#online database

[brunhielda]

Would you like to take a few moments to feel very powerful?

Go to the website of your local library.

Find their online resources- for my library it is under “resources”, then “online partners.”

First of all, there is likely an online digital library that is far larger than any one building could hold- you’re welcome.

But what WE are looking for is something that mentions “periodicals.”

Look for “Marvel.” Look for “EBSCO” look for “Explora.” Any of those will do, and I am sure other areas have other names for their search engines.

The point is you click over and find yourself looking at a database for encyclopedias, magazines, articles, journals and more. A research database.

My dude- my literate civilians- my people who thirst for knowledge-

This is holding the collective academic knowledge of the world in your hands.

I am currently looking at the US census for my county, with another tab open to collegiate scientific papers.

Like- this is ALL the stuff they say is behind paywalls and hidden behind the absolute JUNK Google spits out.

I’m pretty sure I can-

Would you look at that? 😁

New York Times- articles in the last couple weeks, from US and international versions (see pic below- check the dates)

They opened up to full text, with related articles from other publications on a list to the side.

THIS is the power they are hiding from you, and why they are slashing funding to Libraries.

I have not felt so powerful since college, when I had easy access to research databases like this.

You know… I don’t think I could even get to as much then????

Go use your library! Gain knowledge! Fight Power!

You’re welcome. ☺️

[flipchild]

CHAO GO CRAZY MUST WATCH ‼️

[lets-steal-an-archive]

The screenplays (so far):

Frankenstein (1931)

The Invisible Man (1933)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Dracula's Daughter (1936)

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Rebecca (1940)

The Maltese Falcon (1940)

Laura (1944)

Mildred Pierce (1945)

Rope (1948)

All About Eve (1950)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Johnny Guitar (1954)

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

North by Northwest (1959)

Some Like it Hot (1959)

The Haunting (1963)

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

The Boys in the Band (1970)

The Vampire Lovers (1970)

Harold and Maude (1971)

Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

Cabaret (1972)

Pink Flamingos (1972)

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

American Giglo (1980)

Cruising (1980)

Personal Best (1982)

The Hunger (1983)

Silkwood (1983)

The Color Purple (1983)

Desert Hearts (1985)

Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

The Fly (1986)

Mala Noche (1986)

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

My Own Private Idaho (1991) - scanned!

Thelma and Louise (1991)

A League of Their Own (1992)

The Living End (1992)

M. Butterfly (1993)

Go Fish (1994)

Boys on the Side (1995)

Heavenly Creatures (1995)

The Doom Generation (1995)

Safe (1995)

Showgirls (1995)

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)

The Birdcage (1996)

Bound (1996)

Crash (1996)

Set it Off (1996)

The Watermelon Woman (1996)

Nowhere (1997)

Gia (1998)

Gods and Monsters (1998)

Wild Things (1998)

Being John Malkovich (1999)

But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)

The Matrix (1999)

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Y tu Mamá También (2001)

Far From Heaven (2002)

The Hours (2002)

Brother to Brother (2004)

D.E.B.S. (2004)

Mysterious Skin (2004)

Rent (2005)

V for Vendetta (2005)

Milk (2008)

Jennifer's Body (2009)

A Single Man (2009)

Black Swan (2010)

The Kids are All Right (2010)

The Runaways (2010)

Pariah (2011)

Under the Skin (2013)

Pride (2014)

Bessie (2015)

Carol (2015)

Dope (2015)

Grandma (2015)

Tangerine (2015)

Moonlight (2016)

A Fantastic Woman [Una Mujer Fantástica] (2017)

Blockers (2018)

Disobedience (2018)

The Favourite (2018)

Love, Simon (2018)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

A Simple Favor (2018)

Booksmart (2019)

Happiest Season (2020)

The Half of It (2020)

Kajillionaire (2020)

I Carry You With Me [Te Llevo Conmigo] (2020)

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)

The Old Guard (2020)

The Prom (2020)

Zola (2020)

The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)

Parallel Mothers (2021)

Passing (2021)

The Power of the Dog (2021)

Aftersun (2022)

Anything's Possible (2022)

Blue Jean (2022)

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

Bros (2022)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Nope (2022)

Rustin (2022)

TÁR (2022)

All of Us Strangers (2023)

Bottoms (2023)

The Color Purple (2023)

Nimona (2023)

Red, White, & Royal Blue (2023)

Challengers (2024)

Drive Away Dolls (2024)

I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

My Old Ass (2024)

Queer (2024)

[whyamiherewhosummonedme]

I have been informed that Reddit has found my story and are being super Reddit about it. Quick looksee of the comments revealed a bunch of people saying it was fake because [insert misunderstanding of how bacteriophages work]. Say its bullshit, whatever, but the being confidently absolutely wrong part is whats getting to me

[mangomoths]

could you perhaps draw kassie... the kashikin nessie monster..!!!!

ohhh the wondrous kassie creature 💚 don't mind the jackslug

[king-lena]

it’s so funny the complimentary quotes i have found from david about roger are like lengthy and in depth and it’s not that roger never compliments him, there are some good ones!!! but like one of the quotes from roger literally just says “david is great guitar player” 💀 which is just a very funny contrast to david having like multiple paragraphs in various articles where he is praising roger lmao

[where-the-water-flows]

If you know how to do it you can use someone’s phone number to find their full legal name and home address. It’s just a bit of Google and knowing what websites stores this kind of info. Saw your tags asking how a phone number could verify someone’s age

So, I appreciate you dropping into my askbox to pass that info on - genuinely, it's kind of you - and I can see how my tags came across, but what I actually meant wasn't 'how can you find info on someone just with their phone number??' -- I actually do exactly that kind of thing in my day job pretty regularly, and I have to conform to a lot of real strict ethic constraints that uh, bluntly, random discord moderators...do not.

What I was actually getting at is the fact that, assuming the hypothetical server is just using a phone number as age verification (and doing data broker/google search on that), how in the hell is it controlling for someone doing what people under the arbitrary age limit du jour have been doing since we started implementing this sort of check, ie, lying like rugs and supplying info for someone in their family/social circle instead who is older than [whatever age].

like. sure. maybe you get a phone number for age verification. awesome. plug that into your data broker/google/etc of choice, run your searches, and ok, it belongs to jane smith, 38 years old, accountant who lives in ballarat, she's totally fine to join the 18+ server! come on in jane, the smut is plentiful and the doves are extremely dead. Jane smith has a kid. jane smith's kid is 15. jane smith's kid isn't allowed in the server, because it's an 18+ only server.

jane smith's kid almost certainly knows their mum's mobile number.

how the hell can Hypothetical Server Mod control for 15 year old jane smith's kid putting in jane smith's mobile number instead of their own? and also, separately, how the hell is HSM dealing with the many -- many many many -- different privacy laws around the globe?

not just in terms of handling that sort of information on people (and also requesting it in the first place!), but also just. some countries you can get so much fucking info on someone! (the US. I'm talking about the US.)

some you can't. because privacy laws, because the info isn't publicly accessible, because it's not online and is only in hard copy at the local government office, because it's collated but only in a nonenglish language, because it's geolocked-- etc.

also, like. even if the hypothetical phone number brings up someone in the US, and also your hypothetical mod team has decided, y'know, fuck privacy laws, security of information and data ethics can take a long walk off a short pier, we're keeping this server 18+ or dying trying!

data brokers aren't...actually consistently what you would call...super accurate, or like, accurate at all. if you have a unique name, yeah, sure, you're probably kinda fucked! (assuming you're in, again, somewhere the data brokers focus) but like. if you're named something a little more common - say, james smith, or maria sanchez in the US- uh. well. there sure are a lot of people you could be, and some of them - most of them! - are over 18.

and ok, sure, a phone number is (usually) only associated with one person, but. you can get a lot of false positives, false negatives, and straight up 'we don't know 🤪', the latter of which is sometimes hidden by the databrokers going 'our best guess is that this person is: An Age!! somewhere between 0 and 200 years old. 😇'

again, I use this stuff for work, I can tell you exactly how inaccurate it can get as soon as you throw something like 'not based in the US/UK' or 'uses a nickname/multiple name formats' or 'isn't super online' or 'older than 65 and not turbo wealthy' at some of these - I've had more than one confidently tell me that [my wallet name] is an accountant based in darwin who makes horror films in alice springs on the side, and also, is 26, and had 2-3 kids with her husband Lauchlan.

literally none of these facts are true. like. even vaguely.

and that can of worms doesn't even get into if someone has requested to be removed from data broker databases and/or takes online privacy Very Seriously and/or is just fundamentally ungoogleable, which is...more common than you'd think. less common than you'd like, but more common than you think, even before google started enshittifying itself out of existence.

which is why when you're trying to do things like prove your identity to uhhh goverments, banks, etc, they want multiple forms of ID, one of which is usually a photo ID, none of which anyone should be sending to a random on discord, or, frankly, asking for from a random on discord, both bc my god privacy and security risk but also like. handling that information can actually have legal requirements!

anyway. extremely long ramble on the failings of databrokers over, I appreciate you reaching out to help explain and it was very kind of you anon, sorry that I have. uhhhh kind of a lot of professional feelings about data privacy and basic social engineering, by which I mean saying 'no I'm totally 18 pinkie swear' in the grand tradition of teens wanting to get into age locked areas ever, your forebears lied on LJ so you could lie on discord.

[personality-corner]

My Thoughts on Popular Personality Websites

Inspired by conversations happening in the comment section of this post (shout out to @istj-mbti and @flayedsheep )

16 Personalities

Ah, 16 personalities, the enemy of the MBTI community… I’m joking… kind of. In all seriousness though, 16 personalities is really more similar to the Big Five personality types, than it is to MBTI. It can be a great tool… just not for understanding MBTI.

If you take it, you might get an accurate type, but more often than not… you won’t. I’m an INTP, and for the longest time, I always got INFP or INFJ on this test. My ISFP friend and ENFP friend both got INFP, and my INTJ friend has gotten variations, from INFJ, INTP to his actual type.

It has a big intuitive bias, and even though most of the MBTI community rejects this website, I definitely feel like this website is responsible for the intuitive bias present in the community. The biggest flaw however, is the disregard for cognitive functions.

And I get it. Cognitive functions are complicated and not everyone wants to sit down and learn the cognitive functions, and they really wanted to market this test for general audiences

I do think that alot of people who get into MBTI, start with this test, because it is so universally used in schools and jobs and stuff.

Personality Database

I have mixed opinions on PDB. Hypothetically, it’s a great place for discussions, when it comes to fictional characters, but like most MBTI forums it can turn sour very quickly, and it’s filled with people that have varied understanding of MBTI or enneagram.

Like, you’ll have a lot of adults who have been into MBTI for years and have a strong understanding of all the types, you have people who are just learning what cognitive functions are, then you’ll have teenagers who have just taken the 16 personalities test.

So in general, typings on that website are very hit or miss, but it’s a really great place to start when I’m unsure about a character typing, and want to see arguments other people have. However, I really hate when people use the typings on that site as the end-all-be-all of character types.

I mean, look at this?

Anna and Mirabel? ENFPs? I don’t have a super popular opinion on Anna’s typing but… ENFP?! Really? Also, how tf is Mirabel ANYTHING but an Fe user?

I agree on the consensus for Mulan though.

Sarkinova.net

I do think that out of the majority of the MBTI tests online, this one is the most accurate, because it takes cognitive functions into account. However I do have a few concerns with it, the first being its so long lol.

I know that they want to get the most in depth understanding of a person, but a lot of the times, it just feels like they are asking the same questions over and over again, but with different wording, and that can make it frustrating, and a lot of the time, I don’t finish it.

Not to mention, even though this one is more accurate than most, there are always flaws with these types of test. No test will be in depth enough to understand you enough as a person to give you an accurate type. This is another test I’ve taken multiple times and have been given a different type.

Though I will give the test credit, this one has been given me my actual type before… so at least there’s that. I do think if you’re going to take a test, this one is a good one to take.

MBTI Online

No judgement… but I am begging people to not pay 60 dollars for this test. You can find ones that are just as good for cheaper, or even better yet, free. This test isn’t going to give you anything any other test will.

I do know someone who spent the 60 dollars, and still got mistyped by it sooo… yeah. If you really want to take it, by all means, go ahead, I just wouldn’t.

[a-concert-just-for-me]

Me: Woah, based off the title, this journal looks like it would be a perfect source for my paper. May I see the article please, EBSCOhost?

EBSCOhost: Of course! Here you go!

Me: Oh! Um…thank you, but this is just the abstract…do you have the actual journal, too?

EBSCOhost: Oh. No. I don’t have it. Lmao. But here’s a link to the journal for you!

Me: Ah, cool, thank—Hey, this website wants me to pay $30 for this journal?

EBSCOhost: That’s my final offer. Take it or leave it. I cannot move mountains for you.

UPDATE: I figured it out. Everybody say “thank you jstor,” lmao

[gallopinggallifreyans]

who wrote the ochre tutorial i want to kiss you

[isntthisblank]

No, that 8-year-old regular human child would NOT be a self taught master hacker who can hack into 1) The Government ™️ or 2) The security program of an adult whose LITERAL SUPERPOWER is INTELLIGENCE. No, that 8-year-old regular human child would ALSO NOT beat SUPER POWERED ADULTS who have been training their craft OVER A DECADE in a fight.

[476b]

i now have official wikipedia AND internet archive merch. i'm the coolest guy in the office

[ironagefyxen]

Door fittings (possibly depicting panthers), France, c.11th century