In my experience AI bots seem to comprehend face masks pretty well but when it’s fed images wearing specifically an ahegao face mask it gets confused bc it’s seeing elements of a “face” on your face but it’s not your face so if people want a new tip on how to confuse bots well
would love if someone did like a documentary on the sinfest guy bc his whole like trajectory feels very like oddly symbolic of the whole confluence of weird fringe martyrdom-reactionary politics era we live in
Yeah ok, washed the satin sheets on delicate after filing the dry skin on my feet down to not rip up the threads as I tossed around and it came out feeling perfect. Don’t really see a point in moving to silk, which’d have to be hand-washed in the big sink, now.
i hate job hunting so much why couldn’t i have just been sent abroad as a girl to serve at the court of margaret of austria and then later to serve a succession of french queens so that i could return to the english court years later as a lady of sophistication and charm capable of causing one of the greatest religious schisms in european history
if one more person reblogs this to tell me that Anne Boleyn got executed I’m gonna shake their hand and thank them because despite me evidently knowing the specifics of her early career in Europe pre-1522 I somehow was not aware of her extremely famous beheading. I had no idea. Thank you for enlightening me.
We have some wonderful creators that today that volunteered for this first test issue, some critters may be familiar, but there may just be someone new waiting 👀✨
new ideologies we’ve been testing internally for release in 2023:
ecostrasserism
anarcho-taylorism
islamic juche
carthaginian irredentism
cyberba'athism
astrology girl race science
cryptoliberalism
furry nationalism
fully automated luxury space catholicism
jungian psychocommunism
discord server syndicalism
ted kaczynksi thought
kennedy family neofeudalism
direct theocracy
whatever the fuck cybersmith believes
flat earth centrism
ohio independence
hi everybody! we’ve had people point out that we already rolled out a preview build of ‘astrology girl race science’ and would like to assure you that the 2023 release will include brand new features like 'pan-Scorpio nationalism’ and 'homestuck themed ethnostate’
Flashback to that time 9 years ago I threw a Taylor Swift-themed pinball tournament, where every table represented something particular in her arc with prizes including commissioned poems I hand-printed and framed (yes, I was manic when I came up with the idea)
Thinking about how the Second Wave feminist proto-TERFs, by embracing “woman” as a victimized identity instead of encouraging them to be victimizers, ultimately brought on exactly the apocalypse they feared where trans women took over how to do it better
The great thing about Tumblr is that when you read the tags of any post, you’re going to see “oh my god someone put it into words, how could you describe that so precisely” and “does anyone understand what the fuck this word salad is, why does this have so many notes” on the same post. You’ll read the most sane and sensible statement you’ve heard all year and someone’s commented “wow fuck you, worst take ever, this is disgusting. I hate OP and everyone who agrees with them, I wish I could hunt them for sport.”
It’s a harsh training ground for a people-pleaser, because no matter what you say or think, someone is still going to be displeased by it. Sure, it’s good to hear varying opinions and occasionally reconsider your own stances on things, maybe this person does have a point. But it’s also absolutely crucial to have your own opinions on things, trying to please everyone and changing your opinion every time someone disagrees with what you previously thought would drive you mad within 15 minutes of scrolling.
As for myself, I just say shit recreationally and intend to continue posting whatever stupid thoughts pop into my head as they happen until Tumblr finally collapses completely, or somebody who’d hunt me for sport actually gets a license for that.
At the center of this debate was Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule, whose latest book served as the ostensible subject of the symposium. In conservative legal circles, Vermeule has become the most prominent proponent of “common good constitutionalism,” a controversial new theory that challenges many of the fundamental premises and principles of the conservative legal movement. The cornerstone of Vermeule’s theory is the claim that “the central aim of the constitutional order is to promote good rule, not to ‘protect liberty’ as an end in itself” — or, in layman’s terms, that the Constitution empowers the government to pursue conservative political ends, even when those ends conflict with individual rights as most Americans understand them. In practice, Vermeule’s theory lends support to an idiosyncratic but far-reaching set of far-right objectives: outright bans on abortion and same-sex marriage, sweeping limits on freedom of expression and expanded authorities for the government to do everything from protecting the natural environment to prohibiting the sale of porn. […]
On the one side of this debate are defenders of the conservative legal status quo, who made up the majority of the speakers at the Cambridge symposium. By and large, these conservatives continue to champion the time-honored legal principles of the right: the sanctity of individual rights, the importance of judicial restraint and the wisdom of limited government. Practically all of them continue to identify as originalists.
On the other side of the debate are those who, like Vermeule, want to push the conservative legal movement in a more radical direction. Partisans of this camp hail from different sectors of the American right, and they go by different names. (Some eschew the label of “conservative” for the edgier “postliberal” or “integralist,” two terms that are variously applied to Vermeule.) But they have cohered around a shared desire for a more muscular judiciary, one that sheds the guise of judicial neutrality in favor of a more assertive right-leaning posture. The members of this camp are almost uniformly critics of originalism — or at least of originalism as it’s practiced now — and many, though not all, are Catholic. They remain a distinct minority within the broader conservative ecosystem, but as the youthfulness of the audience in the Revolution Room suggested, their ideas have made particular inroads among young conservative lawyers and law students.
The funny thing about Vermeule’s bullshit is it’s all about allowing conservative legal elites to smuggle things past their own superegoes, it’s like “aha, if we think THIS way we can do THIS in a way we accept!” and has no mechanism for establishing hegemony in a sphere not already dominated by people who’ve agreed to think THAT way and accept it
You ever think about how crows are acting not unlike how early humans probably did and you’re just like. Oh ok
I saw a Thing one time about how the earliest sign of civilization is a healed femur because that shows that we were taking care of each other because if we Didn’t a broken leg would mean you Die because you can’t. Do things
And I was thinking about this and I remembered also seeing an article about this one mated pair of crows where one of them broke its beak and thus couldn’t properly feed itself on its own. So the other one helps
So basically I have connected the two dots (“you didn’t connect shit”) I’ve connected them
And also they not only use tools but teach each other how to construct them, so uh
Really makes you think
Realistically I know immortality would kinda suck but I’d love to see where crows are going with this
Fun fact, there is little info on crows (as far as species of interest go) because they’re so good at evading human tactics for collection and observation. I had a friend who studied them in grad school. Not only do they describe humans to each other (so crows you’ve never seen before will avoid you), they also learn the precise distance of net cannons (for trapping and tagging) after 1 encounter and then stand at that distance the entire time (making naive researchers think maybe they can juuuust caych em). So basically you need to befriend them (a common strategy), or find a murder that’s never seen you before (researchers wear presidents masks to throw them off, but then they remember and describe the cars). In this case, you have one chance to collect enough in the group to get good data. Whatever crow you catch once, you probably will never catch again, ruling out biosensing devices (like they use with other birds and turtles n junk).
The latest big finding about crows is that they have a grasp of knowledge breadth, meaning they “know what they know” meaning they are conscious (self aware), have subjective experiences and can reflect on their knowledge. (Source) This also implies they have an understanding of the unknown.
Look up Andreas Nieder and Jon Marzluff’s work if you want the deep skinny.
![[Description] A card back for a Magic: The Gathering card. The card is an artifact with a black background, and the card name is The Blur of [Text] Frour of Swords [newline] 3 [newline] Artifact [newline] Flash [newline] "The blur of weedle represents the [newline] end of a chapter. [newline] -Nolan "The Blur of Weedle" Howard](/media/00a04a7a3f3d2d46b0f2699799f229dfc5ca49ab_e300947f2083.png)
