recovering tectonic tremblings

reader, writer, overly attached television/film viewer

[puppygirllaika]

Could you personally navigate a cross-country road trip, door to door, without your electronics (phone/computer/tablet/etc)?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 29

[paintedlandscape]

I mean I've done it twice. This poll is really assuming a certain age group or time frame for this question....some of us had physical fold-out maps for years and years

[apolladay]

Which nonessential kitchen appliance do you use most frequently?

* air fryer

* blender

* coffee maker

* grill

* juicer

* mixer

* pressure cooker/instapot

* rice cooker

* toaster/toaster oven

* vacuum sealer

* something else

* see results

“Non essential” here meaning items that aren’t heavily used for standard day to day cooking (like stoves, microwaves, refrigerators, etc.)

Which nonessential kitchen appliance do you use most frequently?

air fryer

blender

coffee maker

grill

juicer

mixer

pressure cooker/instapot

rice cooker

toaster/toaster oven

vacuum sealer

something else

see results

Voting ended onMay 24

“Non essential” here meaning items that aren’t heavily used for standard day to day cooking (like stoves, microwaves, refrigerators, etc.)

[paintedlandscape]

Since when are microwaves essential for standard day to day cooking? I genuinely don't think I've used mine in at least 8 years. I just hang onto it because I feel like I might need it again some day (and it's cute and red) and it's by no means essential for anything.

I use my electric kettle every day and my toaster and rice cooker the most frequently after that. If I had a toaster oven I'd probably use that daily...maybe I should finally get around to dumping my microwave for one of those.

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

getting lost in boston is fun because I turned around on a street corner three times and some guy yelled "hey stupid! the bus is that way!" very helpful interaction and accurate insult, 10/10 no notes

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

one time I walked around a building a couple times looking for a bathroom and this guy went "this bitch thinks she's on a merrygoround, where the fuck are you tryna go? bathroom? one floor down to the right behind the door that says bathroom."

[mentohol-blog]

My very first time in Boston. I was absolutely miserable, trying to drag my giant suitcase up a lengthy set of stairs in the pouring rain. This guy who had already reached the top looked back at me with the most pure expression of disgust I’ve ever seen in anyone’s eyes, marched back down the stairs, grabbed my suitcase, carried it to the top, left it there for me, and walked away without ever saying a word. I think about him often.

[just7frogsinapeoplesuit]

For the people in the notes going "why is Boston like this": a) the insults are a way to show you have no ulterior motives when helping someone (and don't need to be thanked or repaid), and b) Boston was settled by the Irish

[direhydroid]

also the Italians. mixing Irish and Italian sociocultural attitudes had the effect of multiplying the Sass Levels by the power of infinity, in the sense that you get all of the clever dry wit of the Irish and all of the bitchy gossipy condensation of the Italians rolled into one very stereotypically overly-friendly American package.

also worth noting that who you are to them doesn’t matter. they’ll talk to strangers like that and will also talk to their best friends like that. they’re just Like That.

[just7frogsinapeoplesuit]

More from the notes:

[0ryza13]

Every time I see this post someone has added a new roundup to it. So I just have to keep reblogging it. What a tragedy. Anyway,

[paintedlandscape]

This thread is funny to me because I lived in Boston for a while and genuinely cannot think of a single helpful person I met there. But I was truly astonished by how rude and standoffish everyone was. Glad other people met the helpful Bostonians I guess

[poetry-protest-pornography]

This is the best one

[sharigax]

My toxic fandom take is that I think that it's awful how much we can talk to creators and get answers from them word of god style. We should be out here in a godless place rooting for scraps of lore in the media like truffle pigs out in the fields

[rukafais]

[godlessondheimite]

A YA romantasy writer filed suit against another writer for copyright infringement, and as is always the case with these things, she padded her claims with delusionally spurious examples. The judge issued a 160-page ruling against the plaintiff where you can tell from the start how resentful they (or whatever clerk actually did the work) are to have been forced by duty to have read the works in question.

[jeyneofpoole]

people being rabidly anti-piracy is always so jarring to me i forget that this sentiment exists over and over and i’m always shocked. you no like free movie 😟 ?

[belle-of-a-time]

Piracy is Not a victimless Crime. And until I’m sure who my victim is I’d like to avoid it. I don’t think it’s too crazy to say Wait until the movie is fucking released officially at minimum. With A 5 year old movie I can be sure that my victim is mostly big corpo 30 years it’s almost exclusively big corpo. I’m ok with victimizing a big corporation or rich asshole CEO. I’m not ok taking hard earned money from people like animators who have very little protections in their field. I want More Movies. If animation stops being profitable because no one will pay for it because people keep leaking it before it’s even out then they Will stop making movies. That’s not like a hot take, companies stop making the kinds of movies that don’t make them any money.

TLDR: piracy is fine as long as you know Who your victim is and if you’re ok hurting their income or employment.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[hardrockerhippie]

At first i was like: why the hell is this on tumblr?! And then it suddenly made sense...

[disco-tea]

Soulless Angel: *shows up in Buffy’s bedroom to draw her in her sleep and to be creepy and psychologically torture her.*

Soulless Spike: *shows up in Buffy’s bedroom banging pots and pans together* WAKE UP WAKE UP YOUR BOYFRIEND’S A CHEATING BASTARD BUFFY YOU ARE NOT GONNA BELIEVE THIS SHIT

[cronegloam]

#spike's coming in like scully you're not going to believe this (via @sprusillas)

[disco-tea]

[chillyfeetsteak]

little thingy from the other week, stuff on my mind

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Or as I've always liked to put it, "No matter how suspicious you might find the neighbor who never opens their blinds, they will never be as suspicious as the neighbor who wants free rein to peek in through people’s windows."

[bold-baddie]

[deadgirlwalked]

True equality was reached in Jurassic Park 1993 with Robert Muldoon and Dr. Ellie Sattler wearing the same length shorts.

[klfg]

[source]

[klfg]

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up.

Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math.

Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level.

And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth.

Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do.

The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing.

So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up.

OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product.

This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent.

Every time ChatGPT gives you an answer, ask yourself: is this real, or is it just a confident guess?

[embrace-monkey-brain]

Why language models hallucinate

OpenAI’s new research explains why language models hallucinate. The findings show how improved evaluations can enhance AI reliability, hones

Here's a good article explaining why it's all LLMs, not just chatGPT:

[holespoles]

Lara Paulussen

Fox in a Forest

[weirdplutoprince]

Nothing more painful than when a kind stranger tells you about some random AI feature in a way that is clearly meant to be helpful and you have to choose between nodding along in despair or turning wokezilla 3000 on them

[teaboot]

I’m not Christian, I don’t go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive I’d sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn’t allowed, so when we’re told that we’re allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we’re supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I’d like to perhaps submit that

[teaboot]

Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and I have to ask myself “is this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something I’m allowed to hate” and a solid 98/100 times it’s the latter so once again thank you pastor D

[theladyregret]

This is why purity culture doesn't work btw You cannot live a good life if you cannot love...and making hate a requirement of that good life...makes love impossible.

[depsidase]