The Parts I Have Learned To Accept @theforbiddensection - Tumblr Blog

genAI companies are now buying up rare and antique books so they can scan them and use them to train their AI. then they're destroying the books afterward.

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

they've had to face settlements against stealing from current authors, so they'll just go for the old books now. they're also doing this so they have the only copies of rare books.

they're taking water, power, natural resources for their data centers. they steal. they're book burning, essentially. i'm just so angry, i'm at a loss right now.

grenade-maid

Whenever I see someone refer to "Victorian era-" for places outside the UK I'm tempted to start saying shit like "Han Dynasty era Rome", "Soviet era Australia" etc

somethingusefulfromflorida

“Welcome to Soviet America, home of the McDonalds and Cocaine Cola. Long live Comrade Reagan.”

olivia-online

The Civil War, or as I like to call it, Late Tokugawa Period America

melonisopod

I know this is a joke but this helps me put a lot of historical periods into perspective.

computationalcalculator

"cowboys were a sort of itinerant warrior class common in meiji-era texas"

politijohn

Source

Some good news

galileosballs

Also, please do not listen to how people talk about cover letters on this site. Cover letters are important, and in many industries you can be damn sure they'll be read. And no, they're not 'fanfic about working in your office', or just re-stating the resume contents in a fancier guise. If you treat them like that, then of course they're not doing much for you. That makes you sound like a syncophantic windbag, and it's not doing anything else to help.

I was trained in the dark arts of the cover letter by my mother, who is a hiring manager. And her training has paid off: I've been consistently told my cover letters are excellent. Let me pass on the wisdom.

The job of a cover letter is to give a prospective employer strictly more information than is on the resume. This is where you take the resume contents and put them into context. You look at the job requirements (you are looking at the job requirements before applying, right?) and look at your resume and ask the question (in your head) "why would a person think this candidate would be good for this job?" and your cover letter is the answer to that question. If you don't answer that question, the hiring manager is going to have to do it themselves, and you have way more information to work with than they do.

This is especially important if you're moving from one industry to another, because then the relevant connections aren't obvious. It's also very important if you're overqualified, because then you can use the letter to say "I know it looks like this job would be too entry-level for me, but I'm interested to pursue it for reasons x, y, and z". You can also use this space to explain away something that might otherwise be disqualifying, like job-hopping or a long break in employment. The tone to strike here is always matter-of-fact and constrained to topic - don't go into detail about health stuff or personal tragedy, just tell them what they need to hear: that this period of your resume was affected by [bad thing] but that it's now in the past and you're looking forward to the next chapter. Remember, one of the things they're trying to learn is whether you'd be content in this role, or whether you'd be miserable and leave after 2 months, which would force them to do all the work of hiring again. You're trying to establish that you will fit right in and not cause problems. Knowing what drew you to this job in particular (and don't just say 'money', that's true for everyone) helps with that.

And the other mistake? Everyone writes cover letters that are too long. One page is fine. Two is the absolute maximum, and that's if you have a lot of specific things to say. It's a waste of your time and theirs to pad it out with fluff. Of my two most recent successful cover letters (i.e. jobs for which I was interviewed) one was 390 words and the other was 550. That's the length of this post. How long did it take me to write this post? About 15 minutes to write, 5 to proof and edit. That's how long you should be spending on a cover letter, maximum.

dajo42

5001 being divisible by 3 doesnt feel right

dajo42

shinyhappygoth

Shortcuts to determine if an integer is divisible by:

This is a given.

If the last digit is divisible by 2 (a.k.a. even), then so is the whole number.

If the sum of the digits is divisible by 3, then so is the whole number. The recursivity of this means that if the sum has multiple digits, you can add them up again until you get a single digit and see if it's 3, 6, or 9.

Like the rule for 2, but check if the last two digits are divisible by 4.

If it ends in 5 or 0.

If the rules for both 2 and 3 apply.

No shortcut. Alas.

Like the rules for 2 and 4, but check if the last three digits are divisible by 8. (Yes, this pattern keeps going for 16, 32, etc.)

Like the rule for 3, but the sum of the digits (or the sum of the sum of the digits, etc.) must be 9.

If it ends in 0.

zykamiliah

#THIS POST IS WRONG 7 DOES HAVE A RULE FOR HOW TO TELL IF THE NUMBER IS DIVISIBLE#it's just. not a short cut#you're better off dividing it and seeing if you get a whole number than doing the method

but what IS the rule @anqelbean ???

anqelbean

Okay, so, basically, you remove the least important digit of the number (which is the first digit from the right), you double it, and then subtract it from the remaining number. If the number you get is still large, you do it again.

For example, 294

29 4

4×2=8

29-8=21

21 is divisible by 7

Second example, 1946

194 6

6×2=12

194-12=182

182 is still large, so let do it again

18 2

2×2=4

18-4=14

14 is divisible by 7

aropride

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

bladespark

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

atwotonedbird

This spell has a very low hit ratio, so we need a lot of us to do it.

pepperteethcrypt

I loved this era of Steven universe discourse

lofiouppydog

Reblogging again with tags a follower added because they are correct. No you are not insane for reading that deeply into the overall reaction to SU and im glad you said it.

This sort of problem runs deep and i see it fucking everywhere.

xaveria

everyone did this with avatar aang the same day that finale came out. old heads remember

batmanisagatewaydrug

always some new bullshit in the ocean

local-demon-in-your-area

Why is it always orcas or dolphins

Why can't a salmon do some bullshit for once

batmanisagatewaydrug

worry not ☝️ they're doing coke

eva-strapp

Love how the movie frames Stratt’s office like a prison cell when Grace makes a run for it. She’s standing there knowing that out of all the difficult choices she’s had to make, this will be the one that she will carry the guilt of for the rest of her life. The camera centers Stratt in the center of the frame with the camera situated at the entrance, making the space that she’s in feel small.

The blinds along the window are framed like the bars to a cell, it’s through them that she watches Grace run past in his escape attempt. This is reinforced in the next shot where she looks out through them.

Her resigned expression tells us that she is upset that she had to do this but does not regret it. Her position and responsibility placed her in that office, forcing her to make the decision she made. She is never shown leaving this office, because she will not be free from the guilt that comes with it until she knows the project is a success. She prepares to serve her life sentence.

h3xxag0n

How to ask for attention without seeming annoying

Computa. Answer me.

dollish-desires

Show up and be like hai gmoening / nigbt hru

And then ask if tjey did anhtbing fun or if they had a goos day :3

I've been granted a beautiful spark of inspiration. A pokemon team consisting of a Gardevoir, Gallade, Whimsicott, Dragalge, Ceruledge, and Hisuian Zoroark. However there's a seventh pokemon: the Trainer is also a Zoroark, from Sinnoh. You can always tell which Zoroark is being used as part of the team based on their color schemes of clothing and the eye color.

If the trainer's eyes are burning with determination then you can expect the much more intimidating Hisuian Zoroark to be on the roster, its fur matching the trainer's clothes. However if the trainer's eyes are bright and shining like stars you can expect the Sinnoh form. Their hair dyed a deep red and pulled into a low ponytail mirror this one's hairstyle.

Is this absolutely stupid? Yes. Am I going to write about this later? Yes. Will it be posted anywhere? Yes, on my AO3 account. What about your other fics? I am. Working on them.

I've just gotten to a point where I want to scrap them both however I am actively trying to Not do that. Harbinger doesn't deserve to be scrapped *again* and Sparrow's not deserving of it if the numbers are to say anything. But it's that urge to cut and run because the momentum has stopped. I'm not going to do that to these stories anymore.

thestuffedalligator

A while back there was a tiktok going “Ooo this is the best restaurant and I’m not telling you where it is ;) you’re going to have to guess ;)))”

And another guy stitched it with a whole breakdown of her most recent posts to go “The day before you posted this you posted another video saying you met this celebrity and he had just posted that he was in this city. You also posted a video in a hotel room and after searching up hotels in this city, we can tell it was this hotel because the wallpaper in your video matches the wallpaper in pictures on their website. By looking up restaurants by this hotel we can tell you went to this specific restaurant” and he was right

And people called him a creep, but I think we should take this as a moral lesson to lie about ourselves online more. I’m actually a talking dog and I live in a Montreal poutinerie

everythingfox

Raven getting wrapped up

(via)

copperbadge

JUST REALIZED THIS IS

A BABUSH-CAW.

[ID: A short video showing a corvid, perched on a bit of wood by a crackling fire; from off camera, hands appear with a small bit of brightly patterned fabric and wrap the raven securely in it like a little old grandma in a headscarf.]

chateau-bluerose

the princess is NOT "instant loss". there's an instant moment of hope and victory followed by prolonged, thorough, and vigorous, deep, heavy, sweaty, aching sweet hard and desperate, transfigurative and irreparable, everything but instant, loss.

And besides, by that limp and quivering drooling empty dazed sore satisfied look on her face, she certainly doesn't count it as a defeat either

chateau-bluerose

for her maids there is this long trembling thrashing tantrum to enjoy as she struggles with the dawning realization that she's powerless. for the princess, there is the serenity and freedom that comes finally (and exceptionally messily) from that understanding, that she has a fundamentally important and inherent use.

#posts that did something to me