a bit of a nerd

i don't know what's going on i literally just got here from pinterest

[thatonejarofspacenutella]

intro post yay!

you can call me nutella! (i have a rare name so don’t like using it online)

she/her

sexuality is unlabeled atm

i’m a minorrrrr so don’t be weird please (or ur getting instablockedddd)

joined this march because i was tired of seeing the same posts over and over on pinterest.

mostly i just reblog things, post some random fanart i make

all of my original posts (starting now) are tagged #nutellathinksthings or #nutellamakesart

ARTFIGHT 2026 WE'RE DOING IT!!! (PROFILEEEEE)

my interests:

hollow knight/silksong

Six of Crows

Outer Wilds

Project Hail Mary

Epic the musical

Greek mythology

ACOTAR

Percy Jackson

Classics overall!

Space!

Avatar (tv show NOT movie)

Stardew Valley

The Will of the Many

Arc of a Scythe

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books

Dead Poets Society

and a lot more i don't feel like listing

please interact like a normal human being who has touched grass sometime in the last week and we're good ::)

[cupcake-torture]

Grace, over the phone: "Carl and I made a baby!"

Stratt, sleep deprived, currently in the middle of illegally downloading all of ao3: 'I leave them alone for 2 minutes and they make fucking mpreg???'

Stratt, out loud: "What???"

[redstonedust]

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

[ralfmaximus]

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.

[sarafangirlart]

Odysseus saying that “the age of Bronze is collapsing” is just utterly absurd bc the term ‘Bronze Age’ is a relatively modern term used in archaeology, it wouldn’t be used by ancient ppl to talk about themselves. It would’ve make more sense for Odysseus to say that “the age of heroes has ended” bc the Ages of Man would be a concept that the Ancient Greeks would know.

[houruponthestage]

I think we need to appreciate Stratt as one of the female characters of all time. Morally complex. Hero. Not sexulised. Dutch. No love interest. Stoic yet not one dimensional. Criminal. Nuanced.

[ottostoast]

1st & 2nd in command

[ladykvetchingradish]

I think my opinion on parts of the Odyssey movie have 100% evolved in the days since I watched it, but my opinion is still unshaken for the aspect of the movie that introduces the threat of sexual violence from soldiers (via Circe) but then vilifies Circe by refusing to acknowledge Odysseus’s soldiers part in that threat, posing Circe as paranoid woman who traps a ship full of “good men” when she misidentifies them as lustful violent soldiers.

Circe’s character, who in any other context would be a fearless protector, becomes the inopportune hindrance to the crew when you take away important context of the soldier’s true nature. Odysseus essentially says “not all men” are like that, which is a head-scratching revision to a movie that already condemns the greek soldiers for their part in the war. Why are we now getting cold-footed when it’s time to condemn for the full extent of crimes? Whether the soldier’s innocence is true or not is, at the end of the day, irrelevant. That is not the real issue with the movie’s portrayal.

Circe’s use of precautionary witchcraft and wise wisdom cannot function as a cautionary tale in a story that refuses to acknowledge the truth that her character revolves around.

[monkeyislandtwo]

why r callouts always like "please dont harass this person and dont go after them. anyway heres every single detail of their life gathered by stalking and their private profiles for all to see"

[monkeyislandtwo]

"please don't go after this person! now let me post this document for every single one of my followers and list every single one of their usernames"

[cannibalisticdespair]

[mint-chip-superiority]

[voidsetup1]

nothing here to run from

[notsoheterosapien]

INSANE!!! BEAUTIFUL AMAZE AMAZE AMAZE

[floofshy]

"unlike us monsters, human funerals are sad affairs because they don't explode into a pile of loot on death, and thus all the relatives and friends cry from disappointment"

[cyberjock-deactivated20250329]

[moddys-personal-stuff]

oh

[noveltyreader]

i need to be on the pjo side of tumblr, i NEED to be part of it. CLAIM ME

[snowysauropteryx]

Can you lick the science? An abbreviated list.

Genetics: Do not. Unless cheek swabs?

Chemistry: NO!!!!! DO NOT!!!!!!

Archaeology: Perhaps. But might be human bone.

Geology: Sometimes needed, sometimes dangerous 

Psychology: Best not.

Physics: ????????? How??????

Zoology: In zoology, science licks you. 

[seananmcguire]

Anthropology: Maybe ask first.

Herpetology: bad plan bad plan BAD PLAN

[whisperwhisk]

Sociology: Yes, if you have time and dedication and a willingness to piss a lot of people off.

Botany: You might hallucinate or die, OR it might be delicious

Computer Science: the tingle of electricity on your tongue is how you know it’s working

Epidemiology: FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLD PLEASE DO NOT

[carpebutts]

Linguistics: Despite the name, please probably don’t.

[son-of-rome]

Engineering: Maybe, but it’ll probably taste like spreadsheets 

[thyrell]

Software engineering: nothing else has made the code work so you might as well try it

[swordwall-deactivated20160214]

Neuroscience: that is someone’s brain. no. do not

[deanspillowprincess]

Marine biology: you can try, but you’ll probably just get a mouthful of seawater

[saihua-corner]

Pathology: please don’t lick the fresh biopsies.

[hellspawnartandblog]

Paleontology: I mean you could. It’s just going to taste like dirt

Toxicology: please for the love of God. Do Not.

Storm chasing: You could. But there is a 50% chance, It tastes wet or 50% chance, You’re just gonna fly away.

[ehyde]

“Grace! Why Eridian drawing on your words of encouragement, question?”

I’d never shown Rocky the cards and drawings that were sent with me before. “Eridian drawing?” I look at the symbol he’s pointing his texture gun at. “What do you mean?”

“Is simple way to draw Eridian. Like simple human next to it.” The simple human in question is a stick figure. And — rotationally symmetric, five equal limbs — yeah, I can see it. The Eridian stick figure equivalent. “Not possible for humans to know we meet,” Rocky says. 

“They didn’t,” I say. “On Earth, that’s how we draw a star.”

[oh-god-mom-found-the-yaoi]

The sad, horrible fact of the matter is, Grace was never going to go home. He was never going to see his classroom again.

Even if everything had gone right. Even if Dubois and Shapiro had survived. Even if the mission went off without a hitch.

He was Stratt's right hand man. He was there for the bombing of Antarctica, the paving of the Sahara, and each and every terrible, terrible choice they were forced to do. He saw all of it, and at points was absolutely complicit. He even begged to be allowed to continue to work on the project.

If he had not gone on the Hail Mary, not been cemented in history as a hero (and later on, once the truth comes out, the sacrificial lamb), he would have been condemned right next to Stratt.

In the end, his ignorance was always his fatal flaw.

[gallopinggallifreyans]