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[lizzybeeee]

Well, shit.

RIP Dragon Age.

[alsaurus-loves-dean]

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[peony-pearl]

24 and 30 for Hollander for the headcanon ask game :)

WHEEE thank you so much!!

best memory - Aside from Angeal's birth, Hollander's best memory is probably his early graduation from both high school and university (eventually leading to his acceptance into Shinra and then the Jenova Project). Hollander was an intelligent young man, and his parents saw fit to ensure good tutelage from his youth. I headcanon he was probably from a privileged family, and did not want for much. He remembers being the youngest graduate, full of excitement and eagerness to make his name known - the only problem is that he passed by on booksmarts rather than ingenuity, which is evidenced in his contributions to Project G.

personality - I'm basing this on the fact that he probably cannot leave Shinra due to his work on the Jenova Project (lest his retirement be short once a Turk finds him), he is stuck in a place where he will forever be marked as a failure for as long as he works there. Shinra is his end of the line.

We know from canon he's made outspoken remarks about his feelings towards Shinra. He doesn't make his thoughts secret. Hollander can be abrasive, and can absolutely be a toxic coworker. He has a history of being snappy, rude and dismissive. On good days he's... somewhat better, it's just a matter of if he's feeling civil; but oftentimes he's not in the mix with others. He does his job, gets paid, goes home. After some two decades of being miserable, he's learned how to deal with it. Those who have worked with him since Hojo was named head of the science department will say he's improved, but probably because he hates Shinra so much he doesn't want to expend more energy than he needs to in order to hate them.

Instead, in the few years leading up to Crisis Core, Hollander sort of started to mellow out (as much as he could). He's still outspoken about how he wants the Shinra building to collapse, but he's starting to work better with others, if only mildly. If he goes out on missions with infantrymen and soldiers, he's started actually engaging in conversations. Mostly because he's started accepting that... this is his life. He's actually told a number of young soldiers to leave Shinra, and he's been reprimanded for it every time, but he won't stop.

But maybe if he's nice and agreeable, Shinra will let him take on a mission where he's escorted by Angeal so he can get to know his son.

Regardless, Hollander is still no one's first choice to work with, but outside of Shinra, he maintains a couple of acquaintances. However, he's prone to bouts of isolation and struggles to keep any kind of meaningful relationship. The brightest light he sees in escaping this life is when he finds out Genesis and Angeal can create copies and suddenly Hollander has the power of an army at his disposal. It's the first chance he has at destroying Shinra and looking at a world where he's no longer stuck rotting alive.

And he has no problem using Genesis to achieve his goals.

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[teenagefeeling]

ok tangentially related: everyone saying "i never look up the authors of the books i read" is wilddddd to me. seriously? you just randomly pick up books and absorb whatever is between the pages with 0 context and do no further investigation? you don't care what nationality or gender or age an author is????? do you also not care when or where a book was published like how far does this go

it's not even hard to find, like flip to the back for an author bio and the copyright page for a whole bunch of other useful info..... do people not even look at the copyright page???!?

[aftapati]

I'm planning on adding a modern verse for Sōsuke sometime in the future, but here's a few things about it:

He is a working librarian and is also aspring to become an author, hence he is writing a book.

Said book he is writing could create quite a controversy depending on the topics that he has touched on, despite its content is mostly fiction. ( in which in a way, this could work as a parallel to his whole entirety and ethics in his actual / main verse )

His apparel and house is exactly like this headcanon here, about his actual verse visiting the World of the Living.

Courteous manners, gentlemanly behaviour, exactly like his days during his lieutenancy and captaincy reign, minus the whole treachery.

He is also quite the introvert / very reversed to himself.

Sometimes Grimmjow bullies him.

[jcmarchi]

3 Questions: Bridging anthropology and engineering for clean energy in Mongolia

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3 Questions: Bridging anthropology and engineering for clean energy in Mongolia

In 2021, Michael Short, an associate professor of nuclear science and engineering, approached professor of anthropology Manduhai Buyandelger with an unusual pitch: collaborating on a project to prototype a molten salt heat bank in Mongolia, Buyandelger’s country of origin and place of her scholarship. It was also an invitation to forge a novel partnership between two disciplines that rarely overlap. Developed in collaboration with the National University of Mongolia (NUM), the device was built to provide heat for people in colder climates, and in places where clean energy is a challenge. 

Buyandelger and Short teamed up to launch Anthro-Engineering Decarbonization at the Million-Person Scale, an initiative intended to advance the heat bank idea in Mongolia, and ultimately demonstrate its potential as a scalable clean heat source in comparably challenging sites around the world. This project received funding from the inaugural MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium Seed Awards program. In order to fund various components of the project, especially student involvement and additional staff, the project also received support from the MIT Global Seed Fund, New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET), Experiential Learning Office, Vice Provost for International Activities, and d’Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in Education.

As part of this initiative, the partners developed a special topic course in anthropology to teach MIT undergraduates about Mongolia’s unique energy and climate challenges, as well as the historical, social, and economic context in which the heat bank would ideally find a place. The class 21A.S01 (Anthro-Engineering: Decarbonization at the Million-Person Scale) prepares MIT students for a January Independent Activities Period (IAP) trip to the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, where they embed with Mongolian families, conduct research, and collaborate with their peers. Mongolian students also engaged in the project. Anthropology research scientist and lecturer Lauren Bonilla, who has spent the past two decades working in Mongolia, joined to co-teach the class and lead the IAP trips to Mongolia. 

With the project now in its third year and yielding some promising solutions on the ground, Buyandelger and Bonilla reflect on the challenges for anthropologists of advancing a clean energy technology in a developing nation with a unique history, politics, and culture. 

Q: Your roles in the molten salt heat bank project mark departures from your typical academic routine. How did you first approach this venture?

Buyandelger: As an anthropologist of contemporary religion, politics, and gender in Mongolia, I have had little contact with the hard sciences or building or prototyping technology. What I do best is listening to people and working with narratives. When I first learned about this device for off-the-grid heating, a host of issues came straight to mind right away that are based on socioeconomic and cultural context of the place. The salt brick, which is encased in steel, must be heated to 400 degrees Celsius in a central facility, then driven to people’s homes. Transportation is difficult in Ulaanbaatar, and I worried about road safety when driving the salt brick to gers [traditional Mongolian homes] where many residents live. The device seemed a bit utopian to me, but I realized that this was an amazing educational opportunity: We could use the heat bank as part of an ethnographic project, so students could learn about the everyday lives of people — crucially, in the dead of winter — and how they might respond to this new energy technology in the neighborhoods of Ulaanbaatar.

Bonilla: When I first went to Mongolia in the early 2000s as an undergraduate student, the impacts of climate change were already being felt. There had been a massive migration to the capital after a series of terrible weather events that devastated the rural economy. Coal mining had emerged as a vital part of the economy, and I was interested in how people regarded this industry that both provided jobs and damaged the air they breathed. I am trained as a human geographer, which involves seeing how things happening in a local place correspond to things happening at a global scale. Thinking about climate or sustainability from this perspective means making linkages between social life and environmental life. In Mongolia, people associated coal with national progress. Based on historical experience, they had low expectations for interventions brought by outsiders to improve their lives. So my first take on the molten salt project was that this was no silver bullet solution. At the same time, I wanted to see how we could make this a great project-based learning experience for students, getting them to think about the kind of research necessary to see if some version of the molten salt would work.

Q: After two years, what lessons have you and the students drawn from both the class and the Ulaanbaatar field trips?

Buyandelger: We wanted to make sure MIT students would not go to Mongolia and act like consultants. We taught them anthropological methods so they could understand the experiences of real people and think about how to bring people and new technologies together. The students, from engineering and anthropological and social science backgrounds, became critical thinkers who could analyze how people live in ger districts. When they stay with families in Ulaanbaatar in January, they not only experience the cold and the pollution, but they observe what people do for work, how parents care for their children, how they cook, sleep, and get from one place to another. This enables them to better imagine and test out how these people might utilize the molten salt heat bank in their homes.

Bonilla: In class, students learn that interventions like this often fail because the implementation process doesn’t work, or the technology doesn’t meet people’s real needs. This is where anthropology is so important, because it opens up the wider landscape in which you’re intervening. We had really difficult conversations about the professional socialization of engineers and social scientists. Engineers love to work within boxes, but don’t necessarily appreciate the context in which their invention will serve.

As a group, we discussed the provocative notion that engineers construct and anthropologists deconstruct. This makes it seem as if engineers are creators, and anthropologists are brought in as add-ons to consult and critique engineers’ creations. Our group conversation concluded that a project such as ours benefits from an iterative back-and-forth between the techno-scientific and humanistic disciplines.

Q: So where does the molten salt brick project stand?

Bonilla: Our research in Mongolia helped us produce a prototype that can work: Our partners at NUM are developing a hybrid stove that incorporates the molten salt brick. Supervised by instructor Nathan Melenbrink of MIT’s NEET program, our engineering students have been involved in this prototyping as well.

The concept is for a family to heat it up using a coal fire once a day and it warms their home overnight. Based on our anthropological research, we believe that this stove would work better than the device as originally conceived. It won’t eliminate coal use in residences, but it will reduce emissions enough to have a meaningful impact on ger districts in Ulaanbaatar. The challenge now is getting funding to NUM so they can test different salt combinations and stove models and employ local blacksmiths to work on the design.

This integrated stove/heat bank will not be the ultimate solution to the heating and pollution crisis in Mongolia. But it will be something that can inspire even more ideas. We feel with this project we are planting all kinds of seeds that will germinate in ways we cannot anticipate. It has sparked new relationships between MIT and Mongolian students, and catalyzed engineers to integrate a more humanistic, anthropological perspective in their work.

Buyandelger: Our work illustrates the importance of anthropology in responding to the unpredictable and diverse impacts of climate change. Without our ethnographic research — based on participant observation and interviews, led by Dr. Bonilla, — it would have been impossible to see how the prototyping and modifications could be done, and where the molten salt brick could work and what shape it needed to take. This project demonstrates how indispensable anthropology is in moving engineering out of labs and companies and directly into communities.

Bonilla: This is where the real solutions for climate change are going to come from. Even though we need solutions quickly, it will also take time for new technologies like molten salt bricks to take root and grow. We don’t know where the outcomes of these experiments will take us. But there’s so much that’s emerging from this project that I feel very hopeful about.

[cosmosarcana]

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[introvertgoat]

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[carltonlassie]

Guys did you know the newest AI hype train is something called Agentic AI and it just means that we now have systems where AI can be an agent, a colleague, a true assistant in that given a goal to achieve, it can make decisions and execute it on your behalf. It's different from other AI systems in that it doesn't just perform narrowly defined and specific commands; it is goal oriented and will chase the outcome by itself based on a decision matrix and various inputs. So self-driving cars are an example of Agentic AI because given a goal of taking a passenger to the destination, it needs to make several decisions such as mapping the route, sensing the surroundings and reacting to the changing input, and execute its decisions to achieve the goal. Other Agentic systems are being built to be your errand boy/personal valet essentially - you could tell an agent to figure out how much you owe a contractor and pay him on your behalf. If you let the AI systems access your emails, calendar, and BANK ACCOUNT. It'll take care of it for you so you can direct your attention to better things. And I'm just like um. That's. Something.

[theabstruseone]

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

Edit to add further developments:

Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.

Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.

The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.

The act of sending a tweet is now known as "Xeet". They even added a guide for how to Xeet.

The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words "tweet" and "Twitter" are still all over the place on the site.

TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it's because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).

This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to "X-Paypal" and eventually just to "X".

This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to "pay online" (as in "I'll paypal you the money")

X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I'm not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he's hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn't be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.

Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.

The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.

One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won't be enough to pay the debt (since it's worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.

Sesame Street's official accounts mocked the rebranding.

[isratzahanbd]

How to Create Effective Shopify Product Management with SEO

Running a successful Shopify store requires more than just listing products and hoping for sales. To maximize visibility and conversions, you need an effective product management strategy that incorporates search engine optimization (SEO). By combining thoughtful organization with strategic keyword use, you can enhance your store’s discoverability and improve its overall performance. Here’s how to achieve effective Shopify product management with SEO:

1. Conduct Thorough Keyword Research

Effective SEO begins with understanding what your customers are searching for. Use keyword research tools like Google Keyword Planner, Ahrefs, or SEMrush to identify:

High-volume keywords related to your products.

Long-tail keywords for niche targeting.

Buyer-intent keywords that signal readiness to purchase.

Incorporate these keywords naturally into your product titles, descriptions, and meta tags to align with search intent.

2. Optimize Product Titles

Product titles play a critical role in SEO and user engagement. To make them effective:

Include primary keywords naturally.

Keep titles clear and concise (60–70 characters).

Highlight unique selling points, such as “Organic Cotton T-Shirt — Sustainable and Soft.”

Avoid keyword stuffing, as it can harm readability and SEO rankings.

3. Craft Engaging Product Descriptions

Product descriptions should inform and persuade while being SEO-friendly. Follow these tips:

Write unique descriptions for each product to avoid duplicate content penalties.

Use primary and secondary keywords naturally.

Highlight benefits and features, such as durability, eco-friendliness, or multifunctionality.

Use bullet points for readability.

For example:

“Our handcrafted leather wallets offer unmatched durability and timeless style. Perfect for everyday use, these wallets feature RFID-blocking technology to keep your information secure.”

4. Use High-Quality Images with Alt Text

Visual appeal is crucial in e-commerce, but images also contribute to SEO when properly optimized. Ensure:

Images are high-resolution and properly sized for faster loading.

File names include keywords (e.g., “red-leather-wallet.jpg”).

Alt text describes the image and incorporates relevant keywords for accessibility and SEO.

5. Leverage Meta Titles and Descriptions

Meta titles and descriptions are your storefront in search engine results. To optimize them:

Include primary keywords near the beginning.

Keep meta titles under 60 characters and meta descriptions under 155 characters.

Write compelling copy that encourages clicks, such as: “Discover our range of eco-friendly kitchenware. Free shipping on orders over $50!”

6. Organize Products with Collections and Tags

Shopify’s collections and tags help improve navigation and SEO. Best practices include:

Group similar products into collections (e.g., “Men’s Shoes” or “Winter Jackets”).

Use relevant tags for filtering, like color, size, or material.

Ensure collection pages have optimized titles, descriptions, and meta tags.

7. Enable Product Reviews and Ratings

User-generated content, like reviews, not only builds trust but also improves SEO by adding fresh, keyword-rich content to product pages. Use Shopify apps like Judge.me or Yotpo to:

Encourage customers to leave reviews.

Display ratings prominently on product pages.

8. Optimize URL Structure

Clean and descriptive URLs enhance SEO and user experience. For instance:

Use “www.mystore.com/organic-cotton-t-shirt” instead of “www.mystore.com/product12345.”

Keep URLs short and include primary keywords.

9. Implement Structured Data Markup

Structured data (schema markup) helps search engines understand your content better. Shopify supports JSON-LD for rich snippets, which can display:

Product prices and availability.

Star ratings.

Customer reviews.

Use Shopify apps like SEO Manager or Smart SEO to implement schema markup without coding.

10. Monitor Performance with Analytics

Regularly review your SEO and product management efforts using tools like Google Analytics and Shopify’s built-in reports. Track metrics such as:

Organic traffic and bounce rates.

Conversion rates and average order value.

Top-performing keywords and pages.

Use this data to refine your strategy and address underperforming areas.

Conclusion

Effective Shopify product management with SEO is a continuous process that involves research, optimization, and analysis. By implementing the tips above, you can enhance your store’s visibility, attract more customers, and drive conversions. Focus on delivering value through both content and usability, and you’ll create a Shopify store that stands out in the competitive e-commerce landscape.

[hurgablurg]

44 Studios, 80 Games, 4,532 Jobs, $1.5 billion

jesus fucking chriiiiiist how do you fuck up so badly

[louistonehill]

A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways. 

The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission. Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless—dogs become cats, cars become cows, and so forth. MIT Technology Review got an exclusive preview of the research, which has been submitted for peer review at computer security conference Usenix.   

AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Stability AI are facing a slew of lawsuits from artists who claim that their copyrighted material and personal information was scraped without consent or compensation. Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, who led the team that created Nightshade, says the hope is that it will help tip the power balance back from AI companies towards artists, by creating a powerful deterrent against disrespecting artists’ copyright and intellectual property. Meta, Google, Stability AI, and OpenAI did not respond to MIT Technology Review’s request for comment on how they might respond. 

Zhao’s team also developed Glaze, a tool that allows artists to “mask” their own personal style to prevent it from being scraped by AI companies. It works in a similar way to Nightshade: by changing the pixels of images in subtle ways that are invisible to the human eye but manipulate machine-learning models to interpret the image as something different from what it actually shows. 

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