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[redstonedust]

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

[sinnegantheworm]

here's my super-quick, easy-to-digest summary that i use when i can't spend more than like 15 seconds on it but need someone to know the basic distinctions:

generative AI - bad evil AI. chatbots, LLMs, image generators, etc. this the one that steals shit.

analytical AI - helpful medical AI. this the one that helps detect cancer early.

game "AI" - fake AI. 100% human created and dictated. this the one that determines game mob behavior n stuff.

[resemblingthegrave]

losing the battle with my own self-control so will briefly comment and say that categorizing certain types of ai as straightforwardly good and other types as "bad evil," even for the sake of summary, doesn't really hold water. just to give two counterexamples to the distinctions drawn above, large language models ("evil") are being used by human rights groups to parse huge datasets about police abuse while analytical ai ("helpful") is also the kind of ai that animates facial recognition software and the increasingly ubiquitous searchable license plate databases that police are using to stalk people. the goodness or badness of a given ai tool has less to do with its type and more to do with things like scale and scope, transparency, ownership, and contextual application.

[luckyladylily]

I would purpose that if your 15 second summary is that over simplified and incorrect that maybe you just need to own up to the fact that the subject can't be usefully summarized in 15 seconds.

[thememedaddy]

[omtai]

Man I miss free the nipple. Its getting warmer and we don’t even have free the nipple anymore

[gramarye]

feminism has backslid so hard in recent years people don't even know what free the nipple means anymore

[briwhosaysni]

To clarify for those who don't know, "free the nipple" isn't about going braless, it's about going topless

No shirt, no bra, completely bare torso, just like cis men are allowed to

It's about desexualizing breasts and "female presenting nipples" and not being criminalized for our bodies if we want to go topless because it's a million damn degrees out. This was a popular growing movement that was still widely known a decade ago!

And the fact that not wearing a bra is so discouraged and stigmatized that people think the movement was about being able to go braless under your shirt in public rather than about being able to not wear a shirt at all says a lot about how far we've backslid in the past decade

[theragamuffininitiative]

Source:

Keep Android Open

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

Among the many reasons I am clawing my life back from Google.

[zylahbee]

sexism in medicine kills people. racism in medicine kills people. fatphobia in medicine kills people. queerphobia in medicine kills people. classism in medicine kills people. ableism in medicine kills people.

do not downplay people’s fears about being mistreated because they are a part of a marginalised group. it is a matter of life and death and you should be angry about it.

[creatingblackcharacters]

It's always hard reading about the violence committed to steal America, but the buffalo is always like... That's some inhuman shit. Everyone is burning in hell for that one. Wdym there were thirty to sixty MILLION buffalo in 1800, and by 1900 there were only 300 left. THREE HUNDRED. Do you know, can you fathom the amount of purposeful cruelty required to kill NINETY NINE PERCENT of a population of an animal, just to spite and murder the living Native people who existed and thrived with them? All this, for White Power and Entitlement?? Sickening.

[victusinveritas]

CeCe Rogers on Facebook writes: "Two Black Tennessee lawmakers were physically escorted out of chambers this week while Republicans quietly held a hearing to approve gerrymandered maps that would eliminate the state's only majority-Black congressional district.

No referendum. No special election. No public vote.

Because they know what happens when voters actually get a say — just look at Virginia, where the people spoke so loudly that Republicans had to drag the courts in to override them.

This isn't new. During Reconstruction, Black Americans held more congressional seats than at any point in the prior 90 years of American history. And white supremacists spent the next several decades tearing that down, through gerrymandering, poll taxes, and voter intimidation.

150 years later, the same tools. Different suits.

The audacity of escorting Black lawmakers out of their own chambers while dismantling Black political representation, and then telling us the courts aren't political, is breathtaking. These are the same courts they're counting on to make it stick.

This is a coordinated, multi-front assault on Black Americans. And we need to say it exactly that plainly."

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

[is-the-post-reliable]

requested by anonymous:

RATING: RELIABLE

The above is from this article from The Guardian.  The images are from MYA Network. The caption on their website reads:

Source: ‘When a sperm and egg get together, the body creates tissue in order to support the developing pregnancy.  Here are photos of that tissue from 5-9 week pregnancies.  This is called the gestational sac, and it’s like the “house” for the pregnancy. Inside this sac there are cells that have the potential to become a fetus but there is no visible embryo at this stage. We rinsed off the blood and menstrual lining (decidua) for these photographs.’

The published images sparked a lot of debate, leading to the story being picked up by other news outlets. For example:

Source: ‘Last week, the Guardian published images of pregnancy tissue after abortions in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. The small size and appearance of the tissue were shocking to many. We have all absorbed, knowingly and unknowingly, the pervasive anti-abortion narrative that a pregnancy resembles a tiny baby starting in the earliest weeks. Though an early embryo can be seen under the magnification of ultrasound, it can take months for it to be perceptible to the naked eye.’

Source: ‘People have responded in disbelief, citing the (magnified) images they’ve seen on ultrasounds. […] ”Think of the illustrations on pregnancy and medical websites. The Mayo Clinic, one of the preeminent medical organizations in the country, shows week-by-week illustrations of embryonic and fetal development without any context of scale, like the rulers in the MYA photos.’

As stated in the article, whilst people talk about a ‘heartbeat’ at 6 weeks, there is no heart developed at this stage - only a group of cells that will become part of the heart.

Source: ‘But what exactly do we mean when we talk about a “fetal heartbeat” at six weeks of pregnancy? Although some people might picture a heart-shaped organ beating inside a fetus, this is not the case. Rather, at six weeks of pregnancy, an ultrasound can detect “a little flutter in the area that will become the future heart of the baby,” said Dr. Saima Aftab, medical director of the Fetal Care Center at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami. This flutter happens because the group of cells that will become the future “pacemaker” of the heart gain the capacity to fire electrical signals, she said.’

It should also be noted that the images show an embryo, not a fetus, until the 9th week.

Source: ‘In human pregnancies, a baby-to-be isn’t considered a fetus until the 9th week after conception, or week 11 after your last menstrual period (LMP).’

The co-founders of the MYA Network responded in a New York Times article.

Source: ‘Many people, even those who support abortion rights, did not believe the photos were accurate. Some insisted we had deliberately removed the embryos before taking the photos. The images weren’t consistent with those often seen in embryological textbooks, magnified on ultrasounds or used in anti-abortion propaganda; these enlarged images are not what you see with the naked eye after an abortion. A Stanford gynecologic pathologist has validated our photos, but many people could not believe the pictures were presented unaltered.

[lierdumoa]

Yeah, if you put stem cells in a petri dish and bathe then in the right chemical bath, they will develop into heart cells and spontaneously start beating in a petri dish. Heart cells are genetically programmed to beat at the cellular level. The individual cells themselves are contracting rhythmically. A small cluster of them will contract in sync. A fully formed organ is not required for this to happen.

In fact, you don’t even have to start with stem cells, because if you put, for example, live skin cells in the right chemical bath, you can “reboot” them and turn them into stem cells.

MIT engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy

MIT researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem c

Scientists create ‘mini beating heart’ in a petri dish in major medical breakthrough

Groundbreaking development paves the way to develop treatments for a wide range of heart defects

[laceandlavendersworld]

Fully booked srry

[mypoorjackienatheart]

Baran Al-Hashimi has a neurologist, she's had this disorder for 35 years, she's probably on medication, she may need a change in said medication, she's been in an active war zone, lived through a terrorist attack, all the while managing her disorder.

Absence seizures typically last between three and fifteen seconds. Neither of her seizures happened during critical care moments, though of course they could. We have seen many other doctors on this show deal with issues that have caused them to have delays in patient care between three and fifteen seconds. Robby has been letting his issues affect his work in a myriad of ways, Mel put Becca ahead of every other patient she was treating and spent a good amount of time with her, Mohan had a panic attack, Javadi didn't catch the sigmoid volvulus patient, Trinity is falling behind due to exhaustion, Langdon was diluting patient medications (which isn't a timing issue but certainly put patients in a lot more danger than an absence seizure!). There are very few, if any, times in which a patient that will die in the next three to fifteen seconds is being treated by one (1) doctor alone.

Saying that she is unable to run the ED because of her disorder is simply wrong. There will have to be some extra measures put in place perhaps (like two attendings) but no more than there needs to be extra measures in place to protect the staff and patients from Robby's self-destructive warpath.

There is a lot of emphasis placed on the ED being a place of multiple moving parts, the staff being a team. I'd go even so far as to say the theme of the season is that this job cannot be done alone.

Last season, when Robby had his breakdown, he tells Abbot later: "I choked."

Abbot's reply: "For what? Forty seconds? Three minutes? Ten minutes? So fucking what? We all have that, that is what happens when you're in a war and nothing makes sense. We survived as a species because we learned how to cooperate and communicate."

These people are not robots, that is the thesis of the show. They will all deal with something that makes them slip, but because of the people around them, that will not be the end-all be-all.

If you have been extending your empathy to Robby all this time, you must also extend that to Al-Hashimi. She, out of everyone, knows the value of cooperation and communication, which is why she is fit for this role, no ifs, ands, or buts.

[bee-unknown]

Can we not like... Make an Indian woman's departure from a show about her relationship with a white man 22 years her senior, please

Can we make it about how she was kicked out because she criticized the way the women of colour were treated on the show and not about how she's not gonna get with the cop, please

[thisuserdoesntexistanymore20]

[11ismyfavorite5ever]

I actually really love this scene. A couple of people have called it a throwaway, but I actually think it was a Really Important moment. This was Scott pointing out that Boyd is a PERSON and a person who MATTERS at that. A person with a first name and a last name. Allison, to some degree, forgot that. Chris quite frankly never even considered it. To Derek, I think, Erica and Boyd were and are about his failure more than they ever were about the people they are (though that may be changing; yay for character growth). But for Scott, Boyd is his last name. Vernon is his first name. That little frown, that twitch of his face as if he’s thinking about the fact that he’s never called him Vernon and wondering if he prefers Boyd or just always got called Boyd or all the other things people didn’t realize about him…

In an episode that seriously dehumanized Vernon Boyd in problematic and heart-wrenching ways… Scott stuck up for his humanity.  Vernon Boyd is someone who needs help. Someone.  ALWAYS.

[ecologyofmedia]

can I say something. can I say something. lydia martin was and is everything to me. has anybody seen her??? She’s literally a strawberry blond ….. she’s a banshee…….. she’s got a little dog named prada….. she’s going to get a fields medal…. she’s the most popular girl in school and she uses her power to be rude to people she doesn’t like……. her favorite movie as a kid was little mermaid bc her and her grandma watched it together and they both had red hair 😭………she’s the smartest person on the show and she’s tortured by visions of death and she is easily annoyed. everybody get more lydiapilled NOWWWWWW.

[midwestresonance]

She is also kind.

She should have been bawling her eyes out in her room when allison died but she still went out to save stiles also she did not get out of her catatonic state put of the will to save her own life but to save malia's life.

She is resilent.

She is resilent as she still fights for the life she wants despite everything she has been through and being repeatedly reminded that her "pre-determined" fate as a banshee is to be alone(her grandmother and lenore for example)

She lost her bestfriend and boyfriend back to back horrifically but still found the strength to smile back at malia.

However, her continuing on with her life doesn't mean that she doesn't cherish them, she belives allison to still be with her and her trauma from aiden's death was used by dr valack to stop her from escaping eichen house.

[ecologyofmedia]

THIS. When it’s time to be in a beautifully complex female character competition and Lydia Martin shows up… if yall aren’t willing to write something as beautiful as this about her sit down rewatch teen wolf and take notes on her character . And then get back to me with an essay.

[midwestresonance]

Omg thx, lydia is my 2nd fav character besides from scott.

[existennialmemes]

The crux of the anti trans movement is a war on bodily autonomy. They don't want you to have any agency over what you look like, how you dress, who you date, whether to have kids, etc.

They want total control over you. Not just trans people. Not just queer people. You. Everyone.

Trans people are just a scapegoat. They want total control over everyone's self expression. They want the right to mold you into their perfect little cog in their dehumanizing machine.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. Our rights are your rights. Our destruction is your destruction.

[our-trans-punk-experience]

10/10 post bringing it back for 2026

[ilovemywife103947]

the new york times is now charging money for my favorite chocolate cake recipe so i bought a subscription and screenshotted it and canceled my subscription and now it's here for you for free

i do a mixture of red wine and fresh squeezed navel orange juice for the liquid, plus the zest of one large orange. now you make the cake

[ashstfu]

just wanna leave all responsibilities behind and eat fresh fruits and pastries by the ocean and feel the sun on my skin right now

[rororoyourboatthefuckaway]

My hot take on the Pitt fandom is that people don’t know what to do with themselves when a show doesn’t have a villain

[xenokattz]

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