FoxgloveCove

Art and multi-fandom blog for all the things!

[pedrospascaled]

WIDOW’S BAY S01E01 - Welcome to Widow’s Bay!

[homunculus-argument]

Do employers know that employees are actually reusable if you let them rest? Like if you don't use them up completely all at once, and give them time to rest and recover before the next work day, they just kinda grow back? That's how they used to do it back in the day, you could hire five people to do five people's workload, and then keep the same five people for 40 years without issue, instead of having 2-3 people doing five people's work and have to constantly keep looking for replacements since you keep running them to the ground, completely using up like 10-20 employees per year.

We still have access to all the same technology and materials that they were using back in the day. Literally nothing requires us to operate the way things work now.

[mckitterick]

Deadly egg recall

The FDA has upgraded an egg recall issued last month to “Class I,” its highest risk level, as it warns the public that consuming the products could cause “serious adverse health consequences or death.”

The recall of 1,589,577 dozen white-shell eggs and brown cage-free shell eggs was initially issued by Midwest Poultry Services in late July, which warned they might be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis.

According to the company, the eggs were produced and distributed from farms in Texas between June 6 and July 3 and have sell-by or best-by dates between July 20 and August 17. The recalled egg cartons have either the code P-1950 or 0840962 and Julian Dates between 157-184.

source: X

FDA recall info: X

[noahwhyle]

Tom Loftis + fuck

[foxglovecove]

“ Some kind of ancient, vaguely religious iconography. The kind of sacred geometry you just don't riff ”

[foxglovecove]

“ Some kind of ancient, vaguely religious iconography. The kind of sacred geometry you just don't riff ”

[cowardsexual]

pre 2026 pacific rim rewatch: grace and rocky would be drift compatible

mid 2026 pacific rim rewatch: grace would be the third member of the k-sci division and he and newton would have the biggest interpersonal academic beef in the history of xenobiology. they want to strangle each other every day. newton calls him "teach" to piss him off. "heyhey he's the microbiologist, I'm the macrobiologist. you know. size matters?" before the breach newton was the scholar grace called a staggering waste of carbon at the UNESCO conference in denmark.

post 2026 pacific rim rewatch: stratt and pentecost would be drift compatible

[foxglovecove]

I love this premise but I disagree that Grace and Newton would be rivals.

No-no, imho, they’d combine forces and team up against Hermann. Grace and Newton would meet and they’d be the micro to each other’s macro - or whatever I’m tired - and Hermann wouldn’t know what to do, he’d be hopeless against the two biologists…until they find Rocky who came through the breach as an oops the Kaiju weren’t paying close enough attention and he’d just slip through and then Rocky and Hermann would bond and Grace and Newt watch out

[mrdespondency]

wild on saturn

[pedrospascaled]

WIDOW’S BAY S01E01 - Welcome to Widow’s Bay!

[insomniac-arrest]

I think if we all try really hard we can make Patricia Widow’s Bay the next top shelf blorbo

FINALLY sopping wet tragedy of a woman

[moonlightingcurse]

tom loftis: human disaster

WIDOW'S BAY (2026-)

[lesbianvampiresworld]

I wish this show was more popular

[dragon-in-a-fez]

why does my mother suddenly fail kindergarten whenever she tries to do anything on the computer

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I know she doesn't know what "the maximise button" is so I told her "click the square at the top right" and she clicked...the printer icon...in the middle of the toolbar. and I'm just like okay. this isn't a technology thing you are flunking basic shapes and directions. I'm turning off your computer and getting you a block puzzle. you have a master's degree

[myrinthinks]

[beardedmrbean]

[stevishabitat]

[pmamtraveller]

Steve McDonald (born 1970) Early Evening.

[contact-guy]

it's been a million years (eleven months) since I posted anything here - I'm alive and well but have been working on other projects, including a graphic novel that I think will appeal to enjoyers of Watson's Sketchbook (more information on that...later). To tide you over, here's a little pre-Reichenbach snippet, made on the theme of 'Home' for the Very Sincerely Yours zine @very-sincerely-yours-zine - thank you for asking me to participate! It looks like copies of the full zine are sold out but PDFs are available here!

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[lesbiamlycenterforsocialanalysis]

Perhaps I’m being dramatic, but it almost feels as though the original phrasing (that I see being reflected quite heavily in the comments) focuses on Cheng’s inspiration from AI-generated breakup texts. The article goes much further than that; Cheng and her team clearly spent time acquiring data and then processing it to tell the story of how AI-dependence is fundamentally shifting how people interact with others. This change in human interactions didn’t happen overnight. We are witnessing a fundamental shift in how we interact with other people and a simultaneous diminishing of how long people will spend on any given task. Focusing in on the more click-worthy problem of breakup texts overlooks the underlying issue that, after being discovered, can actually influence policy change as Cheng discusses

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

You know how wealthy people turn into stupid arseholes by surrounding themselves with vapid yes-men? ChatGPT is vapid yes-men on tap. Now you, too, can subject yourself to the phenomenon that we've all long known turns people into giant toddlers who are impossible to deal with.

[werpiper]

don't drink from the yes-men tap.

[controlresonant]

"windows 11 upgrade ready!" "your computer is eligible for windows 11!" "download windows 11 now!"

[controlresonant]

Taps the sign