The Seventh Daughter of Zeus

wild mood swings

constant need for attention

hearing about All my problems

crying

having my latest hyperfixation explained to you in excruciating detail

and depending on how many movies for the franchise rose had filmed in montreal in the past??? not impossible that SHE was the montreal girl cap was always running off to see when they were in town. yes! it all makes sense!! rose landry is montreal girl, and hollander has STOLEN HER!!

which leads to the very funny idea of the boston team trying to be loyal to ilya and parent trap situations on nights out on the town to get ilya and rose to spend time together because SURELY cap can win her back! he's ilya rozanov!! of course he can do it!! manage to get them "accidentally" locked in a room together and NO chance cap doesn't win her back and steal her away from hollander!

TEARS IN MY EYES LAUGHING ABOUT THIS

oh MAN, one other player from boston got picked for all stars and another came along as their plus-one because listen. ilya has been carrying around a BAD FUCKING VIBE and they are. worried. he is in demon mode and very mean rn but he's their cap, so they gotta look out for him. and atp the whole boston team thinks they've solved the puzzle (they. have not. they have actually invented their own picture and cut it into pieces to MAKE a puzzle), so they send to the groupchat (the one without ilya called Potential Evidence For a Cold Case Episode One Day) that oh! landry is HERE, guys! she apparently came with hollander.

and OBVIOUSLY this is the perfect time to find space for cap and landry to get together 1 on 1 again! what if she came JUST to see cap!! (they needed to run this past like. at least one wag. but alas.)

and meanwhile rose came with shane as moral support in him trying to talk to ilya, but now ilya is avoiding them like the fucking PLAGUE.

BUT NOW IT DOES LOOK LIKE ROSE IS ACTIVELY SEEKING ILYA OUT.

BUT NOT FOR THE FUCKING REASON THAT THE BOSTON TEAM THINKS.

so the players are like SCORE. PERFECT. landry even asked one of them where cap was!! she WANTS HIM, guys. WE MIGHT SURVIVE AFTER ALL. ROSE LANDRY, WE WORSHIP AT YOUR FEET. PLEASE SAVE US.

so one of them distracts shane while the other goes to get rose, and rose is like "well, shane is busy, and maybe rozanov just needs to hear that shane wants to speak to him, and i can do that."

but now rose and ilya are locked in a room, rose doesn't want to say shane's part FOR HIM so she's just trying to set the stage by talking about what a wonderful person shane is and how he makes a great boyfriend and is so sweet and sensitive and-

and ilya meanwhile has his focus torn between trying to set her on fire with his mind, set himself on fire with his mind, and make his teammates (who are DEAD when he gets out of here) catch on fire with his mind.

and this time his BEST FRIEND got her and after he moved up to canada just to be closer to where she films

The problem with AI comes from a problem in the idea of knowledge.

A lot of times people act like human knowledge is "discovered" or obtained, and after that it simply exists; it becomes an eternal, transcendent thing as part of "what we know" about the world.

For example, "we" "discovered" that microorganisms cause disease, and thereafter this became a part of "human knowledge."

The problem is, there was not a discrete event of discovery; long before microscopy was invented, some doctors (such as Ibn Sina aka Avicenna) in the Islamic Golden Age theorized that diseases were caused by tiny particles or organisms that could travel from person to person.

And indeed long after microorganisms were actually observed, people still didn't adhere to the belief that they could cause disease, and with each different illness the connection to a microorganism had to be established. And even today, some people don't believe that microorganisms cause illness.

Then again, the behaviors and methods for reducing the spread of illness, which were proven to be effective by observing microorganisms, didn't require the "knowledge" of microorganisms to develop. Behaviors such as quarantine, washing, and avoiding touching infected people or dead bodies, were followed centuries before it was possible to observe a germ.

As you can see, it's hard to say when "we" "Knew" or "did not know" the causes of illness and how to prevent them.

When someone followed the behaviors that prevented illness spread, they did not necessarily know why. When someone theorized that tiny particles caused illness, they did not necessarily have proof. When someone proved that a microorganism caused illness, they did not necessarily convince others. When the proof was written down, not everybody read it. When people read it, they did not necessarily follow the behaviors that prevented illness spread.

Someone in the year 1020 might "know" that when you get the plague, you have to quarantine, whereas someone in the year 2020 might not "know" that. How does that happen?

Knowledge does not just exist like an eternal spirit. It has to be learned, maintained, practiced, and transmitted.

The internet is full of information. But is the internet full of knowledge? No. A written work is a means of transmitting information, a pipe from one brain to another that information flows through. Only when a human learns information, does it become knowledge. Books, likewise, are pipes that information flows through. They don't actually "have" knowledge. If no one reads the book, the knowledge doesn't exist.

The internet is a vast repository of information. AI shoves it all into a blender and extrudes it into sentences that have form. But the information wasn't knowledge, it was just a device for transmitting the knowledge, and the extruded sentence-stuff produced by AI is even farther from being knowledge, because the transmission between brains has been interrupted and partially destroyed by the randomness inherent within the functioning of Large Language Models.

A library can contain all the secrets of the universe, but no one will "have" the knowledge unless they read the books. And by reading the books, I mean not just being able to comprehend the structure of language within the sentences, but actually learning. When you try to understand a concept and it is so hard that makes your head feel fuzzy, that's because learning is happening. Your brain is literally growing new connections and pathways.

Learning requires teaching. A way to look at knowledge transmission is through the idea of apprenticeship. A master teaching an apprentice is self-replicating: they contain knowledge, and they are shaping another person to contain the same knowledge, molding another brain into the same shape.

So, we can say that knowledge transmission happens when a knower self-replicates, causing another knower of the same knowledge to exist. But a knower can't self-replicate by splitting into two people. Instead, they have to somehow put their knowledge into another person from the outside. Language is a good way to do that.

Someone who writes down their knowledge is not self-replicating by writing it down. They have created a secondary object or tool to aid the self-replication process. Without brains, language would be nothing, there would be no such thing as symbols or meaning, language would not exist.

This means that information is completely worthless if it is not successful at replicating knowledge from one brain into another. Which means that the level of information we have stored in various repositories does not directly correlate with how much "we" "know." Written information can fail to become knowledge in various ways: people can just not read it, or the writing can be too hard to understand, or it can be forgotten once understood, or it can be discredited or seen as untrustworthy, or nowadays, with generative AI, it can be interrupted and distorted on its way to the learner.

Today my new psychiatrist said I should try talking to ChatGPT for fixes to my insomnia and I just. I don't fucking know, man. I didn't say it but in my head all I could think is, "So you're admitting you're so fucking stupid that the same program that gets basic shit from the second paragraph of an article it reads wrong is more intelligent and useful than you? Then wtf am I paying you for? Why do you have this job?!"

Everyone insists that it's so helpful and so smart and so useful and I honestly feel like I must be in an alternate dimension than other people. People talk about the dangers of it being addictive and they might as well be talking about how fun snorting bleach is for how much that makes sense to me. The computer thing that spews out its' bullshit in 2 sentence microparagraphs, says 'if' about objective reality in order to be 'cautious', whines that you're doing a "call out" if you correct it when it makes mistakes you wouldn't make while drunk, this thing, this goddamn nightmare, this is addictive? How?! I was forced to use this thing and it felt like when you're trying to talk to a friend high on Benadryl who's tuning out chunks of the conversation, tuned in for others and imagining the last third of it. Genuinely I went in predisposed to thinking it'd be boring but unremarkable, a needless extra step no one asked for or wanted but not an ordeal, and came out nursing a tension headache every time.

After my psychiatrist appointment, I tried to retreat to fanfic, my happy little reprieve from stress. First fic in the AO3 tag for my OTP is "co-authored by ChatGPT". I am so confused and tired. Is it me? Am I too brain-broken to get the appeal? Is it a neurotypical thing?

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No, it's not a neurotypical thing: it's what happens when people have outsourced their brain for a while and stopping feels like going backwards.

the media adores pictures of baby-faced Rookie Shane awkwardly holding an actual baby / his mini me when greeting his family after games

Chase adores Shane and seems to love hockey early on but really he's just feeding off the atmosphere, he has no clue what's going on

By the time Yuna and David strap him into skates, Chase is quickly discovering he has no actual interest in understanding what's happening on ice or taking part in it

Shane struggles even more so to relate to his supposed brother but also somewhat relieved that he doesn't have to worry about this kid coming up behind him in 15 years to be a better, more perfect hockey player and son, which is a feeling that Shane is very uncomfortable sitting with for long

by age 9, Chase is well and truly over hockey, resenting how much it seems to occupy Yuna and esp Shane

there are failed attempts at brother bonding sleepovers in Montreal when Shane isn't traveling but Chase never lasts the weekend without calling David

Chase likes basketball, it's what his friends play, it's more accessible, he and his friends can pick up and play just about anywhere, anytime

but he doesn't want to play it like Shane plays hockey and chafes at Yuna's attempts to foster his interests in it along those lines bc that's how Yuna shows her love

Chase just wants to goof off w his friends and have fun

He also likes Roblox and Minecraft, Steven Universe and Teen Titans Go, bike riding and his pet guinea pig

he likes so many things and feels like his brother isn't aware of or cares about any of them bc they aren't hockey (even tho Chase thinks his guinea pig and his brother have a lot in common)

Chase is boisterous and loud; he thumbs his nose at the media that cooed at his pudge ball self in Shane's arms, making a spectacle of his boredom and dissatisfaction at Montreal home games

2 key splits in the timestream, however:

Shane doesn't officially date Rose because shortly post-Tuna meltdown, Shane comes to terms with being gay more so on his own, having suffered a crisis over Chase being the more perfect "do-over" kid when Chase demonstrates a sincere crush on a girl in his class and come out the other side resigned to the fact that Shane can fulfill the star hockey athlete expectations as his parents' son while Chase (mind you, an 8 year old at this point) can eventually fulfill the heteronormative bring-home-a-nice-girl-and-give-their-parents-grandkids expectations. Rose still clocks Shane bc for all they hang out and the media is speculating, he is obviously not making a move, and Rose let's him know that's okay, offers to hook em up with Miles, etc. etc. Shane and Ilya are already in relationship limbo pre All Stars but All Stars is where Shane tries to hit the brakes on merely falling back into old patterns.

ask-omnipony:

I don’t really believe this mumbo jumbo

I mean it’s a goddamn hat.

Right..?

The white rose, it symbolizes the unique beauty of all the women who wish not to be with a nice guy such as myse-

I wonder if this works with other kinds of hat…

Nothing ventured, nothing gained…

WHEEEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE LIKE A BIG PIZZA PIE THAT’S AMORREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

oh boy…….

Luckily, this nonsense doesn’t work on girls.

Observe…

And it can’t possibly work on motorcycle helmets.

I must test it.

Nothing happening so far…

What in the world?

Oh why not? This should be interesting.

Here we go!

Were all mad here in Underland!

What the hell! Never Again!

… Actually …

Alright, I gotta try this!

Can’t be that bad!

….

LOL

i wonder if it works for flower crowns?

here goes nothin-

w HAT THE

DID I JUST-

Okay Clearly something is up.

Hmm… I wonder

I’m sure nothing could possibly…

I wonder what happens when you wear 8 of these at once…

what could possibly go wrong?

eww, it smells like fuckboi

welp, down this rabbit hole we go…

nothing’s happeni-

WTF-

I wonder if this would work with a wolf hat.

May as well try it.

Please don’t be awful, please don’t be awful, please don’t b-

get wet 4 furry

This is obviously fake

Look, I’ll prove it

Y’all are just acting

Watch and learn

Whelp guess I gotta put on the hat now

Can’t be that bad, I mean what’s the worst a squid hat can do to m-

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No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.

If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.

It was only legalized in 8 US states (the 8th only a few months before), and wouldn’t be legalized nation-wide until 2015.

It was only legal in TEN COUNTRIES in 2011. We wouldn’t hit 20 countries until 2017. (Australia was 23rd)

As of today (April 14, 2026), I believe only 38 countries have fully legalized same-sex marriage. Out of somewhere around 200 countries in the world. That’s only ~19% of countries.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

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Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.