[zombiezinmydreams]

[savouryduck]

my Take on the environmental impact of information-synthesis and image-generation software marketed as AI is basically:

Yeah it looks like people who know what they're talking about say the energy use is similar to existing technology

that's bad, environmentally speaking

if you're building new tech with the intent that it's going to be used daily by everyone in the world, that shit had better be efficient as fuck

would it kill you to design and plan like we're in a climate crisis

[prokopetz]

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

[prokopetz]

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

[buggyhuman]

Three cueing. Once you learn about it, a whole lot of very frustrating online discourse with US Americans makes so much sense 😭

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have

[woodsfae]

If you were taught to read with the three cueing method, and now struggle to read fluently, you can still learn to read properly!

-> Phonics For Adults <-

If you're a teenager, you can still use this resource.

[trickstertime]

Huh? What's this?? Something is on this 5c coin???

ENHANCE

[subluxurious]

Phoned my mom yesterday and she found an ENT to do a surgery to fix her decades long migraine disorder. I sure hope it works and isn't a grift but only time will tell!!! She's been on every migraine treatment you can possible do. This guy is saying her issues are from inflamed tissues pressing on her trigeminal (is that correct?) nerve so basically a structural issue and by removing tissues / creating space surgically it will cure her. Fingers crossed

[carriesthewind]

This the report that JK Rowing doesn't want you to see. This report scares her so much that she is trying to destroy Amnesty International, a human rights organization, to stop you reading it:

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their fundin

(Amnesty already pulled the report because of JKR's threats. Of course that didn't and won't stop her - capitulating to fascists and bigots is never the answer. Alejandra captured the report and posted it, so you can read what JKR doesn't want you to know.)

[disabled-dyke]

begging everyone this disability pride month to stop using just ‘CFS’ when you’re talking about myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS, because unfortunately ME is also just a word). CFS, chronic fatigue syndrome, completely misrepresents the full disease, making it seem like it’s just ‘tired all the time’. please look up dr fauci’s smear campaign against this illness and why CFS was chosen as a name.

[tpwrtrmnky]

"Whether someone understands it or not, these are the consequences of the political views they're espousing" is a pretty important analysis tool for online movements because quite honestly, over half of everyone engaging in politics online have no foundations for the stuff they're saying and are just saying whatever makes them feel like a member of an in-group.

[tpwrtrmnky]

If your in-group is "the left" you're very much not immune to this. In fact, trying to do left-wing politics without even trying to build a foundational political understanding is a great way to end up as a neo-nazi with a tumblr accent rather than an effective left-wing advocate.

[unification]

kinda funny how children and the elderly are the least harmful demographics for most but the most harmful to me because of the increased incidence of disease and disease transmission

sent from in my house with a mask on

[catboybiologist]

More petty venting

The "accidentally ally teehee" thing of trans men being mistaken for trans women by transphobes does not, and will never, register to me as "the cis can't tell". It's honestly pretty blatantly a moment of "transphobes see or are explicitly tipped off to a Person Of Gender and immediately default to transmisogyny". And tbh it pisses me off how much transmascs don't see it.

Over and over again, I see bait posts from passing trans men with some approximation of "I'm a trans woman haha" to bait transphobes into tirades about how they'll never be a woman. Followed usually by little teehees about how affirming it was.

It never works in reverse. Not because it's easier to "pass" (a concept that already has little legitimacy) as a man if you're transmasc. The most "passing" trans woman alive could make this post, and they have. It doesn't work because the moment you indicate to someone that you're trans, with no further information, the default is transmisogyny.

It's not "they can't tell". It's not "transmasc invisibility". It's trans women becoming such a prevalent target in the minds of the public that people are clamoring at the opportunity to cut them down.

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[tsuquilisda]

rebecca black was right. It’s Friday

[voidcreations]

Look at my birthday cake...

[subluxurious]

Somehow I got so lucky and LDN worked overnight to calm my mast cell bullshit. LDN I will never quit on you

[madonnapopstar12]

[circusheart]

Cultivate your ability to see the world through stoner eyes even while sober

[heyfruitcake]

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

L'Odissea di Nolan tra "scheletri spazzatura" e relitti: Arpa al lavoro in Sicilia, che succede

Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i

[ignitelimelight]

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government

[fuckyeahdavidandyonatan]

They also filmed in illegally occupied territories in western sahara

'Cultural parasites': Calls for boycott of The Odyssey over filming in occupied Western Sahara

Sahrawi filmmakers criticise Christopher Nolan for complicity in Moroccan exploitation of Sahrawi land