was really out of the blue. I guess something is going around? 🤷