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[cryptidjeepers]

just watched a star trek episode about a planet that relied so heavily on it's computer system that they all forgot the basics of their own knowledge. and that allowed them to miss the fact that they were being posioned with radiation and nearly ending their civilization. because they couldn't use their own knowledge to figure things out. i bring this up for no reason in particular

[trins-cursed-archive]

Yep, it's a season 1 TNG episode called "When the Bough Breaks." It's considered a bad episode by many but I always liked it. I feel vindicated now.

[jacobwren]

"But AI can't do your job. It can help you do your job, but that doesn't mean it's going to save anyone money. Take radiology: there's some evidence that AIs can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss, and look, I've got cancer. Thankfully, it's very treatable, but I've got an interest in radiology being as reliable and accurate as possible. If my Kaiser hospital bought some AI radiology tools and told its radiologists: "Hey folks, here's the deal. Today, you're processing about 100 x-rays per day. From now on, we're going to get an instantaneous second opinion from the AI, and if the AI thinks you've missed a tumor, we want you to go back and have another look, even if that means you're only processing 98 x-rays per day. That's fine, we just care about finding all those tumors." If that's what they said, I'd be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look, you fire 9/10s of your radiologists, saving $20m/year, you give us $10m/year, and you net $10m/year, and the remaining radiologists' job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed, and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it's catastrophically wrong. "And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis." This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes. This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble." - Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI

[heyfruitcake]

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

L'Odissea di Nolan tra "scheletri spazzatura" e relitti: Arpa al lavoro in Sicilia, che succede

Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i

[ignitelimelight]

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government

[trins-cursed-archive]

I always knew Christopher Nolan was a hack.

[troublepunk-ldn]

me as a teenager: man it sucks to have no privacy or autonomy but i guess its for a good reason. when i turn 18 i will realise how young i was and understand why they did all that.

me as an adult: teenagers are an oppressed class, their abuse is normalised and systemic and they need to start killing people

[temporalreverie]

anyone have that picture with the 100 pool toy baltos. Its like a modern terracotta army

[temporalreverie]

THEY SHALL PROTECT MY MAUSOLEUM

[upthelinetodeath]

I've spent way too many hours on this game so I added Richard Nixon to my island to punish myself

[lighthouseweeper]

Is French food culture just one big eating disorder? What is going on over there? I got onto this book (unfortunately not yet published in English) after listening to a podcast about that shitty book ‘French women don’t get fat’

Gabrielle Deydier: what it’s like to be fat in France

Gabrielle Deydier’s book about being obese has ignited her native France. She tells Stefanie Marsh how her life has been a battle against ‘g

[imjunebitch]

[guineapiggies]

Via danbanstudio

[allhailthe70shousewife]

[sun-cheyne]

Never forget these moments. Tommy Smith, John Carlos, Peter Norman.

Never forget that this was also a moment of solidarity. The reason the raised hands only had one glove was because they belonged to the silver medalist, Peter Norman. All three of the athletes wore Human Rights badges on their jackets. Norman didn't raise his fist because he did not want to steal the incredibly powerful moment from Tommie Smith and John Carlos.

Norman returned home to Australia as a pariah, suffering unofficial sanction and was ridiculed as the forgotten man of the Black Power salute. He was not selected for the 1972 Olympics and never ran in an Olympics again.

[jock-o-romma]

Gosh Oppenheimer.... I just don't know....

[sugar-petals]

modern media in a nutshell

[shamebats]

[depsidase]

[transandrogyny--turtlebug]

Interesting how they just have to include fat people in these things. Fatphobia is and always has been a tool for fascism

[catchymemes]

[queerpyracy]

baffling how much of this site is just conservative protestantism with a gay hat

[queerpyracy]

you know what i’m in just enough of a bad mood that i’m ready to nail my grievances to the church door so let’s fucking go

black and white morality wherein anyone who doesn’t believe/think/live exactly as I do is a dirty sinner Problematic and probably a predatory monster

everyone is a sinner Problematic but true believers people who activist the right way according to my worldview are still better than everyone else, and I will act in accordance to this belief in my own superiority to let everyone else know I’m better than them because I found Jesus am the most woke

casual and fucking omnipresent equations of womanhood with softness/goodness/purity/nurturing to remind every woman who isn’t/doesn’t want to be any of those things that they’re doing it wrong

aggressive desexualization (particularly of women’s sexuality, to the point where it may as well not exist at all) accompanied by pastels [not a criticism directed ace ppl having a right to sex-free content and spaces but specifically targeted at a wider problem resulting from the previous point]

YOU’RE VALID AND JESUS LOVES YOU and neither of these platitudes achieves a goddamn thing

historical context is for people who care about nuance and we don’t have time for either (see: black and white morality)

lots of slogans and quotes and nice little soundbites to memorize but does anybody actually study the source material with a critical eye to make their own informed analysis

the answer is no

I’ve been to bible study groups don’t @ me I know what the fuck I’m talking about

Good Christians™ Nice Gays™ don’t fraternize with/let themselves be influenced by non-Christians those terrible queers

all the media one consumes must be ideologically pure or it will surely harm the children

it is Our Sacred Duty to protect the children from Everything, thus ensuring their innocence/purity/etc until such time as they are idk probably 25 years old

literally just “think of the children” moral panic y’all can fuckin miss me with that

people who don’t conform to the dominant thinking WILL be excommunicated/driven from the social group, and any wrong treatment they suffer will be seen as a justified consequence of their wrong thinking

I Saw Goody Proctor With The Devil And She Had A Bad Steven Universe Headcanon

[kmclaude]

Thank you for breaking it down like that because so many of us have been saying it but to see a play by play breakdown comparison is just…Thank you.

[jumpingjacktrash]

sipping tea and judging people as a group bonding activity

[curlicuecal]

oh, man, speaking as a queer Christian who gets regular tumblr flashbacks to my childhood in the Bible Belt, YES

-belief that small snippets of text can be analyzed out context to understand the whole work/ judge the whole person -Desire for moral choices to be easy/ black-and-white leads to belief that it is possible to find a one-size-fits all answer to every situation -Literal, rather than literary analysis, with weird fixation on etymological roots that have nothing to do with source material -Belief that there is “one true interpretation” that is self-evident and will be understood by everyone encountering the same material regardless of background -Overwhelming, internalized sense of culpability for other people’s actions/integrity/souls -Overwhelming, internalized sense of personal guilt -Pressure to evangelize aggressively -Tendency to value broad ideals before individual needs -Hostility towards coexistence/tolerance/neutrality -Hostility towards lack of consensus in viewpoint -Knowledge as contamination -Guilt/contamination by proximity -Fixation on the sexual as uniquely dirty/sinful -Belief in “thought crimes” -Argumentation via appeal to higher authority/feelings of revulsion rather than internal, verbalizeable logic -“conversations” that are actually stealth soapboxes because one side isn’t actually interested in listening -“polite requests” that are actually commands because “no” is not considered an acceptable answer -in-group language -virtue-signaling and hostility towards the outgroup -gatekeeping -communities strongly built around the idea of being the world’s underdog -appropriation of other people’s persecution/victimization -treating the concept of oppression like a trophy -glorification/fetishization of victimhood

[congregamus-deactivated20250603]

It got better.

[freedom-of-fanfic]

Bringing this back.

[kitkatmoose]

You weren’t born right, thus you’re a demon.

You made one mistake or got one thing wrong, jail for 1,000 years, maybe centuries, and I now get to judge you and warn everyone you know as I sit on this high horse.

I’m going to assume you’re close to people because you tag them, but you need to realize you’re a monster for these reasons and interact with no one, ever, at all. Everyone should have my feelings. The only psychology here is mob. No, don’t ask what year it is.

Inability to let stupid shit go years later or accept the reality of the situation or the other person’s side of the story. Nobody can change, be wrong, or grow in any way, shape, or form. The world and all its inhabitants are stagnant because I say so. Your narrative is different than mine but my interpretation is always the correct one, and if you say otherwise I’m going to wail and screech like a fing banshee and tell you you’re going straight to Hell without passing go.

It’s okay to publicly drag a person with the intention of metaphorically executing them after because they obviously exist exactly as they do within the framework of my mind only. You will never be asked questions or listened to for clarification. What I say and believe is the only reality. No, citations and explanations will not help you. You’re wrong to me thus should be wrong to everyone else.

You suddenly drew a boundary in a sensitive situation and instead of respecting that we’re going to flip out and decide again that you are a monster. You are not allowed to have any crisis or trauma ever without providing all of the details and justifying yourself so we can sympathize with the other party. You are not allowed to just say it’s now fine and move on. You are now the root of all evil because you desired privacy. You must come clean in front of the confessional or entire congregation even if you are a survivor of something.

Stalking is now okay? Apparently? When it’s in the name of our views?

You are different and thus we will tell you accommodations are not wrong, and even cool, but you don’t really deserve them, and won’t be getting them. Sick means you are damned, that something is wrong with you, we can’t really have that.

I’m allowed to vent my woes but if you do it you’re going straight to Hell. Only I can have something wrong without it being the work of the devil.

I decide what it was you were talking about and what you meant, not you. I decide the reasons of your actions and what you believe. I decide your reality. All questions, queries, and posers will be judged accordingly.

Any woman or feminine person’s place is doing the dishes, or making dinner, or doing the dishes again, any science or facts they present will, somehow, in the year of our Lord 2025, still be completely thrown out, mutilated, and corrected with entirely wrong whatever we please. If on the other side we will state we are oppressed because we had to take the trash out. There is no medium or look at the reality of the situation.

People can only read, watch, enjoy, and consume what we want them to read, watch, enjoy, and consume when we want them to read, watch, enjoy, and consume it, anything else is a thought heinous crime or a mortal sin.

You interacted with the wrong person or thing, I don’t care if it was an accident, die immediately.

People don’t really deserve food, housing, and education, that’s just something people say. What do you mean you really believe that? That’s evil.

Your beliefs and experiences do not fit mine and that is the work of the devil.

I know I’m repeating some of these in different words but something in me snapped, sorry.

[renthony]

In light of the United States government shutdown impacting SNAP benefits, I've seen a lot of posts giving advice about how to find food banks, and reminders that it's not shameful to use them. That's good, I'm glad to see it. But as someone who has experience having to get things from food charities, a few reminders:

If you want to donate to a food bank and help people, either give money or see if the bank has a list of specific requests. Don't give random shit from the back of your cabinet or run out to buy whatever strikes your fancy just because it makes you feel good to put a physical item in a donation box. Nobody wants your random expired cans of mystery meat, and food banks can stretch a dollar a lot farther than you can.

Food banks are often not accessible to people with food restrictions or special dietary needs. If someone has ARFID and can't eat beans, but the food bank only has beans and rice, telling them to just "go to the food bank" doesn't actually help. If someone keeps kosher but the free food event is only giving away bagged lunches with ham and cheese sandwiches, that free food event is useless to them.

Poor people deserve to eat good, nutritious, tasty food. If you see somebody who's food insecure talking about how they wish they had something better, don't shame them and tell them "it could be worse." If you see a poor person splurging on higher-quality meals or just an extra little treat, don't shame them or act like they're lying about food insecurity. It is fucking horrible to exist on the bare minimum, and endless days of the same flavor of ramen, or rice, or whatever other cheap thing you can access, is just about the most demoralizing thing in the fucking world. And before anyone says, "Oh, but you can jazz up your ramen and make different flavors of rice," don't. It's about the lack of variety. It's about the stress of always needing to find different exciting ways to jazz up what feels like the equivalent of peasant gruel, when all you want is the comfort meal you're too poor to afford.

If someone is asking for help with food, and they are specifically requesting MONEY, just give them some fucking money or move the hell along. They don't need your unsolicited advice. They don't need to hear you condescend to them about what you think they should be doing instead. Food banks are a huge help to many people, but for plenty of others, food banks aren't enough, or aren't accessible, or don't have foods they can actually eat. Don't assume malice, laziness, or ignorance from someone who says they can't make use of a food bank. They know what their body needs a lot better than you, a random stranger, do.

Some food banks are fucking predatory. Some are run by Christian churches who require you to attend services, even if you're not Christian. Some require you to prove you have a job. Some require you to debase yourselves for their amusement before they'll even consider throwing you scraps. Before you recommend a food resource, maybe check and see if it's actually a good one.

Hungry people are often tired, stressed, embarrassed and ashamed of needing help, or dealing with any number of other unpleasant emotions. Don't add to their stress by treating them like they're stupid or somehow deserve to be in poverty. I shouldn't have to say that, and yet every single time someone in my family posts about needing help with groceries, some jackass crawls out of the woodwork to give us unsolicited financial advice, as if we're too stupid to know how money works and are just bad at managing our bills. No, asshole, it's the capitalist system that's designed to crush people. Fuck off if you're not going to be helpful or kind.