I was reluctant to write this post because AI is already talked about a lot on Bear & I've seen a complaint about us being sort of an echo chamber and needing other topics to talk about - that's a fair complaint, but fuck it I blog, at least in part, to help me process, and if someone complains about it that's okay....

I recently watched Cow by Andrea Arnold - a documentary film about life on a dairy farm for a cow named Luma. The first and most depressing part is just watching what it's like for the cows. They seem like really sweet creatures. The most horrific parts are hard to watch, but the saddest thing is really just the...

On a near daily basis, I yearn to do meaningful things, important things, and I am often left unsatisfied. I'm an incredibly passionate person. I love programming. I spent about a year as a local journalist for a site I made, and produced the best local political coverage I've ever seen for my city. I'm incredibly...

A man in my community was recently convicted on animal cruelty charges after strangling a cat to death. This was an awful thing for someone to do, and I hate what happened to the kitty. I commented on a local news story, about the double-standard we have for animal cruelty - that we have no issue with it in factory...

Expedition 33 is a game that used ai to generate some placeholder assets early in development. The assets were later removed after new assets were made by human digital artists. Expedition 33 was going to win an Indy Game Award, but was kicked because of this. Part of the problem was that E33 SAID they used no ai...

Cop shows portray justice as catching the "bad guy" and locking them up. The investigations and car chases and shootouts are incredibly entertaining. The incarceration is often satisfying. But it is insufficient, and in real life things are often much more complex than the narratives portrayed in TV shows, or even...

I first started trying to be vegan 6 or 7 years ago because animal agriculture is extremely resource intense when compared to plant agriculture, and I want to minimize my contribution to climate change. Animal welfare was always a side-benefit. Like it's nice that I'm also reducing my contributions to animal...

I suffered from insomnia around age 8 when my cat hook died, and it has never gone away. I suffered from depression in 7th and 8th grade after my parents separated. I suffered from alcoholism in my teens and early 20s, and weed addiction, and depression and anxiety and loneliness. I still live with mental illness....

No Kings | deerhoof: In what universe are Schumer, Jeffries, Biden or Harris not kings? ... They bomb whole populations out of existence in order that they and their aristocratic friends can live in ridiculous luxury, and spread their religion - capitalism - across the globe, violently, with despotic impunity and...

I'm hot because of bigots saying trans people don't exist, that black women "stole" their positions from whites, because racial profiling is now legal, because our President blatantly and repeatedly violates the constitution, because of people saying that 10 year old rape victims should be forced to give birth, and...

Bear with me. I think Charlie Kirk was bad, harmful, and indirectly responsible for suffering and death. I think it's good that he is no longer preaching his white supremacist message. I think it's good that he is no longer advocating against trans existence. I think it is good that he is no longer encouraging...

thought | Charm's Blog!!! i dont know if i really built for blogging to be honest. i look at other blogs trying to learn how they formated or edited the code or whatever and i just feel very inferior. i dont want to feel like that lol. i want to improve my typing and make it look all professional and make sentances...