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🇫🇷🇵🇭 she/her no fuss (i try)

[macklesufficient]

fyi school isn’t actually for teaching you stuff. it’s to keep all the important regions of your brain active while it’s still young and spongy so you have the capacity to learn the stuff you need to learn later. just so you know.

[itscassiberry]

Also my dads a maths teacher and he always told me that algebra in particular isn’t taught as much for the sake of knowing algebra, but because it teaches your brain a certain type of thinking that other subjects can’t effectively teach. The illustration he always used was lifting weights, lifting dumbbells is not something anyone does in the real world but it strengthens the muscles that can then be used more effectively for other things

[macklesufficient]

yeah exactly! it’s going to the gym for your brain

[enki2]

[t4t4t]

[thebibliosphere]

I actually meant to put this in my drafts so I could come up with a response more articulate than the incorrect buzzer sound that went through my head when I read this, but I guess I didn’t do that, so let me just say: both of these are bad.

This is not a competition. Both of these are bad.

It’s also baffling because this is the opposite of what we’re seeing from AI editing software geared towards professional writers, which is deliberately designed to “simplify complex words” for “greater legibility.” (Often with questionable results.)

Programs like Grammarly and PRA use their “integrative AI” to simplify everything down to the bare bones because it thinks words like “devoid” are too complicated for the average reader to understand.

It’s why so many of the newer books read kinda samey right now. Writers are being trained out of using complex language by AI to appeal to readers (supposedly), and kids and non native English speakers who are using “complex” language are being marked down for using AI when they’re not.

It’s a fucking nightmare.

[prole-log]

[murderessdominatrix]

via @quasi-normalcy

[francisforever2014]

good bones by maggie smith saturday . give it up for good bones by maggie smith saturday

[iminthetunnels]

ur future nurse is using chapgpt to glide thru school u better take care of urself

[lucyaudley]

Yep. This is terrifying. I’ve caught nursing majors, engineering majors, architecture majors relying on ChatGPT to do their homework. These are people who need to know their field well to ensure people don’t die and they’re letting a glorified algorithm cheat them through school. It’s so dangerous

[redwinterroses]

hey. hi. I work in academia. and there are a lot of student-age folks on this site.

don't do this. don't use genAI. even if your professors give you permission. even if they ask for it or suggest it. if they do anything short of directly requiring it (and I weep, because I've already seen assignments that require it) don't touch that crap. if they do require it, stick it to them. be as maliciously compliant as possible. be a nightmare.

I know it might sound easier right now -- just plug in your assignment and get the answers. you don't care about this class anyway, it's not for your major, you don't see the value of the assignment.

but for your own sake, for the sake of your education and mind, and for the sake of the future world we want to have: learn the stuff. you are not as stupid as the corporate bizzaro kings who want to rule the world think you are, so don't give them reasons to believe it.

and odds are good genAI is gonna give you corrupted info anyway -- more and moreso as the machines cannibalize themselves.

just don't do it. not even "I just do it for XYZ--" no. stop. there is no valid use of generative AI, and even using it for memes or lolz feeds the system and directly feeds the pockets of the people who want to replace you anyway.

[aaaaaadhd]

Rage reblogging this. Yesterday i got into an argument with one of my college friends who is using chatGPT to do all her work. We're psychology students. The whole group chat laughed my arguments off as if they didn't matter because "she's an artist, of course she's anti-AI" and i had to deal with it. This is a warning. If your therapist graduated in 2023/2024, ask about their opinions on chatGPT. They might lie to you if you ask "did you use it to graduate" directly, but try to make jokes about it and play it cool. If they're into it, DROP OFF. FIND A NEW ONE. Do not trust your brain to someone who didn't bother to use theirs.

[heywriters]

No, Google Docs, there is a distinct difference between "cussing" and "cursing."

[strawberrykapricorn]

Calling google ‘googie’ is such a power move imo

[heywriters]

Tis indeed! Thank you for this addition. Here are some photo examples of the Googie style.

[tribeofthedrunkenweasles]

IT HAS A PROPER NAME?!

[geardrops]

posts that provide surprise knowledge, balancing out posts that provide net zero knowledge gained, what a rich ecosystem we live in

[vadergf]

I feel like someone is standing next to me talking about how I'm dead

[rudolphsboyfriend]

The chemical they put on ants and all the other ants think they're dead that's what happened to tumblr except the chemical is unmarketability

[bisexualalexmercer]

tumblr may have censored porn but check this out

i hope Elon musk KILLS himself and DIES a thousand DEATHS. and i hope every other billionaire a very merry DIE DIE DEATH KILL MURDER DEATH KILL

[the-trash-eating-llama]

[liefst]

i keep thinking about how it feels as if we have developed ourselves an obsession with "healing" these days – and a friend said something that really stuck in my head – "if you're part of a community where you're always trying to heal, then that means that you always need to be sick". like i think that we're all taking this ideal of healing too far saying that everybody needs therapy all the time and resetting your gut biome or surrounding yourself with positive energy or whatever it is that you can come up with. you're always focusing on something that is "wrong" and that needs to be eliminated, after which everything will be okay again. it all sounds like just another way of maintaining an illusion of control over your life and i don't think it's doing us any good

[silksweets]

bring back the habits that made you happy as a child. there’s no reason you should ever have to give up harmless things that bring you joy. you don’t have to age out of having fun. finger paint. write mediocre fanfiction and questionable poetry. put chocolate chips in your waffles. sing in the bath, and while working in the yard, and while washing your hands. hammer tunelessly on a piano. spin in circles until you fall down. climb a tree. just because you’re now in charge of your life doesn’t mean you’re expected to give up on the things that make life feel worth living

[ullrs-skis]

If I could impart one thing to a young adult - it would be this. This is literally the secret to being okay your entire life.

[beggars-opera]

The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes

[formerlyanon]

and we need that! keeps us humble. 

[dabouse]

Then I'm just like WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE AN ADULT

[tomboy014]

It goes the other way, too, because WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE A CHILD?!!

[dabouse]

I'm 16, that's like, barely a child

[tomboy014]

I'm in my 30s. You are baby

[digitaldiscipline]

I'm older than both of you in a trenchcoat.

[kabretoss]

honestly one of the best things we can do for ourselves is realize that people of different ages than us can still be the same kind of person as us. it's humbling and it gives everyone involved a sense of continuity, and it busts those stupid generational stereotypes media is so fond of.

[dashcon-two]

Prepare yourself.

[myrefugeblog]

I'm laughing so hard!

About Us, DashCon 2

FAQs This is Crazy/ Why should we trust you? Our team of organizers actually have experience in event coordination, or fields with transfera

[wakor]

I desperately need this event to either 1) go exceedingly well by all convention standards or 2) somehow fail more spectacularly than Dashcon I.

[rohirric-hunter]

[batuurebel]

[boghermit]

JK Rowling has done more damage to feminism than any other person in modern history and I'm not joking.

[boghermit]

Because of people like her, women, regardless of birth gender, are expected to conform to impossible standards. No unique features are allowed, no strong noses, no square jaws, no hormonal conditions, no form of biological variety is allowed. All deviation from the delicate Victorian era white woman is forbidden. If you don't conform to these impossible standards, then they call you a man. The facts don't matter to them - all that matters is that they maintain their clique of rich old British bints with high school mean girl mindsets, neurotic victim complexes, and too much time and money on their hands. I'm not hyperbolizing when I say my boomer mother's era of feminism was way more progressive than whatever the fuck is going on right now. It's the polar opposite. JK Rowling and her cult of radfems took the feminist progress of the past seventy years out back, shot it in the head, and pissed on its corpse.

[hussyknee]

[unicornlamps]

[wormy-business]

The backstory for the horse is that he injures anyone who tries to ride him

[guiltyidealist]

[scientia-rex]

I love him. The murder just shines out of his beautiful face

[bundibird]

We all know this site is US-user heavy, but I wanna know how many are vs aren't from the land of capitalism.

American? or nah

yeah I'm American

I'm from one of several countries in the world that's not America

Voting ended onAug 5, 2024

[marlinspirkhall]

If we gerrymander this, we can outvote the Americans. Only reblog this if you're not American. Reblog while they're asleep.

[literallyaflame]

i hate to be that guy, but the idea that gender, sex, and sexuality are ontologically pure concepts that can be rigidly defined if we simply police our language enough (our english language, because of course) is—i cannot stress this enough—a total waste of time. you may as well spend your afternoons teaching a brick how to swim

[bencan-t]

I think about this old tweet...a LOT

[personsonable-deactivated201908]

me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

[miaislying]

Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?

[personsonable-deactivated201908]

decay exists as an extant form of life

[miaislying]

That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day

[haystarlight]

THE ORIGINAL?!?!!!!!!!!;!!!!!!!!???

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

oh hey! various folks have commissioned me for this one over the years!

newest to oldest:

[compiler-specific]

[doggendoodle]

everybody say thank you lain