[vampiredoriangray]

hey guys!! i haven't heard a lot about this but anyone in rome PLEASE avoid senate tomorrow there's been some rumors about something happening there. i don't have a lot of information but just in case be careful!! beware the ides of march!!

please rb to spread awareness

[eesttm]

[eesttm]

[eesttm]

[headspace-hotel]

I don't know why, but the way hating horses has been a meme on this webbed site drives me crazy. get over yourself and respect the sacred bond between man and beast edgelord

[talesfromtreatment]

Note in chart: need muzzle for exam

Chief complaint: teeth problems

Hmmmmmn.... I'm not sure that's going to be feasible

[veterinaryshitposting]

use drugs

[talesfromtreatment]

Our friend is an extremely geriatric patient with a grade 6 heart murmur and crackles in their lungs as well.

[vetisntdead]

use less drugs

prepare to lose fingers

[mechanicalriddle]

[talesfromtreatment]

I feel ready to face the dachshund now

[keirametzofcarreras-archive-dea]

“This is Obi-Wan Kenobi: A phenomenal pilot who doesn’t like to fly. A devastating warrior who’d rather not fight. A negotiator without peer who frankly prefers to sit alone in a quiet cave and meditate.” ― Matthew Woodring Stover, Revenge of the Sith

[headspace-hotel]

more and more I feel strongly defensive about the animals that people hate or look down upon and view as evil, malicious, dirty, stupid, vermin, or otherwise worthless

[embodiedfutures]

UPDATE! REBLOG THIS VERSION!

How Zoom’s terms of service and practices apply to AI features | Zoom Blog

It’s important to us at Zoom to empower our customers with innovative and secure communication solutions. We’ve updated our terms of service

Zoom says it isn’t training AI on calls without consent. But other data is fair game

An update to Zoom’s terms of service is worrying some online that the company now has permission to use their videos and chat logs for artif

[embodiedfutures]

Need a better breakdown? Tiktok attached below that explains Zoom's new Terms of Service:

#greenscreen well. #zoom #queerrepresentation #queerromance #lgbt #lgbtq #queer #jew #jewish #jewishrepresentation #daniellesilverstone

What about folks who have therapy via Zoom? Court hearings? The list goes on. If you've got any Zoom alternatives, or maybe preference for one of the ones we listed with why, reblog please!

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[ID: Screenshot of a tweet by Ted Gioia @/tedgioia from 1 day ago. They write, "Zoom terms of service now require you to allow AI to train on ALL your data--audio, facial recognition, private conversations--unconditionally and irrevocably, with no opt out. Don't try to negotiate with our new overlords." Gioia then has as a screenshot attached highlighting different lines from Zoom's new Terms of Services. The text in the image is small but can be read to say:

10.2 Service Generated Data; Consent to Use. Customer Content does not include any telemetry data, product usage data, diagnostic data, and similar content or data that Zoom collects or generates in connection with your or your End Users’ use of the Services or Software (“Service Generated Data”). As between you and Zoom, all right, title, and interest in and to Service Generated Data, and all Proprietary Rights therein, belong to and are retained solely by Zoom. You agree that Zoom compiles and may compile Service Generated Data based on Customer Content and use of the Services and Software. You consent to Zoom’s access, use, collection, creation, modification, distribution, processing, sharing, maintenance, and storage of Service Generated Data for any purpose, to the extent and in the manner permitted under applicable Law, including for the purpose of product and service development, marketing, analytics, quality assurance, machine learning or artificial intelligence (including for the purposes of training and tuning of algorithms and models), training, testing, improvement of the Services, Software, or Zoom’s other products, services, and software, or any combination thereof, and as otherwise provided in this Agreement. In furtherance of the foregoing, if, for any reason, there are any rights in such Service Generated Data which do not accrue to Zoom under this Section 10.2 or as otherwise provided in this Agreement, you hereby unconditionally and irrevocably assign and agree to assign to Zoom on your behalf, and you shall cause your End Users to unconditionally and irrevocably assign and agree to assign to Zoom, all right, title, and interest in and to the Service Generated Data, including all Proprietary Rights relating thereto.

A tweet by John Rogers @/jonrog1 replies, "I ... don't think @/Zoom understands every single TV company and movie studio now has to drop them. Never mind the HIPAA issues. Yikes."

The youth volunteers of Better Future Program @/bfpnola write under these screenshots via Instagram, "We've been talking about this in our Discord server as of last night since we host our meetings in Zoom and we've been researching alternatives, especially ones that are end-to-end encrypted and we know other activists use, like Jitsi, Disroot, Matrix, and ofc Signal. Got any other ones?"

Finally there is an Instagram question sticker asking for Zoom alternatives. /End ID.]

[transcyberism]

Email your university about FERPA compliance if you or your peers take online classes also

[lastoneout]

Gonna have to bring this up to my therapist, we do our appointments over zoom and I am def not comfortable with my trauma and shit being used for that.

[annabellioncourt]

Yup my therapist is via zoom too. Emailing that to them 🙃

[bulldog-butch]

can white people stop boo-hooing about how they lost their favorite vacation spot because of the fires on maui? it’s vile. people lost their lives and their homes. no one gives a shit that your colonizing ass can’t go somewhere you were never welcome anyway

[daddyisatitlenotagender]

This AND if you’ve ever visited/vacationed in Hawái it’s time to pay up. If y’all love Hawái so much, show it by donating. Oh, and never go back. That native land has been EXPLOITED by vacationers and capitalism. The government is spending money and resources in order to house and feed tourists/visitors OVER sending help to the native people who NEED IT. Stop going to Hawái. It’s not your land.

[bariumsalts]

Just wanted to add on to this a concrete example: a couple years ago the Hawaiian government implemented water rationing FOR LOCALS ONLY, while continuing to allow tourists to use as much water as they wanted for fancy hotels, spas, pools, and GOLF COURSES. This is obviously the exact opposite of how water shortages should be addressed. I don't even think many of the tourists had any idea that the water they used on vacation was literally being taken from the homes of indigenous people: many tourists think they are helping local economies. I would LOVE to visit Hawaii and see amazing Polynesian biomes and active volcanoes without a passport, but I have resigned myself to the fact that there is currently no ethical way for me to do so. Visiting Hawaii would take needed resources from the people who live there, and the tourism industrial complex would actively lie to me about it if I tried to travel there in an ethical or sustainable manner. The US has really plundered those amazing islands and done so much harm to them in so many ways. Native Hawaiians are begging tourists to stay away. So please take their demands seriously and enjoy Hawaii's amazing natural wonders through video instead of in person.

‘Water fiasco’ on Maui leaves residents feeling mistreated, unfairly targeted

While residents are being told to cut back, water-reliant resorts are bustling.

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Or just go to browse and hang out! I promise it will be inspiring :)

[growing-yet-into-magic]

It’s also a lot easier to do research in a library; sure, it’s one thing to have internet access, but it’s another to have wifi access to databases and books on the topic an approximate two minute walk away.

[miss-grey]

"Happiness equals reality minus billionaires"

Found in Rochester, NY

[butchfagminotaur]

i don’t think people realize how much of modern life we owe to ball bearings everyone say thank you ball bearings

[butchfagminotaur]

literally what can’t she do

[butchfagminotaur]

this came across kinda jokey but like genuinely so much of the things we can do today are thanks to ball bearings and i hope whoever invented them got mad pussy and excellent head for the rest of their life

[butchfagminotaur]

EVERYONE SAY THANK YOU TO PHILIP VAUGHAN AND THE WELSH

[rylandsgrace]

KEN Things Ryan Gosling Can't Live Without | GQ

[aokozaki]

My favorite fact about the Monty Python troupe is that they wanted their comedy to be truly beyond categorization, so be so slapdash and surreal you couldn't really describe it.

On the fact that this surreal comedy instead became emblematic of their group, Terry Jones once said:

The fact that "Pythonesque" is now a word in the Oxford English Dictionary shows the extent to which we failed.

I cackle whenever I remember this.

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

If Taylor Swift used her power for good she would be such a great stochastic terrorist. She would post on Instagram "Hey guys, Tay here. Just wanted to say that whoever delivers me the head of Ron DeSantis on a platter will get free Eras Tour tickets. #ShadeNeverMadeAnybodyLessGay." It would be at her doorstep in two hours.