cheeeryos:

timemachineyeah:

ralfmaximus:

clementimetodie:

vajracchedika:

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The report says that by year four of the Alexa experiment, “Alexa was getting a billion interactions a week, but most of those conversations were trivial commands to play music or ask about the weather.” Those questions aren’t monetizable.

So they didn’t want people using the very things they advertised as being useful; the reasons you’d tolerate an always-on virtual assistant in your life.

this is the kind of stuff the cyber dystopias never think to include. “spying on everyone couldn’t make enough money :(” like what

they aren’t losing money on the product itself they’re losing money they wanted to make after selling it lmao boo fuckin hoo

leohtttbriar:

cryptotheism:

Y'all, saying that cartomancy is a “closed Romani practice” is like saying money lending is a “closed Jewish practice.” Cartomancy was a practice that Romani people were forced into due to discrimination.

Ettellia said he learned tarot from Romani people who brought tarot from Egypt. He was lying to make tarot sound more exotic. Europe was in the middle of egyptomania. There is literally no historical evidence that this supposed origin is even slightly true. Europe has had cartomancy since the Roman Empire.

Around the time that tarot divination was being invented, tarocci decks were fairly new. If there was a “traditional romani cartomancy” method, (which even Romani oral histories do not support) it almost definitely would have been based on the massively more popular Belgian-Genoese pattern deck, not the tarocci deck.

shock:

shock:

obsessed with how working with middle schoolers is how they’re all soooo cool and everything is sooooo lame but the second you introduce a stuffed animal as a new student who “doesn’t know anything about math and wants to learn but is too scared to do it alone” one of them says it’s a girl, calls her Baby T, this spreads as fact until everyone is using the same name, and even though Baby T lives in the math classroom they convinced me to take her with us to the park because she is a student

theabigailthorn:

A CEO Rescued my Chimpanzee

I have a chimpanzee. His name is Albert Camus, I’ve had him for years, he travels everywhere with me including when I go to work on acting jobs. Sometimes he stays in my hotel room, sometimes he stays in my trailer, always he stays in my heart.

So I wrapped Identiteaze yesterday, filming in downtown LA, and I went straight from the set to the airport to fly home. Only when I had checked my bags in for the flight did I realise - I left Camus in the hotel!

By this point it was too late to go back - I’d have missed my flight - so I texted Dave, the CEO of Nebula, who was staying in the same hotel, and was like hey this is silly, but that little chimp means the world to me. Can you get him back?

And this fucking CEO, this guy who has a million more important things to do than rescue wayward stuffies, coordinated a rescue operation with Trenton the Vice President of Nebula and Zara the post-production manager to go and get him. And now Camus is safe, and he’s going to be returned to me.

And look - I talk a lot about how good Nebula is to work with, but this is what I mean. They went above and beyond out of the goodness of their hearts to help me feel better, and I love them for that.

So get a Nebula subscription - in fact, wait till December when they’re doing a special deal on it and I might have something really cool to announce. But make sure you get one cause the people who work there are the nicest flippin’ people in the world <3

lazarus—rising:

lazarus—rising:

2 weeks til nov 5th ..

oh i dont even know how to begin to explain . do you know what destiel is

egberts:

egberts:

seeing people casually talking about spending $30,000 on a wedding makes me feel a special kind of nauseous when every single person i know has to debate if $40 on ordering pizza is worth it

one of the absolute most annoying things about this post is all the people who desperately want to believe i mean $40 for one single pizza by itself and not like, two pizzas plus a tip or even three pizzas to feed a large group. like how are you so determined to vilify $40 pizza that in your head you’re the only person smart enough to get a deal on a $15 pizza as if buying more than one single $15 pizza wouldn’t immediately put you out closer to $40.

genquerdeer:

woosh-floosh-art:

nixoon-again:

team sonic and team dark end up on the same place for different missions, everyone gets separated and tails and shadow end up together. shadow threatens the bad guys with his handgun and tails gives him the most disappointed 8 yo look he can muster and goes, “really? can that toy even harm a chao??” to which shadow replies, “you got any better ideas fox boy?” and tails just pulls out a really bright yellow n cyan coloured missile launcher twice his size out of nowhere and says, “yea.”

JUST EXPLODE LOL!

Reminder that Tails rebuilt Sonic’s old racing car into a mecha and used it for combat when he felt like it.

hayleyolivia:

wizardpotions:

I wonder if multilingual dnd characters work like multilingual people irl

Character 1: hey can you pass me the (demonic screeching)

Character 2: (visibly disturbed)

Character 1: (takes mundane object out of character 2s hands) sorry I forgot the word for it in common…

This made me laugh really hard. It deserved a comic. 😆

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

You can tell this website sits squarely at the intersection of the autism and ADHD communities because being a fan of more than one thing at a time is something people feel the need to apologise for.

Like, I’m not trying to diagnose anyone over the Internet here, but your blog header is anxiously apologising for the fact that your posts are sometimes curated with insufficient rigour like you’re a mouse in a tweed vest who lives inside a broken microfilm projector at a small-town public library.

mbrainspaz:

souldagger:

there’s only one thing worse than an awful book, and that is an awful book with ONE tantalisingly compelling element

an awful book is nothing. You can put it down and never think of it again. An awful book with ONE idea that perfectly captures your imagination can chip your soul out through your eyes with every sloppy syntax error and gaping plot hole while you scream, unable to look away

think-queer:

Okay, this might be an unpopular opinion, but if you want to combat the spread of misinformation then you have to let go of any belief that people not talking about an issue means that they don’t care. The only way to reduce the spread of misinformation and disinformation is to research claims before you spread them, and there is so much information constantly being thrown at people through social media and the 24 hour news cycle that it’s impossible to fact check every claim. The same can be said about AI generated images, if you look closely then you can notice certain tells that something is AI generated but no one really has the time to analyze every single image that crosses their path.

If we expect people to talk about and spread information on every social/political/economic issue that occurs then the result will be that people will spread misinformation/disinformation because they will not have the time or mental capacity to research every single thing that happens on Earth just to make sure that they aren’t being fed incorrect information.

Only researching claims that set off a red flag or seem incorrect doesn’t actually do much to prevent misinformation, because there are plenty of claims that will seem correct on the surface or that will align with your view of the world that you won’t think to research. You have to research every claim if you want to avoid misinformation, and you can’t research every claim made by someone online.

The only solution is to accept that some people aren’t going to talk about certain issues, not because they don’t care, but because they have chosen to focus on other issues for the time being and don’t want to talk about an issue that they don’t know much about. And we really need to stop treating that like a bad thing. If you spread yourself too thin then you’re not going to accomplish anything. It’s actually good to have people devoting themselves to learning about and fighting a specific issue, that’s how progress is made.

magicalshopping:

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