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For Your Calimary needs -She / Her - 20

[hellsitegenetics]

One of the greatest tragedies to me about you is that BLAST doesn’t have the coconut crab genome sequenced (at least since I last used it) so It’ll never come up as a result

String identified: t gatt tag t at tat AT ’t a t cct ca g c (at at c at t) t’ c a a t

Closest match: Coconut crab. Just for you.

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[godofcalimary]

!!!

[deathless-dreams]

Thank you for your partecipation.

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

I want someone to make one of these new sterile teen gay romance shows on Netflix but halfway through they pull a Doki Doki Literature Club and it turns into a fucked up fourth wall breaking psychological thriller that deconstructs the heteronormative and middle class ideals of the genre

[nachosforfree]

If you dont like horror then watch the normal cutesy netflix gay shows ???

[times-chu]

the phrase that's ruined every media ever

[felixcloud6288]

I've survived my first day on Tumblr

Achievements:

Don't shoot! I'm friendly!: Prove you're not a bot

AI dismemberment: Disable algorithm settings

Friends?: Gained a mutual

I recognize you: Follow someone you know from r/Tumblr

MY EYES!: Change the site palette

Great Idea: Reblog a post

They love me: Have a post reblogged

[chrono-meter-r]

Oh boy oh boy you're gonna get a Rare achievement for this one

Containment Breach

[sloppystyle]

Happy Send Me On My Way Sunday

[thunderbottle]

he’s on his way

[monsterfuckerconfessions]

I’ve had erotic dreams about getting lost in the weird tight corridors, impossible staircases, and dark corners of a sentient building/haunted house. Sometimes a monster will find and hunt me down there and sometimes just getting trapped and folded into the enclosed space like a specimen is enough to make me cum in my sleep. So the backrooms movie vibes were great lol

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[godofcalimary]

@official-house-posts

[batfinkz]

old stuff with tarvik and kel. I should draw them more

[godofcalimary]

Wth that’s so cool!!!

[ilovecoelacanths]

went to a new optometrist today wearing my squid facts ‘save our freaks dont mine the deep’ shirt from @sarahmackattack that has a strawberry squid on it. and i wasn’t even thinking about it but the optometrist walked in and he was like ‘oh what does your shirt say’ so i showed him and he was like ‘oh that’s neat!’ and then i thought he might like to know about strawberry squid eyes since they have weird eyes and he is an optometrist and all. so i was like ‘yeah it’s actually a real kind of squid called a strawberry squid, their eyes are really cool because they have one big yellow-green one and one small blue one’ and he kind of gasped and went ‘oh my god that’s so interesting i wonder why they have that. do you know what their retina composition is like?’ and i watched as he minimized my chart on the computer and started looking up images of strawberry squid and then he googled ‘strawberry squid retina composition’ and he was like ‘sorry we’ll get to your eye exam in a moment i just really want to find out’ LMAO 10/10 optometrist experience will be returning

[okavara]

WAIT ARE YOU TRANS!

Yes!

More info if you need:

(the image is of the demigirl flag) While I primarily use She/her (easy default, doesn't bug me), I am happy to use it/its and he/him as well, with an occasional they/them sprinkled in. I personally don't use neopronouns for myself as I feel they don't fit me. I am AFAB, but my god I am NOT cis. It's complicated, as is any trans persons' relationship with their gender. I'd say I fall under the umbrella of nonbinary. There's more than just girl in here, though it's primarily what I present as. As for the rest about me & my relationship with gender? That's personal, what are you a cop? >:P Jokes aside, the above paragraphs are what I'm okay with strangers knowing about me. Thank you for asking!

[godofcalimary]

WOOOO HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

[flagellant]

5 step plan is to join the flork vtuber agency as a cute anime girl actively being parasitized by tarantula hawk wasp larvae, have an explosive fallout with sclimbo leading to my going indie, have a vtuber redebut as a conglomerate of tarantula hawk wasps working in tandem to type on individual keys of the keyboard. yes the anime girl is decaying onscreen at all times

[aroacexuemeng]

extremely hilarious dynamic to me

seivarden: i would die for you. i would kill for you. i would shoot the emperor for you. i would quit drugs for you. i would live for you. i would starve for you. i'll make tea for you. i'll do laundry for you. i will iron your shirts. i'll bathe you. i'd let you touch me barehanded.

breq: ? ok.

[godofcalimary]

Highkey this is one of my favorite lines in the entire series

[beakerhoneydew]

I do find Three to be such a fascinating addition to the Murderbot world because as soon as you have 2 datapoints instead of 1 you’re like “oh SecUnits have personalities. And ours is just an asshole.”

[libraryleopard]

I threw together a little rec list for fans of Murderbot :)

This is aimed at fans of the novellas and the TV show and I tried to capture various different elements of the story and characters.

Text of slides below the cut

The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard

Adult science fiction novella

Imagine Sherlock and Watson if Watson was a sentient, traumatized spaceship and Sherlock was a human detective investigating a murder

Faster-than-light travel, deep space unreality, mind-altering herbal teas

Spaceship POV

The spaceship really enjoys reading/watching period dramas 

Vietnamese-inspired sci fi setting

No romance

One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adult science fiction novella

The grumpy last survivor of a catastrophic time war lives a solitary life…until other time travellers try to disrupt his carefully curated retirement

The main character has a pet dinosaur

Darkly funny, misanthropic narrator

If you liked Murderbot’s first-person POV in the books, you’ll probably enjoy the narrative voice of this novella

The Butterfly Assassin by Finn Longman

Young adult dystopian thriller set in a walled city ruled by assassin guilds

Isabel Ryans is a former child assassin and the daughter of a notorious scientist

Wanting nothing more than to live a normal life, she escapes and assumes a civilian identity…but finds her past and her assassin training harder to leave behind than she’d hoped

“Raised as weapon” character grappling with violence, morality, and friendship

Aromantic asexual main character with PTSD and severe hand scarring

No romance

The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt by Merc Fenn Wolfmooor

Adult dark fantasy novella

Scythulf, a wolf shapeshifter, was raised to be nothing more than a pit fighter until he’s rescued by Brennus, a knight who offers him a new life

When Scythulf accidentally kills a corrupted nun, his only chance at redemption is to run with the Wild Hunt, a trial of blood and courage

“Raised to be a weapon” protagonist; aspec rep; strong platonic bonds

Aroace protagonist; aroace nonbinary queerplatonic partner, queernorm fantasy world

No romance

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Adult science fiction novel

A motley spaceship crew finds adventure and friendship on their voyages through the universe

Episodic storytelling and found family dynamics

Interesting alien characters and cultures

Queer characters + F/F relationship

Cursebreakers by Madeleine Nakamura

Adult fantasy novel

Adrien Desfourneax, a disgraced physician turned professor of magic, finds himself investigating a dangerous curse while grappling with his own mental health and a dangerous ally

Complex characters! Emotional devastation! Lightning magic! Gaslamp fantasy!

Gay main character with bipolar disorder; autistic-coded side character

If you love rotating TV!Gurathin in your mind, you will probably find Adrien a very interesting character

Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace

Young adult fantasy/dystopia

A young ghost hunter joins forces with the ghost of a supersoldier to traverse the underworld in search of the lost ghost of his partner and answers about their post-apocalyptic world

Characters shaped by ruthless dystopian worlds learning to claim their autonomy and identity

Strong M/F friendships that don’t turn into romance

Aroace-coded main character + no romance

Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie

YA science fiction novel

Hundreds of years in the future, the last survivors of the human race travel through space in a fleet of ships, searching for a new habitable planet to settle

When two girls join the order of cyborg soldiers who keep order in the fleet, they find themselves questioning their loyalties as violence brews

Explores bodily autonomy and privacy through sci fi elements

Main characters of color + ace main character

No romance

The Outside by Ada Hoffman

Adult science fiction novel

Cosmic horror x space opera

In a galaxy ruled by AI gods and their ruthless cyborg-angels, young prodigy scientist  Yasira develops new technology that could change the trajectory of humanity–until her work backfires and is declared heretical

Offered her life in exchange for hunting down her vanished heretical mentor, Yasira must decide who to trust as her world’s fate hangs in the balance

Autistic lesbian main character of color

Redshirts by John Scalzi

Adult satirical science fiction novel

Ensign Andrew Dahl is excited for his new position on board the the starship Intrepid…until he begins to realize there’s a mysterious pattern of low-level ensigns like himself dramatically dying on missions…and the reason why might reshape his very understanding of reality

For the enjoyers of the TV’s take on Sanctuary Moon being a Star Trek parody

The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

Adult science fiction novel

Anti-colonial space heist

Maya Hoshimoto, an art thief turned grad student, finds herself pulled into one last job to retrieve an artifact that could save an alien species–and possibly doom humanity

Alien-human friendships, explorations of sentience and consciousness

Japanese diaspora main character with chronic migraines

Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove

Adult science fiction inspired by classic horror stories 

Demeter is a spaceship that transports humans across galaxies–except her passengers keep dying in mysterious paranormal murders

To prevent herself from being decommissioned, Demeter must track down the ultimate evil behind her passengers’ deaths: Dracula

Snarky spaceship POV, AI and drone characters

Nonbinary representation; amputee representation; F/F romance

World Running Down by Al Hess

Adult science fiction novel

In a near-future dystopian America, salvager Valentine runs odd jobs in the wastelands of Utah in hopes of earning enough for the gender-affirming care he desperately needs

When he encounters Osric, an AI forced into an android body, he’s offered a job that could pay him everything he needs–but at the cost of his own morals

Explores sentience and autonomy through a science fiction lense

Android/human romance

Gay, trans man main character with ADHD; gay main character

Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot

Adult science fiction novel

In a galaxy ruled by three warring rival factions, gunslinging inventor-turned-thief Rig has abandoned her former faction and is happy as a rebel–until her former faction ransoms her twin sister for what she stole from them

Alongside her librarian girlfriend, a mysterious bounty hunter, and a network of resistance contacts, Rig embarks on a journey across the galaxy to save her sister–and maybe tear down the factions for good

Rip-roaring romp of a sci fi story full of action 

Alien protagonists

Lesbian main character; amputee representation

Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogden

Adult science fiction novella

Scorn is a state-of-the-art AI investigator who becomes entangled in brewing corporate warfare

When Scorn wakes up one day day on the moon with no memory of zir past ten days, ze begins a hunt into zir own past that leads them to uncover far more explosive truths than ze could have expected

Dystopian future & snarky AI protagonist

Neopronoun user main character

[menaceanon]

I think like. The thing I keep coming back to about the Murderbot show is that I cannot remember ever seeing another tv show give an “Oh” moment to platonic love.

But my god, when Murderbot shows Mensah Sanctuary Moon to help with her panic attack. You see her look at it, and you see her realize…

Yes, she has been thinking of Murderbot as a person, that’s why she went back for it at the DeltFall habitat. But it’s all been very theoretical—the way you might help a stranger up if they fall, but that doesn’t mean you want to get to know them. It doesn’t mean you’ve reckoned with their interiority.

But as Murderbot murmurs, “Breathe, breathe, breathe the crystal light” to itself, you see it all click into place for Ayda Mensah.

This terror she’s experiencing? All-consuming and confusing and soul-crushing? SecUnit has felt this. And it had to face it alone—not just in the sense that there has never been anyone to offer it comfort, but in the sense that no one even thought that it—it as an entity, it as a being capable of fear—exists.

So it found this show. And Mensah has been so pissed at it for potentially getting them all killed because it thought a stupid fucking soap opera mattered, but oh, oh, oh fuck, this show is the only thing in the universe that has ever given it comfort. This show has offered it context and escapism and asked for nothing in return. It absolutely is critical matériel.

And that brings her to now, to herself, to herself and Murderbot. This person next to her, who she is technically in possession of, who has had to claw and scrape for even a thimbleful of peace, who was only able to protect that peace by never ever ever letting anyone know it existed. She and her team have ripped away its impossibly precious privacy, exposed its secrets… and here it is handing her part of its soul anyway, because in this moment she needs it.

Because it knows what it’s like to be scared and alone, and does not want her to feel that way.

And so she falls in love, and you get to watch it happen.

My ace ass has a lot of messy feelings about love and the way it appears on screen. Few things have hit me as hard as getting to witness the exact moment Dr. Ayda Mensah’s soul met Murderbot’s and decided it was home.

[murderblot]

"SecUnit would write fanfic"

"It would only beta read and leave comments"

SecUnit would install itself as a moderator of the Sanctuary Moon fandom wiki page. SecUnit would, for the simple transgression of being annoying - delete your account, IP ban, find your personal email address and send you a citation-laden 5 page explanation about how you're wrong titled "Banned for life (idiot)"

[godofcalimary]

Hospital + psych lock ):