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Trail ride successful! I can definitely ride a horse that is sticking with his herd on a muddy spring day when he doesn't want to get his feet dirty. "Ride a horse" does not include tacking up said horse. Yet.

#he was like a big vegetarian cat

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i need people do do me a favor and be absolutely normal about it

#amazing #exzavion powells

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Has your coworker found out

nope i saw him this morning and he's thrilled his video is popping off and said nothing that suggests it's been linked to me.

#this whole thing is amazing and I'm so happy for the coworker #exzavion powells

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GERASKEFER IS SO BACK!!!!!!!!!!!

#geraskefer #the witcher

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Look at this timeline for the Homeworld games on Wikipedia. It's so pretty!

I just really like how this was done! The purpose is to quickly lay out how far apart Homeworld 2 and 3 are.

By Wikipedia user OceanHok.

#good information design #homeworld #video games #design

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“fem-presenting” this, “masc-presenting” that. what if i wanna just be Presenting. i am showing you something and you have no idea what it is

#my gender is night vale #I'm wearing a hoodie right now #do not perceive me

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You want me to turn on automatic software updates? The thing that made Murderbot commit mass murder?

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Love Is All You Need To Destroy Your Enemies really is that good, though.

Rants!

Setsu/Yuriko/Raqio (Gnosia): if remraq was rare this combo is legendary +1. they are BOTH a crackship and a rarepair:

1) although they are all affected by the premise-induced timefuckery at some point, likely all come from extremely fucked up backgrounds (no way setsu isn't a child soldier + yuriko did extremely messed up neurological operations as a teen and is on the run from the shadow government AND has a bounty on her head + raqio is from a hypermeritocratic caste society where if you aren't smart enough you aren't considered a human being. every single one of them should get a 50% off therapy coupon) they never get a story cutscene together. diversity loss

2) in all my 1.5 years in this fandom i have met ONE (1) person who also shipped this. one. this isn't a shippy fandom in general tbh but i've seen more people draw a character hitting a boof than saying a peep about s/y/r

additional arguments:

3) it's nonbinary yuri (nb/f/nb) come ON there is nothing better than nonbinary poly yuri

4) i want to see them get into an argument

5) setsu can defo easily bench press the other two (please)

6) they look niceys together even though their designs are pretty different and not in the "intentional contrast" way

7) the aforementioned timefuckery makes this an uniquely delicious bond

8) if this gets in people will hear about this ship and these 3 deserve so much more :)

They made it past the preliminaries of @unpopularshipbracket but got curb stomped by some magnus archive guys.

So I'll just repeat my initial propaganda for it (and add more):

FNAF 2 guard shipping is an art that has been drowned out by people forgetting that the FNAF 2 guards exist because some of the MCI kids share the same forenames. FNAF 2 guard shipping is fun; two adults in the same situation with completely different survival strategies. I love it.

They are like two sides of a coin; One survives the long haul, facing increasingly difficult challenges. The other gets tossed into the thick of it and somehow crawls out the other side despite no training or preparation. Honed skill / dumb luck. They make a brilliant dynamic.

Cecil Gershwin Palmer/Carlos Ramirez: I have seen *one* crossover fanfic with this pairing and it is absolutely genius.

So, Welcome To Night Vale (WTNV) has a main canon pairing, darling Eldritch radio host Cecil and lovable scientist Carlos. For the longest time, Carlos didn't have a last name and backstory. Also, as a STEM girl, let me tell you, his 'science' doesn't make sense.

So the genius author decided: okay, let me just grab a random Carlos from a different medium and put him in there. Except it's not random, and works super well! Enter: Carlos Ramirez, from the Dresden Files, and urban fantasy novel. This Carlos is a wizard. Who now has to somehow pretend he's a scientist. While secretly battling the Eldritch horros lurking in Night Vale.

The two of them are super cute and happy together, and it just makes waaay too much sense, the worlds and characters mesh super well. I can never unsee it. There is literally No content besides that one fic. It is perfect.

#shadydave

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We're going horseback riding next weekend. I put us both down as beginners. *thumbs up*

#tumblr horse girls #tumblr polls

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I love how there are so many notes questioning whether they can *really* ride a horse.

"Do I have to tack up the horse myself? Do I get any guidance? Is this a trail ride following a guide? What if I'm comfortable balancing in the saddle and communicating basic requests to an extremely patient horse? What if I have no idea what to do with a spirited, green or young horse? What if I've ridden extensively but I haven't for a while? I'm going to vote that I can't ride a horse."

I'm almost wondering if more than 50% of respondents would be pretty comfortable joining in on a guided nature trail ride, like, tomorrow.

Anyway, I haven't ridden in years, so it's time to book a trail ride with my partner (who has never ridden a horse unaided) for later this month!

#tumblr horse girls #tumblr polls

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I like applied statistics for it. I try to be really specific about what I'm talking about when I discuss any particular "AI" tool, or the problems those tools introduce into a particular system. (I'm being a little bit general right now and not drilling into specific terminology because I'd rather talk about work in broad strokes here.)

One of my frustrations with the conversation around "AI" for the past year or two has been that tools that I've used for years are now being assigned the AI label because, overall, it helps the companies sell the tools.

So when people online advocate for never using any AI ever... am I supposed to abandon tools for automated image masking? Scheduling assistants? Identifying fonts? Categorizing, labelling, and highlighting similarities in a database?

I've drafted policies and contracts that forbid generative "AI" use. There are ways to write about these tools, and there are ways to write about how work should be completed, how intellectual property should be treated, and whether generative tools in general can be used for a project. The purpose of these contracts are to communicate to the contractor what the company's expectations are and what the contractor's responsibilities are. Inherently, this has consequences for who's liable if the company gets in trouble with a client or vendor because it turns out copyrighted material or generative "AI" tools were used, so... please actually read your contracts everyone, I am begging you.

The conversation online ends up snagged between rabidly pro-tech hype and rigidly anti-automation positions, with the people who actually deal with the real-world impact of these technologies talked over and caught in the middle. In my opinion, the harsh judgments of either side betray their ignorance more often than not.

When you talk about what should be culturally acceptable, whether that's allowing ChatGPT in classrooms or dragging Wizards of the Coast through the dirt for publishing AI art, I'd like you to think a bit about exactly what you're asking for. At that point, even when we disagree, we might all learn a bit more (and attack each other less.)

"There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?' And someone else said, 'A poor choice of words in 1954'," he says. "And, you know, they’re right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the '50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we're having now." So if he had to invent a term, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics. "It's genuinely amazing that...these sorts of things can be extracted from a statistical analysis of a large body of text," he says. But, in his view, that doesn't make the tools intelligent. Applied statistics is a far more precise descriptor, "but no one wants to use that term, because it's not as sexy".

'The machines we have now are not conscious', Lunch with the FT, Ted Chiang, by Madhumita Murgia, 3 June/4 June 2023

#“AI” #generative ai #kicking an anthill #work related #personal

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One more joke hate: You may claim to be a woman but biologically you are a featherless biped and thus a man.

Finally a good argument for why I'm actually a man

#transphobia #diogenes the cynic

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I need everyone to know that the ship Götheborg, the world's largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, answered a distress call the other day.

Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.

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All I'm getting from this is that horse girls are a large demographic within the Tumblr ecosystem.

This tracks with everything I know about Tumblr.

#i thought everyone had the formative experience of creating mischief with an animal 13 times your size #that had no patience for anyone's bullshit #half of you really missed out #tumblr polls

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Something I wanted to do for a long time, My tribute of The Last Guardian. I am very much awaiting this game, especially since I saw the gameplay trailer from the last E3.

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Image description: it's a drawing of Mace Windu from Star Wars. It's from the torso up. He's facing forward with a serious expression. There's lines that criss cross around his face and the drawing, cutting it in sections like tine breaks on glass. On the bottom center there's "Mace Windu Shatter point" written over my signature. The drawing is painted mainly in purples and greens. End of description.

#fan artists rock #star wars prequel trilogy #mace windu

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Let's hiiiiiiiiiiide

Under the covers

Don't know what's

Ooout there

Could be

Ghosts or monsters or like

Taxes

I dunno

#incorrect quotes #the amazing devil #wild blue yonder #adulting #tax season