#Flight Rising #text quote posts #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #violence cw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
suing tumblr for excluding common crawl from their robots.txt because my best chance at immortality is being digitally reconstructed based on this blog
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#I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #(fortunately it remains possible to host copies of one’s blog somewhere crawlable) #(if you want digital immortality you gotta do it yourself) #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #disappointed permanent resident of The Future #death tw? #amnesia cw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Whenever I get a puncture wound I feel so smug towards any tetanus that might be in there. They have no idea about my sick ass vaccinated immune system. While you were crawling in soil my cells were studying Tdap. Now die by the hands of my learnéd warriors.
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#proud citizen of The Future #vaccines #illness tw #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what
#I have not managed to track down a copy of that conscience-qualia post #but in the process I *did* come across *this* #AO3 #juxtaposition #music #my past self has good taste #(I am aware that this post will be a pain to archive but I think it’s worth it)
The word “soul” is so semantically overloaded that *all* of the first four options are correct.
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#I voted for option 3 because I have an unusually stable personality #I am constantly running into people who are‚ like‚ completely different people than they were two years ago #there’s no *core* to them: everything is in flux #those of them I’ve heard discussing it say they like it better that way #(some of them have gone so far as to say it’s morally obligatory) #but it’s really not my style‚ personally #(you’re probably wondering in what sense do I not have a soul but other people do) #(ideally I would answer with a link to that one post by…was it aspire-to-the-light?) #(in which they describe their quale of having a conscience in a thoroughly alien manner) #(but I cannot find it) #reply via reblog #tag rambles #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #surveys #language
When censoring information out of pictures, do NOT use the marker tool. Block it out with a full filled in square, or use a mosiac filter. Marker tools are not fully opaque and are slightly off from black, which makes it possible to alter the levels and reveal the information underneath.
This is probably good advice anyway, but to reproduce it, it would be helpful to know what platform, and what exact procedure OP used.
For example, on Android there are separate ‘pen’ and ‘highlighter’ tools, which are confusingly similar. But the highlighter makes a mark which is intentionally translucent, whereas the pen mark appears opaque. In the last screenshot, it looks to me like some lines of text were covered with the pen tool, and are not visible, whereas others were covered with the highlighter tool, used repeatedly, and are still partly visible.
Either way, when combined with the Android crop bug – which in some cases / on some devices failed to actually remove the cropped-out pixels from the image file – I would say you should just never trust phone-app editing software to remove truly secret information from an image.
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#PSA #disappointed permanent resident of The Future #stalking cw #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Weird! Neat! I think generally that transition is poorly sourced? Maybe try Google ngrams
a reasonable estimate is that the popularization of the word “sibling” happened over the second half of the 20th century. before that the word had been active in technical areas, but didn’t seem to pick up steam in other places until the ‘60s. some interesting timestamps sourced from old newspapers:
1943, new york: Henry Hastings Curran (1877–1966, then NYC’s chief magistrate) expressed dismay at the increasing use of the word among probation officers, with a bemusing amount of outrage: “how would you like to be called a scarab? or a scamp? or a coystrel or a curmudgeon? or a tatterdemalion? or a gremlin? or a sibling? how would you like that?” “to me it has a very doubtful sound, dubious, dismal, desparate.” (1 Aug 1943, New York Daily News)
1944, london: at the pensions tribunal at the law courts, Sir Owen Bearsley (could be this Owen Bearsley, unsure) was confused by a psychiatrist’s use of the word in his report. Bearsley’s colleague had to look it up in a medical dictionary.
1953, london: one Alan Dick advocated the use of the word in place of the cumbersome “brother and sister”: “here’s another ugly one—brother-or-sister. you want to ask somebody if he-or-she is an only child or if he-or-she has any brothers or sisters, and it all has to come out at once—bruthussasistus. this is another place for a single word meaning either. the psychologists… invented a word of their own. sibling. what about taking it over for everyday use?” (24 Feb 1953, Daily Herald)
1963, US: William Morris (1913–1994, lexicographer, columnist) mentioned the word in his syndicated column Words, wit and wisdom (5 Nov 1963), stating that the word was “recently popularized” and reporting a difference in the definitions then used in the US (“children born at different times of the same parents”) and in the UK (“children having one or both parents in common”).
for reference, here is the OED’s n-gram for “sibling”:
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#what the fuck #this is like when I learned yesterday that the two-wheeled telescopic-handle suitcase was invented in *1987* #which is also! the year that scrunchies became a thing! #…what new things do people just a little younger than me assume have been around Forever #language #history #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
why did no one tell me quantum computers looked like that
what the fuck
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#pretty things #proud citizen of The Future #(apparently most of this is the cooling system) #(it has to be kept *extremely* cold to work) #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Brinens and Things 