I'd rather be shiny

pronouns - The Great Calamity/End of All Things https://archiveofourown.org/users/ambersagt DISCORD: @ambersagen Blusky: @amberok I'm multifandom as hell

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[rikacreature]

when u have the correct number of cinderblocks in ur enclosure

[bluedillylee]

🐺🗡️ stinky man

[ID Portraits of Geralt from different witcher adaptations. In order Netflix tv show, Game, Hexer 2002, musical and book. end ID]

[rylandgraces]

How it feels when someone prevs you

[four-rabbits-in-a-trenchcoat]

[bigboysdrinkmilk]

Why is there a diarrhea parasite outbreak in America?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to disease prevention and control.

Why is measles back in America?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including RFK Jr, cut vaccine and measles prevention funding and programs.

Why is the New World Screwworm infecting cattle in Texas, when it had previously been eliminated from the area?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Elon Musk, cut USAID funding, which in part worked to monitor and prevent screwworm outbreaks.

Why was there a flu outbreak in our armed forces?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Pete Hegseth, cut vaccination requirements for our armed forces, putting all of them at risk alongside our military readiness.

What contributed to the Covid outbreak?

Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to a pandemic prevention program in his first term because Barack Obama had created it.

“America first” sends its regards. Trump voters, please learn your lesson. And if you don’t, it’ll be taught to you again with yet another diarrhea outbreak.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[dinovia-grant]

Liz Friedman wrote an episode of this show and was consulting producer on two.

Liz Friedman, as in co-executive-producer of 91 episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess.

No wonder this show is so freaking good.

[enki2]

[j-tee]

Bug party

[charnel-grounds]

Dance of Death — Skeletons Playing Music anonymous, 18th century pastel on parchment

[targetedknowledge]

[userfish]

[airplanned]

We all agree, right?

AI to write your novel is wrong

A bargain with a demon to write your novel is okay

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Only if you specify in the contract that the demon can't use chat-GPT

[athenadark]

I've been thinking about this - and why asking the demon is also a bad idea

Tartini was a composer and violin teacher and no one respected him, he was generally broke, and he started having weird dreams in which the devil asked him to teach him violin

despite being catholic tartini agreed - although everything told him this was a bad idea

so he taught the devil violin in his dreams and when he had taught him everything he knew the devil offered him payment, he played an original composition in his dream

Tartini woke up weeping and struggled to write it down

we have a historical version of "couldn't remember the greatest song in the world, this is just its tribute", and the song he wrote down made him "Sonata in G Minor, aka the devil's trill" it's usually played by 2 violinists because it's evil difficult,

now imagine you make a deal with the devil to write your novel, he writes it but only lets you read it in a dream and you have to transcribe it from memory the next day.... 150k of the best prose and plot you've ever seen in your life and you have to remember it

chatgpt is evil, but that's just mean

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

That's every novel. That happens to me any time I manage to get more than four hours' sleep at once.

[karmajamie]

I love how this implies that we can ‘fix’ authors with an exorcism.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Yeah that sounds instinctually true to me. If we could remove the curse then my soul could rest.

[airplanned]

We all agree, right?

AI to write your novel is wrong

A bargain with a demon to write your novel is okay

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Only if you specify in the contract that the demon can't use chat-GPT

[athenadark]

I've been thinking about this - and why asking the demon is also a bad idea

Tartini was a composer and violin teacher and no one respected him, he was generally broke, and he started having weird dreams in which the devil asked him to teach him violin

despite being catholic tartini agreed - although everything told him this was a bad idea

so he taught the devil violin in his dreams and when he had taught him everything he knew the devil offered him payment, he played an original composition in his dream

Tartini woke up weeping and struggled to write it down

we have a historical version of "couldn't remember the greatest song in the world, this is just its tribute", and the song he wrote down made him "Sonata in G Minor, aka the devil's trill" it's usually played by 2 violinists because it's evil difficult,

now imagine you make a deal with the devil to write your novel, he writes it but only lets you read it in a dream and you have to transcribe it from memory the next day.... 150k of the best prose and plot you've ever seen in your life and you have to remember it

chatgpt is evil, but that's just mean

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

That's every novel. That happens to me any time I manage to get more than four hours' sleep at once.

[karmajamie]

I love how this implies that we can ‘fix’ authors with an exorcism.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Yeah that sounds instinctually true to me. If we could remove the curse then my soul could rest.

[fuck-customers]

[magnetictapedatastorage]

I Watched a 55-Year-Old Law Break the AI Hiring Industry — And It Was Overdue

The Eightfold AI lawsuit exposed what happens when companies treat employment decisions like ad targeting — and why the fix requires enginee

a bit more context

[hidden-but]

i love the article linked above specifically because it is written by someone who is actively working on machine learning agent-based hiring workflows - with focus on legal compliance and traceability

I remember the first time we ran a full end-to-end test of this architecture on a realistic hiring scenario — 200 synthetic candidates, three jurisdictions, two job categories. It took us forty-five minutes to walk through the audit trail for a single candidate. My lead engineer looked at me and said, “This is insane. No one will want this level of detail.” I said, “A judge will.”

which just serves to highlight how much of a blackbox the usual pure LLM-based workflows are.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[puppyloveandpredators]

Erica ambushed Derek with a hairbrush for a microphone

Erica: quick! What's your favourite thing about Stiles? Go!

There were so many things he could've said. His tenacity. His sense of humour. His loyalty. His companionship. His ability to make every day feel less like the end of the world. Instead what Derek had said was...

Derek: uh- his ass

[shubbabang]

its not funny but i do think about it a lot

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

This made me think about this panel from Calvin and Hobbes:

But unlike the adult in this strip, Calvin’s dad actually APOLOGIZED for yelling at him when he saw how guilty his kid was: