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Theo M | Sometimes Writer

@theodoremercer

I write books (when I finally have the time to do so). Currently, I do not have that time. Also, fuck AI

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Post a banger not in English.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BLf...

09.02.2026 23:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A Lord of the Rings harpist called Sting

20.12.2025 22:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

03.11.2025 21:59 πŸ‘ 5120 πŸ” 1928 πŸ’¬ 89 πŸ“Œ 26

"Financially ruin the entire AI industry".

PLEASE

27.08.2025 23:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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10.07.2025 19:16 πŸ‘ 7992 πŸ” 1498 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 37
Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. 

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

06.07.2025 17:22 πŸ‘ 11884 πŸ” 5637 πŸ’¬ 127 πŸ“Œ 170

Beyond reprehensible. Cops should face justice, but you just know they won't.

28.06.2025 00:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Plagiarism machine plagiarizes, who could have forseen this?

21.06.2025 01:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Iconic drawing of a man staring through a window at night, presumably into someone's house. His black t-shirt has 'Sickos' written across it, and he is saying "Yes... ha ha ha... yes!"

Iconic drawing of a man staring through a window at night, presumably into someone's house. His black t-shirt has 'Sickos' written across it, and he is saying "Yes... ha ha ha... yes!"

05.06.2025 22:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the way

29.05.2025 12:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If there's still space I'd love to be included!

11.05.2025 00:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

F-18 actually stands for how many hundreds of fathoms deep the plane now is

07.05.2025 03:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tech Bros once again solving the problem of being an unlovable, hollow shell of a human by leaning harder into being an unlovable, hollow shell.

23.04.2025 22:45 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why exist at all?

23.04.2025 01:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

May Rowling spend every remaining day in complete terror and dread.

18.04.2025 00:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

His voice is just so iconic in the original series. But I do agree, I have no reservations about giving someone else a go!

10.04.2025 23:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bring back Kenneth Branagh!

10.04.2025 23:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using β€˜shadow library’ Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI models Authors and other publishing industry professionals will stage a demonstration outside Meta’s London office today in protest of the organisation’s use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence. Novelists Kate Mosse and Tracy Chevalier as well as poet and former Royal Society of Literature chair Daljit Nagra will be among those in attendance outside the company’s King’s Cross office. Continue reading...

β€˜Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using β€˜shadow library’

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No, the Democratic Party isn't losing because it's Too Woke:

02.04.2025 20:53 πŸ‘ 13431 πŸ” 2156 πŸ’¬ 532 πŸ“Œ 287
The original 2fort map (Quake). 2 identical forts, a chasm in between, and a bridge connecting them.

The original 2fort map (Quake). 2 identical forts, a chasm in between, and a bridge connecting them.

The original 2fort

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That's incredible! Huge congratulations!!

31.03.2025 07:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gaia has been one of my favourite missions to follow, and I've been following it since day one. I'm beyond excited to see what data comes from the remaining releases. Rest well Gaia

27.03.2025 11:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This kinda stuff makes me unreasonably sad. Can't help but imagine this lil fella floating sadly in isolation for all time.

27.03.2025 11:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Poster art for the film BirdEater. Four drunk mails, with their eyes scratched out on the poster, surround a distressed looking woman.

Poster art for the film BirdEater. Four drunk mails, with their eyes scratched out on the poster, surround a distressed looking woman.

Clark & Weir's Birdeater (2023) was genuinely such an unsettling horror experience. I can't get it out of my head. Worth a watch, because it's so painfully real.

20.03.2025 23:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unfathomably good playlist tbh

19.03.2025 02:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There is no violin small enough to play.

13.03.2025 22:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'd love to be added!

09.03.2025 19:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy International Women's Day!

May every woman find their way into the room where their voice is most neededβ€”whether that's a board room, a legislature, or a PTA meeting.

When we stand up and speak our values, women change the world!

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