#Volunteer efforts

[andrewjbernhard]

Bringing Holiday Cheer: Bernhard Law Firm's Toy Drive Success

This holiday season, Bernhard Law Firm came together to support a local toy drive, delivering a trunk full of hundreds of toys to children in need. Thanks so much to the Miami community and Jackson Memorial for making this happen.

[therealcrimediary]

The Search for Kim Bessel's Body: Unearthing Clues in the WoodsJoin us on a chilling journey as we delve into the mysterious disappearance of Kim Bessel. In this gripping investigation, we explore the dense woods where Kim was last seen. Our team of dedicated searchers uncovers hidden clues that may lead us to answers. With every step, we share insights from local authorities and experts who provide context to this puzzling case. What happened to Kim? Through interviews with family and friends, we paint a vivid picture of who Kim was and the impact of her disappearance. As we comb through the forest, we reveal the challenges faced by search teams and the emotional weight of the search effort. Join us as we examine the latest theories and what they could mean for finding Kim. We also reflect on the psychological toll such a search takes on volunteers and law enforcement. This video not only seeks to uncover the truth but also honors Kim's memory. Your engagement is vital. We encourage viewers to share any information or theories in the comments section. Let 19s come together as a community to find closure for Kim Bessel and her loved ones. Don 19t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell for updates on this ongoing investigation. Your support can make a difference as we strive to bring awareness to missing persons cases. Together, we can keep the hope alive for families searching for their loved ones. Stay tuned as we reveal more updates and findings from our search in the woods. Thank you for joining us on this important mission. Let 19s work together to piece together the puzzle of Kim Bessel's fate. Every view and share helps to spread the word and keeps the search alive. Follow our journey as we continue to dig deeper into this haunting mystery. Will we find the answers we seek? Join us and find out! Remember, every clue counts in the search for Kim Bessel 19s body. Let 19s unearth the truth, together.

[godallaswriter]

Holiday Spirit: Honoring Veterans

[rainbow-femme]

I love reading definitions of Quiet Quitting

“An employee who is quiet quitting will come into work at their allotted start time, do tasks within their job description, leave at their allotted time, take their full lunch break, and fully use their paid time off and sick leave”

[chubbychiquita]

🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ outgrown clothes try on video going up on loyalfans tonight

[boygirlswag]

modern au laios would 100% be a zookeeper. i feel like they'd start him with mucking out the monkey pits but hes so good with kids that they eventually just let him do shows and demonstrations. actually where's the dungeon meshi we bought a zoo au

[captainjonnitkessler]

This time I really think it'll work guys!

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

Bernard is the one who handles the spiders. Tim can handle many things, but spiders is not one of them

He can’t handle them *well.*

He, of course, protests this statement. C4 and swords stolen from his brother are perfectly acceptable solutions, Bernard

[anotherpjofan]

The fact that someone decided to hack ao3 is so wild to me like do you thrive off of destroying people's happiness???

[thewitchoftheweed]

Fan theory: Narinder wasn’t the one who asked Forneus to give up Aym and Baal.

It’s been established that at the start of the game, Narinder is imprisoned and unable to interact with the physical world…unless, of course, that person is dead. The Lamb has to die in order to be offered their deal, and presumably Ratau has also died and been resurrected at least once.

Forneus is very clearly not dead. When she talks about her children, she says this: “And yet one lackadaisy summer day, my beautiful children were taken away… a gift, they said, for the one they loved most, the one that waits… I wept, I keened… But how can one say no to a God?”

Someone physically came and took her children; meaning it wasn’t Narinder, as he can’t physically enter the word anymore. They were taken as a gift. By who?

Ratau is a fair assumption. He served as the vessel before the Lamb. But given he fell out favor for being unable to perform a sacrifice, it seems out of character for him to be able to separate two children from their mother and then sacrifice them.

“A gift, they said, for the one they loved most.”

Shamura is referred to with they/them pronouns. And they say this about Narinder: “He was gluttonous in his ambition. And in my imprudence I loved him.”

The god Forneus speaks of is Shamura.

Shamura loved Narinder the most of all their siblings. After a thousand years, in a moment of clarity, they tried to ease his solitude by sending him companions.

Who he not only kept, but held in a place of honor beside him.

[bi-writes]

ok i've done some light research. if you want a software engineer/fic writer's inital take on lore.fm, i'll keep it short and sweet.

my general understanding of lore.fm functionality:

they use OpenAI's public API. they take in the text from the URL provided and use it to spit out your AI-read fic. their API uses HTTP requests, meaning a connection is made to an OpenAI server over HTTP to do as lore.fm asks and then give back the audio. my concern is that i wasn't able to find out what exactly that means. does OpenAI just parse the data and spit out a response? is that data then stored somewhere to better their model (probably yes)? does OpenAI do anything to ensure that the data is being used the way it was intended (we know this probably isn't true because lore.fm exists)?

lore.fm stores the generated audio (i am almost certain of this because of the features described in this reddit post). meaning that someone's fic is sitting in a lore.fm database. what are they doing with that data? what can they do with it? how is it being stored? what is being stored, the text and the audio, or just the audio?

i find transparency a very difficult thing to ask for in tech. people are concerned with technological trade secrets and stifling innovation (hilarious when i think about lore.fm, because it doesn't take a genius to feed text into AI and display the response somewhere, sorry to say). and while i find the idea of AI being used to help further accessibility on apps that don't yet provide it promising, i find the method that lore.fm (and OpenAI) chooses to do this to be dangerous and pave a path for a harmful integration of AI (and also fanfiction in general -- we write to interact, and lore.fm removes that aspect of it entirely).

we already know that AI companies have been paying to scrape data from different sources for the purposes of bettering their models, and we already know that they've only started asking for permission to do this because users found out (and not from the goodness of their hearts, because more data means better models, and asking for permission adds overhead). but this way of using it allows AI to backdoor-scrape data that the original sources of the data didn't give consent to. maybe the author declined to have their fic scraped by AI on the site they posted it onto (if the site asked at all), but they didn't know a third-party app like lore.fm would feed it into an AI model anyways.

what's the point of writing fics if i have no control over my own content?

[theevilcactus]

if they vote Jess out instead of Jelinsky I’m gonna be so fucking annoyed y’all have no idea

[suffercerebral]

the same chronically online leftists who talk about "building community" as a blanket solution to every issue, but always bitch about emotional labor or unpaid domestic labor don't realize that a foundational aspect of building community is volunteer work. lmfao.

[here-there-were-dragons]

i have to wonder what super hardcore militant vegans think should be done about obligate carnivore animals, because in all my painfully-rapidly-approaching-30-years i've literally never actually seen anyone give a clear consistent much less halfway feasible answer on that