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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

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margbarcisforever
margbarcisforever

realizing that the doordash live cricket exploit which used to exist is not something that ever got coverage in a periodical at any point. history cannot be allowed to forget this.

margbarcisforever

basically, when doordash calculates pay for “shop and deliver” orders (ones where the delivery driver has to go into a store and pick out the items before delivering them to the customer) they base that calculation on how many items were in the order, which makes sense because the more items you have to find and carry, the more work you are doing. but what they failed to consider is that, at some pet stores (most notably petsmart) you can buy live crickets, and some reptile owners will buy them in the dozens or even hundreds at a time. and in the pay calculation, each live cricket counted as an individual item. so there was a time when you could get an order that took like half an hour of work total (including both shopping and delivery time) that paid $50 or more, when the customer paid doordash significantly less than that. this is something you would probably never hear about unless you worked doordash during this time, but it’s important. live crickets were once the bane of a billion dollar company.

roach-works
roach-works:
“im starting to approach ai-spotting as a fun pattern game, and i’ve found a couple good rules of thumb to follow!
look:
similarity smears: ais don’t really ‘know’ what anything ‘is’; the art generators easily conflate similarly shaped...
roach-works

im starting to approach ai-spotting as a fun pattern game, and i’ve found a couple good rules of thumb to follow!

look:

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similarity smears: ais don’t really ‘know’ what anything ‘is’; the art generators easily conflate similarly shaped and colored things together, like clouds and lace, trees and grass, bark and skin, cloth and hair; in this case eggshells and flower petals, generating forms that are a dreamy, smeary mixture of both.

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faux-patterns: ais seems to generate these intricate faux-pattern, which have a deceptively complex and organic appearance that seems rich and lovely at first glance, but on closer inspection you can see there’s no actual design. because the ai isn’t actually producing the kind of intentional work that a human would. humans produce geometric patterns by a creative and situational application of math that these ais just don’t employ.

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forebackground: because the ais don’t ‘know’ what anything actually ‘is’, this ai that was trained on painted eggs and flowers can clearly reproduce a number of egg-shaped outlines, but has rendered the depth of any given flower-like object very haphazardly. some of the foliage is just abstract brush-strokes, some is in a crisp painterly style, some is photo-realistic–and all these styles are mixed together at random. because, again, the ai is generating eggs and flowers and paint and leaves all without knowing what any of them are.

anyway! it’s been interesting and fun to learn to spot AI images, and many of them are really lovely to observe closely! i hope this helps other people in their ai-spotting too.

19-bellwether
unpretty

the space seed episode of tos where they find khan and the ss botany bay is so funny because right off the bat you have kirk being like "yeah let's get that historian whats-her-name out there, maybe she can be useful for once" and it's like WOAH what's up with the liberal arts hate?? why is kirk being such a bitch to this lady for no reason. then you meet her and she's fucking obsessed with historical strongmen to the point of covering her walls in her own fanart. she lives on a spaceship in a utopian technofuture and she sleeps surrounded by busts of kings on purpose. her vibes are fashy and kirk is right to be a bitch, actually.

then they get to the botany bay and she's immediately driven to distraction by how horny she is for ricardo montalban under a thick layer of extra-dark foundation. sorry i'm gonna compare montalban with and without the makeup because it is SO distracting

ricardo montalban looking like himselfALT
ricardo montalban looking like they dipped his ass in cocoa powder to pretend he's south asianALT

also she refers to sikhs in the past tense implying that at some point in the last two hundred years there was a genocide that they're just glossing over. since she also calls them a warrior race it's also possible that she's just racist and somewhere on board the enterprise there are sikh crew members who dislike her as much as kirk does.

anyway you can assume that this is her first actual away mission and she fumbled immediately because she was so hot for khan but it's much funnier if this isn't the first time this has happened. every time they have to interact with a historical earth artifact she gets so horned up thinking about being a tradwife that she's rendered speechless. spock stays polite but kirk can't stand her. by the time kirk found out she was the type of person to paint her own portraits of napoleon and roman emperors to hang in her quarters it was too late to send her back and request literally anyone else. he's supposed to court martial her but offers to let her stay on fashy eugenics planet just so he won't have to keep her on his ship anymore. it's unclear if he lets her take her paintings or jettisons them into space.

wongbal

this is the funniest analysis of “Space Seed” I've ever seen

oneheadtoanother
kurganfilledwithbearbones

I read a LOT of roald dahl as a kid including his truly repugnant short stories and also spent a lot of early internet time on stormfront arguing with neos and calling them stupid and have turned into an adult whose academic career is going to hinge a lot on reading antisemitism in places where it hasn't historically been located, and I have read some of the corrections and it's like, well I understand NOW that The Twits is basically Antisemitic Stereotypes: The Children's Book even moreso than The Witches, so why are you just faintly inserting weak reminders that women can be business moguls in the same sentence where the grandma is telling the boy that all ((((witches)))) wear sheitel wigs. Like why would anyone think those specific rewrites get to the crux of the issue. Maybe, I don't know, remove the made up bit in Going Solo where he pretended he landed at a kibbutz filled with lovable Jewish war orphans specifically because he wanted a way to make his antisemitism less bad, or at least annotate it with "he for real made this up"