Happy Birthday Big Bill!

funny you should mention that

the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.

it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

Quark's is probably a gay bar and Quark doesn't even know.

Well, I mean, Lt. Genderfluid frequents the tongo tables. Security Cheif 'What is Gender?' spends half his time pretending to be furniture to eavesdrop on the flamboyant owner who, despite being arrested twice a month, never spends more than a night in a holding cell before being released. The Old Queen who owns the tailor shop comes in for a drink every now and then, and Dr. Twink M.D. spends most of his off hours playing darts or going into the holosuites for what can only be historically accurate roleplay with the chief engineer, who's in what appears to be a committed throuple with the first officer? Nobody really knows what the new klingon officer does in the holosuites, but whenever he goes up, there's a lot of yelling, so it's definitely something kinky.

Not to mention that rumors of a cross-dressing ferengi have been heard on the promenade, although there's some argument about whether it was the owner or not.

So yeah, I'd say Quark's is Deep Space Nine's resident Gay Bar, even if Quark hasn't realized it yet.

my mutuals

Everytime the Asgard show up when SG-1 is in danger:

Love them silly little grey guys

Do not obey in advance.

Keep hating It's working

Okay but reblogging specifically for "Tesla in Distressla" because whoever came up with that tagine deserves a moment of recognition.

I feel like the big push for AI is starting to flag. Even my relatively tech obsessed dad is kinda over it. What do you even use it for? Because you sure as hell dont want to use it for fact checking.

There's an advertisement featuring a woman surreptitiously asking her phone to provide her with discussion topics for her book club. And like... what. Is this the use case for commercial AI? This the best you could come up with? Lying to your friends about Moby Dick?

One of the big pushes tech companies are making for AI is entirely in the tool of convenience. Take Gemini for example, one of Google's really big pitches for it is in features like Help Me Read and Help Me Write, which are like the lowest tier use case for deep learning models but are also the two AI features that the average consumer will actually care about. Sure they advertise the GenAI stuff Gemini Advanced is able to do, but they've woken up to the idea that the average consumer does not care about GenAI and non-AI Bros fundamentally loathe GenAI.

Every company with a language model got sucked into the venture capital pitfall of AI and now have to market the one set of features the general person actually cares about.

I work in advertising and the culture shift surrounding AI even from January until now (end of March) has been drastic. At the beginning of the year, the company I work for was using AI to design most of their assets. Clients started coming back and requesting that we no longer use AI generated images or videos for copyright liability reasons. Basically, there's no way to tell whose art or photography was scalped to make an image, so as companies who are trying to make a profit using potentially stolen images, it puts them in a gray area, legally.

Also, companies do look at their comment sections. Anti-AI commenters on social media ("this is not a real image" "I don't trust companies who use AI" etc) are seen by higher ups of a company. Basically, keep bullying brands who use AI, it's working. Now my company uses almost no AI for deliverables, which is a huge win.

Have you ever looked closely at a car windshield?

The edge of the glass is painted where it is glued to the car but it has these small dots between the clear and painted glass.

These are there for a reason. When the sun hits the glass the painted areas and the clear areas will absorb heat at different rates. This causes the glass to expand and contract differently putting stress on the glass.

These dots help the glass to warm up more evenly over a larger area so the glass does not suffer stress that could cause it to spontaneously explode.

Fun fact: the Tesla cybertruck doesn’t have these.

Yes, the glass will spontaneously crack or explode in the sun.

THIS SUMMERS GONNA BE SO COOL

they posted a full version lol it’s mr Stacy’s dad for me

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES 1966 – 1969・2x07 Catspaw

Or water fountains, public washrooms, outdoors tables, etc, etc

Notice how removing seating doesnt actually prevent people from sitting it just makes them uncomfortable and makes public spaces more hostile it doesnt actually work at controlling their behavior not till a pig comes along anyways and they'll harass a homeless person/teen whatever they're sitting on.

Btw keep in mind how this also more dramatically affects disabled people, not everyone can stand for hours at a time or feasibly sit on the floor

Elizabeth was really like ‘I knew we’d get to war crimes I just didn’t know we’d get there so soon’