NiaRUTO

An inquisitive individual with a curious mind willing to dwell on anything that is intriguing

[pinkiemme]

I have fallen into the Hucklerobby void too, but make it gay cowboys please 🤠

[okapiaconcolor]

[yankeeblue]

[deeranddog]

Mamdani Shuts Down NYC's Disastrous AI Chatbot

New York City's new mayor is unplugging a disastrous government chatbot that encouraged small business owners to break the law.

And the funniest part?

[fabiansociety]

this framing really winds me up. no knock on mamdani, but a lot of these key changes are the result of a tremendous amount of unsung work by the DWCP and other agencies and lawmakers. he’s not flipping switches that other politicians have refused to touch, he’s arriving at the moment those switches are ready to flip.

there’s just something off about giving all the credit to a charismatic socialist and ignoring the collective work that made these things actually possible, y’know?

[boltstuck]

This is exactly what bothers me. Changes like this take hundreds of people and thousands of hours of work to pull off. Everyone wants to sneer at the idea that important things take time, effort, and money to implement, and use Mamdani as evidence that everyone who claims it can't be done in 5 minutes with some elbow grease is a scam artist and a liar, but it's flat out not true.

In Mamdani's own speech, he says:

"Under President Biden, the FTC took sweeping action to go after junk fees and they delivered change. Under Chair Leader Khan, they instituted a junk fees rule that they estimated would save Americans 53 million hours a year that they would otherwise spend searching for the true price that they would have to pay, or $11 billion in time savings over a decade. We are going to deliver similar action on behalf of the 8.5 million New Yorkers who call our city home."

Lawmakers and agencies have been working to eliminate junk fees since at LEAST 2023, when Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning junk fees in California. Biden then took up the work with the FTC, targeting hidden fees on live event tickets. Biden went on to work with the CFPB to remove junk fees on banks and credit cards. The CFPB is continuing this work, which you can learn more about over here.

Even with the Chatbot thing -- Mamdani didn't just turn it off. He (and especially his crew) worked up a report to show where funds were being wasted in city government, and then did a presentation on it where he pointed to the specific failure of the Chatbot. He still had to go through a process to prove why he was taking action, it just so happened that this was comparatively quick fix, on account of being one single program running on one single government website.

[schniggles]

#stop ignoring the work #it has to get done #there is no loophole #there is no perfect person who can just make things happen #there are only people doing the work #and people continuing the work until it is done (via beezelbubbies)

[thenightgaunt]

Yes to all of this.

BUT, and this is important, there has to be a leader who wants to do the damn work and who wants these projects enacted.

Yes hundreds of people worked on these, but you wanna know why these things weren't happening under Mayor Adams? Because he didn't care. So he didn't order them to work on it. Because, and this is important, government employees arent going to work on a project unless ordered to. Especially when they've been assigned to work on something else.

Leadership matters. Anyone claiming otherwise hasn't been paying attention to the world the last few years.

[lizardlicks]

I had a more sustinct version of this in one of my reblog tags, but basically yeah. People can do all the work they want, but when the person holding the reigns of the budget tells them the pound sand, that work comes to nothing but wasted effort. Both the hard effort of people on the ground floor and the coordination and cooperation from the people in power are needed for effective change. If one or the other is missing, we get what we've had the last couple decades: stagnation and regression.

Please for the love of all things good and true in the world, remember this!!! The progress DOES actually take time and budget! Drill it into your head as we go into the midterm election season!!! There are already people in the comments of this very post comparing Mamdani to encumbant Republicans because "he's just breaking things". That's not what is happening here!

Anyone who bleats about socialist Democrats being the same (or worse!) than conservative Republicans is either an idiot or a psyops. Block them, drown them out and remember that progress is a journey made one step at a time.

[luulapants]

Rating the birds in my backyard by tendency toward violence

Northern Cardinal, 4/10

I'm sometimes worried the male is sexually harassing the female but I'm pretty sure they're just doing some elaborate public pickup roleplay. The rest of us didn't agree to participate in your kink, guys.

American Robin, 1/10

Literally just some dude hanging out. Never bothered anyone but worms. Big fan of the way you just stand there in the middle of the grass like you forgot what you were supposed to be doing.

House Sparrow, 10/10

You're a gang. You're participating in gang violence. There's ten billion of you living in a single wood pile and it's been civil war for three years now. When will the bloodshed end?

Tufted Titmouse, 1/10

A shy baby. A pretty little guy. I saw you on the neighbor's garage roof and time stopped. There were anime sparkles around you. Come back.

European Starling, 9/10

Why is it always you? Listen, I know, I KNOW the sparrows are the problem, and YET. When the fighting starts, it's always you in the middle of it, provoking them and then screaming like you're an innocent bystander defending yourself. I'm onto you.

Carolina Wren, 3/10

This rating is not for physical violence, which you don't engage in, but for your role as an incurable narc. A tattle tale. I know they're fighting again, okay? I see it. Our yard has been a warzone for years, you don't have to make a big announcement every time someone misbehaves.

Eastern Wood-Peewee, 0/10

If this were "birds who think they're better than everyone else," you'd get 10/10.

Red-bellied Woodpecker, 6/10

It's a utility pole. It's not a tree. You're surrounded by trees that are full of bugs. But there you are, on the utility pole. Committing vandalism.

American Crow, unrated

For who am I to cast judgment on the actions of La Famiglia? I assume you are doing what is best for the neighborhood. If I could, though, without criticism, make a single observation. That when large numbers of you gather in the ominous dead cottonwood - no? No, you're right. None of my business.

Great Crested Flycatcher, 5/10

Frankly, I think you could be doing more. I think your name implies a great potential. I think you should massacre the insects. I think your beak should drip with viscera.

Stay tuned for more criminal activity!

[luulapants]

(continued)

Common Grackle, 7/10

La Famiglia does not suffer you to stop in our neighborhood long, and I trust their judgement in this manner. You have the look of a guilty bird.

Tennessee Warbler, 2/10

You keep to yourselves, and I respect that. I get the sense that you could defend yourselves if it came to it, though.

Brown-Headed Cowbird, 3/10

You're not a crow, and eventually they ARE going to figure it out, kiddo.

Gray Catbird, 5/10

Would you. Respectfully. Would you shut the FUCK UP.

Eurasian Collared-Dove, 0/10

You're doing great, sweetie, everyone loves you.

Red-Breasted Nuthatch, 4/10

A comedian. A little jester of a bird. You're so silly. Sure sometimes you incite violence in others but, really, is that your fault? If it is, we forgive you.

Blue Jay, 12/10

If you could learn any human behavior you wanted, it would be how to build a bomb.

Honorable mention:

Turkey Vulture, 5/10

You weren't in my backyard, but you WERE eating roadkill in the street in my neighborhood. I know the animal was already dead when you got there, but you get violence points for frightening the small children that walked past you. Incredible work.

[auxryn]

This is why Tumblr is good.

[lawfulgoodness]

I immediately scrolled to the blue jay to decide whether or not I wanted to read the rest of the post. Once I realized that OP got that right, I went back and read the rest. 10/10 OP.

[feral-renaissance-cat]

I read this to my dad who sits on his porch and watches the birds and his only note is that he has seen multiple male cardinals attempt to fight their reflections to the death and should have a higher rating.

[someinstant]

OP is correct in all of these assessments, and I respect it.

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you so much @fozmeadows !

[luulapants]

Rating the birds in my backyard by tendency toward violence

Northern Cardinal, 4/10

I'm sometimes worried the male is sexually harassing the female but I'm pretty sure they're just doing some elaborate public pickup roleplay. The rest of us didn't agree to participate in your kink, guys.

American Robin, 1/10

Literally just some dude hanging out. Never bothered anyone but worms. Big fan of the way you just stand there in the middle of the grass like you forgot what you were supposed to be doing.

House Sparrow, 10/10

You're a gang. You're participating in gang violence. There's ten billion of you living in a single wood pile and it's been civil war for three years now. When will the bloodshed end?

Tufted Titmouse, 1/10

A shy baby. A pretty little guy. I saw you on the neighbor's garage roof and time stopped. There were anime sparkles around you. Come back.

European Starling, 9/10

Why is it always you? Listen, I know, I KNOW the sparrows are the problem, and YET. When the fighting starts, it's always you in the middle of it, provoking them and then screaming like you're an innocent bystander defending yourself. I'm onto you.

Carolina Wren, 3/10

This rating is not for physical violence, which you don't engage in, but for your role as an incurable narc. A tattle tale. I know they're fighting again, okay? I see it. Our yard has been a warzone for years, you don't have to make a big announcement every time someone misbehaves.

Eastern Wood-Peewee, 0/10

If this were "birds who think they're better than everyone else," you'd get 10/10.

Red-bellied Woodpecker, 6/10

It's a utility pole. It's not a tree. You're surrounded by trees that are full of bugs. But there you are, on the utility pole. Committing vandalism.

American Crow, unrated

For who am I to cast judgment on the actions of La Famiglia? I assume you are doing what is best for the neighborhood. If I could, though, without criticism, make a single observation. That when large numbers of you gather in the ominous dead cottonwood - no? No, you're right. None of my business.

Great Crested Flycatcher, 5/10

Frankly, I think you could be doing more. I think your name implies a great potential. I think you should massacre the insects. I think your beak should drip with viscera.

Stay tuned for more criminal activity!

[luulapants]

(continued)

Common Grackle, 7/10

La Famiglia does not suffer you to stop in our neighborhood long, and I trust their judgement in this manner. You have the look of a guilty bird.

Tennessee Warbler, 2/10

You keep to yourselves, and I respect that. I get the sense that you could defend yourselves if it came to it, though.

Brown-Headed Cowbird, 3/10

You're not a crow, and eventually they ARE going to figure it out, kiddo.

Gray Catbird, 5/10

Would you. Respectfully. Would you shut the FUCK UP.

Eurasian Collared-Dove, 0/10

You're doing great, sweetie, everyone loves you.

Red-Breasted Nuthatch, 4/10

A comedian. A little jester of a bird. You're so silly. Sure sometimes you incite violence in others but, really, is that your fault? If it is, we forgive you.

Blue Jay, 12/10

If you could learn any human behavior you wanted, it would be how to build a bomb.

Honorable mention:

Turkey Vulture, 5/10

You weren't in my backyard, but you WERE eating roadkill in the street in my neighborhood. I know the animal was already dead when you got there, but you get violence points for frightening the small children that walked past you. Incredible work.

[auxryn]

This is why Tumblr is good.

[lawfulgoodness]

I immediately scrolled to the blue jay to decide whether or not I wanted to read the rest of the post. Once I realized that OP got that right, I went back and read the rest. 10/10 OP.

[feral-renaissance-cat]

I read this to my dad who sits on his porch and watches the birds and his only note is that he has seen multiple male cardinals attempt to fight their reflections to the death and should have a higher rating.

[someinstant]

OP is correct in all of these assessments, and I respect it.

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you so much @fozmeadows !

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

spine-splintering whiplash of listening to a radio show from 1956 and hearing the hardboiled detective exclaim "now you're cooking!"

[beesandwasps]

Yes, the phrase they’re using was originally “now you’re cooking with gas”, and was a promotional slogan for the introduction of gas stoves, which go back to the 19th century. (The “now you’re thinking with portals” phrase was a play on this.)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"now you're thinking with portals" comes from WHAT

[niaruto11]

Now you're just cooking period.

[niconicorose]

Every day, great things are happening on Portland street signs

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

no one tells you this but the worst part about being a Serious Fine Artist in today’s day and age is that you pretty much HAVE to be active on instagram

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

yeah this is it. instagram is the networking (and news) tool for artists, collectors, curators, and galleries.

and i’m even someone who likes networking— just not on fucking instagram

[niaruto11]

Original intentions for insta were to just post my art and move on, then proceeded to get addicted to reels and have been for 3 years and counting (hoping to ween off soon once and for all)...

[thefifthtetrahedron]

"The short version is: some people (let’s not call them scientists) pay money to a papermill broker to have their “works” cited. The broker assembles all to-cite papers from all their clients into a list and hands it out to the papermill which produces the “research” papers. In each paper, no matter its topic, the list of to-cite papers gets replicated in the reference section in exactly the same sequence, with random words in main text referring to unrelated papers someone paid to see cited, and without any regard to meaning or sanity. Having been paid by the citation broker, the papermill seeks a second source of income, by selling the authorships on these papers which cite the list. And here is where it gets even crazier: sometimes there are no buyers, or the papermill doesn’t bother to find buyers because thanks to AI and its LLM, the production of “research papers” is cheap and fast these days. Thus, authors are invented, but not randomly: these fictional scholars often hail from countries which the publishers support with publication fees wavers – countries like Ukraine. After all, a dollar saved is a dollar earned for the papermill, and those waived publication fees are a tremendous saving. And of course this entire scheme would never fly, were it not for the open-door policy of certain “peer-reviewed” journals where nobody reads anything, or cares about anything but money – at Elsevier, Springer Nature and Wiley."

Crunchy Frog and Cockroach Cluster

“On one side: late-career scientists resorting to purchased promotion of their early-career papers. On the other side: whole new genres of p

[lowpolyanimals]

Rat from The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard

[niaruto11]

Do we have the rat king voiced by all mighty jerma on here

[spaceexp]

A plot of all objects in the Universe

[richardanarchist]

Le couple aux deux bouquets

Marc Chagall

[pukicho]

I don’t give a fuck. When daddy gets hungry for poison ham, daddy eats poison ham.

[maelys-with-the-torn-cieling]

Please don't call yourself that Mr Cho

[pukicho]

Can't eat ham, can't call myself daddy. Fucking liberals.

[maureen2musings]

Black-capped Chickadee & Downy Woodpecker showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory

jocelynandersonphotography

[niaruto11]

QGSCQHGWYQQUW YES. JUST YES. FRONT COVER OF VOGUE. STAT.

[herpsandbirds]

may i have some crocodilians? as a treat?

Okay, but only because you have a been a very good little they/them...

Cuvier’s Dwarf Caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus), family Alligatoridae, found in much of northern and central South America

photograph by Wrangel

Schneider’s Dwarf Caiman aka Smooth-fronted Caiman (Paleosuchus trigonatus), family Alligatoridae, Ecuador

photograph by Ammit

Smooth-fronted Caiman aka Schneider’s Dwarf Caiman (Paleosuchus trigonatus), family Alligatoridae, Manu Biological Station, Peru

photograph by Nick Volpe

Chinese Alligator (Alligator sinensis), family Alligatoridae, Anhui, China

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

photographs by Logan Fu

African Dwarf Crocodiles (Osteolaemus tetraspis), family Crocodylidae, found in West-central Africa

This small crocodile species only grows to a length of up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft), on average.

photographs by San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), family Crocodylidae, Australia

photograph by David White Solar Whisper Daintree River Crocodile & Wildlife Cruises

Mugger Crocodile (Crocodylus palustris), family Crocodylidae, with Indian Skimmers (Rynchops albicollis), family Laridae, order Charadriiformes, ENDANGERED, MP, India

photograph by Kamal Sahansi

Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), family Crocodylidae, Chobe River, Botswana

photograph by Marco Buegel

False Gharial aka Malayan Gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii), family Gavialidae, found in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia

Historically, there has been some disagreement about how this species should be placed. At one time, some herpetologists believed this species should be placed in the crocodile family, Crocodylidae. There is vast agreement now that they should be placed in the Gharial family, Gavialidae.

photograph by Junkyardsparkle

Gharials (Gavialis gangeticus), male with babies, family Gavialidae, National Chambal Gharial Wildlife Sanctuary, India

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

photograph by Dhritiman Mukherjee

[max1461]

this deserves to be its own post. like yes. totally endorsed.

[max1461]

fuck. your right. we've been here since the very beginning. learn your queer history folks.

[mother-moths-stuff]

"You gay or what?" "Nah brother, I is math."

[sexhaver]

i love crossing the street in front of cars where i can see the driver is visibly annoyed because like. are you mad at me? am i making you mad? are you upset? are you gonna kill me about it? gonna vehicular manslaughter me? gonna split my head open like a watermelon with that big strong manly truck? are you mad at me?

[icexprincess]

I will hit you with my car.

Then I'll stop, get out and offer to take you to the hospital, visibly upset.

It's just an act of course. I'm not actually upset lol.

Then I'll take you home and dispose of your stupid ugly fucking body and no one will ever fucking find you.

Do not fucking test me.

I am not a good person lol

(Yes the police will question me when you're reported missing, but they won't have enough evidence to build a case against me, and without a body, it can't be considered murder. You'll always be considered a missing person)

[sexhaver]

are you mad at me?

[sexhaver]

this post is doing numbers in the second-degree murder fandom

[sexhaver]

[lil-rubbish]

As someone who has accidentally hit a pedestrian with my car and killed them

Literally wtf is wrong with all of you

[sexhaver]

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: cgttttcacatacaaaataagaatagaattgacaaagtgataaatttatgtgatcaaatttcaTtgttattatttatttaactctactatTtaatgcgacgtcgttatagtcttgtttagctacaagatattatcatcaacagaaatttgtcgaAaacctatatatcaattatgta

Closest match: Xyrichtys novacula genome assembly, chromosome: 13 Common name: Cleaver Wrasse

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