concorde, i miss you

★ lou (she/they) ★ 20s ★

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[eggsdoodz]

sexy to someone by clairo 🏡

[tenebrobscuro]

[cannibalize]

The first simulated image of a black hole from 1979! source

[bees-with-swords]

Craigslist missed connections really has it all, eh?

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I rarely bring this up because it feels like fairly silly and low-stakes compared to all the other effects of american imperialism, but one of the funniest things when Americans deny that living in the imperial core and the center of global cultural hegemony confers them any sort of privilege over people from the imperial periphery is that like. In order for this conversation where you tell me you have no privilege over me to even be able to take place one of us had to learn the other's language, and it wasn't you.

I think the fact that by default the onus of learning the other's language to enable communication is always put on the other side is a pretty significant privilege on the cultural front.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Someone commented this post with "So if I learned, say, Hawaiian and talked to a hawaiian person, then the hawaiian would be privileged? Come on, think about what you're writing, man" and then blocked me as soon as I tried to reply, so.

Monolingual anglophones are a deeply solipsistic people unable to think about international power dynamics on any level beyond the individual to comprehend that "one guy making the individual choice to learn your language" does not represent the same level of linguistic hegemony and privilege as "millions of people all over the world learning specifically your language because they're expected to be able to speak it as a near-universal requirement for any kind of upward mobility while learning a second language is never expected of you"

[glorious-spoon]

i think fundamentally the appeal of steddie for me is that steve is the sort of person who just utterly resists being involved in the narrative. he doesn't want to be here. he has no interest in scientific discovery, or epic heroism, or fantasy games. he's a small-town jock who peaked in high school and he wants to flirt with girls and fix his hair and shoot hoops on the weekends and maybe get a job that sucks a little less than the job he currently has, and the existence of interdimensional monsters and brilliant brave little idiots he feels responsible for repeatedly trying to fight said monsters is really, like, throwing off his groove here.

and then there's eddie, who fucking loves a narrative. he wants a big bold fantastical story! he wants something larger than the life he has. he's going to get out of hawkins, he's going to get on a big stage, he's going to make something of himself! he's a storyteller, a dreamer, a provocateur. he wants reality to be more interesting than it is.

and then all of a sudden it is. in the worst way. and there's steve, this guy who really doesn't want to be here but who sighs and rolls his eyes and steps up to take the punches. and eddie is just - fascinated with him. and for steve, here's eddie, who is just a ridiculous person, who makes no goddamn sense at all, who gives him a flashlight and a jacket and pulls him aside while they're hiking through the underworld to eagerly and awkwardly try to bridge that gap between them and make a connection that's real.

idk! just compels me, that's all. they have nothing in common at all, but they're fascinated with each other. they want to know each other, and they should have gotten the chance to

[klfg]

[source]

[klfg]

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up.

Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math.

Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level.

And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth.

Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do.

The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing.

So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up.

OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product.

This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent.

Every time ChatGPT gives you an answer, ask yourself: is this real, or is it just a confident guess?

[cutecipher]

An automated moderation error left Tumblr users panicked

The accidental bans have been reversed.

March 20th, 2026

[kohakumeltyblood]

Tumblr got caught and is trying to save face. Every blog that was removed except one is a trans woman. Don't let them lie to you.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

If your automated moderation keeps making the same error over and over again and bans a bunch of trans women every six months or so then it's not an error it's a feature of the software. Even if we do believe it's unintentional (not a guarantee given the history of transphobia from flesh and blood moderators and the site owner) then it would still only be an error the first time. It KEEPS HAPPENING to the exact same minority group. If my car brakes don't work, the sixth kid I run over is not an 'error', it's unbelievable negligence.

[cheatghost]

need steddie drawn like this but they're looking at each other with "please come fuck me" eyes, just absolutely nauseating in their overt display of unrestrained affection, and robin standing in the middle/background with the dead-eyed stare of somebody who has seen them do this 10000 times before and yet knows that she'll have to endure steve's 2000th "but what if he doesn't like meeeeee? :(" whining session during their next family video shift

(still is from All These Sleepless Nights, 2016)

[fairycosmos]

doing a little is better than doing nothing doing a little is better than doing nothing doing a little is better than doing nothing doing a little is better than doing nothing doing a little is better than doing nothing

[johnnycrass]

i always look back in anger but its important to look forward with it also

[hermajestymisty]

simple morning picture

[gums]

i highly recommend for women and girls to be intellectually curious and difficult to shame

[vulturevanity]

hate what people did to the dead dove tag

[vulturevanity]

mothers and fuckers of the jury. "Dead dove: do not eat" is a label on a bag in the fridge. It means "the content of this bag is exactly what is labeled". It does not mean "trigger warning uhhh something". In fact, it means the exact opposite of "trigger warning uhhh something", because you use it with other tags. You write a fucked up fic with extreme violence and gore, you tag it as "extreme violence", "gore" and you tag it with "dead dove: do not eat". You write a fic with emotional abuse, gaslighting and manipulation, you tag it with "emotional abuse", "gaslighting" and "dead dove: do not eat". You write a fic with your extremely niche kink that appeals to like 3 other people and may skeeve out the rest of the fandom, you tag that with your kink and "dead dove: do not eat". It's so people know you really mean the content warnings.

It's NOT a catch-all term for "uhhh this may be fucked idk". TAG YOUR SHIT GENEROUSLY.

[heartbeat-of-leafy-limbs]

FERDINAND VON WRIGHT Study of a Sleeping Wood Pigeon [1873]

[dozydawn]

[dailyclassicart]

Charles Rosen - "Icebound River" (c.1915)