i think "turning into a pumpkin" is my new favorite way to articulate the state of things when I am at a function and very overstimulated and it feels like my brain is melting. it's like no i can't be a person anymore i have to leave i'm turning into the pumpkin. the time is up yeah i gotta go. yeah see u later. pumpkin time.
My brother says that, I think it's a navy slang he learned about getting too close to curfew. It might not have originated there but I'm almost certain that's where he learned it.
The thing about Lord/Knight gay romance is that thereβs no way you can cut it that doesnβt make the sex hotter. At a baseline, the Lord is allowing his subject to be his equal partner behind closed doors in a society defined by hierarchy their physical love a blaspheme against the laws of feudalism, but if the knight is dominant, theyβre literally upending the fabric of society by having the Lord follow his Knightβs orders and thatβs hot and if the Lord is dominant than itβs just another expression of his Knightβs sworn devotion to be at his lordβs service at all times and thatβs hot and if itβs historically accurate Christianity then theyβre not only desecrating and perverting the Knightβs vow, theyβre making sinners of each other in the process and thatβs HOT
Me stepping out of the optometry office after slamming four lokos with the doctor and immediately meeting the love of my life (but I have social anxiety)
Itβs me, the ask fairy. I donβt have a creative ask today. Just wanted to send well wishes.
Why thank you! I appreciate you, and I hope your day is going well.
How do I feel about spiders? Not a fan, but I respect nature when itβs outside of my house. Inside my house? Summon the hand vac. οΏΌ
Favorite genre of music? I donβt think too much about a genre, but, I do like Death Cab for Cutie. And video game soundtracks, like the Persona 3 and Twilight Princess soundtracks. οΏΌ
Favorite thing about myself? Iβm clever, and I work hard, but most important, I care about people. I think everyone knows someone who is successful and smart, but only looks out for themselves. Iβm proud that I work in a career where every day Iβm helping other people. (Teacher)
The bill requires companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have third parties confirm theyβre following safety standards. Illinois go
The Illinois House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday requiring frontier AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind to have their safety practices audited by a third party. If signed into law, AI safety experts tell WIRED, it would be the nationβs leading check on the power of major AI companies.
The bill, SB 315, now heads to governor JB Pritzkerβs desk. In a post on social media on Wednesday, Pritzker said he plans to sign the bill, citing a need to hold Big Tech accountable.
Since Congress has yet to pass any meaningful AI safety legislation, state lawmakers have happily stepped up in recent years to promote bills that show their constituents theyβre keeping Silicon Valley in check. As AI tools become increasingly popular, and the companies behind them race toward massive IPOs, polls show that American voters are looking for more AI regulation.
As a result, safety advocates and tech companies have zeroed in on state legislatures as the primary battleground to hash out how these laws should look. OpenAIβs chief of global affairs, Chris Lehane, told WIRED last week that the companyβs AI policy is now oriented around passing a series of similar state laws.
California and New York have the strongest AI safety laws, requiring tech companies to provide information about model guardrails and to publish reports on safety incidents as they occur. Illinoisβ bill goes a step further, requiring independent auditors to verify that an AI lab is adhering to its own safety standards. Previously, no independent body was required to keep an AI lab accountable to its own safety claims.
βWe're in a situation where the AI companies grade their own homework,β says Scott Wisor, policy director at Secure AI Project, a nonprofit that supports SB 315. βShould SB 315 become law, Illinois would require an independent auditor to check whether the AI labs in fact adhere to their safety commitments.βGot a Tip?Are you a current or former government employee who wants to talk about what's happening? We'd like to hear from you. Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact the reporter securely on Signal at mzeff.88.
Wisor says itβs broadly expected that, under SB 315, AI labs could use the Big Four accounting and auditing firmsβDeloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwCβto audit their safety practices. He also says itβs possible that AI labs could tap members of the AI Evaluator Forumβa coalition of smaller research organizations including METR, Transluce, and Averiβto assess adherence to safety standards.
Illinois state representative Daniel Didech, a sponsor of SB 315, tells WIRED that state legislatures are playing an important role by shaping Americaβs AI policy and acting as a testing ground for any federal laws that might come in the future. βLaws like this create a world where itβs more likely for the federal government to pass something,β Didech says.
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Illinois has emerged as a major arena in the ongoing fight over state AI laws. OpenAI previously supported a bill in Illinois that would let AI labs dodge liability if their models caused catastrophic harm. However, Lehane has since said the companyβs blanket support for the bill was an oversight, and it never supported the liability shield in the bill. More recently, OpenAI endorsed SB 315.
βThe Illinois General Assembly has shown real bipartisan leadership in advancing SB 315 and developing a thoughtful framework for frontier AI safety. As AI systems become more capable, clear expectations around safety, transparency, incident reporting, and accountability matter,β Lehane said in a statement to WIRED.
yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.
I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.
If you use Firefox, you can go to the about:config page, search for "media.mediasource.enabled" and double click on it to set it to false. After you restart Firefox, all youtube videos will load entirely even when paused! This also affects other streaming websites :)
go to About:config
find media.mediasource.enabled and toggle it to false
find media.cache_readahead_limit and change it to 9999
find media.cache_resume_threshold and change it to 9999
additionally if you'd prefer mp4 to webm
also in about:config, find:
media.encoder.webm.enabled
media.mediasource.webm.audio.enabled
media.mediasource.webm.enabled
media.webm.enabled
and toggle them all to false
note!
this will limit video to 1080p
and use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-accept-webp/ to kill WebP
Fuck Google
Every time you think it's a given, that there's NO WAY that Red or Yellow could catch up to the other one given the lead, you are wrong. Right down to the wire.
Their new thumbnails appear to be made with AI, but I think the games are real? They've been doing this for years, the older ones are way less sophisticated but similar props (and predate AI's ability to do this).
my absolute favorite few days of the school year happened this week⦠the sixth graders started shakespeare. bear with me I have a lot of thoughts about this!!!
everyone in middle and high school here spends the last nine weeks of the school year reading one shakespeare play in english class. we read the entire play out loud, in class, pausing often to talk about it and puzzle out the lines and words and what the characters are doing and thinking. kids volunteer for parts at the beginning of each class period. they do weird accents. they put real emotion into it. I read nothing except the stage directions. it is, amazingly, nearly everyoneβs favorite unit. at the end of it, they do projects and write papers and put on a filmed adaptation.
the seventh through twelfth graders start out excited, because they (for the most part) did this the year before and they know that shakespeare is fun. they love it. they ask for weeks beforehand when weβre going to start shakespeare.
the sixth graders, however, are new to the middle school and new to shakespeare. they are scared!!! they think shakespeareβs language is not their own. they think itβs too complex and/or boring and/or will go over their heads and/or very serious.
in the first two-ish days, something magical happens: the sixth graders lose their fear and fall in love with shakespeare. watching it in real time is a gift.
this year weβre doing macbeth. I ask the sixth graders on thursday, day 1, when and where shakespeare lived, what kind of writing heβs known for, etc., to get a sense of what they know (very little). I give them like a five-minute rundown of macbeth and shakespeare but nothing in-depth: I want them entering the play at the level of language.
for the first couple days I put the play on the smartboard as the kids get used to how to read the lines, then we switch to physical copies for everyone. this means thereβs no glosses at first, nothing to check for meaning or context β only the lines themselves.
1.1 of macbeth is super short; we read it straight through, with three giggling girls reading as the witches and stumbling over their words, and then go back to parse out the lines. I ask something like, βwhat do you think hurly-burly means?β the sixth graders give a variety of replies: craziness, trouble, chaos, hullabaloo, and I get to show them a gloss that says basically exactly that. they laugh at weird-sounding lines, they get used to how it should be read. their confidence ticks up because they see now that the language of shakespeare is not some crazy inaccessible building to be scaled. itβs a playground!!! they can go right in and have fun. the learning curve isnβt even that steep. and mind you, weβre still in 1.1! weβve only barely started.
on day 2, theyβre cautiously excited. maybe the beginning was just like that? we were eased into this and itβll get harder?? then they fully relax and get into it over the course of the class period. they argue over whoβs going to read for what part. a kid who has not been doing great in class, rarely volunteers in discussions and even more rarely reads anything aloud, throws his hand in the air when I ask who wants to read for today. he asks to be the βbleeding captainβ and proceeds to give an amazing and totally sincere performance of an injured man delivering news to a king. itβs the most heβs spoken in a given class period.
it does require rigorous work and attention to be in sixth grade and read and understand shakespeare. we pause A LOT to talk about the lines and what theyβre saying. we look at A LOT of glosses. what bowls me over is how quickly they acclimate, how excited the sixth graders get for that work. not because itβs important to learn or whatever but because itβs fun and interesting!!! they love it. and it took 100 minutes of class between thursday and friday.
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