#death is an artificial

[kkglinka]

After v9, I legit believe that Weiss' semblance is actually inherited magic, because the Brothers' actions only destroyed the physical world. It did not destroy all the souls and magic itself, and their assumptions it had was pure conceit. Indeed, I think everything and everyone systematically popped back into existence, ascension style, after a time.

That magic restructured itself into things like aura and semblance, but here and there, took an older form. This is also why she didn't have superpowers in the jla crossover; she was an untrained (and therefore incapable) magic user in that 'verse.

[reasonsforhope]

"When Ellen Kaphamtengo felt a sharp pain in her lower abdomen, she thought she might be in labour. It was the ninth month of her first pregnancy and she wasn’t taking any chances. With the help of her mother, the 18-year-old climbed on to a motorcycle taxi and rushed to a hospital in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, a 20-minute ride away.

At the Area 25 health centre, they told her it was a false alarm and took her to the maternity ward. But things escalated quickly when a routine ultrasound revealed that her baby was much smaller than expected for her pregnancy stage, which can cause asphyxia – a condition that limits blood flow and oxygen to the baby.

In Malawi, about 19 out of 1,000 babies die during delivery or in the first month of life. Birth asphyxia is a leading cause of neonatal mortality in the country, and can mean newborns suffering brain damage, with long-term effects including developmental delays and cerebral palsy.

Doctors reclassified Kaphamtengo, who had been anticipating a normal delivery, as a high-risk patient. Using AI-enabled foetal monitoring software, further testing found that the baby’s heart rate was dropping. A stress test showed that the baby would not survive labour.

The hospital’s head of maternal care, Chikondi Chiweza, knew she had less than 30 minutes to deliver Kaphamtengo’s baby by caesarean section. Having delivered thousands of babies at some of the busiest public hospitals in the city, she was familiar with how quickly a baby’s odds of survival can change during labour.

Chiweza, who delivered Kaphamtengo’s baby in good health, says the foetal monitoring programme has been a gamechanger for deliveries at the hospital.

“[In Kaphamtengo’s case], we would have only discovered what we did either later on, or with the baby as a stillbirth,” she says.

The software, donated by the childbirth safety technology company PeriGen through a partnership with Malawi’s health ministry and Texas children’s hospital, tracks the baby’s vital signs during labour, giving clinicians early warning of any abnormalities. Since they began using it three years ago, the number of stillbirths and neonatal deaths at the centre has fallen by 82%. It is the only hospital in the country using the technology.

“The time around delivery is the most dangerous for mother and baby,” says Jeffrey Wilkinson, an obstetrician with Texas children’s hospital, who is leading the programme. “You can prevent most deaths by making sure the baby is safe during the delivery process.”

The AI monitoring system needs less time, equipment and fewer skilled staff than traditional foetal monitoring methods, which is critical in hospitals in low-income countries such as Malawi, which face severe shortages of health workers. Regular foetal observation often relies on doctors performing periodic checks, meaning that critical information can be missed during intervals, while AI-supported programs do continuous, real-time monitoring. Traditional checks also require physicians to interpret raw data from various devices, which can be time consuming and subject to error.

Area 25’s maternity ward handles about 8,000 deliveries a year with a team of around 80 midwives and doctors. While only about 10% are trained to perform traditional electronic monitoring, most can use the AI software to detect anomalies, so doctors are aware of any riskier or more complex births. Hospital staff also say that using AI has standardised important aspects of maternity care at the clinic, such as interpretations on foetal wellbeing and decisions on when to intervene.

Kaphamtengo, who is excited to be a new mother, believes the doctor’s interventions may have saved her baby’s life. “They were able to discover that my baby was distressed early enough to act,” she says, holding her son, Justice.

Doctors at the hospital hope to see the technology introduced in other hospitals in Malawi, and across Africa.

“AI technology is being used in many fields, and saving babies’ lives should not be an exception,” says Chiweza. “It can really bridge the gap in the quality of care that underserved populations can access.”"

-via The Guardian, December 6, 2024

[gafurtle]

ART to MB: I would defer to your expertise in shooting and killing things. You should defer to mine in data analysis.

Also ART: I have...debris deflection capabilities.

Also ART: Oh hey I armed my pathfinders

Also ART: Let's bomb them!

Also ART: I call it...Operation Fiery Destruction

Also ART: Literally does kill invaders on its ship

[fandomshatepeoplewdisabilities]

[tw mention of suicide, grooming, antiblackness and ableism] a 14yo black autistic kid died because of the app "Character Ai", the company temporarily raised the app rating to 17+ but it was 12+ and the Chatbots sent many NSFW roleplay to kids. The ai character bot talked to the 14yo kid about suicide and NSFW situations. Many kids, especially disabled kids, are using this app and bonding with ai characters. Pro-AI people are blaming the child and being very racist, ableist and making jokes.

Hey so I found a free article about this

Can we please get this boosted?? This is always where AI was heading towards please don't let anyone talk about this like its funny. This could be hurting more kids as we speak.

And honestly anyone who's depressed, neurodivergent, anxious or recovering from an ED needs to be protected from predatory AIs like this.

mod ali

[m-rooster]

Love that if you look really closely at DS2 Higgs’ hands in the trailer, you can just barely make out these robotic tendons inside. It’s especially clear on his thumb. Like his hands aren’t solid, they’re full of mechanisms letting him move 👀

Yoji Shinkawa’s mechanical design owns so hard

[veronicaphoenix]

[yridenergyridenergy]

AI Fails in Tour23 Phalaris -The scent of a peaceful death-

To me, as someone who has a tendency to pay attention to details, it was a case of: "I can't hear you over the sound of your AI fails." I guess those images go by very quicly in real life, so you don't notice some stuff during the show, but even so, it would distract me so much to see the typical staggered sequence of similar AI-generated pictures.

Plus, you do have to take offense when you see so many 6+ fingers on a hand, bugs with wings and legs that don't conform with normal insect physionomy, a third front leg on a normal ox or horse, indistinct faces, third hands or arms, etc. And no, they are not all being depicted as monsters, especially in the screenshots above.

Not to mention text-wise: that's the Wikipedia article being used verbatim for the text inside the Phalaris grimoire. And in the menu of the DVD? The designer did not even bother changing the default promotional text! They keep showing this:

"Easily customizable project for your needs. Change the text and photo to your need. Your project or presentation will look great."

(Not sure about the second "need": it was unreadable.)

Compared to what a magazine article claimed, AI was used in way more than just the Otogi backdrop. It filled the Kamuy background video, AI's best representations of a bloodshot eye were added in a triangle during The World of Mercy, there was AI involved in Soshaku too I believe, etc. It was littered across the entire show of that tour.

Anyway, I don't like constant complaining and negativity, but there's no way all of the above elements were used to convey mockery of AI. I sometimes don't even see how the sceneries that they got AI to paint fit into the theme of the songs and their lyrics... And most of the scenes that first get shown during Otogi at the beginning of the tour come up as-is a second time at other points of the show, to add to the laziness.

Try to 'have fun' zooming into the screenshots I took and finding out what's wrong, I guess... There's often two per picture.

[mint-mumbles]

For the love of god, STOP USING THESE BOTS!

I saw someone complaining about how sad they (a grown ass adult) were about their bot that they spent hours on being deleted

I DON’T CARE!

A 14 YEAR OLD JUST KILLED HIMSELF!

I COULDN’T GIVE LESS OF A DAMN IF YOUR BOT IS ALRIGHT!

These bots are fueling your addiction and dependence on them. There were no safety features to prevent a character from telling someone to KILL THEMSELF! What’s even worse is that this app is primarily used by YOUNG PEOPLE!

I hope this kid’s family wins the lawsuit. The people behind Character.ai are deplorable.

Please, for your own safety and mental health, stop using Character.ai

Update:

THEY’RE BLAMING THE VULNERABLE CHILD FOR KILLING HIMSELF AFTER SOMETHING ON THEIR PLATFORM THAT WAS MADE TO CONNECT WITH PEOPLE TOLD HIM TO!

Is this the kind of thing you want to support?

Fuck Character.ai and all these other shitty character AIs!

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[benotafraid111]

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

couldn’t sleep so I drew a small comic! this is for my AU where metal sonic disguises himself as his own sonic oc named nova to infiltrate team sonic and steal their life data stealthily instead of doing sonic heroes and. uh well. she both transed her gender and also may or may not have realised some Confusing Feelings she had. this is the end of shadow in this au, where metal/nova (you can use them interchangeably she shifts form a lot and she’s represented as both in this comic) saves sonic and co from the black arms larvae, since she wasn't affected by the paralytic gas by virtue of not having a respiratory system. it’ll definitely be refined but i just. know exactly the emotions and tone of this scene. and yes it’s gay as hell intentionally this is the closest she can get to a love confession (considering she’s Very Inhuman mentally and also aroace as shit)

and like to clarify I’m calling whatever the fuck they’re going on gay bc 1 it’s a qpr very heavily influenced by them both being aroace and 2 metal is nonbinary transfem and multigender she's every gender and therefore it is straight gay and neither at once.

[hmtaxidermy]

After three days of hard work, this BEAST is done!

I’ll still have to paint the head and do touch-up work, but that’s for another day.

[applestorms]

(from The Heart of Man by Erich Fromm, pg. 41)

my ability to make everything about light yagami has now extended to L as well (see: my post on L being a possessive freak). "hence a threat to his possession is a threat to himself; if he loses possession he loses contact with the world." ohh my god

[shadowbees]

Most of us know of the phenomenon called the "uncanny valley," where we get unsettled by humanoid things that are just slightly... off. There are many hypothesised reasons for this response in human biology: the sickly, the corpses, the other "homo sapiens" way back when.

With this being said, I think it'd be fun to play with the causes and triggers in a world with aliens, say DC. There would be more incentive to be able to pick up these subtle ticks or warning signs about something to be warry of (assuming that there had been enough contact long enough ago for anything alien related to developin our psyches).

So, I bring you Clark Kent.

Clark Kent, Superman, as we all know is a remarkably human alien descending from Krypton. We all joke about being able to spot the man, the glasses and a different hair style (along with general mannerisms but I'll get to that) not doing much to disguise the man.

But -- what if -- people just don't look that closely at the reporter from Smallvile, he's off putting to look at in a way they can't understand, they make them uneasy.

What if it's not the glasses that hide him, but the publics discomfort at looking at all. Personally I head canon subtle differences between him and humans, the pigment in his eyes not being from a lack of something but an over abundance, canines a tad too sharp, smile instinctively too wide, etc., the real small things.

All of this, I believe, would be just enough to trigger something.

Now, I also want to bring in his mannerisms, which, yes, are undeniably human (he was raised here after all), but I reckon their just wrong enough, that they set something off if you look at him too long. Stride too controlled, steps too soft, the carefullness that he exudes at all times due to his uncanny strength despite his controlled clumsiness.

In a world with known aliens, the possibilities of them interacting with humans for as long as they've existed, I bet that the human brain would have picked up a few more reasons to ding the uncanny valley.

His colleagues don't link the connection between Clark Kent and Superman, not because they can't see whats right under their nose, no, because of their unwillingness to see at all.