Sonder

The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.... (aka, a completely random assortment of things that make me think and/or make me happy).

[caprisunsweet]

its actually crazy to me how much the Halovar family's whole thing resembles Sam and Whitney's entire play style *so well*

The whole insidious thing about the Halovar's is how wrapped in this air of 'harmless and foolish' they are. YES they are a Sundered House and they are rich and magical, but I mean, come on. We're living in a world where the gods have been killed, and now they are true believers of this 'Light?' What the hell is that? Most sane people with an eye for politics can see the game they are playing, or at least think they can.

And every scene we see them in, that is reinforced in some small capacity even at the same time you can see the depth to it. You meet Fileonous and whats your impression? Big guy with scary dogs, but also loud, clumsily oafish in demeanor and speech, the type of dude you don't think has a lot going on. The demon sisters are *scary*, they're fucking demons, but our first look at them in combat was hilarious and disarming, because clearly they were stumbling through the dark!

You can recognize that yes, there is skill, there is power here; but I think ultimately it is disarming in how god damn funny and disarming they are because they're Goofs! Most of them are goofy as hell! Just like how Sam and Whitney have been playing the funny guys, upping the ante in each scene together with Tyranny and Wicc's stumbling through.

Except, obviously, when it's time to *lock the hell in.* And then suddenly you have the Grandma of Manipulation, pulling divine strings that nobody would have EVER known about if she hadn't told Wicc. You have fake resurrections, deals with demonic entities selling the souls of who knows HOW many people across Araman, *biological experiments with angel blood,* and the dedicated grasping fingers wresting control over arts, minds, and bodies through Dol Mak'jar.

Until you see Tyranny and Wicc stumbling home after being told by everybody on repeat that they are screwed because they are (seemingly) fumbling in every conversation and then they pull a god damn HOME RUN in tricking the manipulator.

Sam and Whitney are 100% the people who you know have the skill to take you out at the emotional kneecaps, but yet you never see it coming until they are having Nat 20 conversations without the roll of the dice.

The Halovar's are not the threat you anticipate, until you find out how they are seeping into every corner of Araman and see Yanessa Halovar standing over her fake religion and producing *devote belief.*

INCREDIBLE how Brennan and Sam and Whitney have created a whole ass family that so perfectly reflects Sam's number 1 surprise in every campaign; the comedy relief with surprise teeth.

[hayleyolivia]

Just a dandy boy 🌻

[dddreamscape]

Mutuals do this

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

You've heard of parallel play, now get ready for perpendicular play.

[amuseoffyre]

Hot cross buns?

[firesidetextiles]

[sar-kalu]

✨️ The Enrichment has Enriched! ✨️

[asksanguinius40k]

Mightiest of mighty beans

[capinejghafa]

BAMBI (1942) dir. DAVID D. HAND & SEQUENCE DIRECTORS

[danielwaldorf]

since becoming a barista i have noticed a few very distinct typologies among my customers. such as:

the woke left: young and fashionable. visible tattoos. often enjoys matcha, lavender flavoring, oat milk, and cold foam. pretty decent customers.

sweet old man: drinks very sweet iced lattes, pays in cash, puts all of his change in the tip jar. sometimes orders hot coffee and i get scared that his shaky old man hands will spill it and he'll get burned but that has not yet happened and god willing never shall.

evil old man: only wants drip coffee and declares it ridiculous that any other form of coffee exists. some variants only want americanos and these variants are even scarier. watch out.

sweet old woman: might need her daughter's help to order but is very bubbly and open to trying new things. compliments baristas freely and frequently.

evil old woman: does not want coffee and only wants sweet tea or soda. will not tip even if she spends three hours in the shop repeatedly asking baristas to fetch things for her.

errand husband: either stiltedly recites an order to you or shows you the order in their texts/notes app. needs to step out of line and make a phone call if you ask any follow-up questions.

grindset girlie: always wearing scrubs, an apron, and/or a name tag. orders the exact same thing every day and knows the exact change she'll need to pay for it. her regular order is both extremely caffeinated and extremely sweet.

#mamabear: is actively wrangling two to four children while ordering. order changes repeatedly because the children cannot decide if they want a muffin or a cookie or apple juice or chocolate milk etc. for some reason these women are always wearing an article of clothing or carrying some personalized item that says "mama" on it.

schoolchildren: band of two to eight adolescents hanging out after school. extremely indecisive but generally quite polite and tip well.

amnesiac in love: grown adult who needs their partner to tell them what they like. gets asked a question about their own preferences and turns to their partner to answer for them. generally acts like a shy child looking to their guardian for behavioral cues if you try to interact with them and only wants to talk to mommy i mean their wife.

this of course is not an exhaustive list but those are just some of the most consistent Types i get. ok bye xoxo

[ladyshinga]

There are few things funnier to me than the white-hot raging beef parents can have with fictional characters written for young children. You want to hear one of the funniest rants of your life, you ask nearly any parent of a young child their least favorite little cartoon guy. It'll be amazing.

[markovchaingang]

RULES FOR DATING MY DAUGHTER:

my daughter cannot, through action or inaction, harm a human or allow a human to come to harm

a daughter at rest or in constant motion remains at rest or in constant motion unless acted upon by another force

daughters are never created or destroyed, only transformed

always treat every daughter as loaded, even if you know she isn't

you do not talk about my daughter

[moghedien]

One like nitpick thing that drives me crazy is when people call Blue Whales the largest whales or the largest living mammals or some shit like that

Because yes that is true. But when you frame it like that you are completely disregarding the absolutely batshit reality that Blue Whales are the largest animals that have ever existed on earth through the entire history of the planet and they are alive right now today

[rainbowcaleb]

LITERALLY LET OUT AN IRL SCREAM

What do you MEAN Brenann got Aabria and Liam to pretend to be their own characters but actually be the demon sisters in disguise

[systlin]

My asshole son (Muffin the cat) has been on a diet, on account of him being overweight. I've been losing my fuck damned mind because he is not losing weight, even when sticking to the vet reccomended diet.

Found out that the dickhead (affectionate) has figured out that the food is in the utility room cupboard. He has figured out how to hook his claws into the door, pry it open, and get into the fucking cupboard at night, where he then shoves his head in the bag and eats as much as he wants.

He then exits and closes the fucking cupboard like the genius little goddamn prick he is.

[systlin]

Update; my fluffy 25 pound dickhead of a Maine coon mix Disapproves Strongly of the child locks on the food door. Loudly. Is now attempting to figure out how to work a child lock with his enormous crime paws.

[kvothes]

a good thread

[kvothes]

a good thread

[darikbelochka]

I just want my fluff bro😔

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[alianoralacanta]

5. If the words are Google's, this solidifies the position of universities who demand that all answers from AI are fully cited. If all the in-line citations now have to be (Google, 2026), that's going to make it obvious when someone's trying to use Google as a source. There's still the difficulty with people who are academically dishonest by trying to pass off the AI writing as their own. 6. 91% accuracy is officially too low to use as a source of references, which means the AI can't be used as a source of references either. This makes it less legitimate for such purposes than Wikipedia of all places (Wikipedia might need date/time proof of when it was accessed for the reference to be valid, but at least it is possible to prove the link existed at a particular date and time). 7. This will help encourage the rollout of courses on how to avoid AI search for students who need academic accuracy, because it's statistically not good enough to use. 8. This strengthens the case intellectual property authors have against Google in the EU, as this is proof that an intellectual property transfer took place.

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[lastvalyrian]

It's not just rude to make me read something you didn't want to write. It is that you expect me to respond to your email written by Claude. You don't even want me to talk to you. You want me to talk to Claude so that you can make Claude respond for you. It is rude to expect me to talk to a chatbot when I wanted to talk to you.