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It’s Yukon Heritage Day today. Happy Birthday to one of Canada’s most stunning regions!
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A poll because I'm out here asking the real questions
There is a right answer and it is ferrero btw <3
I fucking love chocolate/hazelnut- HOWEVER Ferrero Rocher has fucking WHEAT in them and so I’m not allowed to have them and I’m mad about it. It’s fucking CHOCOLATE WITH HAZELNUTS! WHY DOES IT HAVE WHEAT FLOUR??!
ruh roh, it gets worse
I’m not a Redditor so I could be wrong. But this looks pretty fucking bad
Zen - Grogu and Dust Bunnies | 禅 グローグーとマックロクロスケ Lucasfilm x Studio Ghibli (2022) — dir. Katsuya Kondo
i'm not the praying sort, but i'll probably always have a soft spot for the astronaut's prayer
for those who aren't familiar with it, it's a possibly-spurious quote by alan shepard (and is thus sometimes referred to as the shepard's prayer) on the launchpad of Freedom 7, immediately before he became the first american in space. it goes like this:
"Dear Lord, please don't let me fuck up."
The internet’s best resources are almost universally volunteer run and donation based, like Wikipedia and The Internet Archive. Every time a great resource is accidentally created by a for-profit company, it is eventually destroyed, like Flickr and Google Reader. Reddit could be what Usenet was supposed to be, a hub of internet-wide discussion on every topic imaginable, if it wasn’t also a private company forced to come up with a credible plan to make hosting discussions sound in any way like a profitable venture.
We are living through the end of the useful internet. The future is informed discussion behind locked doors, in Discords and private fora, with the public-facing web increasingly filled with detritus generated by LLMs, bearing only a stylistic resemblance to useful information. Finding unbiased and independent product reviews, expert tech support, and all manner of helpful advice will now resemble the process by which one now searches for illegal sports streams or pirated journal articles. The decades of real human conversation hosted at places like Reddit will prove useful training material for the mindless bots and deceptive marketers that replace it.
Elephant’s Trunk & Caravan © Steve Cannistra/Matts Sporre/Ram Samudrala
Why is "love" as a magical force always good-aligned? Villains can't love too? I wanna see two villains who adore each other so hard that the wicked power of love straight up fries the hero's head off
The Briarwoods. Critical Role the Briarwoods.
(imogen): i can’t go to therapy, i’ll lose all my natural charm!
(ashton): buddy your ‘natural charm’ is a fucking trauma response.
“Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.”
“Over time, mistakes in generated data compound and ultimately force models that learn from generated data to misperceive reality even further,” wrote one of the paper’s leading authors, Ilia Shumailov, in an email to VentureBeat. “We were surprised to observe how quickly model collapse happens: Models can rapidly forget most of the original data from which they initially learned.”
Chasing the light
Nov 20, 2015 Green Valley Falls area of Rancho Cuyamaca State Park
an internal memo leaked from ceo steve huffman saying the "noise" of the blackout will die out and they just need to weather it until we give up. fuck you spez.
first of all it's OVER EIGHT THOUSAND subreddits that went dark.
second of all he clearly doesn't give one single shit about the users or the UNPAID army of mods who slog through a million miles of shit every day to keep illegal and offensive content off the site (i'm a mod in a small fandom subreddit and even the shit i've seen is beyond the pale) and therefore make it appealing to the advertizers.
you have no fucking business without us. and you don't care one single bit about it.
he clearly did not mean for this memo to leak, but someone at reddit thought it was important enough to send it out anyway. please spread it (spreddit?) especially because so much of reddit is still in blackout.