#Build a database

[justanotherhh]

with fizz being word-of-god demi (and tbh i'd just read him that way regardless, but now they oughta make it show canon, thems the rules), thinking about whether he'd ever had sex before he met asmodeus, about how the first person he was in love with was blitzø and that clearly didn't work out, and also about him as disabled and also him as a sex object in hell, there's a lot to unpack

and then on the flipside, it seems so far as if asmodeus hasn't ever been in a romantic relationship prior to fizzarolli, and of course he does have casual sex, that's his whole job, but that's also interesting -- how does asmodeus relate to sexual attraction, when his job is about reading and reacting to others' sexual desires, and how that pertains to reading his relationship with fizzarolli as about building something more longterm that deconstructs both of the ways their public image as sexual ideals rely on what others can get from them (rather than what they feel and want)

essentially they're both in sex work or related to that work in some way, they both understand the world of desire and how to operate in that world, but their relationship to each other (romantic and sexual) is something brand new, it's something not defined by normative relationship structures (for that matter, a sin and an imp, as metaphor for all of this, is that something brand new as well?)

but yeah asmodeus is aspec too, in my mind, which i think would be just the kind of deconstruction of "the sin of lust" that would work in this kind of story. definitely somewhere on the aro side of things, fun to think about also from the ace perspective, and that's one of the (many) reasons he and fizz understand each other so well -- they're not coming at this with an innate "this is the way things are meant to be" set of ideas. there are no assumptions of who they're supposed to be when they're together (well, there are when they're in public, but once those have been challenged head-on and they come out of the closet in s2, so to speak...), so they get to build that brand new identity together in their own way

i just think that concept would be neat

[dkettchen]

Now this may not seem like a massive change in format, but boy howdy do I feel proud of myself for writing the functions to automate this ehehehehehe (unfortunately for me ao3 ship stat op used a different formatting for the pre-2020 tables, so I'll have to write another function to sort those ones out too ToT)

[neonhellscape]

Im not kidding, your magos biologis is the (catalyst) reason i am deciding to go on t and get top surgery

god im so with you on this one. good luck on your mission boss

[cherriesandpomegranates]

I can't believe I walked into my first (ish) day of work at a new part time job today and basically said "why are you all so white" 💀💀💀

[mediocrefruitlover]

:((((

[ya-killin-me-smalls]

got the two hardest tasks of the month out of the way this week. still have a couple big-ish projects due by the end of April but the stressful stuff is over so hopefully I can focus on writing more now that I'm not sick

[ibijau]

As a Jiang Cheng fan, I believe in the inherent hotness and superiority of spreadsheets. Keep going, monarch.

oh god

Jiang Cheng is definitely the sort to have all the spreadsheets and who knows all the shortcuts. That man can type complex formulas from memory and they always work. His sheets are elaborate and yet clear to read and easy to use

a role model for all of us

[graceschasity]

What would yall say if I told you that I already have a url saved for a hatchetfield oc showcase blog? What would happen?

[unloneliest]

i want to make a neocities that has all the mountain goats lyrics that AREN’T on the annotated mountain goats but in a similarly easy to read format. or possibly all of the mountain goats lyrics. but what to call it

[streetsrot]

HUMANS OF NIGHT CITY - CASSANDRA MONTEIL. aka important npcs to v's story, inspired by the official humans of night city posts ⸻ word count: 1k. tw: abuse, kidnapping, torture, drugs tldr; cass is v's wealthy corpo ex who betrayed her in a series of fucked up events that resulted in her kidnapping, torturing, and drugging v in order to save her own hide.

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cass is v's ex-girlfriend, a legacy corpo who grew up being trained for the cutthroat, competitive chess board that is life when working for any major corporation. cassandra's parents are high level executives at militech, a position she herself now holds. she meets v when the both of them are in their late teens, in the late 2060s. with the unification war brewing and eventually reaching a peak, cass distances herself from her family, wanting to find her own path and break away from the corporate world she's known her whole life. she disavows corporations entirely and she has dreams of working as a media, focusing on boots-on-the-ground journalism. cassandra begins hanging out around mercs and though she sticks out like a sore thumb, she's charming enough that nobody questions it.

this is how she meets v.

the two of them hit it off after v saves cass's life during a regular shootout in heywood. accepting cass's offer to go out for drinks afterwards is one of v's biggest regrets in life. cassandra falls fast, in love with the idea of v and fascinated by the thrilling, high stakes lifestyle that she lives. v warms up to cassandra slowly, unable to shake the worry that anyone from a family like the monteils can't be trusted. every time her doubts come up, v reminds herself that cass has no contact with her family, and cass always seems to find a way to do something nice for v. she showers her in gifts, in loving affirmations, and she frequently makes little moves that fulfill v's desires for physical touch. before long, v is smitten.

their relationship is an intense one, filled almost entirely with soaring highs — an extended honeymoon phase that seems like it will never end. until cassandra messes with night corp. in her efforts to write a tell-all on the elusive, secretive corporation she finds herself wrapped up in a web of her own making and it's not long until night corp catches onto the fact that she's robbed them of restricted files. the corporation assumes she's done it to report back to militech. suddenly, her big break into journalism could be the destruction of a company that's already in the middle of a war, and should night corp work with arasaka, could mean the permanent end to militech's presence in night city. it would mean the brutal torture and execution of her parents and once night corp caught up to her, it would certainly mean worse for her.

out of options and unsure of what to do, she reaches out to her parents and explains the situation. cass, with the help of her mother, crafts a plan that ensures not just her and her family's survival but establishes her as the hero in the whole situation. she makes v, the unloved streetrat with no family, the fall guy. the story she spins states that v, an up and coming merc, stole from night corp in an attempt to hit the major leagues. cass caught word of it, reported the actions back to militech, who, in a show of good faith and as an olive branch during wartime, sent cass to retrieve the stolen materials from v in whatever manner she thought best. that way, they could be returned where they rightfully belonged.

not a word of her story is true.

cass drugs v, waiting for her to pass out and once she does, she slots a datashard into her that plants false memories so that when v awakens, she makes no attempt to deny what she's done. private solos retrieve v's body, throw her into a trunk of a car, and eventually restrain her in an undisclosed drop point. she comes to and finds herself bound and woozy, face to face with cass's mother who explains that "her daughter simply lied to get close to her". when cass arrives, v expects her to deny this. she never does. cass tells herself that she is doing this for her survival, for the survival of her family, and that, as much as she loved v, v likely would have ended up dead in an alley someday soon anyways. this way, she would be dying so another could live.

cass hands v over to night corp where she is interrogated and tortured for days on end. she never expects to see v again, and she assumes her dead as tensions are smoothed between militech and night corp. in reality, the corrupted data slotted into v's head is discovered by a night corp netrunner, tasked with traversing through v's memories. the data is wiped and soon after, v pieces together the truth of what's happened. in light of new knowledge, night corp strikes a deal with v: if she hacks into militech and wipes the copy of the files militech has surely made, she can walk free. but, if she is discovered in this operation, the corporation will claim v escaped from detainment and is acting of her own free will.

v is never caught. days later, a fire breaks out in cassandra monteil's japantown apartment. the rest of the apartment building remains untouched, but due to "mechanical failure", the sprinklers in the penthouse space are never triggered. all that's left in the apartment is a warning : if i ever see you again, i'll kill you myself.

in the year 2077, cassandra has followed in the footsteps of her parents; the end of her relationship with v denoting the end of her dreams as well. she has turned into everything a younger version of herself swore she would never be, but she excels tremendously as an elite corpo for militech and, because of this, looks back scornfully on her youth, scoffing at the idea that she had ever dared to dream of being something else.

v and cass have yet to directly cross paths again, though the chances are high. despite this, the events of her relationship with cass have left a mental scarring on v that she has never fully healed from. while she is by no means closed off to the idea of love or long-term relationships, she does have some trust issues that she hasn't realized are abnormal. v does not speak of cassandra or discuss the events that led to their separation unless she is extremely close with the individual she is speaking with.

[forthedancingandthethriving]

I think.. Database probably feels the pain of the world, of its inhabitants, everything. When the world is shook and rocked, cuts, bruises, and aches appear all of their body.

Whenever a universe connected to the world crumbles and crashes, they sob in pain, physical and emotional. They feel the pain of those who had lived there, the pain of the world going, and the pain of those who knew the world.

Sometimes, when it's too much, the whole world of code stops. Traffic stops. The world halts.

And everyone inside the realm swears they can hear a wail of pain, so heart-wrenching it makes even the most closed off of Code's have tears prick in their eyes.

[ettadunham]

okay, so i'm sure you've all been at the edges of your seats about my take on ai art, because i'm the most important person with the most interesting opinions, so here it is:

apart from the scummy data collecting that's currently happening with all the generators, what's really bothering me is where it all leads. in an art market where the labor of the artists is being replaced by the much cheaper ai, the ai will still need to gather more data to improve and diversify its results. where is that coming from? the few remaining artists who are still making exclusive commisions to those who can afford it are surely going to lock their art as much as possible. are we going to hire artists just to make art to feed the ai then? are artists going to sell their art as data to the ai as a best case scenario?

that's bleak.

[beazt]

“just write the methods section today, it won’t be that bad”

4 pages later and I’m still not done with Just the methods section.

[thevalleyisjolly]

Cultural heritage and computer science friends, got any recommendations for a web publishing platform that you can make a searchable database with?  Searchability and aesthetics are main priorities; I’d personally also prefer open-source if possible.

[atozofsoftwareengineering]

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[lupismaris]

Despite being an admin I've been given a lot more work of a communications and data analytics nature (to assist the news team in crafting more effective stories etc) at the office and the head of comms mentioned it to our VP yesterday in their lunch meeting to make sure he was on board with me shifting roles a little bit and doing less with budget more with media

Apparently VP is deeply excited that I finally have someone (head of comms and media whom i love) to help guide my career transition from just being an administrator because he's wanted me to develop myself in this field since my first months on the job and now i finally have the opportunity

I may feel like shit but goddamn, my boss believes in me ✨