latenightnoir

joined 8 months ago
[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I do agree with you that politics have become mostly circus without much bread, but I'd say we should never give up on our gift of making light of the hardships.

I mean, dunk as it may be, it's a good one. I'd even go as far as calling it a sick burn and a smart jab!

Edit: plus populism is the playing field now, memes and smartass quips are how you win the base over. I'm not saying I agree with this particular way of going about things, but reality is undeniable nonetheless. We'd be wise to master the tools.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

She's the perfect political distraction, a loud moron who spouts some of the vilest and downright stupidest things a human being will ever hear. She deserves to be kept out of politics because she is a moron, her political leanings needn't even be included in considering her capabilities. Either way, it is a sad time in our history, the proliferation of Right-Wing ideas (and I'm talking about the hateful shit) in general should never have happened again.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The whole album is a work of art!

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I honestly don't even know if there is a track I'd call my favourite, it's like every one is its own thing. They all have shared elements, but the energy, the intent, the shape of it is always different from one song to the next, I love them all!

And thank you for letting me know KEXP have a donation thing going! I always consumed mostly single songs and, to my shame, never looked any deeper into things!

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You're very welcome, glad it landed!:D

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These people make me want to be the best imperfect Me I can be, I swear. I've been so lucky to find bands which went to the places where I've been and can relate.

Wdit: also, I have THE biggest crush on Marisa. There we go, sins forgiven!

 

I am in love with their stage presence.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You've highlighted exactly why I also fundamentally disagree with the current trend of all things AI being for-profit. This should be 100% non-profit and driven purely by scientific goals, in which case using copyrighted data wouldn't even be an issue in the first place... It'd be like literally giving someone access to a public library.

Edit: but to focus on this specific instance, where we have to deal with the here-and-now, I could see them receiving, say, 60-75% of what they have now, hassle-free. At the very least, and uniformly distributed. Again, AI development isn't what irks most people, it's calling plagiarism generators and search engine fuck-ups AI and selling them back to the people who generated the databases - or, worse, working toward replacing those people entirely with LLMs! - they used for those abhorrences.

Train the AI to be factually correct instead and sell it as an easy-to-use knowledge base? Aces! Train the AI to write better code and sell it as an on-board stackoverflow Jr.? Amazing! Even having it as a mini-assistant on your phone so that you have someone to pester you to get the damned laundry out of the washing machine before it starts to stink is a neat thing, but that would require less advertising and shoving down our throats, and more accepting the fact that you can still do that with five taps and a couple of alarm entries.

Edit 2: oh, and another thing which would require a buttload of humility, but would alleviate a lot of tension would be getting it to cite and link to its sources every time! Have it be transformative enough to give you the gist without shifting into plagiarism, then send you to the source for the details!

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Sad to see you leave (not really, tho'), love to watch you go!

Edit: I bet if any AI developing company would stop acting and being so damned shady and would just ASK FOR PERMISSION, they'd receive a huge amount of data from all over. There are a lot of people who would like to see AGI become a real thing, but not if it's being developed by greedy and unscrupulous shitheads. As it stands now, I think the only ones who are actually doing it for the R&D and not as eye-candy to glitz away people's money for aesthetically believable nonsense are a handful of start-up-likes with (not in a condescending way) kids who've yet to have their dreams and idealism trampled.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why fix the actual socio-economic and political issues which lead to school shootings when you can pull a Big Brother with barely functional AI models!

I'm just hittin'em right outta the park, should've worked in Marketing!

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Please tell me the original poster was being sarcastic... Please...

 

And, of course, the Raw trailer. It's VERY graphic (also age restricted).

 

This shall forever stand testament to the time when I said "no" to the girl who gave me this song, even though I liked her voraciously. Man, have I done some stupid shit in this life...

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

My condolences...

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Which fuck?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by latenightnoir@lemmy.world to c/mentalhealth@lemmy.world
 

I've been crying almost daily for a year now, while trying my ass off to keep a stiff upper lip. I've been desperately hanging on to the standard justifications (maybe tomorrow it'll be better, can't let them win, this will pass, won't rain forever, etc., etc.) out of sheer inertia, but I honestly can't say that I believe any of them.

I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out which way to take it in life, what to do with myself, but all I feel is the walls closing in. And they're suffocating me. The world is a fucking mess, my life is a fucking mess, I'm completely alone save for a couple of acquaintances with whom I have no true relationship, my close family is entirely dead (which, if I'm being perfectly honest, isn't all that different than when they were alive, except I've been grieving the death of my mother for five years now and it doesn't seem to end), and I'm getting old.

There is nothing which makes me want to wake up in the morning anymore. There is nothing to get me excited anymore. There is nothing to look forward to. And I don't think I'm depressed, because depression felt like letting myself sink in lukewarm tar. This feels like a desperate, rabid sadness, like my soul wants to shred my skin off and just howl itself apart. I can feel my innards wanting to live, truly live, to experience at least some satisfaction, some sort of enjoyment, but I don't know what I could do to get there.

I used to love being creative, but now it's as though that pipeline got clogged up with rotten socks. I used to love interacting with animals, but all I conclude when thinking about getting a dog is that it would be unfair to that poor creature to have it bunk up with my despondent ass. I used to love hanging out with friends, but all of my friends turned out to be people who were only looking out for themselves. I used to love my country, but there's nothing left to love around here anymore. I used to be fascinated by nature, now all I see is how little sense it makes and how worse it's getting due to climate change. I even used to love loving someone, but now I just think about having to go through the process of dating and I'd rather just throw my soul away than have to do that again. I loved smoking weed, now it's just a waste of money, because I'm just as miserable when stoned. I haven't felt joy in... I don't even remember how long, but most definitely not in the past decade...

And I'm so... so fucking tired. I feel more tired than I've ever felt in my entire life. And not "I need more sleep" tired, it's as though I'm one of those old cars abandoned in parking lots, with busted wheels and corroded bodywork, with weeds growing through the upholstery. I don't feel sick, I feel spent. Utterly spent.

And I don't think I can do this anymore.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by latenightnoir@lemmy.world to c/lego@lemmy.world
 

Perimeter Defence Mech / Prototype Dreadnought.

Leaned heavily into the Spyrius theme (6889 was my first ever set), and building at Technic Minifig scale is always fun!

Additional shots (apologies for the quality, improvised set...):

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Update - reworked the canopy while trying to maintain the Pyramid Head lurch:

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