Angular and Poorly Sorted

Putting this here incase anyone gets anxious about why someone unfollowed them: If I've unfollowed you, it's not because you've done anything wrong. I recently unfollowed a lot of blogs. I have unfollowed over half the blogs I was following. There is no reason for this other than that I need to spend less time on tumblr. Most of the blogs I've unfollowed are ones I really like, run by people I like, a number of which I've been following for years. I'm really sad to no longer be following them, but I *have* to spend less time on tumblr. I know myself and I know that the only way I'm going to do that is by reducing how much stuff's on my dash, so I had to unfollow. About the only blogs I'm still following are people I know irl and blogs that make posts where I learn things without also posting much else. Which is not to say that I don't like memes and fandom posts, they're just taking up too much of my time right now. So if I've unfollowed you, please don't take it personally, there's nothing wrong with your blog, your blog is great! (if it wasn't, I wouldn't have followed in the first place). There's just some changes going on in my life right now that mean I've had to re-evaluate how I spend my time. I use 'dude' as a gender neutral term. If you're uncomfortable with being called 'dude' please let me know. Please also let me know if there is something you would like me to tag. At the moment I tag 'ace discourse' and snakes as 'tw snake' or 'cw snake'. Fair warning: While my memory is extremely good at remembering some things, it's extremely bad at remembering others. I can't promise to never mess up or forget these things; my brain doesn't work like that. But I can promise to actively try my best and work to get better at it.

[drtrinitysantos]

the kids are calling them "stone fruits." they start off small—think cherries. then they're hooked and they need a quick fix, they get peaches, maybe some nectarines. it's all they can think about. before you know it, they're trying the really hard stuff—apricots, plums. once they taste a mango there's no going back.

[maswartz]

[fractally]

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

[everythingfox]

Sound up

[theauspolchronicles]

Pauline Hanson claims that there are 872,000 people who can't speak English in Australia as a way to complain about multiculturalism. The thing is: that figure includes over 100,000 babies.

Her claim uses self-reported ABS data, which is not an objective test of someone's English competency. Some of the adults in these figures are likely saying they can't speak English just because they don't speak it as fluently as those with it as a first language.

English competency is a requirement for Australian citizenship (unless you're born here, so babies don't need to prove it). The exception being those over 60, those under 16, or people with a permanent mental or physical incapacity.

So the Australian citizens who were born overseas but aren't competent at English? Probably family members like grandparents, children and dependants. Also, deaf people don't speak English, they use sign language. Oh, and some Indigenous communities focus on their language first as a way to prevent its extinction. There are multiple reasons why English isn't the primary language of many people.

In fact, the level of English competency required was already increased by the Coalition back in 2017. The level required is similar to that to be accepted into a university so those who come here to study, get skills that benefit the nation, and decide they like it here so much as to stay and contribute to our MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY will be fine. But that doesn't fit Hanson’s narrative so she's ignoring all of that.

So Pauline Hanson is trying to misrepresent statistics to stoke racist fears that social cohesion is being undermined by not understanding the idea of BABIES EXISTING and people having grandparents etc. Her solution is something that already is in place. This is just stupidity and racism. That's all One Nation represents.

[ninanation]

Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people

[ninanation]

please keep talking about how Becky from Maryland doesn't like the rising gas prices. It's clearly the more pressing issue.

[creacher-art]

USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.

This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving

Raise India (Project Tapan)

[wiionme]

[inthefallofasparrow]

what was the point of 'storing' it at all?

[selectivelyserious]

because i had no say in it, no say in it at all

[iiumz]

[selectivelyserious]

I think this is AI generated; the vertical edge of the window is rough and looks like the boundary of a painting. If it were the texture of the rendered wall, I'd expect the horizontal edge of the widow to have the same texture, but the horizontal edge is smooth. The texture of the dark area behind the cat is also giving painting vibes. Plus, the window sill seems to curve down in the middle, where the cat is, which could technically happen in real life, if a window sill had a dip that's probably where the cat would sit, but it's also the sort of thing that an AI that doesn't understand physics. The shadows don't quite seem to match the flowers, that could be because of the angle, but the shadow under the cat's nose seems to have the shadow of a leaf where you'd expect the shadow of a flower to be and the shrub doesn't seem to have any leaves yet. So even if the shadow weren't being cast by the flowers that are in frame, what's a leaf doing there at all?

[inthefallofasparrow]

Honest Government Ad | Palantir

[inkeee]

every time I read about how we are getting closer to an id locked internet via KOSA or some other similar nonsense, I wonder if we will look back on this period of the internet as like Times Square before Giuliani sanitized it and had all the stripclubs shutdown

[inkeee]

related: now is probably a good time to start keeping local copies of things you like.

[rhube]

I just remembered that this was a thing that was HILARIOUS in 2006 and apparently that was ten years ago now.

Old people: join with me in remembering how funny we found this on LiveJournal.

Young people: look at this lolrus, it’s so happy, it has a bucket.

And then they stealed away the bucket and we realised we had fucked up a perfectly good elephant seal and given it anxiety.

[pipistrellus]

listen this vintage meme is high quality and i will hear nothing said against it

[rhube]

20 years. I am not happy about this.

[demonicsymphony]

I’m delighted at the bucket reappearing but dismayed at the passage of time

[luminouspica]

Happy 20 years to Lolrus and his bucket!

[beardedmrbean]

[inthefallofasparrow]

I'd put a zero on the end of Elon Musk's birth year, so he gets to live in the far distant future and we don't have to deal with him.

[selectivelyserious]

Put a zero at the end of his company's tax rate

[pinayelf]

thinking abt that person who left that tag on my post abt colorism abt how us brown/black ppl should just "make our own stuff" instead of complaining

and i always think abt how i kinda resent the fact that now that we have more black and brown princesses they don't really get the sweeping swoony fairytales like the white ones did

raya and moana don't get a love story. tiana was a frog for most of the movie. they retconned the love story for asha in wish

maybe unpopular opinion but yeah its cool to show girl power and girls can be independent from men but man i just want to see a black or brown princess who gets to be the princess the prince saves from the dragon lol

and when i do make this stuff ppl will call it hetslop

[creatingblackcharacters]

📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢

"make your own stuff" and it will go purposely unpromoted and unsupported, and when it fails it's because "diversity is forced and boring" and not "people prefer stories with the same white characters because racism, no matter how worn out the idea is".

We have eyes! We can see the pattern!

[daco-showman]

why can rockstar games institutionalise you for life like nikita kruschev for being autistic

[ivy-michaels]

He didn't steal 10 million dollars. They made that number up as a loss, they never fucking had it. Rockstar has spent more than a billion fucking dollars on GTA VI and will likely make billions more when it gets released.

Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?

Capitalism is disgusting.

[fuckblast]

Nobody should buy GTA til they free Arion Kurtaj

[ivy-michaels]

What with GTA VI going up for pre-order i'd just like to remind everyone that rockstar conspired with the UK government to lock an 18-year-old away for life for hacking them.

[charlesoberonn]

Necessary and sufficient

[charlesoberonn]

[charlesoberonn]

Adding a second lock was not necessary.

[charlesoberonn]

Understanding the difference between necessary and sufficient is necessary, but not sufficient to earn a math degree.

[kitsnicket]

I don’t like this actually

[kitsnicket]

This is depressing does anyone else find this depressing

[mikkeneko]

I would actually make the argument that the heart of the problem here is not either about fans, as the article claims, or production companies being exploitative cowards, as some of the comments are claiming. The heart of the problem is the increasingly eroding privacy we are seeing in the modern age.

There's some people in the comments saying "fandoms have always been like this" and others saying "No, it's worse than it was." And both are to some extent right. Fans (or at least a small percentage of fans, and the larger a fanbase gets the larger a group this will describe) have always been Like That; but they did not always have the level of access to creators and actors that they have now.

The notion that a performer needs to be constantly available to public scrutiny, that their personal information should by default be available to any rando with google, is pretty new. It used to be that actors would only be expected to engage with the public on limited, specific, and controlled occasions, usually with security provided. Now they're being asked to rawdog exposure to the mob 24/7 on their own.

(Also, production companies have always always always been exploitative cowards, just to get that straight; reading the biographies of literally any actress from golden Hollywood years makes that clear. It's just, again, more public now.)

There has also been a negative feedback loop as fandoms come to realize that the constant access they have to creatives increases their leverage and power. It did not use to be the case that this was so; fandoms pre-internet largely worked under the assumption that they didn't really have any meaningful way to contact or influence the publication houses. Even if they sent a letter or a campaign of letters, they wouldn't even know whether the letters were being received or read unless the publishing house chose to respond. So, without that expectation of access, the drama usually stayed internal. Nowadays, with constant immediate feedback from creators and publishers, fans are ever more incentivized to act out to try to push an agenda, get attention, or just vent whatever is going on in their lives onto a face contractually obliged to be friendly to them.

[theconcealedweapon]

[thememedaddy]