chel-c.online

that moment of fascination when you realize that, despite this song not being about the internet, it’s about the internet youtu.be/BTbuYjJVc9Q

my theory as to where the divide between japanese and american views on piracy stems from is pretty simple: japan has comiket, the west has hollywood. in japan, art & culture can be a hands-on, participatory thing; in america, art spawns from the ether in studios, bathed in mystery and exclusivity.

in japan, you not only have doujinshi culture, but also a general understanding that economic participation means something. in america, art seems to just, “happen”. the machinery is obfuscated and feared, yet its output is everyone’s birthright; and only a “sell-out” gets paid.

I don’t plan on upgrading my HomePod Minis for a good while, but I still think it’d be nice for my gen 1’s to have access to intelligence models for more complex questions… so I gave it to them!! these voice-activated shortcuts run while my phone is locked and everything~

the one using the Apple Intelligence model is the only one that’s able to check for real-time data, but the ChatGPT variant makes for much more novel general responses >w< if you wanna try, here’s links to each, respectively: - www.icloud.com/shortcuts/df... - www.icloud.com/shortcuts/65...

holy shit

oh shit, we’ve got a Walpurgisnacht Rising release date January 16th-19th let’s fucking go???

like, look at this shit; how do you look at the prospect of automated space exploration and resource gathering—an obvious no-brainer Good Thing—and conclude it’s the end of the dream of human space exploration? like, seriously? did you feel this way abt the Voyager missions too?

any space-inclined human worth their salt would look at robots doing these things be like “that’s cool 👍 I still wanna go out there myself tho”. anyone who actually gave a shit about humans would know this.

anyone who seriously thinks AI and automation is going to cause humanity to “give up and stop trying” en masse is utterly out of touch with the indomitable human drive to Build and Explore and Learn and lacks the nurture and/or will to manifest it in themselves

kind of think everyone who uses “x is a scam to get you to spend more money” as a gotcha should be forced to apply that logic indiscriminately for a while just to see how they like it

so, usually I have my iPhone's action button set to toggle my personal focus mode, but whenever I'm in a game I tend to miss the functionality of just quickly toggling silent mode instead, so now I have a convoluted shortcut that turns it into a context-aware toggle instead, lmao >w<

it even has cached storage so it only needs to run the intelligent check once for every app (though the check only takes abt 2 or 3 seconds!!)