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Just your average girl. I like quilting, gardening, tortoises, video games, D&D/Pathfinder, and above all else, POKEMON. I suck at coding so sorry for the sucky layout. :P ALWAYS OPEN FOR BATTLES: FC: 2380-3089-2040 NOW OFFICALY A GYM LEADER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL POKEMON LEAGUE!!! Taking official challenges starting July 1st. If you want to start an official challenge and battle me (as well as other Gym Leaders), register at their BLOG! AND CHECK OUT MY OFFICIAL BATTLE SIDE-PAGE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL POKEMON LEAGUE HERE!!!!

[coelii]

[walmart-the-official]

Y’ALL!!

[mateodoodle]

THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!

Jack Dorsey funded this with his nonprofit AndOtherStuff. The home page for the organization explicitly lists AI as one of its pillars, saying a goal is "making NOSTR the best social protocol for open source AI development and implementation"

A collaborative Nostr funding initiative to develop strategic pillars for the Nostr ecosystem

What is open source AI?

It's a program that publicly shares its code for free online, so that anyone can use it for themselves. This means that anything this AI is trained on could eventually make its way into any business, social media site, etc. That uses this code. Or, if not, it'll have the ability to harvest content as well as this.

Even since the app doesn't allow AI openly on the videos themselves, the app is likely to use our original content to train its AI. You might have seen that some AI have experienced a positive feedback loop of declining quality, training itself on other AI slop until anything it produces is unintelligible.

This is likely an attempt to prevent that in video format

Then, any other company that wants to use the code can use this better trained AI to make it even harder to recognize AI across the board.

You can read about the connection to AndOtherStuff, as well as the developers' reasons for the project here:

Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive | TechCrunch

Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of six-second, looping videos. A new app called diVine will give

TLDR; do not give Jack Dorsey any credit for this, do not download the app, and tell others not to either. It's a nostalgia-bait attempt at fueling another AI model

[adragonsoulart-blog]

Hey, the ACLU is getting people to send letters to your Reps to have Congress pass the No Kings Act.

This act would make constitutional amendments to ensure that even sitting presidents are held liable for their actions. That NOBODY is above the law.

Their goal is 150k messages sent and at the time of writing this they're about 2.1k off from that goal!

ACLU gives you a prefilled message that you can edit to send to make the process easier, and will send it out for you.

Tell Congress: America Elects Presidents, Not Kings

The Supreme Court declared that criminal law doesn’t apply when you’re Donald Trump or any other president using the powers of the office. D

This only takes a few minutes!

[heyatleastitsnotcancer]

Tell the Census: Nothing About Us Without Us

The Census Bureau proposed changes to the disability questions in the American Community Survey that will have a negative impact on the data

So the US government is trying to redefine what disability means on the new US cenus and it would cut what qualifies as a disability significantly. If this happens, it will further limit access and funding for necessary disability services. This will impact millions. The government is accepting feedback on the census changes. This link allows you to send an email (already written but you can add what you'd like) explaining why this is not acceptable.

It takes less than a minute and all you need is your email, name, and city. Please do this if you're in the US. This could harm millions of disabled Americans.

[heyatleastitsnotcancer]

They're only taking feedback until December 19th. Today is the 18th. Please fill out the form and spread this around. Millions of Americans will be harmed if this goes through.

[classycookiexo]

[capricorn-born]

Oddly specific. Got a deposit for 6,837 today

[weaselle]

fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes

May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love

[vmohlere]

May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love

[insecateur]

👇👇👇 look at my dog 👇👇👇

👆👆👆 look at my dog 👆👆👆

[insecateur]

IT'S HIS BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!!!!!!

LOOK AT MY DOG

[girlcodedhamlet]

alright for the millionth time I'm seeing yet another author I admire talk about how they literally can barely afford to live & yet there are people openly admitting to pirating their books so, like

i guess it needs to be said again

pirating books is not the same as pirating your favourite Disney movie or whatever. book piracy kills author's incomes and can genuinely ruin someone's career

[daemonmatthias]

Textbooks and other research materials being paywalled by greedy fucking publishing houses who won't pay any of that money to the authors anyway? Pirate them.

Novel written by an author and published through a regular publishing house? BORROW FROM A LIBRARY or buy outright. Do not pirate. The sales/borrow numbers OUTRIGHT determines pay to the author, whether their next book gets greenlit or cancelled, etc.

[stephaniematurin]

Multi-volume series that you want to read the end of? BUY OR LIBRARY.

[porcupine-girl]

You can get ebooks and audiobooks through your library! Don’t pirate books!

[thislittlekumquat]

And if your library doesn't have something? Ask a librarian if they can get it for you. Very frequently, especially these days, public libraries end up with some combination of bulk package deals that have titles determined by the publisher or another library authority, and patron-driven acquisiton, which means they are happy to hear requests for things, even if they can't immediately get it for you. Interlibrary loan also exists to fill the gaps.

[iron-fifty-nine]

Just making sure this is very fucking clear

[only-tiktoks]

[luna-writes-stuff]

my contribution to the ten year anniversary of the mishapocalypse

[cynfulembrace-deactivated202602]

[dj-crack]

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[anneemay]

[urfavhatesterfs]

YOU hates terfs

[switchingtogeico]

[captainhaterade]

[stankpasta]

rb if u hates terfs

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

[ventraman]

This could save your life.

[instructor144]

BOOST.

[aqueous2]

Absolutely vital information to have if you live where the waters freeze over.

I especially appreciate this guy's commitment to actually showing the steps himself. That cold-shock response is a bitch and willingly subjecting himself to it couldn't have been fun.

[marlynnofmany]

I don’t live anywhere near water like this, but I am still memorizing this knowledge because:

* I might use it in a story someday.

* Any knowledge that staves off the dying is good knowledge.

[appointment78]

translation from turkish the guy: are you hungry? are you really hungry? didn’t they feed you in the street? you poor thing. let me give you something then. come. come. do you like spleen? it’s hematinic. (this sentence wasn’t the exact translation but it’s the best i can come up with) like this look. let me give you some spleen. this much. is this enough? get it.

this is so cute. I love the butcher chatting away and the cat responding, him pulling out a package of meat and showing it, just like he’s dealing with any customer. 

[randomslasher]

one of those posts that makes me happy every time I see it

[elosoquelee]

A bitter sweet update to this video, the cat passed away :( But there is a silver lining. The Butcher, sad and despondent took her body in and buried in his garden in a little grave.

And to honor his friend he added this to his shop.

[leftovergarlicbread]

[balkanica]

STOP IM CRYING

[cargopantsman]

but the little sign saying

Jade the cat known all over the world rest in peace here.

😭