Hello

Elder millennial with brainrot, forced to have a day job.

[jynxeddraca]

My Links!

Archive of our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/users/JynxedDraca

BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/jynxeddraca.bsky.social

For my Fan Fictions:

Includes: Dragon Age the Veilguard, Baldur's Gate 3, Gargoyles Original fiction also posted.

The series:

Life...Ever After [link]

Baldur's Gate 3 - A slice-of-life series of mostly one-shots following Tav Moonridge and Astarion after the events of the game. They range from fluff to outright smut and are in no particular order. The first 14 of the snippets are in a multi-chapter work and I am considering reuploading them all individually.

Magic and Monsters [link]

Original Writing - A series of monster smut one-shots as I'm world-building for my New Haven Universe. They are explicit and please mind the tags. Like with 'Life...Ever After', I originally started posting them all to one work because I didn't really understand what the series option in AO3 was. They have been reuploaded individually.

End Game [link]

Dragon Age the Veilguard - Completed - 4 short stories exploring the end of the game with POVs from Rook, Lucanis, and (special guest star) Illario. Starts in the moments after the fight with Ghilan'nain on Tearstone Island and ends after the final battle. Contains major end game spoilers.

Exploring Zea "Rook" Aldwir [link]

Dragon Age the Veilguard - snippets and one-shots of my Rook, Zea Aldwir (Dalish elf mage, Veil Jumper), and just exploring her as a character. Some of these are very short. Ranges from G rating to E.

Date Everything Snippets [link]

From the game Date Everything, a series of mostly one-shots in no particular order following Lilly as she adjusts to learning to D.A.T.E. (Directly Acknowledge a Things Existence) the objects in her house.

Baldur's Gate Modern AU [link]

Just a series of one shots where I explore the idea of Faerûn but in a modern context. There is no overarching plot. Some one shots may contradict each other. It's just writing and posting as I have inspiration to do so. I wrote the first three a while ago and just never posted them so I did wind up posting them all on the same day.

[liberalsarecool]

Let's have the conversation about UBI.

Let the actual data and facts end the bad faith arguments.

[wizardshark]

I was a participant of the now cancelled UBI pilot in Ontario Canada. I was happier, safer, was able to move and work at better jobs.

And oops there it is. Better jobs.

Better jobs

It's a class barrier. They need a poverty class to function

[teratocybernetics]

#people being able to leave jobs that maltreat them is a threat to capitalism

[kyraneko]

Being able to force every last job in existence to make itself sufficiently respectful, acceptable, and worthwhile to the worker that someone will choose to do it when NOT goaded by the threat of starvation is probably both the greatest positive effect UBI would accomplish AND the real reason it faces so much opposition.

[vilkalizer]

#people being able to leave jobs that maltreat them is a threat to capitalism

[swimmingblue]

and there it is.

Capitalism needs an underclass. It's not that these jobs are less valuable - in fact, many of them are necessary for society to function. (thank you, sanitation workers!) It's more that capitalism needs these jobs to be seen as less-than so that they can get away with treating these people like shit - bad wages, bad treatment, etc.

If everyone got UBI, a lot of jobs would stand empty. Not because people don't want to do them, but people don't want the bad treatment that comes with them. Employers would be forced to change their methods if they wanted to hire and retain staff, and they don't want to do it.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#honestly you could probably hire retail workers at like $5 an hour under UBI#but you wouldn't be able to schedule them for a clopen on a weekend and threaten their livelihood if they're five minutes late#would that be worth it? probably to like normal people. megacorps... well.

[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.

[expressions-of-nature]

by Bernhard

[thereisselfpreservation]

I'm seeing warnings about scammers trying to commission artists but the "reference sheet" for their character they want commissioned isn't an image but a .vbs file ("visual basic script"), and will run a script when you open it, probably to yoink your account(s), but I haven't seen this from anyone who's actually clicked it yet. Just be careful and never open a file like that, 'cause people suck.

[thereisselfpreservation]

For reference (heh)

At a glance, file name checks out. But!! Do not open a .vbs file!!!

[nihilnovisubsole]

me explaining goncharov to my mother: so tumblr made up this scorsese crime film and they're arguing about its themes and-

my mother, completely deadpan: well are they reviewing the theatrical release or director's cut.

me:

my mother: what does frances ford coppola think of it

[dancinbutterfly]

Your mother is the only one who understands me

[robotsquid]

One of my favorite details in The Prince of Egypt

So I noticed this on one of my last viewings of The Prince of Egypt and I absolutely love it.  I wanted to take some screenshots to show you, because this is really cool.

During the “When You Believe” sequence, you see these two Egyptian guards throw down their spears and walk off, seemingly nowhere.

But if you watch the background during the following Red Sea scenes, you see this:

Those two guards actually went with the Hebrews.

You even see them helping out as they try to cross the ocean floor.

And here they are on the other side.

I seriously never noticed them until recently, and I’ve seen this movie countless times.

Not only did these background characters get shown abandoning their role as soldiers, the very ones who probably directly oppressed these people, but the animators continued to place them in the shots during the Red Sea sequence.  Meaning they were meant to be there.  I just think that’s really really freaking cool.

[theladylillibet-deactivated2017]

It’s accurate too, Exodus says that some Egyptians followed them and were adopted into the Israelite people.

[afusionoffandoms]

I wonder if lifeanim8ed could comment this?

[lifeanim8ed-deactivated20151226]

I do remember Jeffery Katzenberg being very careful to make the movie biblically accurate while taking artistic license and hosting many religious leaders from both Judaism and Christian to give their input on the film.

[somehow-you-will]

It always floors me that they consulted with so many religious figures and tried to get a broad spectrum from within all three faiths –  so much that they ended up with 600 religious advisors, from what I’ve heard.

[surskip]

this is killing me it's so cute

[sunnysatori]

@funnier-when-objectum

[the-silliest-stiltwalker]

[skopostheorie]

Once I "made" a custom emoji for my mum by crudely drawing a hijab on it and now whenever she wants me to buy a coffee for her I get a text like this

[cnmcn]

absolutley enchanted by cobepee

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

We need to standardize clothing sizes. This is fucking stupid. Pass a federal law or something. I’m sick of this shit.

[politijohn]

Source

This should never have been a thing

[justiceinspandex]

[d6b-onion]

this video has been going around for a while but the English subtitles didn't match the energy of the spoken French at all. i had to fix it.

reblog to spread this version

[purplemilk27]

I want to drop Astarion and Gale into Interview with the Vampire and just see what happens.

My predictions-

Gale: Just horny. All the time. Walking around hard. So much danger to get hot about.

Astarion: "It's just all a bit much, darling."

[marlowethebard]

Oh no. This cannot h happen. The sass levels of Astarion and Lestat in the same reality would be far too toxic. Get them in a room together and there goes the entire Eastern seaboard. All that would be left would be a pile of rubble and ash, stinking of sex and blood.

[star-system-generator]

I'm already in love with the concept, and I'm wondering how magnetism and besides that radiation might could come into play in systems like this? I wanted to write a story about a planet that's so heavily magnetic that it just jams everything, how would that work? If not by magnetism, what would it be?

Not remotely covered by the system generator but I have snagged the physicist about it and got them talking because this is a fun question so:

Earth's magnetic field is in microtesla so even a pretty little increase will have an effect

Anything that involves moving electrons around will be affected - in power transmission, for example, electrons aren't moving all that fast but the charge is travelling at about two thirds the speed of light.

An electromagnetic wave (like light or radio waves) is half in the magnetic field so if your background magnetic field is strong enough you'd get something happening, but whether that's a block or an amplification is a question for a different kind of physicist.

Exactly how the magnetic field increase affects your signal transmission is out of field for either of us sorry.

Very good question!

[ivy-meshle]

Hi! I am taking my final exam for electromagnetism ii tomorrow at 3:30. So I’m not like an expert but I have had some recent experience.

My instinct is to say that actually the magnetic field probably wouldn’t do much provided that it’s constant or roughly constant with time; light is a pair of oscillating electric and magnetic fields, but because of the principle of superposition, light can still travel through electric and magnetic fields because the oscillation remains, it’s just that the ‘zero state’ shifts. That is, instead of oscillating between, say, positive and negative 35 nanoteslas (ie the strength of the magnetic field due to sunlight at the surface of the earth, according to this Reddit user (https://www.reddit.com/r/askastronomy/comments/1m96yjo/solar_magnetic_field_strength_at_earths_surface/) (I. Don’t want to do the math right now.)), it would oscillate between, say, 20.003 and 19.997 microteslas. However, this is exactly what happens on Earth, and we can still get sunlight and radio waves. Basically the same thing would happen on this hypothetical planet; the only way it would interfer with light is if it were also oscillating on a similar timescale- which is to say on the order of around a trillion times a second. This can’t happen due to a spinning metallic core, but if the planet were putting off blackbody radiation due to heat, I could conceive of that being sufficient to ‘jam’ some frequencies. However I’m not sure if that would happen at the desired frequencies at reasonable temperatures. This may be a case where you need to apply a little bit of Artistic License and do it anyways.

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[star-system-generator]

@kissysanguine was hoping this would happen, expressing uncertainty summons an expert :)

[youngprofesser]

Hiiii i took a physics class this past semester that had a unit basically on this so I have some hyperspecific comments to add.

TLDR: A strong magnetic field around a planet is going to make your space weather situation ~funky~ (with consequences).

Ignoring solar wind effects, a breathable atmosphere means that there will be a plasma formed around your planet that will move along/interact with your planet's strong magnetic field. This has the potential cause some problems with communications both on-planet and between planet and space, since waves of certain frequencies can't pass though a plasma the same way they do normal atmosphere and empty space.

A planet that for whatever reason cant communicate with the outside solar system and therefore has to rely on physical mail, even in a GFFA type universe where space travel is commonplace, is a super fun concept imo. Snail mail planet.

Links below if you're curious, showing some of the differences between planets with strong/weak mag fields and a short one about Earth's magnetosphere that talks a bit about the impacts on space travel at the end.

Which Planet Has The Strongest Magnetic Field?

Mercury has a weak magnetic field, while Mars and Venus have no measurable magnetic fields. Jupiter is the largest planet and has the strong

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[lesbiansagainsttheatre]

truly just as we have universal health care we need to have universal death care. dying is not optional and funerals should not be a financial burden for families.