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dragon-in-a-fez

top notch interaction I had with the ambulance crew after my accident a couple years back:

paramedic: hi, I'm Allan

me: you told me. and your colleague is Jim, and the man who found me is Peter. guess my short-term memory is okay

Allan: ..are you doing a cognitive function test on yourself

dragon-in-a-fez

Allan, two minutes later, putting a third blanket around me: okay, how's that feeling now

me: well my feet are still freezing but it's okay, I know you need to focus on getting my core temperature up first

Allan: how many times has this happened to you

dragon-in-a-fez

noteworthy that they literally had a mask on me hooked up to a tank pumping narcotics into my lungs through all this, and my body temperature was like 34°. I would have been doing well to just have both eyes pointed in the same direction

supreme-leader-stoat

"This is great. I'm going to get a good grade in post-accident cognition."

beardedmrbean

giliisnotcreative

@i-like-reblog-maps I heard you like large maps ^⁠_⁠^

i-like-reblog-maps

what the fuck

that thing is eldritch

acquired a dark mode version just to see what it’d look like. oh my god. this map is gorgeous

i have never seen a hub that large. i’m?? stunned

derinthescarletpescatarian

Didn't realise it was a reblog map at first,thought somebody was drawing the visual effect that accompanies casting Testicular Torsion.

depsidase

tasty-tiktoks

pukicho

Sometimes a banana will have the most vile texture known to man, other times… heh! This banana ain’t half bad!

aesuthiel

Sometimes it’s the same banana.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

say something nice and scary to me

whyiswifiawesomeandsostupid

You'd make a nice lamp.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

yes that is OBVIOUSLY what the jar is for???

prokopetz

Wrong: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because she was Lord Byron's daughter.

Right: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because that was the closest you could get in 1850 to being a Super Mario 64 speedrunner.

bear-disguised-as-a-human

This is how I found out that Ada Lovelace was Lord Byrons daughter

prokopetz

Well, yeah. That's why she received the unusual education which laid the foundation for her later discoveries in the first place. Her mother, Lady Byron, firmly believed three things:

It was her responsibility as a mother to ensure that Ada didn't turn out like her father;

Fundamentally, the thing that was wrong with Lord Byron is that he was a poet; and

The opposite of poetry is math.

Ada Lovelace's biography handily illustrates how well this theory worked out in practice.

arqueete

Hark, a vagrant: 298

galaxywarp

aesuthiel

As someone who used to (and still kinda do when I’m stressed out) impulsively lie (this was brought about because of an abusive friendship i had.)

Sometimes i don’t realize I’ve lied until right after the words have left my mouth.

My brain senses that i can get a better reaction or response from someone by saying one thing rather than the truth even when the truth is perfectly fine or even normal.

Things I’d lied about:

Locations of things

How long things took

My dogs breed

Who i was hanging out with

What color something was

What i ate

If i took my medication

My favorite color

My dogs sex

How often i visit my grandparents.

At home i can just say “i lied, oops, i meant xyz” and my family and close friends know im trying to be better and more truthful and it’s more often a knee jerk reaction than me purposefully being dishonest.

But when it comes to meeting new folks or even people I’m not super close with how do i explain in a socially appropriate way for the situation that for years i was pressured to say exactly and only what others would want to hear or id be shamed, insulted, and emotionally abused?

#i swear I’m getting better.#i promise I’m not as much of a liar as i used to be #i fr once said my fav color was blue cuz someone hot was wearing blue head to toe

wykart

what do you mean my disability disables my abilities? what the fuck

theprofessional-amateur

link to bluesky post

theprofessional-amateur

In addition to how to turn various things, it includes:

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to spot AI Hallucinations like a Reference Librarian (originally on Substack)

Library Freedom Project has a lot of handouts about AI on their Resources page

1five1two

Leopard Figurine. Mesopotamia. c. 3300-2900 BC.

eternalgirlscout

so called "free thinkers" when hi 1 quastion

zechery-deactivated20220114

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

thebaconsandwichofregret

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing