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I think I forgot to post this um. GLaDOS 🫶🫶

#the face is so cool #portal 2 #glados

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cactibytes · 23 hours

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to that anon that said i should make a harvey portrait mod. you've awakened something within me

#AUGH THESE R SO CUTE #Harvey ❤️💕❤️💕❤️💕 ☺️#stardew valley #sdv harvey

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cactibytes · 1 day

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Today's Seal Is: Playing With Pipis

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cactibytes · 2 days

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immaterial girls immaterial boys

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cactibytes · 3 days

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Oh Spamantha I miss uuuuuuuu😭

I fr gotta draw her more

#I think I have Covid 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫#AWOOOOOOGA *eyes pop out of skull jaw falls to floor tongue lolls out like a carpet*#SHES GORGEOUS???? HOHHH MY GOD ❤️💕❤️💕❤️#Do u ever see a woman so beautiful you get a little nauseous #deltarune #spamton

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cactibytes · 3 days

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cactibytes · 5 days

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WELL HELLO THERE FELLOW [Gays]!!!!!

HAVE A LOOK AT OUR TOP OF THE WAREZ!!!

WE HAVE IN-STORES NOW:

- G. POTION

TURN GAY!!! ALREADY GAY!?! TURN GAYER!!! TURN YOUR [ERROR_Friend_Req_Not_Found] GAY!!!! TURN YOUR [[Famliy]] GAY!!! TURN YOUR ENEM1ES GAY!!!!!! THE G STANDS FOR G. SPAMTON

(Smells vaguely like rotten fruit)

- VINTAGE 1997 HRT?!?!

INSTANTLY SWITCH YOUR [[Gander]] WITH THIS SIMPLE TRICK!!!!!!

(These bottles are clearly expired)

- LIMITED EDITION SPAMTON CRAFTED PRIDE FLAGS

SHOW YOUR TRUE

YOUR TRUE

C O L O R S WITH ONE OF OUR MANY HAND-CRAFTED HAND-PAINTED HAND-PICKED FLAGS!!!! WHAT’S THE MOST [[tubular]] WAY TO SHOW YOURSELF OFF?? [Product]

(It’s just old painted over newspapers)

- THE BOYS

[Homophones] BOTHERING YOU??? SEND THEM TO F[*&*@#$] HELL WITH THESE [Shrapnel-inducing] [Microwave Safe] TOYS!!!!! NOW WITH EXTRA [Horse power]

(Pipis)

- SPAMTON SURGERY

TIRED OF YOUR [Redacted] SWINGIN AROUND CAUSING YOU [Internal organ failure, External organ failure, Varination, among other things]???? LET YOUR OLD PAL SPAMTON GIVE YOU A !!!!! GET RID OF THEM NOW FOR THE LOW LOW PRICE OF

(He can’t even disinfect any tools he might have, is thAT A SAW-)

- KISS THE SPAMTON

YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR IT [Freaks]!!!!! FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY, SPAMTON HIMSELF WILL BE OFFERING THE DEAL OF A !!!!! FOR ONLY THE PRICE OF ALL YOUR SWEET SWEET KROMER, YOUR [Hopes] AND [Hopes] WILL FINALLY COME TRUE!!!!!!!! [Queer] GET A [2%] DISCOUNT!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!! EVERYONE ALLOWED!!!!! [No clowns allowed]

#HEHEHEHHEHEE #I LOVE ALL THE ITEM DESCRIPTIONS #THE VINTAGE HRT JABSKDBFKBCK #I LOVE THISSS ❤️💕❤️💕❤️💕#deltarune #spamton

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cactibytes · 5 days

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Okay. It's time for an AI rant.

My nephew is 13 years old. Whenever he writes a paper for school, I check it over and fix all of his mistakes for him. He said to me, "Maybe I'll proofread your paper for you in exchange," meaning one of the scholarly articles I write for work. I said, "Cool," and gave him the file. And he said, "Well, this is full of errors! See, you always say you have a lot to correct on my stuff, and look at all the stuff you got wrong!" And I said, surprised, "What? Where?" Because I'm sure there are typos in the draft I sent him, but not, like, that many.

And then he pointed to the screen and said, "Look at all the blue and red lines you have."

And I said, "Yeah, but those are wrong. Like, those are blue and red lines I'm ignoring because the computer is wrong." And then I paused and added, "You know you can't proofread a paper by just looking at the red and blue lines, right?" And he gave me the blankest look, because that clearly is EXACTLY what he thinks. And it became even clearer suddenly why, whenever I correct something on his paper, his immediate reaction is, "It didn't have a blue or red line."

There's a very good reason for that: THAT'S BECAUSE THE COMPUTER ISN'T SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT IT WAS WRONG.

I am so tired of being sold the idea that computers are better than humans and so we should just outsource everything to them, which is clearly the lesson my nephew is absorbing in U.S. middle school. COMPUTERS ARE NOT BETTER THAN HUMANS. Like, maybe they are better at humans at crawling through rubble to find people trapped inside. They are also better at preserving things in a searchable format. Things like that. Very limited circumstances.

I don't want to sound alarmist but everything I hear about people using generative AI freaks me out. It's not just that I'm freaked out by people being like, "I use it to write novels!" (Although I don't see how they do, I have tried to have it write fiction for me and the output was truly terrible.) But I recognize my bias around creative writing and so no one needs to credit my views on artificial writing. But! Other things are alarming, too! "I use it to brainstorm x, y, or z." But...why? Why not just...use your own brain...to...brain...storm? The computer doesn't even have a brain to brainstorm with! And you might be like, "But it comes up with things that my brain would never think of!" So would other people! You could also brainstorm with other people! Or even through Google to see what other people have thought before you (not AI). Please don't belittle the wonder of thinking.

I just feel like the marketing around generative AI boils down to "Wouldn't it be easier not to use your own brain to think about things?" Everyone. No. It would not be. Please just trust me on this. I'm not just an old person who is out of touch with technology or something. I promise. USE YOUR BRAINS. IT WILL BE OKAY.

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cactibytes · 5 days

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