Just a lil guy :D

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)

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1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

today's gregor samsa is: in the cafe kafka

happy pride! remember that being a transgender is everything but fiction. there are so many real historical figures from every century about whose transgenderism we aren't even aware of

the kodkod

the flat headed cat

the pampas cat

the andean mountain cat

the jaguarundi

“But Tumblr user severalowls, that’s just an Ocelot!”

No, you fool! You Buffoon! The Margay has mastered something generations of cats have only dreamed of! Getting down out of trees:

The Margay has reversible ankles, and uses them to do some pretty sweet tricks (And also hunt down monkeys, birds and other tree-dwelling critters in their otherwise safe treetop homes.)

2. Grace eats Taumoeba but who said it will stop evolving just because Grace thought it should?

3. Taumoeba evolves in Grace’s body, binding itself to his DNA as so many things have done before during our own evolution.

4. Grace becomes capable of consuming Astrophage (the most energy efficient organism in the known universe).

5. Grace’s organism becomes more energy efficient as well and therefore its internal structure ages a lot slower.