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I should do something but instead I have had Loki sleeping on my lap all afternoon and he rarely wants to be a lap cat so guess I’m on the couch. He and Merlin seem to have come to an agreement that it’s Loki’s turn to be on my lap and Merlin has unexpectedly been honoring those terms

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People are so funny. This is objectively funny.

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I love red right hand I love how it is used in peaky blinders but in some senses it’s the worst theme song possible because people take it way too literally when interpreting Tommy like nothing that man plans turns out how he wants and he has no real control over his family lololol

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1996

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Murderbot + low self esteem

A defective unit that's just one thought away from killing everyone around you.

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man the public defender discourse pisses me off so bad. yeah. yeah I do think that every single person deserves representation. yeah that includes people who *have* committed rape and murder and abuse. when I say every single person I mean every single person. if your idea of justice excludes one person it excludes everyone. next question

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And:

Source

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I was looking for references and stumbled across a series of paintings from 1930s by Soviet painter Alexander Samokhvalov called "The young women of metro construction"

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It is actually way better for 100 addicts to get their fix on pain pills than a single person in pain go without. I call this the "Torture is bad" principle. You should be able to get the good stuff forever after a single doctor's visit. If you're worried about addicts fund rehab centers and needle exchanges instead of torturing people.

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“They’re all going to laugh at you!”

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the tragedy of distance is simple I want to sit on the couch with you and do nothing sometimes

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its important to write fanfiction no one cares about 👍

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Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

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Where's my Breakfast?

Oil on Panel 30x30 cm

Artist: Daniel Arthur

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Had a dream I was drowning in the middle of Lake Michigan while wearing a puffy winter coat so that was fun

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it's a class thing it's an assimilation thing it's a graduate-school-as-conformity-producer thing, idk

there are some aspects that I do think I would have benefitted from graduate school now (learning how to do proper research/write more advanced papers), and some of it I resent a little/lot (the idea people are constantly selling themselves at least a little bit, the way everyone talks in a certain...manner). I get it, the job market is ROUGH and I've been incredibly lucky. And also I probably need to level up on a few things.

But I have to fight imposter syndrome alot despite knowing I'm intelligent and pretty decent at my job. And I don't like a certain kind of "professionalization" of jobs that act as gatekeepers, like you really don't need to go to graduate school to be a librarian i'm sorry, but you do need to go to graduate school to write papers and get published and make conference presentations, and I'm NOT disparaging all of that because some of it is useful but ALOT of it is just people doing it so they can put it on their resume and idk, after awhile it all becomes sort of unnecessary feeling. at the same time alot of people are doing interesting things! I really don't know how i feel about it all, I didn't go to graduate school because I didn't want to take out the loans and I didn't see the point at the time.

The point is to get to a certain level you have to do it, not because it proves you're smart enough to do the job, but because otherwise you do not fit in with everyone else there and you don't know how to move "correctly" in those worlds. It's all a combination of real interest/enthusiasm for academia/learning/research (we're librarians after all) and big time class gatekeeping.