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if i look back, i am lost
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Ok, it's finally done. Home is a place, home is a person.
This story is my first major piece after several years of art block, and I'm so glad I could finally get back to drawing.
Huge thanks to my dear friend @chancekey for the support.
did you know?
- the menu at a restaurant is not an ingredient list you can use to create new dishes we could hypothetically make for you instead of the choices on the menu
- we do not have omelets on the menu because we do not make or serve omelets
- yes, i know we have eggs on the menu, but we still do not have omelets.
- yes, i realize omelets are eggs, but not all eggs are omelets, and the eggs we serve are not omelets.
- you cannot out-logic me so that i cave in and ring in an omelet for you. i am better at arguing than you are.
- there are no omelets here. there have not been, and will not be, omelets here. if you want an omelet you will need to go somewhere else.
- i can also promise that you do not want an omelet cooked by line cooks who have not been trained how to make omelets. because we don't sell omelets.
- no, i am not going to single-handedly put service on pause for the next twenty minutes while three cooks google how to make an omelet and then proceed to fuck up multiple omelets that our kitchen is not set up to prepare, so you can have an omelet.
-and we both know you'd bitch if it takes longer than six minutes to come out anyway.
- no, you may not just go back into the kitchen and make yourself an omelet. the line cooks do not take kindly to trespassing. also, what the hell.
- i hear that you want an omelet. that does not change the fact that we do not offer omelets. if you want to eat an omelet, you will need to go to another restaurant that does have omelets on the menu. this is not negotiable.
- i am the manager.
- yeah, alright, go fuck yourself too, bob.
Have you gone to your native country’s capital city? (At least one of them if your country has multiple)
Have you gone to your native country’s capital city? (At least one of them if your country has multiple)
Yes
No
The International Phonetic Alphabet consonants found in English, with keywords and relevant parts of the mouth highlighted and colour-coded. (Source.)
Pronouncing each of these in sequence is a very strange and amusing physical sensation, and I highly recommend it.
haha look it’s where those noises live in your dang FACE, TRY IT
Very helpful actually
If you do not think this is eventually the aim for a lot of the AI space right now, a bsky post by Dr Lindsey Fitzharris today:
A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access… to my own fucking content that they stole. /1
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I love in LARP and fiction when the character that has no desire to be a hero, no interest in glory, who just wants to do the job and have everyone live, sees the moment where the only line standing between who they love and death is their own heartbeat. And they don't do it happily or with bravado or a heroic shout. They just let everyone else keep running, and resign themselves to turning around. "Just how the chips came down, that's all. Just how it's gotta be."
Local resident Alan Bower’s particular brand of sardonic, no-holds-barred commentary about everything around him has firmly established the 31-year-old policy writer as an absolutely terrible person who is always ready to crack a joke, sources reported Monday.
According to friends of the modern-day Oscar Wilde, Bower has a singular knack for sucking every last bit of genuine enjoyment out of any situation with his hilarious, nonstop incisiveness.
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which of these fruits do you wish would cease to exist in all forms?
cherry
lemon
coconut
mango
passionfruit
strawberry
blueberry
raspberry
blackberry
kiwi (btw if u vote this ur dead to me)
orange
other
please, reblog so we can get more results
when you relate to a song too much so you can’t listen to it ever again
She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.
She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.
81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.
The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.
Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.
Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.
The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.
She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.
Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.
When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.
The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.
When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.
The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.
You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.
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Vote for progressives. #DSA #ZohranMamdani
Democrats, are you taking notes? This is how you get shit done.
🎶It is not live action! Animator!🎵
wol question was do u think g’raha can princess carry your wol (sorry to g’raha but he cannot)
This is censership.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/social-media-ban-kids-parents-reaction-9.7178010
Some Manitoba youth say an outright ban on social media and artificial-intelligence chatbot use for youth may be a step too far after Premie
"These platforms are not neutral. They have been built this way to maximize engagement," Kinew said at the event. "They amplify comparisons between yourself and artificial standards, they amplify outrage and they expose kids to content they're not ready for."
Okay, so.... Ban them from being built that way. Regulate the companies and implement regulations on predatory social media development practices which damage people for engagement. Get to the core of the problem instead of isolating children, maybe.
One of my favourite quotes from this is from journalist Annie Kelly on Podcast Trash Future:
I think that there is some very compelling evidence on the harms of social media for under 16s. I'm just like not convinced it's compelling enough that it's much more harmful for them than anybody else.
it's always you
Okay, this is fantastic. Do you need to know anything about Jeeves and Wooster? No, you do not. Because the vid tells you everything you need to know. And also turns you feral about it within the space of a single song or single slightly slowed-down clip yes I saw that oh my god.
okay so here's the thing about 50,000 people vs 1 ceo of a utility company
technofascist surveillance state actually the have fun with ai was just them selling it to the public ☺️
Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data
NV Energy continues to be trash, I see.
Buried deeper in this article:
NV Energy sold its California electric assets to Liberty in 2009 and agreed to keep supplying power temporarily. That arrangement was extended in 2015, again in 2020, and once more in late 2025, and each time because Liberty had not yet secured an independent supply, a timeline corroborated by regulatory documents reviewed by Fortune.
So yeah, this is NV & Liberty casting plutomancy rituals at the expense of their customers, and the data centres are at least partially a handy hat to send the blame to.
