Little Shopkeep of Eldrich Horrors @delightfulvoidstudent - Tumblr Blog

My main blog, here. I have one for (mostly) incoherent ramblings and for in-character writes, which you should be able to meander through.

I'm working on gathering the posts together by year and having that post be pinned for the journal, but that's a process and a half, so it's a little disorganized right now.

I play FFXIV across a few servers and data centers, Warframe, and whatever steam game catches my eye that week.

I work to fund my hobbies.

foldingfittedsheets

As a super taster do you also have the problem where you can taste the laundry detergent people use when they give you baked goods?

I ask because my friend loves to give me homemade sourdough. But all I can taste is the laundry detergent they used on the towels it proofed under. And no one else I know has this problem.

Ooof. This would happen to me except that we use extremely hippie detergent that doesn’t leave a strong residue regardless of if my wife makes bread. But General Detergents would absolutely affect the taste for me. Why do people just blitz their senses like that? I can’t even walk down the aisle.

I would also gently try to frame it as like “Haha I can tell you use X detergent cause the bread remembers” to bring it up. It would be such a shame not to enjoy the lovely bread when they could just not wash those with super strong stuff.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

so what you're gonna do is you're gonna trim the top off a bulb of garlic, using the knife's edge to take off the tip of every individual clove, that's important. you're gonna place the garlic face-up in a square of tinfoil, drizzle with olive oil, wrap completely in foil, place in baking tray, repeat with a copious amount of garlic bulbs. you're gonna put that baking tray in an oven set to 375-400°F, for 30-50 minutes, until soft and browned. you're gonna toast some good bread, slather generously with butter and honey, maybe a tiny lil bit o' salt. and then. you're gonna SQUEEZE. OUT. THAT. ROASTED GARLIC. onto the butter honey toast. and you're gonna eat it. food stolen directly from the plate of the gods. that's what you're gonna do.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

the garlic. it beckons you

thesweetestsupervillains

It occurs to me that "1920s gangster doing a cooking show while holding you at gunpoint" is an untapped market.

We've had normal cooking shows. Now we need period piece cooking shows in character.

thevisualvamp

Meow

foldingfittedsheets

Oh to be a little orange cat curled up safely in a dragons tail.

cugzarui

as a chemist i would like to say BWAHAHAHAHAHA

alexseanchai

image description at explainXKCD:

explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.

flareonfloof

its a bit easier for astronomers

nerdynonnativenarnian

NO! Where’s the non-metals and metaloids?!

flareonfloof

are they hydrogen or helium

nerdynonnativenarnian

oxygen, carbon, sulfur, xenon, iodine, neon, etc etc.

flareonfloof

ooo okay i see the confusion. you're listing off a bunch of metals there

nerdynonnativenarnian

…. You’re breaking my chemistry nerd brain. Hhhuuuhhhh???

flareonfloof

im an astrophysicist

nerdynonnativenarnian

but but, science is science?!

flareonfloof

and different fields of science have different conventions and definitions for their unique contexts

katzeregi

pussypopstar

can I come over and look at you like this

rederiswrites

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

pride-knightess

More to follow, lovelies!

This is the year your knight became a paladin.

pride-knightess

I know a post is doing well when the TERFs and bigots find it.

Thanks, lovelies, let's keep it up! <3

crafty-butch

anyone else notice how when "digital assistants" were just supposed to do specific tasks when you asked for them we had Alexa and Siri and Cortana, but now that they're being marketed as smart enough to take actions and make decisions on their own they've got names like Claude and Devin

crafty-butch

@namanie @tsunderrated the point isn't "fake names -> real names," it's "feminine names -> masculine names"

is-this-fascism

i don't care if it's nazis, mormons, or a bunch of misguided autistic people. if anyone ever tries to tell you your soul is from another planet and you're actually part of the class of impressive people that secretly did everything cool in the world but is now extinct and lives on through your broken genome, you RUN. YOU WILL RUN AWAY. YOU WILL SPRINT FULL SPEED AWAY FROM THAT.

is-this-fascism

grabs you by the shoulders listen. listen to my words. i understand the urge to make fanfiction about yourself and to find a reality in which you're super awesome and great and everyone who hates you is wrong and dumb. i get it. you're better than that. you can love yourself without putting other people down, dehumanizing and generalizing, and retaliating against your oppressors.

there's no NPCs. there's no aliens coming to save us. we're not the next step in human evolution. our hyperconnected nervous systems give us terrible sensory overwhelm more often than they make us geniuses. neurotypical people are sentient, conscious, aware people who are capable of understanding you. we're more the same than we are different. we're more the same than we are different. we're more the same than we are different.

kittydesade

😭😭😭

My mother, the inimitable Jane Yolen passed away this morning after a blessingly short fight with Alzheimer’s. She did not suffer, and went

sztupy

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

ayeforscotland

Let’s fucking go

made-in-manetheren

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.