I think that gives me more thalassophobia than any animal I could find in open ocean.

Been there. Not the Trump voter part, but the spending-hours-days-weeks-months- down-a-rabbit-hole. Hope he drinks plenty of water and takes care.

The spring comment is valid.

From what I understand, household gods were very common — personal traditions about a small god that perhaps your family worshipped for generations and had a small shrine to for protection. Some of these were picked up and developed into more general purposes for a larger audience.

The Romans in particular also had a habit of picking up local deities for a larger pantheon, in these cases less of choosing gods, it was more like reducing some gods with very elaborate lore down to just a few specific traits. Though of course some gods were invented by storytellers on the spot and picked up.

Why. Whyyy. Why is this man at the wheel??

I mean I know why, it’s because no one told gramps he’s too senile to drive, but why are we sitting in the back seat??

You’re not wrong, but this man has already clearly accepted that things may go wrong one day. He’s decided that taking a stand is still worth the effort. And since we know there will be a smear campaign, posting what he’s doing alongside a reminder that his efforts are legal may at least slow down that campaign.

Ah yes, give them baby face. That will make them more intimidating.

Firefighter. Willing to bet AI won’t touch it anytime soon.

To quote a favorite singer of mine,

You could fill a man with gold, and still have room for greed.

Windows and all Google apps keep doing it. Been slowly trying to wean off Google and on to Protonmail, but I should probably speed up the timeline. I have to jump through a lot of hoops to keep Windows from backing up all my data externally on Onedrive. Then, I have copilot turned off, but they put it in Notepad without telling me and I was using it for months :c I was able to find an alternative, but I feel like AI keeps getting secretly shoved onto the background of Google, outlook, every social media site, any browser that’s not Brave or Vivaldi. Been trying to use other search engines than Google when I can, but sometimes Google is just the best at finding helpful results. I haven’t been able to use a navigation app in a while, and that’s caused some headache. And of course I need to find a Discord alternative, though I’m sure that’s not something the EU could offer any advice on.

I think what I would like most is some sort of comprehensive “black list” that lists compromised software and some alternatives, as well as a sort of alert letting me know if someone (like Google) puts out an update that quietly turned AI on again in the background. At some point I should probably switch to Linux, but in the mean time I wouldn’t mind knowing what policies the EU puts in place for its employees to ensure privacy while using Windows products.

As someone who is constantly fighting tooth and nail against AI being shoved into all of my software, wouldn’t mind knowing how the EU is doing it. What alternatives are being used or how they’re turning it off.

If you’re already in computer science, go into cybersecurity, learn to hack AI. That’s the next big thing. AI has immense vulnerabilities.

I’m glad The Guardian made an article on this. I saw a post earlier on it but wasn’t sure if it was fake clickbait. It’s hard to tell these days so I try to find a good news group also reporting on things.

“The department determined that the following programs were professional: medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, law, veterinary medicine, osteopathic medicine, podiatry, chiropractic, theology and clinical psychology. This meant that physician assistants, nurse practitioners, physical therapists and audiologist were excluded from the list.”

Theology and clinical psychology? I didn’t even know that was a career choice, let alone one I could take out a $200,000 loan for.

I said this creator was giving aid to refugees. From, not in.

The activist Rain Dove has been able to distribute aid directly to Palestinian refugees while presenting as openly queer, and did not have a negative experience. Yes there is significant stigma and suppression in that part of the world —but this is not unique to the Middle East. LGBT folks are unfortunately familiar with a certain degree of hatred against them, regardless of where they live. What matters, the common theme, is that they recognize mutual dehumanization, and have empathy and a desire to change that.

Sometimes I wonder what happened to the Gays for Trump crowd. I hope some have changed course. But the ones I’ve been able to look in on seem to be caught in the denial step.

“You people.” Bit rude, but I’ll engage. You should look into the Innocence Project. Look at some hard information as well.

Is every case mishandled? No. Does our system disproportionately favor type 1 errors (false convictions) over type 2 errors (false exonerations)? Yes.

Why did no one ever teach me this?? Did I miss this day in class? I feel so silly. This is really useful.

Can’t have books about cats.