queen of boops

you can call me Ari | Current Obsession(s): Project Hail Mary. Iron Lung. | dont follow me for the supernatural post you won't get what you came for | you might get some of what you came for if you follow for the LotR post | if you came for the James Norrington post you're entitled to a veteran's discount | I love mermaids. that's about all you need to know | Cinderella 2015 is the only valid live-action remake | my personal info is nobody's business but I'm an adult if you're worried about that kind of thing | constantly suffering

[ariminiria]

[softwaring]

[infinityundone]

The best part about Iron Lung is that it's not a movie about Markiplier, it's a movie about a guy who just happens to be played by Markiplier. Like it starts and you're like "Omg it's Markiplier!" and then a few minutes later you stop seeing Markiplier, and instead you just see Simon, a guy trapped in a submarine in an ocean of blood. If, say, Mr Beast tried to make a similar film it would be like "Hey guys, I'm Mr Beast, and today, I'm going on a wacky adventure in this blood ocean with my zany cast of friends!"

[ariminiria]

these tags 😂😂😂

[frederickchiltonsdivacup]

AO3 Writer Affirmations:

I do not have to reinvent the wheel every time I write fanfiction

I do not have to make every chapter's word count above 1,000 in order for it to be good

It is okay if some things don't make sense

I can write whatever I want

I am writing this shit for free

If people don't like my stuff, they can block me. If they're being mean about it, I can block them.

The most important part of writing fanfiction is having fun

Writing fanfiction is supposed to be fun

I do not have to appeal to people

This shit is fun

I am doing this all for free, and anyone who objects can go eat wet sand and worms from the sidewalk

[poorest-wet-little-meow-meow]

Bracket D Round 1 Matchup 2

MacGyver from MacGyver 2016 vs Prince Alcryst from Fire Emblem Engage

MacGyver

Prince Alcryst

Remaining time: 5 days 17 hours

Propaganda is allowed and highly encouraged!

Winner moves on to round 2!

[willowwyrd]

Sorry i've been holding back the demons but some of y'all need to watch the fucking movie I just saw someone say "Simon probably never learned to read :("

Brother there is a Whole Scene and joke. Dedicated to the fact that Simon can, in fact, read.

[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

[rosedavid]

PROJECT HAIL MARY by Andy Weir

@pscentral​ event 49: literature

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[pingintech]

literally a cartoon bad guy

[evstratt]

Doctor Grace is right. It is the CO2.

[a-real-hum4n]

shout out to book!grace, who blasted himself with 29 atmospheres worth of 210c (410f) degrees hot straight ammonia, in the hopes that rocky would survive. who carried rockys whole 168kg (370lbg) down ladders in a make-shift carrier. who turned around for rocky, fully expecting to die of starvation. sigh. who was just a little bit more of a bitch than movie!grace (whats that one quote where hes like "if i had a nickel for every parent i wanted to slap during my career, id have enough to fill a sock and hit them with that instead"). who was purposefully given memory loss, so he wouldnt sabotage the mission (something he threatned many times). who wasnt "friendless", like he was depicted in the movie. i miss you so bad. you were everything.

[incomingalbatross]

HEY WHY IS TUMBLR SORTING REPLIES ON MY POSTS BY "BEST COMMENTS FIRST"

it's only one option and "newest first" and "oldest first" are still there but it looks like it's the brand-new default???

IN THIS HOUSE WE HATE THE ALGORITHM. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT.

[businesstiramisu]

GAH thanks for the heads up.

Poking around user settings, I don't see a way to change the default right now >:( but if i'm missing something please let me know

[incomingalbatross]

Just switching it on one post should carry over to all other posts, at least until you log out of tumblr! So it at least doesn't have to be repeated every time you look at a post's notes.

[afloweroutofstone]

Google quietly added generative AI capabilities to Google Earth, allowing anyone to generate false images on top of real satellite imagery. It seems pretty rudimentary, but the potential for disinformation is sky-high.

Anyway, did y'all hear that they nuked the White House?

[afloweroutofstone]

Within the first few hours of its discovery, people on Twitter used this tool to generate an Epstein Island attraction at Disneyland, a mega-prison within Google’s headquarters, and a sequel to 9/11.

Google has already announced that they will be “rolling back” this feature because of screenshots like these:

The fact that they want to bring it back with “guardrails” is ridiculous. Screenshots like these are not the work of some malign actors, they’re instant proof that your idea is terrible on its face

[luxwing]

GAMING NEWS !!

expensive

[luxwing]

[crackedpolishedblackstonebrick]

posts funnier with timestamps on

[rhinco]

i understand that it's unreasonable to expect a band on world tour to play in every country in the world but i do think they should only be allowed to call it a world tour if they play in every continent. we need to make it embarrassing to say world tour and then not even step foot in africa

[wordfather]

writing tip:

if you push buttons on a keyboard, letters will appear on the screen. and with that power you can do anything

[lychgate]

 i think it was cruel to give lightning mcqueen a foot fetish, as he lives in a world where all feet are wheels. he has nothing.

[wordfather]

sorry i wasnt talking to you i think

[anarchopuppy]

I, a hearing person who likes subtitles just as a preference, shouldn't have to read a subtitle that's obvious nonsense, go back a couple seconds, and listen again in order to figure out what's going on. An accessibility feature should not be the most half-assed part of a professionally made production. Scripted media has absolutely no excuse for not having subtitles or having subtitles that aren't perfectly verbatim. Professional captioning services should be ashamed of the shoddy work that they put out. Captions should be treated as a part of the production, just like filming, editing, audio balancing, etc - and anything that releases with missing or bad captions should be seen as unfinished