omg

June and July are the same months btw. They want you to think they're two different months but it's the same month that's 60 days long. Same way August is actually August and the first half of September

"But AI can't do your job. It can help you do your job, but that doesn't mean it's going to save anyone money. Take radiology: there's some evidence that AIs can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss, and look, I've got cancer. Thankfully, it's very treatable, but I've got an interest in radiology being as reliable and accurate as possible. If my Kaiser hospital bought some AI radiology tools and told its radiologists: "Hey folks, here's the deal. Today, you're processing about 100 x-rays per day. From now on, we're going to get an instantaneous second opinion from the AI, and if the AI thinks you've missed a tumor, we want you to go back and have another look, even if that means you're only processing 98 x-rays per day. That's fine, we just care about finding all those tumors." If that's what they said, I'd be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look, you fire 9/10s of your radiologists, saving $20m/year, you give us $10m/year, and you net $10m/year, and the remaining radiologists' job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed, and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it's catastrophically wrong. "And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis." This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes. This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble." - Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI

like if I have to explain what is wrong with actively mocking people’s very real, consensual sexual proclivities then you’re already a lost fucking cause.

“I told you this before” implying she has died and gone to Hell more than once, either in this life or a past

everytime she dies she has to go through this whole long process of paperwork and bribery to get reincarnated

Companies deleting media you've literally purchased is 1000x more realistically "stealing" than digital piracy, you cannot change my mind

WAIT I NOW HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO WORK ON THE HAPTIC FEEDBACK STRAPON

i have a lot of thoughts on the matter but i will say that fandom moving from semi-private blogs and communities to extremely public and algorithm-driven social media was a huge mistake that has changed fandom culture for the worse

anyone else wanna hug astronaut Reid Wiseman and weep?

This is so cool

i am not crying i am NOT

anyone else wanna hug astronaut Reid Wiseman and weep?

This is so cool

i am not crying i am NOT

it’s a rainy day. they’re lying in bed after a very slow sex. shane on top of ilya and they’re just lazily making out. shane stops and look at his husband and says “i love you” and ilya says in russian “i love you” and shane smiles and says in french “i love you” and ilya says in spanish “i love you” and then shane “愛してる” and ilya gets confused and raise an eyebrow and asks “what’s this?” and shane says “i love you in japanese” and Ilya whines and says pouting “shane this is not fair”. and now they’ll try to learn how to say “i love you” in every language to say to each other

ilya and shane are hosting at their home for the first time after the wedding. this was always a dream for them, being together around all of their friends. at some point in the night they disappear after shane says he’s going to grab something from the pantry and ilya follows him not long after. their friends start discussing “they’re definitely fucking in there” one of the wags says and hayden tries to defend his friend “shane and ilya have never done anything like that around other people” and harris goes “but they’re at their house and it’s gigantic here, no one will hear them wherever they are” and wyatt goes “who wants to bet they’re fucking?” and everyone agrees to the bet but it’s 50/50, half of them agreeing with hayden and saying they’d never do something like that with people around and the other half saying they’re freaks. so everyone picks luca haas to go look for them because if ilya and shane catch him they won’t be mad at the rookie. luca goes looking for them and when he approaches the pantry he hears ilya’s exasperated voice going “no shane, listen, you want to know what she said to me? the audacity...” and luca stops going further and just turns around and goes back to the rest of the group and says “they’re just gossiping, i think they lost track of time” and half of them groan while hayden cheers going “i told you guys”. sometimes shane needs to step back to recharge his social battery and ilya goes with him to keep him company because even when he’s overwhelmed, shane still wants ilya there with him.

Rb to give gender euphoria to the person you reblogged it from