Hello, I'm Shy

I lurk. I'm really only here for the Leverage content, and the P&P content, and the Merlin, and the Voyager, omg and the Strange New Worlds ... and the, ok, well there is a lot of content I like. History Museums are my jam, but art museums are ok, too, I guess.

[jedikat71]

Love this poster (and hoping Season 4 turns out better than Season 3!)

[gay-mooshrooms]

SNW Trailer Drop!!

Deeply fascinated by whatever this exchange is and what fucking dreams Spock is having so Kirk is the one he wants to talk to?

WHAT TORTURE NEXUS ARE THEY PUTTING MY BOY THROUGH!?!

Spock yelling is always interesting I’m excited to see what gets him so worked up

SPOCK POWERS HELLO TF?!??

SCOTTY/UHURUA FOR THE WIN!!!!

AND WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS ALL THIS THEN?!?

[stra-tek]

New Strange New Worlds season 4 trailer!

Emotional Spock, Kirk, Pike, a dinosaur, a dragon, Uhura kissing Scotty and all sorts of madness. July 23!

[shanesloverboy]

ACCENT AIGU FILED A TRADEMARK FOR CENTAURS ‼️‼️‼️

[chaotic-archaeologist]

BREAKING NEWS: screenshots from your phone not an appropriate format for submitting work in college classes.

[chaotic-archaeologist]

#i’ve had a number of students do their writing assignments in their phone’s Notes app#probably more than i’m aware of because i only find out about it when this results in tech problems they’re unable to navigate#i thought THAT was buckwild#but SCREENSHOTS of their phone is another level

This was screenshots of a notes app. For a research paper outline.

[kermits-cup-of-tea]

rb'ing with these tags because its not that hard to take things seriously

[mariacallous]

[maimonideznuts]

People should feel as gutted by this as they did by the Notre Dame Cathedral fire. Except this was a deliberate act of cultural erasure by Russia.

Donate to Ukraine now.

UNITED24 — The initiative of the President of Ukraine

The official fundraising platform for collecting donations to support Ukraine

[redstonedust]

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

[ralfmaximus]

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.

[voyage-of-the-porn-spreader]

"this user is proship" we're all pro ship how the hell else are we gonna get to the Northwest Passage

[aceinthetrap]

Dynasty Flowchart (Extended) – Nüwa Hanfu

An ultra extended flowchart for identifying dynasties! Even identifying sub-periods of each dynasty. As always, this is a general guide ther

does the makeup look sad or happy? >>> goth & sad >>> middle tang dynasty [lmao]

[depsidase]

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

IT GETS WORSE

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES

[marougus-the-dragon]

AI is a freacking plague, I share this for any windows user.

[eugeniedanglars]

i feel like it really encompasses a lot of my whole deal that one of my absolute favorite things is when fictional characters are famous in-universe so i can imagine their in-universe wikipedia pages. and really any number of other types of in-universe nonfiction media.

[eugeniedanglars]

"i like to imagine shane and ilya having kids" "well i like to imagine shane and ilya doing bloodplay" that's nice. i like to imagine a 600-page sports journalism book called the long game: inside the rebuild of the ottawa centaurs published a few years after shane and ilya retire that offers an in-depth look at the founding of the ottawa centaurs' hockey dynasty, weaving together the stories of the upstart young coach who shook up the team's dynamic, the underutilized goalie finally given his time in the sun after a transfer, the winger looking for a new start, and the most famous rivals the hockey world has ever seen. featuring 20 pages of photographs and shocking never-before-published transcripts from meetings with mlh upper management, including the REAL reason shane hollander left montreal!

[eugeniedanglars]

i don't have the creativity or the coding skills to make this legible as a fanfiction but i really do think about the editing history of the heated rivalry characters' wikipedia pages all the time. at one point ilya's personal life section says "in june 2021, rozanov stated in a tweet that he is bisexual" and then someone deletes it and gives the reason for editing, "he did NOT say he is bisexual. he said ‘it’s 2021 and you haven’t heard of bisexuals? you are fucking stupid’ ” so then ilya has to tweet the words "i am bisexual." this in turn leads to ilya becoming aware of wikipedia editing as a way to cause drama so he promptly starts editing scott hunter's page to replace all the text with the text for various dinosaurs until the page gets locked for vandalism. then he flags it as a candidate for deletion due to scott hunter not being a notable public figure.

[popli-teal]

[pronouncingitwang]

[ID: tumblr tags reading #end of chapter 2 or 3-ish: 'but hard work wasn't enough. they needed a superstar. and unbeknownst to them they were about to get one.' #start of next chapter: 'in the summer of 2017 ilya rozanov was at the peak of his career. he was also in love.' #<things that i would think about for fun if i were insane. which i'm not. #don't look at the nonfiction hockey book i downloaded to help myself imagine this book better. get out of my phone. #heated rivalry /end ID]

[gay-irl]

[judgejudyofficial]

yeah u freaks up north look and sound exactly like this when u pretend that us southern queers are perfectly complicit in our own eradication - for the heinous crime of not living in a liberal population center.

[hoshikostar]

[glitterygolem]

I keep this image on hand for whenever I see similar sentiments.

[drowninginredink]

Apparently today is Loving Day, named after Richard and Milford Loving, the interracial couple whose lawsuit against the state of Virginia resulted in interracial marriage becoming legal in the United States. And so this day was made as a holiday for interracial relationships. I think that's very cool and deserves a tumblr post. Happy Loving Day to everyone in interracial relationships!

[thedeepthought]

“i never see you at the club” ok well i never see you on ao3 at 2am reading about the same two bitches falling in love for the 1000th time in the 500th way

[reheatedrivalri]

[hydrachea]

> turns on my computer

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

> disables a new AI fea