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[crippled-peeper]

it’s been 3 months since I had sepsis

[crippled-peeper]

I’m still not as strong or as muscular as I used to be but I’d like to think my cognition has improved a bit … still battling deep bodily depression and fatigue and sleep disturbances.

The spot on my arm where I had the midline catheter and on my glute from the transgluteal drain are still dark purple.

I think my face at least looks… healthier? a little bit more filled? very tired looking but that might be permanent.

I got to see my twin again which was awesome. The last time they saw me things were really fucking scary and I was still hospitalized.

[casuallyodd]

[ifanimaltrapped]

[darkaviarymc]

Tragedy alignment chart. Feel free to use, but please reblog if you do.

[mikkeneko]

And of course the second part of the tragedy, which is: which quadrant did you think you were in vs. which one you were really in

[mynameisrocks]

[charlesoberonn]

[cosmonautroger]

capybara

[moniquill]

Guinea big.

[uncahier]

[animatejournal]

Duck Amuck | Director: Chuck Jones | Studio: Warner Bros. | USA, 1953

[darkwee009]

NOT ME YOU SLOP ARTIST

This is a close up? A CLOSE UP YA JERK! A CLOSEUP!

Alright, let’s get this picture started! (The End) NO NOOOOO!

[bunjywunjy]

[drgaellon]

One of the defining moments of animation history.

“Ain’t I a stinker?”

[amandalasubfosaanaso]

In Babylon 5, didn’t one of the non-humans think Daffy was the god of frustration?

[seasonallydefective]

Holy shit, this is nearly 70 years old. This would have been right on the heels of color television being commercially available to the public.

[bigahhhhhhhh]

@amayatepes look at this

[amayatepes]

LMAO

[mister-christmas]

Huh. That’s just a whole ass Daffy Duck cartoon.

[lew-basnight]

Everything about this cartoon is top-notch. The timing, the animation (watch Daffy’s different walks) the art; this is a treasure

[wizardelf]

[uss-edsall]

Does anyone have this picture

But it’s a parody of Master and Commander’s opening title

I swear I have seen this before and I cannot for the life of me find it

[kesslersymbolic]

This image?

[uss-edsall]

YES

[eddardsharpe]

[bacony-cakes]

PNG'D! (i didn't know the font so this is taken directly from the image)

+ bonus italian navy vessel

[catgirl-kaiju]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

We all know that a large number of the convicts sent to Australia back in the day were convicted of "stealing a crust of bread to feed my little sister" type crimes but today I learned that a lot of them were sent for stealing their workhouse uniforms. By which I mean they were from Victorian workhouses, which were desperate, exploitative and abusive places on purpose (to encourage people to stop being poor), they decided to take that encouragement and try to make it on their own, left (which they were allowed to do)... and were arrested, imprisoned and eventually sent as convict labour to Australia because they were wearing the uniform they were given when they entered the workhouse (their own stuff was usually all confiscated when they arrived and workhouses didn't pay wages at this time so there was no way for them to get any other clothes). Imagine quitting your job at a fast food restaurant and then you get sent to a distant colony to die tilling fields for the military because you wore your stupid little uniform hat home.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Humanity fucking loves having a prison industrial complex so much. We can just never stop doing it.

[were--ralph]

I’m curious because I’ve never heard of it, but what is the lion ct scan

Idr most of it but

This image went around and someone said it was how the MGM lion was treated and how they got it to roar and people got so mad about it

but

It was just a lion getting a ct scan LMAOOO people were SO mad about it

[silvertongues-mp3]

[headspace-hotel]

one of myfavorite things I did with InferKit (a large language model based text generation service that came before ChatGPT) was when I was feeding it Crywolf's song titles and then feeding it its own selected outputs until it was giving me phrases from the nightmare dimension

chatGPT was totally uninteresting to me because it has this dumb framing device where it uses "I" pronouns and frames its outputs like a person's speech. With InferKit, you would just type in whatever input, and it would spit out text that the model decided was the most likely to occur after that.

So if you formatted something like a list, the model would continue to produce a list of things.

I think the training data associated my inputs closely with lists of songs from black metal bands and similar, but also with transcripts of video or audio.

worth noting that when I did this I had "temperature" slider turned up usually to 1.1 - 1.2 (at 1.3 and above, the model's ability to spell words significantly deteriorated)

"temperature" slider controlled the "randomness" of what the model decided was the next chunk of letters in the output, essentially.

every so often I have to existentially scream in my head about the sheer lack of understanding of what LLMs are and do

[ralfmaximus]

I sincerely think if AI agents were forced to stop responding as friendly helpful friends then AI psychosis would stop. Overnight. Make it illegal for chatbots to use personal pronouns or roleplay as characters.

They'd still be dangerous & wasteful, but at least people would stop killing themselves because their AI girlfriend told them to.

[underwaterfraulein]

ELIZA effect - Wikipedia

ELIZA effect - Wikipedia

Just gonna leave this here because it has been a thing for LITERALLY MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS

[ralfmaximus]

In the 1980s I worked in a computer store, and I loaded a copy of Eliza on a demo computer. We'd leave it running all day to entice customers.

People had very strong feelings about Eliza.

I'd watch people engage with it for hours sometimes. One guy swore it was a living, thinking being and I had to stop the program and scroll through the BASIC code to show him how it worked. I'm not sure he was entirely convinced.

Eliza actually got me a few sales. Yes, customers bought expensive home computers just to run Eliza.

[iamthespineofmybook]

When I was growing up in the 90s, we had on both one of my dad's computers (he had a graphic design business in the basement) and my gramma's computer "Eliza" and "Azile*." And I played with them. I knew they were programs, not people, and I was in the single digits of age.

My favourite things to do were to essentially have them "talk" to each other by copy-pasting their responses between them, and to be as nonsensical as possible until the program just gave up and stopped responding. Though, the easiest way to do that was actually to just repeat exactly what the program output.

*I actually don't hear people talk about Azile much, but it was basically "what if Eliza was vulgar and mean?"

[datsderbunnyblog]

I also love how a 15 year old won't be able to access social media but that same 15 year old's parents will still be able to blast their whole life all over the internet. There's still nothing to safeguard children against exploitative parents who run family vlogging channels and/or post #relatable parenting content which often includes the child's full name, age, school, medical information and photos/videos of the child.

[datsderbunnyblog]

Honestly even my own posts on this subject are pissing me off purely because of how asinine this situation is

[eternalgaylord]

collecting tweets

[eternalgaylord]

#vessel alert

that's right

[fantashic]

Average Deep Space Nine A plot: "What are you willing to sacrifice for the chance at a better world? Who are you willing to hurt? Will the pain you cause now outweigh the peace that it might bring? When both choices are bad, and you do what you think is best, can you live with yourself after? Could you live with yourself if you made the opposite choice?"

Average Deep Space Nine B plot: "What do we do with all this hot sauce!?"

[unamccormack]

And sometimes, with DS9, the A plot is about the hot sauce and the B plot is about the moral complexities, and I love it either way round.

[unamccormack]

Yes, this is quite literally “In the Cards”!

I had to go and LOOK UP what those “more serious political machinations” were because I couldn’t remember, and it’s only negotiating Bajor’s non-aggression pact with the Dominion. So, you know, nothing major compared to Jake really loving his dad. Chef’s kiss; perfection.

[unamccormack]

[unamccormack]

Place your bets now

[lakevida]

indescribable the feeling of writing a post while weekend daydrunk in the seconds before leaving to have sex and you come back to find your phone afterwards and the post you wrote was both normal and well recieved

[elordick]

let's go jealous drunk boyfriend 👀