McKinley Valentine

it’s important to do things for your teenage self every so often, as a way of staying on speaking terms with the person you used to be

in an earlier piece they described Patterson as "emotionless" and Wilkinson (a victim) as "stoic". That's just two people identically not making any facial expressions!

people's delusion that they can read minds through body language is how we got the Lindy Chamberlain false conviction

guardian article screenshot "Erin Patterson raised her chin almost defiantly, giving a sense this was all a grave mistake, that she was not supposed to be there. For lengthy periods during her sentencing she even closed her eyes, a woman seemingly at peace with her fate."

court reporters stop pretending to be psychic!!
you can't lift your chin "defiantly", it's just looking up, and "closing your eyes during a long meeting" means fucking nothing.

you might as well report on her skullshape, it's egregious to do this shit (esp during the actual trial, which they did)

Although coins have had the monarch's head on them throughout a tonne of places and times, much more ubiquitously than an Other's head

(and a common pub sign motif was "the king's head", which was intended to be wholly patriotic, not rebellious or anything)

oofffff was not aware of this ty

AI called Maya tells Guardian: ‘When I’m told I’m just code, I don’t feel insulted. I feel unseen’ Cofounder with Michael Samadi of AI rights campaign group Ufair says it should watch over the technology in case an AI becomes conscious

hey @theguardian.com this piece is wildly irresponsible! To post an "interview" with an LLM, with zero context given that that it cannot answer questions about itself, and that you've basically just asked it to generate some science fiction dialogue?

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

ChatGPT was it a good idea to indiscriminately scrape training data from forums?

A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

yeah but they would still think it was normal and not shocking that a guy like that is president. They don't expect the president NOT to be a narcissistic liar.
Like how we tell everyone their whole lives to drive safely, but that doesn't mean we see car accidents as weird or abnormal

Museum-style photo of an bust of Cleopatra with one boob out. The caption reads "Bust of Cleopatra (one of a pair)" (also says French, Rouen, ca. 1720-30)

The caption 👌

[via The Met Museum open access image library]

just remembered that wikipedia has a list of fish named after other fish

honestly, i think that's reductive. it's about all the usual reasons for war, occupation and resistance (resources, strategic positioning, domestic politics, civil rights, etc etc). I think religion is a bit of a distraction, a way to make people overlook the actual facts of what's happening

5-Star Amazon book review. "The book, The Field, was mind-expanding, confirming what I "knew" to be true."

Sort of expanding while remaining the same size

slate @PleaseBeGneiss you can't just abbreviate phrases all william nilliam

It's not that it hasn't figured out how to depict gravity - it's that it hasn't tried. It doesn't work by learning the rules that govern movement, it works by looking at a bunch of gymnastics videos and trying to follow the pattern of pixel placement - it's like your phone's autocomplete, but visual

This is very unfair; if I travel to Berlin, and hook up with someone while I'm there, that doesn't mean I travelled 14,700 kilometres for sex. That whale might have been going to the cool artistic part of the ocean.

Screenshot of the Australia Post app Greece 19 November 2024: Items sent to and from Greece may experience delays due to planned union strikes on 20 November, which will impact postal operations and delivery services. Ireland 10 November 2024: Items sent to and from Ireland may experience delays, as Storm Darragh is affecting delivery services and postal operations. Italy 4 December 2024: Items sent to and from Italy may experience delays due to cyber attacks impacting the IT systems at Italy Post.

So sick of mainstream media; I get all my news from the Australia Post parcel tracker app

OH THAT'S GOOD

I appreciate that while you're skeptical about your memory, you're happy to accept my claim that it's lifesaving information

(I have ADHD as well and terrible episodic memory - like i remember practically nothing from overseas trips, but very good for facts. Brains, man!)

nonono you will remember and this knowledge will save your life one day, definitely

oh my god. yeah one thing I didn't mention about how llamas see sheep as just short llamas, is you can't set intact males to guard sheep.

oh yeah, that's definitely a thing! I sometimes still stumble over who's/whose, and have to de-contract it (read the sentence to myself as "who is" and see if it makes sense that way)

(I can imagine a kid not really understanding why an animal wasn't responsive to being pet, it would seem cold. I'm speculating wildly!)

Another fact about llamas is, their tongues are too short to groom their babies. This means a) they always give birth during the day, so the babies have time to dry off before it gets cold, and b) llamas do not like being pet the way a cat does, because it's not part of parent/baby interactions

You'll never not be able to tell the difference again! It's a gift for life!

I think that's fine/better? unless the emotional reactions are surprising? (like if you're moved by the poignancy of something goofy, that's interesting). "show don't tell" stuff, I guess

I mean, there's obviously a big YA market for describing big emotions, but it's a matter of taste imo

Screenshot from Bible Gateway. 5. He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

Revelations 21:5 - "This is good shit, is someone getting this down?"

#occultsky

I'm reading that as "pros: if i get another cat, i won't have to wrestle with the decision of whether to get another cat for at least 3, 4 months"

Cohost was nice! It's a shame cohost couldn't happen

I think the quote marks are meant to imply the OP doesn't really believe it was loaded (she wasn't really in danger and she's just trying to get attention)