Grishmapolitan

Hello, I'm Grishma I like art, fashion, writing, traveling, design, ancient greeks and romans, geology, astronomy, and sometimes I pretend I know things about life.

[grishma]

Your Cat Might Not Be Ignoring You When You Speak

Cats have a reputation for being aloof, but a new study has found that their relationships with their owners may be stronger than we thought.

“Most cats actually prefer human interaction over other rewards like food or toys,” Dr. Vitale said. “Cats don’t do what you expect them to do. But if cats don’t come when we call them, it may be because they’re busy doing something else, or they are resting.”

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Anything That Can’t Go On Forever Will Eventually Stop

Ticketmaster and Ideas Lying Around.

[ultraviolet-divergence]

The crisis is upon us. Meta has lost its bet that we will all volunteer to live out the rest of our days as heavily surveilled, legless, sexless, low-polygon cartoon characters. It is firing thousands of technologists and hemorrhaging money.

Amazon has lost its bet that we will all volunteer to install hidden microphones in every room of our house so that the company can mine our every thought for actionable market intelligence. Alexa has lost billions and Amazon is reducing its team to a skeleton crew.

Softbank, the investment fund that funneled tens of billions in Saudi royal oil money into bets on monopolies like Uber and WeWork is now broke, and its founder, Masayoshi Son, is in disgrace and billions of dollars in debt.

The idea that we could strip-mine useful and productive businesses forever has an obvious flaw: eventually you will run out of productive businesses. But there’s another, slightly less obvious flaw: long before the entire productive economy grinds to a halt, everyone who relies on it will get very, very angry.

[twerklina]

[ottermatopoeia]

makin my way downtown

[monkeysaysficus]

slowly

[werewolf4vampire]

[1percentcharge]

[prinnay]

magic af

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

I got a lot of beef with the concept of dust. absolutely no reason for something to get dirty just because nothing has touched it. bullshit.

[chillgamesh-the-swing]

the natural state of the world is producing dust all the time. weathering and decay feeds future growth. dust is just soil with no place to go

[dovesndecay]

it could go outside where dirt goes

[soy-celeste-deactivated20230905]

Her name is Katalin Karikó. Hungarian. Daughter of a butcher. Her thesis work became the basis of the mRNA vaccine technology. Read the article here.

[rat-tail-butch]

My favorite bits from the article include how Dr. Kariko celebrated the fact that the vaccines that used her mRNA research worked

“On Nov. 8, the first results of the Pfizer-BioNTech study came in, showing that the mRNA vaccine offered powerful immunity to the new virus. Dr. Kariko turned to her husband. “Oh, it works,” she said. “I thought so.”

To celebrate, she ate an entire box of Goobers chocolate-covered peanuts. By herself.”

[jheselbraum]

Everyone say thank you to Doctor Kariko since she literally saved all our lives

[anarcho-smarmyism]

[charlesoberonn]

I’m really into internet discourse but only pointless and stupid internet discourse like how many holes there are in a straw (it’s 2)

[charlesoberonn]

This is exactly what I’m talking about.

[evilscientist3]

I’m sorry but mathematically speaking this question has a single objectively correct answer, which is 1 hole. This can be very simply proven; a straw and a torus are homotopic, and a torus has one hole.

[thyrell]

i odnt think thats true one of my friends is a taurus and hes fine with gay people

[severalowls]

I’m absolutely not against robits in the home, I think the possibilities are really cool but like… Alright actually, here’s a side by side comparison: 

[evilkillerpoptarts]

[maestropear]

Alexa can play Skyrim tho

[severalowls]

Damn you’re right.

I’m on mobile can somebody add that as a point for Roomba.

[mysteryseeker]

here you go

[bigwordsandsharpedges]

Roomba creates maps of the inside of your house

[severalowls]

You’re like the 400th person to add this so:

This is the outline of my bedroom, with approximate furniture. Information I might not want handed out to the government or corporations or whatever. Not even including dubious terrain like rugs and clutter:

Here’s what a roomba, at floor level, with clutter and obstructions and stuff-under-stuff might be able to ‘map’ as navigable area:

This is completely useless to anybody except people developing robot vaccuums who might want diagnostic data. This isn’t even close to the level of Alexa’s microphone bollocks. Hit Alexa with a hammer, Roomba is… Safe, for now.

[hecatespoison]

I saw the red and blue and my first response was “Roomba is using this sensitive information for GERRYMANDERING purposes”

[ralfmaximus]

SWAT team, bursting into your room, having been briefed with detailed Roomba-collected maps: *avoids difficult rug*

[beesmygod]

how do you outwit your enemies

[obnubilant]

サン

San  | もののけ姫 || Princess Mononoke

[syn-ack]

Company known for unethically collecting and seeking access to people’s metadata: Hmm… Nobody trusts us. We should do a friendlier rebrand but under what name…

[mousemilf-deactivated20250508]

i like to go in the bathroom and splash water on my face and pretend im a male protagonist under a lot of stress

[percethecurse]

the masculine urge to stare at your own wet face in the mirror, haunted

[lovely-english-rose]

what a week huh?

[finishercar]

PLEASE for the love of god read this

[rabidchild]

The first sentence was a left hook that I almost did not recover from.

[dissemblist-deactivated20251011]

The Dollskill brand copywriting bible… we found it…

[evilnicegirl]

this is like a clockwork orange but a girl

[fandomsandfeminism]

This gives me very intense Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way vibes, except I think THIS IS the prep that she raises her middle fingers at.

[atlasoftripp]

One of the first pages of clockwork orange...for reference

[quietstorm-thundathighs]

whew chillay