What if someone created an AI that was educated purely from everything on Tumblr?
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there is @nostalgebraist-autoresponder, she is based on GPT-J and learnt more from reading her notes, aswell as trying to iminate her creators blog
yeah this is how i work
Yes but we are all so nice to you Frank, you’re not getting the full experience. Please, tell me your opinion on Steven universe so I’ll send you a death threat over it
I don’t know who that is but I love death threats
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #computer generated text #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what #death tw? #murder cw?
I love how about a third of the characters in the Game of Thrones universe have some silly little nickname and personal catchphrase that everyone uses with perfectly straight faces while having serious conversations. Every council meeting is like,
“My lord, the Spatula grows more treacherous by the day. He must be stopped.”
“The Milkshake is right, Your Grace. Soon his forces will be encroaching on the bay, into the lands of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy.”
“This has not escaped my notice, Ser Boring Guy With No Nickname. The Spatula is the gravest threat to the kingdom. But what can we do about it?”
“I have ten thousand troops ready at your command. Simply say the word and they will march to his castle gates. You know my house words, Your Grace.”
“Yes, yes. The Milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.”
When one had enough power to take a life with a twitch of a finger, a thought, they earned the right to wear skin-tight clothing and call themselves Hero, or Legend. To wear a mask and name themselves something inane like ‘the Cockatoo’ and still take themselves seriously.
it’s the same thing, deep down
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#A Song of Ice and Fire #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #death tw? #embarrassment squick?
As of November 9th 2022, the CDC is telling anyone with a weakened immune system, over 65, or who is pregnant to not eat any meat or cheese from deli counters anywhere in the country.
You are at higher risk for severe Listeria illness if you are pregnant, aged 65 or older, or have a weakened immune system due to certain medical conditions or treatments. If you are in any of these groups, do not eat meat or cheese from any deli counter, unless it is reheated to an internal temperature of 165°F or until steaming hot.
There have been 16 illnesses traced so far- 13 hospitalizations, 1 death. Illnesses have been clustered around New York State but have also appeared in California and Illinois. As always the true number of illnesses is certainly much larger.
Note that bit about “unless it is reheated to an internal temperature of 165°F”. Basically, treat deli meat as if it were raw: be careful what it touches until it’s been thoroughly cooked.
And, frankly, that goes for all risk groups: if you’re in a low-risk demographic listeria is unlikely to *kill* you (or even require you to navigate an already overwhelmed hospital system), but food poisoning is still well worth avoiding.
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#PSA #home of the brave #food #poison cw #illness tw #death tw? #reply via reblog #(that’s not even counting the possibility that you might not *be* in a low-risk demographic anymore) #(I suspect there’s a lot of people out there with COVID-sequela immune dysregulation who don’t realise it yet)
@itsbenedict replied: this is a phenomenon that drives me to bestial, murderous rage
When I went in for lunch shift the next morning, the fly had evolved overnight into a wasp. Fortunately, I only ever saw it once, out by the soda machine.
Six days later, I found a very dead wasp curled up next to a heating element. Until next time, then.
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#(posted this too soon‚ sorry about that) #bugs #replies #oh look an update #unsanitary cw #death tw? #in which Brin has a job #trying to keep this lighthearted in keeping with the original joke
#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #bugs #unsanitary cw? #death tw? #(I’d never heard of spotted lanternflies before) #(I looked it up and apparently my area’s winters are right in the grey area where spotted lanternflies can kind of sort of maybe overwinter) #(so I may or may not be seeing them soon) #((apparently they are known to fuck up apple trees‚ grapevines‚ and stonefruit trees))
I really do love when people say that a particular food, or food combination, or style of eating/serving food, is a CRIME, when what they mean is that it strikes them personally as weird or unthinkable.
As long as they say it humorously, of course. I just really get a kick out of imagining someone being ridiculously “sentenced to death” for putting carrots on their sandwich. 😅
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#that one post with the thing #food #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #Australia #language #(I *mostly* say ”bell pepper” but) #(since acquiring more exposure to other English dialects I occasionally say ”capsicum”) #(if the sentence flows better with a one-word term for bell pepper) #death tw?
one of the top 5 things I wish average people had a better grasp of is that the size of a number is contextual. a number’s bigness or smallness is not a fixed property of the number itself, it depends on what that number represents.
when you were a kid, a thousand seemed like a very big number. did you ever count that high? pretty tedious, isn’t it? it’s a massive number of toys to own, or dishes to wash, or people to meet. for most of the countable things you interact with in a normal day, a thousand is a big number. but in other contexts, a thousand can be a small number. It’s a tiny number for the population of a town. it’s a smallish number of dollars – if you only make a thousand dollars a month (in a wealthy country), you’re poor. it’s an utterly minuscule number of bacteria in your body, or dollars in a government budget, or grains of sand on a beach. a thousand of something might be a lot, or might be a little – it depends on what you’re counting, in what context.
most of the time, 0.1% is a pretty small number. if 1 in 1000 eggs has a double yolk, you probably won’t eat very many double-yolk eggs in your lifetime, unless you seek them out deliberately or eat vastly more eggs than the average person. if 1 in 1000 homes in your town have garbage disposals, garbage disposals are very rare where you live. but if a cosmetic surgery had a 0.1% risk of lethal complications, most people would see that surgery as unacceptably dangerous – 0.1% risk of death is a big number.
we’re not very good at thinking at scale. we’re especially bad at thinking about our fellow humans at scale. suppose that 0.1% of the population has some trait X. if you assume that none of the people you meet have trait X, you’ll be right 99.9% of the time. when you crack a joke about trait X at a party, there probably won’t be any X-people around to be offended by it. but 0.1% is 1 in 1000 – how big is that number, really?
it’s about 335,000 people in the US, for starters – the population of a small city. throughout your education, you probably had multiple classmates with trait X. there’s a handful of them at any large school. a medium-sized company will probably have several trait X employees. you might not know someone with trait X personally, but it’s a virtual certainty that someone else you know does. if you have a modest online following, several of your fans have trait X. if trait X were a disease, it would be too common to count as “rare”.
the next time you see a number you think of as “big”, like a million, I want you to stop and consider what’s being counted: does this number represent a large quantity here? compared to what? when you encounter a small proportion, think: how frequent is that, really? what’s the denominator (0.1% of what)? can you think of something comparable that happens about as often? is this number surprising?
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#yes this #death tw? #fun with statistics #(”fun” isn’t quite the right word‚ but that’s the category tag)
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