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something about those logic questions on IQ tests... if a basement husband is to an attic wife as a bumblebee is to a hornet...

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Should there be Mouse Dropout? 🐭

Watch the new episode now on Dropout

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THEY TOOK THEIR CATS WITH THEM TO CYPRUS

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love

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The filter relies on manually curated open-source blocklists, including the ‘nuclear’ list, provided by uBlockOrigin and uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist,” DuckDuckGo said in a post on X. “While it won’t catch 100% of AI-generated results, it will greatly reduce the number of AI-generated images you see.

Left: AI filter is off Right: AI filter is on

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Quite possibly the best answer.

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thinking about creatures.

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i hate it when someone asks me what my favorite work of art is because i can't say "the one of the woman chilling on the rocks with a dragon lying in her lap and giving off powerful big dick energy" but how else am i supposed to describe it

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Secunit: ugh i haaaate being a bot/human construct; it's like being handed the worst of the two things. first, they put weapons all over me to murder people at will and brand me  with the company logo like the piece of equipment I am and then make me look human (ugh). the only things these stupid organic parts are good for is giving me anxiety, depression, and making me leak. now, not only am I a terrifying murderbot, i'm also a moody, snarky asshole whom no one wants to associate with. i'm 90% sure of it — my threat assessment module said so.

ART: holy shit, a bot/human construct?! you mean to say not only is this little guy smart as hell, always running a hundred processes in its tiny brain, loves being ten steps ahead of everyone but not in a holier-than-thou way like some ships, it also experiences emotions in a soft, vulnerable way like my beloved humans do?

and only after meeting it I am a step closer to comprehending the intricacies of it all because interacting with this bot-construct and learning how it processes emotions and about its life experiences has opened up a new world of understanding for me, which I never ever ever considered was possible (being the pinnacle of machine intelligence and all) ??

it's like they made it in a factory specifically for me !

on top of all that, it sasses me back in a way no one has ever done before and matches my freak perfectly.

i trust it with my main core and all of my backup processors AND my humans. i'm going to put it in my pocket and travel the star systems forever and ever!

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My favorite small detail in the Murderbot Diaries is how many of the shitty corporations have names that sound like two names mashed together—GrayCris, BreharWallHan, Barish-Estranza, etc—because to me it just screams “corporate merger.” It’s something that real companies do with their names when they’re monopolizing, where two companies of comparable sizes just mash their two brands together to make a horrible Frankenbrand. Like how it’s Warner Bros-Discovery now, or the names of publishing companies like Penguin Random House and HarperCollins. It’s just some subtle worldbuilding that signifies how the dystopian capitalist hellscape of the Corporation Rim formed through the very mundane acts of corporate inbreeding that we see all the time

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i have zero empathy for little boys being misogynists. i was a kid too, but my focus was towards drawing and reading, not hating on minorities.

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writing mood™️