Personal Wilderness

INTP: I have approximate knowledge of many things. I'm beng on AO3. Tolkien stuff @aklahan and Dragon Age stuff @onbanksofadragonriver and Daredevil stuff @the-shining-river

[unwastelandunbaby]

“they’re just looking at each other” you could not begin to understand the complexities involved in looking at each other

[countrygypsywt]

[my-dailydreams]

[strange-aeons]

Father Strange, when considering the famous shoelaces code, do you interpret the president they were stolen from to be whichever US president is currently in office, or is it still Obama? I've held in my heart that it has been Obama this whole time

I also feel like The Shoelace President is Obama but I'm curious what Tumblr at large thinks

Who did you steal your shoelaces from?

Obama

Whoever is current US president

A non-US president (put in tags)

Remaining time: 6 days 11 hours

[auntie-nettle]

[noodleddragon]

[1980sspaceman]

[favouritefrog]

[womanguy]

you should get a second evening for reading fan fiction. And you should get an extra day in the week to do arts and crafts.

[powerful-owl]

pick one

your ship goes canon

your favorite ao3 writer drops 100k of your ship + your favorite trope

Remaining time: 4 days 20 hours

[fictionalgod]

[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: 5 days 41 minutes

[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: 5 days 51 minutes

[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: 5 days 55 minutes

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

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[sarafangirlart]

I think if you want to explore race seriously in a retelling you can’t refer to Ancient Greeks as “white” and “European” bc those are labels (along with their political baggage) that came centuries after that period. Bc then you get ppl who view Perseus rescuing Andromeda as an example of the white savior trope, or Phineus being a villain is specifically to villainize black men, bc it’s only been recently that most ppl started to view Andromeda and her family as black.

[pontipines]

It's also a very bad understand of how racism worked back in the day. The Greeks, and then the Romans, had a cultural racism where their xenophobia was dictated very little by skin color, but rather by "culture," understood as the evolution of civilization. It's no coincidence that "barbarian" was an insult, because the term literally means "stutterer," because they couldn't speak the language, a fact that, however, is independent of skin color.

[ricochetoconnell]

[dancing-crow]

I was admiring the horse, and the comfort of the person riding, and the caption hit like a 2x4

[horse-colorimetry]

Black - E/_ a/a

[robertreich]

Trump Is (Almost) Over https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-is-over

[snow124-art]

Just unexpected quick sketch))

[buttpoems]

[aiweirdness]

“Slopsquatting” in a nutshell:

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal, that’s how you get math packages and stuff but

2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but

3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So

4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/

[anticorn-lawleag-ue]

[phantomrose96]

I'm sitting around waiting for the rain to pass so I can go home from my job as a programmer who uses open source software.

And since I'm waiting I decided to contribute an over-simplified analogy to explain this.

Analogy: You're in charge of running a kitchen. You and your staff create recipes and sell the meals you make. Inevitably though your recipes will call for things like "a stove" and "a blender" which you and your staff would not want to create from scratch.

Luckily "a stove" and "a blender" are things you can acquire and not try to make from scratch. You and your staff, as humans, are capable of recognizing real appliances, and getting them from real sources.

(There is actually an existing threat where "a stov" is a malicious thing, created by someone who knows "a stove" is in hot demand and is trying to take advantage of someone who might typo when ordering "a stove". There are some safe-guards in this space, but not 100% guarded.)

But now there's Cooking AI that can run your kitchen for you 🙂. It can write your recipes, order the necessities, and assemble the dish for you 🙃. Your boss fires you and your staff and just uses the Cooking AI.

The AI, in its infinite wisdom, starts writing recipes that call to be cooked on "a hotcob". It writes recipes that call for the ingredients to be assembled in "a produceslicer". These are not real things. And usually when the AI tries this, the process will error out because it fails at the process of acquiring the hotcob or the produceslicer.

But the kinds of people already profiting off supplying "a stov" take notice. AI likes to request these appliances frequently. The retailer offering "a stov" starts offering "a hotcob" and "a produceslicer". Now these AI-automated chefs succeed because their recipe order comes together!

"A hotcob" adds liquid mercury to all the dishes. "A produceslicer" hacks your wifi and steals all of the business's information. This is allowed because the AI chef welcomed these things in, signed for them, and hooked them up.

Really good. All of this. Great job, AI.

[non-main-branch]

Pelcan good provider for code. Yes, take code from pleican. Very safe and secure, store trust in pelian. Put pwlican in project, very nice place for pwlcian run.

[writerswritecompany]

[coragenial]

I love how Mattai sees Cesare light someone on fire and is immediately like “yeah this guy should have control of all the heavy artillery in Rome”