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[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 5 days 1 hour

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 5 days 1 hour

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 5 days 1 hour

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

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[i-like-reblog-maps]

What month were you born in?

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Voting ended onMay 28

Doing a final project in my stats class, we have to pick a subject and collect data on it. We need at least 100 data points, and I figured this blog is big enough that a poll on here could get to that pretty easily!

Doing my project on if it’s more likely to be born in certain months :]

I have gotten the OK from my teacher to collect data using a Tumblr poll, btw. I’m also going to have to send her this post as proof of where I got the data from / proof I didn’t just make up the numbers. So. Behave

[museum-spaces]

Let's get those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.

[bebsi-cola]

autism cataclysm: chill ask games to answer invasive questions to

[note: this is not an extensive representation of all of autism. have fun but remember to copy the whole question out when sending asks for everyone. short term memory is a fuck]

1. If you have a diagnosis of autism would you choose to get that undiagnosed, if you have no diagnosis would you choose to get a diagnosis? Would you like to change when you got a diagnosis? Do you want a diagnosis off-record?

2. Are you able to maintain a routine by yourself or do you need someone or something to impose a routine upon you in order to follow it?

3. Which part of autism do you wish was better understood and more well known about the general populace?

4. Have you ever been in any in-person autism support groups? What were they like?

5. Have you taken part in any autism research as a participant? What was it like?

6. Which aspect of being autistic is most frustrating for you?

7. Do you experience The Rage? How is it for you?

8. Imagine a society that is geared towards catering to the needs of autistic people. What sort of reforms would you implement if you got to be in charge?

9. Do you collect anything? If you could collect an unlimited amount of anything, what would it be?

10. Money is a lie. True or false?

11. When people say "autism stereotypes" what do you think they mean by that? Does it describe you or anyone you know?

12. This will determine if you're in the clubTM. Did people joke about you becoming a serial killer/mass shooter just for being slightly different on account of being autistic?

13. Do you have autistic family members? Could you take them in unarmed combat?

14. What co-morbidities of autism do you have? How are they treating you? You deserve 500 in money.

15. Is there a topic or activity that just lives rent free in your head? Like it comes up and everything else fades away.

16. Autism on autism violence. Describe a bad interaction you had with another autistic person.

17. Autism plus autism alliance. Describe any good interactions you have had with another autistic person.

18. You get to direct the new upcoming research in autism studies. What are you researching and why? Feel free to lay out your whole methodology and write a literature review but I only accept APA, APSA, or ASA citation style. You can use Chigaco author-date but anything else is pushing it.

19. Do you observe occasions such as autism awareness month or similar? Why, or why not.

20. Imagine I am a 19 year old psychology student. You've just told me you're autistic/have autism, and I ask you what that is and what it's like? How are you going to explain.

21. Who is the best autism icon? It must be someone from death note. If you haven't read death note people go read it first and come back to me.

22. Autism is getting a slogan! What is it? You get to decide.

23. What does being autistic mean to you? It's an open ended question so write a lot.

24. How are you with mouth sounds? Do you make them? Repeat them? Are mouth sounds simply out of your reach?

25. I would like a funny or strange interaction with a healthcare professional that happened because you are autistic or they learned you have autism.

26. How do people understand autism in the country you live in, are from, or parents are from? How does it differ to what you experience online on this website? Do they call autism something else? etc.

27. How has your relationship with food been affected by autism? Any co-morbidities or other background information can be included as is relevant.

28. Where have you learnt the most about autism from? What things about autism did you learn that really made an impact on you? Are there any information sources on autism or autistic people that you recommend?

29. What support do you desperately need? Are you getting it?

30. Hahahahahahaha there's no thirty. Read them and weep. Or something.

[noctumsolis]

I want [to make if unavailable] an app that gives the user a checklist of social niceties for various situations. You'd open it up and select from a list like "A Tradesman is in my House" or "I'm meeting a New Client" or "A new neighbour is moving in" and then check off niceties like "offer a hot drink" or whatever.

Anyone know of such an app?

I'd be happy to create one but I'd need a lot of help with the content. Because I need the prompts.

[noctumsolis]

I think it should have a setting for where in the world the user is. First because norms differ around the world but also because it would make it useful to different groups.

I had the idea because I'm autistic and rely on my wife and a couple of friends to literally prompt me in various situations. But I now realise that, because social norms vary, it could also be very useful to people migrating.

I'm in England, we offer tradesmen tea. I bet Americans don't offer tea, but do they offer coffee? I don't even know what the role would be in Scotland and that's another member of the UK! What about Germany, India or Kiribati?

Also there must exist guidebooks for immigrants to various places. Could be a good source for info.

[noctumsolis]

Shit I need to revive this

[heavilyglacialvalhalla]

i bet a crowd sourced version would work. So for "situation" + "location" you can view suggestions, vote on suggestions and suggest more things. That feels like a good way to handle it.

[heavilyglacialvalhalla]

You'll need an "add a situation" too, which will allow expansion of what things you can help with.

[noctumsolis]

Absolutely. It will need to work like Does the Dog Die.

[galileosballs]

"Why is it a problem if students use AI to get through college"

Because if you demonstrate to me that you're willing to set aside concern for truth, evidence, and verifying things with your own eyes whenever it happens to be inconvenient for you, I have a solemn responsibility to make sure you don't get into medical school.

[galileosballs]

"oh, but this course is just a distribution requirement, it's not for my major"

Does saying things that are true and that you know are true only matter when someone is giving you a little prize for it?

[galileosballs]

Tumblr doesn't like to do this kind of ethics, so I have to phrase this carefully, but it's a question of character. And a person's character is clearest when they're being asked to do the right thing even when it doesn't matter to them.

I don't want to live in a world in which doctors and lawyers and politicians just ignore the responsibility to research and verify when it's inconvenient for them. When they're busy. When they have something they'd rather be doing. The world I live in is already too full of those people in positions of power. I'll be damned if I let there be more of them.

[galileosballs]

Some of the responses to this have been, in essence, "well, it's not our fault for being raised in a bad educational system that prioritizes grades over comprehension". And you're right, it's not your fault.

But you freely admit the system is bad. That it values the wrong things.

So why do you limit yourself to only achieving what it values? Do you not aspire to be better than a system you know is wrong? Don't you want to change the world?

[rambling-museums]

Thinking about the "distribution requirement" comment. I think in Canada that's called a Breadth Requirement. It's things like the science course I had to take as a history major, or the English my sister had to take as a Forestry major.

Well, for one of my schools (Memorial University) the breadth courses could practically fill a year. 2 English, 2 second languages, 2 science, 2 humanities. I had a lot of fun with my breadth courses. Changed my minor to Classics because Latin was an offered language, learned about Botany and physics in classes designed for people bad at math (no labs).

My brother, on the other hand, had much fewer breadth courses in his first undergrad (Trent) and had to take extra English classes before starting his teaching degree. My sister Also didn't have the same Breadth requirements and had to submit science papers to an English grader (and did poorly because the writing conventions are so different (Lakehead)

When I transfered to Toronto from Memorial, all my breadth courses transfered with me... So not sure what that school's set up is.

The major difference I can see between the three set ups is I was taught *both* humanities and sciences basic reasoning and argument style. I am NOT a scientist, nor a linguist, nor anything like that, BUT I do know how to communicate with them and do (basic) close reads of their materials.

Breadth courses are important *because they expand your point of view* (give you breadth). If you're phoning them in to get your degree you are fundamentally missing the point.

[sidras-tak]

Idk how many young people are still on tumblr but as a college academic advisor please listen to me: it is fine to drop out of college. It’s great even. You can drop out of college if that is what is best for you. However. Please. For the love of god, actually drop your classes. Go to the registrar/your advisor/your student portal/whatever and withdraw from your classes. Do not just stop attending. If you just stop showing up, you will fail all of the classes you’re enrolled in. This will tank your GPA, and if you ever decide you want to go back to school for a specific career, those Fs will come back to bite you. My college program is fairly lenient for our field (healthcare) and still we have to turn away a bunch of students who don’t have a 2.5 GPA, and the reason is that they attended half a semester of college in 2000, dropped out without withdrawing, and ended up with a 0.0 GPA and 16 credits. It’s very tough to recover from that. Even if you think you’ll never go to college, please just withdraw from those classes. Depending on when you withdraw, you may still have to pay for them, but at least there will be a little W transcript that will save your GPA.

[bread-tab]

and if it's too late and you already did this, contact your old college and see if they have a waiver for this situation. some colleges will let you fill out a form and get those credits dismissed under certain circumstances, like if enough time has passed or it happened during covid.

[werewolfetone]

It kind of fucks with me that somebody killed ötzi the iceman because ötzi himself is like whatever but the silent presence of human hands that drew back the string of the bow that shot the arrow that killed him is crazy. the idea that there were various people involved in that situation and while one of them has had his last hours painstakingly reconstructed and studied to no end, the others now only exist insofar that an arrowhead had to get into his shoulder somehow. imagine killing someone and then suddenly your entire existence is only a vague shadow implied by the fact that you killed them. much to consider

[werewolfetone]

Testing the mummified bone marrow of ötzi to figure out his ancestry whole time there’s definitely another person, maybe more than one, standing in the room with us but I can never see or speak to them because I only know them through the assurance that they were there too in the form of one single arrowhead. I hate prehistory so much it’s unreal

[angel-derangement]

I hate it too tbh

[lizardsfromspace]

Elizabeth Weiss the California bone lady is such an incredible type of person. She's basically a strawman atheist from an evangelical propaganda movie that walked out of the screen and became real and is telling everyone "because there's no afterlife, we can do whatever we want!" and shit. "I should be allowed to own your grandma's skull because there's no God" how are you real and not the villain in God's Not Dead 4

[lizardsfromspace]

This scientist who thinks we need to keep Native bones forever (and who was married to the late J. Philippe Rushton, a literal scientific racist) is such an odd character. She tried to make it a evolution vs creation debate and declared that wanting your ancestors' bones buried instead of sitting in a racist professor's lab forever was "superstition" we must overcome. We need to send her back through the TV screen and into the world of God's Not Dead before it's too late

[hope-for-the-planet]

First-of-its-kind study definitively shows that conservation actions are effective at halting and reversing biodiversity loss

A new study published online today, April 25, in the scientific journal Science provides the strongest evidence to date that not only is nat

From the article:

“If you look only at the trend of species declines, it would be easy to think that we’re failing to protect biodiversity, but you would not be looking at the full picture,” said Penny Langhammer, lead author of the study and Executive Vice President of Re:wild. “What we show with this paper is that conservation is, in fact, working to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. It is clear that conservation must be prioritized and receive significant additional resources and political support globally, while we simultaneously address the systemic drivers of biodiversity loss, such as unsustainable consumption and production.”

This massive meta analysis (for those not familiar, a study analyzing the results of many studies on similar topics) found that the vast majority of conservation efforts show much much better results than doing nothing. In many cases, biodiversity loss was not only stopped but reversed.

This shows that conservation efforts really work and money invested is put to very good use. Legally protecting endangered species really works, restoring habitat really works, removing invasive species really works, returning land to Indigenous communities works. All of the blood, sweat, and tears being poured into protecting the natural world has been making a real, big, tangible, difference on a global scale.

[museeeuuuum]

Conversations I've had at work lately:

"Will the US invade? Will they come here first? This building is important, I bet they'd destroy it. Should I buy a gun? Can we even buy guns? Don't forget we have a meeting this afternoon"

[ayeforscotland]

Hello Aye, hope you're well.

I dunno if you tend to post these kinds of things but Scotland for Decrim are needing a desperate push for people to email their MSPs to vote against Ash Reagan's shitty wee bill.

They've got a tool on their website that makes it easy, literally just takes a couple minutes: https://scotlandfordecrim.netlify.app/act/decrimnow

This bill supports a model that has been proven to be harmful against sex workers in every country it's already been enforced and has the potential to ruin the lives of a lot of marginalised people.

Thanks for taking the time to read and if you were able to help spread the word that'd be amazing ❤️

Happy New Year

That’s a great tool, thanks for sharing. This bill needs stopped.

Also funny that Ash Regan was suspended from parliament this week. It’s only 2 days but 2 less days for her to be a clown in.

[botheryourreps]

Linked for ease of access

[museeeuuuum]

Eyy if yall could help me get my latest video to 500 views, I'll give you each a piece of candy and a kitten. I think my channel is in YouTubes bad books for criticizing what's happening in American museums and archives under Trump and I need your help to dig myself out. Please give this a watch, send it to a friend and subscribe if you haven't already. ALSO, my cat shows up very prominently around the 2 minute mark 🐈‍⬛️❤️

[museum-spaces]

I'll give it another view from my service dog channel! It was great the first time around <3

[museeeuuuum]

New video! It's been a while since I’ve reviewed some museums, so today I am reviewing three in one video! Let's explore the Osaka Museum of Housing and Living, the Shibori Museum in Kyoto, and Osaka Castle together.

We are discussing it all: from holograms to crafts to castles!

[museeeuuuum]

Eyyy it would mean the world to me if you gave this video a watch and left a comment on it!

[museeeuuuum]

New video! It's been a while since I’ve reviewed some museums, so today I am reviewing three in one video! Let's explore the Osaka Museum of Housing and Living, the Shibori Museum in Kyoto, and Osaka Castle together.

We are discussing it all: from holograms to crafts to castles!

[amethystsoda]

PSA: if you're watching the new Knives Out mystery (Wake Up Dead Man), please be aware that around 1 hr 34 minutes in, there's a series of flashing/strobing lights. the sequence lasts about a minute.

[amethystsoda]

^ comment I got on tiktok bc I posted this same thing there. this is why I'm giving the warning because netflix and the theaters didn't 😔

[identityarchitect]

[ID: comment reading "I have epilepsy went to see it yesterday and covered my eyes too late and had a seizure and all I could think was why are we STILL not putting strobe warnings on movies..." /end ID]

[etymologeez]

To be specific [spoiler warning for Wake Up Dead Man] there is a scene in the rain, the priest will slip on mud, run into the woods, and a fist will knock him out. Close your eyes immediately when you see the fist. Don't open again until you start hearing conversations.

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

Sharing for the plot specifics which makes it a bit easier for people who are watching compared to tracking the timings

[ayeforscotland]

Gaidhlig and Scots become official languages in Scotland today with the Scottish Languages Act coming into force after it was voted on back in June.

Key parts of the legislation includes the right for parents to request Gaelic schools for their local area, and will help with standardisation of language teaching across the board.

Good signs for the future. In the future would be very interested to see parents (and everyone else) getting access to the same learning materials so they can learn alongside their kids.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

‘Their Conditions Worsened in Hospital’: Ontario Ombudsman Report Details Inhumane Conditions, Prolonged Hospital Stays for Severely Disable

"Her health has been irreversibly damaged… I worry there isn’t much hope for her or our situation."

Ria hasn’t been able to see her severely disabled, nonverbal 12-year-old daughter, Arya, without child protective services present since April 2023. The single mom of two has requested to be anonymous, as there is an ongoing legal battle over her and her daughter’s rights. Their names have been changed in this article. The forces preventing Ria from being with her daughter in the hospitals and group homes she is regularly shuffled between — staying at each for months at a time when the group home decides her needs are too complex for them to handle — involve Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (MCCSS).

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