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todays bird
almost home
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blake kathryn
Product Placement
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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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@petitknightcreations
Some have asked me if I'm also open for regular commissions. The answer is yes!
Will draw: Fanarts, Monsters, OCs/Original Characters, Aliens, LGBTQ+, Pairings, SFW and NSFW themes Will not draw: Complicated Armor, Complicated Backgrounds, No References
Payment: Paypal
Communication is either through email [email protected] or via private messages.
If you have any questions, you can always DM me!
Thank you!
🟣 Emergency Sketch Commissions 🟣 Kofi 🟣 Patreon
Blue collection by Daniel Romero
Wow that is quite the collection! I never had the disposable income to even begin collecting stuff in clear green plastic even if I wanted. But when I had my jungle green N64 I definitely thought it was amazing. But I quickly realized I didn't have much say in the color of things like my gba being arctic blue or my DS being black or things like that. Color choices were pretty limited when consoles first released.
At least now I can learn customization and maybe change the shells of my things! That'd be dope!
Tales of Phantasia: Belladem Village
Such a great world. I wish Namco would bring some of the ports over to the West. I'd love to play an English translation of Phantasia X on PSP.
Vivipary - when seeds sprout while still being attached to its mother fruit
Ahhh! This is really creative! Cool way to turn the otherwise shy Strawberry into something spooky!
Heart of the Forest 🍂 - ig | bsky | twitter | commissions | prints
Daaamn! This is amazing!
people are really fucking clueless about generative ai huh? you should absolutely not be using it for any sort of fact checking no matter how convenient. it does not operate in a way that guarantees factual information. its goal is not to deliver you the truth but deliver something coherent based on a given data set which may or may not include factual information. both the idolization of ai and fearmongering of it seem lost on what it is actually capable of doing
Remember what generative "AI" does, kids: it GENERATES. That means it generates answers to questions based on whatever garbage has been fed into it. Not "goes and looks up the answer." Not "already studied and knows everything." It's just reaching into its sack of word salad and dumping a pile on your desk. Sure, maybe the words fit together to form sentences, but that doesn't make it correct.
a generative AI search result vs the exact article it is citing. the website it scrambled that information from also just happens to include info on winged roaches. gisborne cockroaches are completely wingless. even if it's pulling info straight from one reliable source, there is every chance it'll mash up that info into something false.
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.
If you need a visual, here’s how poorly AI performed when asked to create citations for news articles. And that’s just for citations, imagine what it’s doing when you ask it more complex questions and tasks.
On the cornsnakes subredit someone there used generative AI to "answer" someone's question about what the raised black lump on their corn snake could be. Another person called them out and AI-user responded with "I can do what I want, and what's the harm anyways?"
I stepped in and explicitly detailed everything that the list got wrong, which was about 95% of it, to show why is was harmful. After an hour they deleted their comment plus they deleted most of their comment history.
AI is a lie generator. Don't use it.
Seems to me AI generated answers are just the next step in learned helplessness. We already rely on our phones to be our entertainment, to calculate for us, to find our way. Soon it will think critically for us, and leave us incapable of researching topics competently. We won't know who to trust but the slop AI puts out.
The Hell Flower.
Happy birthday, Jade ❤️ Variant under the cut.
Man I hope I can get good like this someday! So many great Tales characters I want to make fanart of!!
Great work on this piece, OP!
That's a nice piece of Colette fanart!
Childhood can be scary.
A collection of some of my hand-drawn horror looping animations!
Damn that looks good!
Mutsumi Inomata | Tales of Graces
One of my favourites. Loved Asbel's design, and Sophie's interactions with the cast were so cute. RIP Inomata-san.
Have you played Tales of Symphonia (2003)?
Yes
No
I watched someone play it
I've never heard of it
Requested by anon
Rented it, played it, loved it; Bought a copy, got my friends to fall in love with it. Spent years playing other Tales games, then got the Remaster. Fell in love all over again.
Fellow Windows 11 users: how to disable newly-installed Microsoft AI!
Folks, with the new updates that've come down recently, Microsoft has installed its "Copilot" AI app on your machine. It apparently cannot be removed.
But it can be disabled.
ETA: first of all, try these less-invasive/difficult options via @sky-blaze:
As Microsoft rolls Copilot AI worldwide, more people are looking for ways to disable it. We show you how in this easy guide.
The slightly more complex and risky approach (as regedit is never entirely safe) comes via the excellent Pihko Misit, aka @smokepaw.bsky.social over at Bluesky). I've just done this to my own desktop machine, and all's well with it now.
Here's what to do:
(1) You need to have Admin rights for the machine and be logged in to the administrator account.
Now, right-click on the Start menu (Windows logo on the Taskbar.) A menu pops up; about half way down it you'll see Terminal and Terminal (Admin). Click on the Terminal (Admin) option.
(2) A DoS-like box will open. (For those of you who've never interacted with a Windows terminal window before, it looks like this:)
On the command line (i.e. the first empty line), copy and paste this:
reg add HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot /v TurnOffWindowsCopilot /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
Then hit Enter.
If successful, you'll see a line pop up saying so. Congratulations! But you're not quite finished.
Now you need to close all programs and fully shut down the machine. A restart isn't enough, it needs to be fully powered down and started back up.
"And now," Pihko says, "ou have a NSA-like AI spy dormant on your machine. Stay vigilant, odds are it'll turn back on with future updates! Big Corporate wants you to be compliant. Don't be!"
Skip Google for Research
As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse. It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms
As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable. As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.
Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.
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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free
Signal boost. Let knowledge and wisdom flow freely, unfettered by Google.
I unno what meme this is, but I’m here for this.
It’s called the Millennial Falcon
Rebloggin’ the Millennial Falcon
Millenial Falcon is such a cash money name!
Because it’s happened to us on a trek, if you see abandoned clothes, stop and search for anyone nearby. Late-stage hypotherima causes a thing called paradoxical undressing where the person feels too hot and starts taking their clothes off.
for a little bit of an order for this if it isn’t obvious: Take any wet clothes off (including sweaty clothes!! underlayers can become soaked with sweat while working in the cold and lead to hypothermia later) BEFORE you wrap the person in warm dry blankets/clothing.
Also I cannot stress the ‘do not rub’ thing enough. If you have a frozen steak, let it thaw a little bit and then give it a good rub. Take a peek at it via a hand lens. You’ll see tons of little cuts/gashes. That’s from the ice crystals cutting into the flesh. NEVER rub the skin of a hypothermia/extreme cold exposed person to warm them up unless you want the same damn thing happening to their flesh.
Don’t warm the extremities (hands/feet) too quickly. Not only would it be extremely painful, but the vessels in said extremities opening too quickly can lead to shock (part of the direct heat issue).
This deserves another reblog
For writers, AND real life, as places get VERY cold with limited heating being allowed to the people…
Stay DRY, stay warm.
As someone who has treated hypothermia before, yall should also be prepared for the possibility of hallucinations and uncooperative behaviour. Someone who thinks they’re boiling WILL push back against drinking warm water or being kept under blankets.
They will also have a difficult time distinguishing between BURNING HOT and ROOM TEMP so try to keep them from touching anything dangerous, like an oven or wood stove.
They may think you’re smothering or drowning them or believe they are somewhere else with other people. This can be distressing to see as a first responder who isn’t expecting it, but best you can do is stay calm and have EMS on the line.
(Not a medical professional, just a northerner, learned this growing up and used it a couple times.)
Reblog and spread awareness! It could save someone!
Estellise Sidos Heurassein // Tales of Vesperia
1/8 Scale by Alter
What a clean looking figurine!! I should try to save up and get some proper Tales figurines instead of just to the gacha coin stuff from the cons I went to years ago. :(
Awww the ol' gang <3
