It’s come to that point where I kind of see it like end of Eva, they’re both valid interpretative endings and kind of are two sides of the same coin

On the other hand rebellion is indulgent as hell and I’m just happy Urobutchi has moved on to better things. It’s weird. I like it a lot, but boy it’s a flawed work.

I think we should be getting the sequel in 2026 (lmfao) but like. I kind of like it as it is too? The reality of these kind of relationships so deeply rooted in unhealthy lack of self awareness is that you just never get closure, can’t be truer for cosmic fighting, closeted lesbian teenagers lol

I guess it depends on the framing - I think TV does a great job of cathartically wrapping up the story, but Rebellion to me really checks off the essence of Madoka and Homura’s facetious and ill fated love story in a deeply ironic, realistic way.

It’s interesting how Madoka’s TV ending feels like one version of an ending, and Rebellion feels like another - I used to really dislike Rebellion when it first came out, but man, I think the older I get I’m like. Yeah! Rebellion makes a lot of sense….

me: I don’t have TIME for this I have a half marathon in a few months
period: and?

between this and a memory named empire, i'm coming to realize that i'm a sucker for conspiracy plots that effortlessly deal with ideas of colonialism and classism through immersive, detailed and realistic worldbuilding, and very capable (but flawed!) leads

it's not as simple as "hardware has gotten better, software has gotten worse" because a lot of companies making physical devices are lost in the wilderness from a design perspective, but a rule of thumb that anything that charges you monthly gets worse over time works pretty well

I’ve personally limited my engagement on social media, pushed for more irl community building in my life, and tried engaging in different forms of intimacy and vulnerability. Fixing these issues extend beyond internet tools. The root causes are a disease from hyper capitalist society rn

Literally have seen how dating apps have created more incel culture, porn addiction creating unhealthy eating habits and poor sex education and social media perpetuating far right culture. The reality is that all tools come with unethical usage when not guardrailed for.

I think it’s a bit of both. Yeah it’s clearly done terrible shit. But so have dating apps and social media - why I think social media is honestly the closest technical innovation I can compare it to in harm, acceleration of integration, and control from large corpos. I discourage the use of all

That’s fair! I think we can agree to disagree. I definitely think it’s here to stay. But I do think we are at a very critical and sensitive time where we learn how it works and pave enforcements/regulations/privacy laws etc on how to use it.

I think the biggest gap for me right now for discouraging/fighting is that no one here on Bluesky seems to understand how big corpo LLMs work. Do people get token usage? Context window issues? The way LLM picks and re reasons? Agentification? These are all so critical for understanding limitations

it responsibly until everyone wakes up and sees how 1.) limited it is in reasoning steps at a certain context window and 2.) how none of us can actually pay for how much AI truly /costs/

Mmmm that’s fair. I do think it’s here to stay from a geopolitical and social standpoint. It’s like? Top 5 used websites across the globe? It’s already fundamentally changing how people engage with truth and creating content. Which sucks ass, but I think we are in the early stage where we can wield