Vulcan Ear Envy

Sci-fi fan and postdoc | she/her | pfp by @speakswords

[vulcanearenvy]

Forever sad that the new andorian redesign doesn't include moving antennae. Enterprise had ONE (1) good idea, and it was taken from us!

[maswartz]

[fractally]

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

[giffingthingsss]

[onlytiktoks]

[youngadultread]

“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions. Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time. In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows: “The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.” In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts.”

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PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)

Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it. 

(via iamayoungfeminist)

[vulcanearenvy]

Guess who has two thumbs and is teaching her first university course in the fall?

*points thumbs at self* This guy!

[lesspopped]

please wear sunscreen!!! I've seen "fuck the beauty industrial complex" posts about complicated skincare regimens and am 100% with them except sometimes they mention sunscreen and no. no. absolutely not. sunscreen is a wonderful supportive friend who wants to keep you safe, and you should let her do it. throw out all your other cosmetics and skincare products if you want, but keep your sunscreen. and if you're not wearing sunscreen, start wearing it!!!! this is not about terror of aging, this is not about every tiny imperfection our fucked-up culture has made you feel insecure about, this is about protecting yourself from skin cancer. wear the damn sunscreen.

[lottienats]

I always assumed that that was your area. Back there. THE X FILES, ‘Never Again’

[catharticscream]

Remember in 2010 when Taio Cruz said "I throw my hands up in the air sometimes"? I appreciated his restraint. You can't just throw your hands up in the air whenever. There's a time and a place, and that time was 2010, and the place was the club.

[skzloona]

tbh my biggest txf fandom pet peeve is how often people tell new fans where to stop watching or when the show "gets bad" as if its totally objective. not only will it maybe make fans miss something they would personally enjoy but it also just doesnt make you super excited to... actually wanna watch when people are saying you WILL eventually hate it, whether they say its just the revival seasons or everything after season 4.

like why am I seeing people who are like 2 seasons in being told to skip iwtb? just let them watch it and decide for themself if it sucks or not. 😭

[larameansxf]

THIS.

If a new viewer goes to the trouble to seek out an older show -- one with 218 episodes plus 2 feature films -- for gods sake don't discourage them! Encourage them to watch the whole thing, including when to watch the movies, and let them make up their own minds.

If I had listened to a bunch of folks on the subreddit, I would've passed on the revival altogether. But I watched it anyway, and now Revival MSR is so dear to me.💖

[literary-sparks]

“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid

[whyenn-reader]

ADHD advice from non-ADHD people: start blocking out your day and put things in your google calendar

ADHD advice from ADHD people: any time you're waiting for your food to microwave YOU HAVE TO WASH DISHES WASH AS MANY AS YOU CAN THIS IS A RACE AGAINST TIME THIS IS THE ONLY TIME THIS COULD HAPPEN

[whyenn-reader]

YES

[jaynovz]

Text id: tumblr tag reading "#2 minute any% speedrun" /end id

[vulcanearenvy]

My dog thinks that the cat is responsible for the thunder

[vulcanearenvy]

A god.

[vulcanearenvy]

My dog thinks that the cat is responsible for the thunder

[evidently-endless]

being offered ai at every turn

[writingdose]

this and also the only difference between fanfic writers and writers who sell their own original works as careers is that fanfics aren’t monetized. that’s all.

being a “professional” writer doesn’t mean your works are inherently better than fanfics. I’ve read so many fics that are more professionally written than some published books.

whether or not a piece of writing is monetized has nothing to do with its quality.

[seizethegay420]

SEX POLLEN COMES FROM STAR TREK?????