#so amazon etc

[deadendtracks]

more about ai and how it's being rushed into things before it's ready: saw this presentation from Clarivate (big library platform vendor) about a natural language ai search for databases. now i think a natural language search is interesting as a concept (versus boolean and knowing what key words are likely to get you the best results) but the *output* was an ai written summary of search results and then the top 5 citations. when asked whether the product had issues with hallucinations (which is where the ai will just make shit up because "ai" doesn't actually know anything it just predicts what word should come next statistically) the answer was "not in the citations."

so like. the product they want to push out to libraries for their patrons (very often university libraries who serve students just learning to do research) provides a "summary" of the supposed search results that is still prone to being full of made up shit. Sure, they can get the proper citations and go look for the articles being "summarized" but ...

how many students will actually do this, and how many will take that "summary" as factual because *it's being provided by the library* and use *that* in their papers? Etc.?

It's a complete nightmare garbage product. They could have just given the search results without the summary -- i really am for a natural language search if it works -- but they had to incorporate the new sparkly ability of "ai" to "summarize" despite the fact that it's still prone to confabulation.

anyway I don't think this has been rolled out yet but this particular vendor likes to roll out products that are not ready for prime time and there's an "ai" arms race going on in every industry so the pressure is to push this on everyone whether it's ready or not, whether you want it or not, whether it will actually do a lot of damage or not.

[bluastro-yellow]

if they ever actually make that disco elysium amazon series it should just be about what martinaise's citizens were doing before the murder and during harry's three days party. harry/the murder is the thread that connects everything but he's more of a secondary character who shows up towards the end of the characters' stories

an episode or more focused on the capeside apartments, one on the whirling, one on the fishing village and church, one on precint 41, one on wild pines and krenel and the union...

and it's animated

and the og writers are involved

[drtbrennan]

hi friends, if you have a minute can you please sign this petition! it’s so close to 50k and the work the fandom has been doing is genuinely so incredible i don’t know how they sleep🫶🏻

[themyscirah]

Finally read Wonder Woman Historia because of your posts about it and damn. goddamn. that was fucking life-changing. literally what the fuck this should be a required read for every single comic book fan to ever exist. fuck

YES OMG THATS WHAT IM SAYINGGGGGGGGGG

(Also yesss got one mwahahaha I'm literally so glad you read it because of me omg 🤗🫶)

No but truly like life-changing sounds intense but is honestly the word for it. Like at least personally I can't emphasize the impact that book has had on me? I first read it about a year ago and finished it just SOBBING. I wasn't even a Wonder Woman fan before reading it. I wasn't even a Wonder Woman fan before reading it. Like do you understand I now run a Wonder Woman blog, I own multiple WW articles of clothing and my entire wall is covered in WW issues and items. If I had to list my top 5 books (not comics, books) of all time Wonder Woman: Historia would be an automatic contender. I reread it constantly, and bring my giant ass hardcover that is too tall for every bookshelf everywhere. It is constantly on my mind.

Anyways just sooooooo so glad you got a chance to read it (especially because of me!!!) because Historia is truly my favorite comic out there and I think it's one of the best things from the medium as a whole : )

Anyways all you folks listening this is you sign to READ WONDER WOMAN: HISTORIA!!!

[kuntniss]

feeling a little crazy

[eschynite]

When the LA-based interior design influencer who is constantly purchasing $$$$ furniture and reselling it bc she was in the mood for something else informs her viewers that unfortunately, you CANNOT create a worthwhile space with cheap new furniture and you MUST wait until you find the perfect vintage piece secondhand and there is NO valid excuse for not doing so. -_- k.

[elizakai]

Wich pen do you use for the white highlights in some of your art? It looks very opaque and I can't find a white pen that doesn't turn translucent once it's dry or melts with the colors😭

Have a good day/night!!<3

HI HI!!! oh my stars i’m so happy to share, they are Sakura Gelly Roll gel pens, they stay pretty opaque and genuinely are so satisfying to use :))

ofc there’s other packaging but just to help if you need to find them they look like this

they have colored ones as well but i always make sure to have white ones at least

PLUS they are pretty cheap😁

[moongothic]

Re: Crocodile as the Missing Kuja Empress-theory

I do wanna throw it out there quickly that we know Shakky retired from being a pirate and the Kuja Empress 42 years ago at the age of 22, while Hancock took the throne 13 years ago (age 18), meaning the Missing Empress' reign/era lasted for about 29 years

And while we don't know how long the Kuja might've been without a ruler between empresses (like do they have a system set where they know who will take the throne next Immidiately After the previous one steps down/dies/etc, or might they spend years without an empress until they find a new suitable ruler?)

We do know that when Shakky retired, Crocodile would've been four

So unless Crocodile became The Kuja Empress at Age 4 (or unless the Kuja were completely without an empress for almost a decade and then gave the throne to a literal child), then there's no way Crocodile could be the Missing Kuja Empress

[introverted-ghost]

Bro boycotting is so fucking easy

Like I know you can’t always stop using gasoline or quit your job at a corrupt company because you still need to live

But just buy your latte from somewhere that isn’t starbucks

[girlwiththegreenhat]

a dude my ma works with at amazon died of a stroke on the job because they force them to work in hot conditions and they refused him water. they bring in modified temperature readers so they can say "see, it's a safe temperature in here, all up to code uwu" but someone snuck in their own temp reader and it was much hotter than they claim it is.

it was ninety degrees Fahrenheit. heavy lifting for several hours at a time, no water, in 90 degree loading docks.

stop fucking using amazon. or at the very least, fucking unionize.

[devilsskettle]

i feel like i’ve been WAITING for the other shoe to drop wrt people’s opinions about watcher for this very reason. not that i think the reaction is completely not understandable but the greater the parasocial relationship, the greater the fallout as soon as public opinion shifts. you don’t have a relationship with these people they’re just content creators, chill

[anadorablekiwi]

Switched back to my older watch because even tho i prefer my current one, the day of the month feature stopped working ;-;

Last night around midnight I noticed it still said the third, thought oh well itll change soon.

This evening about 30 minutes ago i noticed it still said the third. At 10pm on the 4th.

So i tried fixing it

And it wasnt changing as i turned the time forward like it should :(

[hauntingblue]

I'm still scared in sabaody

This is crazy...

THS IS LIKE 300 CHAPTERS AWAY!!!!! THE SMILE... and mingo being the owner of the slave house for the tenryuubitos... OF COURSE

Look.... luffy enablers vs normal rational people

I was like yeah sure luffy was saying he wanted to become king of the pirates but rayleigh didn't explicitly say roger wanted to become pirate king just that people called him that so I am SURE shanks is saying luffy has the same dream we don't know about as Roger. Which lines up bc luffy said shanks knew of it and then in wano ace tells yamato and he says roger said the same thing and ace also knew of it!!! Which is crazy that it's set up this early but EVERYTHING is being set up here

I need to frame this btw.

Shakky the mother that stepped up.... also new conspiracy theory shakky is Hancock's mother bc she is a fan of luffy and hancock is too.... she was busy being a pirate to take care of hancock so she feels incredibly guilty about what happened to her so shakky either hasn't told her and hancock doesn't know or they have a difficult relationship. Yeah sure whatever. I dont care if rayleigh is her father or not bc as you know I believe in asexual reproduction in one piece thank you.

🧎����‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️what can I say

😳🫣

Here we fucking go again..... I can't do this

Incredible face sanji

SHE KNOWS!!!!!!

Luffy tearing up...... christ

Sanji getting away from his group with nami to save zoro will never get old like jesus christ look at this

CHOPPER 😭😭😭😭😭😭

CRAZYYYYYYY IM GOING CRAZYYYYY

LUFFYYYYYYY NOOOOO

NAMIIIIII NOOOOOOOOOO nami asking for help and luffy not being able to help her this time.... this is so sick and twisted

THE WAY THIS GETS WAY WORSE MAKES ME SICK!!!!!!!!!!! SICK!!!!!! TWISTED!!!!!!!!

[stardustedknuckles]

God the minotaur plot line in Kaos is absolutely wrenching. I am sad this show will not get another season, but in a way I'm kind of glad that it will never have the chance to get worse. I love these interpretations of myths. I love that the show gets dark in the way that lets you experience the anguish of the mortals the gods have played with. I love that it's not just one myth but many.

And I will forever be weak for a plotline that has the minotaur experiencing the warmth of kindness for the first time and responding to it.

[jakeperalta]

spent weeks psyching myself up to stand up to my mum and then immediately got shot down by her 😃👍

[rahabs]

I’m so glad I’ve never been a huge Tolkien fan, or I’d be pretty angry at whatever lore-disrespecting nonsense Rings of Power is continuously pulling.