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Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

Now this might alarm you but nearly everything on the internet is being hosted in a data center. You are utilizing a data center right now reading this post

sumikatt

Everything in the digital world has physical infrastructure that supports it and has environmental impact and I don’t get why people act like that’s unique to AI

jv

Magnitude. LLMs needs orders of magnitude more computing processing power than your average online service.

It's like saying "I don't know why anyone cares that they are building that super highway through a protected land when there is already a dirt road there"

chris-in-eugene

For those of us in America (USA, USA, USA... sorry), think of doing some basic stuff on the internet (like tumblr, yay!) is like me driving just over 1 mile to go to the nearest grocery store.

Using something like a streaming service for the same amount of time, is like driving 10 miles to a grocery store.

Using an LLM is like driving 100 miles to a grocery store.

jv

This is a very good analogy. And as the resident smug European, I need to add:

Using the old web (from early versions of social media to websites, RSS and blogs) is like walking a few blocks to get your groceries.

redstonedust

breaking news: villain who seemed reasonably well motivated and level headed for 80% of the story has begun throwing cars full of children around like they think theyre godzilla. experts are calling this a totally rational extension of their character. dont worry about it.

squareallworthy

Everyone will not just

If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just…” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At not time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to start now.

cowboyhatesithere

Daily gratitude

I don’t have kids

I don’t spend money on nicotine

I don’t gamble my money away on sports

I’m not reliant on a chat bot for all my life functions

My books/CDs/DVDs collection is plentiful

utopians

the avatar movies are crazy bc "what if colonizers literally inhabited and puppeteered the bodies of indigenous peoples in order to exploit their homeland" sounds like the premise of some sort of anticolonial horror film, like specifically the kind of thing that would be commenting on self-indigenization among white settlers, but because it's James Cameron his whole takeaway from that premise is "it would be preddy cool"

utopians

actually sorry. the takeaway is also "the white settler possessing an indigenous body would actually be extremely good, perhaps even The Best, at being indigenous, and he would become their Leader"

gyrovagi

i really think people need to stop acting like attraction does or should have any influence on predisposing someone towards misogyny. like it's obvious nonsense, straight and gay men can be just as misogynistic as each other and are equally as capable of reducing women to sexual objects. and lending any credence to this idea indirectly implies that women are more worthy of your concern if you want to fuck them. like where am i. what's going on. let's start with viewing women as people

eameschairs

i wanted to make a quick and dirty timeline of the book and then it turned into this whole thing. oops! click+zoom for better quality. (or click here!)

complete image description under the cut due to tumblr's alt text character limit.

a red, curvy line comes down from the top corner towards the middle, where it run downs the center of the image to the bottom. along the line on either side are dates, locations, and descriptions. in order from earliest to latest the descriptions/titles read: "erid, 1742. rocky the eridian hatches. according to rocky, eridians live an average of six hundred and eighty nine years". erid, 1850. Rocky and Adrian become mates. All Eridians are Intersex, and they mate for life". "erid, 1983. the blip A departs for tau ceti from erid". "tau ceti, 1986. the blip A arrives at tau ceti. rocky is the sole survivor". "earth, 1987. ryland grace is born." a smaller note with just the date reads "1989. the eridians estimates arrival date at tau ceti, not taking into account relativistic physics". "earth, 2016. the petrova problem is discovered, the earth will dim 5% over the next twenty years, and will continue to dim exponentially. an ice age is imminent. this is where dr. grace's memory flashbacks begin." "earth, 2017. the arclight probe returns with samples from the sun's petrova line. dr. ryland grace is drafted to project hail mary to study it. dr. grace names the life form found in the sample "astrophage." over the next several years, more scientists are recruited. the hail mary spaceship is designed and built, and two million kilos of astrophage are bred for fuel". "earth, 2021. the hail mary launches. after the deaths of the primary and secondary scientists, dr. grace is drugged and forced aboard the ship". "tau ceti, 2033. dr. grace arrives at tau ceti with no memory of who is or how he got there. he discovers that he is the sole survivor of the twelve year journey from earth. over the next six months he makes contact with rocky and the blip a. they solve the petrova problem, and send the beetle probes back to earth with the solution". "erid, 2036. dr. grace and rocky arrive on erid". three small notes read: "2037. the predicted time by which the hail mary will run out of human food". "2038. dr. grace's estimated arrival on earth, if he had returned using rocky's gift of fuel". "2036-2046. dr. grace describes that the first "few years" on erid were difficult before the eridians built the biodome and synthesized human food. the exact timeframe between grace's arrival and when things became more stable is unclear". "earth, 2046. the beetle probes return to earth with the solution to the petrova problem. stratt receives the taumoeba, as well as dr. grace's videos from the hail mary". "earth, 2047. the earth's sun returns to its normal luminence; the petrova problem is solved". "erid, 2062. dr. grace and rocky receive the news that earth's sun has been returned to its normal luminence. dr. grace has become a teacher on erid teaching eridian children, who are approximately 30 earth years old". timeline notes end here. the red line curves to the left, and upon it stands two simplified vector drawings of grace in his spacesuit and rocky, waving at the viewer.

captain-price-returns

oh no they’re going to start calling democrats the same thing they’ve been calling democrats for 20 years now

hotvampireadjacent

thewellofastarael

"Here’s a trick I learned during the Obama presidency for handling certain types of political labels. Take, as an example, the Tea Party claim that Obama is a Communist. Don’t take the word of the person making the claim (Tea Partiers). Don’t rely on the rebuttal of the target (Obama), because that will just be dismissed. Go to the group itself (Communists) and ask them. Ask an actual Communist if Obama is a comrade and see how they answer. Watch as they laugh at you, then explain in great detail how they wish there was a Communist in the White House, but here’s a long and exhaustive list of why that just isn’t so. Now apply this logic to the claim that Hillary is pretty much the same as a Republican. Ask an actual Republican if they think Hillary Clinton is one of them. Watch them laugh, and then explain in the same exhausting detail why that just isn’t so. Some of them might concede that she’s better than Trump, but that’s not the same thing. Finally, go ask a White Supremacist if Trump is one of them. As they excitedly explain how Trump is the guy they’ve been waiting for all these years, and how he’s really empowered their movement, use this to guide how you will be voting in November."

Source: a 2016 facebook posts by Craig Enan, since then deleted (OG link here)

victusinveritas

naamahdarling

WTF this is masterful, 10/10.

marjorierose

Other people have said this in notes, but the Bulwer-Lytton contest involves writing the most absurd opener you can think of and submitting it to the contest. It's not a judgment like the Razzies or the bad sex in books award or something; it's a game. Diana Murtaugh of Baltimore is to be congratulated for this win.

dragongirl218

@pangur-and-grim

I feel like you'd have a great shot at this contest

batmanisagatewaydrug

friend of mine recommended a video essay that's like 5 hours long about why it's currently a whole Thing for fascists to claim they only eat meat and demonize vegetables etc etc, and it's genuinely quite well researched in many places and contains some fascinating history and has made me feel very weird about my status as an adult who enjoys drinking milk. but I've not finished it and I genuinely don't know if I will because at one point the ol' "you can't say you care about animals and also eat animals" chestnut got dropped by the white vegan essayist and it put such a bad taste in my mouth that I had to leave instantly

batmanisagatewaydrug

like idk man it just feels genuinely parodic to dedicate hours to analyzing how foodways have frequently been used as white supremacist propaganda and then casually toss out an argument that pretty invariably demonizes indigenous hunting practices with 0 regard for traditional knowledge and land stewardship guiding those practices

deramin2

Every time I hear a white vegan say that I want to throw the rubble of the Klamath Dams at them.

The largest dam removal in U.S. history. So successful that the salmon that haven’t run freely in the river for literally over a century came back the next year. Not steady progress over a decade as expected, the very next salmon run they came home. No one alive saw salmon in that river outside the hatcheries kept by native’s tribes and the Department of Fish And Wildlife scientists desperately trying to save them. One of the activists who helped bring the suit spoke of their dying grandmother making them promise to bring the fish home, and they didn’t know how that was possible, but they spent decades doing it.

The legal basis for successfully suing the power company who owned the dams was Indigenous treaty rights to eat the fish. Eating the fish was the one thing in a century that succeeded in being a clear and legally binding right that superseded the desires of white capital and industry. I have been going to the public interest environmental law conference off and on for 20 years where a lot of organizing for Undam The Klamath happened. I’ve heard updates about every legal tact they tried as they happened, and they tried everything.

There are healthy, thriving salmon, trout, and lamprey in a rewilding and recovering Klamath River right now as a direct result of Indigenous people eating them. Of their legally binding right to eat them. They sure as fuck care more about those fish than any white vegan ever could. They are salmon people that the Creator sent Salmon to feed, while charging the People with protecting and stewarding them. It’s not possible to learn about salmon and trout in the Pacific Northwest without learning this, and it’s unambiguously racist to dismiss this symbiotic relationship.

The white vegans are trying to get all hunting and fishing banned in Oregon, and that’s quite possibly the single most catastrophic thing that could be done to the animals here because we killed off all the major predators of creatures like deer and without anything hunting them their numbers will explode, eat all the vegetation, destroy the ecosystem, and then die along with everything else in that failing ecosystem. Controlled hunting of deer is vitally necessary for the deer to survive. This is something Native people know, but patronizing racist savior-complex white people refuse to listen to.

I have a whole collection of Oregon’s Public Broadcasting’s documentaries about Klamath River or the larger story of fish and people in the region. If you watch nothing else, watch Klamath Dams Are Coming Out, First Salmon Ceremony, After The Dams, and First Decent (Native made). It could not be clearer that the salmon are being protected and nourished by the people who eat them, and that stewardship is a massive part of their creation myths. But it contradicts political vegan dogma so they don’t listen.

The Klamath River Runs Free

supreme-leader-stoat

#also do you have any idea how much conservation is funded by people who want to eat those animals#at least in the us anytime someone buys ammo or hunting equipment or hunting licenses that money goes directly to state wildlife agencies

synech-doche

to be able to ethically rpf, you must be able to take the rpf glasses off. unfortunately, many people have gotten rpf laisik and are ruining everyone else’s experience

sunny-draws-things

GUYS PIRATING IS BAD.

DO NOT PIRATE ANYTHING. NOT SHOWS/MOVIES. NOT GAMES OR SAFER GAMES. AND CERTAINLY NOT BOOKS. AND DO NOT DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOS. AND NEVER EVER EVER WATCH MUSICALS WITHOUT GOING TO THEM AND DONT USE ADBLOCKERS/OTHER ADBLOCKER TO AVOID ADS AND VIRUSES PIRATING IS VERY HARMFUL TO THE CORPORATIONS WHO WORKS VERY HARD TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE AND THEIR MONEY. ANYONE WHO PIRATES IS BAD. BAD PIRATING. EVIL. OH AND THIS

solmarillion

i hate how much people care about their ships being "canon" now. spirk fans didn't publish zines full of fanfics in the 70s only for modern fandom to grovel at the knees of corporations and beg for things to be canon. use your imaginations, don't allow billionaires to think for you.

spin-the-wheel-polls

you were almost turned into a vampire, but before you could be fully turned, the vampire was staked. This left you with a vampire weakness, while still being human.

Spin the wheel to find out your weakness!

How much does this effect you?

Nothing changes

It's inconvenient but I can deal with jty

It will be hard to adjust but I'll figure it out

I don't know if I'll be able to live like this

Maybe I can find another vampire to finish the turning?

I might just kill myself

Results/other

Remaining time: 2 days 21 hours

thanks @theemmjay for submitting this poll idea!! Seriously it's such a cool concept I love it so much

#Cannot walk on holy ground #Hard to adjust #Not that I'm particularly religious but I do a lot of work in churches #As I type this I'm sitting outside of a graveyard where a theatre piece is taking place

flowercrowncrip

A quick guide for trans people who are using/ forced to use the disabled toilet due to transphobic bullshit in the UK when you wouldn’t otherwise need to do so. From a transgender wheelchair user who has given this topic a lot of thought.

Remember you are a guest in this space. I don’t know a single person who would rather you shit yourself or get assaulted than use the disabled toilet, but please remember that these toilets are built and designed for disabled people after a huge amount of campaigning and activism.

Don’t touch or move things you don’t need to. If you’re not familiar with how things work or why they are where they are just leave it be. The position of a bin might not mean anything to you but it could be really important to a wheelchair user who needs to change their tampon. Don’t touch things like grab rails either – while they’re fairly tough and you’re unlikely to cause any damage it’s not impossible and if you don’t touch it, you can’t break it.

Related, but important enough to have its own point: please don’t touch the red cord. Do not tie it up, do not wrap it around anything, don’t tuck it behind a bin. Don’t touch it (The only exception to this is to untie a cord that’s been tied up) If the cord doesn’t fall freely to the floor it could prevent a disabled person calling for help in an emergency. If you’re worried about accidentally pulling it there’s almost always at least one reset button in there with you. Press that and it cancels the alarm.

If possible allow other people waiting to go first. A lot of disabilities, both visible and less apparent, can cause problems with incontinence, urgency or pain that make it difficult for someone to wait to use the toilet. If there’s someone else in the queue and you are able to do so, offering to let them go first might really help them out.

If you want to get a radar key, get it from disability rights UK or give a small donation to a disability charity (again only if you’re able to). I’ve seen a couple of trans orgs giving away free radar keys and it’s unclear how they are being sourced. Knockoffs are common but only “real” RADAR keys are from Disability Rights UK and any profits help fund their charity work. Bear in mind that most disabled people also have to pay for these keys which are about £5. (Disability Rights UK say their keys are to be sold to disabled people or organisations only, this is a legal thing they have to say about VAT relief. There is no real way of following up how disabled someone who buys a radar key is because you don’t need to claim any benefits to be eligible for VAT relief and keys are a low value item that isn’t worth anyone looking into when things like adapted cars exist. Be gay, do crime, support disabled people having rights.)

Know the difference between a standard accessible toilet and a changing places toilet. Don’t use a changing places toilet if there is any other safe option. These have a different symbol and are bigger and fitted with extra equipment for severely disabled people and our carers. That equipment is more sensitive than anything you’ll find in a standard accessible toilet so if you do find yourself in one touch nothing. Especially don’t move the hoist (lifting equipment) as it can cause it to run out of power and make the whole space functionally useless if it’s not in the right space on the track. (To be fair this is an unlikely scenario as there aren’t that many of these toilets, but just in case)

Don’t suggest renaming accessible toilets. They’re primarily there for disabled people who can’t use an alternative, and disabled people will be looking for an accessible toilet. For most spaces you can look for an accessible toilet and have a good chance of finding a gender neutral space, but that doesn’t work the other way around. Calling it an “inclusive toilet” or “gender neutral toilet” tells me absolutely nothing about whether my wheelchair will fit.

northern-punk-lad

You are taking the piss the country in a drought and our government decided in the emergency meeting the best solution… ban portable bbq

dappercyborg

I mean this is just a straight up good move, Arthur’s seat has burned again this year I could see the smoke from my home and it was started by one of these, it doesn’t do anything for drought but that’s a different issue than this, the best way to deal with fire has always been prevention

#Yeah I actually agree with this #Multiple mountains in Ireland were set on fire during the summer and these are the chief suspect for the cause #A kid got third degree burns because he sat on the sand where someone had previously had one of these #And the sand had absorbed all the heat #People don't know how to use the safety of dispose of them properly #They should be banned #(now a lot to be said for whether this is the only action they're taking)#But this isn't a bad ban

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