carve that encounter into me

[bobdylanyaoi]

come join my scandinavian hard rock band in the eighties, labübü

[luckykittycolor]

[obfuscobble]

GET WRAPPED UP, KITTY! GET LOVED AND CHERISHED!

[cornistasiathecoblinking]

The eyes slowly closing as sleep takes them makes it

[vittumyy]

[56gayrats]

Can someone from Finnish tumblr please explain why i keep seeing cursed Finnish desert items without context????

[hamyheikki]

Fazer is the biggest finnish sweets manufacturer and they are in a habit of creating some... interesting combination when it comes to flavors.

And thus, people have begun to meme on this concept by photoshopping their own original ideas xD

[chaotic-carnifex]

Oh wow, we do the same thing with Ritter Sport 😂

Source

Source

Finns 🤝 Germans

[vittumyy]

Omg I love these, I've been following these Ritter Sport memes for years!!

Finnen 🤝 Deutschen

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

im having the kind of fun where its not entertaining or cool or pleasant or fun

[free-my-mindd]

[myfairynuffstuff]

Heli Huotala (b.1968) - Almost Summer. Oil on canvas.

[gaybichon]

LMFAO

[odd-maid3n]

[knight--error]

[reasonablywittyatbest]

Whenever I think about students using AI, I think about an essay I did in high school. Now see, we were reading The Grapes of Wrath, and I just couldn't do it. I got 25 pages in and my brain refused to read any more. I hated it. And its not like I hate the classics, I loved English class and I loved reading. I had even enjoyed Of Mice and Men, which I had read for fun. For some reason though, I absolutely could NOT read The Grapes of Wrath.

And it turned out I also couldn't watch the movie. I fell asleep in class both days we were watching it.

This, of course, meant I had to cheat on my essay.

And I got an A.

The essay was to compare the book and the movie and discuss the changes and how that affected the story.

Well it turned out Sparknotes had an entire section devoted to comparing and contrasting the book and the movie. Using that, and flipping to pages mentioned in Sparknotes to read sections of the book, I was able to bullshit an A paper.

But see the thing is, that this kind of 'cheating' still takes skills, you still learn things.

I had to know how to find the information I needed, I needed to be able to comprehend what sparknotes was saying and the analysis they did, I needed to know how to USE the information I read there to write an essay, I needed to know how to make sure none of it was marked as plagerized. I had to form an opinion on the sparknotes analysis so I could express my own opinions in the essay.

Was it cheating? Yeah, I didn't read the book or watch the movie. I used Sparknotes. It was a lot less work than if I had read the book and watched the movie and done it all myself.

The thing is though, I still had to use my fucking brain. Being able to bullshit an essay like that is a skill in and of itself that is useful. I exercised important skills, and even if it wasnt the intended way I still learned.

ChatGTP and other AI do not give that experience to people, people have to do nothing and gain nothing from it.

Using AI is absolutely different from other ways students have cheated in the past, and I stand by my opinion that its making students dumber, more helpless, and less capable.

However you feel about higher education, I think its undeniable that students using chatgtp is to their detriment. And by extension a detriment to anyone they work with or anyone who has to rely on them for something.

[sleepymccoy]

I can remember being in computer class right before history and someone in the last ten minutes mentioned the class presentations we had next period and I was like.. fuck man I fully forgot

So I had a passing knowledge of ww2, as much as anyone, so i figured that I could bluff the context around Churchill and just get some of his details down and I'd be fine.

So I pulled his Wikipedia up and read it. Didn't have time to write a speech, this was gonna be adlib. Then I jumped on google images and pulled a picture that reflected one thing from each of his Wikipedia sections (like, early life (picture of a train set) education (Churchill graduating) early war (you get the idea).

Bunged the pictures into a powerpoint and read the Wikipedia again with the powerpoint alongside, adding subheadings to jog my memory. Pulled a couple links from the bottom of the wiki for the bibliography, opened and skimmed to make sure they weren't wild, and saved the damn thing

We were lining up outside class for history and the guys in the class are telling some classmates about how I'd just smashed out my whole presentation. I asked everyone to let me go first since the knowledge wasn't gonna last long, I was going off having just read Churchill's wiki lol

They all agreed (champions) and one of the girls said she'd read up on Churchill a bit on her presentation about the Queen, so she promised to nod or shake her head if I was completely wrong.

I presented. I know I spent a minute on each slide and spoke relevantly. I remember at one point saying Churchill excelled in school, saw my classmate was shaking her head, and pivoted to say he didn't do well with formal education but got into some of the extracurricular activities that'd benefit him come war time. She nodded. I continued lol. One of the lads complimented me on that one afterwards

I don't think I learnt much about Churchill with this study. But I absolutely learnt about public speaking. I was using skills in research and apply my contextual knowledge. I also learnt to rely on classmates, even tho we weren't friends at all she had my back because it was easy and kind and cost her nothing

I got a B+ and a comment about being one of the more engaging and charismatic presenters (that would've been the adrenaline, and my classmates were watching fascinated to see if I could pull it off lol).

The main perk of my presentation was the energy, which wouldn't've been there if I'd ai'd a script to read. And I wouldn't have this fun memory

[kedreeva]

I remember getting in a philosophy class in college (one I just took for fun), and realized that there was a paper due that day that I had 100% forgotten about writing. I lied and told the professor that I had forgotten to print it, but I had my laptop with me for note taking, so if he'd give me 5 minutes after class I would run down to the computer lab and print it off and bring it up. He said that was fine, presumably because I couldn't write a coherent paper in 5 minutes.

But I COULD write a coherent paper in 45 minutes, which is about the time it took me to slap together a dirty outline and fill it in, the way I had been taught to do in high school in my writing class. It wasn't gonna win any awards but it meant a B+ instead of a zero, and it meant I had an opportunity to work under pressure and practice skills I had learned. Skills I STILL use to this day, skills I have taught to others. Skills I use to help others edit papers. Skills I would not have and certainly wouldn't have been able to hone if chatGPT was doing it poorly instead.

That's MY B+ bullshit essay. I earned it fair and square, along with the bragging rights to having written it under my professor's nose.

[cruel-hiraeth]

STOP—THIS IS A KINDNESS CHECKPOINT! rb this post + say something you love about prev to keep the positive energy flowing 💫

[astro-tram]

ballin 🏀🔥

[watercolormagicalgirl]

hey. remember when i made a post about how annoyed i was that a guy called pirate software was against software piracy?

lmao

[uhuh100]

what happened this time

[watercolormagicalgirl]

oh LOTS of things. this time it was just yknow almost singlehandedly killing a massive consumer rights legal campaign for game preservation through a disinformation campaign about it using his massive platform because it was inconvenient for him

relatedly, if you happen to be reading this and live in the EU, throw them your signature and maybe you can help get legislation passed to stop killing games.

[butchlinkle]

just to add—there is a deadline, the european citizen's initiative will fail if it doesn't get enough signatures by July 31st.

However in the past week it has gone from 50% to 79%, so keep spreading the word—both about the initiative, and also that this guy has been spreading misinformation about it for his own self interest, as a lot of those signatures have come from people who bought into his misinformation.

[kamenriderhamo]

Update on this: Ross Scott, aka Accursed Farms and the guy behind the Stop Killing Games initiative has posted more videos in the wake of this, like this update video

but if you're a bit busy, he pretty much says the UK petition has cleared it's signature and the EU initiative needs more signatures as he thinks non EU citizens have been signing it (which is a problem cause that makes it seem spoofed) and talks about how that can lead to a whole legal issue there so he encourages non EU citizens to share it with people who CAN sign it, so anyone with EU mutuals who haven't signed it yet, please do.

[kyleblackpaw]

i feel like we as a digital society have forgotten the important rules of the internet

Don't feed the trolls

Never give out personal information

Anonymity is the best defense

Don't click suspicious links

Don't click popups and ads

Just because it's written doesn't mean it's true

You are responsible for your own experience

There is porn of everything, act accordingly

[cadejpeg]

ping ping the animation is truly one of a kind, I kinda don’t like this edit bc it feels a little bit off but I kinda gave up LOL but I will say, this audio just made me think of PPTA so much bc while to others it just ping pong, a sport these characters played in their youth, to our characters it is what shaped them to who they are and while “it doesn’t matter in the long run” it did matter at one point and that alone makes it important

anywho watch ping pong 😝

[ayperisiymis-deactivated2025012]

[varahai]

Minkäkokoisen moottorin sä tarviit sun jyrsijään?

[books-are-portals]

Tähän joku prätkähiirivitsi

[shantihtown]