My hot take is that if regulators taxed the shit out of ai companies to offset the amount of water and energy they're using it would fix a lot of problems

I recognize that this mostly happens because Obi-Wan is and always has been a direct foil for Anakin, but I am SO tired of all of Obi-Wan's more canon love interests ending up being more about making commentary on Anakin and Anidala than they are on exploring OBI-WAN. It's just sad and I'm so tired of it and I think that until people are willing to write a romance for Obi-Wan that isn't actually about Anakin at all, Obi-Wan should just be made off-limits for romance plot lines entirely. Leave the man alone, please, I am begging you.

I Like when people rant about the deeper meaning of svsss and other mxtx books.

Like they r in a whole other level then me being able to read between the lines, understanding the 11th Dimension of the subtext within the Story.

And then Theres me smoth Brain dylexic Person, who's only Take away from the book IS the fact that arplains and cucumbers r funny tho cucumbers where funny befor for difrent reasins.

U Guys r absolute interlectual geuniues and i strive to be Like U Guys

s3 of witcher is so bad but i DO black out during every scene with mahesh jadu in it so at least it can do that for me

In an attempt to sympathize with all the Satine-stans who are angry that your favorite character wasn't even mentioned in either OWK or Mandalorian...

Just remember, it could be worse - your favorite blonde haired/bad ass heroine could've just been replaced by another blonde haired/bad ass who then basically takes your character's entire story, and your character is left to crawl their way out of Legends to be just a background character.

I feel like an insane person, these AI covers are bad for actors and people need to stop making them.

Yeah, the spongebob AI voice bank isnt going to put Tom Kenny specifically out of work, but theres like 6 voice actors on his level. He's on a long term contract on a show that won't die.

But its not just actors like Tom Kenny getting this treatment. Dante Basco hasn't gotten consistent work in years, but his voice is extremely recognizable. A Zuko voice bank woildnt be hard to source, and would put his career at risk if studios think they can get away with using it for free instead of paying him.

What about someone who gets residuals from smaller voice roles and has a ton of accessible content?

A lot of long term youtubers have gotten voice acting roles because of how recognizable their voices are. That work is going to disappear.

Thats to say nothing of audio book narrators, who are already horrified at the implications of someone selling their voice off for pennies.

These voice banks should not exist. Do not support these character AIs.

siri keeton: hello, my job is to take the jargon spat out by hyperintelligent posthumans and translate it into something that the average person can understand. in order to do this, i must observe, and due to this (and other various traumas in my past) i've developed a set of algorithms to study and mimic human behavior.

everyone, for some reason: you unfeeling monster. you unsentient creature. get out of my fucking sight.

Some absolute batshit drama in a thing I'm involved in came up and I'm glad it was discovered but holy shit this will be a mess to untangle...

Time had made the feelings worse, not better.

Siri Hustvedt, from The Blazing World

Begrudgingly trying to look for a new phone because my current one (which I’ve had for 8 years) is having some issues but like......hhh.. Every person I know who has a newer phone like.. theirs SUCKS lol.. you can’t take the back off/battery out, some you can’t even change out the microSD because apparently they expect you to just use evil ~~cloud storage~~ or whatever nonsense, they come with so many apps built in which you can disable but not fully delete (wasting space on the phone), can’t control when updates happen, one of my friend’s has to be connected to the internet just to get voicemails??? like having to be connected to wifi or mobile data just for some BASIC functionalities is insane (I prefer to keep my internet disabled at all times unless using it, hate the idea of just being internet connected constantly in the background and having all these apps sending and receiving data and giving dumbass notifications when I’m not even actively using them), SOME of them don’t even have a built-in GENERIC notes app or media player (like I’m just supposed to download spotify instead of using my collection of youtube to mp3 files?? lmao) or photo viewer (I know someone who doesn’t have a generic ‘photos’ app, just “Google Photos’ which prompts them to make an account and login every time they open the wretched thing), etc. etc. etc. 

Genuinely, if it weren’t for my need to be able to use the internet to map and check bus directions/look up things on the go when needed, organize/transport files, and take photos on a whim when I may not have my camera with me - I would legit just get one of those basic non-smart phones where you can only text and make calls lol ... alas... ToT

I have my PhD and also a recurring dream that I missed some requirement in middle school and have to go back and take another class in along with all the tweens in the neighborhood and I wake up in a sweat and a vague feeling that I should be getting on a school bus and squeezing myself into a teeny, tiny desk for a school year so they won’t take away my degrees. 

In one of your recent posts you mentioned that you finally got to include some of the scars Siri has on her upper arms, I was wondering if there are any scars any of your characters have that have a story behind them that you wanna talk about (also specifically the ones on Siri’s arms bc I love her <3)

ly bestie <3

AAAAA ily too!! <333 and id love to talk about some scars the beans have!

Just a warning at the start, this does feature a mention of self harm, sooo please beware <3

Siri's scars;

Starting with our girl Siri, she has a few scars on her body. The ones on her upper arms are from the encounter with Ludvig during her teens, as the dude decided, "well, mental scarring isn't enough, let's enhance it to wounds as well,". He basically grabbed her arms so harshly, his nails dug into her skin, drawing blood, and when Siri tried to break free, her skin got just completely ripped. She doesn't really like to talk about this, since Ludvig also did other things to her she'd rather forget, which is why her arms are most often covered.

However, those aren't her saddest scars - those are the self-inflicted ones on her stomach. I don't know if you can remember, but in the one-shot "A Husband's Worry", which I wrote a few months back, there was a mention about the knives having to be far out of Siri's reach during the months after Niv's passing. Well, the reason for that was the self harm her depression brought her. She wanted to feel anything but the pain her son's passing brought her, and that was something she did. She did regret it as soon as she saw how worried her family got after the fact, which is why it only happened once, but it had already left its scars.

Niv's scars;

Niv has a lot of old burn scars all over the left side of his body, coming from that time he almost got set on fire as a baby. Good times. Totally unintentional. While they don't hurt him anymore, as a child, his immune system was pretty low, partly due to the constant pain he was in at times due to the scars.

For the rest, Niv has a lot of scars of his lower arms. Bendik had a tendency to be... Very physical when punishing his adopted son, and some of those punishments didn't really heal, which is kinda sad.

Ludvig's scar;

Ludvig got part of his right ear bitten off by his opponent in his final exam, for which he decided, "oh fuck no let's kill this bitch for that". Basically, Ludvig has always been a menace and likes to inflict physical damage when things don't go his way. He's so much like his big brother Bendik <3.

That's all I've got for now! I believe I did make a small post on the scars the Assassin Squad has a few weeks back, so this is a fun return to that!! Thank you sm for the ask!! <333

if i ever kill myself know that it's because i touched my left headphone speaker and it told me 'either my mobile device isn't connected, or you need to open the alexa app and try again' one too many times.

my earbuds broke :(

floundering in the depths of tumblr, reading peoples' thoughts on dooku: jedi lost and came across @vaguely-concerned's post that had:

dooku 🤝 john gaius “Hm. I have observed that there are in fact many flaws in our society and the government is deeply corrupt. So if I kill a few billion people here and there in order to fix it, is that not basically okay when you really think about it” 

leading me to slap myself in the face and go OH THAT'S FUCKING WHY.

productive morning (finally read several fics i've had open in my tabs bc i was struck with the Divine Focus to not only read but leave a coherent comment afterward)