not today, cephalopod

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[outofcontextdiscord]

[greelin]

in case you needed to hear it today:

it’s okay to use your turn signal when you’re changing lanes

it’s okay to use your turn signal when you’re taking an exit

it’s okay to use your turn signal when you plan on turning (can even be done sooner than 2 seconds before you’re about to turn)

you have a turn signal. in your vehicle. two of them in fact.

you are so brave and beautiful and smart and can do it. using your turn signal

[humanpeoplefanblog]

saw this amazing post but rbs got turned off so. get funged idiot

[bassiter]

whenever i see four pictures together i naturally expect it’s gonna be either loss.jpg, a political alignments chart, or the four horsemen of the apocalypse

[thetransintransgenic]

I should real feel so, so sorry about this

[thetransintransgenic]

ALTERNATIVELY

[sun-moon-talia]

believe it or not some female characters don’t have to be mothers. some female characters shouldn’t be mothers. some female characters have a history of expressed disinterest in being mothers. some female characters would have to do a complete 180 in characterization in order to be mothers.

[dapperd0g]

too hot!

[skeleton-monarch]

it’s just. really frustrating how so much of what transmascs talk about gets separated from context just to pick it apart and make us sound ridiculous. i’m just tired. we aren’t inherently an enemy to any other group of people. masculinity doesn’t make us evil.

[schizoauthoress]

Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract.  And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.

So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.

[darkfrog24]

I heard about this on Freakonomics Radio.  Turns out the bit about no brown M&Ms is HUGE, in BIG font, bold, underlined and quotated like they’re on the Group W Bench.

The band was all, “We have fifty-pound lights hanging over our heads and fire being shot out of cannons.  We had to know whether they read our safety regs so we didn’t flamebroil any roadies.”

[gobbochune-deactivated20241018]

interesting how this has become a meme in the music industry about divas. i’ve always heard jokes that amount to “this stuck up celebrity hates the green gummy bears!! they’re refusing to perform just for that???” and its reading stuff like this that i realise how that joke might have come about. people get grumpy that the band refuses to play but cant admit its because THEY’RE incompetent, so they make it all about the M&Ms. another example of artists using a creative method to ensure they have a perfectly reasonable request fulfilled that is then bastardised by lazy people who wanna make money off them. 

[thesylverlining]

…this is like the music industry version of hearing the truth behind the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[danndesigns]

[depsidase]

[emptymanuscript]

Link to the article from forbes:

Biggest Market Loss In History: Nvidia Stock Sheds Nearly $600 Billion As DeepSeek Shakes AI Darling

Nvidia lost more market value Monday than the total valuations of American stalwarts UnitedHealth, Costco and Bank of America.

You know... I'm just spitballing but maybe individual companies or conglomerates or whatever shouldn't have the kind of market share that allows for that big a tanking. No matter what they happen to do. Maybe the "efficiencies of monopolies" aren't worth the risk of efficiently driving the world's economic fortunes into the toilet.

Maybe we should, I dunno, break them up.

I know, fat chance, but I feel like we could live without yet another once in a lifetime downturn in our lifetimes. We might even, I dunno, do BETTER.

[deepdreamnights]

This was always coming.

OpenAI has been an obvious bubble for at least two years now. Everything they do is very impressive initially, but only on the merit of their ability to use tons of money to brute force train larger and larger datasets. Within 6-9 months another, smaller team leapfrogs their efforts. They've never attempted to tune any of their products into useful applications. They've never even had a market plan.

Open source projects and projects run by small passionate teams are always going to outpace those that just throw money at problems.

The only reason nobody had come out with a powerful chat-GPT alternative sooner is there's no real money in it. As toys go, text-gen is the least shiny one compared to image, video and audio/music. I've been predicting the OpenAI bubble bursting for months.

I look forward to seeing all the unexpected ways this tech winds up getting used now that there's an open-source alternative to paying OpenAI for app integration.

Since it's now a tool in everyone's toolbox, I think you're also going to see more uses where it more or less makes sense. When it isn't special/shiny anymore, it has to be functional.

[meshugenist]

Thailand makes hormone therapy free for trans people just after legalizing marriage equality - LGBTQ Nation

The move follows enactment of the country's new marriage equality law.

hell yeah

[kikmessenger]

im gay but $20 isn’t even $20 anymore

[carnaval-pics-vids]

[dcminions]

NICOLE  BYER on  Jimmy  Kimmel  Live  !

[rimonoroni2]

“a penis is Ontologically Evil because it’s technically capable of perpetrating sexual violence” damn, wait till you hear about hands!

[rimonoroni2]

yeah, so… listen, you’ve just made everyone in the group really uncomfortable because like, you know… you have hands. and some of us here have been hurt by people with hands, so… that makes you, like, a violent offender in the making, you know? because you have hands. and the other day stephanie said that you shook somebody’s hand and that’s like, basically a violent threat to us so. you need to leave actually

[power-chords]

My mom went to high school with this guy and showed me this Facebook post of his and if I were not already happily married……………..