isadora greenhall

maybe you don't deserve fandom content or community, maybe you deserve corporate slop and the burning itch to see something made by passionate artists instead of carefully curated marketing decisions made in a boardroom, but no means by which to scratch it.

for eternity.

also, you can technically make your ao3 page look aesthetically pretty by applying your own customized skin/layouts on your own ao3 page. according to people who use their own customized skins, it’s easy once you learn how to do it (I personally don’t know how to do it because I’m not interested in learning or applying any fancy skin, and I just use dark mode there) it may not be as easy as decorating twitter or wattpad layout, but that’s because the purpose of ao3 is to archive fanworks, not to be a place for users to show their aesthetic layouts.

once again, ao3 is a non-profit organization, an anti-censorship archive/library that welcomes all kinds of fanfics/fanworks. it doesn’t prioritize “looking aesthetically pretty” because looking aesthetically pretty like a social media platform has never been relevant to its purpose.

NOTP: the opposite of an OTP (One True Pairing). It is a ship a fan strongly dislikes. The word is a portmanteau of ‘no’ and ‘OTP’ and thus is not a contraction of any particular phrase.

Squick: anything that is a deep-seated, visceral turn-off. Squicks may be shared by many fans or be specific to one; one person’s kink may be another person’s squick.

YKINMKATO, or kink-tomato: Your Kink Is Not My Kink, And That’s Okay: used to indicate support for fannish diversity and to distinguish between disapproval or kink shaming and simply having different taste.

DLDR: Don’t Like, Don’t Read: a phrase used to warn against complaints about an aspect of fic or meta. A “live and let live” philosophy of fandom, which places the responsability for avoiding content one doesn’t want to see on the side of the fanwork consumer, rather that on the creator’s.

SALS: Ship And Let Ship: similar to the above specifically about shipping tastes.

YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary: a phrase used to acknowledge that any given individual’s personal opinion on the topic at hand may differ due to their own tastes, standards, values, experiences, etc.

As the OP points out, all of these crucially imply no moral judgment of what they’re designing.

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In short:

they didn't actually measure changes in learning; they measured theta waves which don't have a clear link to learning

They evaluated adults, not children

They didn't have participants do any encoding activities; they were mindlessly typing the same thing over and over

They didn't allow participants to actually type; they had them 'type' with one finger of their right hand, when there's plenty of evidence that using both hands while encoding information leads to increased brain activity.

They couldn't see what they were typing (no visual feedback), so any error-correction processes the brain would usually run were impaired

The handwriting part of the experiment was completely normal and representative of using handwriting to record information.

They didn't actually report the raw data or conduct any statistical analysis for the two parts of the experiment individually; only the differences between the two groups.

The incandescent WHAT?! that boiled out of my mouth had my spouse worried I was reading some world-ending news.

I mean, look, I love the idea of "writing by hand helps with learning" because it sounds good. There's a feel good to it I can appreciate, and as someone who was worked for hours upon hours to have beautiful penmanship, I was ready to accept this.

But I've also written two books by hand, and I've written several books via typing, and there's no difference cognitively speaking. If anything, typing is more efficient, easier to edit, and less stress on my fingers because I would often write pages and pages within a day until half my left hand was bruised.

This is just one of those posts I'm glad I went all the way through, because my initial knee-jerk reaction was "huh, neat." followed by "I don't know if this tracks..." and then ending with "Oooooooh, okay. That makes sense" when I got down to the last bit about how it was basically the writing version of the vaccines cause autism paper. (i.e. the author had an end result they wanted, and made everything fit that).

DON’T WANT

THE WORLD

to see me

"Oh I don't normally use AI, I just wanted it to plan my trip"

You lived on this planet for decades, you know what you like, there are hundreds of websites where you can type into any search engine " things to do in [area]" and have at least a hundred different options.

"Oh I only use it so I can figure out what to make during the week with what I have"

The most popular website as you type in "recipes" into google have sections where you click dinner- quick and easy and those usually rely on staples + 1 or 2 items. I found 30 recipes on chicken alone.

"I had a writing idea, so I typed a few sentences into Chat GPT and I was able to write 20 pages with it."