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Glinda dropped Dorothy's house on the Wicked Witch of the East, not the tornado, and uses Dorothy to gain control of Oz.
One of the first things Glinda tells Dorothy is that SHE killed the witch. They praise her so she'll accept it, and when the Witch of the West comes along, who killed her sister?
Dorothy.
Glinda then puts the ruby slippers on Dorothy's feet but does not tell her that she can use them to go home. Instead she sends Dorothy to Oz in possession of objects that a witch would murder her for.
Dorothy, being forced into a situation where her only salvation is Oz and her worst enemy is the queen, inadvertently exposes the Wizard of Oz as a fraud and murders the Witch of the West.
Now who's left to rule Oz? Glinda fuckin' witch of the North. She used Dorothy as an expendable pawn to gain control of Oz without having to leave her bubble. And when Dorothy is done upheaving the two biggest powers in Oz, Glinda sends her home and makes her think it was all a dream!
The curse of white fur!
Or you could leave it as a permanent mark of your awesomeness. ;)
Derg spotted in the latest LGR video
Anyone know who it is?
Edit: @philpem found him!
https://twitter.com/PumpkinPythias/status/1822380775708168252
This caustic treat just popped up at the other place, courtesy of David Osland:
'Do we have two-tier policing in Britain? With me in the studio to discuss is a former Tory MP who wasn't charged with betting on the election date, a ferry boss who wasn't penalised for unlawfully sacking 800 workers and a woman who sold Β£200m-worth of unusable PPE to the NHS'!
100 people died in January, crossing the Mediterranean.
No "specialist search and rescue teams" out for them.
Not even reporting on each boat, let alone putting a name and a few sentences about each one.
We are told yacht owners are "worth" $billions.
Refugees are clearly thought to be worthless. We have to search for news of them.
They are humans in desperate circumstances, often caused by us.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/01/1145997
Bayesian yacht disaster: How specialist search and rescue teams work underwater
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-bayesian-yacht-disaster-specialist-teams.html
Search and rescue for missing persons is always challenging for the specialist recovery teams involved, regardless of the environment they're working in.Jamie Pringle (Phys.org)
My chemo sweatshirt arrived!
It has zippers in both sleeves so that I can wear it while getting my infusions. And it's going to be awesome when I get labs done in the winter because I don't have to take it off.
I got this on Etsy from DangerZTone (https://www.etsy.com/shop/DangerZtone?ref=usf_2020). It can also include chest zippers for those who need them.
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This is both the funniest and saddest thing Iβve ever read on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_of_Dorothy
Got to bring Drogon out at #FanExpoCanada for a (sadly, not well attended) Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon photoshoot.
(Drogon by @komickrazi.bsky.social
Pictures found on FB)
Hitler didnβt operate the gas chambers himself. But he was responsible.
Manson didnβt kill anyone himself. But he was responsible.
Bin Laden didnβt fly the planes himself. But he was responsible.
Trump didnβt storm the Capitol himself. But he was responsible.
Justice matters.
Huh.
So, just now I learned that you can convert miles to kilometers with the Fibonacci sequence?
A mile is 1.609 kilometers.
The Golden Ratio, the ratio between Fibonacci numbers as they get large, is 1.618.
So, within about 1%. And large doesn't need to be that large, it's actually pretty accurate from about 8 onwards.
1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 etc etc
5 miles is 8 km.
21 miles is 34 km.
89 miles is 144 km.
etc etc.
Kinda neat IMO.
Mistaking the fact that LLM's "learn" or "evolve" is similar in mistaking the fact that there is "intelligence" in muscle memory.
LLMs are only language muscle memory.
Very finely trained, yes, and injected with reasoning patterns that stem from language use, but that's just it, muscle memory.
it's always funny seeing the preload for prompts from all these companies and it always includes lines like "tell the truth" and "do not lie" and similar and it's just like, the joke about programmers whispering to cursed sand was wrong. _This_ is whispering to cursed sand, politely asking it to do the right thing the way my sister says "please tell me about the weather" to my parents' Nest hub as if it might not if she doesn't say "please".
Although tbh it might not soon with the bs from Google.
(As a side note I snorted my drink seeing MKBHD testing some product and it literally reciting part of the preload prompt to him out loud)
Triple alignment captured near Turin, Italy. The photograph took six years of attempts and was recently featured on the NASA Astronomic Picture of the day.
Credit: Valerio Minato
A new pedestrian-cycle tunnel had been opened under Helsinki's main train station. With an underground bike park for 900 cycles, with chargers and cycle maintenance/wash station.
Cc: @notjustbikes
They say big trucks are just a reality if you want to make deliveries in the city.
I say there's other ways to solve the "last-mile" problem...
There's your beer kegsβsorted.
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Travel fox reporting in.
On mischief patrol duty today. No coyotes detected, but increased levels of vulpine mischief. @cynder_coyote
(Big fox friend belongs to @keeya!)
When youβre searching for your dog realising heβs in perfect hiding π
#pets #PetsOfMastodon #dog #dogs
I got really into those books for a while as a kid.