Claire Keane
Today's Document
pixel skylines
shark vs the universe
#extradirty
Kaledo Art
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
noise dept.
Show & Tell
Peter Solarz
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Product Placement
Not today Justin
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
if i look back, i am lost
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
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@hugglez4eva
I love asking friends, without context, "what are you really into this week?" I'll go first. this week I'm really into mouthwash and sudoku. Last week I was into peaches.
we used to be a society on here!! reblog, don't like! I want to hear what you're into!!! I'm literally looking into the nyt game Pips!!!
Easily falling victim to making purchases of heart shaped items. Sorry for believing in the power of love.
ok sure so my posts might not be ‘viral’ or ‘good quality’ and they might ‘bring shame to my family’ but me and the three mutuals who like each others stuff are having a blast
Still need to sell 1 ticket to The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals for this Saturday at 2!
It's 3rd row and I'm sad to part with them, but let my pain be your gain.
Hoping to get back the price I paid (87) but will negotiate.
Please message me if interested!
FOR SALE: 3 Tickets to The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals Remount!
WHEN: This Saturday, August 2nd, 2 PM
COST: Asking ideally for the price I paid - $261 (or $87 each)
WHERE: 3rd row, nearish center
Please let me know if you're interested! Am willing to sell just 2 of them separate if you only need 2.
Message if interested!
I kind of want to start fresh. Start following new blogs and such.
And yet, I will post a lot of the same kinds of things. Might end up following the same people.
it’s eunuch Tucker’s adoptiversary and defacto birthday today <3
i feel like all fandom spaces would improve dramatically if more people learned how to enjoy non-canon ships which were never written as romantic without acting entitled to official validation or throwing a hissy fit over not getting something that they were never promised
like i promise there’s nothing wrong with shipping characters together while accepting that they won’t ever be a canon couple or with choosing to interpret their interactions as romantic while acknowledging that the writers clearly didn’t intend for it to be read that way
fandom having such easy contact with casts and writers and stuff was a mistake
leave them alone lmao fandom isn’t about changing canon, it’s about playing with it like barbies
My favorite ships are not canon and would actually be terrible if they were canon. They're a fun side pretend!
ladies we need to start frantically and obsessively reading books in less than 24 hours again..remember how happy we were
grabs your hand. you've had enough plot and exposition and character development lately im taking you to the beach episode
Help how do I contact a broadway bootlegger? I want to commission a specific show with a specific understudy that I know is going on 😭
PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.
you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.
to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.
to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.
if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. but you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)
one of the best academic paper titles
for those who don't speak academia: "according to our MRI machine, dead fish can recognise human emotions. this suggests we probably should look at the results of our MRI machine a bit more carefully"
I hope everyone realises how incredibly important this dead fish study is. This was SO fucking important.
I still don’t understand
So basically, in the psych and social science fields, researchers would (I don't know if they still do this, I've been out of science for awhile) sling around MRIs like microbiolosts sling around metagenomic analyses. MRIs can measure a lot but people would use them to measure 'activity' in the brain which is like... it's basically the machine doing a fuckload of statistics on brain images of your blood vessels while you do or think about stuff. So you throw a dude in the machine and take a scan, then give him a piece of chocolate cake and throw him back in and the pleasure centres light up. Bam! Eating chocolate makes you happy, proven with MRI! Simple!
These tests get used for all kinds of stuff, and they get used by a lot of people who don't actually know what they're doing, how to interpret the data, or whether there's any real link between what they're measuring and what they're claiming. It's why you see shit going around like "men think of women as objects because when they look at a woman, the same part of their brain is active as when they look at a tool!" and "if you play Mozart for your baby for twenty minutes then their imagination improves, we imaged the brain to prove it!" and "we found where God is in the brain! Christians have more brain activity in this region than atheists!"
There are numerous problems with this kind of science, but the most pressing issue is the validity of the scans themselves. As I said, there's a fair bit of stats to turn an MRI image into 'brain activity', and then you do even more stats on that to get your results. Bennett et. al.'s work ran one of these sorts of experiments, with one difference -- they used a dead salmon instead of living human subjects. And they got positive results. The same sort of experiment, the same methodology, the same results that people were bandying about as positive results. According to the methodology in common use, dead salmon can distinguish human facial expressions. Meaning one of two things:
Dead salmon can recognise human facial expressions. OR
Everyone else's results are garbage also, none of you have data for any of this junk.
I cannot overstate just how many papers were completely fucking destroyed by this experiment. Entire careers of particularly lazy scientists were built on these sorts of experiments. A decent chunk of modern experimental neuropsychology was resting on it. Which shows that science is like everything else -- the best advances are motivated by spite.
I fear the dead fish are sentient. Let's put a cooked on in an MRI and see how it responds to being eaten.
The Pacific Ocean is huge.
If they make an earth flag it should be of this angle to piss off the most amount of people
None Earth with South New Zealand
The amount of time you have to spend on this website to still remember the Deep Lore like None Pizza with Left Beef, only to apply it to this post. Truly, boggling.
Help how do someone find bootlegs of Broadway musicals? Are there places people go to find bootlegs? Are they just mysteriously accumulated by osmosis?
my morning routine includes 10 minutes of sitting on my bed and thinking about how tired i am
Desperately hoping that Critical Role spontaneously decides to have more autographs or group photo ops at NYCC
