Cutter's Grove

"The world isn't the deadly place you have made it out to be... but you have to move and breathe and THINK with it to truly live in it." - Cutter

[soymoss]

starling

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Bernie Wrightson

[pirateprincessjess]

Google Chrome has been installing an AI model on users devices without their consent.

[pirateprincessjess]

Since that file path is only on the screen for a second, the ai is located in

C:\Users\<YourUsername>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\OptGuideOnDeviceModel\weights.bin

[abcoconut]

If this shit pisses you off, please consider switching to Linux. Ubuntu is equivalent (in use) to Windows and can literally do everything you're used to doing. There are a bazillion help pages and video tutorials out there.

[haridraws]

wip drawing

[allthingslinguistic]

The International Phonetic Alphabet consonants found in English, with keywords and relevant parts of the mouth highlighted and colour-coded. (Source.) 

[pervocracy]

Pronouncing each of these in sequence is a very strange and amusing physical sensation, and I highly recommend it.

[elodieunderglass]

haha look it’s where those noises live in your dang FACE, TRY IT

[elamarth-calmagol]

Very helpful actually

[abcoconut]

Now go backwards and slowly throw up your language for a laugh.

[fadingembers]

As a kid, I was really upset that Bill Watterson wouldn't license Calvin & Hobbes so I could have plushies or so there would be a Saturday morning cartoon. Now, I realize his resistance is the reason we don't have a Calvin & Hobbes DreamWorks movie starring Chris Pratt.

[ironedorchid]

Kelly Link, 21st April 2026

[ambidisastrous]

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional ill

Key points:

the paper was obviously fake to a human reader: it starts by saying it's fake and says it multiple times throughout

the paper says it was funded by the Professor Sideshow Bob University of Trickery and thanks contributors from the USS Enterprise and the Fellowship of the Ring

the paper has already been erroneously cited in a real research paper

LLMs give different information depending on the prompt, so sometimes they mention that the fake condition is "perhaps pseudoscience" and sometimes they tell people to see a doctor because they have the fake condition

absolutely no one is taking any responsibility for this shit, except maybe Nature, because they retracted the paper that cited the fake paper

LLMs don't think. They can't analyse. They can only repeat and remix thoughtlessly.

[nonbinary-jakey]

apropos of nothing thinking about the psychology today article i read yesterday talking about how upwards of 50% of people with suicidal ideation don't disclose it to mental health professionals, acknowledging the role that fear of institutionalization plays in that, and then ends with "and that's why we need better screening tools to identify ppl with suicidal ideation even when they're lying to us"

[undergroundwubwubmaster]

✨️ Twinkle twinkle little star, how the hell you draw an arm ✨️

[psychotic-gerard]

x

[kiragecko]

[Image of text saying,

Some AAVE speakers pluralize 'child' as 'childrens'. People get racist about this ("It's already plural!"), but 'children' actually comes from Middle English speakers doing the same thing: slapping their plural marker on word already pluralized by an extinct plural marker.

To oversimplify: in Old English, 'childer' ('ċildra') was the plural of 'child' ('ċild'). Middle English developed an '-en' plural marker, which we see in 'oxen'. Instead of updating to 'childen', people slapped their preferred '-en' onto the end of 'childer' - so now we have 'child-er-en'. AAVE carries on this tradition with 'child-er-en-s'.

"Pure" language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.

End ID.]

[red-king4]

"Pure" language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.

[shannonmcmaster]

Yup. https://www.etymonline.com/word/child

Child - Etymology, Origin & Meaning

"fetus, infant, unborn or newly born person," from Proto-Germanic *kiltham (source also… See origin and meaning of child.

[klfg]

[source]

[klfg]

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up.

Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math.

Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level.

And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth.

Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do.

The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing.

So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up.

OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product.

This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent.

Every time ChatGPT gives you an answer, ask yourself: is this real, or is it just a confident guess?

[undeadcorvid]

Let me save anyone who's curious a step: Here's the paper on ResearchGate

[carolxdanvers]

Settle an argument for me

is collecting (as a hobby) inherently consumerism?

yes

it depends, but usually yes

it depends

it depends, but usually no

no

even MORE nuance (explain in reblog/comment/tag)

bald/see results

Voting ended onApr 28

Reblog for sample size etc etc

[carolxdanvers]

Btw this was all because I was looking for information about the toothpaste I buy and I found a subreddit where people are posting pics of their collections of the toothpaste tubes

[carolxdanvers]

Honestly? Not necessarily. See below:

But also, just because something is being used doesn't mean it's not consumerism.

I kind of wonder if this is an extension of the "it's too nice of a box to throw away" phenomenon lmao

[auressea]

if you want a correct answer you need to narrow down your question. I collect ROCKS.. i do not PURCHASE THEM. i do not CONSUME them. I am still a collector. I am collecting things.

[carolxdanvers]

I want to see what other people think consumerism is, which this post is doing a good job of telling me. Collecting rocks is consumerism. You are acquiring objects that you don't need for the purpose of self satisfaction. That's consumerism. That doesn't make it a sin, it doesn't make it Bad, it doesn't mean you're a filthy capitalist. It doesn't make your collection morally superior (or inferior) to anybody else's.

[auressea]

no. you don't get to change the meaning of a specific word to fit your theory.

Consumerism - Wikipedia

Consumerism is a socio-cultural and economic phenomenon in which the aspirations of many individuals include the acquisition of goods and services beyond those necessary for survival or traditional displays.[1

[carolxdanvers]

So you agree?

My statement: "you are acquiring objects that you don't need for the purpose of self-satisfaction"

The wikipedia article you quoted: "in which the aspirations of many individuals include the acquisition of goods [...] beyond those necessary for survival or traditional displays."

Colors correspond to phrases that share meaning.

[abcoconut]

"The wikipedia article you quoted: "in which the aspirations of many individuals include the acquisition of goods [...] beyond those necessary for survival or traditional displays."

By this extraordinarily narrow reading, having a second set of spoons in case you have guests over is considered "consumerism".

[sycamorality]

turns out i have a lot of opinions on subtitles

[sycamorality]

theres a youtuber ive watched before he ever hit 1k. hell, before he hit 800. he had subtitles on his first video. manual ones, not auto-generated ones. IF HE CAN DO THAT THEN SO CAN SOME FUCKASS WITH THOUSANDS OR MILLIONS OF SUBSCRIBERS. OR AT LEAST FUCKING PAY SOMEONE TO DO THE SUBTITLES

[sycamorality]

and i hate the autogenerated subtitles so much. if the person swears or says a slur and it isnt censored, DONT CENSOR IT IN THE SUBTITLES. if its censored in speech, then censor it in subtitles. but if someone says a slur outright, no censoring? put it in the damn subtitles, i dont care, subtitles are for telling you what someone says

[sycamorality]

if your guy says "motherfucking bitch" then the subtitles should not say "motherf*cking b*tch", "mother******* b*****" or void forbid "[_] [_]" like youtube's autogenerated subtitles do. your subtitles should be saying "motherfucking bitch", UNLESS the guy's speech was censored like motherf[dolphin noise] b[dolphin noise], then you subtitles say "motherf[dolphin noise] b[dolphin noise]"

[sycamorality]

youtube's autogenerated subtitles are maybe some of the most ableist and infantilising ones ever and i think im gonna kill someone

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

In This Post, I linked to a video about how horse riding can be used as a tool for physical therapy for people with certain disabilities. And the narrator of that video was using technical, clinical, words to describe the effect of the horse's movement on the rider's body.

The video has auto-generated closed captions.

At the 8 minute, 10 second mark, the narrator says that the motion of the horse's back "may decrease tone in spastic muscles" (which is a good thing; clinically speaking, "spastic" means a muscle has way too much tone).

But because YouTube's algorithm has flagged "Spastic" as a slur (with no understanding that words can have different meanings in different contexts), it simply removed the word altogether, and the closed caption was:

"may decrease tone in muscles,"

(not even giving a clue that a word was edited out).

Generally speaking, decreasing tone in (normal) muscles is a bad thing, 'case it means you're making someone weaker.

So not only is the automatic censoring of words infantilizing of disabled people, it also renders what's actually being said to gibberish.

(I once watched a video on the origin of animal / pet words, and when talking about cats, the word "Pussy" was likewise just removed from the captions)

[abcoconut]

All of this and more.

I'm convinced YouTube's auto cc has gotten worse in the past few years and I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if that's because they've added some horrible AI learning algorithm shit to their videos.

[doorp]

maomao is not the bisexual representation the people asked for and honestly she is not the bisexual representation the people needed, I really dont know what that thing is but no one living or dead has the power to stop her. She showed the emperors concubines elicit porn. She met a woman with tits so huge that she completely ignored everything the woman was saying for a full minute to stare at them silently. She put her androgynous boytoy in a dress and made him dance. Grabbed his dong and called it a decent sized frog. And she did all of this while practicing medicine illegally. Feminism wins

[number1-best-friend-naim]

"She's like a 17 year old girl dr house and also sherlock holmes" is frying me

[angstandhappiness]

LMAO 😂

[greelin]

being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

[yves-and-scessernee]

with faith and perseverance, one day we will sauté the horrors

[so-much-to-read-deactivated2025]

[half-giant-fighter]

[katistrophe]

@toooldforthisbutstill

[butchfriend]

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

[cognitiveinequality]

[sturionic]

For anyone unfamiliar with Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the entire thesis is that traditional educational models promote oppression by removing students' agency in their own learning. Freire argues that currently education functions as a "banking model" - teachers are the holders of knowledge, and students are empty vessels, waiting to have that knowledge put into their heads like a piggy bank. This reinforces a passive attitude towards information, not seeking and understanding it on your own terms, but waiting for a "banker" to deposit it into your head.

Instead, Freire proposes that teachers and students act as co-creators of knowledge, where students become active participants in their own learning through questions and dialogue. Teachers are also open to changing their understanding of topics in the process of critical dialogue - the goal is not "student learns Fact A and memorizes it as presented," but instead the goal is the knowledge itself, discovered collaboratively by teacher and student, who are acting with empathy and respect towards each other. This also starts the process of the oppressed being able and empowered to question structures of power, take agency, and actively participate in the transformation of society.

So, the irony of writing an AI essay on critical pedagogy is actually insane; because it's essentially the extrapolated endpoint of Freire's arguments that our current educational system creates passive receptacles who not only can't think critically in an educational context, but also become the perfect citizens for a world that doesn't want us questioning structures of power, to view those in power as we viewed our teachers - deliverers of indisputable facts that must be memorized and regurgitated because they command it, and not co-creators of true understanding.