BlueUnderscore

Aaa

[the-catacombs]

The Corner 012 [2024] 28x23х3

Oil on canvas, steel frame

Art by Sang Woo Kim

[aro-culture-is]

aroace culture is listening to music that very much is intended to be romantic and/or sexual and just. ignoring that and making it platonic because why not? (currently doing that with shakira's "whenever, wherever")

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[thebreakfastgenie]

Quand il faut expliquer la pâtisserie à un Américain: imaginez un hamburger

[cannibalchicken]

[dailycatsblog]

[kushblazer666]

[kayliflower]

with the resurgence in popularity of calvin & hobbes, I’m so surprised no one has included this

[ominous-signs]

Sign I saw near a beach in California a few years ago.

[harrypilled]

messages sent before disaster

[ezzeh]

i love laying in bed doing nothing and damaging my sleep schedule

[eggblackoutpoetry]

“Egg”

[scatteredsunshine]

rainbow kitten surprise while high is orgasmjc

[puddox]

saw someone including "Mandate of Heaven" as one of those christian terms tumblr likes to use to sound profound. which i get where you're coming from but t☝️hat one is chinese

[yuriinullification]

holdon

what the fuck is going on in this site's backend

[mrsandman42069]

[genderkoolaid]

from Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature and the Silences Around Us (available for free here)

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[solitaireobsessed]

Getting onto uquiz when you’re bored and getting an answer that sends you into a crisis isn’t talked about enough

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 1 day 6 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 1 day 6 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 1 day 6 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

Edit: AI here is referring to generative AI, rather than closed models or custom made LLMs trained on internal datasets

Edit" "tumblr is not the best place to do data collection" "most biased sample group" yup. cool. good.

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[nonnymoose17]

This poll hasn't even been active for 24 hours yet. I am so obsessed with it. I made a spreadsheet about it. And I look forward to adding the final results once it has closed.

There's a lot of "sample bias" feedback and although you're not wrong, I would challenge anyone to find a platform or sample source without that bias in either direction and an even bigger challenge would be finding literally anything else that over 97% of responders agree about.

I don't think over 40k of us can be so easily dismissed and companies and marketers would be choosing their own bias to ignore the market with its very loud feedback.

[nonnymoose17]

@i-like-reblog-maps 😇

[i-like-reblog-maps]

closer shots of the force tree under cut

[porterfieldlol]

sa nàı̨hxe łiwe (sunset fish)

by dene artist morgan tsetta

[kommetz]

reading a textbook for class and i’m going insane. why is this just poetry. what. this is a STEM class what’s going on.

[kommetz]

HELLO????? HELLO?????

[fragmentedbird]

"why is this just poetry" Because that is how science looks to those who love it. Certainly STEM is filled with career chasing opportunists, in it for the money, or the ego. But I have met so many professors who possess a love of their research, a wide-eyed fascination at the little discoveries that abound, that springs through when you ask them how something they've built works. This is how it looks to such people, the universe holding all its baffling nature as we sift through it for whatever we can understand.

As a chemist, when I hold a solution, and think about how it is made up of a few dozen sextillion tiny particles all bouncing off of each other's electric fields; How that infinitesimal quantum phenomena of energy levels, waves pretending at being more than disturbances in a potential field, and energetic minimization comes together to form all that we know; How every single thing I see is just the motion and energetic disturbances of atoms, sound travelling through them bumping into each other, my body moving by electrical conduction along nerves until they cause fibers to tense. The universe sings, and its voice is made up of infinite smaller voices.