the reservoir is filling with mold

dmitri - 30 - they/them tme

[sanctus-ingenium]

Victorious

[clayhouse]

I'm not even really against people using AI generation for captioning, because it IS a lot of work transcribing videos from scratch and anything that makes that easier to accomplish promotes accessibility

but it's really difficult getting people to understand that the programs are fallible and typically don't produce captions up to snuff for actual accessibility, and that someone still needs to go through it carefully to fix mistakes. I've seen things like completely made up medical terms, names be completely wrong (especially if it's not something like John Smith), and holy shit good luck on the AI helping at all if any of the speakers have accents. but a lot if these issues stem from people not really understanding accessibility in the first place-- especially not the people making the AI program/captioning company

[molsno]

every spellcheck algorithm when you type a non-english name: uh oh! that's a typo! let me go ahead and fix that for you

[molsno]

does anyone else remember when google's facial recognition algorithm tagged a photo of black people as gorillas? racism is so often built into the technology we use every day and it's absolutely disgusting. and it doesn't have to be this way! it would be so easily avoidable! but the tech industry doesn't care. the tools built by the tech industry reflect all of the biases of the people who develop them, and they are most often built by people who don't consider non-white people with non-english names important enough to spend any additional development time to account for them

[molsno]

and y'know on top of that, these decisions reflect US cultural hegemony! just earlier, I tried implementing spellchecking in my program, and no matter what I tried, I could not get it to stop flagging the vast majority of non-english names as "errors". here's the readme for the library I tried to use:

it makes such a big deal about how inclusive they want this list to be. so, where did they get the majority of these names?

US census data

the tech industry by and large does not consider anyone living outside of the united states to be people. I even checked, and the difference between the final list and the file us-census.txt is only a few hundred names. and sure, this is just one spelling library, but it's one with over a million weekly downloads on npm and over 27,000 dependents on github. I guarantee that several of the websites and programs you use every day depend on this library for spellchecking, and whoever wrote this library decided that a list of names of people living in the united states is "good enough". it's maddening!

[animalfagnetism]

[strawberryblondie-locks]

DOROHEDORO DAY

[clayhouse]

what da hell do I do with myself now....

[clayhouse]

I finished Elden Ring today 😭😭😭

[platycryptus]

A giant ichneumon wasp (Megarhyssa macrurus) uses her extremely long ovipositor to drill into a dead maple tree. Megarhyssa includes species with the longest ovipositors of any insect (up to 11 cm in M. macrurus and up to 14 cm in its cousin M. atrata), which also technically gives them the longest total length of any hymenopteran insect. The ovipositor is used to pierce deep into dead or dying trees to lay eggs on the larvae of a large wood-boring sawfly (Tremex columba).

Her ovipositor acts not only as a drill but as a sensory organ, and is highly sensitive to vibrations in the wood made by the sawfly larvae. Note how the translucent membranes of her abdomen stretch as she applies pressure by curling the base of the ovipositor, then retract when she withdraws to search for a different spot.

(Massachusetts, July 2025)

[clayhouse]

I think my biggest problem with IFS and similar modalities is that it presents the inner "True Self" as unsullied and pure, and any parts jutting out from it as handling the fallout of life. I just don't think it's helpful to consider the deepest part of yourself as pure in any context. it feels like a way to side-step responsibility for feelings of guilt, shame, fear, hatred, and other painful emotions as not "really" about you.

[clayhouse]

Abody - The Body

[rivetgoth]

When people talk about all art being political (hard agree) they always talk about the content, themes, etc present within the art itself. Which obviously I get and obviously is a huge part of it. Of course. But I’m personally always struck by the politics surrounding the more metatextual elements of the art; that is, stuff like access to the tools needed for the creation of the art. I mean the literal materials of which an artpiece is made. This is a low-hanging-fruit example but I’m reminded of that Disney adult who tried to claim art isn’t inherently political by being like “I just drew a stick figure on a napkin, is that political? 🤣🤣” & while I think there are multiple different angles from which one could criticize this blatantly pathetic argument, I remember being really struck by like… the flagrant “waste” of implicitly throwaway resources that many parts of the world just literally don’t have and/or that carry with them deeply fraught histories of capitalist labor exploitation and destruction of natural resources. Like. Napkins?? The apolitical canvas that is paper napkins?

[clayhouse]

love how psych is just constantly reinventing demon possession. why do you do those things? must be the devil idk

[ringthembells]

god israel's destruction of tyre is like especially depressing tbh like thats one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world. people have lived there since the bronze age. there is so, so so much history and world heritage there that's being blown up and destroyed forever because its existence doesn't fit israel's nationalist vision of history.

[ringthembells]

lots to say about israel's politicized and propagandized use of history and archaeology to further their narrative tbh. here's a good article about it.

'It comes with the territory': How Israel's archaeologists legitimize annexation

Weaponizing antiquities is part of Israel's colonial legacy, says Rafi Greenberg, whose colleagues have largely remained silent about Gaza's

[drafthearse]

green lacewing pupa

[guelwaar]

like in general making care work dependent on sentimentality is a fucking bad idea lol, to some extent you can't really prevent the fact that people interacting with one another will probably feel some type of way about each other but esp when you are taking on a role where people depend on you for basic bodily care tasks, necessary medications, proper performance of potentially dangerous procedures &c it's not actually about YOU or your feelings at all & the more you make it into that type of ego trip looking for self satisfaction because youre soooooo self sacrificing and empathetic and you love your patients sooooooooo much -- the less you actually see & think about & serve those patients. never confuse personal fondness for evidence you are doing right by that person -- completely irrelevant & not at all protective against or mutually exclusive of abuse. people who are disliked or dislikable also need care! you signed up to provide it to them. if you cannot do bear to do that and do it fucking well then find a different job

[saltshroud]

13

[killyridols]

ghost by mevlana lipp, 2021, wood, velvet, acrylic, ink, sand & aluminum stretcher, 32 × 24 inches