tfw I told my irl friends abt how it's annoying that my cutter kept breaking from chiseling off super glue from my glasses & they were wondering why, & me forgetting that most normal people would either be replacing their glasses the moment it breaks or endure not wearing glasses.
Then there's me who really needs one to function irl but refuses to replace them bc a new pair is $50 minimum (i am broke n unemployed). And since it's only the handles that broke, I'm using superglue n prayers to fix it all together.
I WILL replace it tho... I just need the lenses to be scratched up enough that it affects my vision to justify a replacement OR if someone I'm waiting for who needs glasses finally gets one.
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. . . I think this time, I'll need novena instead of just prayers to keep these in together. it's getting harder to chip off & my cutter looks like a serrated knife...
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Other sites also have the "Does anyone have this image?" posts, but only on tumblr you'll find "Does anyone have that mesopotamien clay tablet?" posts.
hi! i just wanted to say that the donation links were not picked all willy nilly and that the venezuelan community has already determined which are actually trustworthy, and those are the ones mentioned in the thread and the document linked. venezuelans do not trust the government so we implore everyone to avoid donating to any charity org associated with the government. if youre still unsure about it, commissioning venezuelan artists that you already know and trust is a great choice.
honestly, especially in the current state of the world, you all have GOT to kill whatever puritanical voice inside your head keeps insisting that if something is erotic it has no social, artistic, or intellectual merit.
stop acting as if someone can’t enjoy both erotica and literary fiction or classics. it’s not some dichotomy.
stop acting as if erotic art can’t be poignant and meaningful. and that includes all erotic art - not just fine art.
stop insisting that sex scenes or erotic material ruin movies and shows just because you, personally, get icked out watching it.
no, not all erotic art is high art, and not all erotic art is meant to invoke deep intellectual discussion - but insisting that makes erotic art valueless, a disservice to intellectualism, or whatever else - does nothing but add fuel to a fire built on conservative ideology.
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tfw im deprived of my vtuber oshi's presence (he has a lot of workload for the projects n shiss) I got pulled into the zone to find a way to draw his kpop-ass hair w/o killing my head
Still have to improve stuff but I learned
Dividing the hair bits do work
I need to restudy his hair colors bc playing with 7 colors (minus the base hair color) is messing up my brain if i do it by vibes.. might do 4 instead.
need to find better/more compatible brush that isn't the regular pen or gpen for lineart-- it's not comfy to use but they're all default brushes... either I find a new one or get used to its shenanigans
I have extremely unreliable screens bc one show how it's dull af & the other is high contrasts w/ boosted saturation regardless of color balance/corrections I do...
i need to put my oshi in situations more... my heart boner demands it-- or just make more megalodon(the ship(?), not the animal) content
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IMPORTANT NOTE!!
i fck w/ Jurard & Holostars EN as the fictional characters in this fictional world they're thrown in… not as talents behind the characters.
^^ if any one ever does a face reveal anywhere (even in their PLs), I will instantly NOPE tf out.
idk why but I feel like I need to throw that in esp when I'm making self-indulgent fanart of vtubers-- who have real people puppeting them... like how Rocky from PHM is seen as his own being instead of the puppeteer/VA. (<< I haven't watched PHM but the logic is close ig)
Text of tweet under the cut because it is loooong.
But... Stochastic Parrots.
Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at a scale the industry spent 4 years trying to make people forget about.
Her name is Timnit Gebru.
She co-led the Ethical AI team at Google. She co-wrote a paper called "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" with Emily Bender at the University of Washington and two other researchers. The paper was 14 pages long. It was submitted to a top AI ethics conference. And it was the reason Google decided that one of the most senior Black women in AI research could no longer work there.
The story Google told publicly was that she resigned. The story she told, confirmed by 2,695 of her colleagues in an open letter, was that she was fired by email while on vacation because she refused to either retract the paper or remove her name from it.
The paper had not even been published yet.
Here is what she actually wrote, and why every prediction inside it has now come true.
The first warning was about scale itself. Bender and Gebru argued that training ever-larger models on ever-larger scrapes of the internet would produce systems that appeared fluent but had no actual understanding of language. They called these systems stochastic parrots because they would repeat patterns from training data with statistical confidence and zero comprehension. The paper predicted that this apparent intelligence would fool both users and developers into trusting outputs that were structurally incapable of being reliable.
This was 2020. GPT-3 had just come out. The paper predicted the hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it.
The second warning was about bias amplification. The paper documented in detail that internet-scale training data contains systematic overrepresentation of dominant viewpoints and underrepresentation of marginalized ones. The models would not just absorb this bias. They would amplify it, because the optimization process rewards confident outputs, and confidence in language patterns tracks frequency in the training set.
The prediction was that hiring tools built on these models would discriminate against women. That healthcare triage tools would underperform on Black patients. That loan approval systems would entrench inequality while presenting their decisions as neutral algorithmic judgment.
Every one of those things has now been documented in deployment.
Amazon's hiring algorithm penalized resumes that contained the word "women" in any context. Healthcare risk scoring algorithms used by major US hospitals were found to systematically underestimate the medical needs of Black patients. Apple Card's credit algorithm gave wives credit lines 10x lower than their husbands for the same financial profile.
The third warning was about environmental cost. The paper calculated that training a single large language model produced emissions equivalent to the lifetime output of 5 cars. The prediction was that the race to scale would create an environmental footprint that would eventually rival entire industries.
In 2024, Google's emissions were up 48% from 2019, and the company explicitly blamed AI infrastructure. Microsoft's were up 29%, same reason. Both companies have now quietly abandoned the climate commitments they were publicly celebrating the year Gebru was fired.
The fourth warning was about documentation. The paper argued that the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit. Nobody at Google, OpenAI, Meta, or any other lab could tell you with confidence what was in the data their models were trained on. This was not a temporary problem to be solved later. It was a permanent feature of the approach.
In 2023, researchers discovered that the LAION-5B dataset, used to train Stable Diffusion and other major image models, contained thousands of images of child sexual abuse material. The companies that had trained on the dataset had no way of knowing. The paper predicted that category of failure 3 years before it was found.
The fifth warning was the one Google cared about most.
Bender and Gebru argued that the deployment of these systems would centralize linguistic and cultural power in the hands of the small number of companies that could afford to train them. The internet would become a place where the dominant voice was a statistical average of dominant voices, presented as a neutral assistant. Languages underrepresented in the training data would degrade over time as more web content was generated by these systems and fed back into the next training run.
This is now happening in real time. A 2024 study found that 57% of new web content in English is AI-generated or AI-assisted. Researchers studying low-resource languages have documented active degradation in translation quality, because the synthetic content fed back into training is itself worse in those languages.
The paper Google fired her for predicted the model collapse problem before model collapse had a name.
The mechanism behind why this all happened is the part of her work that nobody quotes.
Gebru's argument was not that AI is dangerous in some abstract sci-fi sense. Her argument was that AI is dangerous in a very specific structural sense. The technology was being built by a small group of researchers who shared similar backgrounds, worked at similar companies, and were rewarded for shipping products faster than competitors. The incentive structure made it impossible for safety, ethics, and bias concerns to slow anything down. Anyone inside the system who raised those concerns was either ignored, sidelined, or removed.
She was making that argument from inside Google.
Then Google proved her right by removing her.
The team Google had built to make sure their AI was safe was dismantled in 90 days because they did the job they had been hired to do. Margaret Mitchell, the other co-lead of the Ethical AI team, was fired two months after Gebru for searching through her own emails for evidence of how Gebru had been treated.
Gebru did not stop. She founded DAIR, the Distributed AI Research Institute, in 2021. The mission is to do AI research outside the control of the companies that have a financial interest in not hearing the answers.
Every prediction in the Stochastic Parrots paper has now been validated by deployment. Hallucinations are an industry-wide problem the largest labs cannot solve. Bias amplification has been documented in hiring, healthcare, lending, and criminal justice. Environmental costs are larger than entire small countries. Training data audits remain impossible. Model collapse is an active research crisis at every major lab.
The question worth sitting with is the one almost no one in the industry will say out loud.
Every researcher with the technical credibility to call out these problems watched what happened to her in December 2020 and made a calculation about their own career. The number of people willing to speak publicly about safety and ethics issues inside the major AI labs collapsed after that firing and has not recovered.
The researcher Google fired for warning about exactly what is now happening was right.
The company that fired her is now the second-largest deployer of the technology she warned about.
And the people inside that company who agree with her are not allowed to say so.
I had no memory of this scene whatsoever, so I went back and rewatched it real quick on youtube. And the thing I love about it …
Okay. So Wesley is extremely uncomfortable here, and it’s for extremely teenage boy reasons. He doesn’t think this is his style, because it’s too much. Too romantic, too sincere, too over the top. He’s afraid he’d be laughed at, he’s never going to say words like that to a real woman.
But Will Riker, full of confidence, argues that you need to take the plunge immediately. You need to go all in, play in unsafe, take your chances. Because Will Riker’s self-confidence is godly.
BUT. But. The gifs don’t quite show this, but if you watch the scene. Right after his opening, ‘you are the most beautiful woman in the galaxy’, and just before he says ‘but that might not work’, there’s a tiny moment where Wes and Guinan share a look, and that look is amused. Slightly incredulous. And that’s where Riker immediately dials back and goes ‘but that might not work’. He only comes back and goes all in when Guinan goes, no, no it would, and basically gives him her blessing to follow this path. Which is where Will, having permission, knowing this is what his conversation partner wants and enjoys, goes in and gives it his all.
And Wesley’s expression, incidentally, slips and becomes both embarrassed and somewhat concerned.
It isn’t verbalised, but that was also a great lesson on why Riker is as successful as he is. Because he asks. Not verbally, but he takes his chance, and then adjusts his approach from feedback. If she acts embarrassed or upset or amused or incredulous, he takes a step back and goes, right, that’s not the approach you want from me. But if she responds, if she indicates that hey, this conversation is in fact something she might enjoy right now, he grins and locks in and puts some effort into it.
It’s also a tiny detail, but the conversation starts, after Riker has asked Guinan over to help him, with him pulling out her chair. Even if it’s a lesson and they all know it’s a lesson, he still takes the time to get the small details right. This is a date, even if it’s a fake one. You damn well pull out your lady’s chair for her.
And in the conversation itself, he and Guinan are having genuine fun. They’re playing off each other. And they address the ‘sincerity’ of the play-acting. Because flirting, ‘lines’, always have an air of artificiality to them, but their fake flirting actually addresses that. The line is a ‘knock on the door’. It’s fake, but it’s an indication that the other person is willing to put some effort in. To say things to make you feel good, and have a good time in the conversation. There might or might not be anything serious happening behind them, but the game can be fun in and of itself, and you never know, something might develop from it. Guinan is having genuine fun. To the point that she doesn’t need it poo-pooed by a teenage boy, and tells him to shush while she enjoys a man having taken time out of his day to flirt outrageously with her.
Wesley doesn’t get any of this. He doesn’t understand more than the words that are happening. But there are actually a lot of good lessons in here. To take it less seriously, to be willing to be foolish and embarrassed, because it’s not life or death or the end of the world, no matter how much if might feel like that to a teenager in love. To take it more seriously, to be willing to say things that are rich and expansive and romantic, because you want your partner to feel valued. To respond to cues, to start from an overt opening where your interest is clear, so that you can see if your partner wants that or not. To be willing to go all in, if it turns out your partner does, at least right now. To make some effort, to get the little details right, to go out of your way and do the small things, the romantic things, to make the other person feel special.
Like. He probably should have verbalised more of that for Wesley, because if teenagers could pick up non-verbal cues like this they wouldn’t need lessons to start with. But it actually is a pretty good showcase of why Riker-the-flirt had as much success as he did. Because he’s responsive, because he’s expansive, because he puts the effort it, because he’s willing to look foolish, because he wants to make his partners feel good about what’s happening. He’s confident, but he’s not predatory. He wants everyone involved to have a good time. And it shows.
(And he also is a little uncertain, as well. He has self-confidence to match Q, but he is also taking chances, and when they appeared to laugh at him a little bit, he did pull back and recalibrate. His grin had something nervous around the edges. He’s afraid to be laughed at too. He doesn’t like rejection any more the next man. He’s just willing to take his chances regardless, and to take the hit if turns out he has to).
I wish they made it even marginally possible to get a job like I’m so fucking sorry I don’t have a rare but also highly demanded skillset, an agreeable disposition, and the ability to survive off of three nickels a week I’m soooo sorry
IF YOU CAN’T GET A JOB, IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT!!!!! THE SYSTEM IS DEEPLY BROKEN!!!!!!!!
The hiring process has never been great, but in the past couple of years it’s hit rock bottom. Ghost jobs probably outnumber real jobs on job sites. Recruiters and HR use AI which throws out 90% of resumes before a real human being sees them. And most companies are hellbent on holding out for a unicorn candidate- meaning someone who already knows how to do the EXACT role without any training while also accepting entry level wages- instead of investing in new people.
It’s fucking hard out there right now. You are not alone and it’s not your fault if you can’t get hired.
my boys and i took out 3 last year… wanted to figure out if they were clones or just different guys who underwent plastic surgery so we tried to get them dna tested but the sequences didn’t match any known living organism
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Please know this sites hashtagging system is categorical and NOT clout based
Aka if I look up the “Wendell and Wild” tag, I should find clips, media, art and posts related to Wendell and wild ONLY. Same with any other random tag searched
If I spy a selfie, a random neighborhood, or any other kind of “insta” post trying to take likes for a popular hashtag, I’m reporting you for spam. Most other long term users will too and your acct will be fast tracked as a spam blogger and blocked.
You will not ruin the last non corporate site for us, especially by trying to treat this site like influencers matter. If you get popular, it’s bc you’re a clown w a skill not bc your hot or rich or skinny, got it?
#holy shit at people in the notes this isn't 'tyrannical' it's basic courtesy AND against the tos #the spam report button is easily accessible for this exact reason #cross tagging is absolutely reportable spam according to tos so just don't do it #it also doesn't get you any more notes it just pisses people off
People (me) will report you for this (I will). If you are spamming the tags, someone (again, me) will click the little report button (and I will enjoy doing it) every time they (I) see your unrelated posts clogging their (my) search.
The thing to understand about the tags being categorical is that most people do not find things on this site via algorithm.
On tumblr, what happens is that your post shows up when people set out to specifically find Wendall and Wild posts. Not to generally browse for any kind of content of interest. When people are browsing for general stuff it's almost always by hopping onto the dash for the blogs they follow, and they often find new blogs to follow by going into the tags that apply to their interest or the notes of posts that do.
So it's really really noticeable when you've slapped a generic popular tag onto your selfie or your cat photo or whatever. You have become equivalent to an unwanted advertisement, interrupting the fun with your blatant self-promotion. I am here for WaW content, and you might as well have sidled up to ask if I've heard the good news about the latest snake oil weight loss drug or if I've thought about a convenient predatory loan. Only nobody on this site is under any obligation to tolerate you doing that, unlike the people who at least bought ad space and with it the privilege of pestering anyone who still hasn't got an adblocker.
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Most Adoptable Grown Man Contest - Round 4, Poll 13
Which grown man is more adoptable?
Simon - Iron Lung
Crimzon Ruze - Holostars EN
Voting ended onJun 26
Yeah no yeah I'm not even going to try to predict how this'll go after last round. After just a few days I learned why Ruze was the third most submitted character, the fact that he's a vtuber and not some anime boy from something I ever heard of, just how intense the fandom is, AND ON TOP OF ALL OF THAT GOT THE FIRST REAL PERSON IN THIS CONTEST TO FIND THIS CONTEST. Which, as mentioned, I would have never predicted since I had no idea that this guy was like. A guy.
So yeah like I said I ain't going to try to predict anything with this poll lmao. Ruzaders, let's see if you surprise me again.
