clicky clicky

just a small pen in a Bic world (he/him)

[mrn0093]

[tokkibean]

i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

[harpyharpyharpy]

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

[atrusovaartist]

acrylic, canvas 60*50 cm «growing excitement» 2025

[ms-demeanor]

My supervisor (experimentally, and while warning me ahead of time so i could be prepared to fix it) tried to use CoPilot in PowerPoint to replace our images with CoPilot graphs for better visuals and I am fascinated.

It increased our error rate while reducing the overall ticket count by two. And redistributed numbers.

It smoothed out our data trend, erasing the actually important-to-report information (that big dip and increase is important):

It erased my security and networking practices and came up with resubmitted tickets out of nowhere and shows an overall downward trend in ticket counts when only one of the five categories is actually trending down.

On another slide it also changed the status of a device from "attention needed" to "healthy," and on yet another slide it removed the captions that I'd grouped with a set of images.

This is your reminder that the robots are stupid and if you work with them you need to check their work.

Some of the stuff it did really well, and genuinely looks better and the numbers were copied correctly. But some of it is resubmitted tickets.

[ms-demeanor]

I maintain that there are uses for AI that are fine and genuinely labor saving, but also it is hot garbage and I would largely prefer not to interact with it.

[ms-demeanor]

Look, I want everyone reading this to understand that the power and water use estimates associated with AI are frequently blown drastically out of proportion, and that it is perfectly fine to do an occasional AI query.

I don't say this because I think that YOU should be using AI for stuff (and if you hate AI, I get it, I don't want to use it either) I say this because one of the absolute best ways I've found to get people to step back from believing everything the AI tells them is to ask the AI a question about something the person you're speaking to is an expert on, or ask it something that YOU are an expert on and point out where the AI's answer is wrong.

I screencapped these images because I want to show them at work to demonstrate to a couple of my coworkers that NO you cannot have the AI compile the report for you without double-checking it. It can't even accurately duplicate a graph it's looking right at. You have to check on the robots, they aren't even actually stupid, they're just autocompleting what they thought you want, and sometimes autocomplete ducks everything up.

[spongebob-connoisseur]

What a night be this!

HOWL WITH ME SO THAT WE MIGHT SET THE SEVEN SEAS ABLAZE WITH FEAR!

[analytically]

Can astrologers use astrological charts to understand people's character and lives? Our new study put astrologers to the test

Astrology is very popular — both Gallup and YouGov report that about 25% of Americans believe that the position of the stars and planets can

Astrology doesn't seem to work.

[intimate-mirror]

[performativezippers]

Some highlights:

Astrologers helped design the study

No one did better than random chance, even though they only included people in the study who are experienced with astrology and stated that they expect themselves to do better than random chance

They gave every astrologer a set of 50 things about a person and 5 birth charts to choose from. They weren’t even coming up with the chart themselves!

After taking the test, most thought they nailed it. Zero out of 152 did better than 5 out of 12. None nailed it

Astrologers who rated themselves highly experienced (“world class experts”) did the same or worse as those who said they have limited experience. Both performed the same as random chance

This is hilarious

[o-craven-canto]

That's got to be the funniest graph ever published in a paper

[yohjimuse]

me

[salmakiis]

Empire of Gold

[nedtheknight]

Helms of Passing Strangers

[goldcrescent]

I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀

[goldcrescent]

if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old

[unstablebill]

I've been scream laughing at this for several days

[gbsketch]

Just a taste won't hurt.

[silima]

in loving memory of my favorite shirt

[silima]

turmeric kun update

[elodieunderglass]

Hmm hmm hmm. oxiclean loves her for who she is but turmeric cannot help but change her

[charlesoberonn]

Oxiclean wants her to never change from what they made her to be, but a white canvas is meant to be painted.

[bed-bath-and-bazinga]

A story in three parts

[gebo4482]

Mononoke: Hebigami Final Trailer #1

[hollowtones]

basically, i think the general rule of thumb is: if someone REALLY wants the blood that’s inside of your body, and they’re like… a vampire, or a dracula, or some sort of mansquito, then that’s probably okay. a dracula and a mansquito are made for removing things like blood and swords from inside your body. that’s basically fine.

if something wants to get at your blood, and they’re, say, some kind of murdersaurus, or maybe a really big frog, that’s where the problems start to arise. a really frog is not made for removing blood, and your blood knows this, which is why it is so vehement about wanting to stay IN your body instead of coming out. 

unfortunately this will not deter a really big frog, because a really big frog is full of things like prizes, and value, and quite a lot of hatred, and it would REALLY rather like to replace any and all of those things with your blood, and basically by any means possible.

[fidefortitude-deactivated202011]

These words scan with a fantastic degree of confidence considering that together they make no sense at all

[nacch-an]

working overtime