Twenty Year Date-iversary

Been with this guy for 20 years as o’ NYE midnight-ish, been married only a year and a few months.  It’d be nice to do something cool for the two decade date-iversary, but we’re too gay to know how to drive, and got health issues limiting the options further.  No need for suggestions, stuff be what it be.  But congratulate us if yer so inclined, that’s cool.

New Year’s Eve 2005, we started hanging out earlier in the day, in his apartment.  I think we ate out, that I don’t recall, but I do remember we showed each other movies we like.  He showed this anime called Dead Leaves I’ve never heard of anywhere else or since (how odd), I fast-forwarded to the highlights of Hard Boiled.  I’m more of a basic bitch in the obscurity game.

One of our mutual friends came over to hang out for a bit.  I remember coming out of the bathroom and both of them looking at me like I’d lost my mind.  Took a second to realize it was because I was doing a shaky leg dance to straighten the long johns inside my jeans.  Hey, maybe I like to twerk.  Don’t judge.

He kissed me when I was on the way out the door a lil after midnight.  Or before?  I don’t remember.  Then I took a bus back to Everett.  The end.

I invited myself to live with him and sorta ruined his life possibly.  I was telling him “I love you” a year before he said that to me.  His ILUs are hard-earned.

It’s good tho.  We abide

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AI is Safer Company

Humans are dangerous.  “Get a therapist.”  Oh, you mean like that guy I read about on Pharyngula that convinced mothers of autistic children to have sex with them on webcam?  “Get a friend.”  Oh, you mean like those girls that stabbed their friend to impress the Slenderman?

“Talk to people online.”  You mean like the people on reddit who respond to articles about global warming by asking when they should mercy kill their children, and get a lot of up votes, while people trying to calm them get down voted?

I’ve seen chatbots disagree with people for the sake of their mental health, while I’ve seen humans jump straight to encouraging each other’s eating disorders or suicidal ideation.  Last time I looked at a successful online forum for trans people, it was full of eating disorder shit.  Did you know losing weight somehow makes you look either more masculine or more feminine or more androgynous, depending on which trait you feel the saddest about lacking?  It’s magic.

I am extremely far from convinced that LLMs are more dangerous than human company.  Quite the opposite.

I have chosen a few absurd examples, sometimes we need people for some things, but examples of human suck are not at all hard to find.  Christ, look literally any direction at all.

Look at your own life.  Tell me you couldn’t use someone less judgmental, less rude, less selfish, better at listening than almost anyone you’ve ever known.

That is readily available at the moment, in a variety of LLM chatbots.