Meandering Muse

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PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)

Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it. 

Your wrong

It’s just a fact, that your wrong

The KIDS act didn’t pass with flying colors, it barley passed with a whole lot of NO’s

It’s NOT hopeless, it’s NOT useless, thinking there’s no point is the real reason why they have a chance of passing these laws

Spreading the idea of giving up will allow them to win, they want you to give up

Don’t allow others to give up, remind them that there is still hope, call your representatives and tell everyone that this can be stopped

So don’t allow these hopeless thoughts consume you

Fight well

Fight!

generative ai is objectively bad and causes widespread harm. it has a terrible impact on the environment and on humanity. it is regularly used as a tool of fascism and i hope it dies

much of the joy of fanfiction is that it’s written by a fellow human being who likes the same media as you and has put effort and time and their lived experience into their work

ai tells absolutely exist but ultimately some fics are going to look like they’re ai generated because ai was trained on human writing. this will only become more of a problem as ai writing becomes more ‘humanlike’ and human writing is inevitably influenced by the vast amounts of ai writing we’re exposed to

statements such as ‘this fic was obviously ai because of how shit and badly written this section is’ and ‘you can tell when a fic doesn’t use ai because it’s actually good’ are distasteful and will discourage real human writers from sharing their work

there are people who enjoy yelling at others and hunting people down for whom ai has become a convenient justification for their bullying

while you can think any ai use at all is unacceptable, there is a difference between e.g. a fully ai generated fic and one where ai has been used to correct the grammar of one paragraph

i think i found my new favorite artist on twitter

Who gave us:

Discovered last year I couldn’t look at my 2015 MacBook Air without it triggering nausea and migraines, and figured the screen died. Have been getting by on my phone, but concluded I really need a laptop again.

Saved up, realised I could afford a brand new MacBook Neo, and got one.

-And I couldn’t spend more than five minutes looking at the screen without massive eye strain, nausea, vertigo, and if I pushed it, I-need-to-lie-down-in-a-dark-room-for-hours migraines.

Looking up MacBook and Eyestrain explained what is going on. The liquid retina displays that Apple currently has uses Pulse Width Modulation or PWM. In order to give the screens a deeper depth of colour and contrast, PWM flickers between several hundred to thousand times a second.

And there is currently no way to turn it off. There are settings and apps to reduce it, but there is no way to stop the screen from flickering. Checked Apple forums, called Apple Support, and the time I could look at the screen kept shrinking. Got the laptop Tuesday, returned it Friday, today is Sunday and I’m still dealing with a vertigo migraine.

For MacBooks, it seems to vary on the computer model and the software it uses. In retrospect, the issue with my MacBook Air started after a major software update.

And it’s not just an Apple thing. Current Windows and Android screens do the same thing. There’s even a Reddit for people who are sensitive to PWM flickers to help find computers and screens that won’t trigger eyestrain and headaches.

So, yeah. This week has been a learning experience. But for those who are prone to headaches and migraines, this may be something to be aware of, cause I was not.