Just… Life is tough. If you want to help out, that’d be nice. Gonna post and pin this.
See, I knew that stupid fucking basilisk thing was dumb as hell when I read it. And these jackasses just made an even shittier version of pascal’s wager that they think is special because it’s a sci-fi version instead of fantasy. And this is some of who’s fucking over the whole planet? Ugh.
Seiya taking hacks with a katana.
ALTthis might be one of the worst things anyones ever said to me
tumblr has some competition in the hate mail game
Something about having an universal translator, and learning to understand without it
If the Maker doesn't intervene to save the best of His servants, what good is He?
Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”
Throwback Thursday: a helpful chart describing the major behaviors of dragons I made when I was 7
10/10 this rules
Dragon Heritage Post
happy 20 years of marrying females eating meat flying breathing fire and fighting t rex
Hm
@ faradaycockcage
Further evidence
In the second Sonic movie, he refers to him self as ‘hedgehog of the house’ in Tom’s absence instead of ‘man of the house’ further implying his gender is hedgehog
not "he" as in "he/him" but "he" as in "hedgehog"
This is one of those true, declassified government things that always sounds made up but one of the things Henry Kissinger did with his career was use the CIA to help turn small, prosperous socialist nations into fascist dictatorships just to keep those nations powerless and possibly to keep socialist systems *looking* doomed and futile to the American public, like maybe just to scare Americans out of demanding better infrastructure or universal income. Yes it sounds like an insane conspiracy theory a maniac would invent. It also happened multiple times and several generations of people around the world are still living in misery because of it.
Remember folks, the two types of conspiracy theory are "Things the CIA or FBI has admitted to doing" and "Antisemitism"
Friends described living under the Trump Administration as being slowly beaten to death by a rubber chicken.
It still hurts. It's still painful. But you keep hearing a synthetic BAWWW every time it hits you as a constant reminder of how it's the stupidest possible way to die.
THEY USE GENAI TO MAKE POLICY DECISIONS. THEY INVITED A REPORTER TO A SECRET NATIONAL SECURITY CHAT. TRUMP HAS A FUCKING DIET COKE BUTTON.
Listen, to be fair... the Diet Coke button was installed during his first term.
HE IS TRYING TO TARIFF PENGUINS THIS TIME AROUND THOUGH.
Can I ask what kind of hat you're putting on in that video?
I've been looking for something similar for a while.
Heya! It gets called a lot of things these days, especially on the secondary market:
You will find a lot more results if you pair your search with “tweed”.
It should have a permanent center crease (I need to fix mine), which sets it apart from a bucket hat, even though that is what it is most commonly called these days.
The band is the same material/color as the hat. Brim widths can vary – I like the wider.
It is *not* a trilby, nor an alpine or tyrolean hat. It is an outdoor hat associated with the British “country gentleman,” though most people now will just call you Dr. Jones, Senior, which is extremely obnoxious.
It’s quite warm. Some of the vintage ones come with a waterproof liner.
If you want a slightly fancier version, Rex Harrison was fond of a version that had a thinner, snappy brim. This is an older style of trilby (so, a wider brim), so look for vintage vs new. Still, a casual hat.
Since you have me looking at hats – The more I look at Siegfried’s hat, the more I am feeling it is the Rex Harrison style, just with the brim all turned down (Siegfried also wears his fedora like this - he doesn’t seem to take care of his hats and the brims on his go all wonky and wavy). The style I currently have is evocative of the same vibe, but since I like to be screen accurate where I can, I shall continue to dive down this rabbit hole.
"There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?' And someone else said, 'A poor choice of words in 1954'," he says. "And, you know, they’re right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the '50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we're having now."
So if he had to invent a term, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics. "It's genuinely amazing that...these sorts of things can be extracted from a statistical analysis of a large body of text," he says. But, in his view, that doesn't make the tools intelligent. Applied statistics is a far more precise descriptor, "but no one wants to use that term, because it's not as sexy".
'The machines we have now are not conscious', Lunch with the FT, Ted Chiang, by Madhumita Murgia, 3 June/4 June 2023
It’s the same principles at work behind spam filtering and autocorrect, which is Bayesian statistical analysis.
Would it be wrong to describe it as “a really juiced up version of those "start a sentence and let your center button predict the rest of it” memes work"?
