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I wish wizards were real so bad imagine coming out of a wal mart and seeing some guy with long robes and a big hat in the parking lot surrounded by wacky particle effects screaming some shit like "By the moon and the starlight, by the shield and the sword, I summon to me, my Honda Accord!" And then just getting into his car and driving off

The wizard left of their own Accord.

I know it’s like cringe or whatever to care about media unironically but I actually do love when you love a story so much it becomes a part of your soul

What is it about laying on the floor when you're overwhelmed that makes everything feel so much better?

When God has ceased to answer your prayers, it feels good to distance yourself from Heaven.

Adding this to my list of incredibly raw fucking lines gifted from the impossible wonder that is tumblr

Money well spent

My theories about why RWBY is uniquely positioned in outrage culture are

A) unique parasociality conflicts that come from RT’s business model, with a particularly strong parasocial relationship with Monty creating a serious conflict, especially since he died *just* as the show was shifting into what it was always meant to be

B) the negativity is essentially a black hole, with its constant presence sucking people in and causing them to unknowingly search for confirmation bias due to it simply being rarer to find someone who genuinely loves it (mainly thanks to algorithms, as well as RWBY fans getting worried about speaking about it positively in case they get dogpiled) creating an illusion of more credibility for the negativity

C) audiences struggling to accept subversions to common narrative expectations, challenges that force them to think and reflect, and lots of nuance and subtlety, particularly in an age where audiences were increasingly oversaturated with either bombastic, fast-paced escapism or comfortable nostalgia (and often both), training their brains not to be able to process subversive ideas and challenging themes as well as they may have otherwise

didnt get the responses i thought i would on discord so im bringing it here

a lovely creecher

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

"humans are naturally selfish and evil" factoid actually just statistical error. former united states president ronald w. reagan,

for everyone asking for what article this is i actually went back and found it again and you'll never guess who it's about

Blake: *Stabs Grimm*

Blake: I guess that enemy got the point!

Yang: ... I have never been more Attracted to you than right now.

Blake: Well-

Weiss: *Freezing a Grimm horde* FIGHT NOW! FLIRT LATER!

RWBY to me has always struck the perfect balance between having its heroes be authentically flawed and vulnerable while keeping them just the most aspirational people ever. It never feels as though it's trying too hard to make them cool but neither does it ever hide behind ironic self deprecation to attempt to seem down to earth either. As with all things RWBY, sincere is the word.

nothing funnier than saying "back in my day" in your 20s as if you aren't the toddler of adults

Reblog to make him lose another 200 billion, like to make him lose 1 billion

I hate job hunting because every time I open a description for a job the first five paragraphs are always meaningless “Scrimblo Industries is committed to synthesizing a dynamic approach to diversity and learning from–” drivel, and then at the bottom they tell you they will pay you in grass clippings and you STILL don’t know what the job is about