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One use of AI assistant tools is as a souped-up search engine: you ask a question in natural language, and you hope that it will understand its data well enough to pick out the page that really answers your question, instead of pages that just mention some of the keywords. And you usually hope in vain.
So we should re-expand the acronym: these are 'Awkward Indexing' assistants.
Do you ever struggle with getting bored with some routines.
#AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #AskingAutistics @actuallyautistic
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I really want someone to tell me, explain it to me like you would a child, how can America claim to be so star spangle awesome -- Because as an American, I do not believe we are.
Do not misunderstand. I do not expect any place on earth to be perfect, as it is an imperfect world. And I am not trying to "hate on" my country, because, sure we have our flaws, same as every place does. But for crying out loud, we as a nation have gone insane, and truly lost our way.
Europe has healthcare and better privacy rights, civil rights, employment, pay, benefits, and here we have criminals, Donald Trump, for example, who can attempt to overthrow the government and break just about every law and court order, without care. On top of this, The Supreme Court is deciding whether you can jail homeless, for sleeping anywhere except a home, which they do not have (because they're homeless). Effectively, criminalizing homelessness.
On that note, we have more homes in America than we have people. We could house a nation twice the size of the American population and still have room to spare. Yet, so many people cannot afford a house, working 1-3 full-time jobs, even with excellent credit.
On that note, we have the ultra wealthy who avoid paying taxes at every turn, whose bank accounts in some instances match the GDP of some nations around the world. But we still insist on giving these people tax breaks, assuming they pay any (as some don't), while our elected officials proclaim how we have no money for things that help people, but always finds extra cash for things that do not.
When you say, we're number one, I really do not know what the f-ck you're all talking about. I really do not, and I think you have your head up your backside. Because education, healthcare, civil rights, justice, and just about everything else here in the United States of America seems to be on decline.
NASA successfully debugged a 46-year-old computer that has a latency of nearly two full days. That is truly awesome.
Just your average blue yote, chillin' on the sofa, with his favorite snack and drink within arm's reach, and in his favorite type of clothing 💙✨
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Dear @rowyn,
I just finished The Princess, Her Dragon, and Their Prince. It was amazingly sweet. I adored the characters to bits and finished the story happy with the ending yet sad to leave. This is a great example of positive polyamorous representation and I will be reading the rest of your work.
Dear Everyone Else, buy this charming triad romance fantasy here:
https://books2read.com/princessdragonprince
Love, Andy
#polyamorous #TriadRomance #PolyamorousFiction #PolyamorousRomance #RomanceFantasy #dragons
The Princess, Her Dragon, and Their Prince by L. Rowynbooks2read.com
Organizers at Columbia, Tulane and the University of Virginia write to attorneys general arguing schools’ investments are illegalDharna Noor (The Guardian)
Holy Crap. I didn't think it was possible, but #NASA got #Voyager back online.
https://gizmodo.com/nasa-voyager-probe-making-sense-months-gibberish-1851427197
JPL engineers pinpointed the cause behind the anomaly and came up with a clever plan to rescue the iconic mission.Passant Rabie (Gizmodo)
#ClimateDiary 13yo asked me just now: why does noone care about climate change anymore?
They watched this Prince Ea poem, “Sorry” at school last week, and apparently everyone just laughed, nobody cared.
It is very good but it does feel like from a different era - 2024 really does feel different to 2015-20. Not for everyone, of course, but the climate momentum just isn’t there just now. Hope it takes off again soon and that this time it really does change things.
https://youtu.be/eRLJscAlk1M?feature=shared
An Apology Letter to Future Generations. Sorry.💬TEXT ME: 314-207-4482💬🔴URGENT: YouTube won’t show you my NEW videos UNLESS you🔔 TURN ON MY NOTIFICATIONS?...YouTube
They say climate change has them feeling powerless — and it's frustrating
Global warming and littering are top of mind for these 3 students
"Our climate is as important as the money that you're receiving. I think that's something that a lot of people don't exactly tune in to, especially when you're in such a high position of power."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/teens-climate-change-powerless-1.7181130
#students #Windsor #Ontario #canada #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
En junio de 1938 se publicó el primer cómic de #Superman y 40 años después #JohnWilliams compuso una de las bandas sonoras más míticas de la historia del cin...YouTube
Last November, NASA's Voyager 1 sent home garbled data, and engineers traced the problem to the flight data subsystem (FDS). The problem turned out to be a single chip in the FDS memory. They couldn't repair the chip but could move the affected code into sections and store them in different parts of the FDS system. They tested the new system this week, sending signals to the Voyager 1, 22.5 light-hours away. It worked, and Voyager 1 is back.
To save you a click, it's far-right agitation. Same as most other bad things in the world today.
The story of how Canada went from tripping over itself to meet the country's emissions targets to openly hostile to good climate policy is a saga worth learning some lessons from. https://www.splinter.com/canadas-cautionary-climate-taleCanada’s Cautionary Climate Tale - Splinter
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.Justin Ling (Splinter)
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.Justin Ling (Splinter)
The #UK government has reclassified nearly £500m of aid for war-torn and impoverished countries as “climate finance”, in a bid to meet its international commitments under the Paris Agreement.
This follows reports that the UK’s pledge to spend £11.6bn on climate aid is slipping out of reach.
Humanitarian work in nations including Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia is now being double-counted as climate finance to help the UK hit its goal. #ClimateChange
The UK has reclassified nearly £500m of aid as “climate finance”, in a bid to meet its international commitments under the Paris Agreement.Josh Gabbatiss (Carbon Brief)
Gay, furry hackers attack far-right media outlet Real America’s Voice and release user data - PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/20/gay-furry-hackers-infiltrate-far-right-transphobic-media-outlet/
“Earlier in April, the group also hacked the Minnesota River Valley Church, leaked the details of over 15,000 user accounts and spent over $6000 of the church’s money on inflatable sea lions.”
A group of gay, furry hackers called SiegedSec have breached far-right outlet Real America’s Voice and released the data of 1200 app users.Hilary Mitchell (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
"50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study say"
WTF?! You're fucking shitting me!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/
Tax cuts for the wealthy didn't boost the economies of the U.S. and 17 other countries — but they did worsen income inequality.Aimee Picchi (CBS News)
Norf and Fender at MFF23
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#Furry #Furries #Fursuit #FursuitFriday #Photography #Anthro #MFF #MFF23
🪶 Meet Equinox: Fursuit Edition! 🪶
I am so excited to showcase this AMAZING partial (and 📸) of my coffee birb made by MiesdoCreations (on TG)!!!
It's her first time making a bird suit, and I think she did such a lovely job on him!
I can't wait to show him to friends and bring him to cons :D
For more information about this suit (as well as a little reveal video!) go here: https://t.me/MiesdoCreations/3338
#Avian #Gryphon #Griffin #Fursuit #Furry
Who killed Britain?
This Danish article has the correct answer: Thatcher.
"Around two-thirds of Britons believe the country is in decline, and it's not hard to see why. Real wages are lower than 15 years ago. A third of British children grow up in poverty, many millions have to skip meals every single week. The UK is not just significantly poorer than France, let alone Germany or Denmark. The poorest 10% of Britons now also earn less than the poorest 10% in Slovenia...
"A particular story of decay still plagues the country... and it goes something like this: the 1960s and 70s were a dark time... Then Thatcher came and saved it all with economic common sense, tax cuts and a necessary showdown with unions... But that narrative is fundamentally wrong... Margaret Thatcher did not increase the growth of the British economy... The post-war period, including the 1970s, was the time of high growth and major transformations... an economic model reminiscent of the one found in the rest of Western Europe was established... In the 1980s many countries lowered taxes, removed regulation, encouraged deindustrialization and privatized public enterprises. But Britain took exceptionally radical action. Today, it is Europe's most financialized economy, with very high inequality - and a very low level of both public and private investment in the economy.
"Four criminal acts have destroyed the economy.... Monetarism in the 1980s, deregulation in the 80s, the austerity policy of the 2010s and Brexit. All motivated by the same economic thinking... free market fundamentalism."
Storbritannien er et land i økonomisk, politisk og moralsk krise. Information er rejst til London for at lede efter rødderne til det britiske forfald.Mathias Sindberg (Dagbladet Information)
In the IEEE 754-2008 standard (referred to as IEEE 754 henceforth), a quiet NaN or qNaN is a NaN which is quiet in the sense of rarely signaling a floating-point exception.Weisstein, Eric W.
not AuDHD. Bit I feel this a little bit? I love routine but I do get bored too. A little bit of novelty in small controlled doses is okay, until a new special interest is born...
Then it's binge binge binge 🤤🤤🤤🤤... ...Until I eventually burn out. Then yeah the routine is damn useful at setting boundaries to enable executive functioning again
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