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Body on body I’m naughty (not even sorry)

polytrix brainrot is NOT for the weak🥀🥀

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Had a conversation with a student about a related phenomenon. He was asking if I used Grammarly to edit my stuff, since our school provides it. And I said no, because usually I know more than it does. He asked if he should use it. After some hemming and hawing, I told him that sometimes it has good suggestions! Especially if you're still learning your own writing voice and the rules of writing. However, if you don't know the rules of writing, you'll have a hard time knowing if the Grammarly suggestion is actually a helpful. And if you do know the rules of writing, then how useful is the tool?

The thing that AI tools offer is answers! But unlike a traditional spell check or human crafted summaries, AI is expected to replace more complex critical thinking skills that necessitate context to make a helpful decision, and AI does not have context. Even if we manage to create a software powerful enough to analyze additional, broad contexts, a human being still needs to evaluate the result, and you cannot effectively evaluate the result if you don't know the rules or the context!

Ok, so now somebody explain the difference to me between a cliff notes book that we read in high school because we didn't want to read the boring ass classical literature that was assigned, and the AI summary at the top of the search results nowadays. Idgi

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MLB WingAu for the soul

Marinette has raven wings bcs of their intellect, during transformation their wings change based on the miraculous

+ the senti-kids, notice anything about all of their wings?

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“no one’s ever mad at me unless they tell me so” is the best assumption i’ve ever made

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remember kids, the moral of "Irish and Italians weren't even considered White yet!" isn't "because in those times people were so ignorant they didn't think the Irish were white". the moral is "because white is an unreal category created to justify slavery and ongoing hoarding of power and wealth". It's not that you know better about Italians. It's that the boundaries of the higher caste have changed.

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req'd by @kirikitsune

mmm black sesame....

text: Void Donut

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I’ve decided to dip my toes into military history just a bit and am listening to a book on the Punic wars and the book mentions other generals that’ve taken inspiration from Hannibal and they’re all like. Guys who were also good at fighting battles but lost their wars. Robert E. Lee. Napoleon. Those guys lost eventually.

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not to be like "my echo chamber is more normal than your echo chamber" but it is kinda crazy stepping outside of tumblr into any other internet space where it's not like, highly frowned upon to post pictures of people online without their consent

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Here's a little adrinette to you! Hope you like it!

P.S.: I'm still learning how to shadow my drawings, please be patient with me. :')

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Some classic Lukanette 💖

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superhero birthdays 🎂

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can we go here

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it is past time we jettisoned the useless false dichotomy of introversion vs. extroversion and just accepted that everybody has a minimum amount of social interaction, failing which, they get really weird. and everybody has a maximum amount of social interaction, exceeding which, they get really weird. these levels are different for everyone, for a variety of reasons, and have no moral dimension. and that is all.

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The other reason I'm generally annoyed with the "Abolish X" crowd who actually DO mean "abolish X" and not a watered-down version is that ime they very rarely have fully thought out the implications of what they're demanding and then get angry when other people ask about it.

"Family abolition means completely removing legal ties for family units and allowing all children the choice of where they live" okay. So if I see a three-year-old throwing a fit because she doesn't want to leave the park, and I go over and tell her if she comes home with me she can stay as long as she likes and then we'll get McDonald's on the way home, that three-year-old should have the ability to make that decision? The parent or guardian has no legal recourse to stop me from taking her? Cause if the answer's no, that's not abolition, that's reform baby!

"I'm done talking about what we'll do with rapists and murderers after we abolish prisons, it's all anybody ever wants to talk about!" Well yeah man! 98% of people just interpreted your words as "we're going to let murderers roam around killing people at will"! You need to explain very clearly what plans you have that will stop them that aren't incarceration or you're not going to make any headway! And if your answer involves any form of "well of course SOME people can't be allowed total freedom" - that's not abolition, that's reform baby!

I'm not even gonna touch the number of people who think we should abolish the police and replace them with what are essentially roaming squads of vigilantes dispensing "community justice", whatever the fuck that means.

Like these aren't "gotcha" questions, they're legitimate problems you're going to have to contend with. And if you wave away all these questions with "you're just making up ridiculous scenarios" and "we'll think of something to fix that once we destroy the current system", then yeah actually, I DO think you care more about sounding radical than about making any kind of change.