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leo | he/him | secretly a couple of raccoons in a trenchcoat |

[in-the-mists]

leo. he/him. adult. blogging from a swamp near you. no side blogs we die like men. i try to tag things, but quite often Do Not.

terfs/radfems/etc fuck off, love trans people or die by my sword

i post whatever i want whenever i feel like it, but especially about sports

kraken are my #1s, but also wild and sens

torrent <3

but also the whole pwhl pretty much tbh

seattle mariners #1 best most beloved team forever. that’s MY cringefail baseball team <3

seattle mariners fan discord! (18+ only!)

(^ very very mariners centric, but other fans welcome if you’re chill)

*important sports disclaimer*

my opinions on players and teams are not my opinions on the fans of those players and teams. all fans are welcome here. i might talk shit about your blorbos tho.

Tags-onomy

#hockey poetry: what it says on the tin

#baseball poetry: el mismo ^

#original coast: original posts

[planetadfic]

the final rule of being a sports fan is BELIEVE IN MIRACLES

[henk-heijmans]

Pet otters have fun in a hotel bathroom in Winona, Minnesota, ca. 1953 - by Wallace Kirkland (1890 - 1983), American

[fandomsandfeminism]

I think you can tell a lot about how rigorous and committed someone's belief in a human right is by how quickly they are able to name people who they think could or should have that right taken away.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Like "X is a universal human right. (This doesn't include Y people though)"

Either you think X isn't actually a human right, or you think Y aren't people.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Some folks really did go straight to the replies to prove me right.

[hyperlexichypatia]

It's wild to me that people in the notes are all arguing about rapists and murderers and people deserving to get their human rights taken away for doing Bad Things, and...

Yeah, sure, serial killers deserve human rights too, but isn't there a more obvious demographic you're sliding right by? Isn't there a demographic of people so thoroughly erased by human rights discourse that their rights aren't even debated, it's just taken for granted that human rights don't apply to these people?

(It's minors. I'm talking about minors. Also disabled/neurodivergent adults under institutionalization/guardianship who have been reduced to the legal status of minors.)

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I literally do this as a first-day activity in my childhood studies courses.

I take a poll: "how many of you would agree that 'everyone deserves the right to privacy' is a pretty uncontroversial statement?"

when 95% of them have put their hands up, I say "now, what if I clarify that 'everyone' includes children?"

and as everyone lowers their hands slowly and gives me a confused look like a deer in headlights, I tell them "okay. this class is about what it means to not be part of 'everyone'."

[punishedagenttorture]

Children deserve human rights. Pedophiles, rapists, and other types do not.

Hope this helps.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Hi. So this is exactly my original point.

Pedophiles, rapists, serial killers, the most evil people you can imagine are, in fact, still people.

What human rights do you think the government should be able to deny you if you are convicted of the right crime?

[animentality]

[kaijudove]

happy make a terrible comic day!!! i haven't stopped thinking about this post since i saw it. in 2018 a common merganser was spotted with 76 (SEVENTY SIX!!!) chicks!! that's SOOOO many baby. so much success.

[xenthosss]

Heres a picture btw

[homunculus-argument]

The fact that animals that care for their young will sometimes adopt others' lost or orphaned young to raise along their own is just funny to me. I know that it's all hormonal and there's no conscious thought involved in it, but the internal logic of it is so funny.

"Baby = success. More baby = more success. I have one baby and I found four other baby. I have five baby. I am being so fucking successful right now."

[vancouver-lord-goldeneyes]

Girl doesn’t waste a second lmao

[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.

[alianoralacanta]

5. If the words are Google's, this solidifies the position of universities who demand that all answers from AI are fully cited. If all the in-line citations now have to be (Google, 2026), that's going to make it obvious when someone's trying to use Google as a source. There's still the difficulty with people who are academically dishonest by trying to pass off the AI writing as their own. 6. 91% accuracy is officially too low to use as a source of references, which means the AI can't be used as a source of references either. This makes it less legitimate for such purposes than Wikipedia of all places (Wikipedia might need date/time proof of when it was accessed for the reference to be valid, but at least it is possible to prove the link existed at a particular date and time). 7. This will help encourage the rollout of courses on how to avoid AI search for students who need academic accuracy, because it's statistically not good enough to use. 8. This strengthens the case intellectual property authors have against Google in the EU, as this is proof that an intellectual property transfer took place.

[latenightgasstationwalk]

Of course it goes without saying that I am hopelessly dependent on the ingot

[apolladay]

On what part of your body is your biggest scar?

head

torso

arms/hands

legs/feet

a different part of my body

I have 0 scars

Remaining time: 4 days 8 hours

[joodeegemstone]

i'm watching holes for the first time in my adult life, and i totally forgot that the scary, deadly, venomous lizards were literally just bearded dragons

[pangur-and-grim]

some sort of sandwich

[pangur-and-grim]

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems

[messygoku]

[messygoku]

ya empezaron con "memes that transcend languages" cuando son palabras obvias

[deepseecreature]

anglofonos cuando reconocen cognados:

[nolaplantdaddy]

I love when people ask "how did you learn this skill?" I just started, there's no secret. that's it. a vast majority of the time the only thing holding you back is your trepidation to start.

[noegrets]

[sisyphusshrugged]

having a hard time focusing today. i've also had a hard time focusing for the previous 15 or so years leading up to now but this post is about today.