Greetings, my dear fellow cretins

Use whatever pronouns you want. Acespec. Arospec. Have a nice day. There's nothing of note here.

[ventique18]

Book 7

Other works

[boozye]

I dunno if he likes it or not.

[himekokosu]

Gladiolus

[rlyehtaxidermist]

one of the best academic paper titles

[rlyehtaxidermist]

for those who don't speak academia: "according to our MRI machine, dead fish can recognise human emotions. this suggests we probably should look at the results of our MRI machine a bit more carefully"

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I hope everyone realises how incredibly important this dead fish study is. This was SO fucking important.

[imightbeobsessedwithsocks]

I still don’t understand

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

So basically, in the psych and social science fields, researchers would (I don't know if they still do this, I've been out of science for awhile) sling around MRIs like microbiolosts sling around metagenomic analyses. MRIs can measure a lot but people would use them to measure 'activity' in the brain which is like... it's basically the machine doing a fuckload of statistics on brain images of your blood vessels while you do or think about stuff. So you throw a dude in the machine and take a scan, then give him a piece of chocolate cake and throw him back in and the pleasure centres light up. Bam! Eating chocolate makes you happy, proven with MRI! Simple!

These tests get used for all kinds of stuff, and they get used by a lot of people who don't actually know what they're doing, how to interpret the data, or whether there's any real link between what they're measuring and what they're claiming. It's why you see shit going around like "men think of women as objects because when they look at a woman, the same part of their brain is active as when they look at a tool!" and "if you play Mozart for your baby for twenty minutes then their imagination improves, we imaged the brain to prove it!" and "we found where God is in the brain! Christians have more brain activity in this region than atheists!"

There are numerous problems with this kind of science, but the most pressing issue is the validity of the scans themselves. As I said, there's a fair bit of stats to turn an MRI image into 'brain activity', and then you do even more stats on that to get your results. Bennett et. al.'s work ran one of these sorts of experiments, with one difference -- they used a dead salmon instead of living human subjects. And they got positive results. The same sort of experiment, the same methodology, the same results that people were bandying about as positive results. According to the methodology in common use, dead salmon can distinguish human facial expressions. Meaning one of two things:

Dead salmon can recognise human facial expressions. OR

Everyone else's results are garbage also, none of you have data for any of this junk.

I cannot overstate just how many papers were completely fucking destroyed by this experiment. Entire careers of particularly lazy scientists were built on these sorts of experiments. A decent chunk of modern experimental neuropsychology was resting on it. Which shows that science is like everything else -- the best advances are motivated by spite.

[tlirsgender]

The really funny thing about Data playing poker with the rest of the senior staff is that, like... with the way his brain works he's constantly aware of numbers and calculating probability but he would also know that counting cards is against the rules so does he just try to ignore it. Does he pretend not to. Can he like actively choose to discard that information as it comes in so he just forgets every .005 seconds

[tlirsgender]

Data trying his absolute hardest not to accidentally rain man his coworkers. I'm autistic I can make that joke. Data sitting there not so much "playing poker" as "playing playing poker," as in, doing his best approximation of a human playing poker. He has an algorithm figured out for it. Semi-random to appear more natural, like how his blinking is timed. He is having fun btw. Data loves playing humans

[tlirsgender]

He isn't trying to win at poker he's trying to win at being in a social situation & he has found that people like it more when they win a certain percentage of the time. The game Data's playing in his head is not the same as the game everyone else is playing

[cryptonature]

Learning to delete/mute/block before a negative comment takes root in your mind is a modern survival skill.

If you're going to wander the overgrown countryside of the internet, you need to develop a quick eye for ticks.

It's deeply tempting to respond to the "well, actually," to the cruel assumption, to the unjust accusation, to the odious viewpoint. It's tempting because you're defaulting to the etiquette of dinner conversation.

This isn't a dinner conversation. Someone is shouting at you from a moving car. Turn away.

[plaguedocboi]

Incorrect sayings that I use so often I’ve almost forgotten that they’re not the originals:

I have bigger fish to fight

We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it

You can lead a horse to water, but if you drown it you have to walk home

Opening a can of whales

You made your bed, now shit in it

Combining the latter two into the phrase “you opened this can of whales, now lie in it”

[a-book-of-creatures]

A bird in the hand is worth a gift horse in the mouth

[starlet-girls]

quick what is everyone doing right now

[neil-gaiman]

Dear Neil, Are you human?

And also, in my book report (that's gonna be on Good Omens), may i call you by your private name? My teacher peobably won't approve because that would be implying we're friends, but if you say we're friends she'll have to accept it.

Sincerely, another person who's life you've changed

I'm honestly good with anyone out there with who is writing a book report calling me Neil. Because if you're reading my Tumblr, I'm sure we're friends. Unless you're hate-reading it, in which case I'm sure we shall be friends one day.

[fandomfloozy]

The more things change

The more they stay the same

[boytoydistraught-moved-deactiva]

i should be allowed to spontaneously combust whenever i want no repercussions no hurt just vibes and explode

[catchymemes]

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think perhaps you might’ve just started playing games made for grown ups because the eat the flower and jump games are still being made

[pawgliacci]

At the end of my rope and it keeps getting longer like some sort of clown handkerchief bit?

[mistysblueboxstuff]

how much fun are we having in this timeline folks?

[nicki0kaye]

Time to download and run all your works through Nightshade before posting them anywhere. Poison the data sets.

[silverquillsideas]

Reminder to artists, webglaze is also developed by the same ppl as nightshade, and it's very useful too!

GLAZE ALL YOUR ARTS BEFORE YOU POST THEM ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET

[rain-droplet]

wish there was something like this for writing since google docs started letting ai read your shit

[knives-in-the-dishwater]

paste the entire Bee Movie script into the header of your document in white text, font size 0

[snowboundstar]

@rain-droplet

This was reblogged from me so I wanted to make sure you saw it

Also, it's funny

[rain-droplet]

have 30 docs that are just the bee movie script over and over to ruin the system

[pileofknives]

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

#thats why you get a case with a handle

this is fine until any wind starts to occur

then it's just you and your feral rectangle against the element

[regulusmasamune]

SPC, As a person who went to an art school. You didn't miss much. It's mostly a bunch of elitist 20 something's competing to have the most noticable work, and be the biggest intellectual snob (and that was the Illustration Department.) They are really stuck in that 'make modern art for a gallery' mindset, which means anyone who doesn't want their work on a museum wall gets bullied and screwed over.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

regulus I'm going to gleefully shoot myself in the foot here but

I went to business school

[vampirejuno]

"this too shall pass" well can it fucking get on with it

[ampervadasz]

Unmute !

[takiki16]

[nonethefewer]

this is the best response image ever

[omnybus]

The bar was so low it was practically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here you are, limbo dancing with the devil

[travesty-majesty]

OP this is such a raw line what the fuck

[multipleanxieties]

@theshitpostcalligrapher

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

o ya i've done this one