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I will kill shapes.inc with my bare hands
so we all know the image of the cat covered in packing peanuts from the static cling page on wikipedia, right?
you know, this delightful little guy? an image from 2017?
not only is it on the static cling page, it's also on the pages for static electricity, triboelectric effect, electric field, eletrostatics and electrostatic induction (and you can also find it on this user page captioned "my fav photo", which i thought was delightful, and way down on this user's page)!
it's full description on wikimedia also reads: "Styrofoam peanuts clinging to a cat's fur due to static electricity. The triboelectric effect causes an electrostatic charge to build up on the fur due to the cat's motions. The electric field of the charge causes polarization of the molecules of the styrofoam due to electrostatic induction, resulting in a slight attraction of the light plastic pieces to the charged fur. This effect is also the cause of static cling in clothes."
except, i left out the last bit. the last bit reads: "Image cropped losslessly from File:Cat and styrofoam – electrostatic charge (235112299).jpg using cropgtk"
now, this means this isn't the full image.... so what is the full image? it's this!
now, what i find really endearing about this photo, is that, while this file was uploaded to wikimedia in 2015 (as opposed to the cropped version being done in 2017), the original picture is actually from february 2006! you can see this in the summary!
the picture itself actually originates from flickr, and it has a DELIGHTFUL little description:
unfortunately the original source and picture is long gone, but we can delight in the fact that it was preserved a decade ago on wikimedia after being transferred via Flickr2Commons :]
happy 20th birthday of my cat loves styrofoam peanuts
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Nintendo should just lean in to the fact that pokemon can be eaten and design a pokeball that instacooks whatever pokemon is caught in it. They should also give you the option to load ingredients and seasonings into the ball in order to make different dishes. It should fizzle steam when you've successfully caught something in it like a crock pot.
you've heard of good morning? now prepare for evil morning!!!!!!!! you have to wake up EARLY and get ready for WORK!!!!!!!! 🔥⛓️👹🪦⚔️🧨💥💣☠️🔪⚠️‼️🆘️☄️
they should invent a way for me to do tasks without the mind torture
there is a world out there I can’t comprehend
behold, context
Nausicaa Requiem by Yuria Nara - Kalimba Arrangement
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is my favorite film ever! It reflects my values in such a captivating way! Be kind to bugs, this will save the world.
I identify the most with the woman who has a green velvet ribbon around her neck and keeps being like "DONT untie my neck ribbon or something really bad will happen" and then her husband unties the ribbon and her head falls off. this is extremely real to me. spent my whole life like "please don't do this thing to me or really bad stuff will happen" and everyone around me being like "that sounds fake" and doing it anyway. and then my head fell off!
sorry for [remembering a tumblr post about expressing gratitude instead of apologising to make the interaction more positive for the other person] i mean thank you for having a boyfriend who was so easy to run over withmy car and reverse over three times maybe four
i will die without routine. also this routine is killing me
ROUTINE DRAGS ME ALONG BUT I WOULDN'T MOVE WITHOUT IT
if you’ve never played a pokémon game you’re missing out on the insane things npcs will say to you unprompted. like you’ll be walking down a path and a total stranger will see you and immediately run up to you and trap you in place and say something like ‘the divorce is getting rough but me and my pokémon are getting tough!’ and then start a battle and after you beat their single rat they’ll be like ‘i wasn’t worthy of her…’ or something
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"i don't care if they make their whole way though uni with chatgpt" i think you guys are so internetpilled that you have forgotten there are actual jobs out there that require people to know what they are doing in any way possible or else people die
i know a lot of people study just to get paid well but girl this is engineering be for fucking real take this seriously
114 people died in the Hyatt Regency collapse, and in the US it's the third largest structural collapse fatality count, behind 9/11 and the Pemberton Mill collapse in 1860.
I've learned about this tragedy in my physics classes, to demonstrate tensile strength, and as a reminder about the importance of calculations being done right. I've also learned about it in my legal classes as an example of construction defect lawsuits. I've seen it referenced in disaster response classes.
Between AI and the current Presidential administration, we're barrelling right back towards this nightmare.
There are multiple errors that resulted in this collapse, but these stand out to me:
1. Kansas City was facing high unemployment and needed to attract jobs and business into the city. So the planning and inspection departments may have looked too closely at the designs.
2. An engineering firm too lazy to double check their designs or design changes by the manufacturer before approving them. The error that resulted in the collapse was one that the owner of the engineering firm said that a "first year engineering student" would spot.
3. The steel manufacturer treating preliminary plans as final plans, not verifying the math on their end.
The bridges' original design could only hold 60% of the minimum load required by city code. The design changes recommended by the manufacturer halved that. Less than a year and 3 weeks from opening to the public, the whole thing collapse.
Articles about the collapse say that everyone "trusted" the other party to have done the calculations correctly.
A significant portion of the population trusts what the computer or AI tells them, without checking. Imprecisely calibrated AI hallucinate information. The US economy is going into a downturn and federal regulatory agencies are being gutted.
We are going to see the Hyatt Regency Collapse repeat over and over for decades, not just in buildings, but in medicine, manufacturing, the environment, etc.
Some of this we're just going to have to weather, but the message for AI users comes straight from IBM (once the world's leading computer manufacturer) back in 1979:
"A Computer Cannot Be Held Accountable. Therefore A Computer Should Never Make A Management Decision."
The owner of the engineering firm that designed the Hyatt Regency spent the rest of his life lecturing on the disaster, to serve as a warning to his fellow engineers about the real-life consequences of sloppy design.
I don't think Sam Altman or Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk will have the courage or the honor to do that when OpenAI / Meta / xAI are responsible for getting people killed.
So if you're going to blindly trust the AI to do critical work tasks, I hope you're prepared to be making an apology tour for the rest of your life if it all goes wrong.
I've been thinking about this post since I first saw it, bc I think, like...
It is important not to walk away from it thinking "but I'm not going to be an engineer, so that's fine."
In my adult life, I have (among other things) run a small business, I have managed a bank branch, and I have been a mortgage processor. In any one of those three jobs, not knowing the exact correct laws and procedures for what I'm doing could really fuck up someone else's life.
If I don't set up payroll correctly, I could create a huge disaster for myself and employees, either immediately or come tax time. QuickBooks keeps trying to get me to let AI manage my payroll and I would rather stab myself in the hand.
If I didn't handle deposits and Fincen reporting correctly in my branch banking days, I could end up accidentally committing many many crimes and making it harder for people to catch some of the really big, really terrible crimes. (Hint: this was important to uncovering all the Epstein shit!) That's not even counting all the actual cash I was responsible for. (It makes me want to throw up thinking about the fact that I literally handled about a million dollars in cash every week for 2 years.)
If I didn't handle my mortgage processing exactly right, people could lose their homes. I cannot stress enough how easy it is for shit to get REALLY FUCKED UP if deeds and mortgages are not filed exactly right. People get their homes (legally!) stolen from them every year.
Yes, it's important for engineers to learn how to do their jobs, but man... our lives are so interconnected, and so many things matter much more than you know. If the shit you do matters at all, in any way, to anyone, ever, you fucking need to do it right, because someone is counting on you doing exactly that.
I previously worked for a program in disability employment services and there were two things I was constantly at war with within practices by others:
1. My seriousness for protection of minors in all fonts regardless of how the company wanted me to handle it, I was very serious about meeting my states legal requirements.
2. The amount of Ai being used in disability services to cut corners on everything from emails to reports. Including people using it to write the meant to be personalised notes.
And at this point in time, despite being new and plenty of people saying that it was not a reliable or good idea and was absolutely a privacy risk; multiple companies and fields around us were having it become not just common office practice but written in to the company meetings that it was allowed and encouraged in some ways. (Despite absolutely not making writing an email any shorter than my own personal method of keeping a word document for it so I could copy paste whatever I needed into an email and have it available).
This has lead to constant issues; people's claims getting rejected because instead of local law it was being written to an American 'standard' (who knows if it even met any state disability laws there either), information leaks and privacy breaches, constant bad advice that's not relevant for clients needs bc Ai writes generic file notes that aren't actually relevant to the clients conditions, etc.
Ai is dangerous for everyone, especially the most vulnerable and those who will be brushed off when they voice concerns.
And the thing about people who try to make a fuss about it within a workplace by calling out its mistakes and refusing to use it; is we just become ignored and moved out of and away from projects.
Which means you have less oversight from those who'd pick it up, or it'll take longer to pick up because Ai constantly makes small mistakes that are ignored and need to be corrected so it takes longer for the larger ones to be seen. If it's something that even actually gets multiple layers of checkpoints, which a lot of things aren't.
People are lazy with checking Ai.
They assume because they've 'given the correct parameters' that the task has been met to a standard they want.
And then because it's done in a shorter amount of time than actually writing and proofreading a report would take, companies up the workload and demand more of employees, meaning even more mistakes get missed.
Ai in basic admin jobs will lead to people being harmed because anything that requires reporting has a layer of impact, whether legal, financial, medical or other.
Especially in the medical field, Ai is going to hurt people. Not just because of bad Ai google summaries, but because inaccurate reports written by a machine that misrepresents information will absolutely get people killed.
It's been a problem experienced due to dismissive doctors and nurses, what happens when someone already dismissive decides to use Ai and not even re-read their prompt let alone the answer they receive?
I've already seen people not receive care from the NDIS and Centerlink due to Ai being used when it shouldn't have been, and this is absolutely going to be a reoccurring issue.
i think ultimately you do really have to kill that part of your brain that vividly imagines how you would redo parts of your life.
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