Aesthetics, rants, interesting things and reblogs. Also some writting, headcanons, fandoms, etc.... Pro LGBT+, feminist, Brazilian. Trying to write, but god its hard!
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anyway good morning a crucial tenet of hollanov’s relationship is that they’re equals and they’re the only people in the world who could ever be each other’s equal. they were supposed to stand alone at the top but they’re there together. shane does not view ilya as a lazy useless inconvenience. ilya does not view shane as a nagging killjoy. they are equals and they both think the other is the best thing since sliced bread and they love each other but more importantly they LIKE each other. stop making them not like each other!
like ilya spends his entire life being told (by people objectively shittier than he is) that he’s not good enough, he’s lazy, he’s undisciplined, he lets people down. and then he meets the one person who would actually be in a position to assess whether ilya is any of those things, and shane just earnestly looks into his fucking soul and says no, they were wrong. ‘you’re an awesome player to watch’ ‘i don’t know that side of you at all’ ‘this isn’t what this is. me and you’
and it’s such a fucking tragedy that people are trying to push MyIlya back into a setting where he’s constantly being lectured about his inadequacies by the very person that canonically reminds him all the time that those inadequacies were figments of his dad’s imagination
for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.
Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.
Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.
And so on.
The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.
But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.
If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.
But they wouldn't understand any of it.
That's ChatGPT.
And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.
But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.
Can I ask where has it been confirmed that it was a hate crime. As Black HR fan I feel very iffy about the whole situation.
Yes ofc! Thank you for being very civil about it :) also I totally understand your reaction, I was also very iffy about it at the start.
Under a cut because it got pretty long :)
So, a hate crime is any crime that is done to a person where the perpetrator/s was/were biased against the victim for some reason (race gender sexuality etc etc etc).
Technically, drawing a swastika on someone’s face isn’t a legal crime, I don’t think(?), but there are things that fit into the broader category of hate crime without technically being crimes. For a relevant anecdote, a couple years ago when I was in high school I found that someone had carved a swastika into the wall of one of our only gender-neutral bathrooms. (For those of you wondering, yes I reported it, no the admin didn’t do shit even with photographic proof.) Was any crime committed there? No, technically, but I don’t think anyone can argue with a straight face that whoever did that to the bathroom wall wasn’t committing a hate crime. You get it, hate crimes don’t necessarily have to include a prosecutable offense.
I feel like this was a hate crime done to him, for a couple reasons.
1. He was, to my knowledge, the only POC in the area
2. I have heard (take this with the knowledge that I am not Canadian or from the area, this knowledge is exclusively from people who are and is not firsthand) that it is a pretty conservative area. Thus, especially as of a decade ago, filled with shitheads and monsters who think it’s “edgy” (not an excuse) or what the fuck ever to draw swastikas on people’s foreheads.
3. It was in the middle of the woods and he was drunk, aka not in a proper state of mind. I have been drunk before (only once) and will tell you that if my friends started drawing symbols on my forehead in permanent marker I would not be able to identify them in time. Even if he did know what was happening (highly unlikely), what the fuck is he going to do, go against the crowd of white people with way more social capital than him who likely all agree with each other or are at least willing to go along with each other WHILE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WOODS WITH (as far as I can see) NO ADULTS OR ANYONE ELSE HE COULD TRUST TO HELP HIM? Hell no.
Obviously, a swastika is motivated by hate. I don’t need to tell anyone that. But doing it as a “prank” to the only kid of color feels very very intentional.
To sum it up: doing this to the only kid of color, when he had no idea it was happening, wasn’t in a proper state of mind, and didn’t have a ton of power to safely say no even if he did = hate crime
But honestly, everything I just said is icing on the cake. My main concern with this regarding hate crimes is the sharing of the image at all.
I believe the sharing of the image itself was racially motivated and not done in good faith, and by taking it as though it was we are playing right into their hands.
Let me start this part off with agreeing with you. I was freaked out when I first saw the image. I can imagine you were too, and frankly I hope everyone was. We can all agree here that, on its own, with no context, this is an incredibly shit look and iffy to say the very very least.
But, let me add in some context. You’re in the fandom, which (presumably) means you have seen how Hudson and Connor have been treated prior to this incident. You (presumably) were not blind to the rampant racism that was taking place. And I will also assume you know what it’s like to have your life’s work picked apart for the slightest flaw, to have people desperately look for anything to discredit you, simply because you were darker than them and they couldn’t stand to see you doing better than them, to see you respected, to see you treated as an equal. I am sure you have noticed the comparable lack of scrutiny towards Connor’s personal life history.
This was only the latest part in a long series of racially motivated attacks against Hudson. It’s just just this, they were trying to start other shit on Twitter (which I do not have) and also are potentially planning / were planning to pay someone to falsely accuse him of rape if this photo doesn’t do what they want it to (drive him off the face of the earth). There’s a really long post somewhere that details all of this with ample proof. It’s very disturbing, but also spells it out very clearly. I will link it here when I find it, and I highly recommend you read it.
Edit: found it (click here)
This is clearly, while not a legal crime (probably— it might cross the bridge into harassment, I don’t know Canadian law) a series of attacks committed against Hudson Williams because they are biased against him due to his race.
To sum it up: harassment + done due to a racial bias = hate crime
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I know i have already discussed this ad nauseum, but I love that Shane never talks down to Ilya because of his weaker english skills. especially at the beginning when he’s just moved from russia. he just talks like he would with anyone else.
similarly, i love that ilya never teases or laughs at shane when he misses obvious conversational cues (re: ilya asking shane four times in florida if he is still seeing rose). he obviously finds it endearing mostly but even when he starts to get frustrated and just asks outright he never makes shane feel lesser or aware of his misstep. he’s endlessly patient with it
they are both just so earnest with each other, sort of unintentionally??? they really are like fated mates hehe <3
every thought and feeling in your head emerges from the material reality inside your skull
but that does not mean you can correlate those feelings to the quantities of specific chemicals; there is no joy chemical that you can measure, there is no sad chemical you can rid yourself of
Why is it that every time I google something like "Are olives poisonous to cats" the top results are always like "Fun fact: Cats are carnivores! This means that they eat meat. There is no reason to include olives in a cat's diet. You should feed your cat cat food, which is dry or wet food especially designed for cats. You can purchase this at a store." like is there a single person alive on the planet who's googled "Are blueberry muffins safe for cats" because they're planning on switching their cat to a muffin-only diet??? No, I'm asking because the little bastard somehow popped open the packet while I was putting away the groceries and dragged one under the couch before I could react and now I need to know if I should call the after-hours vet. "Cats should not eat spaghetti." NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!!! "Try to keep human food away from cats." i live in a studio apartment with a completely silent and permanently hungry apex predator who has the intelligence of a toddler and the desperate Machiavellian cunning of a creature who spent his formative months on the streets. He can already open doors and he is this 👌 close to learning how to open the microwave. He is stronger than me and covered in knives. So im gonna do my best but for the moment i just need you to tell me whether this yoghurt is going to kill my son y/n
I've been using the pet poison hotline's poison list cause it has a search function. It also tells you whether something is mildly, moderately, or severely toxic which can be very handy! It doesn't contain like everything but it might be a good place to start, it also includes plants for fellow houseplant lovers <3
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For plants specifically, there’s also a wildly detailed set of posts and listings about toxicity on the old, wonderful, Plants Are the Strangest People blog
I am a fan of the dynamic where there's no leak and Shane moves to the Cens of his own accord and then Shane and Ilya never come out exactly but they just live openly and all these dumbass hockey players are just like
"Oh yeah they're just like that. They live together and room together and vacation together and get mad if they're separated on the bench. And they kiss in the locker room sometimes but it's you know. They're joking around. Good guys. Gay? Well---no I don't think so. I mean that's weird. Roz is a pussy hound. I mean I've never seen him with a woman but you know he is. Anyway Hollander had that whole thing with Rose Landry and he still talks about her, I think he's still hung up on her. Poor guy. I did walk in on Hollander sleeping on Roz's lap the other day but they were just getting in sync for power play you know? You reporters always want to make everything gay it's so weird. What do you mean 'why do they kiss so much' they're the top goal scoring duo in the league"
AU where Shane and Ilya don't hook up or have a decades-long secret. They don't really know each other at all, except to play each other.
Shane comes out of the closet sometime after Scott does, and in some random, lighthearted interview, they ask him what he's looking for in a man. And Shane's just, off-hand like, "Well, he'd have to have at least one Stanley Cup. Obviously." And when he gets a good reaction from that, he keeps going, like "Needs to be amazing at hockey. Definitely needs to be at least an All-Star, if not a captain. Hot too. If he can't bench-press me, I'm not interested."
And it's all in fun, except two days after the interview prints, Ilya Rozanov shows up at his door like "knock, knock. I am here to apply for boyfriend position. Do you need resume? I brought my Stanley Cup ring, just in case."
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I mean Bat’s whole situation can be summed up as “Harvey I know you got it rough and i want to help you but I wouldn’t have to keep beating you up if you didn’t keep ROBBING THE FUCKING BANK”
Also not EVERYONE Batman fights is a mentally ill serial killer. Most are career criminals!! Black Mask, The Penguin, and King Shark are all MAJOR mafia crime bosses!! Bane is a flat out hired mercenary and Poisom Ivy is an eco-terrorist.
Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.
It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.
It's not just rude to make me read something you didn't want to write. It is that you expect me to respond to your email written by Claude. You don't even want me to talk to you. You want me to talk to Claude so that you can make Claude respond for you. It is rude to expect me to talk to a chatbot when I wanted to talk to you.
holy shit. this guy on the bus talking to a girl about how he trades stocks. and she goes “have you seen american psycho” and he said no i dont watch movies. im too busy trading
ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to deny location sharing and turn off personalized ads and reject all non-essential cookies and not set up siri and face ID
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just like cop shows love engineering scenarios where they can go damn we would have caught the serial puppy killer by now if only police had even more money and power, doctor shows love engineering scenarios where they can go damn we would have solved every problem with this patient's body by now if only patients weren't so pigheaded and lazy and entitled and dishonest
fucks me up that by total coincidence the sun and moon's size difference is exactly matched to their difference in distance from us, thus making our beautiful total solar eclipses where you can see the silver threads of the sun's corona possible because the moon just covers the sun completely
The stars (literally) aligned just right for this experience to be possible. It's likely that aliens don't have this
The moon is also absolutely gargantuan by moon standards. It isn't the largest moon in the solar system, but it is BY FAR the largest in comparison with its planet. Ganymede is the largest satellite of Jupiter and the largest moon in the solar system. Its diameter is only about 3.8% of Jupiter's. Titan's radius is 4.4% of Saturn's. Callisto and Io are the next largest in the neighborhood, with 3.4% and 2.6% the diameter of Jupiter respectively.
Our moon is number 5. It is smaller in direct comparison to the above moons. The diameter of the moon is 3475 km. That is a full 27% of the diameter of the Earth. More than a quarter. That's ridiculous. It's unheard of. The universe is large enough that the word unique probably doesn't mean a lot, but this might be about as close as you get.
This has had a huge impact on our planet. Other things aliens might not have are significant tides. One of Mars's dumpy little potatoes wouldn't be able to move oceans the way our moon does.
Our moon has also stabilized our axis to a massive degree. Without her up there our axis would wobble all over the place and our climate would be far more chaotic. Aliens might not be quite so lucky.
I guess what I am really trying to say is that the moon is extremely cool. I like the moon.
Just want to add that the reason we have such a large moon is because a whole planet crashed into proto-Earth. Theia (the planet) and Earth got so superheated by this collision that their component cores fused and the impact jettisoned a lot of material into space. That massive amount of jettisoned material became our moon. So Earth and the moon have very similar composition. This does not seem to be a common method of lunar formation.
I got a serious beef with the Fermi paradox. There is no Fermi paradox. There stopped being a Fermi paradox once the first radio telescopes went up, and we began to get a true sense of the sheer scale of the universe.
Space is big, empty, and loud. Sunspots can cause enough interference to affect global communications. We’re not even loud enough to talk over our own sun. On our own planet. We can barely communicate with Voyager, and we know exactly where it is and what its signal sounds like.
The Fermi paradox is like doubting the existence of Belfast, because you stood on a windy New York beach shouting towards it and didn’t get an answer.
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