a genuine kuzu

Kuzu bmuchsaz kuzu

[kuttithevangu]

https://parade.com/books/best-reads/best-young-adult-books-of-all-time

My mother told me I wasn’t bragging enough about being on Parade Magazine’s 101 Best YA of all time list, so here I am again to say indeed ANGELS made the cut (with thanks to my local indie bookseller cheerleaders). Uriel and Little Ash: the GOATS

[kuttithevangu]

Anzu got vaccinated and now him tired

[thegorgonist]

Secret Sea Cave

Missed Mermay 2026 but just in time for Pride! A mermaid and a pirate queen meeting for a secret tryst!

Prints in my shop!

[kuttithevangu]

These are my children, Aron, Cleffa, and Alcreamie

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

knife to your throat you have to name a newborn human baby after a pokemon, which pokemon are you picking

I'm going with Dratini idc I think it has a cute flow

[odddogs]

North’s Embark Dog DNA Results

Embark dog DNA test - North wants to share his results with you!

god i love this guy, very muppety, i know watching this thing move has to be a transcendental experience

[kuttithevangu]

Gaylor still being extant after that utterly unlistenable song about Travis Kelce’s penis is a testament to the resilience of the ecosystem

[deadgenerations]

the reason people think LLMs are conscious is because they use natural language. we evolved to understand speech and to specifically understand speech as representative of the internal world of the speaker. the only creatures we spoke to were conscious. we evolved specifically to have greater empathy and kinship via conversation - the main way people come to understand each other and feel closer is still just talking.

all that has happened to dorkins is he has fallen into an evolutionary trap. the exact same trap that those tiktokers who believe their dog can talk to them by jumping on buttons have fallen into. because the buttons create a simulacrum of language, however crude, the listening brain itself constructs a simulacrum of the internal world of the perceived speaker. Because that is what it already evolved to do with the only available speakers in its evolutionary history!!!!!!

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

this seems like a confused post on a lot of levels - the Clever Hans effect, where animals are capable of reacting to unconscious cues that trick people into thinking they have command of language, is a very different situation from consciousness debates in LLMs. for one, we tend to think of animals as conscious, and two, LLMs have a great deal more facility with language than any of the animals triggering the Clever Hans effect.

LLMs are not passively reflecting or reacting to things they're presented with - they are capable of things like making novel mathematical discoveries. by most definitions for most of history, they are "intelligent" and capable of "thinking". the question of how this could be possible without consciousness is what is consuming Dawkins, and contrary to whatever people seem to be reacting to, he does not actually come down hard in favor of LLM consciousness and indeed suggests alternative explanations.

[nunuisancenewt]

If you are going to claim that Bunny the Dog etc are examples of “ The Clever Hans” effect, you are going to actually back that up somehow rather than merely asserting it. And it is very unclear how it could possibly be an example of The Clever Hans Effect.

For the peanut gallery, Clever Hans was a horse that could supposedly do math, he was asked simple math problems and then would stomp his hoof a number of times equal to the answer. He wasn’t actually doing math though, he was just stomping his feat continuously until his owner gave off micro-expressions that indicated he was satisfied with the answer, and then stopping.

Maybe you could suggest, while wandering around the buttons that the dogs( or pigs or cats etc) are responding to micro-expressions from there owners, and are stopping at certain intervals and pushing certain buttons in response to that, or are tracking there owners eye movement to certain buttons. But none of that would explain why the animal is going to the buttons in the first place. Clever Hans preformed a certain behavior in response to prompting by his master, Bunny is interacting with the button’s unprompted of her own volition. It’s not the same situation.

“Clever Hans” on its own is not substantial enough to explain the phenomenon of Bunny etc, it’s a dumb thought terminating dismissal from a half-remembered case study because you saw an animal communicating with its owner by tapping its feet and decided that was enough to connect two dots together.

[kuttithevangu]

Bunny has a strong reinforcement history of knowing that her owner will engage with her if she presses a button. Of course she goes to touch the buttons of her own accord! Her owner has shaped their entire life around responding positively to Bunny hitting a button!

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[astriiformes]

The other thing about meeting my wife on this website is I've seen multiple friends today reblog a post about how some mutuals you eventually transition to using their given name and some you never do, and the thing is. The woman I am legally married to is in the latter category.

[kuttithevangu]

I’ve been watching reality shows where boss bitches go to failing businesses and whip them into shape and I have developed a theory that if your personal pathology is hoarding you go into hospitality but if you choose to run a salon the personal pathology will be day drinking. Theoretically some people who own “family businesses” are not like this but the existence of the functional family business is purely theoretical and studied only by the most ambitious of deep-space physicists

[kuttithevangu]

One of you should adopt this dog so I can look at him more

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

literally two days after I reblogged this this dog showed up in my yard

reblog to spawn a dark brindle pit with white socks and chest splash within one week

[herpsandbirds]

South American Crested Toad (Rhinella margaritifera), family Bufonidae, Peru

photographs by Ignacio Yúfera

[himynameisemail]

[mrhealyourgirl]

the sinister sniler

[littlesweatermart]

(source)

[cuunos]

hey can everyone do me a favor and put in the tags why they chose their name? even if you don't go by a chosen name irl, you can put why you chose your online name.

[kuttithevangu]

Tumahfying my paw by giving a hearty wave to my friend Hanina the Leper of a morning