Asher

He/they 🏳️‍⚧️ | Mostly just The Dragon Prince and musical theatre | anyone asking for money will be blocked and reported

[queer-as-in-fuck-12]

drug addicts deserve housing, food, water, and healthcare btw

[exitwound]

mutuals

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

Which is prev?

Unmarried girl

Apologist

Craftsman who works with a wheel

Archivist

Dying person

Educator

Girl

Jurist

Knife sharpener

Lawyer

Librarian

Remaining time: 15 hours 18 minutes

[madamejadex]

Please remember that Pride is important because someone tonight still believes they’re better off dead than being themselves.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

It’s dangerous to go alone; take this:

[ace-artemis-fanartist]

Amaya and Janai.

[m4rs-ex3]

happy pride month i made some pride flags !! look familiar? >:)

for a show that gave viewers of all ages beautifully loving lesbians, toxic old man mpreg yaoi, non binary gods, and everything in between <3 and that i also happen to have hundreds of colorful screenshots of. what can i say i love gay people *almost* as much as tdp <3333

[luminous-lavender]

no idea if this is an original thought or not but thinking tn about what if callum passed on damian’s illness to little sarai… like goddamn. i mean there’s just astronomical guilt/resentment-spiral potential there, and ofc the elephant in the room of the massive viren-soren parallel going on but also imagine callum post-diagnosis starting to paint little sky runes on her chest every day to let her breathe easier, completely reorienting his understanding of his magic towards keeping her safe & happy in a very urgent & ever-present sense, maybe trying desperately to teach her the sky arcanum himself so she’ll be able to protect herself that way, meanwhile there’s the possibility of a dark magic cure tempting him every day, especially if the sky spells don’t completely manage the symptoms. rayla’s helplessness as she’s rendered utterly unable to protect the child she swore to keep safe at all costs before she was even born. both of them terrified and treating her like glass. just really fun stuff!!!

[fictionalgod]

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 2 days 21 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 2 days 22 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 2 days 22 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[clutter-and-nonsense]

AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030

A new U.N. report warns AI’s environmental cost is often mismeasured.

[toasthaste]

according to An Immense World, apparently giant squid eyes are, like, UNREASONABLY large, even for something their size living at those depths. the next largest eyes on earth, blue whale eyes, are less than half the size, and swordfish, who live at similar depths as giant squid and have the largest eyes of any fish, have eyes that could fit inside a giant squid's pupil.

eyes hit serious diminishing returns wrt resource costs vs vision quality as they get bigger, so the question became: what the FUCK do giant (and colossal) squid need to see so badly that they couldn't see with swordfish-sized eyes that's justifying that massive energy cost? that nothing else in the deep ocean needs to see so fucking badly??

turns out the one strength eyes that big really have over much smaller eyes is: seeing large glowing objects in water deeper than 500 meters from an appreciable distance.

sperm whales are the primary predator of giant squid. sperm whales don't glow. BUT! water that deep is full of bioluminescent creatures-- these creatures light up when bumped into. something a sperm whale's size is continuously bumping into those critters, it's just surrounded by a glowing field all the time when it's swimming at those depths, visible from a distance-- if you have the right eyes-- as a massive glowing shape. so basically the only reason to have eyes the size of soccer balls is if you live in the deep ocean and your life depends on having a heads up when a hungry sperm whale lurking around

and also I gotta say, the imagery... the huge lurking threat betrayed only by the ambiguous glowing shape of its movements through the water, is really evocative, if spooky deep-sea games aren't already using that to make things extremely ominous then they should really start

[crippled-peeper]

untreated reproductive health problems kill trans mascs at a much higher rate than cis women. if you’re not protecting our access to gynecologists and women’s specialists then I care not for your opinion on the subject. “trans men should not be in these spaces!!!!! they’re for WOMEN!!!” isn’t praxis it’s you gleefully siding with the patriarchy and the status quo

[animentality]

[hapalopus]

#we need simulated endurance hunting for people like shit that's actually enriching for humans as a species#i would be so down for that. use this body the way its supposed to be used (tags via @falconheaded)

Do you have any idea how much I'd pay for a treadmill with a built-in persistence hunting simulator?? I would get on that thing every day

[suzie-guru]

Literally the reason why I want to start a tug of war/tag/water gun battle group. People need to PLAY.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[demon-goblin-thing]

This is pysanky! It's the Ukranian art of dying eggs for Easter. I had the opportunity to take a pysanky making class once in my life, it's genuinely such a beautiful craft. You melt the wax into a kistka and use it to draw lines into your eggshell. It's much harder than it looks, mine was a bit rough but I really want to try it again at some point

[demon-goblin-thing]

This was my egg for comparison. She's doing her best

[cuunos]

being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems