Welcome To My Weirdness

The whole table went dead quiet. Everyone, from the kid who was still getting his Bachelor's and doing a side project with us for the experience, up to our very successful lab supervisor/PhD supervisor himself, stared at the guy. We wondered if maybe this was a language barrier issue. There was a lot of gentle, polite "What do you mean by that, exactly?"

"Well, I don't see how a monkey could just magically turn into a person," he says, rolling his eyes.

So our entire bio lab, most of us students, had to explain evolution via natural selection to the head of a fucking metagenomics lab, from first principles. I knew that there were creationists in genomics, the guy who paid for the private version of the human genome project was a creationist, but being a microbiologist who doesn't understand evolution is like being a bridge engineer who doesn't understand gravity. Like how. Especially in metagenomics, the field makes no fucking sense without evolution.

luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.

Only about 268 euros raised since november , counter at 2,047 €.

✅ Vetted: Alaa's campaign is #158 on Gazavetter's spreadsheet and she recently had to delete her Gofundme page because she couldn't withdraw funds from it. Her Chuffed campaign is now the only way she can get money, so please donate if you have the means to. She's currently at € 1,191 of her € 50,000 goal. Tagging for reach under the cut

Art and other rewards being offered for those who have proof of donation (such as a screenshot of receipt, probably with personal information blacked out) to the well-known vetting lists and a few other. I have collected an up-to-date list here. There is also links to other lists: for such as flowerpawarts's spreadsheet, you should make sure they accept the vetting list or are not just funding for a specific family

https://www.tumblr.com/virovac/787691288364482560/archival-link-donation-incentives-for-the-big-two?source=share

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No donations. Time is running out.

Doctors warned: without urgent surgery, her health may deteriorate. No medicine. No treatment. No second chance.

Hisham, Moamen, and Taj hold her hand, crying and terrified.

I sit beside her, feeling helpless.

I am afraid… that you will leave us alone. That we do nothing.

Donate now. Share our story. Be the reason she lives.

CHUFFED👈👈

Let tomorrow bring hope… not pain.

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The Night Shepard

A little comic from last spring I made that hasn’t really had a home anywhere.