#ONLINE ASSESSMENTS

[elearningmania]

Get the case study of South African Publisher moved to a Secure Digital Learning Platform from the MagicBox.

[devotion-disorder]

it ok yall i caved and bought the game moments after i made my last post and im living out my blissful love life now

this screenshot out of context is taking me out lol hes like you are.🫵 dumbass?😄 you🫵 illiterate🫵😄

Ive got through most of the game and boy i have some THOUGHTS... spoilers under the cut!!

I didn't expect to like the game so much cause im not actually that much of a horror fan (<- squeamish) , and like i said in the last post I wasn't sure how fun a game all about decrypting the dialogue will be (<- dumbass). But in the end I think the game mechanics is exactly the source of all the charm!! And come to think of it, it's a very unique mechanic too. The word-guessing makes the game exciting and scary (and sometimes is the key to avoiding certain death), but there's also just something about overcoming "broken" language to express your thoughts that is inherently really sweet to me. Maybe this is a wild comparison but its like that greentext thats like "bad times friend ahead...i go away but we are two of soul, i will return".

The game is also just pretty player-friendly, and the characters are all (well, mostly) really chill, so it wasnt very hard to guess most of the words too. But i will say that sometimes, you can kind of tell the nuance of the language-translation makes more sense as Japanese, so maybe that gave me a slight edge.

After playing the demo I thought this would be a really short game (like around 2-3 hrs), but I clocked in a solid 6 hours today LOL...and im still missing a few endings. Big spoiler but when MC "kills" Mr. crawling it genuinely upset me like GIRL WHAT IN THE FRESH HELL..........😭😭😭 but thank god he was fine :DD the scene where he shut himself in a closet crying because he thought the MC abandoned him 😭😭😭😭 IM SORRYYY but also like omg...😭😭😭😭 he ouppy............😭😭😭😭

ouppy 🥹🥹🥹🥹🫳🫳🫳🫳🫳👐👐👐👐😭😭😭😭😭😭

But in contrast to those heavy moments there are also points where i think the game doesn't take itself very seriously LOL so by like 3 hours in it just kind of became a really chill game :)) I love how the MC is just so ridiculously forward being like "Do you have a crush on me or something 🥺👉👈" and most of them were just like "whats that lmfao"

[eannpatterson]

Inducing chatbots to write nonsense

Inducing chatbots to write nonsense or what #ChatGPT doesn't know about wire arc additive manufacturing #WAAM and #cosmetic_dentistry

The chatbot, ChatGPT developed by OpenAI, has been in the news recently and is the subject of much discussion in universities primarily because of its potential use by students to complete their coursework assignments but also the positive uses to which it might be applied. After last week’s invitations to edit two special issues in different journals on cosmetic dentistry and wire arc additive…

[byanyan]

ough catch me crying bc we did an informal autism assessment in counselling today

[across-stars]

(he's autistic to me)

[theridgebeyond]

I have an evaluation meeting that is the first time I’m going to have to present an inconclusive report (because when caregivers request an evaluation on the last week of school, teachers don't have time to do OT assessments), and at first I wasn’t losing any sleep bc I wasn’t the one who requested an evaluation the last week of school.

but the last time I had a touchy IEP meeting the caregivers skinned me alive in front of my boss and all my coworkers, so I’m understandably a little nervous about this touchy meeting.

I just want to watch Barfi and snuggle with my dog rn is that too much to ask.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The U.S. Secret Service has released a first-of-its-kind report that analyzes 173 mass attacks that took place in the country from 2016-2020.

It's the first time the agency has put together trends collected from five years of data; the report examines everything from when in the year the attacks took place, to behavioral changes exhibited in the attackers. The report, which comes from the agency's National Threat Assessment Center, looked at attacks that harmed at least three individuals, not including the attacker.

The report comes just days after two shootings in California in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay killed a total of 18 people. So far in 2023, there have been 39 mass shootings.

Lina Alathari, chief of the National Threat Assessment Center, said she hopes the research and guidance provided in the report can help prevent future mass attacks.

"We must do everything we can to prevent these, which is why we're putting out this research for you. There is no community that is immune from this," Alathari said.

TOP DATA POINTS FROM THE REPORT

• LOCATION: Most of the attacks took place in a variety of public and semi-public spaces across 37 states, and Washington, D.C. The most common locations for an attack were businesses, including restaurants and retail.

• TYPE OF WEAPON USED: 126 of the attacks, or 73%, involved the use of one or more firearms. In nearly 1/4 of the attacks involving firearms, at least one of the firearms was acquired illegally by the attacker.

• DEMOGRAPHICS OF ATTACKERS: 96% of the attackers in the study were male. The USSS says that this finding is consistent with previous analyses of mass attacks. 57% were white and 34% were Black.

• CRIMINAL HISTORY: 64% had a prior criminal history, not including minor traffic violations. 41% of the attackers were found to have a history of domestic violence, but only 16% if those individuals faced domestic violence charges.

• ONLINE PRESENCE: A majority of the attackers had a identified presence online, and nearly one-quarter were found to have conveyed "concerning communications" such as threats, and posts about suicidal ideations, previous mass shootings, violent content and hatred toward a specific ethnic group.

• STRESSORS: Nearly all the attackers experienced "at least one significant stressor" within five years of the attack, most of which were issues with family and romantic relationships. 20% of the attackers experienced some kind of childhood trauma, including physical or sexual abuse, entering foster care, living in a refugee camp, or the death of a parent, the report says.

• FINANCIAL AND HOUSING INSTABILITY: 72% of the attackers experienced a financial stressor some time before the attack, and over half experienced it within five years. The report describes some financial stressors as bankruptcy, eviction, foreclosure and loss of income. 39% of the attackers also experienced unstable housing within 20 years of their attack, including homelessness and impending evictions.

CONCERNING BEHAVIORS AND MENTAL HEALTH SYMPTOMS AMONG THE ATTACKERS

The report says that of the 180 attackers examined in the report, 58% experienced mental health symptoms prior to or at the time of their attack, some of which included depression and suicidal thoughts, and psychotic symptoms such as paranoia and delusions.

The report makes it clear that mental health factors should not be considered causal explanations for why these attacks occurred.

"Mental illness is not a barometer for dangerousness and it is not a correlation for mass attacks. The vast majority of individuals with mental illnesses in this country will never be violent. In fact, often, they are the victims of violence," Alathari said.

The agency says violence like mass attacks are rarely spontaneous and almost always have some warning signs in the attacker. The report doesn't offer any kind of road map to prevent future mass attacks, but the agency recommends that "community systems" be set up to help identify and intervene when someone reports concerns about another person.

With the roll out of the USSS's report, they are also holding a virtual event, and Alathari said 21,000 people signed up to attend from all 50 states and 80 countries.

"Everyone has a role to play in prevention, it's [not] just one person's responsibility or one organization's responsibility. It is a community-wide, multi-disciplinary effort," Alathari said.

[it--knows-you]

okay. lmao. I give up on treatment for good. just raw dog life and hope it fixes itself eventually

[artbyblastweave]

An interesting thing about Mark Waid’s writing, his superhero writing in particular, is that, as an author whose career occurred in lock-step with the development of online fan culture, he very clearly gets social media on a fundamental level- the underlying dynamics, the applications, the cult-of-personality building, dirty-pool techniques like sock-puppetry and harassment campaigns, online bubbles, the whole shebang.  However, he’s also, like, 60. Thus he’s written a number of works where the integration of social media into the plot rings true, but the wording and lingo used anytime you actually see a character using social media comes across as very “how do you do fellow kids.”

[bunnyboy-juice]

me (not joking, very stressed): i think im going to have a mental breakdown if something else goes wrong here.

everyone irl: hahahhahaa ur so funny(:

[crackedpumpkin]

okay i have a question because i am desperately in need of validation and also filled with genuine curiosity:

what do y'all think of me?

like sincerely what made y'all follow this account lmfao, im dying to know + i'm just gonna be honest w u and just let yall know that this is lowkey for my crippling self esteem issues 💞

like, do u follow me for my random ass posts or for my writing? gotta know what the people want 🤌🏻 what do yall think im dying to know send in ur asks babes

[ultimatepokemontournament]

Can you reblog your posts from the other sideblogs more often. I didn't realize until too late that they were a thing :( I don't want to miss it for future other polls going forward!

I can try to! I'm not too terribly good at promoting things ahaha, so I just reblogged some of the polls weekly at the beginning and then nothing after a while since I did hold it on a different blog for a reason! (Though I left it in the pinned post!) I'm a little worried about spamming people

Maybe what I can do is provide status updates for all of the related tournaments at the end of the Monday post going forward? Since I do week-long polls, none of these tournaments move particularly fast, so that might work?

FWIW, the only other spin-off tournament I have so far is the Unown one! (@ultimateunowntournament) (And I am thinking about running polls to find the 2nd place winner as well if people are interested!) And for the future I only have plans for two more--the underdog tournament, which I plan to actually be more like a long series of smaller tournaments with Pokemon winning in multiple categories, and another one I haven't talked about yet!

[bottomvalerius]

honestly on reflecting about my last hookup, I am feeling a little better about my inability to have P in V sex, particularly from a kink perspective. It’s always felt like something abnormal and “broken” about me (particularly because I’m a freak in every other regard lol) I feel a bit like an imposter in those spaces because I couldn’t do one, non-vital aspect of kink. so it was nice having someone 1) not question me on my set boundaries 2) listen and meet me where I was comfortable during the scene and 3) verbally acknowledged that despite not having traditional sex, we still had a fun time lol

It’s very freeing and more motivating when we can just focus on the kink stuff and the power exchange and getting creative with it. I think it’s also why I’m gravitating more towards asexual kinksters or kinksters who do not prioritize Sex™️ in their play in general because we’re approaching it from similar standpoints.

I’m still always going to be sensitive and insecure about this part of myself (at least for the foreseeable future—I’ve had really awful experiences around this clearly LOL) but I’m going to keep trying to hold onto these moments and remind myself that it isn’t just about penetration, it’s about getting fucking weird and freaky lmao

[klmt1]

i forgot the hell that is applying to part time jobs

[smallvillecrows]

GROCERY STORE CALLED YIPPEE!!

[nagichi-boop]

I am trying to stop believing I have BPD but I keep seeing posts/videos about BPD that fit me to a tee.