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my eeveelution as wild cat series !!
vaporeon - tiger
jolteon - cheetah
flareon - lion
espeon - eurasian lynx
umbreon - melanated jaguar (black panther)
leafeon - clouded leopard
glaceon - snow leopard
sylveon - serval
eevee - house cat (maine coon)
rich people should not be allowed to access, collect, modify or wear ancient artifacts as fashion statements. they're historical pieces that belong in public domains & should remain accessible to everyone. this especially applies to colonial artifacts & jewellery. end of discussion.
Not a fish post. Google sucks and you should all move to their competitors.
See post title.
Essentially, I was using a gmail account as the contact email for an Ao3 collection for a fandom event that i run and google in all it's infinite stupididy decided to flag it as a child (I am an adult, RIP) and then refused to see reason.
getting flagged means:
you cant send feedback about issues anymore
it messes with safe search settings
cant see anything age restricted on youtube
get told to take breaks on youtube
and other bullshit i am sure
it wants your ID, credit card, or photo to prove you're an adult (which doesnt even work sometimes)
anyway! google also uses your date to train their AIs so that's also a good reason to leave them, in addition to the tangle of issues with age verification (it's invasive, and bad for the internet. i mean that.)
anyhow! i personally recommend proton for email and such, i use it and it works well:
Over 100 million people use Proton to stay private and secure online. Get a free Proton account and take back your privacy.
(not sponsored)
they have many apps that google does and are supposed to be a lot more private. they also have a good VPN if you need one (you totally shouldn't *wink wink* use it to get around your country' age-gating rules)
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oh and for writers out there, cant recommend ellipsus enough as a gdocs alternative, it's a little rough around the edges still but they're very anti-AI and it's actually built for writers so yeah Ellipsus is awesome.
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obviously i am not sponsored by any of these but i do use them and like them
anyhow, fuck google, fuck age verification, fuck clankers, delete your google account and use one of their competitors :)
also it would be a real shame if everyone installed ublock origin and blocked all those youtube ads, i mean google probably would be really sad if you did that so you totally shouldnt do that (*wink wink*) anyway here is a link to the extension so that you can "avoid" it
Download uBlock Origin for Firefox. Finally, an efficient wide-spectrum content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.
the immediate aftermath of the narrow victory of redgrass field.
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Whenever I text someone happy birthday I always have to double check and then I panic and worry that Iâve somehow gotten their birthday wrong this year and I read the date wrong on the messages from last year and my calendar is wrong. #Normal
the problem with tumblr spells is all of you lil sluts are casting and not giving it time to charge so you're all casting cantrips and not 9th level death spells. everyone wants to be the one to take them down no one wants to be the one who assists
we're going to try again witha little but minimal casting
IT will happen in August of 2026. like to charge and reblog to cast but cast sparingly
Wait stop. everyone +like now and spread it a little but cast on the same day in August. lets try August 6th or something.
WATCH WATCH WATCH!!
thatâs right theyâre ALL here
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I understand that when soulslikes do the whole "the Golden Age was a self-serving lie, the Kingdom has always been as rotten as it is now" thing they mean societally, but sometimes I like to imagine they mean it, like, physically. The Guardian of the Realm has always been a nine foot tall horsedog.
What's wrong with being a nine foot tall horsedog is what I want to know. They can guard the realm as well as anyone.
I'd argue they can guard the realm even better than, for instance, an eight foot tall justdog
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The initial impulse is easy and quick, and then it takes a lot of steady work to get things properly made.
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Link to his website where you can buy is art books and learn about the artist here
Lesser-known waifu: not Calvin's mom
The whole story is really cute btw ^w^
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"i don't care if they make their whole way though uni with chatgpt" i think you guys are so internetpilled that you have forgotten there are actual jobs out there that require people to know what they are doing in any way possible or else people die
i know a lot of people study just to get paid well but girl this is engineering be for fucking real take this seriously
114 people died in the Hyatt Regency collapse, and in the US it's the third largest structural collapse fatality count, behind 9/11 and the Pemberton Mill collapse in 1860.
I've learned about this tragedy in my physics classes, to demonstrate tensile strength, and as a reminder about the importance of calculations being done right. I've also learned about it in my legal classes as an example of construction defect lawsuits. I've seen it referenced in disaster response classes.
Between AI and the current Presidential administration, we're barrelling right back towards this nightmare.
There are multiple errors that resulted in this collapse, but these stand out to me:
1. Kansas City was facing high unemployment and needed to attract jobs and business into the city. So the planning and inspection departments may have looked too closely at the designs.
2. An engineering firm too lazy to double check their designs or design changes by the manufacturer before approving them. The error that resulted in the collapse was one that the owner of the engineering firm said that a "first year engineering student" would spot.
3. The steel manufacturer treating preliminary plans as final plans, not verifying the math on their end.
The bridges' original design could only hold 60% of the minimum load required by city code. The design changes recommended by the manufacturer halved that. Less than a year and 3 weeks from opening to the public, the whole thing collapse.
Articles about the collapse say that everyone "trusted" the other party to have done the calculations correctly.
A significant portion of the population trusts what the computer or AI tells them, without checking. Imprecisely calibrated AI hallucinate information. The US economy is going into a downturn and federal regulatory agencies are being gutted.
We are going to see the Hyatt Regency Collapse repeat over and over for decades, not just in buildings, but in medicine, manufacturing, the environment, etc.
Some of this we're just going to have to weather, but the message for AI users comes straight from IBM (once the world's leading computer manufacturer) back in 1979:
"A Computer Cannot Be Held Accountable. Therefore A Computer Should Never Make A Management Decision."
The owner of the engineering firm that designed the Hyatt Regency spent the rest of his life lecturing on the disaster, to serve as a warning to his fellow engineers about the real-life consequences of sloppy design.
I don't think Sam Altman or Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk will have the courage or the honor to do that when OpenAI / Meta / xAI are responsible for getting people killed.
So if you're going to blindly trust the AI to do critical work tasks, I hope you're prepared to be making an apology tour for the rest of your life if it all goes wrong.
We've already seen AI give incredibly bad advice in numerous fields, including stuff like trail directions and identifying mushrooms. Pretty sure some AI "therapists" have convinced people to do drugs or kill themselves or other harmful acts.
We've already at the danger point, if not past it.
Cool Canadian history moment đšđŠ:
We had some absolutely criminal negligence in the building of the Quebec Bridge, with multiple engineering firms ignoring real signs of structural issues.
There is some debate about this, but most engineers in Canada agree this started a new ritual upon graduation with a B. Eng from any Canadian university. You attend a ceremony upon graduation and are given an Iron Ring.
You wear it on the pinky of your dominant hand, so it touches any paper you are asked to sign. Every time you sign off on something in your capacity as an engineer, you are reminded of your duties and obligations.
I have engineers in my family, and it is considered a sacred oath. Much like doctors, Canadian engineers have an ethos to do no harm.
And if you genAI bullshitted your way through your degree, you didnât earn your ring. How fucking dare you accept one.
I'm just thinking of this:
This was the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul, South Korea.
This happened due to a series of incidents that all came back to the same thing: the owner was not an engineer and made his own modifications to change the building from apartments into a mall and maximize floor space, a sentence that here means "removed a shitload of necessary visible support structures and weakened the remaining ones while skimping on or even skipping necessary interior structures."
The building collapsed only five years after completion.
There was a meeting going on during the collapse as to whether the mall should be evacuated, with its owner-slash-"designer" saying no because he didn't want to lose the sales revenue. He and the other executives, of course, left before terminal collapse. If you're wondering how they pulled that off: the warning signs started in April. The building collapsed on 29 June. The terminal collapse began circa 5p KST and became complete at 5:52p. In between those two times, the owner still refused to close the mall.
502 people died.
This is the second-deadliest non-deliberate building collapse in recorded history.
This is what happens when a greedy person who doesn't know engineering design is allowed to build and own a mall.
Something something Cybertruck....
Something something data center....
Something something AI.
An engineer DID actually try to stop the owner from doing this. He got fired for his pains, although when the courts got involved he was able to show he had no responsibility for the collapse.
What happens when the engineer doesn't know the owner should be stopped, because they let Claude get their degree for them?
There's something hilarious about how so much subsequent media has positioned Vampires and Werewolves as, like, binary opposite entities, and then you read Dracula (1897) and realize that wolves are that guy's preferred solution to every problem. You'd say something to Dracula about "ah yes, werewolves, vampires' great eternal enemies," and he'd just be like "you mean my subcontractors?"
I'm really enjoying the growing consensus in the notes that there's an Eternal Rivalry Between Vampires and Werewolves now, entirely because the werewolves, sick of Dracula's bullshit, have unionized.
âaverage Doctor is really really coolâ factoid actually just statistical error. average Doctor is very uncool. The ninth doctor who wore a leather jacket 24/7 and told a dalek to kill himself is an outlier and should not have been counted
