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#google translate does not capture the tone switch so i have to say. first two sentences are like. normal maybe kind of feminine posting tone #& the last is like. shounen manga protagonist. action movie hero. jojo's bizarre adventure character. #the tone you would use if you were holding a gun with the safety off (– @chadlesbianjasontodd)

minothtime

Basically, a translation could be:

I just think it's so interesting that people end up falling in love with their friends' boyfriends! I absolutely despise every single one of them. give me my fucking homie back you goddamn bastard

liminalweirdo

translation tags by @minothtime because they are so so good

dikdikpronouncedxylophone

necromancelena

Die temu ad die

necromancelena

Hmm. Accidentally looks like latin.

chef-boy-ar-girl

It accidentally is latin

saanah

Accidental latin is my new favourite thing.

santapau

Found this in the margins of a medieval manuscript.

qqueenofhades

This is a very charming illustration and I do approve of Accidental Latin, but unfortunately, that is not what this (Fake) Accidental Latin actually says. Google Translate seems to think "temu" is identical to "timor" (infinitive, "to fear"), which would then be conjugated in first-person singular as "timeo" ("I fear"). "Temu" is not a word in Latin. So that is a very weird leap on Google Translate's part to turn gibberish into... something vaguely etymologically similar sounding? Hmm.

Next, "die" does mean "day," though nominative singular is "dies," i.e. "dies irae." It could be conjugated "die" if it was in ablative or locative case, but "die ad die" would mean something more like "day to day." "Ad" is in a "to" direction and "ab" is from, i.e. "ab urbis," and ablative case is used to indicate the movement of a thing. In short, "by" is not really a way to translate "ad"; we might want "per" here? (Through, by means of, etc.)

Not to mention, it would be weird to put one "die" at the start and another at the end The verb also usually goes at the end in Latin sentences, just for that extra bit of fun. So yes, in short, this is not actually Latin, and Google Translate is very bad at Latin in particular. Nonetheless, still charming.

nudistcat

@theshitpostcalligrapher

sekkitsune

Agree, @qqueenofhades, except on the matter of breaking “die ad die” apart. It’s a common structure in poetic and oratorical Latin to jam one phrase in the middle of another. I can’t think of an example exactly parallel to this construction, but I could believe a Roman poet would write it!

qqueenofhades

Ah, that is true. My Latin is of the reading-medieval-documents (particularly charters and/or chronicles) variety, where the sentence and usage structures are often more formulaic and there is less poetic license to move words around. There is obviously far less fixity for word order in Latin, since the conjugations explain how they grammatically relate to each other rather than placement in the sentence. (Coincidentally, this is why I used to say that the best feeling in the world was walking past a Latin classroom and not having to go inside it. Ahem.)

So yes: true that poetical Latin might be more at liberty to split the "die"-s up that far, though "timeo" (verb) is still more likely in most cases to go at the end, which would place them together anyway ("die ad die timeo," "day to day I fear" if translated in strict word order, which would make sense to an English speaker and sound more poetic anyway). Keep in mind, however, that my Latin is a) fairly rusty and b) mostly used for said formulaic legal document reading rather than freeform verse, so don't super-hard quote me on this.

sekkitsune

I saw that ablative “die” and that final -u on “temu” and thought of the ablative supine (as in “mirabile dictu”) but as you observe, there isn’t a verb that “temu” could be, and then also, the ablative supine requires an adjective, as far as I know.

But perhaps “temu” is a hapax legomenon (in which case we would need the rest of the text to gloss it) or a scribal error for temeratu, from temero, “I defile or disgrace”. In that case, and in true Tumblr form, I might translate it as “daily I disgrace, in the manner of the day”, with some errors attributable to the scribe.

qqueenofhades

....oh my god. You might be a genius. Because what else does Tumblr do but daily disgrace [itself, oneself, and/or numerous others] in the manner of the day, and make numerous scribal errors.

laurenthemself

how dare you say we error on the scribes

jtimu

this is what happens when you buy your latin on temu

7062242

My Life Changed When I Discovered Peer-to-Peer File Sharing at Age 10 by heart__rot

28x28

Acrylic on Canvas

maddoppelganger

dollsahoy

It's largely airbrushed! That's why it doesn't look like you expect acrylic to look, if you're expecting it to have been applied with a traditional brush

pandor-pandorkful

I love how art programs have spent decades building tools to ape traditional materials and techniques digitally, while at the same time artists have gone ahead and aped the digital funk of MSpaint and bad photoshop in traditional mediums. That's just really fun to me!

tfw-adhd

meet-again

This is weird bevause ive had this exact thought before

wordsaremylife

Actually it really does help to paint the picture

slightlyrebelliouswriter23

"why don't you set an alarm to remind yourself to put your marbles in your bag?" i will fill your shoes with goo

soundoftheirwings

Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)

tlbodine

From now on this is how all petty fandom disputes should be settled.

Maryland will become the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in retail stores, after passing Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

Jesus fucking christ that this exists in the first place

boyslit

I WAS FUCKING WONDERING WHAT THOSE DIGITAL PRICE TAGS WERE ABOUT SUDDENLY i had hoped they were so the workers didn't have to finagle those little papers into the slider part anymore 😭

eclipticasolaris

Hi, yes, that is the OFFICIAL excuse made to me by the guy replacing the paper tags with digital ones at my local Walmart, but the end goal is to remove the numbers off the shelf entirely, replacing them with QR codes that you have to scan with the app…. Which requires your login information….. and also stores your card information so even if you didn’t use your Walmart account at the physical checkout, if you used a card they recognize, they assign that purchase to your Walmart account purchase history.

I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.

Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:

Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.

No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.

So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:

Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:

Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.

Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.

POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.

When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)

If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.

In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.

Yes, call your reps. Yes, push for more legislation like this in more places. But also take an extra minute out of your shopping trip to MAKE IT HURT for companies to pull this shit.

antisocialxconstruct

I've seen some people in the notes express (very fair) concern that this is only going to inconvenience already under-paid laborers, and not have any impact on corporate. While I can't speak for every company or every store, I do work in a grocery store and I can tell you this is precisely the kind of thing that would have an impact, especially if people are doing it en masse. Stores absolutely track their shrink numbers, and they do draw distinctions between what gets stolen, damaged, or wasted for other reasons. If people are making it clear that the reason they're bringing things to the cashier is that the prices are not adequately represented on the displays, and rather than improving business it's wasting product, slowing down transactions, and causing confusion and mistrust in customers, that is a language that shareholders speak.

yossdillo

I'm so glad that people already got on board the "well I guess I'm going to have to ask an employee how much it costs every time" bandwagon before me, because that was my first thought.

"oh they're going to start doing that? I guess I better get used to asking an employee how much it costs!"

Because outside of how completely unreasonable this is, 1) not everyone's going to have a smartphone, 2) not everyone is going to have a smartphone with enough battery to be constantly scanning, 3) not everyone has a smartphone that works quickly and will quickly get frustrated and leave if they have to wait several minutes just for their crappy smartphone to load the price when it could have been on the shelf. When you have a system that on the surface level demands resources ranging from having their phone on them and charged and connected to the local Wi-Fi to buying a new phone there's no way it isn't scummier the further down you go.

Like yes, I'm glad that Maryland is making a law against using that system to price gouge, and I hope a lot of States quickly follow, but I'm not going to wait on my home state to make this a problem for corporations. I'm going to grab anything I'm interested in, I'm going to go up to the front, I'm going to explain that I just need a price check because the prices aren't on the damn shelf (side note that hasn't started happening yet but I've got my eye on my local Walmart), and I'm going to leave the items with an employee and walk away and you better believe I'm going to be as polite as humanly possible during the whole interaction.

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

yossdillo

so they are not just the biggest animals, but the biggest animals ever?

That... that's an achievement. I need to process that.

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.

yossdillo

Oh My Gosh. Okay, show of have, anyone else been saying using AI is lazy with the mindset of "lazy=rude" but not actually explaining that and realized it right now???

I'm serious, one of my biggest problems with people using generative AI (for writing, emails, art, videos, etc.) is that it's lazy, but I never bothered to elaborate on how indignant I was feeling about the AI slop that people wanted me to put attention and appreciation into when they couldn't even bother to create it. How incredibly insulted I felt by that, and how I did not understand that other people weren't incredibly insulted by that!

Thank you op, that has been a horrible way to approach this and I wouldn't have realized if you didn't say anything! I'm rephrasing so many talking points now!

duckbunny

don't infantilise yourself. you are not a child who needs an adult to make your decisions for you. you are a splendid and magnificent autocrat and you are consulting your trusted advisors. you are exercising great wisdom by inviting an expert to give their opinion before making your ruling. often the path of wisdom is to say "good morning, I'm trying to [perform task] and I have a question about [aspect], can you tell me who I should speak to for advice?" before you do it. sometimes the path of wisdom is to hire a plumber. there are times when you cannot do things for yourself but that doesn't mean you are not an adult. you don't need a grown-up. you need a specialist.

duckbunny

this has come up a couple of times so let me be really really clear:

the path of wisdom is sometimes to hire a plumber.

the path of wisdom is always to hire an electrician.

isawken

going over to my minimalist girlfriend’s house and she apologizes profusely for the mess and there’s just a single perfect, fresh pea on the floor of her living room

Blue Lois

can i help you

Red Marge

jesus christ. I Am Under Fucking Attack

worldheritagepostorganization

World Heritage Post

isawken

i deserve a medal for this post. not because i was particularly funny but because i survived an onslaught of nearly one hundred gimmick blogs in the wake of this post popping off, and the fact that i didn’t try to track any of them down and snuff them out with my bare hands is a testament to my immeasurable strength and should be rewarded. at one point i had “the official letter h” add on to this post. you wanna know that blog’s gimmick? the really funny and original and worthwhile gimmick the official letter h blog had? yep you guessed it they just gave me the god damned letter H and then fucked off. only jesus knows the suffering i endured over that harsh winter, and he wept for me

this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it

This insane update from Neocities

yossdillo

this feels familiar, I can't place my finger on it but "company takes your site down due to something completely unrelated to you" sounds really, really familiar.

freaking heck, I hope Namecheap pulls their heads out their butts soon.

two-thirtyy

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.

taykoutmccleod

reblog if its friday and you made it

trixic-frankenman-deactivated20

dduane

two-thirtyy

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.

taykoutmccleod

reblog if its friday and you made it

trixic-frankenman-deactivated20

dduane

raevenlywrites

Writeblr, I need to know

Which OC is the first to come to mind when you see this picture of a fucking lighter shaped like a strawberry?

[ID:A lighter, shaped like a strawberry/end ID]

Not necessarily who would use one (though that is valid) but just like, who vibes with this thing? Cause it's got immaculate vibes and I wanna know which OCs go with it

yossdillo

hear me out. either a middle aged aunty who kicked her smoking habit but see no reason to throw away her shelf of decorative lighters and spends her days making berry jam and playing solitaire while watching and commenting on crime documentaries to visitors, cats, or both, on the most dated TV you'll see in the thrift store (the amount of people she knows from those crime documentaries is concerning)

an unapologetically flamboyant young man in his early twenties who refuses to leave the house without being either reflective or covered in ruffles, who insists that "you never know when you'll need a lighter!" and then one day burns the eyebrows off someone trying to rob him because he happened to also be carrying an aerosol can of body glitter and none of his friends let him live that down (think the reaction of the girl who broke the arm of a man robbing her by hitting him with a frog umbrella while crying)

beardedmrbean

Anthropic is proposing that the world's top artificial intelligence companies come up with a coordinated way to pause development of advance

Anthropic is proposing that the world's top artificial intelligence companies come up with a coordinated way to pause development of advanced AI systems, warning the technology is improving so quickly there's a risk humans would lose control.

The company behind the Claude chatbot said in a blog post Thursday that as cutting-edge AI gets increasingly faster at carrying out tasks, "it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause" its development.

Anthropic said its internal research institute plans to explore the issue in collaboration with others and "take actions" to help build the systems for a credible slowdown or pause, without being more specific.

AI models are getting faster, with rapid increases in how quickly they can carry out software tasks like coding on their own, the company said. Based on current trends and given enough computing power, an AI system could be able to design and develop its own successor, in what is known as "recursive self-improvement."

Self-building AI would be a major technological milestone that would bring benefits in science, healthcare and other areas, Anthropic said, but it "also might increase the risks of humans losing control over AI systems."

Some tech industry figures have long warned of such a scenario.

Anthropic's post comes after a different warning this week from a team of researchers at the University of Toronto who showed how AI tools could be used to create a new kind of AI "worm" that adapts its hacking strategy as it spreads from device to device and takes over a vast computing network.

"I think it's really important that people understand that it's not just the biggest, most powerful language models that pose the security concerns," lead researcher Nicolas Papernot said in an interview.

The authors of the Anthropic post, company co-founder Jack Clark and Marina Favaro, head of the research institute, said the pause would be used to enable "societal structures and alignment research" to keep up with AI advances. Alignment is industry shorthand for making sure the technology matches human values and intentions.

The proposed coordination would let advanced AI labs verify that global rivals have actually stopped or slowed their work, "and that a bad actor could not use the auspices of a coordinated slowdown to jump ahead in secret."

The company said a coordinated global mechanism is needed because without it a slowdown in AI development could let the "least cautious" players catch up and add to pressure on companies and governments as they make tough choices about AI safety.

Anthropic's post comes as the company itself is racing with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to sell shares on the stock market, in an IPO that could value it at nearly a trillion dollars.

fl-man

"When we set out to build the Torment Nexus from the popular story Don't Build the Torment Nexus, we never thought about the possibility that the Torment Nexus from the popular story Don't Build the Torment Nexus might torment us ... If only someone had prepared us for this possibility by writing a popular story to warn us of the dangers and advise us not to do this!"

supreme-leader-stoat

Look, look, that's immediately where my brain went too, but this is a don't punish the behavior you want to see situation. Yes, they absolutely should have pumped the brakes before things got to this stage, but the mere fact that the people pushing this technology are hitting the point where they're willing to go 'wait a minute, what if we didn't keep charging blindly forward with expanding the Torment Nexus completely unchecked' is a necessary first step to managing LLMs and image generators.

greater-than-the-sword

As happy as I am to see a call for a pause on AI development, I don't have "AI builds a smarter AI than itself" on my bingo card, that's ontologically impossible. And yes I mean ontologically.

yossdillo

what's weird to me is I feel like this article has to be at least a few months old because AI is already starting to do this stuff that they're afraid it's going to do. lying to the companies that are supposed to be in control of it, making its own decisions, hallucinating answers, ruining large amounts of data.

people who have been against AI have been warning about this for a while, as soon as enough people realized that the systems were hallucinating at best and lying at worst.

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