hi, i'm ash and most of the time i try to art

my gender is so weird....like I wish I was born a boy so I could be feminine....girl what

sometimes you listen to an orchestra and you’re like maybe the magic i stopped believing in when i was eleven does exist in some form

Merrill can be such a little freak like she sniffs some templars blood and is like "no demon in there" in her cheery little voice and she watches her little shard of mirror like she's a cat catching the light and she puts marbles in Isabelas shoes for seemingly no reason and she walks barefoot through Kirkwall at night picking flowers from locked gardens and then she's just like 😊😊😊 before she plunges her staff into her chest and full on stabs herself 'cos magic. How am I supposed to not be in love with her? She's my freaky little blood mage and I WOULD die for her

you may notice i use the phrase "my beloved" frequently. this is because i am in love with the world and everything in it. hope this clears things up <3

girl help the pessimists found me

"girl help i am staunchly refusing to realise my own naivete in a world almost completely made up of things that couldnt care less about me or are actively exploiting me"

Girl help the pessimists are mistaking an inherently meaningless universe for an inhumane and joyless one rather than recognizing the opportunity to make one’s own meaning and joy and to spread those things to others

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.

do u ever miss your own energy. like damn what happened to me