>:C

| B. they/them. | lake superior stole my soul and she ain't givin' it back. | terfs unwelcome. |

[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: 4 days 13 hours

[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: 4 days 14 hours

[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: 4 days 14 hours

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

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[shutyourmoustache]

Making exercises more accessible to the disabled? Fuck yeah!

[prokopetz]

Intellectually I understand that the reason we say "the MCU fandom circa 2012" when talking about that then-they-all-lived-together-in-one-big-house fandom stuff is because the first Avengers movie came out in 2012, but emotionally it feels like the post-Phase One MCU has been going on for nine hundred fucking years.

[prokopetz]

You need to understand that the last time a Big Stupid Cinematic Universe was so synonymous with cranking out vast quantities of incomprehensible crossover-ridden schlock was the Universal Monsters franchise a hundred years ago, and even they took 25 years to hit thirty films. The post-Avengers MCU did it in 13.

[redpandarascal]

in conversation about white people who go to Japan and expect their knowledge of anime to culturally carry them, I was once posed with “it’s like if there was a Japanese guy who was obsessed with spongebob and came over here and thought he could get by just communicating in spongebob quotes.” This is a false equivalence because if such a man existed we would crown him king. We’d love him. Americans would fucking love that. sometimes I get sad that this isn’t a real guy I can invite to a party.

[hong--zhi--zhu]

[frustratedasatruar]

[rainbowgod666]

Ok the last one got me laughing actually

[pangur-and-grim]

I'm reading the Táin right now (basically the Irish equivalent of the Iliad), and I love this part. he didn't even do anything to the naked women, he just got really shy and embarrassed and experienced horny cartoon physics. like this is on the level of an anime nosebleed

[prime-tiktoks]

[yesornopolls]

magnetar stars?

YES.

no thank you.

tl;dr (results)

Voting ended on3h

a magnetar is a type of neutron star that we still know very little about, except that they exist. Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of stars that are about ~8x the mass of our sun or more after they've gone supernova - they're so tightly condensed that if they collapsed any more they'd be a black hole. They can range in size from 10-20km (6-13mi) miles across, but despite being so small they still retain nearly 1.5x the mass of the Sun, so one teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh like. One million tons on earth. Like, 900x the weight of the great pyramid of Giza or smth similarly nuts.

The gravity of these things alone is insane, but magnetars have another layer of weirdness to them that you can probably guess from the name - their magnetic fields are INSANELY powerful. Like. Remember, these things are roughly the size of Brooklyn, NY, but if you stuck a magnetar halfway between the earth and the moon - and you'd have to line the earth up about 30 times over to reach the moon btw, she's far away - the magnetic field would wipe every credit card on earth. If you were plopped down within as many as 600 miles (~966km) of a magnetar, the magnetic forces would be enough to immediately disintegrate every single atom in your body. (For context, that's about the length of the coastline of Great Britain from the northernmost tip of Scotland to the southernmost tip of England.) They also spin so fast they complete one full rotation about every two to ten seconds, which, believe it or not, is SLOW for a neutron star.

We know they exist because we've found about 30 of them total now, but we don't know much about how/why they form or how long they stay magnetars for because, well...we've only found about 30 of them so far. (By comparison we've found about a couple thousand other neutron stars.)

Anyways. Thanks if you actually read all that - I just remembered the other day that magnetars exist and I got excited. Neutron stars are fricken weird, man. Don't even get me started on the pulsars that spin 700+ times per second...

[notfunnyislike]

pls share in my excitement about weird ass neutron stars they're so FREAKISHLY OP.

Fun fact: in 2021 astronomers discovered what seems to be the youngest magnetar ever spotted (only about 500 years old! brand spanking new in cosmological terms) that's about 21,000 light years from us. Possibly because it's so young, it's spinning super fast - rather than rotating every 2-10 seconds, it completes a rotation every 1.4 seconds! It's also not emitting as much x-ray energy as would be expected for a magnetar – it's emitting a lot of radio waves instead, like what you'd expect with a pulsar.

Magnetars are the most powerful magnetic objects that we've found in the whole universe btw. Black holes take the cake for gravity every time – and neutron stars are basically only one step behind them anyways – but absolutely nothing we've found so far has magnetars beat for the sheer strength of their magnetic fields.

and they are only the size of brooklyn new york.

[teaboot]

Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year

[teaboot]

"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade

[heartseeker]

me immediately after hanging out with someone: was i Weird and Cringe. do i need to be imprisoned

[ordinarytalk]

Recovering from autistic burnout as a high-masking adult:

To recover, you literally need to manually learn skills that most people learn as a toddler

You need to learn what makes your body uncomfortable, and what to do to fix it

If you are high-masking, that usually means that you have learned to ignore every distress signal your body sends unless it is a distress signal that a neurotypical person would recognize. People have likely been unintentionally gaslighting you about your lived experience your entire life

If you feel bad or panicked for no reason, stop and try to pay attention to your body. Are you tense? You are likely feeling physical pain somewhere. If you've been gaslit about your pain your entire life, you might not be able to identify it.

Go through a sensory checklist.

SIGHT: Try closing and covering your eyes. If this gives you relief, the lights are probably too bright. You may also need differently-colored lights

SOUND: Cover your ears. Does this give you relief? If so, you may need earplugs or noise canceling headphones. You may also benefit from a neutral or pleasant background noise, like soft music or brown noise.

TOUCH: Are your clothes uncomfortable? Your chair? Your body? Do you feel greasy, like you need a shower? Do you need softer, sensory-friendly clothing?

TASTE: Do you need to brush your teeth or tongue? Would chewing on something help?

SMELL: Is there a strong or unpleasant smell in the room? Do you need to clean or empty a trash can? Would an air purifier help? Would a pleasant smell like a candle help?

INTEROCEPTION: Are you hungry? Thirsty? Tired? How is your posture? Are any of your muscles tight or sore? Scan your body slowly from head to feet, tensing and loosening each group of muscles. Going for a walk or doing a series of quick stretches may help a lot.

Learning how to do this stuff is not intuitive, if you've had an entire lifetime of gaslighting telling you that everything hurting you isn't a big deal and you're being dramatic over nothing.

This takes time, it takes work, it's not intuitive, and it's hard. Most people forget how hard it is, because they learned this as toddlers.

If you want to recover, you need to relearn your whole body. And get over your idea of "normal" and just wear the damn sunglasses and put on the headphones. If people stare, fuck em. You're disabled and they can deal with that.

[horrorlesbians]

how many movies have you see in theaters so far this year?

none

1

2-5

6-10

11-15

15-20

20-25

30+

Voting ended onJun 4

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[thatdisasterauthor]

I believe it's only auto-enabled if you were already sharing your likes. If you had like sharing turned off, reply sharing should (should) also be turned off.

Probably best to still check, though.

[clonehub]

I hate you epitome of innocence being represented with blonde hair I hate you lightness representing goodness I hate you "angelic features" automatically being read as blonde hair and blue eyed with pale skin I hate you whiteness as the default for morality I HATE YOU I HATE YOU

[clonehub]

Guess who's being the most annoying on this post

[clonehub]

this post isnt about blondes and how its so unfair to them that theyre always viewed as good healthy holy morally upright outstanding people no matter what this post is about racism its about colorism its about white supremacy making people with dark features and skin literally feel evil. this is not about your stupid disney princesses or achilles or your fave anime boys being allowed to be unhinged feral shitty awful people and this sure as hell is not an opportunity for blonde people themselves to show their entire pasty flat asses and beg praise for "breaking the stereotype" by being shitty unhinged people. fandom people you are 192% of the problem. white people in general you are 1,000% the origin of the problem. this site is so unbearably white my GOD

[mewnosodenwyma]

"just retrace your steps" I have adhd. as far as my memory is concerned i teleported here

[scottishcommune]

Statement from the Fire Brigades Union on the transphobic EHRC code of practice 🔥🔥🔥

[notfunnyislike]

So like I'm just whining here. And I know it's the antibiotics - both of them (Cipro and Flagyl) have nausea as a side effect, and lots of others who've been on these for diverticulitis complain about the nausea too, but. man. I swear it wasn't this bad before the gummy overdose incident.

(There was a THC gummy overdose incident btw. It was actually pretty fucking terrifying at the time and my mom had to call an ambulance but nevermind that.)

Anywho. Now the nausea is just constant. It ranges from borderline nauseous to feeling like I need to be in front of a toilet/trash bag ASAP but it never goes away. Which is a problem bc a) can't eat enough, when it's bad I can hardly even drink much, and b) bad news for when my blood sugar gets low, bc that alone makes me nauseous and the only cure is to, y'know, eat something. Which is the opposite of what I wanna do when I feel like I'm about to empty my stomach onto the floor.

Buuuuuuuuhh. I asked my doctor for stronger nausea meds to help get me through, I hope she calls them in 😩 zofran helps but. Ugh.

This sucks.

[cafeinevitable-deactivated20220]

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