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Turns out people really like me waffling about Narnia on Twitter.

So here’s a more hopeful spin on Susan Pevensie. (From the author’s pen to your eyeballs.)

I'm guessing at least a part of Renji's going back and forth with how he talks to Rukia has to do with their estrangement from each other. Like, I get the sense that Rukia making digs at Renji is nothing new, and I feel like Renji used to do the same back. But at the same time, when you've grown so far apart AND have Gotei 13 laws and duties getting in the way, the old ways of connecting and talking to each other might not work so well, you know?

I want to think Renji reminding her to eat is out of concern for his old friend. But this could also be Lieutenant Abarai--really, phone? Trying to autocorrect his name to Abstain? This could also just be him meeting his professional obligations as a lieutenant, making sure prisoners don't starve themselves before their scheduled execution.

Aaaaand I got lost again on the pivot from "Of course you're gonna die!" to "C'mon, I'm only kidding, you'll probably get a reduced sentence." Did Rukia's blatant acknowledgment of her fate suddenly drive it home for him, and now the part of him that cares about Rukia is kicking in and trying to reassure her?

Whatever the reasoning is, I don't think it did much to help.

From his reaction, I get the impression Renji didn't know what things have been like between Byakuya and Rukia since her adoption. It's just now hitting me that this might be the moment he realizes his captain might not actually do anything to help Rukia out of this. If that's true, that adds a little more weight to his decisions later.

$240,000/2 br/1 ba/724 sq ft

Kelso, WA

[househunting on ig]

The solution: Make junk food more expensive with a sin tax.

I can survive a week on $50 by buying potatoes, rice, lentils, vegetables, milk and chicken. You're not going to get obese eating cheap clean food.

1) I'm not obese. What I am is chronically ill. However, just because my type of chronic illness doesn't prepend toward obesity doesn't mean that there aren't plenty that do, or that large numbers of the obese aren't chronically ill.

2) I didn't say one word about obesity. What I said was, "causes their health care to be a greater burden on the system".

3) With my chronic illness, as well as living alone, it consumes a lot of time and energy to cook. Unless I am feeling unusually well I can't cook and work on the same day.

4) Because I work so little, I barely have any money, forcing me to rely on free food when available, especially when that food is ready-to-eat.

5) The majority of free or cheap ready to eat food is stuff like white bread, ramen, candy, soda, pizza, etc.

6) Although I make healthy food when I cook, most food I don't make for myself or resort to out of low spoons tends to be inflammatory, making the health condition worse. Starving to death won't make me healthier, though. A low calorie diet is not indicated. I have an active job.

7) When I have to go to work without bringing any food or eating first then I have to eat whatever is provided by my co-workers for funsies (donuts, pizza, cookies) or buy whatever is available at a non-food store (pop, candy). I can't afford to get fast food, but if I did, I'm sure I could find something more nutritious.

8) I'm forced to rely on free healthcare to compensate for lifestyle changes I can't afford to make. Years of wearing bad shoes past the point of falling apart has given me foot problems. Living in this shit ass neighborhood has given me sleep problems and migraines. Not being able to eat good food gives me acid reflux and chronic pain. Almost all the problems in my life cna be traced to being poor and I can't get a full time job because I'm sick and can't take a physically active job 40 hours a week, but have you seen the white collar job market these days?

9) As an addendum I already make some concessions for buying the expensive food that doesn't make me sick, eg. The expensive milk is the only one that doesn't give me a stomach ache. There are many other cases like this but I would be eating for much more than $50 a week if I followed them all.

10) All of these problems were twice as bad when I lived without free use of a kitchen. What the hell are you going to do with a bag of dry lentils?

Me and my friend at a Charlie Kirk rally, plus an original photo of Kirk.

More photos of the person you're calling fat liberal:

With my disability paperwork:

Anthropic is proposing that the world's top artificial intelligence companies come up with a coordinated way to pause development of advanced AI systems, warning the technology is improving so quickly there's a risk humans would lose control.

The company behind the Claude chatbot said in a blog post Thursday that as cutting-edge AI gets increasingly faster at carrying out tasks, "it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause" its development.

Anthropic said its internal research institute plans to explore the issue in collaboration with others and "take actions" to help build the systems for a credible slowdown or pause, without being more specific.

AI models are getting faster, with rapid increases in how quickly they can carry out software tasks like coding on their own, the company said. Based on current trends and given enough computing power, an AI system could be able to design and develop its own successor, in what is known as "recursive self-improvement."

Self-building AI would be a major technological milestone that would bring benefits in science, healthcare and other areas, Anthropic said, but it "also might increase the risks of humans losing control over AI systems."

Some tech industry figures have long warned of such a scenario.

Anthropic's post comes after a different warning this week from a team of researchers at the University of Toronto who showed how AI tools could be used to create a new kind of AI "worm" that adapts its hacking strategy as it spreads from device to device and takes over a vast computing network.

"I think it's really important that people understand that it's not just the biggest, most powerful language models that pose the security concerns," lead researcher Nicolas Papernot said in an interview.

The authors of the Anthropic post, company co-founder Jack Clark and Marina Favaro, head of the research institute, said the pause would be used to enable "societal structures and alignment research" to keep up with AI advances. Alignment is industry shorthand for making sure the technology matches human values and intentions.

The proposed coordination would let advanced AI labs verify that global rivals have actually stopped or slowed their work, "and that a bad actor could not use the auspices of a coordinated slowdown to jump ahead in secret."

The company said a coordinated global mechanism is needed because without it a slowdown in AI development could let the "least cautious" players catch up and add to pressure on companies and governments as they make tough choices about AI safety.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

The Amur Leopard and Clouded Leopard (which recently celebrated its 50th cub born at the zoo!)

The Sumatran Tiger

The Red Ruffed Lemur and Ring-Tailed Lemur

The Cotton-Top Tamarin and White-Cheeked Gibbon

The Colobus Monkey and De Brazza’s Monkey

And the Mexican Spider Monkey!

The application of the Psalm is toward Trump himself. The gospel is useless to him if he only shares it on pretense.

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"