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dilfhamlet

the literal only funny tags on this entire post

greenethorn

happy pride everyone

#queueing this up #what a well done version of this. appreciate it. thank you vriska

tippydoorman

ohtori academy group chat getting into heated discourse over whether utena can use he/him pronouns as a lesbian that becomes utter chaos when utena chimes in with "im not a lesbian though I'm just a normal girl"

#oh yeah

aropride

if your animal is lying on the floor, furniture etc, it’s important to take a picture of them. then, if they move or shift in any way, it’s important to take another picture. with this technique, you can take many pictures of your animal

#this is true. not many people know this

fidelcostco

can't believe the only options are 30 minutes early or 10 minutes late. if only there were some other way. but what can you do

thatneoncrisis

69ers but..... their keys

#love this #more in love with camilla than ever looking at her eminently practical carabiner with the public library card on it #you've done them all justice op #tlt

pigswithwings

wtf are borders anyway. like yeah u were born on this beautiful earth buuuuut 😊 u cant go here. or here either

walk-up-songs

A forever banger from da share zone

#a forever banger from da share zone

spent too long baking an unnecessarily complicated cake for the birthday of a fictional character who hates cake. fantastic time would do again

#plus got to do 4/13 TOGETHER with arwanian for the first time in forever. maybe ever? cal bro have we actually hung out in person on 4/13 b4 #MULTICOLOUR BLOOD orange confetti cake and ugly grey earl grey icing for troll reasons. thank u cal for the inspo #slimer green lemon lime curd and birthday wishes/candles for j. egbert. happy 30th birthday goober #genuinely actually vv proud of this because both the curd and the cake itself came out very well #i would make the cake more orangey next time but it was good it was less so this time. catering to the audience #the icing went badly bc i was impatient and added the earl grey milk in too warm and stirred it too much so it separated #and it came out kinda purple brown #but it still tasted good so. shrug #tortoiserambles

tearyeyedanimal

HAPPY 4/13

neil banging out the tunes is 20!!!!!!!! heres my yearly redraw yay (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023)

#this is so cute #happy hs day yall

saturnisfallingdown

17776 day of immortality + project hail mary + artemis ii is a crazy cocktail. drunk af off of the wonders of space and humanity’s unending will

gang-with-hatz

It's a free play, buddy. Clock's all zeroes. It's after the end of the world.

#miss this. happy everyone lives forever day

yeoldenews

A selection of strange and cryptic personal ads from The New York Herald, 1860s to 1870s. 17/?

#the dear L one is real and relatable. and then i realized as i typed this. death note also

freesiadotcom

having 40 minutes to leave the house is terrible because 40 minutes is basically 30 minutes and 30 minutes is basically 20 minutes and 20 minutes is basically fifteen seconds. but 50 minutes? 50 minutes is an hour, and an hour? ooobh thats plany off time

#imo 40 minutes is basically 50 minutes is basically an hour though #and an hour? ooobh thats plany off time #below that though. if its 39 minutes thats basically 30 minutes etc #and 30 minutes or less is a meaningless time period that makes no sense #because you can be like fully ready to go gotta at most pick up your keys #and that means it will take somewhere between three and thirty (one to nine) minutes before youre out of the house #which. i don't get why that's true. it's really not fair. it makes it so difficult to estimate and plan for time!#because just statistically that means a quarter of the time you're way early and have to sit there for twenty five minutes #having an anxiety attack about all the things you need to do asap that you can't work on right now because you're just Waiting Around #and another quarter of the time you're twenty five minutes late and everyone hates you forever #and sometimes it turns out you actually also need your wallet and you can't find it no matter where you look #because apparently you rested it briefly in the laundry hamper a day and a half ago #an action you have zero memory of doing. which again is just unreasonable i think that that can be true #and now it's buried below clothes and you gotta go thru every room of the house thrice before you find it #and then at that point it's 45 minutes before you finally get out of the house. which is basically fifty minutes which is basically an hour #which is so much time. which is just so much time. and at that point you basically have to give up #write a heartfelt apology letter to all your friends and then move to alaska and never talk to anyone you used to know ever again

more-incorrect-hs-quotes

#WOW! it has been so long since i have seen this particular brand of kanaya and rose's #specific brand of competitive belligerent commentary #this is so nostalgic and beautiful thank you op

remnantglow

voyaging-too

I don't want to be overly dramatic and overly negative about the AI translations I've been working with. They are bad, yes, but I don't want to overstate their badness because that would obscure the specific points I'm making. Some AI translations, the best AI translations, are not that bad. Some of them are still bad to the point of being unusable, but others are better. They're not good, but they're mostly serviceable, and it's extremely impressive that a machine can come up with something serviceable, something comparable to the work of a very mediocre human translator.

A client who hires a subpar translator who accepts being underpaid, in order to avoid paying professional rates for a professional, is getting subpar work. A client who uses AI to get work cheap and fast is getting worse than subpar work. But AI is getting better, it might soon be at the point where laymen can't tell the difference, and then, using AI instead of paying a human will mostly be a labour rights issue, and that's a far thornier question. (Note that I'm not talking about using AI translators to read something for yourself, or to communicate in your daily life: I'm talking about AI translation for publication, using AI for something you expect other people to pay money for.)

My actual point about AI translation is that even when it's fairly good, when it makes few errors and conveys the message intelligibly, it lacks something. I'm not talking about heart and soul here, nothing to do with some intangible human quality: I'm talking about specificity. AI works with great averages, and so it automatically irons out nuance. If you write something unusual, AI will assume it's an error, instead of an intentionally unusual statement. This is regression to the mean, and based on the texts I'm working with, it's an Anglophone, American mean. If you say something that's true of 1980s Hungary, it might slightly alter the sentence to "make sense" for 1980s US. Some alterations are factual, these are more serious errors but also easier to edit out. But other things are harder to catch, slight shifts in tone and valence, an erasure of the original, specific, non-American perspective, and the end result is a text that doesn't have anything wrong with it, but is markedly simpler and dumber than it should be. And flattening complex, knotty, peripheral perspectives into something closer to a monoculture is, in the long term, intellectually devastating.

#THAT'S EXACTLY IT! AI IS NORMALIZING! AND THAT'S A PROBLEM BECAUSE WRITING IS INHERENTLY ABOUT MORE THAN DESCRIPTION #description is one option to convey a piece of information to someone else! and it's useful and important and you can do a lot with it!#but the other option for that process is art. where you don't describe something #you use the sensory and referential tools you have to shape what you're trying to convey into an experience someone can share #and that means choices are important. and translation is hard #because the form is so inherent to the function of the thing!#so as a translator even the choices of what is worth paying close attention to. what you need to keep #and what you need to change to get the right experience across. it's important #it has to be deliberate #and ai is designed to make something that sounds like humans #its job is not to tell you truths its job is to tell you plausibilities #it's not contemplating the reason and rhyme behind what it's saying. it's predicting what you expect to see #and it's not some magic neutral machine it carries context like everything else. its normalization is always gonna mimic its training #which is gonna make it very hard for someone to shape words into an experience the texts that made it aren't familiar with #anyway im just repeating the post i just. yes! i agree strongly.

utena10jou

domestic utenanthy..!!!

#YESSSSS!!!!!!!! YES!#rgu

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