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  In my class, we talked about how people can use the internet to cancel people. We discussed the action of a professor (Professor M) at my university, who emailed a student inappropriately. I know Professor M as I was in his class, and hearing the version that my other professor (Professor J) was told (from a faculty point), it was very different from what I knew. I am a friend of the girl who got the inappropriate email, and I got to see how the school handled it from her perspective. I also had issues with this professor, but had been ignored by the school. My friend wasn’t satisfied with the school’s handling of the problem, so she took to social media. Making tiktoks and facebooks posts. These got a lot of attention, and the school reached out to her after seeing the post. They stopped the class from meeting and just told us that we would either get to take the exam or keep our current mark. The emails we got from the dean didn’t address the situation at all. If I hadn’t known...

  The slippery slope fallacy happens when someone argues that a small action will inevitably lead to a series of worse events later on. This type of argument doesn’t consider that the future might not always unfold in such an extreme way. One example of this fallacy that I’ve heard often in my life is when a teacher or parent would say something like, “If you miss one day of school, it will lead to you dropping out because you won’t be able to commit to your education.” At the time, I didn’t really think much of it, but now I see that this is a clear example of the slippery slope fallacy. The people saying this were trying to convince me that skipping even one day of school would set me on a path to eventually leaving school for good, which is an exaggerated claim. Missing one day doesn’t automatically mean you’ll stop going to school forever, and while staying committed to school is important, their argument took it to an extreme level to scare me into avoiding it. This kind of re...

Pessimism bias can be kind of contribute to anxiety a lot, since it’s the tendency to overestimate a negative thing happening in a scenario and underestimate a positive thing happening. So my personal example is I wanted to join a cosplay contest but I truly thought it was a bad idea, I came up with all these awful scenarios about what would happen. It wasnt the normal thought of I’m not gonna win because I did think that but it went further. I thought “I’m gonna fall on stage”, “people are gonna boo at me or no one gonna cheer” and “My whole cosplay will fall apart on stage and everyone will laugh”. I only started thinking positively when a cosplay influencer reached out and gave me some encouragement. I had met them at a convention and they saw my story about thinking about doing the contest and they encouraged me to do it. I did end up doing it and I got first in horror but I never thought that because of my pessimism bias. So has pessimism bias ever affected you?  

Do you produce as much as you consume online? I know that depending on the platform I definitely consume more than I produce. I can say that for this platform (the one you are reading this post on) I definitely produce more than I observe. I only post on here, I don’t really look at other people’s blogs. But I can say on Instagram I’m kind of equal I’ll go on to post about a cosplay or something but then I’ll scroll for a bit. And on TikTok I definitely doom scroll all the time, I rarely post on TikTok, I will post a completed cosplay but that’s about it. I also just don’t have the time to constantly post things on social media. It’s very time-consuming and I have to think about what I’m posting and how people will react to it. Even doing these blog posts can be exhausting to me, I feel like I have to meet a certain word count or it has to look good and have to mean something.  

  I will admit I am biased about this movie, I find it creepy. It also reminds me of a story I read in high school, I could not find the name but it was a guy who had a machine write love letters for him and the machine fell in love with the man’s wife and the man tricked it into writing until it died. Essentially the machine killed itself because it couldn’t be with the man’s wife. That’s all I could think of when I was watching this movie. I also thought of the video game Detroit Become Human, which is an amazing game. But I personally think that we should not be working towards humanoid robots that people could potentially fall in love with. I think that we should be working of aking animals so we don’t have to keep real live animals in captivity. I also would just like a robot polar bear cub that would be like a pet. I could see wanting a pet that would never die and live with you till the end but I find falling in love with an unaging robot very odd. I just wouldnt be able to ...

  Since chatgpt has become more popular I’ve seen more and more people use it for school and now it is usually the first thing to pop up when you search for something. It seems like it could be helpful if it wasnt used in a negative way. Like I will admit I use it for spell check, I cannot spell for the life of me, it’s where I lose points in all of my homework. I have dyslexia so there is very little I can do to fix my spelling issues. I use something that only fixes the word because when I was looking into AI I learned that if you put a paragraph into an AI thing it will just add words that make sense to the word before not enhancing the sentence or paragraph. It goes line by line so I had many issues with it changing my words and it not making sense in the end. That is something that will probably be fixed but it is another reason I don’t like certain AI. I can also see how AI can be bad in a broader way that affects more people than me. I love drawing, I post art on my Tumblr a...

I have been a part of a lot of online communities, it was how i could connect to people that had similar interests to me. So like this blog is kind of an online community since online communities are virtual spaces where people with shared interests, goals, or values can connect, collaborate, and communicate, no matter where they are. These communities can take many forms, such as forums, social media groups, or specialized platforms, where people engage in discussions, share resources, or support/one another. It can be negative though, some people misuse these spaces and hurt people. Online communities often provide a sense of belonging and can become powerful networks for personal and professional growth, education, and activism. However, they can also face challenges like misinformation, trolling, and conflicts over differing opinions, which can cause some negative interactions. So online communities can be very helpful and welcoming but there can be people who are only there to do ...

How safe do you feel online and not in a general like “don’t put your private info online” kind of way but in smaller spaces? I mean for example games that allow you to play with other real people and how much do you think the game company cares about its users? For example, Club Penguin was a game from my childhood that was shut down because people kept going on in groups to do inappropriate things. Even though that game had very limited options for what you could do and say to other players, people went into the game (which reminder was meant for little kids) and started doing inappropriate things just to be awful people I guess. But the company saw this and decided to shut it down because they didn’t want to support the people who were doing that and they couldn’t limit their game more without making it not online. I don’t know of other companies that would do this just to protect people since they just seem to care about money and how it can benefit them.