makaʻāinana

The one update I really want from stardew is for him to get rid of all the weird “native“ shit. Totem poles and a luau? not even remotely related 😭

All this rain…we’ll never be able to pour the concrete for the pizza oven…

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

My eyebrows have been perpetually ruined by the 2000s

I know its technically still open, but i kinda want to cancel my class's friday waikiki aquarium field trip bc that place floods fast. I hate being in that limbo of constant watch and wait

Cornell University told her Ōlelo Hawaiʻi did not meet language requirements to graduate. She pushed back, and won. Cultivating Culture Q&A Kaylah Toves spoke with Cultivating Culture about her work in language revitalization and what she's learned living between cultural and academic settings. Kaylah Toves took…

Kayla Toves, who is Kanaka‘ Oiwi and Acoma Pueblo, needed a language credit to graduate from Cornell. She fought to have her Indigenous language of Ōlelo Hawaiʻi count and won!

i have since discovered that while not the cause of my insomnia, it certainly did not help lol

for years, Idk why but I thought oolong tea was non-caffeinated and have been chugging that shit all night lmao

Playing the “who am I“ game but with invertebrate classification and invert snack prizes lol

This is what I feared — using the war as a pretext to starve us.
The Israeli military spokesman has announced the closure of all crossings with the Gaza Strip.
♦️ Please donate to my family urgently so that I can secure some food for them
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I have a student who makes a comfy pillow out of their jacket, gets all cozy laying on it, and takes no notes. You’d assume they’re just zoning out, but then at the end of every class they ask me the coolest questions going way beyond the material

Omg 😭 that sucks

I went to the gay kickball league to cheer on a friend yesterday and then afterwards we kinda complained ab how haole it is, then half decided to make an all mahu team next year, so here we go I guess lmao

I asked my sister if I could borrow a sweater and she cuts all the necklines off her shirts/sweaters so now i feel really silly, but warm

I think I look the best in car selfies

I just spent $20 on a coffee and pastry bc I didn’t think to look at the Waikiki prices. the whole point was so I could break my $20 🥴

I went to the native Hawaiian lateral violence talk and I’m so glad I did, I fucking cried

the whole Hawaiian community hates the old program I used to work for. now, I keep running into people and they’re like, congrats on getting out lmfao

Aaaand here’s the AI plug

I hate speeches by business people

5 minutes in waikiki and I’m already ready to murder someone

Not to be THAT feminist, but I knew this was the case before opening the article. Men see fatherhood as an abstract milestone that's a proof of their virility, women see the associated costs.

Not to mention that women not being locked into domesticity is the core of the antifeminist backlash today.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Pizza oven update: there’s now a big hole in the ground

A car just burst into flames on the freeway, that was crazy

I had a weird moment today where everyone I looked at, I saw them in the “create a sim” mode

My migraines were actually better on a low dose of testosterone, is it possibly bc the jumps in estrogen/progesterone are more extreme now? should I go back down 😭

Is there a way to induce a period to end the hell that is pmdd? how much fucking testosterone do I need in my bloodstream to stop this?

I gave all my students a grid composition book this year and made them do majority handwritten assignments in there and it was probably one of the best teaching decisions I ever made. I’m so done with online work, that shit was a plague on education.

I laid a towel on it to protect it and apparently that was too much weight lmfao