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Well, this just unlocked a core memory of mine.

Ya'll remember how online games made specifically for children were programmed in a way that made it practically impossible to share your personal info?

When age, gender, location was censured like profanity in the name of protecting kids?

But suddenly the Only Way to keep children safe online is to make sure that they have 0 privacy?

Yeah ok. Sure. For the children.

#anti age verification

danguy96

My Friend Is in Dire Straits, And Needs $160 or Else He’ll Go Homeless in Around An Hour

Here’s the link to his PayPal, and please spread this around so that he can quickly gain the money he needs.

datasoong47

#pokémon #digimon

sparklywaistcoat

FYI Meta now allows your Insta photos to be mined for AI without your consent unless you opt out.

#important #anti ai

pointless-letters

One of the best letters I’ve ever seen just popped up on my Facebook memories. Still makes me laugh.

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As today is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, it’s a great time to revisit Dinah from Devon’s memory of this historic event. And yes, still makes me laugh.

pointless-letters

Today is the 54th anniversary of the moon landing, but Dinah’s diary entry is still absolutely magnificent.

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57th anniversary of the moon landing and the best diary entry in the history of diary entries. Sit down Samuel Pepys, it’s over. UGH.

miss-rum-hee

It's true, by the way.

channelsurfer02

Call your representatives!

#important

proteinmom

you've seen breakfast for breakfast and breakfast for dinner, now get ready for .... breakfast for lunch!

crabs-in-a-trench-coat

BRUUUUUUUNCH!!!!

proteinmom

no it's different

homeofthephobic-buff-deactivate

dude are the horses okay

not-easily-conquered

Pretty sure those are not horses

proteinmom

they're horses

tophtherocker

@identifying-horses-in-posts

identifying-horses-in-posts

The horses do not appear to be okay

stilldickslappinthestate

Great post, everyone!

ripe

thedragonwoodconservancy on ig

cryptidsydario

laser gun gator boys

peniswakt-deactivated20210717

oh my god i didn’t realize this video had audio

actualaster

Okay as adorable as this looks, I’m pretty sure that’s a distress sound? A “mommy help me I’m scared come save me!” sound?

@why-animals-do-the-thing

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This video is from Dragonwood Wildlife Conservancy, and they are yearling (last year’s babies) Cuban crocodiles. Good news for you, this isn’t actually a distress call! According to @kaijutegu (and her giant bookshelf full of reptile resources), the laser sounds are an affiliative social call that young Cuban crocodiles use to communicate with their parents. They normally stop making the noise at around two years old, which is approximately when they start dispersing from the family group.

See, Cuban crocodiles are a super social species - and one of the few where the fathers stick around and provide paternal care for the babies! In the wild, babies would regularly interact with both parents, including when they provide food. This call is basically the type of vocalization that the babies use to communicated with their parents.

These crocodiles are being hand-raised as part of a private-sector breeding and reintroduction program (because the parents are so protective of their offspring that if you left them the babies to raise, you’d never be able to safely get close to them), and so they’re responding to the guy in the video the same way because he’s constant known safe individual and also the provider of food. He’s not a threat - his presence is a good thing, and he’s worth interacting with because it normally means food. You can also tell from their behavior and body language that they’re not stressed: some of the crocodiles are actively climbing on him and interaction of their own volition, but the ones that aren’t don’t show any indicators of hyper-vigilance. If that were a distress call, every crocodile that heard it would be alert and on edge looking for the threat. Distress calls tend to only happen once or twice, because in the wild continuing to make noise makes a baby more vulnerable: so these crocodiles wouldn’t be continually vocalizing if they felt threatened. There’s no snapping or gaping or freezing, all of which would be behavioral indicators of distress or discomfort. (Here’s a video of a baby nile crocodile being harassed by photographers which will give you a visual reference for both freezing and gaping.)

So, hey, this is certifiably cute - and good for conservation!

bunjywunjy

ETHICALLY SOURCED LASER NOISES

jordisstigander

#animals

rohirric-hunter

A lot of people don't seem to realize that if you ask an AI the same question twice it will give you two different answers. It's not like a traditional computer where the answer will always be the same (assuming everything is working correctly) as long as the input is the same because the computer will use the same process to come to a conclusion. An AI outputs a statistically probable string of words, but in any given situation there are multiple statistically probable strings of words that could theoretically work. And the AI just kind of chooses between them at random. But I have those two posts about Google Gemini that blew up and there are a lot of people on them saying that they googled themselves, then went to their blog and changed the search engine privacy setting and googled themselves again and got less information. Many of them think this is evidence that setting works. They don't realize that if they googled themselves twice in a row without changing the setting they would also get different answers.

Normally I would say you have to google yourself several times and get an idea of the general trend of what Gemini will say about you, but that won't work either. It's not the case for all AIs, but it is the case for Gemini, that if you ask it the same question more than like 4 or 5 times in a row it will lose the plot entirely and start talking about unrelated stuff. I have no idea why.

On the other end of the scale, it makes me wonder about people who have integrated AI into their workflow. Have they never asked it the same question twice and gotten different (often contradictory) answers? Doesn't that strike them as a problem? They certainly wouldn't hire a human who couldn't answer a question the same way twice.

#Anti ai

intj-confessions

Tread here.

toothsalad

The best part is OP got fired because their boss asked why they weren’t “incorporating blockchain technology” into the video switcher they were building and OP straight up said “you have no idea what you’re talking about” and went to lunch

beardedmrbean

calellon

i'll forever miss how the internet felt before you had to second-guess the authenticity of every single piece of media you came across. silly videos used to be just silly. fun was coincidental. wonder was just wonder. digital art had character and soul. AI has taken the taste out of everything and irreversibly poisoned the creative sphere and the people still pushing it forward are the doom of both joy and the quality of being.

#anti ai

mmproductions

Meanwhile with Shantae's friends...

channelsurfer02

Ha! This is great! Love the facial expressions!

#shantae #art #sky #bolo #rottytops #not my art #Art by mmproductions

kamenwriter

Well Kara, that would be a John Woo reference, A Dirty Pair reference, an Amethyst reference, a Blue Beetle reference, a Pokemon Reference, AND a Naruto Reference because the MAWS staff just can't help themselves.

channelsurfer02

I don’t watch MAWS (I probably should), but I’m at least reblogging for the dirty pair reference. Also, the John Woo part made me think of the pigeon from ROD the TV.