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There are currently ~2300 works in AO3 tagged with "Created Using Generative AI"
I'll be upfront with my opinion, which mirrors my opinion in regards to my field: using AI will only hasten your own obsolescence. The point of fanfiction is not to crank out fics, but rather to enjoy the hobby and communities of writing and fandom.
To steal something I saw elsewhere: Why would I bother to read something nobody could be bothered to write?
it's a little late but happy year of the dragon~
“Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’.”
–Terry Pratchett, Snuff
been watching word of honor
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lol how they looked at each other when the song started like oh shit this our jam lolol
"People wouldn't invent anything if there was no profit motive."
Well, that's clearly a lie.
Compare the empathy of Bohlin with the profiteering greed of Edison, Musk, etc etc . . .
Wait is this true?? We’ve just been actively lied to by anatomical diagrams this whole time?
this is true of pretty much all internal anatomy, because the real situation is sort of like if you stuffed a bunch of water balloons of different shapes, connected by tubes, into a bag, itd be really hard to tell whats going on! so you make things more orderly when you represent them, and the connections and lengths and stuff are correct. like the former image is what you get if you cut it out of someone's body and arrange it neatly (and also, if their system wasnt aberrant somehow, but most people's bodies are aberrant somehow. so what they show you is more of like an average of everyone's weird aberrations)
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HI CURRENT HYPERFIXATION ACTIVATED
This is from Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon. Its a book that combines biology and anthropology, discussing all the different "Eves" of the aspects that define a biologically female body (ie, the species we believe to have first had a womb nicknamed Donna in Eve).
Bohannon was inspired to write this book, as she explains in the introduction, after realizing how little science had studied the female body. Many experiments exclude women from the study to eliminate more variables (hormonal changes, different biological reactions then biological men, etc) and therefore there is very little research on how medications and medical tools actually affect the biological female body (and even less about how these medicines affect trans bodies).
Eve is a book that aims to dissect many of the assumptions we've always had, and refuses to describe the female body in gentle pretty terms (ie pregnancy making people glow instead of 9 months of warfare that neither side can win or lose at the consequence of the destruction of the body that loses). And it also has some great drawings of our ancient ancestors who were the first to produce milk while living among dinosaurs. Give it a read if you want to learn more about the biologically female body!
Wait is this true?? We’ve just been actively lied to by anatomical diagrams this whole time?
this is true of pretty much all internal anatomy, because the real situation is sort of like if you stuffed a bunch of water balloons of different shapes, connected by tubes, into a bag, itd be really hard to tell whats going on! so you make things more orderly when you represent them, and the connections and lengths and stuff are correct. like the former image is what you get if you cut it out of someone's body and arrange it neatly (and also, if their system wasnt aberrant somehow, but most people's bodies are aberrant somehow. so what they show you is more of like an average of everyone's weird aberrations)
Reblog to change someone's perception
If you want to get an idea of how messed up your internal anatomy is, get pregnant (or just talk to someone who is). The first time you hear your stomach growl from behind your boob (or higher) will convince you that it's all just a mess of stuff in there.
"A funny thing happened on the way to the enshittocene: Google – which astonished the world when it reinvented search, blowing Altavista and Yahoo out of the water with a search tool that seemed magic – suddenly turned into a pile of shit.
Google's search results are terrible. The top of the page is dominated by spam, scams, and ads. A surprising number of those ads are scams. Sometimes, these are high-stakes scams played out by well-resourced adversaries who stand to make a fortune by tricking Google[...]
Google operates one of the world's most consequential security system – The Algorithm (TM) – in total secrecy. We're not allowed to know how Google's ranking system works, what its criteria are, or even when it changes: "If we told you that, the spammers would win."
Well, they kept it a secret, and the spammers won anyway.
...
Some of the biggest, most powerful, most trusted publications in the world have a side-hustle in quietly producing SEO-friendly "10 Best ___________ of 2024" lists: Rolling Stone, Forbes, US News and Report, CNN, New York Magazine, CNN, CNET, Tom's Guide, and more.
Google literally has one job: to detect this kind of thing and crush it. The deal we made with Google was, "You monopolize search and use your monopoly rents to ensure that we never, ever try another search engine. In return, you will somehow distinguish between low-effort, useless nonsense and good information. You promised us that if you got to be the unelected, permanent overlord of all information access, you would 'organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.'"
They broke the deal." -Cory Doctorow
Read the whole article: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task
does anyone else remember 2012-2013 when everyone’s URL was like “winchesters-221b-inthetardis” and now everyone’s url is just like “truckpussy”
poor xiao jingyan. it’s never easy to watch your beloved weirdly intense advisor have a death note conversation with someone else while you have no idea what’s going on. but for him to do it with your fucking mother
Murdoch's money talks! The Sun gets away with it again.
we should start making zines about cool research papers
Catch me handing out hand-xeroxed copies of my new lit review in the hallways at a conference
hey good news
there's a specifically designated role in the naked mole rat ecology for "guy who runs off into the wilderness and fucks their way into a stranger's house"
Y'all have no idea how absurdly strange naked mole rats are as creatures They're cold-blooded mammals that live in a eusocial structure with a queen and drones, similar to ants, bees, termites and no other mammal on the planet. They barely need to breathe, with a respiration rate low enough to let them thrive in burrows with 2% oxygen, and survive with 0 oxygen whatsoever for about 20 minutes with zero lasting effects.
They live for over 30 years, which is absurdly long for a rodent, don't grow frail with age, and are basically immune to cancer because their telomeres just never shorten.
Naked Mole Rats are rodents that attempted to evolve into bugs, failed, and unlocked the secret to immortality in the process.
Nirvana in Fire aka how to get a dad to admit he might have been wrong in 54 episodes or less, feat. coming back from the dead to mobilise 50 people into giving him a breakdown at his own birthday party 👍
