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They don't tell you this but besides the Beloved Mutual there's also the Longterm Follower who you don't follow back but they're always in your notes and you're kind of watching them. Checking on the longterm follower's bio every so often like turning over a log. She's trans now good for her
Longterm followers I am putting fresh leaves and hrt in your enclosure
I think it's a shame that "Oedipus complex" refers to fucking your mom instead of the actual point of his story, fulfilling your destiny through your attempts to avoid it. It just so happens his destiny was to fuck his mom
Yeah, I don’t know what Freud was thinking, but Oedipus very much did Not want to fuck his mom. He spent the entire play trying to avoid that, and then gauged out his eyes when he learned that he had anyway.
I think Freud was too caught up with the fantasy of fucking his mom to appreciate the themes of the story tbh
*smirking* you couldn't waterboard that out of me, but even if torture was an effective method of information extraction and not a futile display of state-sanctioned sadism, the high percentage of false confessions it produces would mean that even if you could waterboard it out of me, could you even trust the veracity of my statement?
the most valueable skill a white leftist can ever learn is how to take an L with grace.
You gotta be able to take an L if your moral and ethical belief systems are to be capable of guiding you. Otherwise you just have an idealized self where you get really mad and scared when anyone points out it isn't actually you. How the fuck are you gonna walk the walk if you can't handle being told when you are not, in fact, actually walking it
you cannot just socially transition into being a good person you are going to have to settle for being a messy human being who has to try and fail and keep trying to get better like everyone else. yeah even when it's embarassing and sucks for you a lot.
Ya gotta learn to earnestly and honestly say "Oh shit, my bad."
And to then end the sentence there, not launch into a paragraph of explanation or panicked super-apology.
in the cambrian period the ocean was shallow and the sun never set. every day was sunday morning and there was never any dark. the world was a watery wonderland and air didnt exist yet. animals had just invented eating eachh other and it was really funny. having eyeballs was all the rage
its true ❤
what do you know ❤
the ocean was made of sprite also
theres been a lot of people on this post trying to correct basically every aspect of what ive said but nobody's confronted me on "everyday was sunday morning"
everybody agrees everyday was sunday morning
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🚨BREAKING: OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up.
Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math.
Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level.
And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth.
Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do.
The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing.
So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up.
OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product.
This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent.
Every time ChatGPT gives you an answer, ask yourself: is this real, or is it just a confident guess?
pro-summer posts make me sick... "oh go out and feel the sun on your skin" awesome i will go get a sunburn from the very high UV index and heat stroke from the 40°C air temperature #RelaxingSummer
You just got to switch to a nocturnal sleep schedule. So then it’s like 30°C but no UV. But also if you’re used to weather being -20 C for four months a year then having too much heat starts sounding good.
yeah let me just not go out to work in the summer until at night when my workplace has already closed. come on.
I was thinking about outside work hours, and assuming you were working indoors, and assuming you had a short commute. In retrospect those assumptions were unfounded.
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Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.
And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”
And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”
And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.
the point of being correct is to do things about it. please join a communist if you can.
i know theres a lot of people who cant organize and if thats you, that doesn't mean you're useless. try making propaganda, really genuinely learn about how to make effective propaganda.
if thats not you, i know theres a lot of you who can organize and havent, you've gotta do it, the continued life on this planet genuinely depends on it. do it for yourself and for those who cant
but if you cant, thats totally fine, not everyone can or will organize with a party, but that doesn't give a pass to do nothing, either. there is a line between "engaging in politics as a fandom" and "being a professional revolutionary". you can hold a book club with your friends. you can take that knowledge and use it to agitate. to raise class consciousness broadly. not to win arguments or to dunk on people, but to expose to contradictions in capitalism. to bring more people into the fold. to reach people who can organize within a party.
taking care of ourselves is important, and its a required first step to get anything done, but the oppressors would love if we spent all our effort on just staying alive. they try and enforce that on purpose, have us believe we're too busy, too tired, to isolated, to challenge them. being busy, tired, isolated, etc... is why we need to challenge them. the capitalist class dont pay feds to start pointless arguments online for no reason. they know it fractures people and stops people from getting organized, makes them confused and waste time. they don't accuse communist organizations of every mistake under the sun as a joke, its to stop people from organizing. they dont work you to the bone until you're too tired to keep going anymore because there isn't anyone else who would be willing to work, they do it because its cheaper and because it makes us more compliant. When we're all fighting for jobs, we're willing to submit to worse treatment, and spend more of our time trying to get an in with the capitalists.
reject it. take your time back through struggle, through class struggle. if you're tired and burnt out, i get it, but its because of capitalists. they want us to roll over. we have to choose to pick up struggle instead, and fight.
If you are looking for reasons to be a girl, if you are tallying up experiences that other trans women have that you relate to, listen to me.
You do not need convincing.
You need conviction.
You already know that you're a woman. Do something about it.
There is still time. But this is a double-edged sword. One day the urgency will catch up with you and eat you from the inside out.
Don't wait.
The second best time to be a woman is tomorrow.
The best time is today. Right now. Please.
Do you have any beginner tips? I’m trying to lose weight, gain muscle, and just generally be healthier lately but I have zero exercise experience
I grew up with multiple disabilities that made it really hard to lose weight and gain muscle but now I’m being treated for it and would like to help it along
Any advice is much appreciated ❤️
I hope this does not sound dismissive, but the best advice I personally can give anyone about losing weight is to stop trying to lose weight.
That doesn't necessarily mean you will never lose weight, but that it's not an effective goal to focus on. It depends on a multitude of factors, many of which come down to genetics and are really outside of your control.
Focus on building muscle. Focus on consuming more hydration and nutrients. Focus on getting quality rest and sleep. Focus on things you can control that are functionally improving your fitness instead of chasing numbers on the scale.
Because here's the thing. As you build muscle and improve your endurance and otherwise quantitatively improve your fitness, you might not lose weight.
You might actually gain weight through this process. But your body will look different with a higher muscle mass and you will likely feel differently about your body when you can see how much it is capable of.
The flip side is, through building muscle, you still might lose body fat, which is this thing we're all societally encouraged to lose all the time, even if your overall weight does not decrease. But if you focus on building the muscle instead of losing the fat, you're going to have a much better time.
You also might lose weight in general! The truth is: there are no healthy ways to exert total control over your weight. If you focus on specifically seeing the number on the scale go down you will either feel frequently frustrated despite how much actual progress you may be making towards improving your fitness or resort to unhealthy practices to try to force the number down, and if you have to sacrifice health for weight loss it's no longer a fitness practice.
But if you focus on strength, flexibility, mobility, endurance, sleep quality, hydration, and eating plenty of nutrients then your fitness will improve, regardless of how your relationship with gravity may change.
As for getting started my best advice is start slow! Imo the worst thing a beginner can do is too much too fast. This increases your risk of injury and also is just miserable. It makes the task feel overwhelming which frequently makes people avoidant of doing it at all.
The trick is actually to make it really easy. So easy you almost feel kinda silly because you're barely doing anything at all.
This will vary based on your time and limitations but for some folks it might look like training once per week for 30min. For some folks it might look like training twice a week for those 30 minutes. And for others maybe just training twice the whole month.
After that first month, evaluate and adjust. Either increase the number of sessions per week or month. Or increase the duration of those sessions. Don't increase both at once.
So you might go from training once a week for 30 minutes to once a week for 45 to 60 minutes or twice a week for 20 to 30 minutes.
No matter how you set it up, the goal is to gradually increase the intensity over time. This gives your nervous system time to become familiar with the task. This makes it less overwhelming when you eventually build up to longer and/or more frequent sessions.
There's a million different schools of thought on if you should train whole body each session or different body parts on each session. But which way is best? Whichever way works for you! Literally just whichever way you like doing it.
I recommend starting with whole body training because it's much easier to make sure you hit all the major muscle groups when you're starting out with fewer sessions per week, but my initial point still stands: do whatever works for you.
I'm gonna link a bunch of free programs from creators I personally like a lot below. Don't feel compelled to follow any of them as written. The goal again is to make it really easy to start, so that might mean looking at some of these programs and just choosing one or two upper body exercises and one or two lower body exercises and forgetting about the rest for now.
Don't neglect your rests!! Both between sets and between sessions. You need to give yourself ample time for recovery. The rests as written in a lot of these programs may be too short. Rest as long as you need to.
You want to come into each set and each session with as much energy as possible. If you still feel really tired from your last set or session, then don't go into your next one yet.
We build muscle while we rest. We (constructively) fuck up our muscles during training and without proper rest (and calories!) we can't actually build the muscle back bigger and stronger like we're trying to.
Also search my blog for "form notes" and you'll find a bunch of posts where I've gone a little in depth on basic form for various exercises.
Free Programs:
Girls Gone Strong
Hybrid Calisthenics
Nerd Fitness
Do Yoga With Me (stretching is so important. Please make sure to incorporate some stretching.)
As far as nutrition is concerned, it's about addition, not substraction. It's not about what you can deprive yourself of, but what opportunities can you find to give yourself extra protein, fiber, fruits/veggies, or hydration?
One way I like to do this is to get my nutrients from multiple different sources. Instead of giant chicken breast constituting the whole meal's protein I like to do a little chicken, a little cheese, maybe an egg, maybe some nuts, and some veggies with small but still significant to the overall sum of protein on my plate line mushrooms or broccoli. Now I'm getting my protein from a bunch of different sources, some that also have micro nutrients, some that have nutritionally dense fats, some that have fiber.
If you're wondering what that seemingly unrelated series of foods might look like in a coherent meal:
Put melted butter or whatever cooking oil you like on the bottom of a small oven safe dish (you could probably do this in the microwave but I haven't actually tried that)
On top of the melted butter add a little shredded chicken (or ground beef or sausage or tofu or whatever just make sure it's cooked first) some crumbled goat cheese (or whatever kind of cheese you like) crack an egg (or two) on top, more spices and more cheese on top (I usually do cheddar or parm on top) set aside.
In a different dish (you could do it all together in a larger dish but I like them better separate) dump frozen veggies out of a bag. Throw a handful of nuts on top. Add butter or oil, whatever spices you like, and a dash of balsamic vinegar (sometimes I do white wine vinegar or lemon juice instead) (you could also just dump your favorite jarred sauce on there instead.)
Put both dishes in a preheated oven at 400°f and cook for 15-20 minutes until your eggs are done to your liking and your veggies are cooked.
You also don't have to do any of those things. You could get a frozen meal and just dump some extra protein and/or veggies on top.
Lots of ways to do it, but I'm just saying I personally recommend layering up your meals with different sources of various nutrients so you can get adequate amounts without having to eat a giant portion of any one particular food, which can often make "eating healthy" feel like a horrible chore. This is just my way though, feel free to ignore it if it doesn't work for you.
And most importantly, have fun with it!
Most humans do not do things just because we know they're good for us. But we frequently do things just because they're fun for us. So find ways to make it fun and at the very least avoid things that make it miserable.
If there's an exercise you really hate, you simply never, ever have to do that particular exercise. Whatever body part you're trying to train, I guarantee there are other ways. If there's a food you really hate, you simply never, ever have to eat it, whatever nutrients you're trying to get from it, I guarantee there are other ways. You absolutely never have to do anything that you really hate doing in the pursuit of general fitness.
A poll for Firefox users
I use up-to-date Firefox and I have used the AI kill switch
I use up-to-date Firefox and I have turned off some AI features but not all
I use up-to-date Firefox and I have not turned off any AI features
I use up-to-date Firefox and didn't know you could turn off AI features
I use an older version of Firefox with no AI features
I don't use Firefox
For Firefox users who weren't aware of the AI kill switch, type about:preferences#ai into the address bar, and you should see this:
It's no surprise that shark skin is such a good topic for the phenomenon called smooth-sharking.
Sharks having rough, sandpaper-like skin is a pretty widely-known piece of trivia; I learned that as a kid. But it's not so widely-known that people who know it can assume everyone else knows. From a moderate distance, they certainly look smooth.
So you have a substantial number of people who are confident in their shark knowledge, but not confident in other people's shark knowledge. And also, they haven't been smooth-sharked yet. Every day, more nerdy kids join Tumblr than get exposed to the "smooth shark" meme.
And the first time they see someone say sharks are smooth, they chime in to correct what looks like an ordinary misunderstanding. But plenty of their digital neighbors know about smooth-sharking, and descend on the well-meaning nerd, like a wounded seal being attacked by some kind of smooth-skinned fish.
The feeding frenzy often attracts other nerds unfamiliar with smooth-sharking, and the sheer number of people who get tricked by smooth-sharking turns into a spectacle for those in on the joke. Thus the smooth-shark arguments get spread far and wide, encouraging other tumblrinas to follow in their footsteps.
And as the meme spreads, the circle of life continues.
Sharks have skin?!?
Yes; most animals do. It's important for keeping your insides in, which is a universal struggle across the animal kingdom.
So proud of them!!!
Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.
my dad is very intensely involved a battle with his city’s public administration over a playground they have tried to forcibly remove like five times in the past 20 years and DID remove once in like 2005 but then had to rebuild because my dad was such a pain in their asses and came through with undeniable receipts of the zoning plan from the 60s/the historic/cultural value of the urban planning…. like there’s a woman in the city office who is his arch nemesis. he is literally the daredevil of urban planning
everyone in the tags needs to stop saying they want to fuck my dad.
pro-summer posts make me sick... "oh go out and feel the sun on your skin" awesome i will go get a sunburn from the very high UV index and heat stroke from the 40°C air temperature #RelaxingSummer
You just got to switch to a nocturnal sleep schedule. So then it’s like 30°C but no UV. But also if you’re used to weather being -20 C for four months a year then having too much heat starts sounding good.
