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the most fun a girl can have is finding parallels, noticing patterns, making connections, contemplating
i think it’s so cruel that the costume that dick choose to honor his parents with is being passed down and almost every robin dies in the same colors his parents died in
We still making art out here!! In spite of it all!!!
And the Alistair rework is (finally) done 🫠 This one gave me by far the most trouble. I had to rework the lighting which made me have to pretty much repaint his armor AND I made the original painting on the wrong color profile and had to spend forever color correcting when switching it over to the right one 🥲
The Zevran rework is also already in progress (and going much more smoothly lol)
I thought about them again, i really like when halloween specials show characters in fun costumes, specially when the characters already usually wear costumes…
Adventures of Superman v1 #513
I love a comic page that shows Clark being unhinge guy with Kon at his side being the chill, calm-looking person
I sometimes imagine that Dick Grayson kept up with his gymnastics in a public setting so that he just. Goes to the Olympics as himself. Several times. Doesn't mention it to his family so there are just several possible avenues of this coming up like:
Jason, watching the Olympics: that could have been you doing that for your country, dickface
Dick: damn, I already won four gold, what else do you want
Jason:.....w h a t
B disapproves, but only bc it shines extra attention on Dick's athletic prowess and B worries it will compromise Nightwing's secret if folks connect the dots. And in the age of technology where everyone carries a global access to info at all times, it's likely someone's going to get bored enough to look.
Hell, he even does such searches when he's bored just to see what info the world notices. Bonus? It also helps his dual identity because Batman would logically never look to see if his butt is like Bruce Wayne's.
Brucie the bi disaster on the other hand would absolutely check out Batman's butt discreetly if he got bored during a meeting.
So he doesn't put Nightwing's medals in the cave, which is why J never connected the dots. Instead, they are placed near the front door, which J never enters through because it's mainly used by guests. And Dick, of course, who is already planning how he'll modify his appearance for the next time he qualifies as a personal "up yours" to the old man. He's been growing out his hair and is thinking pigtails and a goatee.
Bruce: Dick, this is dangerous. What if someone recognises you by one of your moves?
Dick: Oh, come on! What are the chances of that actually happening??
Tim: *Shuffles past in his pjs, slurping a 32oz Red Bull banana yoghurt and Skittle smoothie*
Dick: .... A second time?
chinese room 2
So there’s this guy, right? He sits in a room by himself, with a computer and a keyboard full of Chinese characters. He doesn’t know Chinese, though, in fact he doesn’t even realise that Chinese is a language. He just thinks it’s a bunch of odd symbols. Anyway, the computer prints out a paragraph of Chinese, and he thinks, whoa, cool shapes. And then a message is displayed on the computer monitor: which character comes next?
This guy has no idea how the hell he’s meant to know that, so he just presses a random character on the keyboard. And then the computer goes BZZZT, wrong! The correct character was THIS one, and it flashes a character on the screen. And the guy thinks, augh, dammit! I hope I get it right next time. And sure enough, computer prints out another paragraph of Chinese, and then it asks the guy, what comes next?
He guesses again, and he gets it wrong again, and he goes augh again, and this carries on for a while. But eventually, he presses the button and it goes DING! You got it right this time! And he is so happy, you have no idea. This is the best day of his life. He is going to do everything in his power to make that machine go DING again. So he starts paying attention. He looks at the paragraph of Chinese printed out by the machine, and cross-compares it against all the other paragraphs he’s gotten. And, recall, this guy doesn’t even know that this is a language, it’s just a sequence of weird symbols to him. But it’s a sequence that forms patterns. He notices that if a particular symbol is displayed, then the next symbol is more likely to be this one. He notices some symbols are more common in general. Bit by bit, he starts to draw statistical inferences about the symbols, he analyses the printouts every way he can, he writes extensive notes to himself on how to recognise the patterns.
Over time, his guesses begin to get more and more accurate. He hears those lovely DING sounds that indicate his prediction was correct more and more often, and he manages to use that to condition his instincts better and better, picking up on cues consciously and subconsciously to get better and better at pressing the right button on the keyboard. Eventually, his accuracy is like 70% or something – pretty damn good for a guy who doesn’t even know Chinese is a language.
* * *
One day, something odd happens.
He gets a printout, the machine asks what character comes next, and he presses a button on the keyboard and– silence. No sound at all. Instead, the machine prints out the exact same sequence again, but with one small change. The character he input on the keyboard has been added to the end of the sequence.
Which character comes next?
This weirds the guy out, but he thinks, well. This is clearly a test of my prediction abilities. So I’m not going to treat this printout any differently to any other printout made by the machine – shit, I’ll pretend that last printout I got? Never even happened. I’m just going to keep acting like this is a normal day on the job, and I’m going to predict the next symbol in this sequence as if it was one of the thousands of printouts I’ve seen before. And that’s what he does! He presses what symbol comes next, and then another printout comes out with that symbol added to the end, and then he presses what he thinks will be the next symbol in that sequence. And then, eventually, he thinks, “hm. I don’t think there’s any symbol after this one. I think this is the end of the sequence.” And so he presses the “END” button on his keyboard, and sits back, satisfied.
Unbeknownst to him, the sequence of characters he input wasn’t just some meaningless string of symbols. See, the printouts he was getting, they were all always grammatically correct Chinese. And that first printout he’d gotten that day in particular? It was a question: “How do I open a door.” The string of characters he had just input, what he had determined to be the most likely string of symbols to come next, formed a comprehensible response that read, “You turn the handle and push”.
* * *
One day you decide to visit this guy’s office. You’ve heard he’s learning Chinese, and for whatever reason you decide to test his progress. So you ask him, “Hey, which character means dog?”
He looks at you like you’ve got two heads. You may as well have asked him which of his shoes means “dog”, or which of the hairs on the back of his arm. There’s no connection in his mind at all between language and his little symbol prediction game, indeed, he thinks of it as an advanced form of mathematics rather than anything to do with linguistics. He hadn’t even conceived of the idea that what he was doing could be considered a kind of communication any more than algebra is. He says to you, “Buddy, they’re just funny symbols. No need to get all philosophical about it.”
Suddenly, another printout comes out of the machine. He stares at it, puzzles over it, but you can tell he doesn’t know what it says. You do, though. You’re fluent in the language. You can see that it says the words, “Do you actually speak Chinese, or are you just a guy in a room doing statistics and shit?”
The guy leans over to you, and says confidently, “I know it looks like a jumble of completely random characters. But it’s actually a very sophisticated mathematical sequence,” and then he presses a button on the keyboard. And another, and another, and another, and slowly but surely he composes a sequence of characters that, unbeknownst to him, reads “Yes, I know Chinese fluently! If I didn’t I would not be able to speak with you.”
That is how ChatGPT works.
Middle fry & I were chatting about ai this morning and I remembered this analogy - glad I was able to find it again (lost in my likes).
I’m not a big fan of cops, there are a lot of shitty ones, but it’s not a random cop’s fault we don’t fund shelters. Cops are not actually to blame for most social issues, nor are they responsible for creating the laws you don’t like.
You know how you fix that issue? Go lobby your state and local government. Go fight for your tax dollars to go to the things you want. Actively.
Look at yourself honestly: have you ever done that? Have you ever actually called your Councilmember, your Senator, your assembly member, and said “I want you to fight for the right to shelter in my city, this is what I want to spend my tax dollars on.” Do you call them regularly? Do you go and talk to your neighbors and ask them to sign petitions in support? Do you get together with others and rally at city hall for that right to exist?
If you haven’t and don’t do these things, recognize this kind of tweet/post is completely useless. It allows you to feel morally superior but it changes nothing for anyone. My guess is the majority of people who post and like these kinds of posts do none of those things.
Your local electeds do things their district members ask them to. And guess what? The people experiencing crime? The ones walking home late at night seeing strange men sleeping on the benches where they want to walk with their kids? They’re calling and asking for more street safety and more cops. If you don’t work with your community to provide better solutions and let them know what YOU want and are willing to pay for, you are guaranteed to lose.
The good thing is, now is just as good a time as any to get more involved!
Some additional tips:
1. No, it’s not worth it to call someone who does not represent your district, unless they are the Speaker or chair of a relevant subcommittee.
2. There is probably some organization or person in your community already working on this. Don’t duplicate efforts, join for numbers.
3. When you call or, even better, request an in-person district meeting, the first words out of your mouth should be “my name is XYZ and I am a voter in your district.”
4. Your city and state may have rules about who can levy taxes. For example, NYC cannot raise its own taxes outside of very specific examples; only the state can do that. Make sure you’ve read up on who has the actual power to make the change you want to see. You can, for example, push your city council to create a right to shelter, and your senate/assembly to fund it through a new or existing tax.
5. Your electeds work for you, but they are still human beings. Treat them respectfully when speaking one-on-one. If you go in treating them like dirt, they are going to assume you will never vote for them anyway and focus on people who will. You are not the only person in your district. One voice matters, but it’s still one voice among many. They have to listen to all of them.
Moral superiority doesn’t win anything; only pragmatic, concrete actions change things.
red robin and the outlaws
being smart has never stopped him from being an absolute fcking idiot/affectionate
sorry former gifted kids and burnt out perfectionists but: the only way to get better at something is to do it, and to repeatedly suck at it. failing. sometimes for years. until one day you step back and look at what has just been produced by your beautiful hands and beautiful brain (which are themselves the products of eons of failures-until-it worked) and think: wait a minute. this looks different. this feels different.
give your friends a big ol' smooch NOW
Need more fics to bring up Tim's mindset after training with the deadliest people in the world. Not just that, but the insane levels of skill he has due to training with them.
Like I'd be reading Tim with his badass level of fighting from Shiva like it's the last Dakota brownies and I'm a high Superman. It's not used enough. Not brought up enough in fics.
Let Tim be surprisingly badass in training due to being able to almost kill Shiva, take on a shit ton of the world's worst, and the fact he probably thinks like Shiva and Bruce while fighting which is terrifying.
Need everyone to see this variant cover by Kris Anka immediately
inside of you there are two intestines.
one of them is large, and the other is small.
how much does the aurora borealis weigh
it's pretty light
Ok so I joined a book club for scifi fantasy prose books. And we all sorta introduced ourselves and said if we were in any other book clubs and I’ll give u the scale of type of other or previous book club memberships as a poll
Tag yourself which one of these responses r u that my book club members r in… or maybe if u are in a book club what kind is it? AND what r u currently reading?
Bible study or other religious text study groups
Work club - strictly read only self help books about leadership and making money
No book club membership ever
Romance only
Romantacy (romance + fantasy)
Science fiction only
Fantasy only
Horror only
Literally anything goes everyone gives recs for anything
Science fiction + fantasy
Comic Book Clubs
Vague “yeah I was in another club” with no explanation (tell us tho)
Obvs there r loads of other book club types but I still can’t get over the guy who was in a work club that only reads like vaguely culty entrepreneurship things. Even he was like yeah u read like 3 of those books and they start repeating.
Ok y’all can reblog this one I swear