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@imnothyperfixating
What do you mean āchatā is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?
When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.
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undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal
This is called a fault tree. You will always know how to act if your fault tree captures all possible scenarios. In NASA Mission Control during mission critical events like landings there are huge binders with fault tree protocols, kind of like choose your own adventure books except youāre not the one making the choices, the universe is making them for you and youāre just trying to keep up.
The engineers who develop fault trees, I am told, often imagine new ways for their precious spacecraft to die (new branches on the fault trees) either while in the shower or lying awake at 3am, because human
Was just thinking about this the other day. Yeah I have a favorite seat on the bus (middle of the bus, near the back doors, slightly elevated, facing forward), but I donāt get upset if someone is already sitting there, I just pick one of my other favorite spots. Then I realized that most people probably donāt have a favorite bus seat, let alone a series of backup favorites.
Struggle? Of course not, I have a plan. And a backup plan. And several contingency plans just in case.
big fan of whatever the youth is doing to torment scientology buildings
Yeah okay Ill reblog that!
Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.
The woman who popularized gender reveals wishes she hadn't, afaik.
(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)
This whole thread is so beautiful to me that I can explain it
The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so and can't understand the popularity of the products t
what you have to remember is that ilya is hot and rich and mean and femme and bipolar and ALSO he is about 50% jason mendoza
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My niche head canon is that Harry Potter does not exist in the heated rivalry universe. Instead it takes place in the same universe as fangirl by Rainbow Rowell so therefore has the Simon snow series instead.
she's the best of us
anthony is so stupid omg ānot even our SAINTLY PERFECT MOTHER would support you!!ā
meanwhile benedict uses the word āloveā one (āļø) time and violet is like āwait omg you didnāt tell me you were in LOVE thatās my FAVORITE THING okay hereās my grandmotherās ring and hereās my plan to lie to the queenās face trust me itāll be great letās gooooo šā
itās so funny that shane is a landlord, can you imagine if your landlord was sidney crosby and you had to text him like āhi sidney crosby, my oven isnāt working right :/ā and sidney crosby would have to be like āok well iām at the olympics so iāll send someone to check it out, no problemā
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You know Sid would
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Art forgery is the best crime tbh. It requires absolutely incredible artistic talent, technical skill, and attention to detail to make convincing fakes. Does anyone get hurt from it? No! The only people who suffer for it are the extremely wealthy who want the prestige of having original paintings in their own homes. Itās full of international intrigue and mystery. Perfect.
Alsoā¦ art forgers like van Meegeren sometimes become a kind of folk hero. A swindler, sure, but a gentlemanās swindler.
I liked this guyās story, Mark Landis, who conned several dozen museums into displaying his forgeries, but when the FBI came after him they couldnāt do anything because he had always given them away as donations. They said if they could have found that heād ever taken anything in exchange they would have prosecuted him, but all he wanted was get to out of the house and meet people.
āThe first painting Landis ādonatedā was a copy of a work by Maynard Dixon, an artist well-known for his paintings of cowboys and Indians. It started as impulse, Landis says, but then āeverybody was just so nice and treated me with respect and deference and friendship, things I was very unused to ā I mean, actually not used to at all. And I got addicted to it.āā And it looks like all his forgeries are done with cheap materials, like markers and Hobby Lobby frames.
Ok, but Wolfgang Beltracchi is probably one of the best Fraud Artists in the world.
His career brought him millions upon millions of dollars and lasted almost 40 years. He finally admitted to painting fraudulent art after the white paint he used came under scrutiny.Ā
ā BobĀ Simon: What do you think this Max Ernst would be worth? Wolfgang Beltracchi: This one? Simon: Yeah. Beltracchi: $5 million, I think. Simon: $5 million. Ā And you can do it in three days? Beltracchi: Yeah, oh yes, yes, sure, or quickerā -From a 60 minutes interview with Bob Simon
In The interview withĀ Beltracchi, he said that none of his forgeries are copies, theyāre all original works that the famous artists could have painted.
āBeltracchi estimates he has done 25 Max Ernsts. He is not copying an existing work. Heās painting something he thinks Ernst might have done if heād had the time or felt like it.ā Ā -Ā The Con Artist: A multi-million dollar art scam
His wife was also in on the scam, she would dress up in old clothing and take pictures holding the paintings with old cameras to fake proof of the paintingsā ages.
At the end of the interview with Wolfgang Beltracchi he was asked if he felt he had done anything wrong, his answer wasĀ ā Yeah, I used the wrong kind of paintā
Just ā¦ the levels of con there, the fake photos and ā¦ wow. Thatās incredible.Ā
Thatās just rapscallionry.
This is what AI wants to take from us.
Letās add Tom Keating to the mix, yeah?
Keating painted more than 2,000 forgeries by over 100 different artists in his sixty-six years. Many had fraudulently sold at auctions with the total profits estimated at over 10 million dollars. āI flooded the market with the work of Palmer and many others,ā the artist said. āNot for gain (I hope I am no materialist) but simply as a protest against the merchants who make capital out of those I am proud to call my brother artists, both living and dead. It seemed disgraceful to me how many of them had died in poverty,ā he defended in The Fakeās Progress, his autobiography. āAll their lives they had been exploited by unscrupulous dealers and then, as if to dishonor their memory, these same dealers continued to exploit them in death.ā [ā¦] Keating had a great respect and understanding of all the artists he imitated but was always reckless in his handling of the materials. He often used house paint and poster paint to mix in with his acrylics as a cheaper way to achieve the impasto works. At times he wouldnāt bother preparing his antique canvases he found at the junk shops out of laziness, so that in just a few years the paint would peel right off to reveal what was originally underneath. Keating often planted what he called ātime bombsā like this in his paintings. Because of his understanding of the chemicals used in art restoration, Keating would purposely paint with layers of glycerin, which would destroy the painting once it was cleaned by a restorer, proving it was a fake. He often wrote obscenities under his paintings, like āBollocks!ā, in lead white so that it could be seen by the experts who x-rayed the painting to check its authenticity.
- Darby Milbrath, Tom Keating on Painters
i NEED people to realise foreshadowing is. in fact. a literary device. and not a Bad Thing. the audience picking up on your hints is a Good Thing. because. it makes the story and itās conclusion make sense. and some people will not see those but enjoy seeing them on a second read through. red herrings are one thing but if your novel consists of nothing but red herrings itās not a coherent story itās just a collection of paragraphs that donāt actually plausibly link to one another. you're not fighting with the audience you donāt look clever you look like you donāt know how basic fiction works. be vulnerable for once in your goddamn life and don't treat writing like a game to be won where the audience losing is a good thing.
never forget when saruman literally told gandalf "you've been smoking too much weed bro"
"You're smoking too much weed," says the guy who got addicted to manosphere podcasts on his orb and started a fascist militia with a side hobby of deliberate environmental destruction. Started cutting down trees to own the woke elves.
When you try to talk about enshittification, it sounds like conspiracy theories. (I'm not crazy)
Amazon made their service worse, to force people to pay for Prime.
Nowadays, if you order from Amazon, there is a week long delay before your package is shipped. (on purpose)
I remember when orders would ship out the same day. (I remember - it was real)
YouTube didn't used to have ads. Now, ads play in the middle of videos. (it's worse than TV ever was)
The best can opener I have owned is over 40 years old. Modern ones just don't hold up as well. (The ones I bought new broke ages ago)
The bread machine my mom got for her wedding lasted 30 years. It's been replaced twice in the last 5 years. (How can you fuck this up?)
The cardboard tubes in the middle of toilet paper rolls have gotten larger. (This too?) Companies increasing the price of the product while selling you less. (REALLY?)
It sounds crazy. (it's the truth) When you talk about it, YOU sound crazy. (it's true)
Even when people believe you (do they really), all they can say is "it sucks". (it's too big) Because the problem is so big, so pervasive, what can we even DO about it???
To get the necessary laws written and passed, we need politicians, to get the politicians elected we need information campaigns, to fund campaigns we need money, and all the money is being hoarded by the people profiting from enshittification. (it sounds so fake)
So I talk about enshittification (it sounds crazy), so people don't forget that things have been made worse on purpose (it's true), even though I sound crazy. (maybe I am)
We also need more people willing to fucking vote.
Discussions of trans women in sports often focus on elite/professional sports which honestly I find it hard to care about but the more common scenario of āweāre going to legally ban a high school girl from playing sports with her friends because sheās transā is just profoundly evil
i remember when utah's (republican) governor ended up vetoing a law banning transgender students from playing high school sports when he looked at the numbers, and there were only four trans students in the state playing sports at all. he released a clumsily worded but surprisingly compassionate statement about the decision.
I must admit, I am not an expert on transgenderism. I struggle to understand so much of it, and the science is conflicting. When in doubt, however, I always try to err on the side of kindness, mercy, and compassion. I also try to get proximate, and I am learning so much from our transgender community. They are great kids who face enormous struggles. Here are the numbers that have most impacted my decision: 75,000, 4, 1, 86 and 56. 75,000 high school kids participating in high school sports in Utah. 4 transgender kids playing high school sports in Utah. 1 transgender student playing girls sports. 86% of trans youth reporting suicidality. 56% of trans youth having attempted suicide. Four kids and only one of them playing girls sports. Thatās what all of this is about. Four kids who arenāt dominating or winning trophies or taking scholarships. Four kids who are just trying to find some friends and feel like they are a part of something. Four kids trying to get through each day. Rarely has so much fear and anger been directed at so few. I donāt understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live.
of course, it didn't amount to much. they overrode his veto. it's just so cartoonishly evil. an entire state's political body so desperate to terrorize this one little trans girl.
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I love environmental storytelling
Its fucking hieroglyphs with you people
