Are you on my blog because you are considering reblogging a post of mine that has nothing to do with you with some sort of inflammatory commentary, in pursuit of a fight with someone you've never spoken to before, or raving about misinformation on a personal anecdote?
STOP! đ
DON'T DO THAT!
Close Tumblr. Open Google Maps. Type "bakeries near me" into the search bar. Choose one of the results. Go there. Purchase a delightful, freshly baked sweet or savory treat. Go outside. Locate the nearest tree. Sit, stand, or lay under the tree while you consume your delightful, freshly baked sweet or savory treat. If you still remember who I am when you are done, repeat this process as many times as necessary until you forget about me and whatever stupid shit you were mad about.
"There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, âWhat is artificial intelligence?' And someone else said, 'A poor choice of words in 1954'," he says. "And, you know, theyâre right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the '50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we're having now."
So if he had to invent a term, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics. "It's genuinely amazing that...these sorts of things can be extracted from a statistical analysis of a large body of text," he says. But, in his view, that doesn't make the tools intelligent. Applied statistics is a far more precise descriptor, "but no one wants to use that term, because it's not as sexy".
'The machines we have now are not conscious', Lunch with the FT, Ted Chiang, by Madhumita Murgia, 3 June/4 June 2023
my neighbourhood has never had an ice cream truck. in the summer, we have the knife sharpening truck. it slowly circles the block and rings its ominous bell. i have never seen someone interact with it. it may be that only those marked by death can see it
okay if you work in any environment that requires frequent use of scissors, this truck is like Jesus showing up. We cut ribbon and paper constantly at my job and when OUR knife sharpening guy rolls through town, once in a blue moon, we all run after him in the street waving out hands around like children after the pied piper. We carry our shears out to him like bouquets, shaking because we are so excited to have sharp scissors again.
So anyway we may in fact be marked for death in the way all retail employees are, but shout out to knife trucks everywhere.
So for writing reasons I was trying to look up exactly how knives were sharpened in early medieval Europe and I'm struggling to find a demonstration or description that makes any sense but I did find a lot of history about knife sharpening as a profession, and what's fascinating is that there have always been mobile knife sharpeners who went door to door. They would carry grinding stones on their backs, which was impressive because they tended to come on a fairly large frame, sort of like a spinning wheel. Others used carts or bikes. The profession used to be quite a bit more ubiquitous, and recognized as such; check out the wikipedia article on the profession for a selection of art about it
It's not that modern knives don't need sharpening, although they do tend to last longer. It's just that in modern western countries, people tend to just throw their knives away and buy new ones when they get dull. Personally I think that's a great tragedy. But there are some types of knives and scissors that are well worth the effort and cost of getting them resharpened occasionally, and so the profession of the knife sharpener lives on, for now
In the last game I played I was a haunted house who had to kill or drive insane all the people who came to investigate me before they found my demon heart and I don't think there's really a way to prosecute that
Oh, what game was that? because I can think of two off the top of my head that sound kinda LIKE that but not exactly and it sounds like my kinda jam (which you may have guessed by the fact that two such games immediately came to mind)
Situation: less hot and Situation: ate a proper meal entire pound of guacamole vegetable have led me to wonder if I was perhaps... angrier than I would otherwise have been about the work situation on Sunday
And if I was affected negatively by the temperature then probably the other involved parties were as well
tubi is one of our greatest warriors in the fight against streaming services costing a fortune for mediocre content. tubi has the most insane collection of movies you will ever encounter all for free. it has cult classics and questionable lifetime movies and movies that nobody except like three people on the planet have ever seen. tubi has movies that doesnât exist. like if you just thought of a movie one day but never made it and no one ever made it it would somehow still exist on tubi. one day i will log onto tubitv dot com and i will see terribly inappropriate, overly complex, and strange on there. and i wonât even be surprised.
genuinely I cannot fathom trying to use Tumblr like any other social media. I just thought to myself âwhy does Tumblr even have a âBest Posts Firstâ feature? why would I want to see good posts?â and then I had to stop and consider that for a second
One of the things that bears repeating before the hot weather takes over is that once your body reaches a certain temperature you can no longer count on making good decisions that you would normally make and you can no longer count on your physical coordination.
Keeping yourself as cool as possible isn't being weak or wimpy. It's protecting your capacity to think and move well if you need to.
In France and other countries last week it was clear that some people died from doing things they never would have done had they been thinking clearly. That confusion can happen to anyone and it comes sooner than people expect. Please, my Tumblr friends in places that will be getting very hot this week, be safe! Don't tough it out and don't take chances. Go somewhere cool if you can and of course, hydrate!
I was looking for some background noise the other day while I did missions in LotRO and I put on Tron, which came out in 1982 and which I've never seen before.
And then after about three minutes I was like, "Oh, okay, I don't know why I expected a movie from 1982 that I'm not familiar with to be fit for having on in the background while I play a video game, that was an absurd expectation," and then I turned it off again and picked something that came out in the 2010s instead.
Anyway the point is sometimes I forget but like. this trend of movies that you can watch without looking at the screen very much and only half pay attention to is pretty new.
The Supreme Court held Monday that constitutional privacy protections extend to cellphone location information, ruling in the case of a bank
WASHINGTON (AP) â The Supreme Court held Monday that constitutional privacy protections extend to cellphone location information, ruling in the case of a bank robber whose identity was discovered through a geofence warrant.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the 6-3 court that people don't forfeit expectations of privacy even when they opt into Google's location history.
"A cellphone user is not to be viewed as sharing private information with third partiesâwhich then can be freely passed on to the governmentâjust by doing the ordinary things cellphone users do," Kagan wrote.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote in dissent that Okello Chatrie had no expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turned over to Google.
The decision is the court's latest effort to apply a constitutional provision ratified in 1791 to technology the nation's founders could not have envisioned.
Police obtained a geofence warrant after a bank robbery in a suburb of Richmond, Virginia, and used it to locate cellphones that were near the bank around the time it was robbed in May 2019.
One of those phones belonged to Chatrie, who had eluded the police until they turned to the powerful technological tool.
The warrant kick-started the investigation. After determining that Chatrie was among those near the Call Federal Credit Union in Midlothian at the time, police obtained a search warrant for his home. They found nearly $100,000 in cash, including bills wrapped in bands signed by the bank teller.
Chatrie pleaded guilty to robbing the bank and was sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison. His lawyers argued on appeal that none of the evidence should have been used against him.
They challenged the warrant as a violation of his privacy because it allowed authorities to gather the location history of people near the bank without having any evidence they had anything to do with the robbery. Prosecutors argued that Chatrie had no expectation of privacy because he voluntarily opted into Google's location history.
The Supreme Court did not decide Monday whether the search complied with the Fourth Amendment, which bans unreasonable searches and seizures. It sent the case back to a lower court for more work.
A federal judge had ruled that the search violated Chatrie's rights, but allowed the evidence to be used because the officer who applied for the warrant reasonably believed he was acting properly.
The federal appeals court in Richmond upheld the conviction in a fractured ruling. In a separate case, the federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled that geofence warrants "are general warrants categorically prohibited by the Fourth Amendment."
This article doesn't mention the multiple innocent people who have been arrested, harassed by law enforcement, threatened with legal action, and more based on exactly this evidence, but it's been widespread for years.
I really hope Chatrie's lawyers push back and get the whole case thrown out, TBH. It doesn't matter that he apparently did it: the police obtained evidence inappropriately and it is not valid in court. The officer did not "reasonably" believe he was acting properly because whether or not this is allowed has been in contention for almost a decade -- because of all the innocent lives it has ruined
I went to the grocery store and because I read that ice cream article earlier I decided to have a stroll through the ice cream aisle to see how much of it was actually labeled "ice cream" and I was kind of shocked to find that the ice creams started only when I got to the generic store brand options. Almost all of those were ice cream. After that was the Haagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry's (which was probably like half and half). I was pretty surprised to find the store brand isn't buying fully into the enshittification, though
I walk into the grocery store with recently extracted teeth and they have granola on sale. Can they interest me in a bag of chips? Check out this broad array of new gum and candy. Do you prefer that crispy or crunchy? Guys I haven't wanted beef jerky so bad in years
[VD: A weatherman is giving a report and pointing to a map, saying "feel like temperatures really take a tumble too, because after the storm-" before he is interrupted by the screen going black and then displaying a picture of some baby spinach. He says, "um," then immediately points to the screen and confidently announces, "this is baby spinach." /End VD]
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