Wisdom's Daugher

Theresa. 25. muli-fandom. Kpop stan. Kdrama watcher, and reader. I'm sorry but this is such a hodge-podge jumble of my interests that I can't tell you what you'll get.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Traditions are usually pretty new except for the ones that aren’t. Even the ones that people think are thousands of years old often turn out to have been invented in the 1500s or something.

There are some that are super old obviously but not as many as you’d think

[femininefreyanyctophile]

alcohol? like 4000 years old. heirlooms? basically since the invention of material durable enough to be passed down. gifting things not for diplomatic reasons? like maybe 50

[what-even-is-thiss]

Specific alcohols and specific heirlooms aren’t usually that old. Unless you’re the emperor of Japan (allegedly)

[what-even-is-thiss]

Personally if I had a real sword made by the literal sun goddess that could control the wind I’d flaunt it all the time to assert my divine right to rule instead of locking it up in a monastery attic but what do I know I’m not the royal family of Japan

[what-even-is-thiss]

If you hypothetically owned an airbending magic sword why would you not use that to kick the shogun out of your chair I’m just saying

[what-even-is-thiss]

Okay slight correction the sun goddess didn’t make the sword, her brother gave it to her and he found it inside of a giant snake.

[drogonea]

Wait who put it in the snake?

[what-even-is-thiss]

Unclear.

[dysphoria-things]

is it a hot take to say that i think you need to understand why something is bad, not just that it simply is?

[dysphoria-things]

this is a part of the problem

[dysphoria-things]

you need to be able to explain why you shouldnt use ai rather than “oh well its obviously bad and you shouldnt use it or else youre a bad person” because that isn’t logic. “ai generates child porn based off of real children and whether or not it does is entirely up to how it is built and if pedophiles are able to find ways around those safeguards, because ai cannot in itself discern right from wrong” is a genuine criticism. “amazon tried to build a data center the size of tuson outside of tuson just to power their ai that would’ve increased the inability to stay alive outside in parts of arizona” is a genuine criticism. even “using generative ai teaches you not to learn how to do things yourself even when they’re difficult, devaluing necessary skills out of practice” is a genuine criticism when you look at the amount of people who think they are able of doing a difficult major when they couldnt write their own papers in high school.

but “ai is just bad because it’s bad” will convince no one and is a morally lazy position to take. about anything!

you need to know why reading someone’s diary is wrong if you want to learn about privacy and respect. you need to know why child sexual assault is wrong if you want to be able to help children form healthy age appropriate relationships. you need to know why capitalism is bad if you want to replace it with something else. you need actual concrete ideas and ideologies rather than “you should agree with me because i have the right vibe”

[bgm05]

wow players having to stand in lines for a quest because a relevant npc can only talk to one player at a time. is the funniest image on the planet

[bgm05]

i need to correct this: wow classic doesn’t have any npcs that can only talk to one player at a time. these lines actually formed for a quest npc that players had to kill to complete the objective. knowing that i think this image is even funnier.

[thediscossessed]

Literally this

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

My favourite is the guy saying, “This is like being at the dmv”

[crimeboys]

the worst part of getting into new media is when youre at the stage where youre completely obsessed with it but you cant go through the tags or seek out anything about it bc youre not fuckiny done yet

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

[ohcorny]

speculative biology/fantasy/fictionalized large predators that kill indiscriminately and don't eat what they kill drive me up the fucking wall. it is so, so dangerous and exhausting to be a large predator. you don't want to get into a fight, you don't want to exert too much energy, because if you fuck up you can die. and once you manage to kill something, you eat it. you don't go and kill the rest of the herd, you scare off the rest of the herd and eat the thing you killed until something scares you off.

did you know tigers only have a 10% success rate as hunters? TIGERS.

[crystaltoa]

There are exceptions if a predator has a bunch of easy prey in a confined space (fox in a chicken coop for example) and some mammalian predators will kill extra and store or bury them for later if the pickings are easy.

So for fantasy/sci-fi creatures, this behaviour might be understandable if the predator gets into a small underground base or space station or what have you and the humans are unarmed and not much of a threat to it. But yeah, it should at least be shown to stop and eat one or two of its first victims before it begins stocking up the larder.

[crystaltoa]

Concept: A creature gets into the underground base, eats a couple of people. But it doesn't stop there because the rest of you are sitting ducks and it plans to save you for later. Walls and other obstacles can't stop it, its claws tear through anything in its way. You reason that it's a fossorial predator, and it's clearly not built for a pursuit over open ground, so you and the other survivors make for the exit up to the surface...

And run straight into the ambush of a different kind of predator. It's far taller and has longer limbs than the other one, this one *is* built for the chase, but a whole group of you popping up out of the ground one by one means it barely has to put in effort at all. It will eat well for weeks.

You realise, too late, that this is no unfortunate coincidence. The surface predator was working with the burrower to drive you out here. These creatures may not be sapient, but they appear to have a strategy. Some kind of symbiotic relationship, perhaps?

You never stood a chance.

Anyway, you just met the sci-fi horror version of these guys:

[draconicslime]

[ID: A photo of a coyote and an american badger walking together on a prairie. End ID]

[mealreminders]

This has gotta be one of the funniest things I've ever seen. 😂😂😂

Remember to eat, my loves! There's a whole world of delicious joy awaiting you!

[autismgaysparklez-deactivated202]

re-posting bc reblogs got turned off etc

[ralfmaximus]

Whistleblower on Reddit rage-blogs about how the food delivery company he worked for as a developer is ripping customers AND drivers off.

Main post screenshotted here in case it gets yanked; the whole thread is worth a read.

Posted January 2026.

[bethanyactually]

It appears that this was a hoax. Short article about it here:

That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam

AI slop comes for Reddit.

More in-depth article here:

An AI-Generated Reddit Post Fooled the Internet. It Was Only Half of an Elaborate Scam.

I traded Signal messages with someone purporting to have serious dirt on Uber. They used AI to make the whole thing up.

[some-fuckin-werewolf]

Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation cr

so i'm no huge fan of rideshare and delivery apps, but this? this post?

completely fake. the article linked above thoroughly debunks it.

[itsabear]

aww nuts, there is some things in this that were just common knowledge, and observable enshittification, but yeah, I got taken in by it.

[whyenn-reader]

''when did we all become so performative'' idk man when the threat of being recorded at any time and posted for milions to see without your knowledge became normalised.

[psychecreations]

My Lady Jane (2024) 1.01: Who'll Be The Next In Line?

[blankpaigefics]

OKay but the last part of epsiode 7 when they are all driving into the upside down, and doctor Kay sees them in the back of the truck and El is just standing there staring her down. She was pretty cool in that shot

[thememedaddy]

[kat2107]

Let me tell you a story.

I am an archeologist. I specialize in a somewhat obscure but by no means boring or meaningless Neolithic culture in Germany.

It has a Wikipedia page. A well curated, surprisingly extensive Wiki page that encapsulates all the important information about the culture, including literature references for further research.

One day, we asked Chat GPT about this culture. W were curious which details it would get wrong.

ALL OF THEM, except for the fact that it's a culture in present day Germany.

It didn't even get the chronological time frame wrong and called it a celtic culture.

When we told it it's wrong, it came at us with made up literature sources. Literally made up. It took two well known German archeologist who weren't even active at the same time, added a year - both were already dead - and sold that as source.

And it LITERALLY would only have had to quote Wikipedia to get everything right.

THAT is how unbelievably shitty and wrong all those AIs are.

They are making shit up. They are not sourcing information, they're just slapping words together by their most like relative occurance.

Do not trust ChatGPT or any other so-called AI ever.

[sheabutterbitch]

I appreciate the lack of AI generated content on tumblr, the consistent circulation of posts dating back ten years, the regular exercise of critical thinking skills, the appreciation for ‘old’ media… our little time capsule

[argentsunshine]

behind every late diagnosed neurodivergent person is a parent who has absolutely nothing going on at all don't worry about it

[marisatomay]

You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me