i’m starting a movement to stop calling this shit “artificial intelligence” cause it’s fucking not. it’s not intelligent, and the things it produces are not informed by logical choices. it doesn’t know how to research sources for you. it doesn’t compose art thoughtfully or meaningfully.
call it machine-generated, text generator, chat bot, but it’s not intelligent.
This is the standard winged nightjar and it has one singular stupidly big feather on each wing... if you even care.
Love this guy
That’s standard as in “pennant” or “banner”, not standard as in “normal”.
But it’s not a pennant-winged nightjar. THIS is a pennant-winged nightjar… if you even care.
can’t forget the Lyre-tailed Nightjar! there’s actually a number of these ridiculous guys, and they’re partly why caprimulgiforms are some of my favorite birds
also the Sickle-winged Nightjar, which is. come on, that’s just a weird moth
Everyone does care about nightjars 🥹
What does the arab in your carrd mean? Is it like afab and amab?
.. i’m palestinian
same energy
there’s more
SIGH
here’s another one
IT GETS WORSE WITH EVERY ADDITION
how does this get even worse
I think about once in a while…
We have another one…
This is the internet now tho 😭💀
Omg so many additions since I last saw this post! 😂😂😂
It’s funny but incredibly telling how entitled/ignorant/insensitive some of these people are… idk if it’s an education gap or purposeful ignorance.
The really bewildering thing to me is that I remember when you needed to get up and pull a dictionary off the shelf, or visit a library to look up the facts you needed. Now people have all kinds of information literally at their fingertips and they can’t be bothered to use it.
Oh dear gods, it’s gotten worse
When you know politics but no facts
don’t take people too seriously on the internet
This hits different when combined with that “Americans don’t learn other countries exist till they’re in 5th Grade” post from the other day.
Demily recently got another one lads
Also, I love that, in the sign language one, it seems like the last image might’ve been a gif of “fuck you,” screenshot at the perfect time to let you know they were about to sign “fuck you”
As a romanian person I gotta add this one too
This is my favourite post on this website
I have literally had people tell me that I’m a gross appropriator for learning sign language while not deaf.
I sometimes cannot speak, but leaving that aside, what the FUCK lol
I still remember the guy who got mad at me because I spoke about the cultural role of the Norse gods in my life and my culture and insisted that I should be “proud of my Christian heritage instead” and quite simply would not believe me when I told him I was from Scandinavia because “that doesn’t exist anymore.”
someone please edit that map of europe with the spain void to also have a void for the whole of scandinavia
Every now and then I just have to reblog this.
(while particularly loving: “Gender of the Day: Wales”)
(also “Port O’Rico”)
How were things like Jean “Moebius” Giraud made? This post and others (like Assignment in Eternity, Behemoth’s World, etc) are so clean and stylized that they look digital to me but I know that art programs didn’t exist at the time. What tools and mediums did they use?
I don't have the eye to say the specific mediums/tools for those, but I believe they're fairly standard for the time. You can do a lot with analog materials! It's interesting to compare this era of Jean Giraud (his penname is Moebius) artwork with his later works after he got into digital art in the final years of his life: Here's a 2010 series of entirely digital Moebius illustrations.
💯🙏💛🟨👍
Worst part about this is I've only ever used that yellow square emoji once and it was just to see how it looked. This isn't who I am. However, in retrospect, I suppose it is
Reading through the notes is a surreal experience please keep adding more to fuel my effervescent consumption of non descriptive emojis
🍐👅🍣🔝💖🚂
HERE IT IS! I finally created a “cover” for my worldbuilding project as well as with the name for it.
There you can read a little description for the place I have chosen to depict there – Aivan – City of Winds.
On this illustration there is a port of Aivan city depicted. Aivan means “Windy” - In Wafa language, as it is believed that all the good winds are blowing into the city haven, so the architecture resembles it. Numerous windmills many of which were built by Wafa centuries ago are rising above the city, helping the citizens in their daily routines – the mechanisms connected to them are grinding the floor and magical ingredients, crushing stones for masonry, and even pumping water from the underground wells, for it to flow down the aqueducts. Even the main palace of this city is a giants windmill, working for the needs of a magistrate council, and the local wizard collegium. It was turned into a mighty fortress by the fao of kolchid tribe – rulers of the town. They were the ones who turned the city into the major trade hub – however not all of their deeds were favoured by Wafa – original population of the city and unspoken patrons of every fao. New rulers, allowed slave trade in the region and the living goods flowed into the city, from the south and the one hundred isles. Many members of the collegium, weren’t able to accept such an inhumane state of affairs, so many Wafas left the city, as even if they were compassionate towards slaves they remembered their own creators who allowed them developing the civilisation without the intrusion in it. Who knows – maybe Wafa were too hopeful towards their “children” who at first made the Uron tribes to flee to the mountains, and than started to fight and enslave each other. However consequences of a faos greed were long to show up – now they have several thousands of years until they eventually will destroy each other and will bring Mars to the decline, and slow death in the passage of milleniums.
The same illustration without text…
Many thanks to everybody for the recent support!
Saw a post like this with negative outlook so I asked for it to be fixed
HOW TO HELP TORTURED GAY MEN IN CHECHNYA
We can’t allow this to continue. A petition has also been launched by change.org and signed by tens of thousands of people.
It demands a full investigation of all the facts and unlawful repression in Chechnya of the LGBT population and calls for punishment for the ‘guilty parties’ and the end to the practice of extra-judicial violence.
You can sign that here.
Add this to list of shitty things silver-spoon knobheads get away with. #Hyperloop
Apartment hunting has shown me that so many kids my age and younger openly broadcast that they are running away from abusive homes and that they are LGBT. I sympathize completely, but you do not under any circumstances need to be on a roommate finder website telling strangers on the internet that you are part of a vulnerable minority with no one back home who cares what happens to you... just say you are moving out, end of. Once you get to trust someone you live with then you can share the backstory. Internet safety is something that still matters.
In my latest column for The Nation, I defend single stair buildings against their detractors - I think single stair is wonderful! - But I also don't think it's some kind of panacea for the housing crisis.
i think its pretty meta how the international mining megacorp Rio Tinto is named after their first mine which was located at the Rio Tinto river in Spain and the river is called "Rio Tinto" because its water is brightly red and orange due to being heavily contaminated and acidic with large amounts of iron and other metals present making it inhospitable to all non-extremophile life to the point that it is studied by astrobiologists exploring the possibility of life in places where there would be liquid but highly acidic water
Also the area around the river had been used for mining iron, copper and other metals for over 5,000 years so even well before the Romans arrived and while there's debate about to what level the pollution of the river is manmade vs natural (surface level deposits that would be more likely to contaminate the river naturally would also make it a more obvious site to mine metals in ancient times) it is kinda accidentially self-aware that Rio Tinto of all corporations is named after a river which has had been polluted by human mining for thousands of years
Postcard from the artist collective project THINK AGAIN
How do they scare people straight?
threaten rejection from family and society, justify hate in the name of god, spread myths about perverts and molesters, incite fear about disease, spread lies about human sexuality, threaten rejection from work and community, propagate lies about sin, publicly humiliate queers, withhold information about sex, erase queers from history, allow homophobia on television, deny queers equal protection under the law, promote family values, promise happiness to those who conform.
3. Nature of violation
to simplify: churches are forbidden to promote specific political parties or candidates, in order to maintain tax-exempt status. no religious institution is allowed to make explicit political statements, including “this party is bad,” “this party is good,” “you should vote for x,” “you should not vote for x,” or “let’s raise money for x political party or campaign.” all of those things are super illegal! if they’re going to act as a political entity, they need to pay taxes like any other political entity! report their asses!!!!
My American followers, please do your part
Poll because I'm curious:
I ask for the "roots" because of this idea that in some "cultures" families are very big, and in other "cultures" they tend to be small, and I want to know to what degree this applies to cousins 😄
#more than 40 #spanish
![‘Anthropomorphic language such as “learn”, “understand”, “know” and “I” […] create an illusion. This pushes all of us [even experts] towards seeing sparks of sentience in AI tools, where there are none.
Epic interview of Ted Chiang by @madhumita29 https://t.co/LysS2HuAN2
— Ariel Guersenzvaig (@interacciones) June 3, 2023](https://64.media.tumblr.com/1e34266ea788e5549cb86f8723363f12/3ea162c736170ad5-21/s1280x1920/aa9129ff14d80decf0a8fc09ecdcc018e4ae3c64.jpg)
