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~The smell of sunshine I remember sometimes~

[homocatphenomena]

Hot tip for young people: you should have the phone numbers of at least 2 family members for each of your close friends. You never know when you’re going to need to call them in an emergency. If they have roommates and don’t live at home, you should have the roommates number as well. That way, if they yell and hang up the phone, you can ask someone to check on them. If y’all are in a car accident together, you can call their mom. You gotta have the emergency contacts for your besties 👍

[homocatphenomena]

Other people work out to look good or outrun bears. I work out so that I can lift my sturdily built Eastern European grandmother in and out of bed/her wheelchair/the car by myself. Currently my mom is the only one fit enough to be trusted to do it but soon I will be able to deadlift my grandma. Then one day if needed I can deadlift my mom. We are not the same ❌ 🙅💪

[homocatphenomena]

I wish that if you pissed off your gallbladder bad enough that it would just die and fall out your ass. I should be able to go get a milkshake from In-N-Out and then go home and endure 6 hours of pain and at the end my gallbladder should just fall out and land on the floor so I can throw it away in the trash where it belongs. But no. If I get a milkshake it will just make me pray for death for 6 hours and then nothing will happen. If I eat even a little too much peanut butter it will also torture me. Or if I get too hungry, or lay on my right side, or think about it too much. Bullshit organ

[politijohn]

Source

This entire article is worth the read. Fuck Gilead

[tamale-papi]

hey look at that he has a name

[jstor]

JSTOR launched in 1995 with a radical idea: digitize academic journals to free up shelf space and expand access to knowledge.

A year later, our visual identity took shape. Designer Michael Mabry’s floral “J,” inspired by Renaissance-era typography, gave a face to the mission: rooted in print culture, built for the digital age.

In our new blog post, we’re reflecting on 30 years of JSTOR, including the design that helped define us and the origin story that brought it all to life.

[thedoubteriswise]

nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

[beesmygod]

does any other rich person want to fund tumblr as a public good and have a hands off approach to managing it. tell those supernatural boys its time to pay back to their dues

[i-am-a-fish]

hey, i don't know if you're cozy right now, but if you aren't cozy, please, please get cozy. snuggle up. do whatever you have to do. please I'm begging

[tropiyas]

when your friend says love you at the end of the call

[neosatsuma]

[neosatsuma]

[rain-droplet]

who turned them german mid tag ?

[dastardlywlw]

how do you know they were transformed midday?

[status-quo-hater]

Please understand that not every marginalized person is going to have a list of peer reviewed sources and accurate statistics proving the bigotry they face in their daily life and you sometimes just have to decide to believe people when they tell you they are suffering

[notkatniss]

just read the sentence “if you didnt listen to hozier in middle school-” and i stopped bc i blacked out. im loggin off. how fucking old are you guys

[homocatphenomena]

My ex-brother in law was named Kai and he died at 13 years old a while ago. I was at a funeral (unrelated) a few days ago and the youngest kid of this one family was named Kai and it caught me off guard and made me feel weird. He kinda looked like the 6 year old version of my ex-brother Kai too (I first met him when he was 4).

I know my ex is still really sad about his brother dying and I just never know what to say. I think about Kai all the time too and I’m reminded of him a lot and it makes me sad but I don’t want to text my ex about it and make him sad. (I am still friends with my ex and we talk a bit) I want him to know he’s not alone and that other people miss Kai too and still think about him but I don’t want him to drown in grief. I don’t have siblings so my ex’s siblings were the closest I ever got and we all really grew up together. This shit is complicated but yeah I think it should be illegal for children to die. Most fucked up shit imaginable. I wish I was better at having feelings

[homocatphenomena]

I just got prescribed a stimulant for the first time yesterday and it was so weird. Like every day normally I’m depressed and extremely sleepy and everything is really hard. Hard to wake up hard to take a shower hard to eat hard to go to bed. And I really struggle to be productive like 60% of the time 38% of the time I’m able to get a few hours of work done and I’m like yeah :) I did something. Then like one day every 1 or 2 months the planets fucking align and I go at max efficiency for like 16 straight hours and accomplish feats that the people around me are awed and alarmed by. Like wiping out 6 months of backlog work at my job, or rearranging and cleaning the entire garage in one day.

Well I’ve always been like this and I structure my entire life around making sure I still get things done on time even though 60% of the time I can’t do fucking anything. I start everything really early and try to finish projects weeks before they’re due because you never know when my brain will just turn off!

Well anyway. I take modafinil for the first time yesterday. It was a “I can’t do anything” day. And an hour later I was in turbo productivity mode. I got so much fucking school done it was amazing. Then it wore off after 6 hours and I went back to being depressed and sleepy? So strange! But it’s so amazing that I can now just choose when I want to be functional and I can force it to happen on command. I think I may be about to become motherfucker unlimited. Bro with my time management and coping skills + the ability to just be productive on command I’m about to be unstoppable

[mxnrique]

im literally not exaggerating when i tell you guys this video saved my life

[rehfan]

This is a damn MOOD FOR LIFE, I tell you what.

[thecompletebookworm]

This is beautiful, not just because of the lyrics, harmonies and relatable message, but also because Cinderella (Brandy), One of the Hercules Muses (Roz Ryan) , and Mama Odie (Jenifer Lewis) are singing it.   Like we have been blessed.  

[elljayvee]

one of these days I will not watch this video when it comes around on my dash, but today is not that day

[dichromaniac]

Some days the internet delivers the thing you need to see when you need to see it. This is that day, and this is that content

[queen-mihai]

You damn right ain’t nobody got time for that shit

[perplexingly]

Legolas/Gimli sketch…

[perplexingly]

#op you can’t make me pick up the series cuz of this I’m not strong enough

they're worth reading for I swear

[cosmonaut775]

Hey do y’all remember when Boeing fucking killed a guy last year. And we all said “huh I guess Boeing fucking killed a guy” and then went on with our lives. And everybody knew that Boeing had fully just fucking executed a guy and nothing came of it. Like there was no police investigation no justice no nothing. Like literally EVERYBODY knew that Boeing had full on murdered a guy to silence him and there wasn’t any consequences for them. Kinda crazy.

[flamie87]

and there was even less talk when openai did the exact same thing more recently

[flamie87]

So for those who are, very understandably uninitiated on this story:

On 23 October last year (2024) the New York Times published an interview with former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji who worked on organising and gathering data for OpenAI until 2022 when he begun thinking about the morality of it. He eventually came to the conclusion that what OpenAI is doing blatantly violates copyright law and decided to leave the company altogether in August 2024.

After he came out with this accusation he was set to appear in court to testify against OpenAI’s data-gathering practices, something which had the potential of being a complete disaster for the company and the generative AI industry as a whole.

That was until 26 November, just days before he was due to appear in court, when he suddenly and mysteriously was found dead inside his own apartment. Investigators concluded that the death was self-inflicted, something which his family has disputed.

There was also “sign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like someone hit him in the bathroom based on blood spots”, and his apartment showed signs of having been ransacked for evidence: “The pin drive is missing. His computer was messed up.”.

Overall it feels pretty clear-cut what happened, that is to say that OpenAI had him killed because he was a legitimate threat to their business, indicating that they are fully aware that the way they’re gathering data is completely illegal.

Sources:

Alys Davies, 14.12.2024, OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment. BBC News

Barney Davis, 16.1.2025, Suchir Balaji’s family demand outside investigation into OpenAI whistleblower’s death. The Independent

Cade Metz, 23.11.2024, Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law. The New York Times

[queen-mihai]

Blood is already being shed. We're already at war