dear forgiveness, i saved a plate for you.

stacy - she/her - 19 - 🇰🇷🇨🇦

[daughterofapollo123]

if you want to get in touch outside of tumblr catch me at

discord: stacy0777

personal posts are tagged w #cervidae

very very in love w @seatbeltmcrae

[jacobwren]

"But AI can't do your job. It can help you do your job, but that doesn't mean it's going to save anyone money. Take radiology: there's some evidence that AIs can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss, and look, I've got cancer. Thankfully, it's very treatable, but I've got an interest in radiology being as reliable and accurate as possible. If my Kaiser hospital bought some AI radiology tools and told its radiologists: "Hey folks, here's the deal. Today, you're processing about 100 x-rays per day. From now on, we're going to get an instantaneous second opinion from the AI, and if the AI thinks you've missed a tumor, we want you to go back and have another look, even if that means you're only processing 98 x-rays per day. That's fine, we just care about finding all those tumors." If that's what they said, I'd be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look, you fire 9/10s of your radiologists, saving $20m/year, you give us $10m/year, and you net $10m/year, and the remaining radiologists' job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed, and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it's catastrophically wrong. "And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis." This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes. This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble." - Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI

[jacobwren]

"But AI can't do your job. It can help you do your job, but that doesn't mean it's going to save anyone money. Take radiology: there's some evidence that AIs can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss, and look, I've got cancer. Thankfully, it's very treatable, but I've got an interest in radiology being as reliable and accurate as possible. If my Kaiser hospital bought some AI radiology tools and told its radiologists: "Hey folks, here's the deal. Today, you're processing about 100 x-rays per day. From now on, we're going to get an instantaneous second opinion from the AI, and if the AI thinks you've missed a tumor, we want you to go back and have another look, even if that means you're only processing 98 x-rays per day. That's fine, we just care about finding all those tumors." If that's what they said, I'd be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look, you fire 9/10s of your radiologists, saving $20m/year, you give us $10m/year, and you net $10m/year, and the remaining radiologists' job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed, and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it's catastrophically wrong. "And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis." This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes. This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble." - Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI

[jacobwren]

"But AI can't do your job. It can help you do your job, but that doesn't mean it's going to save anyone money. Take radiology: there's some evidence that AIs can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss, and look, I've got cancer. Thankfully, it's very treatable, but I've got an interest in radiology being as reliable and accurate as possible. If my Kaiser hospital bought some AI radiology tools and told its radiologists: "Hey folks, here's the deal. Today, you're processing about 100 x-rays per day. From now on, we're going to get an instantaneous second opinion from the AI, and if the AI thinks you've missed a tumor, we want you to go back and have another look, even if that means you're only processing 98 x-rays per day. That's fine, we just care about finding all those tumors." If that's what they said, I'd be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look, you fire 9/10s of your radiologists, saving $20m/year, you give us $10m/year, and you net $10m/year, and the remaining radiologists' job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed, and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it's catastrophically wrong. "And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis." This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes. This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble." - Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI

[dreg-heap]

We used to make posts about loki on here

[deaddolin]

[literallymechanical]

Originally developed by Dr. Hugo Ferguson, Dr. Warren Savage, and Dr. Ernest Nippes to simulate the heat-affected zone of arc welding, Gleeble® systems have evolved into the industry standard for high-fidelity physical simulation. With heating rates up to 10,000°C/second, 20 metric tons of compressive force, and stroke rates up to 2,000mm/sec, the Gleeble 3800 is the most powerful standard physical simulation system available.

[literallymechanical]

Doctor Ernest Nippes will now simulate your heat-affected zone with his Gleeble

[literallymechanical]

Doctor Savage will now cyclically compress your heat-affected zone at a rapid stroke rate with his Gleeble

[depsidase]

[lazywriterinthedark]

[tooies]

reblog and put in the tags what your childhood password that you just stuck with is!

[apyr-the-struggler]

[homunculus-argument]

Sometimes when I really hate the way I look, I go online and look up prices of plastic surgery. That gives me perspective on okay I don't hate it that much, I'm just gonna go give myself a haircut.

[materassassino]

But also do you really want to look like someone who had plastic surgery?

[homunculus-argument]

Well it's a choice between that and looking like my mom.

[danideer-skull]

I got lucky and ended up looking more like my dad.

[homunculus-argument]

I'd still be considering plastic surgery if I looked like my dad.

[windsylphide]

I don't know if this could help, but have you considered that some of the features you hate about yourself are loved by those you care about?

[homunculus-argument]

I am loved despite of my looks, personality, incoherent sentence structures and horrid cooking.

[superhero-justice]

My sister was very self-conscious of how she looked until she had a daughter that looked just like her.

[homunculus-argument]

Good for her. I come from a long line of people who failed to fix and heal their parents. This curse ends with me.

[make-haste-with-the-roses]

If you want to not look like ur parents dying hair and wearing colored contact lenses works wonders

[homunculus-argument]

I already keep my hair dyed, but unfortunately my dad had dark hair - very dark brown - and my mom kept her hair in a range between blonde, red, and the same natural ash brown that I have, so I'm at somewhat of a loss on coming up with one that's reasonable to maintain and possible to achieve.

[mersinia]

Could go for a cold shade of brown with purple undertones?

[homunculus-argument]

Dad's hair WAS a cold shade of brown.

[punaparta]

Green hair it is, then.

[homunculus-argument]

I wish there was some more permanent way to maintain hair colour - like switching my entire scalp with someone else who'd like to have my natural hair colour and texture - but I know that even if that was a thing, I'd have to take some sort of immunosuppressants for the rest of my life like for any organ transplant.

The permanent eye colour altering technology isn't advanced enough to be an option I'd be willing to consider. I work in visual arts and if I go blind I'm out of a job forever.

[bigtiddygothhubby]

Would it work to try wigs? I know they can be kinda expensive for the nicer ones but you'd open up a huge range of color and style options without needing nearly as much maintenance as dyeing.

If you're interested in trying vivids and would like info on making that more affordable and accessible (including longer time between re-dyes) I'd also be happy to share some information on that but it doesn't fully sound like what you're looking for.

Contouring with makeup can also make a big difference, but it sounds like that might be more work/upkeep than you're interested in?

[homunculus-argument]

Anything that has to be consciously intentionally put on every day and consciously intentionally taken off every day is more upkeep than I can maintain. I can't even do that with sunscreen every day.

[bigtiddygothhubby]

Would a radically different haircut help at all or would that have the same maintenance challenges as dye?

And are you wanting to crowdsource ideas or are you mainly looking to vent and be treated with care for the struggles you're dealing with right now? I don't want to keep throwing ideas out if what you need right now is more empathy than solutions. 🫂

[homunculus-argument]

Crowdsourcing ideas is more than welcome.

I'm curious of how to get a haircut that is both masculine and also radically different from the way my mom would wear her hair. Other than going bald.

[daughterofapollo123]

you could go either extremely historical (20s waves, little lord fauntleroy, tonsure) or extremely modern (one of those little gamer boy undercuts with the stripes buzzed into the side)

[homunculus-argument]

Sometimes when I really hate the way I look, I go online and look up prices of plastic surgery. That gives me perspective on okay I don't hate it that much, I'm just gonna go give myself a haircut.

[materassassino]

But also do you really want to look like someone who had plastic surgery?

[homunculus-argument]

Well it's a choice between that and looking like my mom.

[danideer-skull]

I got lucky and ended up looking more like my dad.

[homunculus-argument]

I'd still be considering plastic surgery if I looked like my dad.

[windsylphide]

I don't know if this could help, but have you considered that some of the features you hate about yourself are loved by those you care about?

[homunculus-argument]

I am loved despite of my looks, personality, incoherent sentence structures and horrid cooking.

[superhero-justice]

My sister was very self-conscious of how she looked until she had a daughter that looked just like her.

[homunculus-argument]

Good for her. I come from a long line of people who failed to fix and heal their parents. This curse ends with me.

[make-haste-with-the-roses]

If you want to not look like ur parents dying hair and wearing colored contact lenses works wonders

[homunculus-argument]

I already keep my hair dyed, but unfortunately my dad had dark hair - very dark brown - and my mom kept her hair in a range between blonde, red, and the same natural ash brown that I have, so I'm at somewhat of a loss on coming up with one that's reasonable to maintain and possible to achieve.

[dear-diary-xoxo]

My trick has always just been imagining my parents as a childish drawing of a stickman figured w/ frowny faces & squiggly eyebrows and that way I never look like them ever ’cos I know I would b drawn in early deviant art anime style

[homunculus-argument]

What system of substance abuse did you employ to forget how they looked like in the first place?

[phlebasthebroenician]

Yahoooooooooo!!!!

[animentality]

[animentality]

[mental-mona]

If science is about the world that is, and religion is about the world that ought to be, then religion needs science because we cannot apply God’s will to the world if we do not understand the world. If we try to, the result will be magic or misplaced supernaturalism. We will rely on miracles – and the rabbis ruled, ‘Don’t rely on miracles.’ By the same token, science needs religion, or at the very least, some philosophical understanding of the human condition and our place within the universe, for each fresh item of knowledge and each new accession of power raises the question of how it should be used, and for that we need another way of thinking.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l, The Great Partnership: God, Science, and the Search for Meaning p.214

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[charaznablescanontoyota]

words of wisdom from wikipedia this evening

[ryannorth]

much to consider

[torstherapy]

[brawltogethernow]

Okay well it's actually pretty well reviewed.