#data diary

[datamined]

the news about Unity is another huge fucking L for the indie dev community and the longevity of digital media.

We’re going to see such a huge uptick in lost media and that fucking sucks, man. I hope greedy CEOs choke and die painfully on their pennies. Imagine contributing to a world where minority gamedevs can go into poverty because people that hate them can install their games a million times. Imagine making a software that makes gamedev so accessible to everyone and has done nothing but a net good for the world and then not only taking that away, but threatening to make gamedev so much less accessible and hostile to new creators.

#data diary #unity #gamedev

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #𓄿 #hi i'm READY to write a thesis about murderbot i am having way too much fun with this #i created a pretty excel spreadsheet and everything #i don't know why i did this but now i can look at them while i think about this more! so i figured i'd share them haha #i didn't count uses of 'friendly' but special shoutout to when MB is all alone in its cold cubicle missing 20% of its body mass #and starts putting on a show because 'the friendly noise would keep it company' 😭😭 #i feel sick thinking about murderbot all alone on its own not knowing what its like to have friends watching media for 'the friendly noise' #also YES okay i wanted to make a point about miki there but i just #couldn't bring myself to talk about that more so... yeah #also uhhh this data is very subjective #i didn't count particularly ironic uses of 'friend' and generally did not count every instance of friend and sometimes it was a hard call #also i probably shouldn't have counted the times murderbot refered to drones or secsystems as its friends (often after hacking them) #but murderbot does seem to care about them and shows kindness and respect and sometimes points out that a system is friendly #so while i don't think MB means “friend” in the same way referring to them as when it refers to ART for instance #i still think its CUTE and also kinda funny how many times that happened so i decided to keep those!!! #but yeah take my data with a grain of salt lol

[terapsina]

#data #murderbot #breq #k2so #robot #cameron phillips #the android #t850 terminator #baymax #c3po #star trek #tng #the murderbot diaries #ancillary justice #rogue one #terminator: the sarah connor chronicles #t:tscc #dark matter #terminator #big hero 6 #star wars #polls #terapsina rambles #i decided my spaceship poll needed a partner poll #also someone take this away from me #lost in space

[fairydrowning]

In my "can't continue under this circumstances" era.

#two days ago my mobile data got corrupted and each and everything from my mobile was gone #that was literally the worst thing i ever went through in this month and i used to write my diary digitally so that was gone too #cloud backup was off from the last few months and i thought I'll on this again after this semester #this was like my own library burned in front of me and i didn't do anything #but anyways everything happens for a reason #stay positive #dark academia #words

[ineedlelittlespace]

I'm comfort-watching some Star Trek: TNG, and the bit where Geordi and Data do the "You're not just another electronic system." "Well, you're not just another biological organism." conversation is giving me the vibes of a Murderbot and Ratthi conversation. 🥰

#just artificial intelligences being best buds with their emotional support humans 🥰 #murderbot #the murderbot diaries #ratthi #star trek #star trek tng #data #geordi laforge #i know it isn't a one to one comparison but the vibes are there

[canonaspecswag]

Canon Aspec Swag Showdown: Data Soong vs Murderbot

Data Soong from Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). Data is an android and has no sexual attraction or desire. You can read about him as ace representation here and here

vs

Murderbot from The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. Murderbot is a bot-human construct, made from cloned human genetic material and robotic parts. It has human emotions but is sex and romance repulsed.

"Martha Wells: When I was working on the first novella, it didn't seem logical that a SecUnit would be given any kind of reproductive system or any human parts that weren't directly useful for its security function. And the way Murderbot feels about humans, it didn't seem logical for its personality that it would identify with any one gender, or be interested in choosing a human gender for itself, and it sure wouldn't be interested in human sexual relations. So in a way I guess it was a coincidence, since I didn't plan it from the start, it was just part of the process of developing the character as I was writing. And thank you!"

#the blueprint for ace androids vs the deconstruction of the emotionless bot trope! #canon aspec swag #murderbot #murderbot diaries #data soong #star trek #star trek tng #aroace #asexual #aromantic #this might be another hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby

[rosewind2007]

System Collapse, spoiler:

Also, while I could understand Tarik’s confusion, Ratthi wasn’t wrong. I ran a quick query on hatch shape in my media storage, focusing on popular adventure and suspense/horror dramas and the high incidence of hazardous fauna, raiders, human and/or bot murderers, and/or magical fauna, unidentified but terrifying dark presences, and straight up monsters associated with round hatches. I sent the results into the team feed.

ART-drone said, You wasted processing space on that?

“Eighty percent,” Ratthi said, genuinely shocked. “I thought I was making a joke.”

As the ramp lowered, Iris swung up onto it. “It’s not the shape of the hatch,” she said, “it’s the symmetry of the columns to either side.”

Me:

There’s always an Iris

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #system collapse #spoilers #system collapse spoiler #system collapse spoilers #meta analysis #data #hatches #chairs #chairs in the Murderbot diaries

[celestialcass]

ART constructs itself a somewhat humanoid body to interact with its friends, obviously Murderbot gets to see it first.

#the murderbot diaries #asshole research transport #Murderbot #Perihelion #my art #digital painting #space #Concept Art #its 'hair' is actually a bunch of connections to transmit and receive data which is displayed in little lights that move inside the wires #It moves somewhat similarly to a spider in its web #was inspired by jellyfish #artist on tumblr #'humanoid' art

[hazeleks]

I didn’t even knew it had a face.

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #mbd #secunit #my littlest meow meow fuck #that how I imagined it #I put lots of love in creating this design I hope everyone will accept it even a little ;u; #it has a mullet to cover its data port #because it's cute #idk I just think its really cute and had to give it a cute design to match #cute and cool because it's also very cool #I love Murderbot!!! #ok byeeee

[peachesanmemes]

Murderbot is like, I don't trust this freak that always says yes to my reasonable requests, offers me armor, and likes to learn shit instead of watching tv dramas. Clearly they are going to snap and murder my humans.

Meanwhile three is just like...

#system collapse #murderbot #murderbot diaries #Three #secunit #I'm happy three has holism #data #star trek #Scifi #marketpeaches

[datamined]

Because it's relevant to the blog: TLDR; The United States' Justice Department have Google in an Antitrust lawsuit over it's ability as a monopoly to corrupt search engine results and more people need to understand what's going on and why this is important. https://www.npr.org/2023/09/12/1198558372/doj-google-monopoly-antitrust-trial-search-engine At work one of my bosses threw a fit (justifably) because Google is doing a lot shittier things with advertising and their algorithm than you think. I feel like most people know at this point that Google search results are essentially bunk- the top searches is influenced by how much a company directly works with and pays google. People bid to make their names or businesses at the top of the search results. But it goes a little deeper in that. Recently, I learned that top bidders do not actually get the top result. Why? Because Google wants to make it look less bad when Amazon always gets the top result for virtually anything you're looking for. Top bidders get second top search, the NEXT top bidders actually get the top spot. I could be wrong, but this is essentially my understanding of it at our office in super simple terms. But the biggest issue right now is that Google actually quietly (but significantly) raised their prices for bidding and nobody has any fucking say in it. This makes large corporations (such as Amazon) more likely to be only ones that can manage to take up these top spots, and smaller companies continue to get shafted because they simply cannot compete and Google is essentially stiffing the competition, so to speak, harder than ever before. BUT ON TOP OF THAT, my boss also found that Google is actively making it harder to find information about this and the incoming huge fucking lawsuits thrown at them. They're trying to make it difficult for their users (and basically, the entire world considering so many devices automatically use google search, as Google has deals with Apple and Samsung) to find out anything about their corporate greed and corruption. When searching for the same thing in a different Search Engine like Bing, the lawsuits are the first things to come up. It's huge fucking news but few people know about it or are talking about it. The results of this lawsuit are going to permanently and drastically change the internet and how people find their information.

#google #lawsuit #us politics #monopoly #capitalism #internet #information #advertising #data diary

[bazpitch]

logically speaking do the two not go hand and hand???

#something something data literacy #diary

[rogueninja]

kinda hate polls that have options that are like “multiple of these” like what a meaningless result

#idk i’m not a data analyst but like when it comes to some polls ppl should just put their top one #i know it applies to a lot of situations and this is literally just a tumble poll but #it feels lazy #the kat diaries

[lokisasylum]

Like fine wine 💞

#JIMIN’S PRODUCTION DIARY #THE TRUTH UNTOLD #jimin #park jimin #bts jimin #pjm #bts #jiminie #jimin update #jimin news #Jimin DATA

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

dear diary-slash-tumblr mutuals,

today i learned about the difference between em-dashes and en-dashes. although it's not today i supposed, because i'll be throwing this into the queue. it was very interesting and now i have somewhat an idea of what to do while writng.

love, me.

#a biscuit's rambles #dont ask im tired as of writing this #tumblr does feel like a diary tho #its where you put down your small personal anecdotes and occasionally work out your emotions #with bonus supportive mutuals tho #and also under an internet name while keeping actual personal data under wraps #but otherwise?? #idk its how most of us use their blogs anyhow i think

[mattapparentlystumbltourneys]

Virtual Character Tourney - Round 2 - Bracket 1 - 7

Propaganda below (May contain spoilers!)

Data Riku propaganda:

hes actually the embodiment of a journal that was digitized but he took the shape of riku (for some reason)

they put bugs in him

ART propaganda:

ART propaganda:

ART (Asshole Research Transport, nicknamed by Murderbot), formally known as the space ship The Perihelion (in italics but this is a Google Form), also known as Peri (nicknamed by it's human family) is a super illegal highly advanced AI that was created by a university. It grew up with two human dads and a human sister. It and its crew go on research trips that are cover for allying with people and communities at the edges (and beyond) of the capitalist hellscape that is the Corporate Rim. It also goes on espionage missions by itself, without its human crew and family, posing as an automated cargo ship. It was during one of these missions that it picked up Murderbot, a super-duper illegal bot-human security unit construct that had hacked the torture device implanted in all bot-human constructs so that it could disobey orders and walk away from its "owners" without dying. Murderbot uses its illegal freedom to watch television, a habit it passes on to ART. Turns out ART doesn't like shows where human crew members get hurt.

ART is the AI that controls/is the research and teaching vessel Perihelion. (Perihelion is usually what people call it, but the protagonist of the series calls it ART so that's the name I put. ART stands for Asshole Research Transport.) It is extremely intelligent and advanced and also extremely sarcastic and condescending. 100% earned the name ART. ART will do absolutely anything for its crew!! It was developed and "raised" alongside the captain's daughter, Iris, and they're like siblings. Its crew calls it Peri. They do corporate espionage on the side to help bring down said corporations. It has a "debris deflection system" which is definitely not a weapon because ART isn't legally allowed to have a weapon. Definitely just for debris, don't worry about it. It's friends with the aforementioned protagonist, Murderbot, and ART is very good at bullying it into actually leaving its comfort zone when it needs to. They care about each other a lot, and they like to binge watch TV shows together. I don't want to write too much but I just love it a lot.

#virtual character tourney #round 2 #data riku #kingdom hearts #the murderbot diaries art #the murderbot diaries #character polls