Field Notes

Random thoughts of a non-binary person (they/them) and several pugs (they’ve not commented them to me)

[sodiumvaporss]

i do have to say that no matter how shitty any sort of media is or how shitty your own creations are. always remember

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[zazaofpugs]

A fair point! Are there good use cases for AI, absolutely!

Would companies be rubbing their hands together manically, installing massive data centers and literally making a play for finally destroying the world for them?

No. They’re not doing all this for fucking real-time sign language translation and we all fucking know it.

[titsay]

[animentality]

[zazaofpugs]

I’m not catholic and generally am anti holy war, but on this one point, I think I will make an exception

[drpepperwhoree]

remember that pride is still a protest

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[whitachi]

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

[araceil]

At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.

[liberalsarecool]

The bubble is nigh.

[zazaofpugs]

That was quick

[catchymemes]

[goth-queen]

[zazaofpugs]

And probably you also have depression. Your ancestors probably did too, but they had community care to help see them through.

[a-book-dragon]

You don't have a male or female brain – the more brains scientists study, the weaker the evidence for sex differences

Rather than distinctly male or female, the human brain is much more like the heart, kidneys and lungs – basically the same no matter the sex of the body it's in.

rb to make a biological essentialist mad <3

[liminalweirdo]

“This collapse is a telltale sign of a problem known as publication bias. Small, early studies which found a significant sex difference were likelier to get published than research finding no male-female brain difference.”

[mckitterick]

the notes on this are toxic - to help clear up any misunderstanding, here’s the actual science paper:

Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size

With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three dec

in short: brains are brains

[zazaofpugs]

A brain being “male” or “female” is just as nonsensical as a “male” or “female” lung to me.

[anarcho-communism-revolution]

[userfish]

this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.

[userfish]

hey so this means radically pro ALL transgender. don’t put limitations on this. all trans people are radically accepted here.

[zazaofpugs]

We don’t take kindly to folks who don’t take kindly, round these parts

[queer-as-city-folk]

Well would you look at the time!

[westernmassposting]

Happy native plant month! You can use this tool, developed at UMass Amherst, to choose climate-smart native plants for your garden (and find places to buy them) - climatesmartnativeplants.org/plant-selection

Wow!! Wow!! Wow!! This looks so cool!!

[cosmicretreat]

She made the classic mistake of thinking that if she supported fascism hard enough, the leopards wouldn’t eat her face. Turns out the leopards don’t care.

[zazaofpugs]

She is part leopard. She thought the other leopards wouldn’t eat their own. They do.

[thelatestkate]

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