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New shrimp color dropped!

The human eye can see millions of colors — but no eyes have ever before beheld "olo." Only five people on the planet have witnessed this brand new color, thanks to the efforts of a team of researchers in California. And to earn this exclusive privilege, they had to fire laser pulses into their eyeballs. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Science Advances, the pulses stimulated specific cells in the participants' retinas without activating the others, producing a hue of unconquerable saturation that's impossible to see naturally. According to the lucky few, the color's closest analog to us unenlightened humans is turquoise — but this apparently doesn't do it justice.

....A tiny pulse of light is fired into each M cone cell, one at a time. As the cells are lasered into, a magnificent turquoise patch roughly twice the size of a full moon forms in the subject's field of vision, per the Guardian. The effect is temporary, but the impression it leaves, apparently, is long-lasting.

I want to experience the "magnificent turquoise patch roughly twice the size of a full moon"!

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this is how we can spin this: if we convince all catholics in the world that jd vance killed the pope we can use them to defeat the nazis

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”Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Do people energize you or drain you? Would you rather be at a party or a library?” Stop subscribing me to binaries. Social interaction is invigorating and makes my life better and I’m exhausted the whole time.

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happy severance day! here's some studies I've done while waiting for the new episode

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A friend and I were discussing what we're like when we're sick and we decided people usually fall into one of these five 'sick modes': *Everyone is probably multiple of these at different times depending on how sick they are and with what but we think most people have a mode they default to and become more often than the others*

Delicate Consumptive Victorian: you feel tragic and mournful but also beautiful in a sad way, you are in bed, sipping hot tea, others should quietly whisper about how you are too good for this world, too beautiful, too tragic... And bring you more tea

Sick Dog: you are curled up in a ball, you don't want anything, you don't need anything, but it would be nice if others could still ask you if you need anything

Sickly Child Emperor: you are dying and it's everyone else's problem, you need pillows, no! you need soup, no! You need absolute silence or you will not be the first one to die today

Plague Pit: you are curled up probably on the floor, no one touch you, no one look at you, this is between you and God and you already know He has no mercy left for you

Warrior General: you are not sick. You are in perfect health and you don't know why anyone would think otherwise. Illness is an enemy that can be intimidated and you must remain strong for your men! (You are going to pass out at the most inconvenient moment possible)

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Today I discovered that a couple friends of mine were using chatgpt as like, a friend/therapist and messaging it for advice and sharing personal shit with it and I gotta say I was kinda floored and didn’t really know how to respond.

Like I was pointing out the environmental impacts and the fact that like telling this system that much about yourself does not seem like a good idea, but the advice it was giving them really resonated with them and they didn’t really care about the privacy. The environment a bit but like we also all drive cars own phones eat meat so that didn’t really make a huge impact.

And it just got me thinking that it can’t think we know this, it doesn’t have thoughts or opinions, so it must be building a profile of similarities to other users and then responding in a way that seems most engaging? It seems like a mirror almost, just reflecting back our own biases and perceptions of ourselves, because how could it have any other perspective?

I want to learn more about how it stores context and how it creates the responses, like what does it weight from its training to respond because this just feels so insidious to me and I sound like the mean crazy person saying like don’t trust this thing when it feels to them like its speaking to their souls.

Anyways wild how different peoples experiences are I really thought everyone I knew was on the don’t trust the machine train

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Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito

MY COUSIN VINNY (1992)

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incredibly obsessed with ivan pokidyshev’s work. i believe these are all from his shining man series

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they are done!

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Soft launching them on my profile because what else am I supposed to do if not think about married vampires all the time

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irving b man that u are

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Hey who are these old freaks

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butchfemme joy is so pure and sacred and special and beautiful and-

i can’t believe those photos exist, it’s like a movie scene

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Tracy Chapman for NYT, 2025

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Don't borrow grief from the future. Don't borrow grief from the future. Don't borrow grief from the future. Don't borrow grief from the future. Don't borrow grief from the future. Don't borrow grief from the future. Don't borrow grief from the future. Don't borrow grief from the future. Don't borrow grief from the future. Don't borrow grief from the future. But its so hard when the world i— shut up! Don't borrow grief from the future. Don't borrow grief from the future. Don't borrow grief from the future. Don't borrow grief from the future. Don't borrow grief from the future. Don't borrow grief from the future.

Here's a flower: 🌻