biggest heartbreak FR
almost home
occasionally subtle
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"

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Monterey Bay Aquarium
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open

ellievsbear
YOU ARE THE REASON

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Peter Solarz

if i look back, i am lost
NASA

#extradirty
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸

Janaina Medeiros
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Keni

pixel skylines
trying on a metaphor
i don't do bad sauce passes

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biggest heartbreak FR
I keep hearing John Green say he's retired from working and lemme just say John Green is the least retired retired person I've ever seen.
I am retired!!! I retired in October of 2017 and have kept my promise not to exchange my labor for money.
Since 2017, I have only done stuff that I thought was interesting or useful regardless of whether it pays, because we have more than enough money, and despite what billionaires might tell you, there is literally no difference between "more than enough" and "much more than enough."
So I no longer work for money. But in retirement one must keep busy, which is why I have taken on an unpaid gig as the social media intern for a coffee and tea business that donates 100% of its profit to charity.
I also sometimes travel to universities and other places to speak in support of Partners in Health and global access to tuberculosis care, and sometimes I write books because writing makes me happy, and every Tuesday I make a video on vlogbrothers, and I make a podcast about the world cup with my friends from high school, and so on, but none of these things constitutes work. These are just Retirement Projects, which are essential to a happy retirement.
currently over yearning. would like it to stop pls. 2/10 only fun for a little bit then just gets depressing as hell
rip critical reading born 12,000 years ago in mesopotamia died on twitter in 2013. :( rest easy king.
She's hilarious, I love her
“what are you gonna do, cry about it?” yes . the fuck
I don't like to admit it, but sometimes I actually miss John Green.
Sometimes I can almost hear him.
Everybody STOP having a crisis, it’s now tea time
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Pause all dread an catastrophe to have a cuppa and some cookies for the next 15-30 minutes
This is a wizard spell
Pawb STOPIWCH fod mewn argyfwng, mae'n amser te rŵan
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Rhowch saib ar bob ofn a thrychineb er mwyn cael paned a bisgedi am y 15-30 munud nesaf
Mae hwn yn swyn dewin
Rapazada PARADE de ter unha crise, agora é a hora do té.
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Toda catástrofe e anguria queda en pausa pra nós tomar unhas taciñas e unhas bolechas os próximos 15-30 minutos.
Isto é un feitizo.
Всем ВЫЙТИ из кризиса, настало время чая
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Поставьте всю жуть и катастрофы на паузу, чтобы выпить чашечку и поесть печенья в следующие 15-30 минут
Это волшебное заклятье
An alle: STOPP mit den Krisen, es ist Zeit für Tee
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Pausiert die Verzweiflung und Katastrophen und macht euch 'nen Tee und esst 'n paar Kekse für so 15-30 Minuten.
Dies ist ein Zauberspruch.
Lume GATA cu criza, e timpul pentru ceai
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Puneți pauză la groză și prăpăd, ca să beți o cană de ceai și să mâncați niște fursecuri pentru următoarele 15-30 de minute.
Ăsta e un farmec
Kaikki LOPETTAKAA kriiseily, nyt on teeaika
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Kaikki kauhu ja katastrofipelko tauolle, ja seuraavat 15-30 minuuttia nautitaan kupposesta kuumaa ja syödään pari keksiä.
Tämä on velholoitsu.
Kõik LÕPETAGE kriisis olemine, nüüd on teeaeg
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Pange kõik õud ja katastroof pausile ning nautige tassikest teed ning küpsiseid järgmised 15-30 minutit
See on nõialoits
FERMI tutti dall'avere una crisi, é l'ora del té.
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Premete pausa su paura e catastrofe e fatevi una tazza di té con dei biscotti per i prossimi 15-39 minuti
Questo é un incantesimo
Text of tweet under the cut because it is loooong.
But... Stochastic Parrots.
definitely read under the cut for the full overview
essentially, everything Gebru warned about LLMs in her paper has come to pass, including "model collapse," the issue where LLM datasets grow worse as more of their training data - the internet - becomes AI-generated slop, degrading the LLMs more and more as time goes on
because LLMs aren't really artificial intelligence and cannot understand anything - they're just really good at sounding like the dominant language - their "hallucinations" (nonsense and lies) will continue to worsen. they're not even really algorithms anymore, just "Stochastic Parrots"
the human, cultural, and environmental cost is awful and building. when these LLMs become unusable and all the hundreds of billions of dollars invested evaporate, the economic collapse will be unimaginable
The paper in question:
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots | Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
Bender et al 2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922
thought of this immediately and was delighted to discover it’s the same op
The worst-sounding piece of advice I've ever been given that does actually work is to frame your health concerns as coming from someone close to you, whom you do not believe. Tell your doctor that you've been having pain and your mom/friend/partner thinks it might be an ovarian cyst, but you don't think so because the pain is much more intense and it has to be something else. This gives your doctor an unseen third party to fight instead of you. They can't just tell this third party, who isn't present, that you pulled a muscle, they now need to prove to this third party that it is not an ovarian cyst.
At which point they will find an ovarian cyst, but they now get whatever fucked up satisfaction they derive out of proving you wrong, because you didn't believe it could a cyst at all, but guess what? They did find a cyst! It's such a good thing you didn't listen to your intuition and came to them to verify your lay diagnosis from that third party! Bonus? Doctor doesn't have to feel like they look stupid in front of a patient, which is really what all this is about. Not your health, why would you think your medical diagnosis is about your health? It's obviously about a doctor's potential ego.
And apparently this works. Apparently you just need to be able to always play 4D chess with your medical professionals in order to find an avenue of advocating for yourself and getting you medical needs met. Isn't that great?
I hate it here, actually.
Or say “another doctor told me [BLANK]”.
Then they get to prove another doctor wrong and consume them whole, becoming the superior doctor.
characters have to be a little bit awful in ways that you cant defend. its good for the ecosystem. your honor he did do that. He did in fact do that
sometimes I have no idea what my mutual is on about in a post but I'm still liking it #supportingmymutuals
ok time to lock the fuck in *opens discord* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens tumblr* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens gmail* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens youtube* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens an unstable vortex in time and space* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens ao3* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens discord* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens tumblr*
wait, one more
why is it so expensive to fly between states and then cheap as fuck to fly between countries in europe????? what do you mean Milan to London is cheaper than Georgia to Virginia?????
what doesn’t kill you makes your nervous system more sensitive for the rest of your life