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[starlightxraven]

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

[appalachian-werewolf]

"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

It fucking better.

[mrsjdavis]

Like to charge, reblog to cast?

[newbarktownalumni]

[bunnygirljesus]

Black ppl deserve to feel safe and welcomed on the internet, on fandoms on whatever community or hobbies they want without having to deal with antiblack racist attacks, microaggressions or enablers of antiblackness . And if u genuinely consider urself to be left leaning or an ally or woke you should do and try to unlearn the colorism, texturism , eurocentrism and antiblackness

[reginaeinferos]

Nothing is going to change. Americans love their guns more than they love people and after Sandy Hook we decided that killing over 20 children was acceptable and not outrageous enough to make reasonable restrictions on guns. This is America, a country that has been around for 200 years, a superpower, a 1st world nation, and one of the wealthiest countries on the planet and we refuse to protect our own people. We respect guns more than we respect the lives of people. 

[therevenantrising-deactivated20]

What specific gun control measures would you propose and how would they directly and effectively make society safer?

[reginaeinferos]

Absolutely get rid of all AR-15′s and the like.

Intense background and criminal background checks and anything violent automatically disqualifies you.

Make getting a gun/gun permit more like getting a driver’s license:

permit to learn

includes an exam with 18 or more questions on the policies, laws, and etc of guns and gun ownership

if you get more than 8 questions incorrect you must retake it.

30 hours of practical experience at a gun range with a licensed teacher

Must take a 5 hour class on the dangers of guns and how to use them safely which will then yield you a certificate that grants you to take the practical exam and lasts for one year. If you don’t gain the license within the allotted year you must retake the class.

A practical exam with a licensed instructor who will grade you on various skills. If you pass you may be granted a permit on the weapon of your choice, the exams may differ on the type of firearm you want.

Follow the Japanese model where you must have two gun safes in different areas of the house, one to store the gun and one to store the bullets and you must provide the police with information on where those safes are.

No concealed carry and only handguns may be allowed to be out in public.

If transporting a weapon, it must be in the trunk of the vehicle, in a bag or some other case, safety on and unloaded and may not leave the vehicle until you are at the destination.

If you’re a hunter or some other gun hobbyist that requires a functional weapon other than a handgun then the gun must stay on the premises, whether that is a gun range or the Fish and Wildlife facility.

If you live in a rural area where police (and people, for that matter) are few and far between, something akin to a deer hunting rifle should provide plenty of protection from predators and poachers, you still have to follow the aforementioned steps.

This doesn’t cover everything but I think it’s a good place to start.

[therevenantrising-deactivated20]

Can you show me evidence that this would directly and effectively create a safer society?

[reginaeinferos]

[oh-snap-pro-choice]

I have never laughed so hard at a gun law post. Like seriously, the evidence is in fucking reality. The proposed restrictions are just fucking logic.

[meyerlansky]

just. please know. that giffing scenes like that is a fucking nightmare labor of love.

to wit:

bottom's the raw capture, middle's just flat curve correction to make the footage visible, top is the final coloring with /counts seven adjustment layers to add back in Literally Anything But Yellow

every giffer i know does it out of love for the game, but for the record it's not... easy. it's not just slapping the footage in a cap grabber and posting whatever it spits out. "professional" lighting and color grading has only gotten waaay murkier and flatter in the fifteen years i've been giffing on here, so uh. don't repost gifs, please!

[infiniteeight8]

I thought the bottom was a black bar. I didn't even realize that was footage.

Everyone say thank you to your neighbourhood GIF maker! Giffers are so important to the fannish ecosystem, but to so many people the amount of work involved invisible.

[blackheartbiohazards]

➡️ Content warnings on fiction are a courtesy. 

➡️ Not every medium of fiction and storytelling has or is expected to have content warnings or extensive tagging.

➡️ Print novels do not traditionally warn for content in any way.

➡️ Until AO3 came along, fanfiction did not traditionally warn for content in any significant way.

➡️ An author is only obligated to warn for content to the degree mandated by the format they publish their fiction on.

➡️ Content warnings beyond the minimum are a courtesy, not an obligation.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is a valid tag that authors are allowed to use on AO3. It means there could be anything in there and you have accepted the risk. 'May contain peanuts!'

➡️ Writers are allowed to use 'Creator chose not to warn' for any reason, including to maintain surprise and avoid spoilers.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is not the same thing as 'no archive warnings apply'.

➡️ It is your responsibility to protect yourself and close a book, or hit the back button if you find something in fiction that you're reading that upsets you.

➡️ You are responsible for protecting yourself from fiction that causes you discomfort.

[starlightshadowsworld]

So as you guys may know I have a very limited amount of knowledge about the US so here’s a list of things that that confused me, a Brit while reading All for the Game

-USC being a real university

I thought all the universities in this series were all fictional but this one’s actually real and they have an American football team that’s also called the Trojans.

Wild.

-The concept of East and West coast

So you guys divide your country up between the east and the west? Cool. I thought it was just north and south but apparently not.

-Time difference in the same country

Cause what do you mean Jean wakes up and Kevin’s still asleep? That’s crazy that.

-France being considered a far away land

There were so moments where Jean was talking about how Marseille is a distant memory. And I know he meant his childhood there but I’d be dead arse sat here at some points like I mean you can see it from here…fuck wait he’s in America never mind sorry 😅🤣

Fun fact you can actually you can see France from the White Cliffs of Dover on a clear day the more you know~

-A university sport being this big of a thing

Granted I think that’s America with sports in schools in general. I mean the stadiums being used for World Cup matches are your lots school stadiums which is wild to me.

My university graduation the 1st one was in one of the lecture theatres, it didn’t even have a stage. But you’re telling me that the Ravens Vs Foxes match was televised?! Okay okay.

-Aaron Minyard not being in medical school

If you’re gonna be a doctor in the UK you go to medical school as soon as you finish secondary school (11-16 or 18 but in this case 16 years old.) I don’t know if there’s alternate pathways there might be but there’s a very set this is what you do pathway into being a doctor.

Like you have to apply before everyone else does there’s a whole thing about it in school. So it was really confusing seeing Aaron studying biology being all I’m gonna be a doctor but I guess it’s different over there maybe.

Stressed me out though I was like what do you doing put the stick ball down!

-The entire thing about how Neil came to Palmetto

Like we have sports scholarships so the idea of someone getting into a university because a coach picked him out isn’t that wild. But it still baffles me especially cause unlike in America (at least from what I’ve seen) they’re not fully funded here.

Although it could’ve been an interesting thing with Neil secretly paying the rest of that himself and then hiding he’s not secretly rich and hasn’t got one hell of a paper trail now.

But I digress.

Also Neil not knowing what he was gonna study despite attending university confused the hell out of me. There was this whole thing about him picking and choosing his classes from a catalogue and that’s not a thing here.

You apply to a course within a university and then you take that course and that’s it.

-The lack of M16 or other such organisations

I know the whole focus was on the FBI and everything but you’re telling me a British Crime family was involved in some international conspiracy and our lot just went eh not our problem,

I mean that does sound like us but it’s just funny to think about.

[cryptic-rat-in-your-walls]

I love how the entire aroace community latched onto Ryland Grace with no hesitation and have used his character as an outlet for frustrations regarding real-world politics surrounding our identities.

Dr. Ryland Grace was arguably the perfect backup candidate for his mission. Stratt got that right. He had no children, no life partner, no family, not even a dog. All he had was his students and that was enough for him, but that made him replaceable.

Right?

Not only were Grace’s wishes completely ignored, his life and his value as a person was undermined. Simply because he had no one but his students to care for his wellbeing, because he wouldn’t have someone at home waiting for him to come back.

Aroace people deal with similar treatment simply because romance and sex are seen as essential to the human experience, completely disregarding any and all other types of connection. One’s inherent value as a person is not lost when they choose to live life without romantic or sexual relationships. One’s value is simply in existing.

Aroace people know this well, which is why so many have become so attached to Ryland as a character. Many of us see his way of life as the end goal for ourselves, so any one of us would have been seen as just as dispensable, by Stratt and by society as a whole.

Aroace people love Dr. Ryland Grace because his life mattered just as much as everyone else’s, and so do ours.

[tupik-the-officer-k-fan]

I thought of an issue with the new flag that I haven't seen anyone mention.

The change in meaning of the black stripe. The sentiment is great sure, but where did the lack of attraction part go? This new flag does not mention the lack of attraction anywhere at all. Isn't that the most important part of asexuality and its spectrum? The black stripe was supposed to be there to represent the lack of attraction and loveless people.

Then gray stripe change too, I believe it meant the weak, fluctuating or otherwise 'foggy' attraction that demi and gray aces are a part of. In the new flag this meaning is completely lost. I see that it is supposed to represent microlabels and the spectrum, but it's just not the same. Considering that the whole flag is a blanket for others, it already represents the microlabels. There's no need for a specific stripe. Gray was meant to encapsulate the gray areas between allo and ace spectrums, the gray and demi and aego and abro and flux and all others that are not specifically or fully asexual. In this flag this meaning is lost.

Instead, we get TWO stripes that represent love and intimacy. While yes, asexual people experience intimacy and experience love, the white and pink stripe should be folded into simply white because the love is already part of the intimacy. It's just redundant. And makes a way bigger than necessary focus on love in a flag that is designed for people who do not experience one type of love.

THIS is the main reason I don't feel represented by this flag at all. I am simply asexual, I do not experience sexual attraction at all point blank period. I am practically excluded from my own flag.

This flag does not include me.

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[drbtinglecannon]

You should be able to rot in bed for 2, maybe 3 hours after waking up before it starts affecting what time it is. If I wake up at 8:30 and lie in bed for 2hr it should still be 8:30 when I get up

[catchymemes]

[zeta-finnish]

Hell yeah i do

[sceptixfakemon]

i really genuinely wish I could hit chatgpt with my bare fists and hear its pityful electronic voice fade into glitched robotic gibberish and choking beeps as I hit it before I smash it for good and it shuts the fuck up forever

[sceptixfakemon]

no no it's fine

[sceptixfakemon]

why are so many people wondering if I'm horny for chatgpt. it's like the most unfuckable robot ever created heeell NO

[sceptixfakemon]

dragging you out of the tags like it's the last thing I'll ever do on this site

[shanesloverboy]

“Williams’ victory feels especially well deserved because Shane Hollander is not an easy character to portray. As we wrote in our review of the series, Williams delivers “a masterclass in micro-expressions and physical restraint.” Shane spends much of the story fighting against himself, suppressing emotions he barely allows himself to acknowledge, and Williams manages to communicate entire emotional arcs through a glance, a tense jaw, or a slight shift in posture. Every crack in Shane’s carefully constructed armor lands with devastating impact because of the work Williams puts in throughout the series.

Seeing that performance recognized on one of Canada’s biggest stages feels incredibly rewarding. Williams’ win is also historic in its own right. At just 25 years old, he became the youngest performer ever to win Best Lead Performer, Drama, at the Canadian Screen Awards, accomplishing the feat on his very first nomination.”

- Q+ Magazine

[smallpwbbles]

Happy pride month my peeps!! (Why the fuck are we half way thru the year already?)

[leighlew3]

ALL. OF. THIS.

[fourohfourlifenotfound]

I swear to god every year right before pride month someone tries to redesign the ace pride flag, citing boring colors or 'just not liking' the old flag.

If you are someone who sees the ace pride flag and cringes away from it, I need you to stop and examine why that is. Is it really because of the colors, or the (honestly kind of obscure) meanings of the stripes? Or is it because you associate that flag with a stereotype of ace people as boring / cringe / grumpy / etc?

Because, newsflash: Maybe you're too new to know this, but we as a community kind of went through this four fucking year long hate campaign called 'Ace Discourse' where people specifically crafted that stereotype to discredit us and exclude us from the queer community.

Changing the colors or design of the ace flag won't change that. It won't undo the harm we suffered to our community. It won't bring back the aces who went back in the closet and abandoned the community to save their mental health. It won't repair the damage done to our reputation by that stereotype, that continues to be perpetuated by bad actors fighting to keep the 'discourse' alive in 20-fucking-26

Like it or not, THIS is our flag. This is the most widely known symbol of our community. We can either continue to stay divided and obfuscate our identities under a dozen different color schemes, hoping against all reason that one of them will be the bandaid that fixes everything, or we can hold up OUR flag with pride and finally rebuild our community as a united front

[uniguinflutist]

I wish there was a way to completely OPT OUT of GEN AI. Like you could set your ENTIRE Internet browser to NOT shove it down your throat.

When social media was getting big, you could just NOT get a Facebook or a Twitter. It was simple as that. You can't do that with GEN AI.

Trying to find a job? It goes straight to an AI filter. Trying to look at art? Here's 100+ ai shit. Trying to look up who was in what movie from the 1980s? GOOGLE GEMINI IS HERE WITH THE COMPLETELY WRONG ANSWER!

Someone PLEASE create a way to allow people to get GEN AI the FUCK OUT of our lives if we DO NOT WANT IT!