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a “i am a third-worlder please don’t do this to me” button on donation nag pop-ups that close them for good

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Mitsubishi Mirage X1X, 1986. A special edition second Mirage 3dr hatch that was developed in collaboration with Porsche. The steering wheel was by Italian company Italvolanti with  Porsche Design alloy wheels. It was powered by a 125hp 4G32T 1597cc turbocharged 4 cylinder engine.

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harmful: machine transcription makes it out so that i sound like a youtuber

because of the daft way i use whisper (i.e., to make a base transcription for a subtitle so that i don't have to type everything from scratch and hurt my wrists in the process; i can then just adjust the individual lines, and then retime them), "hallucination" aren't really a problem to me; i read and edit every line anyway. interestingly enough the paper found that 38% of the hallucinations are "harmful"; it is very important that they tested the thing on recordings of people with aphasia. i don't remember coming across any hallucinations other than the machine getting stuck in a repeating loop, restating a sentence over and over; so that's almost definitely because i've never transcribed people with aphasia, or really anyone with strange word choices, or more importantly talking cadences.

also really good paper title

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because of the daft way i use whisper (i.e., to make a base transcription for a subtitle so that i don't have to type everything from scratch and hurt my wrists in the process; i can then just adjust the individual lines, and then retime them), "hallucinations" aren't really a problem to me; i read and edit every line anyway. interestingly enough the paper found that 38% of the hallucinations are "harmful"; it is very important that they tested the thing on recordings of people with aphasia. i don't remember coming across any hallucinations other than the machine getting stuck in a repeating loop, restating a sentence over and over; so that's almost definitely because i've never transcribed people with aphasia, or really anyone with strange word choices, or more importantly talking cadences.

also really good paper title

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Hooray for wasps! It's good to see some pro-wasp PR for once.

Follow the link to the Guardian to learn about the incredibly important role parasitoids play in keeping ecosystems healthy; in this case, saving the trees used by Wilkins' bunting from a fungus spread by scale insects!

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live at the forum (vbulletin)

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The exact nature of long COVID is still coming to light, but we just got some of the best evidence yet that this debilitating condition stems from a brain injury. Using high-resolution scanners, researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford have shown microscopic, structural abnormalities in the brainstems of those recovering from COVID-19. Signs of brain inflammation were present up to 18 months after first contracting the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Continue Reading.

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Maybe it's the adolescence in the corpse of the .com bubble but there is special resentment in my heart for techno-utopianism. The hope that one day some clever boy will invent a technology just right enough to save us is the ideology of a child. People said that about the internet. Things are things, bodies are bodies, and neither are institutions.

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i spent so much time on this. why

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The Impenitent Magdalene, oil on board, 2012

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anal sex is awesome when it's done correctly. btw. regardless of the gender or orientation or anatomy of the partners involved. like I highly recommend it if you're willing to do it right. one of many things I think small penises are better for, for a lot of people. just my onion though