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[beemovieerotica]

nooo hard leftist don't succumb to the conservative belief that everyone performing a job you dont understand is actually working for the deep state !!!

[frownyalfred]

Young jl memebers get in trouble and the first person they ask for help is Batman

Is he the JL Godfather? attorney? on-call therapist? off the books doctor for questionable injuries? guy with Mafia connections? owner of a suspicious number of unmarked vehicles? yes.

[emmavakarian-theirin]

YOU GUYS my surgery results came back and i got the all clear!

[routerdisconnect]

Anyways you ever think about how weird it is that Hungry basically just acts like another player? Like. It types in chat. It has a name tag. It opens doors, it kills mobs for food, it can't see other players when they hide and crouch. No other entities act like this and I feel like there's gotta be some lore implications there

[littlemeanings]

I really do not blame students for using AI within a capitalist education system that prioritizes efficiency, productivity, and short term memorization of profitable skills over genuine critical engagement. some skills are obviously crucial (i.e., writing for building critical thinking) but can and are still being built with minor adjustments like proctoring. the research shows cheating rates have not changed and have remained high since AI has become available. with the students that do cheat, it's due to deeper systemic issues. many high school and college students are working multiple jobs, caretaking for family members, have health issues, etc. and they will use whatever is available to give themselves some relief.

I get complaining about AI in passing. like I love to hate on it. but most people aren't really offering real ways to protest it other than just telling individuals they are evil for using it... which in any other area of politics we would think flawed and inadequate (re veganism, eco friendly lifestyle changes, etc).

sooo many AI-critical takes are liberal/idealist/individualist and not materialist. once again, we see individuals blamed for the profit-maximizing decisions of corporations (who are the ones responsible for the most harmful aspects of Al). instead of viewing the problems of AI as a symptom of structural issues requiring collective action, they would rather frame it as a personal character flaw of workers and students. and this individualizing of political issues closes off potential for a deeper critique, coalition building, and more opportunities for action. it's a way to both feel superior to other people and subscribe to inaction.

AI does not defy the capitalist historical pattern of labor-saving technology creation, monopolization, dependency enforcement, and exploitation. new technology increases productivity/profit expectations. these increased productivity expectations translate into pedagogy that also expects increased productivity. medical schools actively encourage regular AI use because they know doctors will now be expected to be faster and see more patients because of it - despite the fact most AI tools are not accurate enough to trust for medical information. however, this does not matter in the real capitalist world. what matters is how many patients you can see and how much money you can make for the shareholders and insurance companies.

just like all new labor-saving technology, AI decreases the bargaining power of workers and heightens capitalist contradictions: if you cant stay competitive and keep up with the pace as a worker you risk your job and livelihood.

I am not advocating for doctors, students, and other workers to continue uncritically using AI, but to understand their part in the class war and act accordingly. under capitalism, all productivity gains from new technology will always go straight to the company owners, who would rather expect double/triple the productivity of workers rather than give the time saved back to workers or god forbid give the workers ownership over the new technology.

AI will not save us from capitalism - capitalism develops the productive forces for its replacement. we must radically organize and self-educate. activism isn't about being perfect but doing the best you can consistently without burning yourself out and this will look different for everyone.

[sapphire-weapon]

he's on set for the operation javier dlc

i feel it in muh bones

[venom-ass-daily]

From Venom vs. Carnage issue #1

[zlobonessa]

one perhaps potentially controversial headcanon about regulus that i have is that i think he actually was a mama's boy. a favourite child even. first priority over his older brothers. except he was a favourite child in a "this kid is constantly sick and weak and gets himself in trouble and is incapable of doing anything properly and we are working constantly and we only can manage to spare some time for him only when something is Wrong with him" way. and this is the origin of his "if i am loved i am pitied and therefore looked down upon". brainworm.

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

and while we're at it I'm still pissed at Dave Stone for Return to the Fractured Planet

[ms-m-astrologer]

Transiting Vesta Re-enters Cancer

Timeline (current events in bold)

Friday, August 18, 2023, 02:04 UT - transiting Vesta enters pre-retrograde shadow, 21°45’ Gemini

Wednesday, September 13, 2023, 23:22 UT - transiting Vesta enters Cancer

Friday, November 3, 2023, 01:52 UT - transiting Vesta stations retrograde, 7°30’ Cancer

Wednesday, December 20, 2023, 10:08 UT - transiting Vesta retrogrades back into Gemini

Thursday, February 8, 2024, 09:44 UT - transiting Vesta stations direct, 21°45’ Gemini

Sunday, March 31, 2024, 10:56 UT - transiting Vesta re-enters Cancer

Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 03:07 UT - transiting Vesta exits post-retrograde shadow, 7°30’ Cancer

Caveat: this may not have much of an impact on you, unless Vesta is prominent in your chart - closely in aspect to your natal Sun, the Moon, &/or an angle. It may also have a stronger effect if transiting Vesta happens to make an aspect to your Sun, Moon, &/or an angle, while she’s in her retrograde zone.

Vesta is much more comfortable in Cancer than in Gemini. Look back on what you tried to get off the ground in Sept.-Dec. 2023 - if we put in the retrograde work, we’re in a much better place now, for those projects.

This should be a lovely time to work on feeling centered, remembering Vesta’s areas:

Personal integration

Devotional/Religious activities

Scholastic interests

One’s work or path of service

It’s also a good time to focus on the physical home, as well as the family (biological or found).

Vesta makes no major aspects to slower-moving thingies, before exiting her retrograde zone, so we’re relatively free of interference.

[tartaeya]

good lord how do i get my mom, who's undergoing chemo and had a stronger dose of it today, to sit still and not do chores 😭

[creepyscritches]

8am tearing apart the idea that stage 4 primary cancers always have metastatic/secondary cancer sites and I'm getting paid for this?? Girls, it's a dream.

[chekovsphaser]

So I accompanied my dad to his colonoscopy today. Which he told me was routine, because of his age, but on getting there and speaking to the doctor (afterwards), I found out was to biopsy a tumor in his intestines. Which they took a sample of, but is big enough that it will require full surgery to remove. So in the next two weeks we should know if it's malignant, but also in the next two months or so he's going to have full surgery to remove it.

And the ONLY GODDAMN REASON I KNOW is because legally he needed someone to be there to accompany him and the doctor spoke to me. He told me he doesn't want anyone else to know. Even his mother who he lives with doesn't know.

[astralarias]

GOD @ my brain can I have dreams where either I or people I care about are NOT dying of various illnesses. PLEASE. it’s really upsetting believe it or not and it’s making me dread going to sleep 😭

[izstevns-a]

i strongly believe oncology is the hardest medical field to work in

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Erwin Beekveld - They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard 2005

"They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard" is a video that was published on August 16th, 2005, by Dutch musician and photographer Erwin Beekveld, as a Flash-animation on the website Albino Blacksheep. In 2006, it was re-posted to Youtube, where it gained over 12.5 million views and 38,900 comments in the first seven years. The two-minute video composed of multiple fragments from the film trilogy The Lord of the Rings became an internet meme, and has obtained a cult status mostly among fans of this trilogy. It is built out of scenes from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. In the video, actor Orlando Bloom is seen playing the elf Legolas, who repeats the line "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!" He is occasionally interrupted by Gollum (played by Andy Serkis), and also by Marton Csokas as Celeborn, who repeatedly inquires the whereabouts of Gandalf.

The dialogue is rhythmically set to a techno version of music originally composed by Howard Shore for the movies' soundtracks, and contains among others the leitmotif of the song "Concerning Hobbits". The song caught the attention of participants of a discussion forum sponsored by the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, in which the dactylic quality of the song's prosody was discussed at length. (Read it here!)

In the book Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection, "They’re Taking the Hobbits to Isengard" is mentioned as an example for the amendment on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, an American law concerning the author's copyright on digital media. The amendment from 2010 made it legal, under certain conditions, to use fragments from movies and television shows in personal videos. Musicologist Michael L. Klein (Professor at the Temple University of Philadelphia) mentions "They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard" in his book Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject as an example of a meme and mash-up as the pinnacle of creativity in the postmodern age.

In 2013, after Orlando Bloom finished filming his final scenes on the set of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, director Peter Jackson published a video in which Bloom, dressed up as Legolas, sings along with "They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard". In the next five days, the video received more than 6.9 million views and 7,200 comments. In an interview for Rude Tube in 2013, Beekveld says people love or hate him for making the video, due to its catchy tune, and that it made him very happy to see Bloom sing along with his remix eight years later, which he states is the ultimate recognition. On 30 March 2022, Beekveld died of lung cancer at the age of 52.

"They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard" received a total of 82,5% yes votes!