That thing with your eyes

That Scares People

[sunlight-shunlight]

it is so wild to me that unromanced solo king alistair and solo queen anora end up without even a vague political marriage to pretend they're going to have an heir eventually, celene is Fully Childfree, and gaspard is also childfree. what's wrong with them....

[sunlight-shunlight]

actually i'm fascinated by the idea of deadbeat celene. she does not know this child. she meets them like once or twice a year to check on their report cards from their tutors, gives them some weird backhanded insult/compliment remark that's meant as a test of their ability to understand her Galaxy Brain Verbal Repartee, and then leaves. she doesn't even remember their birthday. briala gets them a present on celene's behalf, bc she feels 5% bad about this.

also she Commemorates her poor dear late husband's death, every year, by wearing a new, cutting edge fashion mourning gown each time, and crying one or two beautiful crystalline tears at his ashes. she does also drag the kid along for this, for PR purposes.

[victusinveritas]

[rosalesbeausderholle]

One thing that worries me about the use of AI is whether or not it can worsen people's dementia and alzheimer's in the future. When my grandmother was first diagnosed, we got her math activity books. Now, my grandmother never had a formal education, but we did our best to keep her sharp, get her to do math and writing activity books, sudokus, playing board games that required some level of strategizing with her. Her family is prone to alzheimer's and dementia (both her siblings had it and deteriorated very very very quickly, which yeah, scares the shit out of me being her granddaughter) but she was the one whose mind lasted the longest, she only passed away two years ago, at 88, ten whole years after her initial diagnosis and sure, she had forgotten things, recipes and where she put her glasses and appointments, but she never forgot any of us, ten whole years in, she still remembered us. Now, this may have been luck, but doctors always said the constant mental work + companionship + medicine helped her a lot. So I'm thinking, these people who are now relying on AI for everything, from email-writing to thinking what's for dinner to casual conversations, I've even seen people rely on it to calculate what time they should leave their house if they need to be at a place at a specific time and their commute lasts X number of minutes. As if that's not... the simplest math operation possible? You shouldn't even need a calculator for that!!! Idk I don't know how long it'll take us to see the effects of this + exposure to brain-rotting short form content that is completely meaningless + people addicted to right-wing conspiracy style media. Idk I'm very worried. Please, read, read complicated books! Take up a book on philosophy and try to decipher it and make your own opinions on it, please buy a maths activity book and relearn how to do math, please get a hobby that involves lots of thinking and concentrating. PLEASE!!!

[notalotgoingonatthisinstant]

As a neurologist, I’ll give you the pretty name for it: cognitive reserve.

The way I explain it to my patients is that our neurons don’t regenerate. They make connections with each other and that’s it. If you don’t use your brain, they make fewer connections and, if one of them dies, you’re gonna miss it, because that was the only one that knew how to do X. Now, if each one of them has many, many connections, you won’t notice the difference when one of them dies. The others pick up the slack.

As of 2024, 45% of dementia risk factors are modifiable. Relevant to this conversation, 5% for less education and 5% for social isolation.

We absolutely are going to see the reflection of this, but it’s gonna take decades and it’ll be too late. So, for the love of your brain, pretend that it’s a muscle and make it work. People complain about “when am I ever gonna use this maths formula in my life?” You’re not. You’re teaching your brain to think logically. Those sinapses will be there for when you need to figure out your week’s schedule. English classes taught me how to interpret data and how to convey it in this text so it’s clear and you understand what I’m saying, not because I needed to justify why the curtain is blue.

Make your brain know how to do different things. Logic games, puzzles, taking care of a garden even if small, planning a church’s event or birthday, learn a new instrument, learn a few words in another language, look at a calendar every day, do some manual labor if possible. Do not, I repeat, do not let your brain get rid of sinapses by letting AI do everything. Your brain uses 20% of your body’s energy — do you really think it’s going to maintain connexions that aren’t in use?

Most cases of Alzheimer’s are sporadic, meaning no family history. Family history of a first-degree relative with Alzheimer’s starting before they were 80yo increases your risk in 2-3x on average.

TLDR: Yes. From the knowledge we have today, AI will increase the number and severity of dementia cases.

[datasoong47]

[linguisticparadox]

[r5h]

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2609/

[bralsra-deactivated20250108]

theres ALWAYS a relevant XKCD for everything huh

[beggars-opera]

Not to be that person, but if you remember this, how's that newfound back pain going for ya babe

[vocabulary-altering-posts]

PHRASE ADDED!

LET'S DO THE FORK IN THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL

LET'S DO THE FORK IN THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL

DING-DING-DING DING-DING DING DING-DING DING DING-DING-DING DING-DING DING DING-DING DING DING-DING-DING DING-DING DING DING-DING DING DING-DING-DING DING-DING DING DING-DING DING

[meepmoopmaap]

@urlocalchaosjunkie the two klauses

[netherator]

fork in the garbage disposal isn't that old

[beggars-opera]

Fork in the garbage disposal is turning 19 in just a few months. My guy the YES dance is so old it's legally an adult at this point.

[conservethis]

STOP!! I lost my contact!!

[adwbs]

[qi-mera]

More of you need to learn about these ☝️

[jadenebula]

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[harleycao]

Rip Anthony Stewart Head.

Here's an amazing story about him that I read years ago and never forgot.

I'd hoped to meet him at a convention, myself, one day.

Heartwarming story of Buffy's Giles going out of his way for a young trans fan

Tired: J.K. Rowling supporting a woman with anti-trans views. Wired: Buffy actor Anthony Stewart-Head quietly going above and beyond for his

[shadow-manor]

This kid is all grown up and is on Bluesky.

[fyanimorphs]

Katherine Applegate Reflects on 'Breathtaking' Legacy of the Animorphs Books as They Turn 30: 'We Had No Idea' (Exclusive)

Applegate and her husband had the idea for the series when they were 'very young'

Katherine Applegate and her husband Michael Grant "had no idea" that their series Animorphs would turn into a major phenomenon

The series debuted in June 1996, and its legacy lives on in the hearts of fans

A new Animorphs TV series is in development

When Katherine Applegate and her husband Michael Grant had the idea for Animorphs, they didn't know what would happen next.

“It's just breathtaking because we had no idea,” Applegate, 69, tells PEOPLE. “My husband and I wrote these when we were very young, and we had a brand new baby, and we wrote a book every month.” The first book, The Invasion, was released in June 1996.

Applegate says at the time, books like Goosebumps and The Babysitter's Club were also coming out monthly, and, she thinks, “That's such a great way to get a kid engaged right off the bat.”

The book series followed five teenage humans — Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel and Tobias — and one alien, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, who gain the ability to transform into any animal they touch. The six of them used their abilities to battle a secret infiltration of slug-like aliens called Yeerks. Though written for children, the books grappled not just with coming-of-age themes, but also with intense topics like war, imperialism, morality and horror. The original covers famously featured actors “morphing” into their animals, often with a sometimes uncanny effect.

“We of course had no idea it would take off the way it did,” Applegate says of the series.

By the time the series had wrapped up in 2001, Animorphs had released over 50 books and created a phenomenon with kids who were happy to shove each other aside in school libraries or Scholastic book fairs to get to the next one. Animorphs was adapted into a TV series that aired on Nickelodeon from 1998 to 1999, a 1998 board game and multiple video games. Applegate has continued to work as a writer for children and young adults, with series like Everworld, Remnants, Making Out and The One and Only Ivan among her many works.

Thirty years after the first Animorphs book was released, adult fans still obsess over the series. New readers can also discover the books, thanks to new audiobook and graphic novel adaptations. The first three books in the series — The Invasion, The Visitor and The Encounter — also received new covers from Scholastic this May to mark the 30th anniversary.

Applegate, who continues to write children's books, including her latest, Wombat Waiting, says she often meets Animorphs fans at her events. “They are covered with Animorphs tattoos,” she says. “I have multiple babies named after characters, a lot of Tobiases. I had a guy drive seven hours so I could meet his dog named Tobias. It's really lovely.” They dress up as the original covers for Halloween, the Reddit page dedicated to the series remains an active place and fans have written about the series as a trans allegory.

Applegate is also excited about the news from this April that Ryan Coogler's Proximity Media is developing a new Animorphs TV series for Disney+. Sev Ohanian, who's working on the series, “is a huge Animorphs fan,” Applegate promises. “He knows more about Animorphs than I do.”

She thinks given the advancements with CGI, “There's so many more things you could do.”

“We're really hoping it works out.”

https://people.com/katherine-applegate-reflects-legacy-animorphs-books-exclusive-11989591

[thesylverlining]

Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72

The British actor, who also appeared in Merlin and Little Britain, died of complications from pneumonia.

Oh no. Oh God. This one fucking hurts.

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[curlicuecal]

[aetherograph]

More context:

the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.

ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys

ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food

the starling got home safely

the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.

at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.

ospreys have eyes adapted to seeing beneath the surface of the water!

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Voting ended on7h

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Voting ended on7h

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Voting ended on7h

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[should-be-sleeping]

You are 60% water and every lake, river, pond, swamp, creek, and ocean you encounter wants to reclaim it desperately. Be careful out there.

[should-be-sleeping]

[should-be-sleeping]

Good, I hope it haunts everyone about to enter a body of water so bad that they wear a life jacket. 🙌

[should-be-sleeping]

Every single person I knew (past tense) who has drowned was "a strong swimmer." Water in the wild does not care how good you are at swimming.

[should-be-sleeping]

I mean this with all due respect:

You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.

Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.

Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.

If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.

You may be unable to return to shore. Rescue may be unable to find you quickly.

[joanthreatt]

Scheduling this for when weather starts warming up. Be careful swimming this summer

[victusinveritas]

[victusinveritas]

But wait there's more.....

https://mybricklog.com/blog/bricks-minifigs-corporate-stole-old-mans-200000-lego-collection

[elisamaza]

the CEO of patreon posted this video about Reckless Ben’s account:

[elisamaza]

bruh

YouTuber Investigating Stolen Lego Star Wars Collection Flees To Mexico

Reckless Ben's investigation into the allegedly stolen $200,000 Lego Star Wars collection just took a weird turn

Reckless Ben, the content creator who recently exploded in popularity after a series of videos investigating a missing Lego Star Wars collection worth $200,000, has fled to Mexico following his arrest by the American Fork Police Department in Utah. The oddly contrived mystery surrounding the justification for Ben’s arrest has resulted in a “Mormon Mafia” conspiracy trending online, as those following the story believe that the owners of Lego aftermarket reseller Bricks & Minifigs, who are accused of stealing the collection, are being assisted by American Fork police due to their connections with the Mormon church.

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Reposted from poll #26 😄💖

[the-uss-premise]

Console buttons from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-69)