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a distaste for math

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twitter has been really awful lately and it’s making me want to actually start using tumblr again, but man this app has gotten extremely user-unfriendly and just bad to look at in the time since i stopped regularly using it

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gf: “what are you thinking about?” me: “oh, nothing.” me, internally: “if Bugs Bunny and Lola Bunny were both on Baby Looney Toons then why does she have to introduce herself in Space Jam? Shouldn’t they have known each other since they were children? Could the Looney Toons Universe subscribe to the multiple worlds theory where Bugs and Lola never met? but how far does this, for lack of a better term, rabbit hole, go? Elmer Fudd was on Baby Looney Toons as well, which means that he and Bugs are roughly the same age but as an adult he is Bugs’ primary antagonist? The lifespan of a rabbit is 9-12 years and Elmer is clearly an adult. How can that be? Could Bugs bunny be immortal?”

Actually it’s never been depicted in canon but shortly after Chuck Jones’ death Warner Bros. found a bunch of notes of his that implied that Baby Looney Tunes and Looney Tunes / Space Jam DO exist in the same timeline but something happens in between the end of BLT and the beginning of LT that results in the entire cast developing amnesia. Same thing happens in Final Fantasy 8. Basically you’re supposed to watch Loony Tunes first and think it’s a comedy and then watch Baby Looney Tunes and realize it’s a tragedy. Only thing that sucks is that now that Chuck’s dead we’ll never get that missing second chapter, at least not unless Disney buys WB and decides to finish the story.

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rubensmuse

i went to bed last night knowing that one youtube gamerman fucked a youtube gamerwoman behind his cosplayer wife’s back. i wake up this morning to learn that two people got the bubonic plague in 2019 from eating a dead rat raw. it’s a good thing i lost my ability to feel surprised 3 years ago

Tag yourself I’m the dead rat

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Delete your blog, delete all archives, do not move to a different website, take this opportunity to remove yourself from social media rather than doubling down on it

If you actively use your blog, or any other social media for that matter, you are amassing a treasure trove of behavioral information that private companies are absolutely dying to get their hands on. As insurance companies develop newer and more comprehensive ways to analyze your social media activity for risk behaviors such as depression, self harm, or other “personality traits”, we are very soon going to find they will have much more and much better reasons to outright deny us housing loans, or any loans for that matter, or charge us exorbitant amounts compared to individuals with lower risk assessment scores. Nothing good will come from cataloguing our every behavior as long as the insurance industry is allowed to take advantage of it.

Say for example, you casually complain about some chronic pain specific to your abdomen every week or so on Twitter. A medical insurance risk assessment firm can use a machine learning program to analyze your tweets and diagnose you with a condition you aren’t even aware of, and send that data to insurance providers to overcharge you for coverage. Say, for example, you are a big fan of sad music like Xiu Xiu or Carissa’s Weird. A machine learning program could then deduce that you suffer from depression, and housing management companies could use this risk factor to deny you housing or charge higher rates than someone who only listens to, say, Led Zeppelin. This is exactly the reason why social media companies are able to generate so much in venture capital, the possible returns on investment for this treasure trove of data is just too great to ignore. Soon, the general public will be little more than packages of data, whollly commodified and freely traded amongst insurance and mortgage firms, entirely because we have them the data necessary to do so

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