Claire csv

Basically here to retweet Doctor Who, Big Finish, SPN, TV, culture, history, politics, whatever...oh and very into 9-1-1 at the moment

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

There’s a scene from the 1960 film version of The Time Machine that has been haunting my dreams of late.

In the film, the Time Traveller (Rod Taylor) has traveled almost a million years into the future, expecting that when he arrived he would find an advanced civilisation marked by the pursuit of learning. Instead, he finds the Eloi, a race of simple creatures in togas who are bred like cattle, and eaten, by the subterranean Morlocks.

In the film’s most harrowing scene, he’s taken by one of the Eloi to a centuries-old library housing the last books in existence, which crumble to dust in his hands.

“What have you done?” the Time Traveller demands, as the dreams of centuries turn to ash. “Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating! A million years, the sensitive men dying for their dreams, for what? So you can swim, and dance, and play.”

In the last couple weeks I see a lot of men on this platform arguing with a straight face that we should let AI generate our writing for us, that it’s the future, that there’s no fighting it. And I need you all to know that THIS is the ultimate end of a world in which everyone has machines write for them. There will be no more thinking, no more creative expression, no more art or literature. It’s what C. S. Lewis called “the abolition of man.” We will be no different from cattle and our libraries will turn to dust.

When ease and entertainment become the highest good, it’s not shocking that people will find clever ways to avoid work and study. But nor should it be surprising when the ultimate fate of the Eloi becomes our own.

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

I will die on this hill:
Presidents and Vice Presidents shitposting online degrades the dignity & decorum of their office. We want to see them above the fray, running the govt. solving problems, and meeting with political leaders - not lazily shitposting like your cousin Jed.

[Claire csv @csv_claire]

@CartoonsHateHer I said no in the survey, but I often had first dates pick me up themselves. But I was dating in the olden days and never went on a first date with someone I'd never met in person before

[Eli McCann @EliMcCann]

I am begging everyone to stop outsourcing your brain to robots. Life is worth living only because we feel and control every part of it. Please don't give away your agency.

[O.W. Root @owroot]

The fact that you can't even make out on a bench in Central Park without someone recording you on their iPhone and then posting it to social media as some kind of bit is everything that's wrong with society and I am not joking. The surveillance state (administered by an actual state or by the millions of people with phones who want to embarrass people on their TL) is essentially the least romantic thing imaginable in both the love sense and the living sense. It is anti-romantic and anti-life. Part of the reason why the before world was fun was the fact that you didn't have this kind of thing. The ability to do something without it being documented and recorded is the difference between being free vs an animal locked in a cage. There is a direct correlation between everyone constantly being afraid that someone is going to record them and post it somewhere and society becoming more neurotic, less fun, more boring, and less alive.

The self-administered surveillance state is the enemy of life.

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.

[Mike Almquist @mikealmquist]

I have to watch this clip every time it comes across my timeline.

[bailey @Baileymoon15]

i saw goody proctor speaking with her good friend mitch mcconnell this morning

[jay @kendallhosseini]

this randomly being the year of mariska hargitay. we needed that.

[Sophie Vershbow @svershbow]

It's Mariska Hargitay Summer. We're celebrating our friends. We're cheering on our team. We're hanging out with our hot husband. We're starring in a one-woman show. We're stopping sex crimes.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Claire csv @csv_claire]

@molars @IlyasCigarette Honest answers: 1) push through and do it yourself 2) develop a relationship with a writer and work on it together (I've been the writer in this scenario) 3) post your detailed outline here or tumblr, people will probably enjoy it! Very popular type of post: "headcanon" lists

[neon (unserious) @neon_heartbeat]

the fanfiction 'my immortal' intrinsically holds more value than any one gazillion hit popular ai assisted/generated bull shit on ao3 for the simple and holy fact that it sprang from the mind of a human being

[Evan DeSimone @Smorgasboredom]

It’ll take a bit of scheduling, but she’s rested and ready.

[Qondi @QondiNtini]

It was Hillary cackling in her lil’ Blossom hat that took me TF out 🤣

[Claire csv @csv_claire]

@ContraPoints

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

HISTORY.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

A federal judge just ordered the Trump admin to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationwide https://t.co/pJHc9dGTCF