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Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) [source]
"John Oliver discusses Donald Trump’s war on higher education, the history of right-wing attacks on what universities research and teach, and how a weird little tree frog might – might! – just save us all." [28 min 55 sec]
Remember children—this tactic is really annoying to the police, so YOU SHOULD NOT become floppy—it’s frustrating to them and makes them look bad and is a waste of resources and no one wants that…
can you guys watch my normal dog for a second I have to run to the bathroom
Pretty sure the original artist here is Will Burrows: Will Burrows Art – analog memes for nerd culture nostalgia, rage, and despair
Happy Labor Day
"It turns out, he wasn't. In recent months, YouTube has secretly used artificial intelligence (AI) to tweak people's videos without letting them know or asking permission. Wrinkles in shirts seem more defined. Skin is sharper in some places and smoother in others. Pay close attention to ears, and you may notice them warp. These changes are small, barely visible without a side-by-side comparison. Yet some disturbed YouTubers say it gives their content a subtle and unwelcome AI-generated feeling.
There's a larger trend at play. A growing share of reality is pre-processed by AI before it reaches us. Eventually, the question won't be whether you can tell the difference, but whether it's eroding our ties to the world around us."
1. What happened YouTube admitted it’s been running AI processing on some Shorts — sharpening, denoising, smoothing — without asking permission. Creators noticed their own faces looked subtly “off,” like they were wearing AI makeup. And the altered version is what the audience sees.
2. Why this crosses a line
3. Why YouTube thinks they can do this
4. The deeper problem This isn’t about whether a shirt wrinkle looks sharper. It’s about power. YouTube doesn’t see itself as a neutral distributor of your work. It sees itself as the author of the experience, with full rights to “optimize” your content however it likes. Creators are just raw material. That’s why they didn’t ask: asking implies you could say no.
5. What can be done
6. The bottom line Google once said “Don’t be evil.” Now the motto is closer to “Don’t get caught.” They’re not testing video quality — they’re testing how much tampering people will tolerate before they resist. And if there’s no resistance, the platform’s ownership over your reality becomes the default.
there's been multiple reports of people's computers not booting properly after the windows 11 24H2 KB5063878 update due to it essentially wiping the hard drives (specifically SSDs) on computers and laptops. users have reported their SSDs aren't able to be read/recognized and unable to be seen in bios settings either.
sources: - https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/08/20/microsoft-is-investigating-windows-11-kb5063878-ssd-data-corruption-failure-issue/ - https://www.nichepcgamer.com/archives/windows11-24h2-issue-with-writing-to-the-ssd-is-this-caused-by-kb5063878-kb5062660.html
it's safe to assume all SSDs can be potentially affected by this update, so if you haven't updated yet turn off autoupdates
the bug caused by this update is seemingly triggered by installing/moving/deleting large files (50+ gb), which as simmers is what a lot of us do very pften
from there, give it some time to remove the update and after pause updates for as long as possible (5 weeks is the longest i think), but it will force an update if there's a big/official update for the fix
if you've already been affected and your computer is not starting or giving errors regarding your hard drive, i recommend visiting small pc repair shops to try data recovery as some have reported placing their SSD in an enclosure seems to work to recover the data
occasional posts from users
reblog if you make occasional posts
Sometimes I still hear my voice
This blog has been telling you not to trust pelicans for over a decade and this is why
My vampires CAN walk into the sunlight but doing so would reveal what they would look like if they aged normally
Younger vampires don’t have much to worry about but older vamps have reason to avoid sunlight as they age. They are still immortal, but their aged, sunlit selves are significantly weaker than their non-sunlit forms. Vamps over 100 years old run the risk of crumpling over, fully immobile, but still conscious
[kisses you tenderly on the lips while holding you like my lover] don’t eat any food with mold on it even if you cut the moldy part off ok?
seriously babe i’m not joking you won’t just get an upset stomach mold poisoning can literally shut down your liver. you also absolutely do not want listeriosis. i am autistic about foodborne illness
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/2021-02/Molds_on_Food.pdf
The last film I watched was Weapons so yes because I'm a simple soul at heart
If a weird creepy woman was doing weird things to try and put a spell on someone to kill me, I would respond the reasonable and sensible way
I would kill her
i think the last film i watched was Mary Poppins Returns
oh no im gonna have a delightful time. HORRIFYING
"if there's a job that must be done
Don't turn your tail and run!
Don't pout!
Don't sob!
JUST DOOOO A HAAAALLFFF ASSSSEEEDDDDDDDD JOOOOOBBBBBBB"
So the last film I watched in its entirety was Terence Fisher's Dracula (1958) -- released in the USA as Horror of Dracula -- the first Hammer Horror Film to feature Christopher Lee as Count Dracula & Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing. I feel I'd do okay in that one; I could at least keep myself safe.
But after I saw that, I caught the last ~30 minutes of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968). On the one hand, I know about zombies (I've seen plenty of zombie movies), know that they're slow and can only be taken out by destroying the brain. As long as I can keep calm, and not get cornered/overrun, I'll probably be alright. But, one thing that a lot of folks forget about the zombie in Romero's original NotLD is that THEY CAN USE TOOLS! The pick up rocks and table legs and use those to bash in windows!
Kiwi on a treadmill.
well you can tell by the way i use my walk i’m a flightless bird
i can only walk
got no keel on my breastbone
i’ve been on the ground since I was born
but it’s all right, it’s okay
ostrich grows real big this way
you can try to understand
they don’t bury their head in sand
whether you’re a kiwi or whether you’re an emu
you are staying ratite, staying ratite
see the cassowary disembowel the unwary
and they’re staying ratite, staying ratite
ah ah ah ah staying ratite, staying ratite
ah ah ah ah, staying ratiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite
People don’t understand chronic pain.
They think it’s like a pulled muscle or a bad headache — temporary, fixable, visible.
But chronic pain is like gravity: always there, always pulling, even when you smile or function or pretend it’s fine.
It wears you down in ways people don’t see. And when you try to explain it, you’re met with confusion, disbelief, or silence.
To everyone living in a body that hurts more than it should — I see you. You're not alone in this.
people who don't experience it often have an expectation that, really, you'll be better after some time passes.
And when you're not, that upsets and confuses them.
It's so outside of their experience and the world as they understand it that they often wind up believing on some level that you must have done something wrong—if not outright evil, then at least incompetent, that you fucked up somehow and this is the result. Depending on your perspective, they may even believe you've sinned.
They're convinced that there are ways to fix it, that your arthritis or your EDS or your fibromyalgia really means that you just need to make a change in your diet or exercise routine, they've got a chiropractor to recommend to you and have you tried acupuncture or fire cupping? They know this meditation practice that will make all the difference, give yoga a try and this will all be a thing of the past. The power of prayer can heal all ills. of course. You just need to make this one change, and you won't make them feel bad be in pain any more.
have you tried living without gravity affecting you?
It's even more fun if you're visibly younger than geriatric age.
Yes I'm in my thirties. Yes I have moderate osteoarthritis. No it's not cureable.
oh, absolutely. I've head rheumatoid arthritis pain since my mid-twenties.
[VD: An incredibly well-edited beauty edit by user 宽宽Kwan of Chinese woman using rapid-paced and seamless transitions to flip through complex and elaborate makeup routines that result in multiple impressive cosplays including different traditional hanfu, Miao silver headdresses, and a warrior's armor. There are humorous beats in the video, and the woman sings to the Chinese pop song in the background. End VD]
[ID: A meme of Sailor J applying contour and saying, "If the men find out we can shapeshift, they're going to tell the church." End ID]
being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?
Thieves Guild
A tale as old as time
