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Whatup TAD fandom, I bring a quizzy thing with which to torture yourself!
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In previews it says it can't be found, but I and others have successfully opened it in browsers so 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
Have fun making yourself make choices. (Spoiler: it's so difficult omg.)
Semi-inspired by @peach-pot's TAD bracket.
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A Wizard of Earthsea mockup alternate cover for class and also because Le Guin has me in her clutches right now.
Easter eggs include tiny gont, the isolate tower, and the little dragon up on top!
Why are you using chatgpt to get through college. Why are you spending so much time and money on something just to be functionally illiterate and have zero new skills at the end of it all. Literally shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to waste thirty grand you can always just buy a sportscar.
I’m really starting to think you people don’t understand what university is for. You’re buying the accreditation that you can do these things. It doesn’t matter how you do them.
I can assure you if you're going to school to be an xray tech or a surgical assistant it does very much matter how you do the stuff your accreditation says you can do. We aren't all business majors.
Yes, but you actually can’t do an X-ray without an X-ray machine and you can’t do surgery without scalpels. We already rely on technology for everything. Offloading cognitive tasks just frees us up to do more. If you can do your job with chatgpt, but can’t without, you can still do your job. I’m sure you would find university much much harder without access to google or the internet too.
Do you think scalpels are magic and do a little song and dance and perform the surgery themselves like Beauty and the Beast characters and the surgeon is there to conduct the background music
What do you think will happen when your employer, who hired you because they saw you have a certificate to say that you have specific skills and knowledge, starts expecting you to have and use those skills and knowledge and you can't because you think a university degree is just a piece of paper that you buy
"Offloading cognitive tasks just frees us up to do more"
When you're in school, the cognitive tasks are there for the explicit purpose of being brain exercises. It's weightlifting. It is FOR building your mental muscles and making you a stronger thinker and planner. "Offloading the cognitive tasks", then, is just Not Doing The Weightlifting. What happens when you pay for your gym membership and just stand around messing around on your phone? Nothing. Nothing happens. Just money leaving your wallet. Nothing else.
Using AI is a short term pleasure that is going to fuck you over in the long term, and by the time you realize that you didn't build the necessary muscles you need for the cognitive tasks required of your ACTUAL JOB (or, like, adult life in general), it's going to be too late to do anything about it... except going back and doing the real work all over again to get you up to speed.
And if your response as a college student is "Ugh i'm already good at this though, i don't need the practice" -- sweetie, you have no idea how good at it you could be though. If you're good at it now but you keep working on it, you're going to ASTONISH yourself in a couple years with how good at it you can get. I was a good writer when I was in college; I am an ASTRONOMICALLY better writer now, because I put in the work. But you have to lift the weights and build your muscles to get there, even when it's tedious. There aren't any shortcuts for this. You can be content with your own mediocrity, or you can believe that you're capable of growing towards brilliance. Which one will you choose, mediocrity or brilliance? You get to pick right now.
I’m a Surgical Assistant and that ChatGPT stan pissed me off so I’ll use my job as an example. 90% of our job as surgical assists comes down to memorizing the names and usages of the thousands of unique instruments and equipment and sutures involved in surgery as well as having the critical thinking skills to anticipate the needs and expectations of the surgeons we work with. That’s a “cognitive load” that cannot be pawned off on a computer. If I relied on ChatGPT to tell me what instruments to have ready for a case, it would create a composite of what the most likely instruments to be used in a given surgery and assuming that it’s even accurate, it would be effectively useless if my surgeon didn’t use any of those because each doctor is different. Surgeons get pissed off if you give them the wrong diameter size suture, so why would I rely on a soulless algorithm to tell me what my surgeon wants? And if I’m not figuring out for myself what they may need based off my own learning and not machine learning then why am I even there? There’s a reason robotic surgery still requires a surgical assistant and a surgeon to operate the robot, technology is an easement not a replacement for human labor and in college learning is the labor you should be doing.
A common thread with ChatGPT simps seems to be that they truly believe all labor is as easy as their cushy middle management jobs in the tech industry. “Buying an accreditation” might work there but can you imagine someone in the medical field not actually knowing the subject they’re licensed or accredited to know? I’ll give you a hint: the word we typically use is malpractice.
@jaydenskyle A little off topic, but I'm a software engineer and you've just described a job completely susceptible to AI--moreso than nearly any job I've heard of. Now, to be clear, not chatgpt, it would need to be an AI trained on the specfic task of identifying surgical tools, with a final calibration layer of training when it gets to the end user. It sounds like it would need a really well positioned camera as well.
As you probably already know, AI is just a statistics machine. It's given like billions of example scenarios and it then identifies (like millions of) somewhat random "key" metrics, which it finds patterns in to run predictive analysis off of. You descibe your job as handing over tools that you identify off of memorized knowledge (easy for a computer) and context information from the surgery and knowledge of the doctor (small enough frame of context with clear visual signals, so we'd get extremely accurate). The only part here that would be hard is the handing bit. I imagine having to take the tool from a set location would be nonfeasible for the doctors themselves and so it'd make sense with the current limitations of technology to make an AI drawer system that spits out the right tool and hands it to a more replacable assistant who only needs to hand it to the doctor. In the rare situation the doctor wants something unpredictable there could be a vocal processing component so it spits out the requested tool.
There are still two main limitations to AI. (1) situations in which it makes no sense to be using predictive statistics in the first place (literally most of the current usages of chatgpt), and (2) situations in which you need someone to be liable for failure since you can't meaningful punish (ie. throw under the bus when sued for malpractice) an AI. In your case if the AI augmented assistant hands the doctor the wrong tool the doctor can still be held responsible for using it, so we aren't saved by the hospital system needing a human to strategically fire later.
Granted your job is probably safe, since I don't think I'm alone in feeling that even if I could hand already identified tools to a doctor and return others to be refiled (I doubt I have steady enough hands for the handoff moment), you'd need to pay me a lot to regularly be in a room where I could see surgery happening. So yeah, my theory is if AI ever gets cheaper to run (who knows) you probably will one day be helping a cabinet do your job (management likes it because it's more accurate than your worst coworker and they don't realise it can demand a raise) rather than using your degree.
So, like I said, you think the labor part is simple and easy. The “susceptible” part of my job is knowing what I’ll need, yes, and if you wanted to make a surgeon’s pick ticket based on a dataset taken from their last however many cases, you could do that. I would welcome you to do that, pick tickets are often outdated and if we had a system that could add things they’re frequently using to the pick tickets, I’d be all for it.
But surgical sets don’t unpack and organize themselves, patients don’t drape themselves, instruments don’t clean themselves over the course of the surgery, tissues don’t retract themselves, sutures don’t load themselves, OR lights don’t adjust themselves (if you can write a program for that, I’d actually appreciate that, I hate having to readjust the spotlights), patients don’t clean or bandage themselves or transfer themselves from OR table to bed on their own under anesthetic and you still haven’t solved the human component of critical thinking in high paced scenarios where waiting for a vending machine to spit out, say, a hemostatic, can mean the difference between life and death.
Your cabinet idea is, interesting, but I think you vastly underestimate the logistics. The cabinet can know the tools for the case sure but if it’s not sterilely 3d printing these supplies, it would have to be the size of 2 ORs or more just to supply one OR with instruments for one specialty (and that’s if it’s general surgery, if it’s ortho, with reps and vendors involved, bump that supply requirement up to 4 ORs if you want to store everything on-site and still have the drawer dispense it) if it’s going to work the way you describe in the event of something unexpected being needed, and that’s without touching the sterility issues, since you’d have to hire a sterilization tech just to keep one of these things stocked and you’re still not have replaced the surgical assistant who is unpacking what it spits out (btw by spits out are you envisioning a conveyor belt situation to transport because those could compromise the sterility of packaging if anything gets stuck), organizes it, keeps it sterile, and then hands it over.
I think it comes back to the last thing I said, office jobs and hands-on labor are very different, and a lot of people that think AI can do the hands on stuff don’t take that into consideration, and instead map it onto their own industry, so they think that surgical assistants will only exist to take heat from malpractice lawsuits because they’re used to higher ups firing entire development teams once the project is over.
also, and very important to this discussion:
ai hallucinates, often and unpredictably, it mixes shit up and straight up regurgitates misinformation so any kind of job for which ai might actually be good for, it is very shit at
ai is always worse than just hiring a random person off the street
”Protect the kids!” Unless they’re queer, trans, intersex, non-white, then you suddenly don’t give a shit about the kids.
they don't give a shit about any kids.
I see this "protect the kids unless they're..." gotcha attempt constantly and it's really fucking grating because no, fascists do not care about straight cis white kids either. fascism is desperate for children to exist as a resource to be exploited, to make up the numbers of their fantasy ethnostate, to ensure the propagation of their preferred bloodlines, etc, but kids as actual real human beings - regardless of their identities or origins - are not loved or respected under fascism. they are targeted for brainwashing. their lives are aggressively controlled to prevent them from developing their own thoughts, views, or understandings. they are severely punished for any failure to progress toward their future roles as cogs in the fascist machine.
straight cis white abled male children are not privileged under fascism, they are cultivated.
If they cared about any kids at all they’d do a single goddamn thing about school shootings
I hope everyone grows tired of being cruel to each other soon
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if your brother thinks he should be from the 1960s maybe you could draw him & only him from that era. worst possible compromise. even greater anachronisms.
noble from the 1530s, astronaut from the 1960s, basically the same thing nooo anachronisms here
before someone screenshots this and posts it elsewhere this is me
I don't know who my intended audience is here, so whoever needs to hear this, I am begging you to learn to participate in conversations that are about things you aren't interested in.
Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.
Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.
It can not always be about your preferred topic.
You are being rude. Yes, even if you are neurodivergent. You can be both autistic and rude.
If you feel like this is calling you out, and you're wondering how else to react instead, may I suggest focusing not on this topic that you're not interested in (because faking interest is something a lot of people can catch up on) but on the person's interest in and of itself.
"It's great that you're so into this - how did that happen?" shows interest in the person and allows them to tell you about themselves. And maybe you'll find something to connect to in their journey.
"I bet all this knowledge can come in handy at some point. Like, I'd ask you to be my game show phone joker on this topic!" Is a lovely compliment and still also gets across that you don't know much about that topic. It also opens a different tangent, that of gameshows, or topics you (or others around the table) don't know much about, so the conversation might shift from the topic you're not interested in to other places.
"Hey, sorry, I don't know much about this thing; it never really caught my attention. But it's great that you're so into it!" Can be a way to express your disinterest in a way that neither insults the other person nor shames them for being into that topic. It is a very subtle signal that you might be disinterested in hearing more, and by "subtle" I mean that not everyone will pick up on it for sure. But it's miles better than simply changing the topic.
I want to go to this exact point and run around it saying “I’m in Sweden!” I’m in Finland!” “I’m in Norway!” until I get tired
i aspire to great things in life
According to Google Maps, that point is in the middle of a small lake.
So we’ll do it in January when it’s frozen.
actually that’s why they’ve helpfully dropped a big-ass cement block with a bridge surrounding it in the middle of the lake: for the express purpose of doing what OP aspires to do
there’s so much beauty in the world.
There’s also a point like this which connects Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands!
They even made a circle there which tells you in which country you are
And the tripoint of Slovakia-Austria-Hungary 👋😊
the tripoint of czechia, slovakia and poland is just A Rock In A Ditch lmao
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My pictures from the concert. It was genuinely everything I could have ever dreamed of. I've met the most wonderful people, and hearing Joey and Madeleine singing live was such a amazing experience.
Will always stay in my heart 💕
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Hey! You are an asshole! Asexual and Aromantics are very much LGBT+ because, unless you are too stupid to understand, they don’t experience sexual (asexual) or romantic (aromantic) attraction! Demisexuals are also included in the LGBT+ spectrum! They don’t feel a sexual attraction unless a deep emotional bond is forged! Same thing with Demiromantics and Demiplatonics! You can have a deep emotional bond with someone and not be their friend! Quelle fucking surprise!
How do you function in real life. How do you think people form relationships, how do you equate the struggles of LGBT to not wanting sex or relationships.
How the fuck do you have a deep emotional bond and not be friends- what the fuck are you on.
alriight ii am iin no mood for thii2 today:
ju2t becau2e you don’t feel romantic and/or 2exual attractiion, that doe2n’t make you LGBT
LGBT = le2biian, gay, bii, tran2. that'2 fuckiing iit.
liiterally LGBT ii2 ju2t = either people who have gender iincongruence or are attracted to the 2ame gender and/or sex. that'2 liiterally iit.
(yea before you come after me, that doe2 iinclude nonbiinary iidentiitiie2 get off your hiigh hoofbea2t)
how the fuck can you be friiend2 wiith people w/o formiing a deep emotiional bond. that'2 liiterally what a friiend2hiip ii2.
ii am 2o tiired today dont pu2h me holy 2hiit.
and don’t come after diirk for not beliieviing iin your a22 backward viiew2.
No, we’re not “LGBT”. We’re queer, and we’ve been queer since before you were born. You newcomers don’t get to kick us out.
The “queer” umbrella is for anyone who isn’t cishet, and always has been.
Queer is a slur and always has been. You may personally reclaim it for yourself if you are LGBT. No A, no +, etc. You do not get to call anyone else queer, that’s like calling a gay man a faggot to his face and saying he should accept it.
Also, that sign? It so says “straight” among other things.
I’m not calling you queer. I’m calling the community who are queer queer, which is the vast majority of non-cishet people outside Tumblr.
How funny, isn’t it, that
the most inclusive term
the term that allows people to keep the details of their identity private
the term that allows easy space for nonbinary, transgender, ace, questioning and fluid/complex identities
the unapologetically political, non-conformist and activist-associated term
the term associated with our anger, with our non-assimilation
the term associated with our history, studies and education that can empower us
is the one that’s apparently unreclaimable.
Friendly reminder that LGBTQ+, Queer, and LGBT+ are the preferred terms for the community (x).
Friendly reminder that Queer is approved by 72.9% of the people, and the groups who don’t prefer it’s use as an umbrella term are straight people, exclusionists, transmeds, truscums, sex-negative people, and sex work critical people (x).
Friendly reminder that aros and aces are excluded only 9.2% / 8.1% of the time respectively while being included 78.9% / 81.2% of the time (x)
Friendly reminder that exclusionists are in the minority and aro/ace people are included in the LGBTQ+ community by the people within the community.
The whole “wah you can’t call anyone queer ever” thing was started by TERFs and straight 4channers trying to stir shit (along with the “pedogender” nonsense). You can be part of the “LGBT” community, we’re part of the queer community, which is a different, more inclusive thing.
https://asynca.tumblr.com/post/176979904304/waiti-always-thought-the-q-in-lgbtq-was-for
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-offensive-for-asexuals-to-turn-up-at-Pride-Events-If-so-Why
https://justonepurpose.tumblr.com/post/162940965965
https://alarajrogers.tumblr.com/post/180560034794
https://dragon-in-a-fez.tumblr.com/post/158320252851
https://sarahsyna.tumblr.com/post/162406515781
https://a-polite-melody.tumblr.com/post/186316809932
Okay, then, try this. The term dates back to 1907. We also face many of the same problems as other queer and LGBT people (see, different groups).
https://bi-asexual.tumblr.com/post/161938628812
https://autismserenity.tumblr.com/post/162696065856/are-aces-lgbt
https://captaintoughfluff.tumblr.com/post/175794199814
https://chelonianmobile.tumblr.com/post/185688727059/autismserenity-disanthropi-lynati#notes
https://chelonianmobile.tumblr.com/post/185688628359/some-fun-lgbt-history-from-todays-pride-tag-on#notes
https://chelonianmobile.tumblr.com/post/183984138774/legsdemandias-saltypersonbasketballspy#notes
Stonewall and the United Nations accept aces as queer, as do most organisations outside Tumblr. So forgive me if I don’t listen to you.
Also, to answer your questions in your original comment: do you plan your life around living with your “friends”, want to live together forever instead of just living with them till you get your own place and start your own life (albeit your own life with them involved in it), make major life decisions based on their input, and generally do everything but fucking with them? If not, that’s not a QPP. And we compare our struggles to yours because those struggles are comparable to yours, as you’d know if you asked us.
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I’m queer, and anyone who doesn’t like that is welcome to die mad about it.
I’m queer and LGBT+ is a goddamn umbrella for anybody not validated in this hetro central world we live in. There a fucking for, aces are chill and welcome in my space. And I will defend you with my sword and shield.
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characters have to be a little bit awful in ways that you cant defend. its good for the ecosystem. your honor he did do that. He did in fact do that
If you're ever worried about whether your writing is too self indulgent, I just want you to remember that Sharknado had 5 sequels. I'm only partway through watching Sharknado 6: It's About Time, but already they've traveled through time and ridden a pteronadon into a Sharknado so they could use the magic teleportation portal inside of it to travel forward in time to King Arthur's time, where they are currently battling a Sharknado full of fire-breathing dragon sharks with Excalibur, which is a chainsaw sword that calls lightning. You're fine. In fact, be a little more self indulgent if anything, because I am having a BLAST watching this specifically because I can see how much fun the writers were having.
In case you were wondering if people like self indulgence in their media? So far responses to this fall into 5 categories:
What the fuck this cannot be real/this sounds awesome
This is totally real, I looked it up/I've seen them and they were awesome
I don't want to know if this is real, this is awesome
Time to watch/rewatch Sharknado/all the Sharknado movies because they are awesome
I feel better about my writing now and will be more self indulgent
So whatever you're on the fence about indulging yourself over in your story, please go for it whole ham.
Friendly reminder that writing is a skill and it's okay to practise.
There's absolutely no rule that says every piece of writing needs to be perfect or needs to be part of a story or needs to be polished up and posted on the web for all to see.
Assuming that everything you write (or draw or create in any other way) has to be "good enough" to share can really fuck you up. Do it for fun, do it for practice, do it for the feral friends who will love it even when it's shit. It's okay to make complete bullshit sometimes.
Sometimes you'll write something only to go back later and realise it's not complete bullshit, and actually it's worth polishing up into something worth posting. Sometimes it will be complete tosh you want to make sure no one but you ever sees.
Both those outcomes are okay. Both those outcomes are practice.
Skill takes practice.
when you crave your boyfriend’s attention bc ever since your joint screentime got cut for being too romantically charged you never really see each other anymore
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THE MUPPET SHOW (2026)
i have to defend fictional women who aren't good people because if i don't who else will
the two flavours of this feeling are "i think she is flawed and going through it and figuring her shit out and that's a very human quality that i appreciate seeing in a female character" and "i think it's good she killed and ate those people and i think it's really hot that she didn't feel bad about it because confidence is attractive"
