you can call me snow! (any pronouns )
my icon was made by @shardofsun!
find me bloggin about specific stuff @red-life and @rightintoalake
Keni

roma★

JBB: An Artblog!
Three Goblin Art
Sade Olutola
taylor price
RMH
Sweet Seals For You, Always
occasionally subtle

pixel skylines

Kaledo Art
Cosmic Funnies
Peter Solarz
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
DEAR READER
$LAYYYTER
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open

shark vs the universe
No title available
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
seen from Canada
seen from Italy
seen from France

seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from Chile
seen from Netherlands
seen from Türkiye
seen from United States
seen from Netherlands
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Türkiye
seen from India
seen from France

seen from T1
seen from Brazil

seen from Japan
seen from Italy
@snowandcats
you can call me snow! (any pronouns )
my icon was made by @shardofsun!
find me bloggin about specific stuff @red-life and @rightintoalake
i get why people don't believe in marriage as a social construct but legally it is the best and easiest way to say "this is who i trust to take care of me when i can't take care of myself" and i'm so glad gay people fought for that right bc when shit gets scary at least i know im in good hands
spotify was created so people would have a way to listen to problematic artists without having to worry about financially supporting them
A real page on the White House website
proud victim of the tumblr accent. it's fading out of public consciousness as the tik tok accent takes precedence; a linguistic evolution that makes the tumblr accent 85% funnier to unsuspecting civilians. it's like releasing a disease on a non-inoculated population. coughing baby versus hydrogen bomb.
nothing
hour 1 of shift: i love helping people and making people happy yay yay yay later today i am gonna go home and have fun and eat a tasty meal and work on my projects and
hour 6: if youu go to the store and buy groceriers you are a piece of shit
hour 8: if i wad 1 apples tall i could live off of one apple for a week... oh but it would rot away... no.... i hate the rot i hate the apple
Introductions to academic papers will be like "everyone knows that the sea is cold (citation), as well as salty (5 different citations). Things live in there (citation) and the environment is important to that (2 citations)"
these tags gave me thesis writing flashbacks
the thing about writing history. Is that you get used to this. And sometimes, some of us get too comfortable and so we're writing shit like
"Murder is bad. In the time period discussed, people sometimes committed murders (2 citations). And most people agreed that murder was bad, but it was widely known that murders still happened."
And your advisor goes, "Did most people agree, though? Was it widely known?"
And you go (sigh.). Okay. And do twelve hours of going back through your readings. And rewrite.
"Murder is bad (4 citations). In this time, people sometimes committed murders (6 citations). People did not all agree that it was bad (2 citations). There was disagreement about exactly how bad (3 citations)."
And you look at your draft. And you go. But. But we all — I mean, the archival sources from the time are in fact QUITE CLEAR about how widely known it was! Like–! I've read hundreds of letters and a third of them mention murder! I've talked to so many historians of this time and place and we ALL talk about the murder thing!
And you look at the twelve goddamned hours of searching you did. And you write several increadingly desperate emails to colleagues. And after another few days, you come to the agonizing realization that, in fact, there are no citations of published work establishing that people knew murders occurred despite them being bad and against the law. And then you spend another week looking up those archival sources. And you rewrite again.
"Murder is bad (6 citations). In this time, people sometimes committed murders (6 citations). People did not all agree that it was bad (2 citations). There was disagreement about exactly how bad (3 citations). While no conclusive study has been done, from communications in this time, we can say that at least a significant number of people knew that murders still occurred (18 citations)."
prev tags: #academia#this is important though because it’s the stuff Everybody Knows which can REALLY trip you up#also often those citations don’t even say that when you check lmao#in the queue
So fun story, when i was working on my dissertation I came across something that said "cattle eat about 30% of the total biomass in a Sahelian rangeland" (number exact, wording paraphrased)s
I was like hm that seems suspiciously round to be an experimental result, let's see what the citation is. after repeating this process for SEVERAL iterations, I got to a book published in 1991 called "Manuel sur les paturages des pays sahelien" where it was cited as "personal communication" (translation: I called someone I thought would know and that's what they said")
head, meet desk.
really good
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou
Let’s fucking go
This is HUGE.
1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.
2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.
3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."
4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.
TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.
if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills
just met a three month old pomeranian named horchata. her paw was the size of my fingertip. she looked like half a dandelion fluff
this just got a hockey rpf tag. due to the nature of this website
other hockey rpf enjoyers now expressing skepticism and disbelief at the choice of man referenced above and tagging it with their preferred and more horchataesque men. i love it here and i'll leave when i die
May you live until you die.
Lyrics from What Do It Mean by Lord Huron
That is DIABOLICAL museum design, A++, no notes
if there is one thing that tumblr has done to my texting it is the inclusion of arrows <- uses arrows basically anywhere <- loves arrows <- #myarrows
female-presenting vitruvian