who could say no to wingman asking for uppies

i think im gonna stop going into the social internet for a while

This is something I'm seeing more and more on AO3 that I'd never seen when I first got into fandom stuff, so I wanted to find out how you all feel about it.

What are your thoughts about seeing posted fanfiction that isn't commissioned, where the creator says that they have never read/watched the source material? For example, someone putting out a fanfic for a show they've never watched that includes the tag Author Has Never Seen Suchandsuch.

The Amazon grocery stores which touted an AI system that tracked what you put in your cart so you didn't have to go through checkout were actually powered by underpaid workers in India.

Just over half of Amazon Fresh stores are equipped with Just Walk Out. The technology allows customers to skip checkout altogether by scanning a QR code when they enter the store. Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped. According to The Information, 700 out of 1,000 Just Walk Out sales required human reviewers as of 2022. This widely missed Amazon’s internal goals of reaching less than 50 reviews per 1,000 sales

A great many AI products are just schemes to shift labor costs to more exploitable workers. There may indeed be a neural net involved in the data processing pipeline, but most products need a vast and underpaid labor force to handle its nearly innumerable errors.

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he’s so babygirl

We took a moment to identify everything in the ESO tenth anniversary image that we could. See anything we missed?

This is the same thing over and over again. Palestinians die every day, but it gets a lukewarm headline from mainstream media because death and destruction is inherent to Arabness. Then an aid convoy with white workers is obliterated, and now both the president of the United States and the president of Israel are making statements apologizing for “the poor protection of aid workers.” At one point we were seeing multiple reports a day of paramedics from the Palestine Red Crescent Society dying, but nothing. Crickets. Because they don’t care. And even in these “remorseful statements” there is a strategic reminder that white lives hold more weight than brown lives.

if cd projekt red wanted me to think she was straight the least they could’ve done was switch up the goddamn interactions. don’t make your characters FLIRT with a gender they’re not attracted to idiots this is like base level design

I’m just so fucking pissed off man if they can surgically airstrike international volunteer food workers three consecutive times to ensure their operation is wiped out completely what the fuck is left for anyone to say

sketching testing with a brush

sketching testing with a brush

i want to live (all origins)

THE LONG AWAITED SEQUEL.... Dance in Fire 2 is out NOW!!!

well, no one asked for it, but i've finally finished the sequel to my mildly successful sonic fanzine DANCE IN FIRE. featuring more "team dark content," this technically counts as a zine. hey wait what's Vector doing here

READ IT HERE ON ITCH.IO!!! it's free. can you imagine if i charged money for this lol

now go read DANCE IN FIRE... 2!!!!!!!!!!!