I am so sorry it ended up like this

Minnesota is seceding and becoming a smaller Canada. I'm as young as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth. Local Rat Bastard formerly known as Crowley-my-queen, and the Princess-King of Utah

[aidashakur]

never forget that you are someone’s most legendary fumble

[ivy-saurs]

randomly remembered this tweet and had to stop myself from bursting out laughing

[the-punforgiven]

I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it

[the-punforgiven]

I know the normal answer is "they just aren't smart enough for it" but idk I've seen enough media where a character uses a spell in a moment of brain-off panic ilI feel like animals could probably stumble into a spell or two like, accidentally

[the-punforgiven]

Also how funny would it be to see a completely normal regular bear cast magic missile outta nowhere

[the-punforgiven]

Also there is no way ravens wouldn't figure out spells, tbh

They're smart fuckin birds, I believe in them

Either through observing or just figuring shit out ravens could 100% learn how to cast spells I'm sure of it

[the-punforgiven]

Dogs can also cast Magic Missile but every time they do the projectile is shaped like a bone or a stick and they chase after it

[prokopetz]

Fantasy setting where every species of animal has One Fucked Up Trick exactly like in medieval bestiaries (e.g., panthers hypnotising their prey with sweet breath, pelicans reviving the dead with their willingly shed blood, etc.), except these are actually learned magic spells passed down from parent to offspring, so different populations of the same animal in different regions might have a different spell.

(If a species is domesticated you can teach it any spell you want, as long as you start 'em young enough; every breed of dog has a different "standard" spell, and knowing the "wrong" one is considered both a grave departure from breed standards and a potential violation of animal husbandry ethics.)

[phorusrhacidae-lesbian]

little miss auditory processing disorder would like you to repeat what you just said then immediately respond to you before you finish

[thecyndimistuff]

I think you guys constantly undermine the exploitation and colonial abuse that Hawaiʻi and Polynesia endures. i promise you indigenous polynesians aren't focused on being excited about representation in the live action moana they're much more concerned by the disney tourism propaganda they've been constantly pushing in their slop movies

[mousegirlheart]

If Funko Pops weren't evil enough they once shut down itch.io for a little bit

[specialagentartemis]

fanfic about the LIS specialists recruited onto Project Hail Mary to make the library of All Human Media Ever sorted, catalogued, searchable, and useable to a team of astronauts from three different countries

[clonerightsagenda]

As you know speculative LIS is becoming my niche of choice, so I am going to be thinking about this all day during work. Frankly my instinct with a project of this scale would be crowdsourcing/folksonomy. Make all the content publicly accessible and encourage the online community to tag and translate it. If you run with the idea that historian Stratt also intended the media library to be a record of human civilization if the project failed and our species was wiped out, why stop at English/Russian/Mandarin? Let everyone take a crack at it. Everyone's probably feeling very scared and helpless with the astrophage crisis; offering a massive citizen science project would be a good way to make regular people feel like they're contributing. Then have some experts do a final pass for QC and massage the user tags into a better indexing system. (I assume you'd need indexing to speed up searches--idk the power of the computers on the Hail Mary but I feel like they'd crash if you tried to full text search All Of Humanity's Media Output.)

That's how I'd do it but given that her 'I do what I want' evasion of copyright might not extend to making everything accessible to the entire online population and iirc Stratt being kind of controlling and particular about who she works with, I'm not sure that's how she'd do it. Unfortunately since she made everyone speak English as the lingua franca (authorial bias showing imo) she might just put everything in English to shrink the amount of data. That would simplify the project but you lose a lot in translation, so that's better if her goal was simply to aid the mission crew vs preserve Earth's cultural heritage.

I'll have to chew on this more while at work switching every link I've ever made away from open in new tab rip

[clonerightsagenda]

#I LIKE open in new tab #but it doesn't meet WCAG 2.2 AAA #we're not being held to that yet #but I might as well brace in case we are later #project hail mary #this is also a situation where a machine learning tool could be very useful imo #more on this after work. I'm imagining a #crew and SME interviews -> ML tool development -> automated indexing and abstracting -> human QC workflow for a non-crowdsourced approach

Actually I have 7 minutes before I have to sign on. If our priority is just mission effectiveness rather than cultural preservation, the strategy I'd probably take off the top of my head is:

Qualitative interviews with the crew and relevant subject matter experts. Go through that data to identify themes/topics most likely to be relevant to the mission.

Have LIS or related experts transform those themes into a controlled vocabulary.

Develop an automated tool that can ingest your content, generate a brief abstract, and assign index terms from the controlled vocabulary.

Have human expert review of the tool's output. (This will probably need to be spotchecking if you've got a small team of experts; again we are talking about all of human cultural output here.)

This is basically the other side of the scale from the first suggestion - it would give you a faster, more targeted search that would help you zero in on mission-critical content. (After all you probably don't need your search tool running through the scripts for 50 years of General Hospital when you're trying to find emergency treatments for a crewmember experiencing arrhythmia.) The tradeoff of course is that if you end up needing something you weren't expecting (like, say, linguistic theory because you just met an alien) it might not be as effective.

(None of this is touching on how this much data is being STORED of course. I have to imagine at least the audiovisual content is compressed and only the index is being actively searched, and content is unzipped if it needs to be accessed. Which again points to needing a really good indexing system. But I'm not a computer scientist.)

Ok now I am really signing into Microsoft Outlook. Goodbye

[specialagentartemis]

This is really interesting! These are really cool ideas.

Would it make sense then to have a two-tiered system:

One for scholarly work and relevant nonfiction overseen by a team of specifically selected specialists focused on mission-critical topics, probably first prioritizing medicine, engineering, biology, genetics, astronomy, chemistry, physics, computers, and psychology (though I do think translation and linguistics would go in a high priority tier—if the paper they really need is in French or Japanese or isiZulu they don’t want to leave their astronauts SOL) and then as time allows branching out into food and nutrition science, ecosystem and environmental science, geology, mathematics, history, archaeology (look. you don’t KNOW what you’ll find out there), with academic work on topics like economics and music and literature probably being at the end of this priority scale or put into…

The folksonomy/citizen science initiative specifically for fiction, popular media, and entertainment topics, on a separate indexing track so if you’re looking for actual medical information it won’t turn up House M.D. but if you want to see what nonsense the House writers came up with it’ll still have been fully tagged and searchable by dedicated show fans. If Stratt expects to go to prison anyway and the world is dying, I can easily imagine her concluding that either no one is going to be paying money for media in a few years as global economies collapse, or certain softwares will become globally critical and the owners of it don’t retain the right to profit off the end of the world, so sure, release the archive of pop media to everyone and give them a crack at it.

They can be going in tandem, with the categorizational whims of the world not affecting the organization of mission-critical data but also the specialist team not having to spend their time also going through 16,000 episodes of General Hospital.

I also imagine the ship’s computers would have to be programmed in with the index of physically Where each SD card on each topic is…

[leoae]

let’s be spherical with mama

[parkchanwoohoo]

I subscribed to UNNAMED STREAMING SERVICE a few days ago and gave the login info to all my friends, as one does, but one of them went in and turned on 2-factor authentication and set the phone number to her own cell phone, locking me out of the account

It was an accident and we got it fixed but for a brief moment the betrayal and fury was so great I blacked out and was possessed by the spirit of like a 19th century naval officer, I was pacing around my room like "TO THINK THAT JUDAS HIMSELF NUMBERS HIMSELF AMONG MY COMPATRIOTS"

[tizzychardia]

I hate the culture shock that people get when they realize that someone's disability is actually disabling and not the watered-down romanticized/glorified tiktok version of whatever it is you're dealing with.

[sawed-on-shotgun]

theres this dude on instagram i keep seeing who i assume works out a lot and has discovered that if he positions himself right and flexes his muscles the right way he fully can just turn into a sort of terrible beastman with fucked up anatomy and any time i see him i kinda get gender envy #whatthatmean

[sawed-on-shotgun]

what are you Doing

[retroactivebakeries]

the principal aim of lying is to accomplish your goal in as few lies as possible, and with the least amount of effort necessary to keep those lies going. It follows naturally that the world’s greatest liar speaks only the truth.

[katebeckets]

"it's a tv show" "it's not real" i don't care. NO SHOES ON THE BED

[katebeckets]

okay if this breaks containment I think my asian grandparents would be proud of this post being my legacy. but for their sake i must clarify my personal stance. NO SHOES IN THE HOUSE AT ALL

[crabussy]

What's a song you really like rn,,,, I offer you Black Hole by Lee Emi in exchange

YAY! in exchange for this song I offer you:

Sleep On The Wing by Bibio (wistful spirited)

Paper Mache by Iris Lune (air of desperation)

I'm Alive by TTRRUUCES (weird and upbeat)

[drtrinitysantos]

the kids are calling them "stone fruits." they start off small—think cherries. then they're hooked and they need a quick fix, they get peaches, maybe some nectarines. it's all they can think about. before you know it, they're trying the really hard stuff—apricots, plums. once they taste a mango there's no going back.

[dragongirlsweetie]

my toxic trait is i unironically think "guess they just let anyone in here nowadays" is a funny thing to say when meeting your friend in a public place

[flareonfloof]

i am once again thinking of the bauhaus chair

[sevensmallsphinxes]

[flareonfloof]

let's rerun a classic, who wants to kiss me on the bauhaus chair

[flareonfloof]

im waiting...