AnyaDervren

Just me and my own little corner of chaos in the huge ocean which calls itself internet. Always trying, mostly failing. Just another person with a Tumblr account.

[norice-aph]

Literally Eurovision intros this year

[asmallworldafterall]

Sending all the Eurovision postcard ghosts to my wife as holiday card ideas for next year.

Because I don't know how else we're gonna top last year's Wicked theme...

[rqbossman]

So, I’ve been relistening to RQG

so did you mean to actively prophetically predict everything going on with ai with the mr ceiling arc or was that dream vague and stayed heavily on your mind during the creative process?

I 100% made Mr. Ceiling as a knowing comment on the then soon-approaching AI. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a literal soothsayer, I couldn't have known it was going to be LLM systems specifically that captured the public consciousness, but the way that major governments and corporations are engaging with it is following a very predictable pattern. Mr Ceiling was a general comment on the danger of integrating unmonitored AI agents without proper guardrails into essential infrastructure. He/It follows a well trodden path in literature and the fact that he is as chatty and supportive as current market-leading chat-bots was just a horrific bonus for me. I did formally study the philosophy of AI and it included a bunch on their mechanics, ethics, ontology etc. It's proved amazingly helpful for my creative career and I can (and do) talk about it for hours. For what it's worth I do think there's some credible arguments in favour of supervised, bounded, Narrow Artificial Intelligence implementations. The problem is that humans are the worst and instead of exploring this tech in regulated and controlled, air-gapped environments we skipped straight to resting the foundations of our economy on a bubble of mostly unregulated, black-box technology embedded in all our essential internet infrastructure during the most dangerous geopolitical environment in 100 years. In some ways the only thing that has surprised me about all this is how surprised everyone else seems to be by these developments. TLDR: I don't think I predicted anything. As far as I am concerned, everything since Neuromancer has just been the follow through.

[just-1other-nerd]

In case any of you still need to be convinced to listen to The Magnus Archives and The Magnus Protocol. This is literally the official transcript.

[stromcuzewon]

this is probably my favorite tiktok of all time and I finally got around to showing it to my dad the other day and now he comes home every day and tells me about all the places he saw crumbling concrete and says "guess they didn't add enough chinchilla flakes"

[thatdisasterauthor]

My dad has worked in construction is whole life, primarily with a company that does concrete foundations, and I immediately sent him this back when I first found it on TikTok, and he IMMEDIATELY shared it with everyone he worked with. They apparently still quote it on his job sites to this day.

[enki2]

[nothing-suspicious-at-all]

[ozth]

customer service is cooking my brain, man

[depsidase]

[dandelionsresilience]

Just gonna drop these here as a starting point :)

How to identify, and then deal with, your emotions

Emotional regulation skills

Conflict resolution skills

Creating and enforcing boundaries

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy skills

Emotional intelligence ideals to aim for

Axes of self-care/wellbeing

Self-care self-evaluation (find out where you’re starting)

How to make a self-care checklist

How to start a self-care habit

Reparenting resources

Crash Course Psychology

KhanAcademy: Understanding the Self and Society (some units more relevant than others)

Emotional education activities for children and teens

Social-Emotional Learning activities for kids (information can be adapted for adults)

[radak1985]

I'm reblogging to actually use this

[studentofetherium]

columns of kelp underwater are so gorgeous. absolutely one of my favorite things in the natural world

[studentofetherium]

these are equal parts underwater city and underwater forest

[saevity]

it snowed today here's a tori ❄️❄️❄️

[frownyalfred]

why I can I see literally every iteration of Batman doing this 🤣

[muaddibbler]

The following sentence of the abstract is also wild:

[rosedavid]

i hate it when you're heating something up in the microwave and it starts to go snap crackle pop so you take it out but it's still completely cold. shut up then??

[banji-effect]

The ancient world was full of textile masterpieces we can only imagine… but most of them have rotted away. So few of them have come down to us in these days that we think of metal and stone as the primary mediums for the oldest artworks. But there were tapestries and fabric work that would have rivaled the finest wrought gold and iron and the first cave paintings.

[theyoungwaldschrat]

This is a incredibly rare find. A ball of yarn made from stinging nettle fibers in the Late Neolithic (5900 years old) in what’s now Marin-Epagnier in Switzerland. The thread has been preserved by being carbonized. Look at how much thread that is! And how fine and even it is spun! The skill going into this is absolutely incredible. Imagine the incredible textile work that must’ve been made with that. For a reference here’s a ball of nettle yarn I managed to make with a drop spindle. That took me 300 hours of work.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[ltwilliammowett]

Curious Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) standing upright and looking through porthole into the kitchen of arctic expedition ship M/S Stockholm in Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Norway by Andy Rouse               

[captain-price-officially]

[ltwilliammowett]

Hahaha that’s great. By the way, this is the picture of him with his head in.

[clover-patches]

[anchovy]

[tenebrobscuro]

The first simulated image of a black hole was calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978.

[str-ngeloop]

the romance of hand-plotting. this guy looked at the numbers and drew each of those dots manually, and the image emerged. we can only imagine how he felt

[corneliusmann]

[surprisebitch]

pancakes are made of eggs omfg

[yourladyindank]

Y’all are crazy if you think a chicken won’t happily eat eggs. Y’all insane if you think a chicken won’t tear some nuggets UP. You are ON CRACK if you think a chicken won’t just, eat another injured chicken

[black-girl-against-feminism]

Me and some friends were collecting eggs on this farm. We dropped one of them and they went absolutely apeshit over that damn egg. Not even the shell was left.

[kayrowsyrup]

I know people think chickens are herbivores but they absolutely aren’t.

Chickens are omnivores. They eat meat, they eat eat all sorts of fruits and vegetables.

This isn’t really well known to people who live off of farms or who have never spent time on one. It’s also thanks to tv and movies not showing this side of chickens.

[jabberwockypie]

It’s why eggs and chicken meat saying they come from “free-range vegetarian chickens” are HILARIOUS, because if they’re free-range, you can’t control that, and the tiny dinosaurs ARE going to eat a lot of things. And if a mouse meets an early demise because it came near the tiny dinosaurs … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[systlin]

As a kid I once threw the neighbor’s chickens a chicken nugget just to see what would happen.

Answer; they fuckin demolished it. Tore it apart and wolfed it down in seconds. 

[space-lord-joe-kewl]

Rose tinted chicken glasses used to be a very common invention for chickens, because if they saw a speck of blood on another chicken they would gang up on it and murder it to death and feast on it.

Actual piranhas don’t act like Hollywood piranhas.

Chickens, however, do act like Hollywood piranhas. Those fuckers get a taste for blood and they become fucking ravenous fiends. They’re still very much dinosaur.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

Pancakes are looking a little tame, huh?

[tulparightsactivist]

[queerspacetheory]

[starkswhee-deactivated20230108]

[bundibird]

You’re not allowed to let your chickens eat eggs purely because if they discover that they can, you will never get another egg from them again. They WILL eat them before you can collect them.

[awesomeavocadolove]

Yeah I was going to mention this. Once they get the taste, they’ll eat their own eggs and the eggs of other hens if they can. At that point, you gotta cull them.