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extremely temperate. linguistics student. she/her 🏳️‍⚧️ "Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real." --Baudrillard

lesbian dm-drogerie ad in a munich subway station this june. a young brunette has just asked her partner "do we need anything else from dm?" and is making a kissy face at her. her partner, blonde, is looking at her and smiling. their heads are jurt barely touching as they lean into each other from the sides. a melodramatic slogan in the background declares: "here, i am a person. here, i shop." the ad also wants you to download some bullshit app. this ad was everywhere during pride month and i am still thinking about it. what does the brunette want to buy? more vitamins? what is it that one needs more of from a drug store? "hey babe did we forget to buy shampoo?"?

rick rudeboy being a sane joke understander

clouded cityscape. oakland, pittsburgh, pa looking northeast. yeah i kinda doxxed myself here but i'm moving really soon so idc

aliya's right eye

a box plot in four panels. i don't have commentary on it yet bc this is still early wip and i haven't written anything up yet. it's not very easy to understand without context

quote from linked article:

"I don’t remember him explicitly invoking masculinity—he also coached my cis sister’s soccer teams—but my impending manhood, the birthright I was expected by implication to eagerly pursue, still loomed on the fringes of my consciousness. It was around the time of puberty that, even as I was learning what my growing body could do, I felt increasingly alienated from it. Baseball only drew me closer to the awful specter on the horizon. I started playing on a club team, and as my coaches refined my techniques of swinging, throwing, and ballplayer mannerisms, I saw instruction toward becoming a man. I grew uneasy in this pursuit of masculinity for reasons I couldn’t identify. As far as I knew, it could have just been that I didn’t want to grow up, or that I didn’t want to do the workouts. But I was scared to find out. Something that evaded description, that slipped around the edges of thought, felt wrong."

survey question.

q: "which of the following candidates would you prefer?"
a (selected): "a dem who supports open borders, weak foreign policy, trans rights, and high taxes"
a (other): "a republican who will defend current policy despite causing higher prices and war in the middle east"
a (other): "unsure"

> le rn a été fondé par des nazis / et askip la petite marine appelait hitler tonton dolfy!

libs calling leftists "cocksuckers", "filth", and "degenerates", and declaring that they must be brought "down a peg"

newark int'l airport, looking east from the terminal towards new york. the city skyline is visible over a field of united airlines-branded planes. anything in the photo could be both a wonder and a great folly

geiranger, norway, looking east. a large mountain is visible

view of kirkenes, norway from a hill. a fjord is visible beyond the town on the right, and a large mining facility dominates the left of the frame, looming over the town

coastal view of mountains in northern norway

Nevertheless, if only a third of Jews have faith in God, as described in the Bible, where does that leave Judaism? Is it inevitably on the same downward path as Christianity? Not necessarily. A key indicator of the decline of organised religion in Britain is ‘bums-on-pews’ – i.e. that only people who believe in God are likely to attend church. Even if that is true, it doesn’t seem to apply to Jews. In the Jewish case, according to the survey’s data, more than half (56%) of paid-up synagogue members do not believe in God, and nearly two in five Jewish atheists belong to a synagogue. Moreover, irrespective of whether they belong to a synagogue or not, two out of three (65%) Jews who don’t believe in God attend synagogue at least on the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. Jews, it seems, are pretty comfortable belonging without believing.

https://www.jpr.org.uk/insights/belonging-without-believing-british-jewish-identity-and-god

previous comment with highlight: "I don't have a cellphone."

33. Make it possible—oh, dear God, please make it possible—to find privacy settings without a nationwide manhunt involving floodlights and basset hounds. Do you think we don’t know what you’re doing? “Go to Settings ->Preferences->Other->Other Options->Stochastic->Non-Evidentiary->Experimental, then click Advanced, then click Desalination, click Both, then Both again, then No three times, then all you have to do is translate the page from Russian to English and voilà! You can turn off genome mapping.” I believe it was Saint Augustine who said that to have faith is to believe in what you do not see; he was referring to the Facebook privacy settings.

screenshot of my desktop. wm is niri, distro is arch. background is j.m.w. turner's "the sun of venice going to sea" (1843), though it isn't always the same

screenshot of discord dm

white: "actually change of plans what do you think of this crop-top?"
attached is a picture of a ktp shirt reading "respectful transsexual"

red: "i like the aliya crop top concept. not really sure what those words mean and i’m a little uncomfortable with them, they seem nefarious"

enten

wikipedia: During production of the 2026 biopic Michael, lawyers for Jackson's estate discovered a clause in the 1994 settlement that forbids the mention or depiction of Chandler in any movie. The third act of the film, which had already been shot, was to be centered around Jackson's life through 1993 with a focus on the sexual assault scandals; that act subsequently had to be scrapped and redone, and the version of the film that was ultimately released ended his story in 1984 with no mention of the scandals. This added $10 million to the film's budget and delayed its release by a year.

baudrillard saying the text in the quoted skeet

Screenshot from the graphic in the original post. Text reads:

"Random motion and slower convergence: LLM agents often random bounces connliger, pees and collidies-a different reaching æ a local optima."

This researcher clearly is not the most attentive to detail.

College students who haven’t written a single line of production code are coaching others on how to ‘write’ a code using AI.

Freshers who are still figuring out their own path are selling career clarity and how to get a job via LinkedIn

People who’ve never deployed anything on production are teaching CI/CD automation.

Those struggling with applied AI are confidently creating content on AI, ML, RAG, and agents.

I’m not saying people can’t learn.
They can. They should. We all do.

But reality shows up the moment you talk to them.

And that’s when you realise how different “looking experienced” is from being experienced.

Being a thought leader isn’t about repeating the same topic until it sounds true.

It’s about lived context.
Mistakes.
Trade-offs.
And knowing what breaks in the real world.

Content can be created fast.
Credibility is built slowly.

And the gap between the two is becoming impossible to ignore.

screenshot of my desktop. fastfetch shows (among other things):
OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: Zenbook UX5400ZF
Kernel: Linux 6.18.9-arch1-2
Shell: zsh 5.9
WM: niri 25.11 (Wayland)
Terminal: alacritty 0.16.1

post by @kragdar.bsky.social: "So many Iranians don't seem to want to understand this! ... I worry a portion of Iranians are [today] choosing the exact wrong time to cozy up with the west against countervailing global forces" in response to a qp preaching the beginning of the chinese century

tumblr post from @geyfrog:

"This morning I had to wake up for an exma, and after my alarm got off, I woke up and got out of bed and went to the kitchen. I had a bit of a stomachache, and as I was getting up, I realized that I had programmed in a few lines of code that would give me a stomachache if certain conditions were true during some testing in order to create a flag that something had gone wrong and I'd forgotten to remove them. So I went to the fridge to ctrl+F for "stomachache" to remove them, but the search kept being based on the browser (and thus only searching for what was displayed on the page) and not to the document IN the fridge, and so it wasn't properly finding the instances of "stomachache" that weren't presently displayed. No matter what I did, I couldn't properly search the FRIDGE to find the code that was giving me a stomachache.

"It was shortly after that I realized that I had not, in fact, gotten up, and that I had instead dozed off and was now dreaming."

ti-84 plus ce screenshot demonstrating recursive definition of fibonacci function in hg repl

jay's labels include "ai imagery" and "charisma debuffed"

two more bar charts with the same problem from the same paper

a very-poorly-constructed bar chart from a 2010 linguistics paper

screenshot of text in quoted link

the postman from the movie *olive the other reindeer*

At 6.45pm, under an indigo sky, church bells rang out along the main street and all movement on the islet came to a halt. Those walking back home stopped by the side of the streets, mopeds and cars turned off their engines. Like many island-nations in the Pacific, Tuvalu is devoutly Christian. Every evening, 15 minutes are reserved for prayer time. By the side of a road that runs along the airstrip, I chatted with a police officer who had asked me to stop and wait. She told me that there are 132 police personnel in the country, and the last notable crime took place in 2015, when a drunk motorcycle rider ran over someone who was sleeping the night at the airstrip. Sleeping at the airstrip used to be common practice and continues to be permitted; since the accident, cars and mopeds have been banned.

image of jean baudrillard, marked up so it looks like he is saying what is in the quoted post

powers's response to this critique: basically he says that he oversimplified on purpose, but does not then give a more detailed account. kinda seems like he doesn't know what he's talking about tbh

nonsensical metaphors from powers's post about "trying to sneak Link from Legend of Zelda into the gerudo village" and "a trojan horse" and "sleeper agents"

photo of the entrance to a building undergoing renovation; it's a double door, with the left door bearing a warning for non-authorized personnel to keep out and a sign showing PPE requirements, and a sign on the right door saying, "NOTHING YOU DO ON THIS JOBSITE WILL BE AS IMPORTANT AS GOING HOME TO YOUR FAMILY AND LOVED ONES"

an image of sheet music for the first four chords of the title theme of the video game "i was a teenage exocolonist"

image of a single banana with a mobile order receipt waiting to be picked up

carnation revolution - wikipedia
part of the portuguese transition to democracy and the cold war

“Because the course is a survey of literature and culture, there’s an arc to what I want students to understand,” said Stahuljak, a professor of comparative literature and of European languages and transcultural studies. “Normally, I would spend lectures contextualizing the material and using visuals to demonstrate the content. But now all of that is in the textbook we generated, and I can actually work with students to read the primary sources and walk them through what it means to analyze and think critically.”

Because Stahuljak can focus on those aspects of teaching during lectures, TAs would in turn be liberated from those tasks and can instead devote more time to helping students with writing assignments — an element of instruction that sometimes receives short shrift in large classes, she said.

Another benefit, Stahuljak said, is that the platform can help professors ensure consistent delivery of course material. Now that her teaching materials are organized into a coherent text, another instructor could lead the course during the quarters when Stahuljak isn’t teaching — and offer students a very similar experience. And with AI-generated lesson plans and writing exercises for TAs, students in each discussion section can be assured they’re receiving comparable instruction to those in other sections.

Wikipedia screenshot: In the hours following the assassination, many American social media users shared their celebrations of the event, and contempt for Thompson, UnitedHealthcare, and the American health insurance system.[22][23][24]

tweet from @Faytuks, 2024-09-18: "NEW: Israeli cabinet has given PM Netanyahu and Defence Minister Gallant the authorization to undertake military action against Hezbollah -- even if it leads to an all-out war"

a cybertruck on a city street at night, seen from behind

wildermyth