🩵mintus wintus🩵

HEY HEY BITCH!! 20, transmasc, demiromantic asexual I love JRWI so much..please Mutuals my beloved <3 🌱

[introvert-mints]

apotheosis………………….my beloved………………………..

[deathcomequickly]

Tomorrow, but gentler.

[smol-blue-bird]

I went to a library book sale this weekend and I found a very old book called “Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers,” which was published in I think 1975? I’ve been reading it kind of like how I would read a historical document, and it’s lowkey fascinating

[smol-blue-bird]

There’s a whole paragraph that’s like “okay, find the keyboard. Don’t panic if it has more keys than a typewriter, that’s normal. Really, it’s fine. The extra keys don’t make things harder. It’s FINE”

[smol-blue-bird]

Thought this section was particularly interesting:

Can the computer create something? At first glance it seems obvious that it can. Animated computer graphics, with their fluid transitions and whiplash perspectives, look strikingly new. And if one watches the machine doing animation work, there seem to be lengthy periods when the computer is acting “on its own.”

But if one observes these processes in more detail, it becomes clear that creation is not occurring within the machine. First of all, computer graphics are not unique. Computers have yet to generate anything that cannot be done by hand—and usually already has been done. Second, the apparent ability of the computer to “act on its own” is the outcome of thousands of hours of patient human effort to refine its instructions. The computer can manipulate a shape for us if we have already informed it what a shape is, what the rules for shape manipulation are, what this specific shape is, and so forth.

You can start an automobile engine and it will run by itself, too, but that doesn’t mean it’s being creative. It’s just running.

[theriu]

Somebody in 1975 had a better understanding of why artificial intelligence is not in any way “intelligence” than the majority of today’s intellectual minds.

[anik]

i love this guy

[cutecipher]

i really thought the point of "being lgbt+ doesn't absolve you of racism as a white person" was that white people arent absolved of racism by being marginalized but it really seems like people think other marginalizations make it okay. no being disabled doesn't do it. no being poor doesnt do it. we need to fight against racism actively no matter what.

[mudkipstars]

how chip's post hiatus arc has felt

[whaile]

late summer / early fall thoughts

[birchtheelf]

jaguar joe i miss you... come back please....

[wilt3d-r0zes]

thinking about the fact deadwood exists in 2010 and PD exists in. whatever fuckass 2100+ year it is in PD. and how this makes sense

charlie/will says like "where im from there aren't heroes, like vyncent" and "deadwood is a place not many people know about or even see"

and ive not internalized the idea that deadwood DOES exist in the PD universe, but it's like a cursed town that's some sort of supernatural anomaly. it exists, you can go there, but it's perpetually 2010 there. nobody leaves deadwood. you dont grow old there, or you do and then you reset. you dont move to deadwood, things dont change in deadwood. it is a place trapped in time, separate from the rest of the world

the only reason william managed to get out and rejoin the rest of the world is because he died and the supernatural effects of deadwood lost its grip on him and he was able to find out about the rest of the world being in a completely different time period

ALTERNATIVELY see also william dying and the wisps bringing him back but in another dimension. william dies and when he comes back he returns home because he's scared and he's only sixteen and what the fuck else do yo udo when you just fucking died at sixteen, but everything's just a little different.

his mom is a bit younger, his friends seem to have memories that he doesnt, it's a completely different year, technology isn't the same and everyone makes references he doesnt know or uses words he's never heard of. this isn't his world, these aren't his friends and family, things are just... wrong, here.

it's one of the contributers to why he ended up fleeing deadwood. outside of the supernatural being attracted to him, i think that if that was all it is he would've just left it be, he's fucking sixteen bro, but i think the added idea that everything is the same but slightly different is what really drives him out of deadwood

[malwarechips]

"i think", i say, about my own ocs, who i made,

[rosexknight]

“my headcanon is…” i say about the canon that i made about my own characters

[sk3l3tons4space]

Some old(ish) WIPs I’ll prob never finish… or at least not finish any time soon BUT I’m posting them cuz I am still proud of them :^D

(from eps 120 & 121)

[shinraalpha]

i do think lobbying for data centres over climate goals should be considered a crime against humanity btw

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[echojulietfoxtrot]

Hello, I work for a large moderately evil corporation and for at least five years now I have to sign a yearly thing to say I will never ever have one of these devices in the same room as me while I work.

My large moderately evil employer takes it for granted that these things are spying on me at all times, and you should too.

[maidslime]

Ok like. Imagine life without ads. You wake up, check your messages across a variety of apps, no ads. You get up and put on the tv while you prep your breakfast, no ads. Maybe you drive somewhere and switch on the radio, no ads. Maybe you drive a long distance, yet somehow, not a single billboard on your path. You pick up a newspaper or magazine to pass the time, no advertisements only articles. You turn on your game console, the home screen is just about your games, no ads to buy more. You open a streaming app, you don't pay extra for no ads, there's just no ads ever.

Think about how much of your time is spent looking at ads. "Download ublock" yeah I know, I have. But that doesn't change that the world is covered with endless advertising. Imagine never seeing that again. How much better our lives would be.

[writerswritecompany]

[puppygirllaika]

at some point in your life you are going to do or say something racist, sexist, or otherwise bigoted. Your goal is not perfection, your goal is to be the kind of person that the people you've hurt feel safe being honest with when that happens.

[yaleh]

hello my old heart