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[gypsythorn13]

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[gypsythorn13]

So making progress finally

Because of the plan I'll probably keep most of it under wraps but

And it's not a case of unreliable narrator either the people fully believe everything is going on is real

That said I absolutely hate plotting and would not be trying to attempt anything close if I didn't have a time limit I even tried using guides for plot structure and my best friend says I shouldn't be allowed to write romance because I don't understand the point of feeling empathy for the characters at the beginning of the story (seems a waste to me)

So instead because I tried staring at my laptop for 40 mins without typing anything to start i couldn't figure out any big events or inciting incidents or anything so I gave up doing it that way

So I started on my spiral notebook and now I have 6 pages written and the set up for chapter 2 figured out

Writing is weird

[gypsythorn13]

Well the good news is that working on my story and actually having a set number of chapters is helping I plan that have at least 25 there's about a halfway point in mind at chapter 12 it's good stuff

However sticking to a schedule is gonna kill me working on it in the morning is good but I planned to get the first chapter done today which did not happen I got maybe half a page done and then thought hey there's not much comedy and at the end of the chapter my comic relief character is going to juvie crap might need him so he's coming back later and I start writing when he comes back because it was in my brain 3 and a half pages later I still haven't touched chapter 1 but I'm feeling great about chapter 10

[misa-chan13]

I have been working on it it took me two days to get chapter 1 typed up (second draft) and I stopped because chapter 2 is not even done AND IF YOU THINK I FINISHED IT YOU'RE DAMN WRONG I did a bit more and then 2 pages of chapter 7 and I cannot decide something about chapter 7 that's bugging me

[dearreader]

i love hearing how my mutuals found taylor’s music. swifties, sound off in the tags how you found taylor’s music.

for me it was a boring summer day and “journey to fearless” came on the tv on the channel “the hub” and i became obsessed with her. my sister already liked her a bit before but she said after i found her it was different and the rest is history.

[depsidase]

[boyd-stevens]

MATILDA 1996, dir. Danny DeVito

[misa-chan13]

I was desperate for this as a kid

[youtube-privacy-union]

GraphenOS user flagged by age verification company Yoti, same company that is partnering with PlayStation for their age verification, and were reported to the authorities (allegedly)

source

According to the user, they tried to verify their age to get into the PlayStation network

Which failed 10 times, costumer support was contacted

The support said

"Due to past security concerns, Yoti automatically flags multiple verification attempts and any devices running GrapheneOS. These instances are automatically reported to both the authorities and our security team."

Translation: "Due to past security concerns, Yoti automatically flags multiple verification attempts as well as any device running GrapheneOS. These cases are automatically reported to the authorities as well as to our security team."

“The user had provided their real identity documents. They hadn't bypassed anything. It's Yoti's system that appears to have failed to process them.”

Why?

“GrapheneOS restricts camera and biometric APIs. A scan that works on stock Android can fail in a loop on GrapheneOS. The repeated failure isn't fraud. It's a technical incompatibility.”

The OS isn’t banned

“It's a hardened open-source Android OS, used by journalists, lawyers, security researchers, and people like you and me who care about their security.”

“But for Yoti, using it is enough to classify you as a suspect. On what grounds?

Either Yoti actually reports someone, somewhere, for using a legal OS. Or it's boilerplate language designed to scare.

In either case, it's a problem.”

“If it's real: no text requires an age verification provider to report to law enforcement a user detected on GrapheneOS. It's a unilateral policy with no identifiable legal basis.

If it's a bluff: threatening a user with a fictional legal procedure is an unfair business practice in most jurisdictions.”

This reveals that people using alternative OS are going to be treated as suspicious

“At every step, we'll be told it's for security, for the children, for fighting fraud, for compliance. But in the end, the result will be the same: the user seeking to protect themselves will have to justify it, while the fully trackable user will be considered normal.”

“If Yoti confirms this practice, we will need to ask on what legal basis this reporting rests, which authorities are the recipients, what data is transmitted, how many users are affected, how long this information is retained, and what remedies are offered to falsely reported individuals.

And if Yoti does not confirm it, we will need to explain why its support was able to write such a thing to a user.”

[hannahhook7744]

URGENT: We’re one bad D.C. deal away from the era of online government censorship.

Congress and the White House are negotiating your online speech rights away. Tell lawmakers: reject KOSA, NO FAKES, and age-verification man

[youtube-privacy-union]

McDonald’s new AI drive through role out begins

McDonald's Begins Rollout Of New AI Dive-Thru, And It's Not Going Well - AOL

AI is rapidly being rolled out across multiple professions, replacing jobs previously occupied by human beings. Algorithmic counterparts are

“In five selected stores around the US, the new AI has been deployed and tested.

According to their post, they have already taken over a million orders using the new technology, with an impressive 90% needing no human intervention.”

“This is the second time that McDonald's has rolled out an AI replacement for its drive-thru staff, with the previous model being pulled due to multiple issues that made it less effective than just using a person.

They are confident that this time it will be a success.

The burger restaurant has said that they will begin implementing the AI rollout across millions of stores in the coming months, installing the necessary tools for the project.

They plan for every McDonald's in the US to switch to the new system.”

“The AI model won't just replace the spoken element of the order, either. It has multi-stage assistance that will help the kitchen do their job more efficiently, hopefully speeding up the order process and ensuring food is fresher for the customers.”

The announcement, shared on X, states, "Archy will not only assist drive-thru orders but act as a master brain to help managers run a better restaurant. It's like a personal assistant that alerts you to potential bottlenecks or issues."

“A smart weight system will weigh an order before it leaves the window to ensure everything is being delivered.

Additionally, a geofencing system will be used to alert the kitchen staff to when a customer is approaching so they can have the food ready to go and as fresh as possible.”

no one is happy

“People aren't very receptive to human-speaking roles being replaced by algorithms. Removing the human element may save a company like McDonald's money in the long run, but people don't particularly like the change.”

One person has said

"Just so your company, McDonald's, and anyone reading this understand: We all hate the system installed at Wendy's. We hate the kiosks at McDonald's, Wendy's, and Taco Bell that we are asked to use instead of talking to a person. We will hate this too. Say goodbye to customers."

McDonald's Begins Rollout Of New AI Dive-Thru, And It's Not Going Well

[misa-chan13]

Guess I'm going to BK then

[daydreamhertunes]

Visit Original Link

Holocene — Bon Iver

… and at once I knew I was not magnificent Strayed above the highway aisle (Jagged vacance, thick with ice) I could see for miles, miles, miles

[youtube-privacy-union]

Federal prosecutors tried to gain subscriber data, which was refused by a judge

DOJ Sought YouTube Subscriber Data

The protection this judge offered could vanish the moment every account carries a verified government ID.

“Federal prosecutors went looking for the personal details of everyone who subscribed to three YouTube channels and a judge refused to let them.

Newly unsealed court records from the Justice Department’s prosecution of people who disrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota show the government reaching for subscriber data that had little to do with the conduct it was investigating.”

“Journalists and commentators Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were charged as part of the disruption, though both allege they were there as reporters rather than participants.”

This happened in February

“prosecutors filed five search warrants. Three of them asked YouTube to turn over the names, mailing addresses, residential addresses, business addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, and IP addresses for every subscriber to channels run by Lemon, Fort, and activist William Kelly, whose channel goes by DaWoke Farmer.”

“The applications, sworn out by Homeland Security Investigations agent Timothy Gerber, went beyond the journalists and activists running the channels.

They swept toward the audience, the ordinary people whose only link to the case was having clicked the channels’ subscribe button.

Magistrate Judge John Docherty rejected all five, several of them for lack of probable cause.

On the warrant aimed at Kelly’s channel, Docherty pointed to a video that “appears to be paradigmatic political speech protected by the First Amendment.”

A demand that treats a list of viewers as evidence turns watching journalism or activism into a reason to be identified by the state, which is a steep price for pressing play on a livestream.”

They tried again March

“This time they cut the request down to the channel owners themselves, dropping the demand for subscriber rosters and asking only for the same categories of identifying data on the three named people.”

The massive problem that creates is that YouTube is trying to force you to give away your ID or face to them

If a court can just ask for your private information, their gonna be able to see that ID and link that channel to you

It’s the biggest problem with age verification

“Strip away any identity system and a YouTube subscriber list is a loose pile of usernames, email addresses, and IP addresses, the kind of data the government still has to fight a judge for and, here, lost.

Add a mandatory identity system and that same list becomes a register of verified legal identities, pre-collected, standardized, and sitting on a server waiting for a subpoena. The work the DOJ failed to do by warrant gets done in advance by compliance.

The systems being built to answer “are you old enough?” are the same systems that can answer “who are you?” and “what did you look at?” A verifier that confirms your age can log the request.”

[mxnrique]

HAPPY PRIDE

[misa-chan13]

come on trumps copied everything else he did

[afurioushawk]

Have we gotten an answer about why his dump truck is protruding like that?

[prismatic-bell]

Diaper has been confirmed.

I'm not going to make fun of the diaper (some people are incontinent, it sucks and has nothing to do with their character), but I am going to express concern over his hands and stomach. He's either on water pills or suffering from some kind of organ damage. My grandmother had congestive heart failure. I'm all too familiar with what fluid retention looks like.

That is a man who is dying.

[fractalhawthorn]

Oh yeah, the fluid retention is my biggest takeaway. Toward the end my grandma held water like crazy. Bad edema, until finally she began to whither away. I'd definitely say he has an undisclosed heart issue (also based on those meds hes taking). Incontinence isn't funny, but it is ironic that the people who said Biden was incompetent seem to have no issue with this. I'd also say cognitive decline (dementia or alzheimers in the beginning stages) due to his taking three tests in the last fifteen months.

The takeaway MAGA should be asking is not whether is results are good. It's why he has needed THREE in the last fifteen months.

[prismatic-bell]

Oh it is absolutely not in beginning stages. If you want to see something terrifying, look up any interview with him in the first part of the 1990s, then a clip from The Apprentice, then any of his rallies from 2015/2016. Then look at any speech now. He's always been repugnant, but in the 1990s he was very articulate. By The Apprentice--which we know from crewmembers was edited for clarity--the cracks were already there, albeit very well camouflaged. By the time of his first campaign they were starting to show.

He's sundowning. The only question is how rapidly it's happening.

[olderthannetfic]

Agree with "shounen manga will usually panders young boys, so they have more focus on male character"

But

Fairy tail, one of the biggest and olderish manga, had Lucy as main character who narates early chapters. It is famous with ecchi, but also have equal ammount of male character fanservice. She is not a "healer" type character either, but a summoner mage whose one of her summon is a hot guy that is ship teased with her. She even get ship teased a lot with bunch of men too.

Iirc, some of the mangaka's female assistant ended up being mangaka who branches out to make romance manga for shounen/seinen genre too, where female characters have more time to shine and also again, another fanservicey stuff with male characters.

I am not denying that shounen manga have more teenage boys in mind because how corpo works, but it is not like female main character shounen where some of them get involved in the fights were never there and never worked, without it being all girls only casts kind of stuff.

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[terrific-togekiss]

[gingerbug]

step 1. get everyone in the world to want to fuck me

step 2. vow of celibacy

[whitefireprincess]

CLOE

[kylieminvogue]

"COLUMBO" S1E5 - "Dead Weight"

[afurioushawk]

[afurioushawk]

[frustratedasatruar]

Real and growing possibility of him dying live on tv and nobody in the room noticing for minutes on end.

Likes charge, reblogs cast.

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!