cinnamoroll enthusiast

do not make fun of me, i will cry

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[crimewave420]

stitch incoming

[paper-mario-wiki]

[chungledown-bimothy]

bodies should have crash logs. why the fuck did that just happen.

[egberts]

i'm actually so flabbergasted by the people who don't read prologues. my book deadass has a three chapter prologue (which is not the norm but it'll make sense when it makes sense, which is when you read it, which is after i write it) like a cold open montage before a title screen. several things in it are constantly referenced back to throughout the book... but if people aren't reading it because i called it a prologue then what the fuck?? they won't get it. some of the book will be nonsense. it's not really chapter one of the story but it is important to know for the story. it's a lore drop. are these people skipping cold opens and establishing shots in movies too??

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[ironwoman359]

I'm sorry number two has me cackling. "Customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability" do you know HOW MANY PEOPLE come into my place of work asking if we have a notary and then getting mad when we tell them no. Because we don't, we haven't for over 15 years, and we have no plans to add one to the staff (for lots of reasons not worth getting into here).

But There's another Library with a really similar name to ours, in another state, that does offer a notary.

Once upon a time when pointing that out to patrons they'd still get mad, because you're insinuating that they looked up the wrong website information when obviously they would never make a mistake like that (they would, one time we had to talk a man down who was furious because he'd talked to us on the phone and we told him we had a notary. this did not happen. because we do not have a notary. he called the wrong library).

Now though? Now the google AI has started hallucinating and will tell people that Our Library has a notary, and when people come in asking for things and we tell them no, and they say "oh, well the internet said-" we get to say "the Google AI overview is hallucinating, ma'am." Hilariously, this has actually eased the anger, because now we're not telling them that they looked up the wrong information (which people still do, for the record), it's Google Itself that is misleading them.

TL;DR? No, ask anyone who works with the public and they'll tell you the same. Customers can't tell that the overviews are flawed/incomplete, and it's causing real problems all the time.

[stillnaomi]

using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold

[xalatath]

I have never, and will never, use "ofc" to mean "of fucking course". It literally stands for OF Course...

[animentality]

[were--ralph]

[hotvampireadjacent]

[nat-20s]

extremely funny to me that Kermit the Frog is the only main overlap character between Sesame Street and The Muppets. imagine your day job is hanging out in a community of lovely people that genuinely just want to help kids learn and care about everyone so so much and then your night job is the reason that you have to stay up to date on your rabies AND tetanus vaccine

[nat-20s]

at noon the giant you're hanging out with is Big Bird! a wonderful fellow who likes reading stories and singing and telling fun facts! at midnight there's a giant named Sweetums who makes you feel like you're being hunted for sport

[nat-20s]

Ernie, trying to maybe come out to Kermit: well you know Kermit, me and Bert-

Bert: Bert and I

Ernie: Bert and I, we've been best friends forever, but we're also something else too!

Kermit, who every goddamn night has to tell Beaker and Bunsen to keep it professional, deal with Statler and Waldorf's bullshit, AND update his organizational chart on Dr. Teeth and the Electric Polycule: that's really great to hear fellas, happy for you two! :)

[stellacartography]

Grover, alarmed at having spilled some finger paint on Kermit's flipper: I am so sorry, Kermit. Please forgive me.

Kermit, who deals with a multitude of bodily fluids on his person and all over the theatre every evening, who is unintentionally trampled by large monsters as they exit the stage, and quite intentionally has his little froggy bones launched into a wall most nights by Miss Piggy: It's ok, Grover. I'm a frog. I love baths.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

On Sesame Street: Oh, no, Telly is watching too much television!

The Muppet Show Theater, that night: Gonzo attempts to explain his latest fetish at length.

[fckyeaahphan]

[paperweightverre]

[orcboxer]

I have just combined all rice in the world into a single rouse

[abrasileirando-o-tumbler]

Eu acabei de combinar todo o arroz do mundo em um único arro

[jessaerys]

that moment by the end of sinners where the harrowing opening scene of sammie walking into the church bloody and beaten, shellshocked, terrified, holding his broken guitar, and his father is welcoming him back into the fold of the church like a prodigal son, and it seems to be the perfect set up for a religious cautionary tale of the consequences of straying from god... but it's then resolved in this instant transition where you see sammie driving away, crying, still clutching his guitar despite it all and it hits all in one moment that he has rejected christianity and chosen blues even though he's just gone through this horrible, traumatic event "because" of "the devil's music" - that he has uncovered and refused the abusive fallacy at the center of christianity that the bad things that happen to you if you stray are because of the things you love that are against bible doctrine, that it's your fault and you've brought it upon yourself. and he said no! he said no. and then we see him go on and live to have this successful career and know that he was right, that the association of blues with the devil was a lie. that's it that's what it's like. i bawled my eyes out at the movie theatre especially in combination with the beauty and terror of the piece the resistance of the film, the scene where the spirits of the past and future all come together to unapologetically embody that music, that history, even as they are surrounded by flames burning the building down, and it's like: fuck you, we'll have the party in hell, then, but god damn it we will have it

[midnightportals]

[moveslikekeithrichards]

got cornflakes for fried chicken & the back of the box has its own recipe. easy as pie. "rinse chicken tenders with cold water and coat with crushed kelloggs corn flakes cereal." and then cook. no binding agent. no seasoning. nothing but a pile of flavorless chicken with a side of the extra-dried-out cornflakes that fell off it. serve warm with your favorite dipping sauce. doesnt even say serve hot. Serve Warm. wouldnt wanna get too wild with it. truly this is the spirit of cornflakes

[memento-mariii]