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My name's Laura. Pan/Queer/basically anything but straight. She/her pronouns. This blog contains a mix of fandom related things and social politics. Fandoms include: Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, Carmilla, as well as a bunch of other shows. Also a huge soccer nerd (especially when it comes to the USWNT) so be prepared for massive amounts of blogging about that, especially on game days. If you have any questions feel free to send me an ask. Hope you have fun following this blog!

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[pervocracy]

How to hack any hospital computer

-Use the password taped to the monitor

How to hack any hospital computer (L337 version for advanced security systems)

-Use the password taped to the back of the monitor

[dysgraphicprogrammer]

As a computer guy: This is what happens when you have too much security. It reaches a tipping point and then suddenly you have none. Security at the cost of convenience comes at the cost of security.  

[pervocracy]

This is true of so many things in healthcare.  Example: our software is designed to automatically alert the doctor if a patient’s vital signs are critically out of range.  If someone has a blood pressure of 200/130, the doc gets a pop-up box that they have to acknowledge before doing anything else.  It makes sense, in our setting.

But then some mega-genius upstairs realized something: the system was only alerting for critical vital signs, but not for all vital signs that could possibly be bad.  Like, yeah, 200/130 is potentially life-threatening, but 130/90 is above ideal and can have negative effects on health.  Should the doctors be allowed to just ignore something that could negatively affect a patient’s health?  Heavens no!

So now the system generates a pop-up for any vital signs that are even slightly abnormal.  A pressure of 120/80 (once considered textbook normal, now considered slightly high) will create the pop-up.  We have increased our vigilance!

Well, no, what we’ve actually done is train doctors to click through a constant bombardment of pop-ups without looking.  We’ve destroyed their vigilance and made it much easier for them to accidentally skim past life-threatening vital signs.

But you can’t tell that to management, because you’d have to confess that you are a flawed human with limited attention resources.  They’d tell you “well, all the other doctors take every abnormal vital sign seriously, it sounds like you’re being negligent.”  And if you’re smart, you back down before you start telling the big boss all about your habit of ignoring critical safety alerts.

The end result is exactly the same as if we had no alerts at all, except with more annoying clicking.

[niiwa-angel]

The other issue is that most computer security is designed by people who will never work the jobs if those using their security systems.

No nurse has the mental bandwidth to remember 15 different passwords to 15 different computers. They have to remember which patients need what, who’s getting what medication when, who’s allergic to penicillin, and a million other things. Of course the passwords are going to be written on a piece of paper by the computers, they need to move fast.

My college apartment building made their fire alarms super sensitive, with the idea being that it would stop people from smoking in the units. What it actually did was set the damn things off all the time while people were cooking. So most people in the building just put cling film over their smoke alarms to stop them from reacting to regular cooking and would just take it off for an inspection.

[notexactlywonderland]

The fire alarm story makes a really good point because, this isn’t just a problem with computer security, it’s a much bigger problem of, corporate workers thinking they know better than the people who actually do the job.

I deal with this a lot, as a truck driver. Trucks are being built with a lot of new, fancy safety features that sound really nice to the corporate people who buy the trucks and the insurance companies that offer discounts for having them on the truck. The problem? All of those devices are designed, and tested, under perfectly ideal conditions and those are the only conditions they work under.

My favorite example is the system my current truck has that automatically steers the truck, if it thinks I’m too close to a line. Within the first month of having that, I nearly killed someone riding a bike because, when I merged, to go around them, the truck saw the line and tried to steer back into the lane.

The reality of these new systems is that trucks now have a lot of alarms that frequently set off when there’s not actually anything wrong. Most drivers are now constantly monitoring the ones that can be turned off, which is taking their attention away from the road. The ones that can’t be turned off, are so loud, and annoying, that we’re now seeing a major increase in drivers having anger issues (that’s not something you want a truck driver to have BTW). Meanwhile, a lot of people, in some office, are patting themselves on the back for the system they designed that works great, on a closed road, in California, in perfect weather

[dismalzelenka]

I’m an Uber driver, and I got dinged on a driver safety alert for braking too quickly one time.

The reason I slammed my brakes?

A piss-drunk guy ran out in front of me on a one way street downtown lmfao

I was like sure Uber I’ll just hit him next time you can handle my legal fees I guess ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[scrollingdown]

[trashboat]

i go absolutely ape shit buck wild when people ask me if i want to run errands with them like Let’s Fucking Go. and my mind absolutely maxes out of dopamine when they ask if i wanna stop for coffee. and if someone took me to the park id go bonkers in funcking yonkers

[trashboat]

i got so high last night that i started ghostwriting for a golden retriever apparently

[stupidlittlespirit]

This is so silly but I'm watching a short video essay on sincerity in cinema and the creator is talking about how he watched Lord of the Rings for the first time at 17. He explains that he'd grown so used to the 'ironic' meta style commentary in the movies of the 2010's that as he was watching the opening narration of LotR, he spent the entire time waiting for the joke to come. For someone to take it all back with a zinger line. He listened to Blanchett describe and explain the backstory, and he waited for the other comedic shoe to drop.

And he kept doing it. Scene after scene.

He spent the film expecting someone to make a joke about how unserious things were or to break the fourth wall or do some other self referential type thing.

Now, maybe I'm just at that point in my cycle or maybe I'm too delicate in general, but I literally teared up hearing that. Straight up cried a bit. It is so fucking sad that sincerity and genuineness is being bred out of people.

People say all the time 'this generation can't take anything seriously!' and really, is it any wonder? Younger people have been trained out of it. You are no longer encouraged to be genuine or show emotion or be honest. You are actively punished for it. In fact, you are almost guaranteed to suffer for it.

That is so fucked up. I'm sorry to go on a bit of a random ramble rant but it's so fucking gut wrenching to see younger people lose that element of themselves. You can't express your passion without being told you're 'crashing out' or 'cringe'. You have to live in this neutral state of fear of perception, and god forbid anybody step outside of it!

You're told you should only consume and succumb and be ironic and emotionless and cool.

Listen, if you're following me and you're like.... 25 or under, let's say. Please. I beg of you. Do not fall for this rhetoric. Please, for the love of all things, feel. Feel and create and be honest with yourself. Indulge in things that make you happy. Be sincere. Wear your heart on your sleeve. Do not let this hyper-capitalistic, hyper-consumerist, self-centred, individualist culture take that from you.

Bleed yourself into the work you create. Live. Don't fucking let anyone tell you different.

[anexperimentallife]

[ayagdos]

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[moonfox-mumbles]

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[pt: DO NOT TAKE THIS SURVEY]

The Same Dark Money Behind Project 2025 Is Bankrolling A Northwestern Study Recruiting Trans Kids

Project 2025 outright calls on conservatives to fund and manufacture more “studies” on the “negative” effects of trans-affirming care.

[reishi-is-tired]

guess we need to be circulating this psa again. This Is A Fucking Trap. Do Not Participate.

[prokopetz]

"It doesn't help your credibility to exaggerate, most employers wouldn't literally work you to death" like, I used to work in distribution. If booking a truck driver for back to back shifts until they fall asleep at the wheel, crash, and die counts as being worked to death, I have personally met employers who've worked employees to death and gotten away with a slap on the wrist. It may not be universal, but it's a hell of a lot more common than a lot of us would prefer to think.

[backofthebookshelf]

The FAA had to explicitly make rules about how long pilots have to have off between shifts, and how far away from their home you can pin their home airport, because it doesn't mean shit that someone has 10 hours between shifts if they have a 2 hour commute each way. They had to make these rules because multiple passenger airplanes crashed because the pilots were exhausted from tight scheduling. Employers won't just work you to death, they'll take a hundred random customers with you.

[lordgolden]

Happy belated Workers’ Memorial Day, celebrated April 28th

[pusheen]

[socialistexan]

Same exact playbook, down to the "but it was based on a lie."

[theabigailthorn]

literally the same people doing it as well

I cannot overstate how much the modern conversion therapy movement is about 50 people who all have names and addresses and who simply will. not. fuck. off.

[pastafossa]

"If only there was a way other than AI to talk to my favorite characters and OCs!"

[souliebird]

bring back character ask blogs

[lookingforgrandermaybes]

Don't work in public sector if you remotely have a heart and the least bit of whimsy. If the system doesn't beat it out of you, your coworkers will.

[r--g--b]

[r--g--b]

for those unaware, it also means this guy is the creative director of infowars now

[saucysage]

wear robes do magic serve cunt

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

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[probuccalfat]

i cannot stand when women in their twenties crying over pushing thirty or even reaching 25. i fall for it too, but then i come to my senses. i dont know how to tell my girlfriends that they are pushing the agenda that the pedophilic elite want. i believe i'll be the hottest when i reach my thirties and ill only get hotter from then on out. i want to be a womannnnn

it’s insane to me how many women have bought into the idea that they’re “pushing 30” and glamorize their 20s while simultaneously railing against the idea that women hit the wall or are over the hill at 30, talk about how their 20s are full of uncertainty and insecurity, and do not seem to put together the pieces that it ties back into the pedophilic status quo of these eternally young, naive, unestablished girl-women. it’s especially baffling to me because ime all the women i know in their 30s, 40s, 50s are visibly the most confident, sexy, fun, free, and charming women in every room—like you just talk to women and realize that your 20s ain’t shit and how hot and secure you are from your 30s on.

[marisatomay]

he had it coming

[animentality]

Link to the gay porn library of Alexandria.

Happy pride.