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i love when museums have near exact replicas of their displayed objects for you to buy. haha 15th century ceramic cup you are in my possession
Went to a museum exhibit once that had this little guy
10/10, give me tiny replicas of animal statues that I am encouraged to pat as part every exhibit ever please
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Google has been upfront about it from Version 1. It is not like it was a secret. They always informed interested users that it is being used to train AI and OCR, and uninterested users could find it in the ToS they agreed to.
yeah this was like. the whole point of recaptcha from the start.
reCAPTCHA - Wikipedia
i would also hardly call it harmful tech even if you didn’t know you were training ai. a few seconds to improve OCR and computer vision is so insignificant compared to the massive theft of entire libraries full of books to train the writing style of an llm being sold for profit
This is identical outrage to the one people had about "Pokémon Go is SECRETLY mining you for location data!!" and like... no shit. They said that. They said that Day One. They've been saying it every day since then, they bragged about the income from selling walking paths to Google. Google maps now has walking paths through parks--did you notice? That's pogo players data.
Before this Google map instructions would go around parks like if it was a building.
And even if you didn't know that, you can, like, guess what both captcha and pogo were doing. Neither are hiding it.
“𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐲: ‘𝐎𝐡, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩 𝐢𝐭. 𝐈𝐭’𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲.’ 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐲: ‘𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜!’ 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐬𝐚𝐰 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝.” Elizabeth Taylor chats with Whoopi Goldberg on the debut episode of The Whoopi Goldberg Show, originally broadcast in syndication on September 14th, 1992. An early trailblazer in the fight against HIV/AIDS and a staunch and outspoken LGBTQ+ ally, Elizabeth committed her time and energy to the cause when her friend and co-star Rock Hudson was diagnosed with AIDS prior to his passing in 1985. Elizabeth went on to become a co-founder (alongside Dr. Mathilde Krim) of the first AIDS research center amfAR, and later founded her separate Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1991 with the specific focus of providing nutritious meals (as well as medical and financial assistance) to people living with HIV and AIDS. She also lobbied the U.S. congress to contribute more money for AIDS research and education, devoting the last twenty-six years of her life to the cause. After Elizabeth passed away in 2011 at the age of 79, a large portion of the $156,800,000 raised at the Christie’s auction of her legendary jewelry collection was bequeathed to her charity in order to continue providing the services and assistance she believed were important in perpetuity. Still actively raising funds today, Elizabeth’s grandson Quinn Tivey is now an officer and co-trustee of her foundation. Reflecting on his grandmother’s humanitarianism and advocacy, he recently stated: “The fight against HIV/AIDS was such a vital part of her legacy, and although the fight is far from over, I’m honored to see the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation continue her work, educating legislators, raising awareness for the public, disproving myths and decreasing fear and stigma. Grandma stood up for what she believed in, living boldly and courageously. She would never buckle under pressure, and she certainly would not support the status quo if the status quo didn’t feel right.”
nobody better say a goddamned word against Elizabeth Taylor in front of me, is all I can say. She fought this fight before it was popular, before it was acceptable, even before people knew it WAS a fight. She didn’t care if it made people think less of her. She fought it.
February 9, 2000 - The London Lesbian Avengers stopped the no. 15 bus in London's Piccadilly Circus, and painted it pink. This was done to demand the repeal of homophobic Section 28, and to protest the involvement of homophobic millionaire Brian Souter in a Scottish campaign against the repeal. Souter was also the owner of privatised bus company Stagecoach, operating route 15. Section 28 was finally repealed in England and Wales in 2003. [video]
It is kind of funny how all of the civil disobedience by previous civil rights movements just gets memory-holed so liberals and the press can wag their fingers are the present ones for not doing things "the right way"
"Militant" really is a word that needs to go on a top shelf
tumblr not using profile pictures or legal names or linked to your job allows you to say things here you could not waterboard out of me in public
I'm using this to say Captain Barnacles is hot
This guy???
He is very calm and commanding in an emergency! And he prioritises the safety of all the animals! he sounds like a 1940s RAF pilot!
Would I admit this aloud under any circumstances? No
Would I choose Captain Barnacles over the train tiger from Zootropolis?
Yes, yes I would
Sorry, did you want to circle back to the … “train tiger from zootropolis”?
Did we not all decide this was the hottest animal in Zootropolis?
I think I missed that sacrament…
Wait, is that the tiger you see in the backup dancers at the end of film?
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Lil Nas X gives a life update.
So Boston is straight up running out of beer because of all the Scottish tourists in for the World Cup
I love cultural exchange
Many people in the tags inviting the Scots over to Wisconsin.
I still think it’s funny how the Exagoge a Hellenistic Jewish play about the Exodus story written in the Ptolemaic period had to include a line where God tells Moses “it is impossible for a mortal to see my face, but it is possible to hear my words”bc Greek attendees would’ve been really confused about getting to the exciting scene where a god appears and would’ve been expecting Yahweh’s actor to be lowered from the ceiling astride a chariot and would’ve been scratching their head wondering if there was technical issues with the crane or something bc like where’s the god i was expecting a cool exciting entrance of a god they clearly got the burning bush effect to work like maybe that did happen during the opening run and they had to quickly insert that line
How is this the first I have heard of the Exagoge in my slightly-over-half-century of life. HOW.
From the Wikipedia article on the play's author, Ezekiel the Tragedian:
Exagōgē is a five-act drama written in iambic trimeter, retelling of the biblical story of The Exodus from Egypt. Moses is the main character of the play, and parts of the biblical story have been altered to suit the narrative's needs. These changes probably point to Ezekiel's intention to stage the play, since certain scenes that are impossible to stage were converted into monologue. This drama is unique in blending the biblical story with the Hellenistic tragic drama; Erich S. Gruen writes that "the choice itself of that tale suggests an appeal to pride in national history and tradition produced in a quintessentially Hellenic mode."
... So you're telling me this was Alexandria's Prince of Egypt? That's what you're telling me?
I can't remember the last time I went so quickly from complete ignorance of a thing to a passionate need to experience it.
The start of Exodus in iambic pentameter:
Threescore and ten were Jacob's offspring all; And Joseph dwelt already in the land. Then Joseph died, and all his brethren too, And all that generation passed from earth. Yet Israel's seed increased and waxèd strong; They multiplied and filled the fruitful realm. Then in the land of Egypt rose a king, To whom the name of Joseph meant but naught. Unto his folk he spoke and thus declared: "Behold, the sons of Israel grow too great; Their multitude exceeds our strength by far. Come, let us deal with them by subtle means, Lest they increase yet more in days to come. And should there rise the tumult of a war, They may unite with our most deadly foe, To battle us, then from this land all go"
:-)
But what's the source of iambic pentameter Exodus?
My brain.
easy to miss that one of the reasons maternal mortality is diminished so extremely by modern medicine is that modern medicine makes it so much more possible to identify the pregnancies that will die and take you with them, or are otherwise unacceptably high risk. and then discontinue those ones safely, before it's too late.
thought about this because it's so frustrating when people argue that 'dying in childbirth' is a historical sort of event that doesn't happen nowadays (false) and therefore is irrelevant to the legal status of abortion, since it's not a real danger.
except it super is, and i think a lot of people haven't noticed that this argument in addition to simply being incorrect is basically the same as when people say we don't need vaccines for deadly diseases because no one gets those now anyway.
like yeah one reason for that is we vaccinate everybody ffs.
In the USA, you are more likely to die while pregnant than during nine months as a firefighter (with the job of running into burning buildings)
....wait like, on a per capita basis, or just by gross numbers? because there's only like 1 million firefighters in the US, which is about 1/5 of how many people get pregnant every year. so if it's the latter that's still not a nice number, but it's not so shocking. since there's 5x as many people in the pool, and they'd pull ahead if they had more than 1/5th as much excess mortality.
especially considering that firefighters are a population selected for their almost violent good health, while pregnancy is much more equally distributed over the population, so the baseline rate of death from unrelated causes is going to be higher in that group already.
(actually, if this is people with a job as a firefighter that number is even smaller, because over 2/3rds of all US firefighters are volunteers, while people who do admin for professional fire companies and do not go into fire are still considered pro firefighters in the census.)
hm, thinking about this: a firefighting career is expected to last years. they have a lot of tasks that aren't 'running into burning buildings,' after all. if the same percentage of them die on the job every nine months as pregnant people die of problems in any way exacerbated or brought about by pregnancy, that would be a really significant rate of attrition by the standards we apply to job safety.
which is a bit damning lmao.
like. firefighters are not in fact expected to go into the fire unless 1) there's reason to believe someone is alive inside and 2) the building seems stable enough to escape with the rescuee. so in the worst scenarios where their odds are bad even with their gear, they usually. don't.
because anything else would be inhumane and a waste of life and training, and you wouldn't be able to hire more firefighters to replace the dead ones if you did demand that.
now, in a world where you can choose to be pregnant or not, by means other than total sexual abstinence, most women only spend a couple years of their entire lives pregnant, even if they want to be mothers.
which means that the overall danger of 'being a firefighter' as a lifestyle can reasonably be expected to be higher than that of 'being a mother,' even if the pregnancy/burning house danger ratio were to be skewed in the direction of pregnancy. because you maintain that averaged danger stat continually the whole time you have that job, instead of just for a bit early on.
however. in a world without reliable birth control and abortion access, a career as a wife (or just an existence as a sexually active person with operational gestation equipment) is also going to maintain the pregnancy danger stats a majority of the time. in fact, they get worse as time goes by, as the body is overtaxed.
at which point it no longer seems unlikely that pregnancy is per-capita more dangerous than fighting fires.
which is pretty bad, actually, for something it's often just taken for granted you'll do if you can.
Yup, I meant on a per-capita basis.
The USA's maternal mortality rate is 17.9 per 100,000 live births (source).
The USA had 1,018,000 firefighters (source) with 51 on-duty deaths in 2024 (source). That's 5.0 annual deaths per 100,000 capita.
Yes, you are right that firefighters try to avoid running into burning buildings, and it's certainly not the most dangerous profession (that would be loggers, followed fishermen, then roofers). But the comparison makes the point that pregnancy is dangerous.
The rarely seen Lirone - 'heaven's hoover'
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I still think it’s funny how the Exagoge a Hellenistic Jewish play about the Exodus story written in the Ptolemaic period had to include a line where God tells Moses “it is impossible for a mortal to see my face, but it is possible to hear my words”bc Greek attendees would’ve been really confused about getting to the exciting scene where a god appears and would’ve been expecting Yahweh’s actor to be lowered from the ceiling astride a chariot and would’ve been scratching their head wondering if there was technical issues with the crane or something bc like where’s the god i was expecting a cool exciting entrance of a god they clearly got the burning bush effect to work like maybe that did happen during the opening run and they had to quickly insert that line
How is this the first I have heard of the Exagoge in my slightly-over-half-century of life. HOW.
From the Wikipedia article on the play's author, Ezekiel the Tragedian:
Exagōgē is a five-act drama written in iambic trimeter, retelling of the biblical story of The Exodus from Egypt. Moses is the main character of the play, and parts of the biblical story have been altered to suit the narrative's needs. These changes probably point to Ezekiel's intention to stage the play, since certain scenes that are impossible to stage were converted into monologue. This drama is unique in blending the biblical story with the Hellenistic tragic drama; Erich S. Gruen writes that "the choice itself of that tale suggests an appeal to pride in national history and tradition produced in a quintessentially Hellenic mode."
... So you're telling me this was Alexandria's Prince of Egypt? That's what you're telling me?
I can't remember the last time I went so quickly from complete ignorance of a thing to a passionate need to experience it.
The start of Exodus in iambic pentameter:
Threescore and ten were Jacob's offspring all; And Joseph dwelt already in the land. Then Joseph died, and all his brethren too, And all that generation passed from earth. Yet Israel's seed increased and waxèd strong; They multiplied and filled the fruitful realm. Then in the land of Egypt rose a king, To whom the name of Joseph meant but naught. Unto his folk he spoke and thus declared: "Behold, the sons of Israel grow too great; Their multitude exceeds our strength by far. Come, let us deal with them by subtle means, Lest they increase yet more in days to come. And should there rise the tumult of a war, They may unite with our most deadly foe, To battle us, then from this land all go"
:-)
Just using the dog's ear as a blanket..
i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.
this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.
anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:
no you don't understand. i do international regulation of emerging technologies for a living. this WAS me stress dreaming about work
Fucking love Peregrine Falcons
Marvelous
In urban areas, where it tends to nest on tall buildings or bridges, it subsists mostly on a variety of pigeons. Among pigeons, the rock dove or feral pigeon comprises 80% or more of the dietary intake of peregrines.
In many parts of its range, peregrines now also nest regularly on tall buildings or bridges; these human-made structures used for breeding closely resemble the natural cliff ledges that the peregrine prefers for its nesting locations.
A study testing the flight physics of an "ideal falcon" found a theoretical speed limit at 400 km/h (250 mph) for low-altitude flight and 625 km/h (388 mph) for high-altitude flight. In 2005, Ken Franklin recorded a falcon stooping at a top speed of 389 km/h (242 mph).
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1ac1g6c/pigeon_tries_to_court_falcon/
Ok but is anyone going to bring up
The boy saw a baddie and decided to swing hard out of his league. Props.
Who are you to be so wise in the ways of science
The males are about one third the size of the females, and are known as "tiercels". Also, their nostrils are shaped like fighter jet engine intakes - this slows down the air, so they don't get air entering their lungs at 250mph.
I love this picture so much! Post it whenever I come across it.
Inner Mongolian Child
The little girl’s name is Butedmaa and she was just 5 when this picture was taken in 2003 by Han Chengli.
(I used to have a printout of this at my desk at work because I just loved looking at it so much.)
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so what you're gonna do is you're gonna trim the top off a bulb of garlic, using the knife's edge to take off the tip of every individual clove, that's important. you're gonna place the garlic face-up in a square of tinfoil, drizzle with olive oil, wrap completely in foil, place in baking tray, repeat with a copious amount of garlic bulbs. you're gonna put that baking tray in an oven set to 375-400°F, for 30-50 minutes, until soft and browned. you're gonna toast some good bread, slather generously with butter and honey, maybe a tiny lil bit o' salt. and then. you're gonna SQUEEZE. OUT. THAT. ROASTED GARLIC. onto the butter honey toast. and you're gonna eat it. food stolen directly from the plate of the gods. that's what you're gonna do.
the garlic. it beckons you
It occurs to me that "1920s gangster doing a cooking show while holding you at gunpoint" is an untapped market.
We've had normal cooking shows. Now we need period piece cooking shows in character.
I'm uh.
Just going to point out that this happened, and then go into hiding (with, I hope, somewhat improved opsec) before somebody puts a horse head in my bed.
Now, horse head should be cooked on a low heat with plenty of brazing liquid. You can use the rest of the horse to make beef burgers and pork sausages.
