Life measured out in coffee spoons

Contains Marvel, Doctor Who, JKR, Sailor Moon and literature.

[victoria-pedretti]

10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU 1999 — dir. Gil Junger

[merelygifted]

Vote Binface. Because the alternative is farage.

[homunculus-argument]

I know I'm not the first person to observe this, but banishment is a hell of a funny punishment. I now sentence you to fuck off. I don't care where, just get out of my sight. Go on. Git.

[rainonsand]

FUN FACT In various places, historically, exile was not necessarily permanent, and could also come with an assignment for achieving repatriation. In many city states in Renaissance Italy, for example, when you were exiled you could be made an ambassador to somewhere, and if you served well enough at reporting back etc you'd eventually be allowed to come back home.

Exile was only chosen instead of death, for an offense of that level, because the offender was someone of high station: nobility, highly esteemed political mover or banker/merchant class. So you don't want to let the offense go but the ruling classes don't really want it to be accepted practice to *kill* one of their own, and this person is also literate and probably multilingual as well as otherwise educated. So, like, send them to a royal court in the Low Country or Spain or with the Habsburgs or something to report back on whatever the heck is going on over there. Do your job well for a full year or 5, and maaaaaaybe you'll be allowed to come back where it isn't so cold in winter and the wine is decent and people know how to bake bread properly.

Ada Palmer talks about it, among other things, in this fantastic interview.

https://youtu.be/PAIhVfGbREA

[starlightxraven]

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

[appalachian-werewolf]

"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

It fucking better.

[mrsjdavis]

Like to charge, reblog to cast?

[newbarktownalumni]

[pjharvey]

i'm still a leftist but in my experience women are viewed as expendable in leftist spaces, spoken over, treated as stupid, on a level that is astounding. you can get away with an enormous level of vitriolic hatred for women if you couch it in the right terms

[furiosa-femininst]

SUPER-BISEXUAL

[furiosa-femininst]

I’ve seen people reblog this and point out how there’s not even any romance in the film, so I wanna clarify that the reason Fox News is having a toddler tantrum over Supergirl being bi is because Milly Alcock was asked about Supergirl’s sexuality (why? Idk. Maybe just cuz it’s Pride Month? 🤷‍♀️) and she answered that “she probably goes both ways”

The fact that there’s no romance in the film and this “controversy” happened just because of her answering a question on the red carpet makes it even more ridiculous that Fox News got so butthurt over this, lmao

Anyway, happy Pride Month, Kara 🩷

[smol-blue-bird]

I went to a library book sale this weekend and I found a very old book called “Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers,” which was published in I think 1975? I’ve been reading it kind of like how I would read a historical document, and it’s lowkey fascinating

[smol-blue-bird]

There’s a whole paragraph that’s like “okay, find the keyboard. Don’t panic if it has more keys than a typewriter, that’s normal. Really, it’s fine. The extra keys don’t make things harder. It’s FINE”

[smol-blue-bird]

Thought this section was particularly interesting:

Can the computer create something? At first glance it seems obvious that it can. Animated computer graphics, with their fluid transitions and whiplash perspectives, look strikingly new. And if one watches the machine doing animation work, there seem to be lengthy periods when the computer is acting “on its own.”

But if one observes these processes in more detail, it becomes clear that creation is not occurring within the machine. First of all, computer graphics are not unique. Computers have yet to generate anything that cannot be done by hand—and usually already has been done. Second, the apparent ability of the computer to “act on its own” is the outcome of thousands of hours of patient human effort to refine its instructions. The computer can manipulate a shape for us if we have already informed it what a shape is, what the rules for shape manipulation are, what this specific shape is, and so forth.

You can start an automobile engine and it will run by itself, too, but that doesn’t mean it’s being creative. It’s just running.

[theriu]

Somebody in 1975 had a better understanding of why artificial intelligence is not in any way “intelligence” than the majority of today’s intellectual minds.

[reggiemess]

Cannot stand the trend of censoring any and all words that describe concepts that might make you go :( especially when the censoring is done in that quarter-assed way that's just 'did a lil scribble over a vowel so you know that I know this word describes a no-no."

I'm not even going to be vague about what sparked this. Do not fucking censor the word 'stole.' I'm at my fucking limit.

[reggiemess]

Who does this benefit. Who is made safer by this. Whose life is made better by this. Who is out there going "Wow I sure am glad I didn't have to see that word without it scribbled on a little. That really reduced the emotional impact of reading that word." Can I kill them?

[elucubrare]

You’ve heard of “i didn’t say it was good, i said i liked it,” get ready for “i said it had some technical problems & didn’t fully deliver on its themes, not that i didn’t like it”

[elucubrare]

#I voiced a criticism of some of its aspects#which in no way implies I did not like it#“and especially does not imply that I would like to hear a defense of it of the form 'shut up and let people have fun'”

REALLY endorsing these tags from galileosballs

[elucubrare]

a bunch of people have added other varieties of experience, such as "i said it was interesting, not that i liked it" and "i said i didn't like it, not that it wasn't good" and i think they all are part of the experience that inspired the post - i find that people are really eager for works to be binarily good or bad & that when i say "i don't think this piece of it is working" that garners the response "oh so it's terrible?" & i often don't think it is! i think there's a part of it that isn't quite working & i like thinking about why. eventually if there are enough parts that don't work, either on their own or together, or if the end happens and nothing converges, or it never manages to be greater than the sum of its parts, it might turn out to be bad. but for the most part, there are some glimmerings of light in the dark forest of a terrible book, and even in the sun-dappled plains of a good one there is shadow.

[naamahdarling]

That has to be the most humiliating way to describe one of Earth's most terrifyingly effective predators.

[sapphic-and-stupid]

Picture of her from the USA Today

[teaboot]

I would let her kill me for sport

[vaelus-malewife]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

sometimes I’m reminded that there are still people who don’t know ao3 was literally created by incest shippers — and the site’s sole purpose is to 1. be completely against censorship and 2. host all kinds of dark, taboo fics that are banned on other platforms — and the first ever fic that was posted on ao3 was a fic about an incest ship from supernatural.

you are in the house that was created by freaks. for freaks (affectionate). every disgusting thing you can think of is rightfully allowed and welcomed on ao3, because they are exactly the reasons why ao3 was created in the first place.

ao3 was created because its creators got tired of censorship, they got tired of dark and taboo fics getting banned on pro-censorship platforms, and they wanted a place that was safe for ALL FICS THAT WERE DARK AND TABOO.

ao3’s main principle is being against censorship and being proship / profic.

there are some things in fiction that make me uncomfortable, but instead of shaming people who are just minding their own business and not harming anyone in real life, I choose to curate my own internet experience by blocking/muting what I don’t want to see. ao3 has excellent tagging system, so instead of being a bitch, use their tagging system properly and you won’t see the things you don’t want to see.

it’s your job to curate what you see. it’s not other people’s jobs or responsibilities to censor themselves for your personal comfort. the world does not revolve around you.

also you cannot censor “only the things you personally hate” without expecting everything else, that isn’t of conservative beliefs, to be censored too. because censorship is a slippery slope and a fascist tool. I promise you there are people who think “why do tags for queer love even exist on ao3? they’re grooming children”.

if you allow the things that you hate to be censored — because someone with enough power gets to control what other people can and cannot create/consume, it will not stop at the things that you hate.

*illustration by sillyalexnorris

[whatelsecanwedonow]

STAR TREK: GENERATIONS (1994) dir. David Carson

[slingerapen]

cats know keyboard shortcuts even microsoft doesnt know about

[dduane]

Meanwhile, via Bluesky...

(See also the video here from ITN.)

[mini-wrants]

Very reminiscent of the Clinton White House cat.

[angelwalking]

(source) its so funny how actual Greek and Homeric scholars are talking about this movie vs the fact that people on tumblr are acting like Nolan personally dug up Homer's actual bones and pissed on them

[ganondorf]

i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way

[tedcruzisthezodiackiller]

[perhats]

I say shit like "If my memory serves me" knowing damn well it serves the dark lord