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This is why it is so important to be critical and double check everything you generate using image generators and text-based AI.

The smiling thing was probably partly the “photojournalism” thing since those pictures tend to be a little more dramatic and somber.  BUT otherwise this is a perfect example of this issue.

And now that Google Image results are all clogged up with AI-generated results it’s getting worse.  The good news is this causes problems for the AI models as well, since new versions can’t be easily trained on bulk data anymore - too much of that data would include AI-generated stuff which quickly takes this problem to a level that actually makes the model worthless.

That means there’s actual reason for people that want to use this stuff to take time and deliberately develop data sets with non-stolen and diverse sources, but unfortunately that’s so much more work that it remains to be seen if that’s actually the route they’ll take.

dnd weekends with the boys be like

Can you do something for me, please?

I want you to reblog this if you believe that two people can be very close and physically affectionate with one another, but still have a completely nonsexual, non-romantic relationship. 

Even if the two people in question are capable of being sexually or romantically attracted to one another. 

Because the friendship I share with someone I consider family in a way that transcends blood has been typecast as a romantic relationship ENTIRELY too many times, and I’m beginning to get sick of it. 

I’ve never reblogged anything faster.

this is awesome

I wish ppl would react like this

I love how they left out the part about them giving out the lesbian couple’s personal information to send them death threats, running them out of their home, and encouraging other fundies to petition to have their children taken away. **examines fingernails**

Also the fact that they raised half million dollars from other raging homophobes to fund this bigotry. I hope the dickholes lose the shirts off their backs and have to live out of a van. But that’s too much to hope for.

I just wanna add that the lesbian couple were getting married because their mutual friend had just died of cancer and they were adopting her two daughters… and that the death threats were so bad that they had to quit their jobs and move. it’s never just about a cake. it’s about the precedent you set when you allow ppl to discriminate. it’s about all the disgusting bigots that crawl out of the woodwork when they feel like they have the right to hate.

Because this is apparently stick up for wolves day.

Wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone has changed the ecosystem *significantly*.

One remarkable thing that was not predicted that demonstrates how interlinked these things are:

Wolf eat elk.

Elk eat fewer willows.

Willows become healthier.

Number of beavers increase.

Number of songbirds increase.

Overall health of streams increases.

Number of fish increases.

Water table stabilizes.

This is called a “trophic cascade” and we normally see them as bad things. But a positive trophic cascade is an amazing thing, and apparently nobody predicted this one.

What they didn’t predict was that wolf predation would keep elk on the move so they wouldn’t overgraze a specific area.

When the elk overgrazed the willows, they removed the best source of food for beavers during the winter.

Once that stopped happening, the beaver population rebounded and it turns out beavers are pretty good for the entire ecosystem.

THIS!

Reblogging this too for folks with anxiety like myself who feel bad when they say they’re too busy but they don’t have every second accounted for doing something so they feel almost like they’re lying. Self-care goes on your schedule too, lovelies.

Owner asks dogs to hide because customer is scared of dogs

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Translation

[Three dogs are sleeping on a welcome mat of a shop of some kind. A cat is nestled in between them.]

Owner: Customers are coming. They’re scared of dogs. Hurry up. Customers are coming.

[Dogs slowly get up and walk off to the back in single file. Cat remains on the front step. Just before the last dog enters the back room, the owner calls out again.]

Owner: Teng (Dog’s name), go get Xiao Bao (Cat’s name) too. Go fetch Xiao Bao

[Dog turns back to the entrance and gently drags the clearly reluctant cat back inside. The owner speaks softly as the dog approaches the camera]

Owner (softly): All right, put (the cat) down.

[The owner gives what looks like dried jerky to the dog]

Owner: Let Xiao Bao eat some. Let Xiao Bao eat some.

[The dog takes the jerky and lowers his head so that the cat can nibble on the other end]

This is literally the best video I’ve seen in my entire life

I’ve reblogged the video before. The translation brings it to a new level of niceness.

Heh, because this seems to come up a lot in the notes: the cat’s name is not “Little Dumpling/Bun” (小包), but “Little Treasure” (小宝). It’s a different tone. Also I can’t be sure of which “teng” the dog’s name is, but it’s probably 疼, which is “to love/dote” (also “pain”, but it’s probably the former definition she’s using here XD)

Having loved many dogs in my life, im sure its both

Do You believe,” the disciple asked the rabbi, “that God created everything for a purpose?

“I do,” replied the rabbi.

“Well,” asked the disciple, “why did God create atheists?”

The rabbi paused before giving an answer, and when he spoke his voice was soft and intense. “Sometimes we who believe, believe too much. We see the cruelty, the suffering, the injustice in the world and we say: ‘This is the will of God.’ We accept what we should not accept. That is when God sends us atheists to remind us that what passes for religion is not always religion. Sometimes what we accept in the name of God is what we should be fighting against in the name of God.“

Chief Rabbi Emeritus [of the United Synagogues of the British Commonwealth] Jonathan Sacks

Reblogging because I had a dream in which this came in vitally handy.

im so pissed i needed this 3 years ago in physics for the egg drop contest i googled for hours and you simply put it on my dash now… after my EGG has LONG SINCE smashed against the gymnasium floor………..

Thread, re: transgender vs. Krug/Dolezal because this comparison always comes back around. There’s a lot more I could expand on here, but short version is they are not at all comparable.

....I got an ad for a movie about a guy with schizophrenia....but it wasn't a horror movie....it was a love story!! Fuck yeah, movie!!

I don’t know why, but I don’t believe this exists.

It does, i saw the ad for it myself

Can someone link me this?

https://youtu.be/kjXPI0K6C8M

I think its this but im not quite sure

I love this already, I have tears. If they mess this up -

I need to figure out how to explain to my parents that I need to see this without going into the workings of my mental health now.

I genuinely have tears just from this trailer.

yes yes yes!!! ok ok so this is based off of a book i have it somewhere but its like. a good sized novel and its literally so good if you thought the trailer was good pls go read it oh my gods

I'm gonna fucking cry

A movie about a TEENAGE boy with SCHIZOPHRENIA that's ISNT a horror movie, has a BLACK FEMALE as one of the main characters, DOESN'T put the main character down for his mental disorder, let's the character BE MORE THAN HIS MENTAL DISORDER, let's him have A MAIN INTEREST AND HOBBY which is cooking and not something like SCIENCE which they usually give to all schizophrenics or people with mental disorders as a stereotype, AND SO MUCH MORE

I'm going to cry.

HI GUYS. FUNNY THING?? THE AUTHOR WAS MY CREATIVE WRITING TEACHER IN HIGH SCHOOL!! SHES HE SWEETEST PERSON AND I'LL ADD HER IG LATER!! SHES WONDERFUL AND KIND AND GREAT AT TEACHING!!

I don’t have schizophrenia but I’m emotional because I know how important this is. I love it so much omg

Hey guys, good news, this movie comes out TODAY! August 21, 2020, so anyone who sees this post? This movie is out!

“The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.”

This is a huge thing ESPECIALLY with kids. To the parent, they lashed out when they were mad and forgot about it, expecting the kid to forget too. To the kid? It was a big moment that defined your relationship with your parents. Stuff my parents don’t remember doing or saying were things that to me spoke very, very loudly, that I was not safe to be open and honest with my parents.

The axe forgets, but the tree remembers, indeed.

the worst part is if later they just insist that it never happened instead of admitting they could be at fault