welcome

[mischievous-archeologist]

Pimmed Bost

[hall-of-the-mountain-queen]

have you started HRT

yes

ask me later

Voting ended onFeb 5

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

someone please ask again on May 1 after 5:00 PM

[mischievous-archeologist]

Have you started yet?

[leoreturns-deactivated20110811]

[tumboner]

leoreturns:

I have been waiting all year to post this.

omg

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[no-one-offical]

‎

[sagalibratic-deactivated2014080]

when a post you made that you thought died starts getting posts again

[sagalibratic-deactivated2014080]

theirs a bunch of fucking little shits that waited to reblog this and i will hunt every single one of them down

[mischievous-archeologist]

(:

[transarsonist]

You pull the lever every day, nothing appears to happen but over the next five years 300 people who would have gotten sick do not. 20 of them would have died, and so they do not.

There is a lot of science online informing you that this is what the lever does, but when you pull the lever everyone looks at you like you're paranoid when you pull it

[alexischloe]

[psych-is-the-name]

[unyieldingsilence]

‎ ‎

[entities-of-posts]

The Vast

[realm-of-clouds]

Cloud spotted

[gallifreyfieldsforever]

[lightyagami-offical]

I’m just gonna que this for a random date so I don’t remember this

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

happy ides of March

[psychosociogentleman-deactivate]

yo why is this on my dash its august

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

Yeah, why is this getting notes? It's August!

[dragonanarchist1155]

It's knife day

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

Oh

[thursday]

DAY 15

GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15

[fnaf-thechoco-deactivated201503]

You can only reblog this 12 times a year

Make the most of that

[jijarugen]

Every month I reblog this and every month I’m baffled that it’s already the 15th.

[pumpkindobby-blog]

I’m scheduling this for every month

[raise-me-up-take-me-up]

IT ONLY APPEARS ON THE FIFTEENTH OF EVRY MONTH

[lisianthoma]

THIS ONLY APPEARS ON 15THS WTF

[1800-sanders-sides]

*slams reblog button*

[guiltiest-gear]

Welp it’s that day again

[onlyjellyillputinmybelly]

Do people just have this queued or something`??

[official-firefox-nightly]

It’s still day 15 for like 8 minutes for me I didn’t fucking miss it

[yes-im-youtube-kids]

WOOP YOU GOT IN 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[chaos-triangle]

It’s the fifteenth an’ the anniversary o’ the Great Molasses Flood!

[goldenbunny30]

And annoy squidward day too

[algae122]

it is many things today

also the day I gained a gf

[goldenbunny30]

Woaw you got gf??? I proud of you :]

[transarsonist]

You pull the lever every day, nothing appears to happen but over the next five years 300 people who would have gotten sick do not. 20 of them would have died, and so they do not.

There is a lot of science online informing you that this is what the lever does, but when you pull the lever everyone looks at you like you're paranoid when you pull it

[alexischloe]

[aru]

Tumblr Code.

[geekishchic]

If I ever see any of you in public, the code is “I like your shoelaces”

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

always reblog tumblr identification

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[no-one-offical]

‎

[totally-cis-offical]

I finally get to see where it comes from!

[transarsonist]

You pull the lever every day, nothing appears to happen but over the next five years 300 people who would have gotten sick do not. 20 of them would have died, and so they do not.

There is a lot of science online informing you that this is what the lever does, but when you pull the lever everyone looks at you like you're paranoid when you pull it

[alexischloe]

[crabussy]

I have a lot to say on this but I'll keep it brief- I'm not fond of the no-nuance-kneejerk reaction a lot of people on here have to anything that even remotely involves AI. stay with me here. walk with me okay

[crabussy]

as someone who is staunchly against a LOT of AI usage, especially as an artist and a scientist, I can at least recognise its potential in a lot of really vital fields! we of course must always be wary and cognizant of the environmental impact many particular uses of AI can have, as well as the impact on peoples' livelihoods/ability to make an income.

but I keep seeing people say "don't use this guys it has AI :/" on my post about a very simple draw-your-own-horse website where a very simple pattern recognition AI is being used to (OPTIONALLY) filter out user submissions that aren't horses. I don't think this is as egregious as the generative AI that is plagiarising works and being used to create non-consensual imagery.

[crabussy]

I would love love love for people to use nuance at their own discretion when it comes to the use of AI in daily life. it's starting to appear everywhere. you won't be able to avoid every single usage of it, but you can learn to avoid the worst of it and understand when it is benign or even helpful.

[crabussy]

also hey, PLEASE let me know if you think differently! I am not omniscient I am just some guy and I may be totally off the mark here. if you reckon I'm wrong, I'll listen and consider it! I know this is a tricky topic. all I ask is that you'll be patient with each other in the notes of this post and please please do not assume the worst of random strangers. okay thank you bye love you

[douche-canoe-regatta]

What is lost?

Who gains?

These are the only questions you need to apply to an "AI" service. That's it!

Example: I helped train an AI program to sift through thousands of images taken by deep space telescopes and flag interesting objects. It took hundreds of volunteers almost a year, but now the AI is trained by us on data the scientists themselves supplied. What was lost? Nothing. Who gains? Everyone!

Now consider a generative AI imaging software. You feed it an idea, and it creates a mock-up based on existing artwork. What is lost? Well, the artists lose control over their work. Graphic artists and illustrators get pushed aside. People who may have been interested in exploring an art discipline opt for the easy way out where they learn nothing about creation or artistic intent. The images are often immediately scrapped, because who really cares? At the same time simply running the software pollutes the earth while stealing land, water, data and privacy.

Who gains? Well, the user gets a pretty picture. The corporation gets another peep at what makes them tick, and more importantly, how to monetize it. How they use that money is dubious at best - horrific at worst.

If you apply these questions to a simple AI game where people submit silly horses, nothing is lost AND we gain more silly horses!!

(also: who loses/who gains is applicable to pretty much any service or product, and it makes researching them much easier.)

[psych-is-the-name]

[radishnt]

which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water?

[mothman-misato]

y- you were putting it in cold water?????

[boimgfrog]

Radish. Answer the question radish.

[radishnt]

yeah??? i thought for like. 5 years that ppl just put it in hot water 2 speed up the tea-ification process didn’t realize there was an actual reason

[boimgfrog]

You dont have the patience to microwave water for 3 minutes???

[catsnraincoats]

[ID: Tags reading “u think i have the patience to boil water wtf ?????” /End ID]

why are you. putting it in the microwave to boil it

[boimgfrog]

Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the stove

[catsnraincoats]

Its takes less than a minute

[boimgfrog]

Bestie is ur stovetop powered by the fucking sun

[catsnraincoats]

How long does it take you to boil a cup of water on the stove

[boimgfrog]

Like seven minutes

[catsnraincoats]

Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat n it boils in like two minutes… less than that is u use a saucepan…

[boimgfrog]

Crying you’re putting the whole mug on the stove ???? On medium heat???? Ur stove is enchanted

[pidoop]

Every single person in this post is a fucking lunatic

[silverjirachi]

Yet another post that reads like four shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief

[wizardlyghost]

(Enter RADISHN’T, MOTHMAN MISATO, BOIMG FROG and CATS'N RAINCOATS, stage left. They are having a HEATED DISCUSSION.)

RADISHN’T: Prithee, which one of you had planned to tell

Of diff'rent flavours gained by simple act

Of brewing tea with water hot, not cold?

MOTHMAN: Egad! you poured the water cold? Wherefore?!

FROG: An answer from you, Radish, I must beg.

RADISHN’T: Indeed I did, dear friends - why does this shock?

Without the guide of others I assumed

That heat was merely added for the sake

Of expediting this solution’s brewing!

Half a decade I have spent, or more,

Not questioning this worldview I had made.

In fact, I am myself a bit surprised

That you might think that I, your dearest friend,

Might have a patience of sufficient stock

To wait until a pot of water boils.

FROG: Three minutes overtaxes patience so?

The microwave will beep when it is done!

CATS'N: My friend, this answer vexes me the more!

Can it be true that thou dost boil by nuke?!

FROG: Are you in turn, my friend, so shocked to know

That I have not the patience, like our Root,

To boil upon the stove our favour’d drink?

CATS'N: It takes less than a minute!

FROG: On what plate?

Perhaps your dinner cooks atop the sun?

CATS'N: How long can take your stove to fill the task

Of boiling but a single cup alone?

FROG: In minutes?

CATS'N: Yes!

FROG: I counted seven, once.

CATS'N: Perhaps you ought to have your timepiece checked!

If on a middle heat you place the cup

You soon will have the scalding drink you crave.

Two minutes, in a mug upon the plate

Or even less, if you should have a pot.

FROG: You cause me tears - is this how thou dost live?

You place upon the iron stove a mug?

A mug, ceramic, filled with water cold?

How do these flames, though medium in height,

Not shatter like a glass this fragile thing?

Surely, then, your kitchen is bewitched

With magicks far beyond the mortal ken!

(The FOUR realise they have wandered into the THRONE ROOM. The ROYAL COURT watches with fascination.)

KING: Ev'ry single person in this group must be a fucking lunatic, it seems.

[elodieunderglass]

[dustyxoverture]

I’m sorry but the THOUGHT that has been put into this, I actually CAN’T—

The fact that nearly every line is so metrically considered- near perfect iambic pentameter witb the occasional trochee for emphasis, but usually retaining a strong sense of rhythm nonetheless. And then the king comes in at the end, so wound in his disbelief that his response is reduced to prose.

And the even better thing about this is how easy it would have been to structure the king’s line into iambic pentameter: it is effectively already said as such because of the way wizardlyghost has phrased it, yet they haven’t!! They did not break the line, rendering what, by all typically of both Shakespearean canon and other periods context should be the character with the most command and authority in the whole play. If there was ever a more effective way to convey a genuine “what the fuck??”, I know of it not.

But it gets better!! Shakespeare regularly uses meter in order to represent class divide; the nobility usually speak in iambic pentameter, save for a few particularly chosen moments (e.g. Lady Macbeth’s descent into madness, Othello’s realisation of Desdemona’s “betrayal”) or just lines where Shakespeare needs to suggest high emotion or when a character is lost in thought. Supernatural characters like the fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Witches in Macbeth usually speak in trochaic tetrameter, an inversion of iambic pentameter. Lower class characters, particularly those used for comic relief (usually under the influence of alcohol), speak with no structure at all: their language is plain prose. Therefore, if this is a conversation between these types of characters, as the prompt from silvergirachi suggests, why the hell are the characters speaking so eloquently???

Now, this is Tumblr. It is subsequently logical to assume that this may have merely been a humorous recreation (and a very good one at that) of the Shakespearean style in a way that is widely recognisable to an audience that may or may not have read a great deal of Shakespeare, which is understandable. However, logic is boring so I’m going to probe further into this to the point where future historians will look to this as an example of overanalysing.

The inherent eloquence of the characters here suggests an unusual subversion of the roles typically assumed in Shakespearean comedy. This could be interpreted along two major avenues: firstly, that the rhetoric displayed by the speakers is fundamentally representative of how truth can be expected even from the most seemingly pointless or ludicrous discussions. Furthermore, it could suggest that it matters not how well constructed your speeches are: if you talk bullshit, it’s going to sound that way despite your attempts to hide it.

This is similar but not identical to the second avenue of interpretation: there is the implication that the noblemen in the play are in fact the comic relief characters, therefore implying that the “common people” of the play are the ones whose influence, though not expressed in such a highly spoken manner, makes a lot more sense than whatever the hell this is. If this was a real Shakespeare play, I would call it a subtle exploration into the innate corruption of the rich and powerful. Well done, op.

Now, I doubt any of this is actually grounded analysis in any way, shape or form, but if someone else can take this to the extremes of writing a Shakespearean scene, why can I not analyse it as such? And where else to do so than Tumblr?

[wizardlyghost]

im in tears i didnt think anyone would put this much analysis into this‚ thank you so much

[crypticgoose3]

I FUCKING FOUND IT

[a-wild-dragon]

THE SACRED TEXTS

[lelif]

on survival

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[mischievous-archeologist]

spamming again i see

go to bed mooootie its laaaate :))

Fiiine, goodnight mootie