people touch grass and spend more time irl with friends
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/870183
Honestly, best thing you can do for yourself. Past two decades led us here, and I do fondly remember the before times. Go enjoy a sunny day. Dance in the rain. Laugh with friends. Live your life, disconnect from the doom machine.
I don’t have any friends close to me they’ve all moved far away. The Internet is the only connection to life that I have.
I get that a lot, I wish I had a good answer for that, I had friends move away too, it is what it is I suppose.
I think my point is to get outside and enjoy what we can of the world, nature gives good vibes generally
Try looking for local hobby groups you could join. Or getting involved in local volunteer work.
I’m really glad I started getting involved in organization/volunteering for events in subcultures I was interrested in from early on. Most of the time you don’t need any particularly involved skillset apart from a pair of hands and the willingness to get to the event early.
I’ve been helping with preparing larps, carrying stuff on concerts and prepairing the venue, distributing flyers, picking up background playlists for the party, making small event websites, DJing or simply just handling the entrance ticket checking.
Most of subcultures that aren’t commerecial-level of big (what I mean by that is ran by volunteers and usually non-profit), such as larps or smaller music scenes, need any help they can get, and simply being there with a few people before the event starts and being involved in helping will naturally break the ice with a few people from the group or scene, and it’s usually people that will then introduce you to the rest. You also have something to do that’s not only socializing, so it helps with social awkwardness, and you get free entrance and drinks or food.
It’s the best tip I have about how to make friends, plus it helps the scene and at least for me, having something to do makes it more fun. I didn’t really know many people from the scenes until I started working, mostly because I find it pretty difficult to talk to people I don’t know, but now, after few years of helping out, I know almost everyone in the scene and consider most of them my friends.
“AI slop is quite fatiguing both in the actual action of viewing the content and the fact that it’s so repetitive, so unoriginal,” Avriel Epps, an AI researcher and assistant professor at the University of California Riverside, said.
I love that that’s a quote from an assistant professor. Just stating matter-of-fact-ly that the content is boring as hell. Which, like, yeah, these LLMs and image generators are literally built to generate content based on existing patterns, so the content is by definition going to trend towards being boring. But then also just referring to it as “AI slop” like it’s a technical term.
I mean, they probably need a name for it in research, too, and I would welcome them going with the term that’s established in common parlance. But whichever way this usage came to be, I find it hilarious. Especially with Satya Nadella being so deeply saddened by adults continuing to call it what it is. 🙃
One of the few use-cases I have for LLMs is when brainstorming mechanics and game design for GameJams.
I give it the theme and genres I want to go for, and ask for some unique and original ideas of what I should make.
And then make sure to avoid anything it suggests, because it’s the most obvious and boring solution anyone could come up with.
