TootSweet

@TootSweet@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New thing to ponder just dropped⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer cubic for easy stacking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution at its finest!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The redneck version of Raven from Snow Crash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨magma is stored in the balls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pee is stored in the balls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I create a psychology community, or take over moderation of psy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If the Psy community is on a tankie instance, make a new community. Otherwise, request to be made moderator. That’s my rule of thumb at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes a DNA test⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AncestryDNA would absolutely give conclusive proof of either close blood relationship or lack thereof. In practice, it’s just as good as a paternity test.

  The only caveats I can think of are:

  • Both parent and (potential) child would have to get the test.
  • I guess if AncestryDNA just completely messed up and represented some random other person’s DNA as the parent’s or child’s, that would give false negatives.
  • Chimerism.
  • AncestryDNA might not be admissable in court.

  And of those, the first three are just as applicable to paternity tests as they are to AncestryDNA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become unrecognizable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These damb apples⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate when blarn eat showegh whale snert. Every time, yargh hugh mort B.

  The only part I don’t understand is why part of it is in Morse code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does one learn or start to manage thair life better?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds like exactly the sort of thing therapy is for. I’m no kind of expert, but it’s very likely there’s a lot of deeper things keeping you from developing achieving the kind of skills you’re wanting. And it sounds very much like it’s a problem in your life that’s causing you a lot of anxiety and pain. I think if there’s any way you can do talk therapy, that’s the place to start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does one learn or start to manage thair life better?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. Huge topic. And it depends on a ton of things. And I definitely don’t feel like I’ve got it all figured out myself.

  If you’re young and just for the first time having to manage your own affairs rather than depend on parents to help with that, then self-help kind of stuff might well be a fine place to start. (Just avoid Jordan Peterson.) If you’re older and feel like you’ve had the time needed to develop those skills and still don’t have them, it’s likely there’s something deeper going on that might benefit from therapy.

  I personally cared for my ailing grandmother for a long time. And that shit’s hard work, and takes a lot of time. In the process, I let a lot of things go by the wayside like yardwork, home repair, and organization. Now that she has passed, I find myself with a lot of remedial work to catch up on. I feel like I’m making progress. It’s frustrating and slow, but it is progressing and that’s the important part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's happened from July to September 2025 that might make people Google "Worst timeline"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Send help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[AI] What time is it again?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Behold: The current state of LLMs. The pinnacle of human achievement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ridiculous⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I forget which sports team logo it is, but it’s a bull. I’ve posted that image turned upside-down. Upside-down, it looks like a robot violating a crab.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Louis Rossmann a fascist like futo?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends how he responds now that that article came out, I’d say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon studies Organic Chemistry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My major in college for my BS included all but 2 credit hours of a physics minor, so my final semester, I took Thermal Physics to complete that minor. I’ve never met a physics course I didn’t ace, so I figured “easy A”.

  I’m quite certain I was the highest scorer in the course and was a solid B+ before the final. I took the final and felt really good about how well I did. I thought sure they’d curve and I’d be the one that threw off the curve.

  I got my grades back. I got a C. My only C ever, in fact. An A (what I expected) would have gotten me summa cum laude.

  The same semester, I took a statistics class. Paid exactly zero attention in class. The class took place in a computer lab for no good reason other than I’m guessing the other classrooms were booked. I played a fast-paced Quake-like FPS every class all class. Got an A in that course.

  But that fuckin’ thermal physics class.

  Years later, a coworker of mine who was an alum of my alma mater told me that they’d taken the professor who taught that thermal physics class off of teaching permanently due to his completely unreasonable grading practices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wendnesday⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why can’t we just pronounce it “wed-nes-day”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is called an oopsi⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Grandpa?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arby's steak bites⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn. In concept they sound good. Except for the whole “Arby’s” part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks it's over⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, my mother is pretty hopelessly addicted to shorts, right? (Facebook reels, Youtube shorts, Tiktok, etc.) And the other day she calls me over to watch one that had just come up on her feed. It was a kitten and a parrot playing. The parrot was talking and the kitten kindof batted at and nuzzled the parrot.

  Cute as fuck. Sickeningly so. But something was definitely off. The parrot’s voice was wrong somehow. The cat was a little too… smooth. The way they moved just wasn’t quite right. Clearly an AI generated video. (The audio was probably a human speaking, pitched up and made a little squeakier via simple audio editing. But my point is that no cat and parrot had ever existed in front of a camera doing quite what this video depicted.)

  My mother never considered it might be AI-generated until I said it was.

  And… what’s the harm? As I said, it was cute. Who cares whether it was “real” or not if it made the dopamine squirt in my mother’s brain?

  We’re kindof living in a post-truth world. It doesn’t matter whether content is “real” or not. If it feels good great. If you completely disengage your critical thinking skills and just assume it’s real (or even worse, define real/impactful in terms of what makes the dopamine squirt and not in terms of truth), it feels even better. Produces more of that sweet sweet dopamine.

  A person who cares whether something is true/real/authentic may fall for it anyway and still be manipulated thereby. But one who doesn’t care, you don’t even have to manipulate. They’re already living a fantasy.

  That’s how you get “alternative facts” and of right-wingers claiming “we white, cishet, christian, men are the ones who are really oppressed.”

  Enjoying AI-generated music knowing it’s AI-generated is a red flag. Enjoying it and not realizing it’s fake is extremely concerning. Worst of all is enjoying it and not caring.

  When my mother showed me that video, I felt sick to my stomach. Not because it was “too cute.” (Ok, a little bit because it was sickeningly cute, but mostly…) Because she’d been so easily manipulated. And because there were a few seconds before I realized it was fake during which I was similarly manipulated.

  My mother also has a problem with blindly trusting Google AI overviews and it’s been a problem a few times.

  Every AI-generated bit of media or information I consume makes me feel like I’ve been “tainted”, poisoned, unclean. I’m sure despite the care I’ve taken to verify sources and such, I’ve fallen for it in some ways, but it’s hard to know where/how specifically and what negative effects that will have on me at a later date.

  And no, this problem didn’t start with AI, but AI certainly hasn’t helped the situation.

  But to bring it home, what you asked wasn’t about AI-generated fake news or cat videos. It was about jazz.

  Before AI-generated music like what’s referenced in the OP existed, we had autotune. And I think that’s similarly problematic for the same reason as AI-generated cat videos are. I think people using autotune blatantly to where they weren’t trying to hide it’s use but rather used it as a cool distortion effect was a hugely positive development specifically because it revealed the fact that it wasn’t real.

  Maybe someday we’ll end up with an equivalent for AI-generated music. And if so, maybe I’ll be cool with “blatantly AI” music. But so long as we have music that fools people into thinking it was made by flesh-and-blood humans on physical pianos, upright basses, saxaphones, etc, it’s concerning as fuck.

  If I ever fall for that shit, please slap me. And if I say I don’t care whether it’s real or not, shoot me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feed a crab for a lifetime⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was here for poop holding.

  I was here for beans.

  I was here for stroganoff.

  And I’m here for crabs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal bands⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Three-headed dragon meme template where the first two heads look badass and the third is goofy as hell. The first one has the band logo for the band Cradle of Filth (all spikey and largely unreadable.) The second, Contdemned (similarly unreadable.) The final, goofy head has the logo for the band Party Cannon which looks clownish like the logo for a clown troupe available for hire for children’s birthday parties might look.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon uses GOG⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve only bought one game from GOG. It was Morrowind and I’m playing via OpenMW. Good experience over all. Though I didn’t use the installer or the executable that came with the game.

  I really want to see more FOSS reimplementations of game engines come into existence. Wine is fine and all, but I’d much rather have a native FOSS engine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever been shown the "clarity"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s not all that much more to tell, really.

  Normally, particularly when it’s really dark, I have a lot of little blotches of a lighter, gray shade that fade and shift constantly across my whole field of vision. Until it abated temporarily, I wouldn’t have thought it possible for it to abate. But when it did, I got to experience a more potent experience of “darkness” than I had before probably ever. But it wasn’t just darkness that was amplified. My vision definitely felt “clearer” of… the ordinary sorts of visual artifacts I see pretty much all of the time.

  It was a very calming and pleasant experience for sure. Definitely the sort of thing I wish could be the case all the time.

  This has only happened to me once. It came on while I was meditating (so that may not particularly qualify as “spontaneous”, but anyway) and lasted until I fell asleep maybe an hour later. By morning, my vision was “normal” again.

  I’m not saying my experience was (or wasn’t) the same as the experience you’ve had. I don’t disbelieve your account, though. And it wouldn’t surprise me if the same sort of experience I had might sometimes be experienced spontaneously by some individuals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever been shown the "clarity"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had some wild experiences for sure. Total loss of visual snow. Synesthesia. Major time distortions. Stuff like that. (Meditation is a hell of a drug. For realz.) Particularly during a period of time about 9 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks it's over⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole point of generative AI plagiarism laundering machines is to make it harder to tell you’re consuming a soulless regurgitation of legitimate talent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My body is a roadmap of pain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, what’s the one labeled “jackass”? I will pay you an upvote if you tell me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frog........right.....⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, there are frogs in all of the following images:

  Violin bow frog

  Floral frog

  Frogging in crochet is the act of pulling stitches out of a piece, turning it back into yarn

  Sword hanger frog

  Horse hoof frog

  And that’s not anywhere near a comprehensive list. People really like to call things “frogs”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨scheming hot banana cookies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Recipe by ChatGPT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate reality?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t confuse condescension with reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most Christians don’t really care what the Bible says, regardless of how much they like to pretend they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wear your seatbelt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anon is definitely lawful neutral.