No False Power

the ad copy says it can be used on camels. imagine someone with a camel who is struggling with camel behavior problems seeing this and thinking "hot damn, the solution to my camel misbehavior problems is CERTAINLY this dog exorcism potion"

when you are bandying about colorized, smoothed, upscaled and retouched "historical photos", unless someone did it all by hand in Photoshop, those are AI-generated imagery. im not sure why so many people seem to think they are something else. they arent. they are generated using math and likelihoods and fiction like any other AI image. the computer is guessing about what should go under the repaired infill, it is guessing about what color the human hair and skin is, it is guessing about the types of metal in the jewelry, the color of the sky, the color of people's eyes. it is guessing about time of day. its fake pictures. fiction. and it looks ugly. i have been on my hobbyhorse about this for decades and i am only getting more pissed off. its bad when humans colorize historical photos and its bad when it's done by an AI. it's ugly, it inserts false information into historical documents, it fucks up forensics and historical research. and its ugly. i dont want to see it

the controversial theological take you've been waiting for: yeah onan might as well have, sacrificing his line and gaining the totality of his brother's holdings, given that he was taking the place of someone who was demonstrably just slain by the same god he also worshipped

Teaching children about negative fractions: Um... so the pizza is frozen... and uh... you couldn't afford it.

Teaching children about imaginary numbers: Okay, so imagine you want to major in electrical engineering in eight years....

couple years ago i made a post listing a bunch of silly joke political ideologies and one of them was like "queer sex positive feudalism" and i was blissfully unaware that this basically describes the setting of vast swathes of the modern fantasy genre. Stop That

Quite a lot of actual historical feudal aristocrats were queer, and they were just as terrible and oppressive as the straight ones.

yeah it's almost like that's something queer fantasy writers might want to explore for a reason