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there is a whole world out there you don’t even know about a whole different world with different problems like did you guys know there is quite a “big” hetalia fandom on tiktok made up of predominantly 13-6 year olds? i didn’t. its crazy you learn something new every day

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DAY 23 BITING - Part 4

Parings: Neteyam x Fem!human

PART 1, PART 2, PART 3

Genre/Warnings: fluff, ANGST, introspective, delicate themes (hibrid pregnacy, political and ideals conflict). All characters are AGED-UP. This the sequel of the @layla2-49 request used to fullfil the promp day 23 of lunakinktober 2023

Summary: Following the unexpected pairing that occurred at the Tree of Souls, after connecting as only two Na'vi normally could, Celeste and Neteyam entertain a clandestine relationship. Several times they have discussed coming out, but the girl is too prey to her insecurities as a human to do so. It is Eywa who will decide for both of them with a disconcerting revelation: they have conceived a hybrid child.

Word Count: 4,5k

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In the bioluminescent glow of Pandora’s night, Jake Sully stood at the forest's edge, his gaze fixed on the distant horizon. The vibrant nature around him buzzed with life, yet an unsettling turmoil brew within him. As olo’eyktan of the Omatikaya and Toruk Makto, he had faced countless challenges, but none as perplexing as the transformation unfolding before him.

Celeste, a human who had become an integral part of their clan, was undergoing a metamorphosis that defied all understanding. Eywa had blessed her union with his son, yet the consequences were unprecedented. To say that the news of Celeste’s pregnancy sent shockwaves through both the scientists and the People would be an understatement. A tawtute woman carrying the offspring of a Na’vi? It was far beyond imagination. The avatar bodies—engineered through terrestrial brilliance, blending both genomes in just the right sequence to function under Pandora’s conditions—were compatible with the natives. Little Socorro was only human, though—kind of. Her body was changing, adapting in ways that blurred the lines between Earthborn and Pandoran.

The man’s mind raced with questions in the nighttime peace, hugging his half-sleeping wife in one of their occasional getaways from responsibilities and worries. Though this one was hard to forget even for an evening. “This isn’t like what happened to us,” he said, suddenly, breaking the silence of sweet slumber, thinking about Spider’s sister seated in the shade of their kelku, her hands resting on her growing belly. “I was logged in my avatar when we mated. I was Na’vi, physically. But her? There’s no scientific explanation.”

After the commute at the Tree of Souls, the clan split in two. Some supported the child as a sign of mutual prosperity, a miracle meant to exist in the balance of the world. Others, however, labeled it an ill omen, a violation of the natural order, feared what they couldn’t understand.

“It is not natural.” “Eywa may have allowed the union, but this... this is wrong.”

Jake had heard it all before. The same fright, the same resistance to change that had nearly torn the Omatikaya apart when colonizers first came back to Pandora. But this time, he got that fright. Because deep down, beneath his duty as olo’eyktan and his instinct to protect his family, he felt it too. As wild as the perennial torment that the two sides of his very identity instilled in him.

“There is no scientific explanation for Eywa,” Neytiri stated, her voice serious, resolute just as it always was when faith and Na’vi culture were at stake. It was a conviction he has never fully embraced. The need to rely on science, on logic, on the knowable, was an earthly instinct he could never entirely cast aside. That lifeline—the belief that there was a reason behind everything, something demonstrable, classifiable, repeatable—was still a part of him. Neytiri might have agreed that there was a universal design, but her understanding of it was vastly different from his. Less analytical, less tangible than the laws of physics and biology, but to her, no less real. Perhaps, in some ways, even more so.

“It’s as much a mystery as Kiri conception.” “Not of the same scale, though.”  “We must trust the Great Mother nonetheless.” Jake exhaled, rubbing the back of his head. “Trusting her is one thing. Convincing the People...”

He was right. There was division among them. Leadership weighed heavily on his tired shoulders, and the safety of his loved ones, of Celeste and the baby, depended on the decisions he would make in the coming months. As the night creatures sang their melodies, Jake took a troubled breath, seeking clarity. The path ahead was shrouded in uncertainty, and for the first time in years, he felt the sting of doubt piercing his resolve. This wasn’t just about Celeste; it was about what she was becoming and what it would have meant for all of them. He knew Pandora. He had lived, fought, loved, and lost for this world. And he knew that when the Great Mother acted, it was always on purpose, even when it felt like uncharted territory.

It started subtly; Celeste first noticed it in quiet moments—when the dizziness from exertion subsided faster than it should have, when her heartbeat, once erratic in Pandora's dense atmosphere, slowed into a steady rhythm, perfectly in tune with the nature around her. Insects that normally avoided humans drifted closer during her strollings in the forest, as if sensing that she was no longer a regular alien walking in their world. Plants reacted to her touch, sending a pleasant tingling along her fingertips. Gradually, her senses were heightening beyond the limits of her species. She could hear animals weaving through the luscious vegetation, their calls reaching her feeble ears in way they never should have.

But then, the changes became undeniable She didn’t need the mask anymore.

The moment had come without fanfare. Celeste sat at the edge of a clearing, absentmindedly sketching in her notebook as the sun warmed her skin. Tuk sat beside her, both watching Neteyam train a small group of young aspirant warriors—the few still permitted to learn under their prince’s guidance. A shadow passed over Celeste’s face, the weight of guilt settling deep in her stomach, more and more pungent. Tuk, noticing, gently patted her forearm.

“Hey, don't think about it.” Cel forced a smile, though it did nothing to brighten her tired expression. “They would have signed farce papers to train with him first. Now, half the clan despises him, and the other avoids him out of fear.” “He is still the heir to the throne.” “How much longer?” she asked, her voice tight with distress. “Tsentey's faction is gathering more support every day. If they grow into a majority, it could mean exile for you. It could...” She trailed off, her fingers instinctively tightening over the slight swell of her belly. A tear caught the sunlight before she quickly lifted her head, blinking it away. “Sorry, Tuk-Tuk. I didn't mean to upset you.” “I'm old enough to listen to you if you need me.”

Celeste glanced at her, a genuine, grateful smile breaking through the tension. Tuk—still so small, yet already so mature. The rhythms of the clan left little room for childhood. By fourteen or fifteen, many had already completed Iknimaya and faced the Uniltaron—the Dream Hunt—to find their spirit animal and take their place as adults among the Omatikaya. Tuk’s own rite of passage was approaching fast, and for sure, growing up amid the ongoing conflict with the Sky People had only accelerated that process. Yet, she was still, indeed, a child. And Celeste wished she could protect that innocence just a little longer.

“Don’t worry for me,” she said with a sly grin. “Rather tell me about Enyetan.” The young woman arched a brow, giving her a suggestive look that made the teenager blush furiously. “Don't you start too!” Laughter bubbled from the sister-in-law's lips, warm and unrestrained. The sound carried across the clearing, reaching the ever-attentive ears of her mate, who couldn’t help but smile at the rare moment of lightness in the chaos of their lives.

What no one noticed, however, was how the energy in that laughter was off—wavering, unsteady. That day, the mask felt suffocating, the air too heavy and humid against her face. Suddenly, her breathing grew shallow, her throat constricting more at every second, intense heat searing through her airways. Panic should have set in; the desperate scramble for the emergency rebreather strapped to her belt. But it didn’t. The familiar choking weight of asphyxiation never came. panic. Instead, she felt light. Open. She gulped, and the air flowed freely into her lungs.

Pure. Fresh. Alive.

Her hands trembled as she hesitantly removed the exo-pack, bracing for inevitable. She expected her vision to blur, her throat to seize, the raw, toxic atmosphere of Pandora to set her lungs ablaze. Nothing happened. She inhaled deeply. No torturous pain, no giddiness. Just... oxygen filling her chest with an ease she had never known. Cool and sweet, like taking a true breath for the first time. The world around her looked brighter, colors deeper, sounds richer, the pulse of Eywa’s life clearer in her mind.

When she turned, Tuk was staring. “Cel...” she called with big, round, unblinking eyes. “Your mask.” 

Neteyam, mid-correction a boy’s stance with a bow, snapped his head in their direction, froze in place; a rare crack in his usual aplomb. Lo’ak, across the clearing, nearly dropped his spear as he strode over with a grim intensity, eyes flashing with disbelief. “Are you insane?” he blurted. “Put that back on before you drop dead!”  It was only then, as every pair of eyes locked onto her, that the human girl realized what she had done. Her breath was even, her chest rose and fell without resistance. She just shook her head, equally disoriented, “I... don’t need it.”

Neteyam was at her side in an instant, his large, calloused hands cupping her beautiful face, his lemon-gold eyes scanning hers with an unreadable mix of trepidation and alarm. “How?” The question wasn’t directed at her so much as at himself, as he looked at her with those giant orbs that characterized him in moments of extreme concentration. Pupils blown wide to the point they almost covered the entire iris. An adaptation response to threat, to enhance vision, to assess danger, to track an escape. His entire frame was on high alert, wired for protection. To keep his mate safe from something that was beyond unfamiliar, though.

This was odd.

For months, he had wrestled with sleepless nights and unshakable guilt. Gilt for giving in to his urges, for silencing reason when he should have resisted. No matter how much he loved Celeste, no matter how natural it had felt to surrender to his feelings, he should have held back. Instead, he had let desire eclipse caution, and now, she was paying the price. Inside, a sick weight settled in his gut, he felt lousy. He had failed at the one thing he had been trained for: protect. Maybe Tsentey was right. Maybe he wasn’t fit to lead. the leader of his people. How could he secure the clan if he couldn't even take care of his woman?

She reached for him, her fingers wrapping around his shaking hand, her respire hitched. “It’s the child.” Because what else could it be? What other options could explain what was going on with her?

Silence fell, thick and heavy. She could see the thoughts written plainly across their faces—the shock, the unease, the dread they didn’t dare voice. The training had come to a standstill. Stiff postures, atonic stares. Lo'ak and Tuk, who had been watching open-mouthed, exchanged a glance, their usual roguery absent for once.

A student’s voice, when it came, was quiet but edged with something serrated. “This has never happened before.”  “Shit,” Lo’ak exhaled, running a palm down his face. Neteyam's ears darted back at his brother’s reaction, tail lashing once before forcing himself to regain composure. Then, gently, he pressed his forehead to Celeste’s, his long fingers sliding down to cover hers over their unborn child. He tried—desperately—to ignore the whispers around them, the same echoing in the back of his mind, threatening to surface. “Isn’t this amazing, tìyawn (love)? I can finally admire you all day without this horrible mask hiding your beauty.” 

Celeste giggled at his ridiculous, love-drunk words, and for a fleeting minute, her preoccupations faded. Neteyam had always possessed this quiet strength—the ability to lift the weight off others’ shoulders, to remind them of the light even in the darkest moments. But it was also his greatest flaw. He carried too much. He took on burdens that weren’t his, stretched himself thin until he was on the verge of breaking.

Still, as he pressed their entwined hands against the gentle swell of her belly, warmth spread through her—not quite human, not quite Na’vi, but something in between.

There was content for a while, the nice, peaceful fondness of being in her lover's embrace. But it didn’t last. An acute sting twisted through her abdomen. She doubled over with a cry, her breath coming in ragged bursts. “What is it?” Neteyam asked urgently, his hand instinctively landing on her baby bump, aggravation evident in both his expression and voice. She couldn’t respond; the dull ache so severe it prevented her from speaking. The sensation wasn’t just pain—it was movement. Not the ordinary flutters of a fetus developing in the womb, this was deeper, stranger, as though something resonated within her. Not far away, the plants pulsed in time with her heartbeat, their faint radiance glinting like distant stars. Celeste clutched her stomach, feeling something under her skin shift. 

Kiri, who had been meditating high in the green canopy, sat upright. “It’s happening,” she whispered, her yellow eyes as large as a lemur’s.

By sunset, Celeste was in the ambulatory unit, surrounded by meds. The air soupy with tension; the sterile, white walls felt oppressive, nothing like the vast, living jungle or the cosy, homely ambience of Hometree. She sat on the examination table, palms firm over her tummy, mind reeling while they ran test after test, talking in hushed tones laced with both awe and fret.

The weight of the exo-pack she had worn her entire life was gone, yet the air in the lab had never felt stifler. Norm and Max worked in quiet urgency, moving between holo-screens displaying her vitals, their brows furrowed. The data didn’t make sense, her heart rate had slowed, more like Na’vi's than a human's. Her oxygen saturation was perfect—too perfect—the high carbon dioxide levels in the Pandoran atmosphere should have been affecting her, but they weren't. The ultrasound showed something incredible. She had developed wichow—the specialized organs, similar to kidneys, that allow natives to extract oxygen for their bloodstream from Pandora’s otherwise toxic air. A natural filter. A biological unfeasibility for her, still there it was.

Then there was the genetic scan. And that was when everything changed.

“This is phenomenal,” one doctor exclaimed, rubbing her temples as she stared at the results. Adjusting her glasses, she leaned closer to Max. “Her DNA is evolving. Look at his—her respiratory system has adapted to filtrate Pandora’s atmosphere, but it’s not solely adaptation. It’s... transformation.” She turned to the patient, her eyes filled with both scientific fascination and deep concern. “Your body isn’t just compensating for the pregnancy, Cel. It’s rewriting itself.” “What does that mean?” Neteyam’s reassuring grip on her shoulder stiffened while she shuddered. Max didn’t sugarcoat it. “The fetus isn’t a simple hybrid,” he explained, voice calm but dour. “It's triggering changes in you. Something in its DNA is interacting with yours in a way we’ve never seen.”  She swallowed hard, “I’m... mutating.”  Jake's words came out through clenched teeth, his jaw tight enough to snap. “That’s why she can breathe out there.” 

Neytiri stood rigid near the door, her narrowed eyes fixed on the glowing monitors. She didn't fully grasp the science behind the data plashing across the screens, nor the theories the experts were debating. But of one thing, she was totally sure: they had entered unknown territory. There were no answers here, no precedents. And the deeper they went in, the more question marks and anxieties sprung up. The creature Celeste was carrying was extraordinary in every sense of the term; not yet born, and already it was reshaping the world around it. This child—this impossible child—was changing everything from its very core.

But Celeste could see the unspoken fear in her eyes.

Kiri, who had insisted on coming, stood by her bestie’s side, her yellow orbs bouncing between the readings and her own intuition. “My nephew is part of both worlds. And now, so is Cel,” she stated softly. Spider shook his head, still baffled, struggling to wrap his mind around the unsettling reality. “That’s not how genetics works.”  The future tsahìk observed her friend with a grave look. “Nawna Sa’nok’s touch lingers on you,” she declared, pressing a cool palm on her forehead. 

Spider’s expression darkened, memories surfacing of all the times he had found Kiri lying in the middle of the wilderness, lost in a trance, nature beating around her. The way plants reacted to her touch, how she had tamed her ikran with freakish ease, how she swam through the currents, breathing underwater without any training as if she had always belonged to them. “You have felt this way before, haven’t you?” he asked, voice aloof with realization. Kiri nodded. “Not like this,” she admitted. “But yes. I have felt a... pull. A connection.” Her glance glimmered to her friend’s stomach. “It’s like Eywa’s energy is flowing through her.”  Neteyam’s jaw clenched, his hold on Celeste’s stronger. “Is she in danger?”  His sister’s lips pressed together into a thin line. “Was I?” she retorted, her words heavy with meaning.

“She’s not you.” Spider rubbed things in, rough, blunt, unable to conceal his growing agitation for his twin'. “Yet she has been chosen exactly as I was. As my mother was.”  “Your mother was an inanimate body in a fucking tank! She wasn't risking anything.” His remark was harsh and cruel, the tone leathery with frustration, but Kiri didn’t flinch. She knew he didn’t mean to hurt her. If anything, he had always been one of the few who had stood by her, defended her when others doubted. But just like everyone else in that room, Spider was terrified. As much as it hurt on a par with an anvil, she could find it in her heart to justify him. Celeste reached for him, squeezing his hand with one of hers while the other rested on her hip. The warmth inside her, the link she felt deep in her bones, was changing her at a fundamental level.

“Will I survive this?” she finally asked, voice barely above a whisper. The medical team couldn’t answer that question; the entire ordeal was new to everybody. Neteyam tensed beside her. Jake and Neytiri exchanged glances, the weight of precariousness dense between them, the pressure in the unit mounting at any second.

Truth settled over them like a murky, noxious fog. Neytiri’s ears flattened, her tail rolled dolefully around her leg as if seeking comfort in making herself small. One hand clamped against her chest, the other tentatively sought her husband's touch, resting on his contracted arm. His fist was clenched so tightly his knuckles had gone white, his other hand raking through his dreadlocks as he inhaled noisily through his flat nose. They had never shown such vulnerability before, or at least not at this magnitude. As parental figures, as leaders of the Omatikaya, they had always carried their burdens with quiet strength—as their firstborn son had learned to do. But now, stripped of that armor, their fear was palpable.

This only made Neteyam even more nervous. His whole frame was taut, trembling on the verge of exploding. His eyes, wide, glassy, shimmered with unshed tears, perfectly round and reflective like polished stones. He was there, present among them, but his spirit was somewhere far away. Cel—the love of his life— could have died, and no one could have stopped it. And for what? A child they never needed? A future they never chose? Why was Eywa doing this? Why them?

Their love was already complicated—strained by their incompatible species, haunted by past pain and resentment, burdened by the expectations of his status. He had thought he could cast it all aside, that he could embrace the reward the Great Mother had granted him. But that gift came with conditions—conditions so heavy that, had he known them in advance, he might have turned away. Yet none of it mattered. He would sacrifice his own happiness if it meant keeping Celeste safe.

In the fragile months after they had first come together, he had offered nothing but solace and praise. He had consoled when she was in distress, lifted her up when she doubted herself, encouraged her to trust her decisions—even the reckless ones as this one. But now, standing at the precipice of something unknown and terrifying, he could no longer do the same. He wished, more than anything, that he possessed the human gift for lying. At times like these, it would have proven useful—even if only to convince himself that everything would be fine, that at the end of this impossible journey, they would be happy. The three of them. Three, not two. Not just him and the baby. Not just him alone. Imagining a life without her was unbearable, and he refused to linger on the thought.

For a brief moment, once the initial panic had subsided, he had even allowed himself to believe that what was happening was beautiful. A miracle. Celeste could now breathe Pandora’s air—something that would surely help her through the long months ahead. But now, with this new revelation, he could no longer meet her gaze with comfort. Those warm, sweet, frightened, yet fiercely brave eyes searched his for reassurance. He had none to give.

Na’vi do not lie. And he would not offer false hope for something that, deep in his heart, frightened him so terribly.

As agitation grew, Norm reluctantly stepped forward and stroked his foot with the caring and kind manner of an uncle. “Look, we need more tests before we jump to conclusions. Right now, the priority is monitoring Cel’s condition. If your genome keeps reconstructing at this rate, we have no idea where it will end.”

*

The days blurred together in a haze of tests, scans, and restless nights where Celeste lay awake, feeling her body shift in ways she couldn’t see but knew were happening. The lab’s artificial lights felt oppressive, suffocating. The sterile environment clashed with the instincts waking inside her. She craved the jungle, the open air of Pandora—she needed to feel the earth beneath her feet, to hear the hum of life all around her. But every time she voiced this, Jake or Neytiri would exchange wary glances, and Neteyam would grip her hand a little tighter, unwilling to risk anything.

The fear in his eyes was worse than anything else. But the changes weren’t waiting for permission.

She no longer needed the exo-pack to breathe, that much was obvious. But it wasn’t just that: her lungs had changed. Max’s latest scans confirmed it. “They’ve elongated,” he said, adjusting his glasses as he stared at the results. “Your oxygen absorption rate has increased. You’re breathing like a Na’vi now.” Celeste touched her ribs absently while taking a deep breath from the inhaler—one designed for avatars and natives alike. She had already felt it. The deep, instinctual way her chest expanded when she inhaled, the effortless intake of Pandora’s air as if she had been born for it.

And her skin, once the soft beige of an Earthborn, had begun to repigment in tone—a faint iridescence beneath the surface was spreading, veins shimmering faintly in dim lighting. It wasn’t full bioluminescence like the Na’vi, but it was close.

Then there were her senses. At night, she could see in the dark. Not just in the way humans adjusted to low light, this was different. Colors took on a richer depth, details sharpened beyond what should have been possible. Smelling the lightest traces of the rainforest that clung to Neteyam’s skin, the sticky whiff of the cerulean paint his brother painted his body with, the pungent tang of disinfectant in the lab, once a mild annoyance, now felt nauseous. Scents she had never detected in the past. And her hearing—she could pick up sounds that no one else in the lab could. Conversations whispered in corners, the rustling of fabric from another room. She didn’t tell anyone, but she could hear the low, rhythmic hum of the planet itself when she closed her eyes. It was overwhelming.

And the baby—the baby was growing fast. Too fast. At just four months, she already looked closer to six. The doctors were baffled, worried. The hybrid nature of the child seemed to be accelerating everything as if her body wasn’t just adapting—it was rushing to keep up with whatever the baby needed.

Neteyam never left her side. She felt his hands on her belly every night, felt the quiet reverence in his touch as he whispered to the child in Na’vi, his forehead pressed to hers in silent devotion. But she also felt his dread. The terror that she would slip away from him. That she would become something unrecognizable or disappear entirely.

Celeste stared at her reflection in the sterile glass of the lab’s observation window, barely recognizing herself. Her fingers trembled as she traced the outline of her cheekbones. Were they more angular than before? It wasn’t just weight loss. The structure of her visage was subtly shifting—her features elongating ever so slightly, her eyes taking on a faint amber hue that had not been there before.

And her hair. It had thickened, the strands darkening from their usual color to something richer, a shade closer to the inky black of the People. When she moved, the fine strands caught the light in strange, reflecting tones of deep violet and green—pale but unmistakable.

The changes weren’t just superficial. Her senses were growing keener by the day. She could hear Jake and Neytiri talk outside the room, even through the sturdy walls. She could smell the faintest traces of the jungle that clung to Neteyam’s skin, scents she had never been able to pick up before. The stench of disinfectant of the compound, once lightly noticeable, now felt almost insufferable.

Then there was the most undeniable proof of her metamorphosis, the most disturbing change—her queue.

the way her body responded to Pandora’s energy. She could feel the pulse of the world in a way that made her dizzy. When she stepped outside, the very air around her seemed to hum against her skin. The plants, the ground, the very life of the moon—it was as if she were beginning to tap into something bigger, something she had never been meant to connect with as a human.

And the most undeniable proof of that was her queue. It had appeared three nights ago. Celeste had woken in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat, her entire body burning as if feverish. Neteyam sprang into action immediately, pressing a damp cloth to her forehead, whispering soothing nothings as she gasped through the strange, intense sensation of her own body warping itself. When the pain finally ebbed, she had felt it, something pulling at the base of her skull. A tendril-like appendage forming, hidden beneath her thickening hair. It wasn’t fully developed—not yet—but the sensation was undeniable. A strange tingling at the back of her neck, as though her body was forcing her into something closer to the Na’vi.

The moment Neteyam realized, his eyes had gone wide, caught between stupor and scare, his hand trembling as he brushed over the barely formed kuru. He exhaled shakily, his gaze raw, almost reverent. “You’re not human anymore.”

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AI is a WMD

I'm in TARTU, ESTONIA! AI, copyright and creative workers' labor rights (TOMORROW, May 10, 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building, Lossi 3, lobby). A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation (TOMORROW, May 10, 3PM, University of Tartu Delta Centre, Narva 18, room 1037).

Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/#epistocratic-delusions

Get that? If control over a key resource is diffused among the people who rely on it, then (Garrett claims) those people will all behave like selfish assholes, overusing and undermaintaining the commons. It's only when we let someone own that commons and charge rent for its use that (Hardin says) we will get sound management.

By that logic, Google should be the internet's most competent and reliable manager. After all, the company used its access to the capital markets to buy control over the internet, spending billions every year to make sure that you never try a search-engine other than its own, thus guaranteeing it a 90% market share:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task

Google seems to think it's got the problem of deciding what we see on the internet licked. Otherwise, why would the company flush $80b down the toilet with a giant stock-buyback, and then do multiple waves of mass layoffs, from last year's 12,000 person bloodbath to this year's deep cuts to the company's "core teams"?

https://qz.com/google-is-laying-off-hundreds-as-it-moves-core-jobs-abr-1851449528

And yet, Google is overrun with scams and spam, which find their way to the very top of the first page of its search results:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/passive-income/#swiss-cheese-security

The entire internet is shaped by Google's decisions about what shows up on that first page of listings. When Google decided to prioritize shopping site results over informative discussions and other possible matches, the entire internet shifted its focus to producing affiliate-link-strewn "reviews" that would show up on Google's front door:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/#prabhakar-raghavan

This was catnip to the kind of sociopath who a) owns a hedge-fund and b) hates journalists for being pain-in-the-ass, stick-in-the-mud sticklers for "truth" and "facts" and other impediments to the care and maintenance of a functional reality-distortion field. These dickheads started buying up beloved news sites and converting them to spam-farms, filled with garbage "reviews" and other Google-pleasing, affiliate-fee-generating nonsense.

(These news-sites were vulnerable to acquisition in large part thanks to Google, whose dominance of ad-tech lets it cream 51 cents off every ad dollar and whose mobile OS monopoly lets it steal 30 cents off every in-app subscriber dollar):

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech

Now, the spam on these sites didn't write itself. Much to the chagrin of the tech/finance bros who bought up Sports Illustrated and other venerable news sites, they still needed to pay actual human writers to produce plausible word-salads. This was a waste of money that could be better spent on reverse-engineering Google's ranking algorithm and getting pride-of-place on search results pages:

https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

That's where AI comes in. Spicy autocomplete absolutely can't replace journalists. The planet-destroying, next-word-guessing programs from Openai and its competitors are incorrigible liars that require so much "supervision" that they cost more than they save in a newsroom:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/29/what-part-of-no/#dont-you-understand

But while a chatbot can't produce truthful and informative articles, it can produce bullshit – at unimaginable scale. Chatbots are the workers that hedge-fund wreckers dream of: tireless, uncomplaining, compliant and obedient producers of nonsense on demand.

That's why the capital class is so insatiably horny for chatbots. Chatbots aren't going to write Hollywood movies, but studio bosses hyperventilated at the prospect of a "writer" that would accept your brilliant idea and diligently turned it into a movie. You prompt an LLM in exactly the same way a studio exec gives writers notes. The difference is that the LLM won't roll its eyes and make sarcastic remarks about your brainwaves like "ET, but starring a dog, with a love plot in the second act and a big car-chase at the end":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/01/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship/

Similarly, chatbots are a dream come true for a hedge fundie who ends up running a beloved news site, only to have to fight with their own writers to get the profitable nonsense produced at a scale and velocity that will guarantee a high Google ranking and millions in "passive income" from affiliate links.

One of the premier profitable nonsense companies is Advon, which helped usher in an era in which sites from Forbes to Money to USA Today create semi-secret "review" sites that are stuffed full of badly researched top-ten lists for products from air purifiers to cat beds:

https://housefresh.com/how-google-decimated-housefresh/

Advon swears that it only uses living humans to produce nonsense, and not AI. This isn't just wildly implausible, it's also belied by easily uncovered evidence, like its own employees' Linkedin profiles, which boast of using AI to create "content":

https://housefresh.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Advon-AI-LinkedIn.jpg

It's not true. Advon uses AI to produce its nonsense, at scale. In an excellent, deeply reported piece for Futurism, Maggie Harrison Dupré brings proof that Advon replaced its miserable human nonsense-writers with tireless chatbots:

https://futurism.com/advon-ai-content

Dupré describes how Advon's ability to create botshit at scale contributed to the enshittification of clients from Yoga Journal to the LA Times, "Us Weekly" to the Miami Herald.

All of this is very timely, because this is the week that Google finally bestirred itself to commence downranking publishers who engage in "site reputation abuse" – creating these SEO-stuffed fake reviews with the help of third parties like Advon:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/03/keyword-swarming/#site-reputation-abuse

(Google's policy only forbids site reputation abuse with the help of third parties; if these publishers take their nonsense production in-house, Google may allow them to continue to dominate its search listings):

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2024/03/core-update-spam-policies#site-reputation

There's a reason so many people believed Hardin's racist "Tragedy of the Commons" hoax. We have an intuitive understanding that commons are fragile. All it takes is one monster to start shitting in the well where the rest of us get our drinking water and we're all poisoned.

The financial markets love these monsters. Mark Zuckerberg's key insight was that he could make billions by assembling vast dossiers of compromising, sensitive personal information on half the world's population without their consent, but only if he kept his costs down by failing to safeguard that data and the systems for exploiting it. He's like a guy who figures out that if he accumulates enough oily rags, he can extract so much low-grade oil from them that he can grow rich, but only if he doesn't waste money on fire-suppression:

https://locusmag.com/2018/07/cory-doctorow-zucks-empire-of-oily-rags/

Now Zuckerberg and the wealthy, powerful monsters who seized control over our commons are getting a comeuppance. The weak countermeasures they created to maintain the minimum levels of quality to keep their platforms as viable, going concerns are being overwhelmed by AI. This was a totally foreseeable outcome: the history of the internet is a story of bad actors who upended the assumptions built into our security systems by automating their attacks, transforming an assault that wouldn't be economically viable into a global, high-speed crime wave:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/24/automation-is-magic/

But it is possible for a community to maintain a commons. This is something Hardin could have discovered by studying actual commons, instead of inventing imaginary histories in which commons turned tragic. As it happens, someone else did exactly that: Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom:

https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons/

Ostrom described how commons can be wisely managed, over very long timescales, by communities that self-governed. Part of her work concerns how users of a commons must have the ability to exclude bad actors from their shared resources.

When that breaks down, commons can fail – because there's always someone who thinks it's fine to shit in the well rather than walk 100 yards to the outhouse.

Enshittification is the process by which control over the internet moved from self-governance by members of the commons to acts of wanton destruction committed by despicable, greedy assholes who shit in the well over and over again.

It's not just the spammers who take advantage of Google's lazy incompetence, either. Take "copyleft trolls," who post images using outdated Creative Commons licenses that allow them to terminate the CC license if a user makes minor errors in attributing the images they use:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/24/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator/

The first copyleft trolls were individuals, but these days, the racket is dominated by a company called Pixsy, which pretends to be a "rights protection" agency that helps photographers track down copyright infringers. In reality, the company is committed to helping copyleft trolls entrap innocent Creative Commons users into paying hundreds or even thousands of dollars to use images that are licensed for free use. Just as Advon upends the economics of spam and deception through automation, Pixsy has figured out how to send legal threats at scale, robolawyering demand letters that aren't signed by lawyers; the company refuses to say whether any lawyer ever reviews these threats:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/13/an-open-letter-to-pixsy-ceo-kain-jones-who-keeps-sending-me-legal-threats/

This is shitting in the well, at scale. It's an online WMD, designed to wipe out the commons. Creative Commons has allowed millions of creators to produce a commons with billions of works in it, and Pixsy exploits a minor error in the early versions of CC licenses to indiscriminately manufacture legal land-mines, wantonly blowing off innocent commons-users' legs and laughing all the way to the bank:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/02/commafuckers-versus-the-commons/

We can have an online commons, but only if it's run by and for its users. Google has shown us that any "benevolent dictator" who amasses power in the name of defending the open internet will eventually grow too big to care, and will allow our commons to be demolished by well-shitters:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/#kagi

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/09/shitting-in-the-well/#advon

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[egoitsharu]

Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi in Yin and Yang

What is Yin and Yang? 🌑

In Chinese philosophy, Yin and Yang are a way of understanding the world through dualities: darkness and light, passivity and activity, cold and heat, emotional and rational. These are not absolute opposites or good versus evil, but rather forces that need each other to exist. Within Yin, there is a part of Yang, and vice versa. Everything is in constant transformation and balance.

Cheng Xiaoshi as Yang 🖤

Yang represents the active, the impulsive, the emotional, the fire, the sun. Cheng Xiaoshi fits this energy because of:

Intense emotionality: Cheng is driven by his emotions. He is impulsive, sometimes acting without thinking, especially when he connects with the pain of the people he helps.

Direct action: He is the one who enters the photos, who acts and gets involved. He is always on the move, the spark of action.

Impulsiveness and passion: His approach to life is heart-first. This makes him compassionate, but also exposes him to suffering.

Lu Guang as Yin 🤍

Yin symbolizes introspection, rationality, analysis, calm, water, and the moon. Lu Guang is its natural representation:

Rationality and control: Lu Guang thinks before acting. He is analytical, serene, and often keeps his emotions to himself to maintain control.

Observant: He doesn't act directly within the photos, but he is the one who guides, plans, and anticipates risks.

Apparently cold: Although he is very sensitive, he shows it in a restrained manner. He appears distant, but his concern for Cheng is deep and constant.

The balance between them ☯️

The relationship between Cheng and Lu is not just friendship or work: it is a constant dance between Yin and Yang.

Cheng gives Lu emotional warmth, pushing him to connect more with feelings and not just logic.

Lu gives Cheng stability and boundaries, keeping him from getting lost in his emotionality and self-destruction.

When one loses control, the other balances him: if Cheng despairs, Lu slows him down. If Lu closes himself off too much, Cheng opens him up.

They are two halves of a whole. One cannot function without the other. Cheng represents life that burns brightly, and Lu represents the wisdom that contains it without extinguishing it.

Within Yin there is Yang, and within Yang there is Yin 🌓

Although Cheng is impulsive, he has moments of great sensitivity, where he demonstrates a quiet maturity (his Yin).

Although Lu Guang appears cold, he displays subtle gestures of deep care, such as his glances, his pauses to let Cheng feel, or the pain he silently carries (his Yang).

This shows that they are not pure extremes, but rather nuanced human beings. This makes them real, complex, and endearing.

(I would like to analyze the characters and their symbolism)

[mesmericmonad]

I just finished Spirit. I wish I could write out many more thoughts than I can do rn. This was some of my favorite Doctor Who content overall tbh. Leela and Romana's differences in personality, beliefs, and logic on full display are exactly what I didn't know I needed. Leelas unique and curious role as an outsider in these high-stakes political games was always a factor playing into her character through the series, but it was really the focal point here in a great way. Romana and Leela both represent radical ends of an irl split in epistemic beliefs. I guess people would see Leela as "superstitious," but I really don't think anything she said even comes close to superstition. It isn't religious or fantastical to suggest that there's something "more than" simply biological fact, and everything Leela brings up ("The fruit IS beautiful"; "How does a bird fly for months to reach its home?") is perfectly compatible with rational metaphysical schemas and certainly with evolution. Narrative-telling is constitutive of humans' biological reproduction. If anything, Romanas insistence on a purely empiricist paradigm over Leelas metaphysical tale only reveals that both are just two sides of the same coin. They are both frameworks to apprehend and predict causal efficacy. They both lead to unique and intense views of how the world operates. But neither is wrong. They're both complimentary.

This comes full circle when the two seem to gain parts of the others' personality, which supports the other side of the coin. Romana suddenly *feels in her body* instead of always in her head. She isn't intellectualizing everything through an analytical lense. Instead, she's really feeling her body for the first time. She probably never could feel the way that oxygen cleans her bloodstream so clearly as she did then. Leela feels uncomfortable with her new intellectual abilities. She isn't relying on the multitude of sense-organs distributed across her body to synthesize the presented data. Instead, she's intellectualizing every wave of information, and her brain organ is perhaps much more hyper-active than it was before. In short, Romanas reliance on a rationalist-empiricist epistemology aligns closely with her *inability* to utilize her sense organs deeply, accurately, and with intimacy. Leelas reliance on the specifically neuromuscular and sensory knowledge allows her a more nuanced interaction with the corporeal landscape around her, but perhaps forbids her from constructing a systematized methodology of propositional logic in the way Romana could.

Neither side of this coin is "better" and in fact us humans have the task of delicately tending to both parts of our makeup, both sets of data-gathering tools. The metaphysician and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead essentially investigates the foundations of these differing personalities in his magnum opus Process & Reality (1929). P&R is one of my favorite works ever and to see the Gallifrey series so brilliantly convey the gradation between his categories of "withness of the body" and "presentational immediacy" through the relationship between Leela and Romana has been an absolute delight. Amazing series

"You think of your body as a machine, but it is not. How can such a big mind be so narrow?" -Leela

"But we must—to avoid 'solipsism of the present moment'—include in direct perception something more than presentational immediacy. For the organic theory, the most primitive perception is 'feeling the body as functioning.' This is a feeling of the world in the past; it is the inheritance of the world as a complex of feeling; namely, it is the feeling of derived feelings. The later, sophisticated perception is 'feeling the contemporary world.' Even this presentational immediacy begins with sense-presentation of the contemporary body. The body, however, is only a peculiarly intimate bit of the world. Just as Descartes said, 'this body is mine'; so he should have said, 'this actual world is mine.' My process of 'being myself' is my origination from my possession of the world." -Alfred North Whitehead

[falafels]

would LOVE further english bullshit in relation to the foxes please consider this an excuse

omg YAY thank u!!

ok so i’ve been thinking recently about which foxes would be which characters from classic* literature but the more i write the longer the post gets SO im gonna take this as an excuse to do it in increments and kick off with my beloved Aaron Michael Minyard:

Aaron as Ivan Karamazov (from The Brothers Karamazov) – Ivan is sharp, intelligent, and analytical, as well as consumed by inner conflict. Ivan cares deeply about humanity but makes sense of this in the only way he knows (academically, and by turning it into a philosophical dogma that good/bad or right/wrong are fake entirely because there’s no loving god or immortal soul. Very chill and easy-going guy). There’s something in there I think about Aaron (and Andrew, to an extent) navigating an impossible dynamic through his ‘deals’ with Andrew that seem arbitrary but give them both a framework to function with each other. Anyway, by Ivan’s own logic though, this then allows all kinds of evil shit, so he keeps everybody at arm’s length, including the woman he loves, and the idea of loving her makes him hate himself because he just kind of hates the idea of pursuing his own happiness. Now obviously this isn’t a direct parallel to Aaron, but the idea that he is intrinsically wrong in what he does, the way he loves, and responding to this with isolation at the cost of his own happiness? Aaron Minyard. Ivan can only eventually reject his own skepticism by collapsing into his own philosophical hell to the point that he becomes feverish and unconscious TELL me that isn’t Aaron trying to come to terms with his relationship with Andrew, everything with his mother, with Neil and how Neil loves to just rock his worldview with a throwaway comment. Worth noting also that when Ivan is in this state he’s left with Katerina and the ending is ambiguous over whether he stays like this and becomes insane or if he comes back to himself through her love. Something something Aaron learning how to get through the day, how to make friends, how to live as normally as he can, with Katelyn there every step of the way to keep him from losing himself. Ivan Karamazov is the king of internalised turmoil from intellectualising everything to hell and back, but fundamentally that he’s unable to love the world or the people around him in a way that makes intellectual sense to him – this Aaron.

thank you for enabling me this Will continue

*my version of classic. this includes both dostoevsky and terry pratchett

[cognitivefunctionscomics]

INTP functions characters

Titania: Analytical, reserved, unconventional, and self-assured, Ti is critical and sometimes sarcastic. She strives for fairness and can sometimes come off as unintentionally arrogant, cold, self-absorbed, and even destructive. Her dream is to understand everything, setting aside human bias and limitation. She perceives reality as a system with hidden variables that could be controlled if comprehended. She doesn't intentionally exude a "back off" aura but is bothered by those she views as intrusive or disrespectful, especially when they invade her space with too many questions. As such, she’s wary of overly friendly or charming people. While observant, her focus isn't always on the tangible world, like what others wear or current events, unless there's a reason. Instead, she's keen on spotting theoretical flaws and is therefore hard to deceive. Even her friends are scrutinized; she prioritizes caution over instinct. She holds some misanthropic, deterministic, and nihilistic views, even if she identifies as "unbiased", to better deal with stress, ensuring she doesn't take things personally. She appears detached even when engaged, constantly building mental models to understand things from the inside out. When allowed the freedom to explore her often taboo interests, she's endlessly inquisitive. While Ti values intelligence, she sometimes overlooks the obvious or fails to consider the emotional aspects of issues. She adheres to binary logic until undeniable evidence proves otherwise and is irritated by elusive answers. Disliking incompetence and emotional reasoning, she thinks humanity should focus on conquering nature and understanding existence, freeing themselves from ignorance, making informed decisions, and not getting sidetracked by trivial matters, or worse, hindering scientific progress.

Looks: She dresses in practical urban wear, covered from head to toe. A large dark red zippered hoodie with pockets is worn over a turtleneck, paired with denim shorts, leggings, and ankle boots. Ti's short, layered orange hair is chin-length in front and cropped at the back. Her pale complexion contrasts with dark red eyes that seem to absorb light. These eyes often appear both distant and intense, accentuated by dark circles. Her expression, typically flat, gives her an air of fatigue or inaccessibility. When she does display happiness, it's subtle—a twitch of a closed smile.

Theme: Knowledge. With complete understanding, existence would lose its dominion over individuals, allowing them to manifest absolute individuality, control, and intelligence within their confines.

Nereida: Energetic and spontaneous, Ne is a dreamer. She's inventive, flexible, and inclusive, bringing a burst of bubbly energy everywhere she goes, but struggles with commitment to her grand visions. Going with the flow, she absorbs a plethora of information, always aiming to make last-minute optimal decisions. With a belief that every problem has a solution, she’s curious about everything, often applying knowledge from one domain to another. Her passion for learning mirrors Ti's focus, but Ne's is rooted in the joy of the process, always seeking to master her surroundings for maximum freedom. Disliking confinement, she occasionally gives up too quickly. Yet, when she persists, she finds ways to revel in challenges, cherishing the journey more than the destination. Although her plans can seem scattered, she thrives in unpredictability. She’s wary of those who wield power to control others, and in defiance, sometimes exercises her own control to observe the outcomes, which makes her morally grey. She thinks that it's her duty to challenge norms and pioneer change for the greater good when many are chained by ethics and fear, but has her own struggles, sometimes instigating chaos out of boredom.

Looks: Her attire is eclectic, pieced together from items she adores, without much regard for current trends. She sports a white buttoned shirt with teal insides, the sleeves rolled up and the front slightly unbuttoned to show a hint of cleavage. This is paired with a high-waisted, knee-length pleated teal skirt, ¾ leggings, and white Mary Janes with black heels. Her shoulder-length turquoise hair is pulled into a high side ponytail with a few loose strands framing her face. Her expression is vibrant, with large, curious blue eyes. Ne moves with a slight bounce, always seeming to be lost in a daydream and ignoring finer details.

Theme: Freedom. In a world without limitations, anything is possible.

Sienna: Grounded and diligent, Si is a model of consistency. She’s logical, practical, and knowledgeable, balancing her hardworking nature with humility and patience. She upholds tradition, believing that if everyone collaborates harmoniously, all aspirations, including universal comfort and understanding, are attainable. She derives a sense of duty and belonging from viewing herself as part of a whole, even if this sometimes stifles her creativity and subjects her to rigid standards. Si is at peace with her role but occasionally grapples with existential questions for not knowing herself in depth, or maybe suppressing philosophical musings. She values comfort, ensuring she always has moments of relaxation amidst her responsibilities, and appreciates nature and man-made wonders. Si always honors her commitments, but some may perceive her as mundane or lacking ambition.

Looks: Traditional and sensible, albeit slightly outdated. She dons a dark long-sleeved ruffled shirt buttoned entirely, paired with a lab coat, tailored trousers, and oxfords. Sleek glasses frame her earnest eyes. Her dark blonde hair reaches nearly to her waist, meticulously combed and pulled into a low ponytail, with bangs neatly clipped away from her face. While her movements are usually unhurried, she can be agile when needed, displaying remarkable dexterity.

Theme: Predictability. In a stable and comprehensible world, challenges would be preventable or at least manageable.

Felicity: Compassionate and giving, Fe is the embodiment of empathy. She is emotional yet fiercely loyal, often putting others' needs above her own. Her ideal world is one filled with loved ones she can protect and cherish forever. While she enjoys being the center of attention and reciprocated care, she sometimes neglects her needs, leading to periods of resentment. Her emotions can be volatile, especially when faced with disillusionment. Fe spends her days analyzing interpersonal dynamics, immersing herself in ethical discussions, and enjoying moral tales. Affected by poignant movies and easily manipulated, she doesn’t understand the saying, “hell is full of well-intentioned people”.

Looks: A blend of loose and tight-fitting garments. She wears a lilac boho dress that exposes her shoulders and collarbones with silk strips wrapped around her waist, neck, and wrists. Her footwear is burgundy heels with ankle clasps. Her purple hair cascades down her back, held in place by a ribbon, while her face boasts rosy cheeks and expressive eyes.

Theme: Unity. If everyone were the same, there’d be no conflict, and life would be fulfilling regardless of circumstances.

[shadowviixen]

INTJ: Logical Fairness and Equal Exchange

**I can’t pinpoint the functions one by one, else this will be too lengthy, but I’ve covered mostly the primary to tertiary functions, not much on Se.** We have… Introverted Intuition (Ni-Primary), Extraverted Thinking (Te-2ndary), Introverted Feeling (Fi-Tertiary), and Extraverted Sensing (Se-Inferior)

INTJs Perception on Fairness:

We rely on logic and intuition (or a certain inner knowing). There is this thing of fairness… and fairness to us is more logical than emotional. We can see things fairly, without it affecting our feelings, we can make choices without being attached, and we won’t see it in any way as hurtful or rude. We act fairly because we believe it to be “right”, not because a certain choice uplifts us, not because we want to appear helpful, not because of pity, and not because we want others to feel indebted to us. That’s why we find accountability and integrity--- a natural and innate concept. (if we are objectively wrong, then we're simply wrong).

And, as each person is unique(regardless of MBTI), INTJs will side on either Fairness or Manipulation (in negative). INTJs who believe in equal exchange or fairness are healthy INTJs. INTJs who explicitly manipulate have a part of them that’s underdeveloped or unhealthy, especially their feeling function.

The term of fairness and equal exchange, when applied to skills for an INTJ:

The fact is that an INTJ is JUST simply an efficient and straightforward human being; we are just good at our job and knowing things�� living and getting things we want, the way we want it. We know we are capable of pushing limits, but we are not overly delusional. We have our limitations, and from time to time, we challenge those limitations, because we don’t want anything holding us back, especially our own LACK and DEFICIENCIES. We don’t want OURSELVES holding us back. 

Therefore, we need SKILLS to move past these limitations. Which means valuable input and training. What better way to learn than through human interaction, human insight, and being surrounded by the right people with those skills that we want.

Reverting back to “valuable”, we believe that it is healthy for humans to be INTERdependent. Because an interdependent community is where humans thrive in support and aid, which benefits all sides. EQUAL AND FAIR GIVING AND RECEIVING. If we can get information etc., from someone, then we also believe that we can offer something valuable to that someone.

Usually, skills and training are something you pay for, and when you have access to those skills via close-knit relationships, it’s much more likely for them to reject payment. INTJs can’t have that — “like, how dare we… leach off from you?! Blatant shame on us INTJs!”–we can’t face the fact that you’ll have nothing to benefit from us.

Additionally, we believe knowledge is currency; knowledge is so valuable that it is monetized. IN THIS ECONOMY?! *deep breaths* You have to at least… want to learn a thing or two from us as well.

Humans are ever evolving, skills and knowledge open you up to opportunities, in our minds… “why not take this chance of exchange, to improve each other’s skills, so that we both gain something from it, and I won’t feel like I’ve free-loaded your personal time.” 

And before anyone says, “Well, ummm actually… I’ve met snobbish and selfish INTJs”... An unhealthy INTJ, on the other hand… Yes, they will think they’re far superior and untouchable… Because they haven’t developed their Fi function. They have weak philosophies in life and personal values.

INTJs are one of the most willing people to help with anything analytical, theoretical, and intellectual etc.  Of course, those don’t come for free, and you should also put something on the table that you believe can prove useful to INTJ someday. (Just don’t ask them about anything feelings-related, unless you prefer brutal truths and logical discourse regarding it. Because they are fond of internalizing and rationalizing their strong inner feelings to make sense of them.)

[dn-hc]

How'd They Feel About A Stoner GF

Trigger Warnings

Mentions of marijuana use

Cristism of marijuana use

Support of marijuana use

NOTE: These do not reflect my own attitudes and opinions about marijuana use. These are simply my interpretations of how the DN characters would feel about their significant other using marijuana.

L Lawliet

L is highly analytical, eccentric, and has a deep focus on logic and reason. He might be confused by the idea of someone regularly indulging in marijuana, seeing it as a distraction from focus and mental clarity.

He would be cautious about how it affects her behavior, especially if he felt it interfered with her ability to think or function effectively.

However, L is also incredibly accepting of people’s quirks, so while he might not understand or appreciate the habit, he wouldn’t judge her harshly.

He might also enjoy observing the effects of marijuana on her, as he is fascinated by human behavior and psychology.

"I don’t fully understand the appeal of it. But if it helps you relax, I suppose there’s no harm in it, as long as it doesn’t interfere with important matters."

Light Yagami

Light is very focused on maintaining control over himself and his environment. The idea of a stoner girlfriend might annoy him, as he values discipline, control, and clarity of mind.

He would likely see it as a weakness or something that makes her less competent, potentially even viewing it as a morally wrong. He would potentially even view his partner as a drug addict and a bum.

If he saw it as something that might interfere with her ambitions or his own goals, he’d likely try to subtly discourage it or distance himself from her, all while maintaining a veneer of politeness.

"If you want to achieve anything in life, you can’t afford to waste your time on things that dull your mind. You should focus on your potential, not distractions."

Mihael Keehl

Mello is passionate, impulsive, and doesn’t mind living outside the lines of what’s "normal." He’s also deeply rebellious, so if his girlfriend were a stoner, he might actually appreciate her more relaxed, carefree attitude.

He might even enjoy joining her at times, seeing it as a way to bond or escape the intense stress of their lives.

Mello would probably think it’s fun and wouldn’t judge her for it, but he’d also likely encourage balance, making sure it didn’t affect her ability to keep up with his high-energy, high-stakes world.

"I get it, sometimes you need to just chill. As long as it doesn’t hold you back, I’m all for doing whatever makes you happy."

Mail Jeevas

Matt is easygoing and laid-back, with a preference for simplicity and relaxation. If his girlfriend were a stoner, he’d likely find it easy to relate to her.

Matt doesn’t take life too seriously, and he would probably embrace the fact that she’s chill and knows how to unwind.

He’d likely join her in her habit from time to time, enjoying the relaxed atmosphere she brings.

Matt wouldn’t see it as a problem, and in fact, might even encourage it as a way to de-stress from the intensity of their lives.

"Hey, if that’s your vibe, I’m all in. We can chill, game, and just enjoy life. As long as you’re good, I’m good."

Nate River

Near is typically reserved and pragmatic. While he might not have an inherent problem with someone choosing to use marijuana, he might view it as a sign of weakness or distraction from one’s goals.

Near is dedicated to solving problems, and while he doesn’t show much outward emotion, he might find it strange or unproductive.

He wouldn’t be judgmental, but he wouldn’t really get involved with it either.

He would prefer someone who shares his serious focus on objectives.

"If it makes you happy, then it's your choice, but I can’t say I understand why you’d want to waste time like that. There are more efficient ways to relax."

Misa Amane

Misa is a free spirit, and while she’s not shown to be a regular user of marijuana, she would probably be accepting of a stoner girlfriend.

She’s very open-minded and accepting of people’s differences, and she’d likely see the habit as another form of self-expression or relaxation.

Misa might even try to get involved and use it herself, as she is often portrayed as someone who loves to have fun and break free from the seriousness around her.

However, if it interfered with her girlfriend’s ability to engage in her life and dreams, she might be concerned.

"Omg, that sounds fun! I bet we could have a blast together. Just make sure you don’t get too spaced out!"

Sayu Yagami

Sayu is sweet, caring, and empathetic. She’d likely approach the situation with understanding and would want to ensure that the use of marijuana didn’t negatively affect her girlfriend’s life or health.

While Sayu wouldn’t judge her for it, she’d probably encourage moderation, and she might even gently remind her that it’s important to find balance in life.

Sayu might not fully understand the appeal of marijuana but would prioritize her girlfriend’s well-being and try to help her manage it responsibly.

"I just want you to be happy and healthy. If it helps you feel better, that’s fine, but don’t let it stop you from being your best self, okay?"

[darkmaga-returns]

I recently interviewed the professional version of ChatGPT. My intent was to put a crosshair on the functional uses for AI, but I got a totally new and profound view. More on that in a minute. The first thing on the list was Cognitive Augmentation, which covers things like research, ideation, writing, etc. There are no moving parts so far.  However, the list went on with fluid uses like surveillance, mechanical and procedural automation, and narrative control.

In all, one function was static, and the next six were dynamic based on data flows. This prompted me to ask ChatGPT:

Would you say the prime directive for AI is live-flow data analysis?

Then ChatGPT spilled its guts:

At its most powerful and strategic, AI exists not to archive knowledge but to act upon the world in real time. This aligns it more with control systems than mere analytics. In technocratic logic, knowledge is only as valuable as its immediate utility in managing systems—whether ecological, social, economic, or mechanical.

Think motion. Why live-flow dominates, according to ChatGPT:

1. Cybernetic Control:

AI inherits from cybernetics a commitment to feedback loops—processing input, adjusting outputs, and minimizing system entropy through continuous real-time correction.

2. System Optimization:

Smart grids, autonomous vehicles, financial trading bots, and social platforms rely on AI only insofar as it acts continuously to optimize flow, minimize error, or redirect behavior.

3. Governance and Enforcement:

Technocratic systems—whether in energy, healthcare, or speech regulation—favor AI not as a tool of deliberation but as a mechanism of enforced compliance via perpetual data scanning and instant decision-making.

4. Surveillance as Governance:

The logic of surveillance capitalism and state bio-monitoring depends on AI’s ability to observe and react faster than humans, preempting decisions rather than responding to crises after the fact.

Then it noted that static analysis is secondary, but still strategic.

[fantasydreaamer]

Sugar Apple Fairy Tale: Shall Fen Shall [ISTP]

MBTI Type: ISTP Introverted - Sensing - Thinking - Perceiving

Introverted Thinking (Ti): Shall is logical, analytical, blunt, detached, and unemotional. He has an intense need to deeply analyze and understand the world and himself; and posseses a subjective logical framework in which he weights everything upon and that he'll never break. Ex: He didn't accepted to be Anne's friend because she owns his wing and is her slave. (It's illogical to be friend of someone you own.) In the LN it's shown that he assesses people and situations immediately upon encountering them. He's constantly trying to figure out other people's motivations and the reasons behind their actions. Shall thinks that: Anne treats fairies as people because she feels lonely, Lafalle's real motivation is revenge, not freedom, etc. He has great deductive reasoning skills too, like when he figured out the truth about Lafalle. Shall takes the most logical approach to problem solving: Upon seeing Anne in the slave market he told her to buy him so he could steal his wing back. (This is a very Ti way of doing it, by thinking of a way to hack the circumstances in his favor.) And sold himself to Bridget to find Anne's sugar.

Extraverted Sensing (Se): He's a skilled warrior that enjoys the adrenaline of a good fight, observant of his environment and quick to leap into action when needed. Calm under pressure and confident in his ablities, able to improvise and think on his feet, like when he left the sugar trail (Ti-Se). He's comfortable living in the moment travelling with Anne, and is very physically affectionate with her. It's natural for him to constantly hug, kiss, and hold Anne's face.

Introverted Intuition (Ni): He's insightful, constantly reflects on many topics, and has a sixth sense that he relies on: he accurately discerned Lafalle's past without any clue of it. Shall is laser focused on keeping Anne safe and makes it his mission to protect her forever. But, this is also his blindspot function, he was so focused on protecting Anne from Lafalle that he didn't foresee him threatening her friends to get to her.

Extraverted Feeling (Fe): The source of his low emotional intelligence is his inferior Fe, it's his weakest and most underveloped function, he's highly unaware of his feelings which is a common Ti-dominant problem. He enjoys riling Cat up because it improves his mood, which indicates immature Fe. He doesn't understand or recognize his emotions at all, and takes a very long time to discover his feelings for Anne. He generalizes that all humans are the same until he meets Anne and slowly starts to change his pespective on people. However, he has a warm and caring side that he shows to Anne mostly by acts of service: supporting, protecting, and helping her solve her problems (Ti-Fe). He likes to feel needed by Anne and puts her needs above his own. At the beggining he was cold, uncaring, and extremely hateful towards humans, but by being with Anne and Mithril and caring for each other, and eventually interacting with Anne's friends, he starts to become more sympathethic towards people (Fe development).

*In the LN Shall is in a Ti-Ni loop: A loop happes when the person bypasses the auxiliary function and becomes looping between the first and tertiary function. As a result he's disconnected from the external world. He’s obsessed with overanalyzing everything and can’t make sense of his feelings. He’s locked inside of his mind. Certainly, he’s an introvert and needs to engage with his inner world of thoughts, but he’s too detached with the outside world which is unhealthy. Loops happen under heavy stress, he's been a slave for 70 years, so obviously he wouldn’t want to engage with the outside world. Fortunately, he found Anne and she has influenced him positively. Shall has great potential for character development.

Sugar Apple Fairy Tale MBTI:

Anne Halford: ESFJ

Lafalle Fen Lafalle: ENTJ

[feeling-pushy]

Creature Stats

Wanted to sit down and think about how the Creatures in my Creature Apocalypse series actually work. So I did a bit of research and made this list of characteristics! I actually ended up drawing inspiration from ants and the property of Non-Newtonian liquids like the putty you find in squeeze toys while also keeping in mind all the stuff I've already written about them! I'll put this all under a cut so it's not too long haha. Yall can give it a gander if yah want!

Creature’s Physical

Original form is a form of grey, viscoelastic liquid. Extremely vulnerable when not within a host body. Can stretch and mold itself into whatever form it wants, can even double or minimize it’s mass at will.

Like a cell, they have a nucleus-like brain, where all its functions and information is stored. Instantly dies without it.

The viscoelastic liquid produces pheromones that only other Creatures can detect and communicate through this. Human's cannot smell these pheromones.

Assimilate into the human host by filling their insides with the grey sludge that makes up their being and melting the fleshy insides, leaving behind some of the bones, and filling up the skin like putty in a toy. Takes on the host’s form.

When assimilating, the Creature will feed off the brain and learn about the hosts and it’s primal functions, like how they speak and walk. As well as absorbing the host’s most recent/most retained memories, it cannot access older/less remembered memories.

The human skin can cover approximately 21 square feet. The Creature’s are able to manipulate the skin, stretching out and manipulating the form within the bounds of the skin. Will not exceed the limits of the skin in fear of tearing.

Will use whatever bones that are left inside the body to turn into claws or teeth. The longer a Creature is in the host, the more time it has to refine the shape of the bones to form proper sharp teeth ad claws. Newly accumulated Creatures just crack the bones and jut the sharp ends out.

Stronger than the average human.

Are susceptible to colder temperatures and will melt under extreme heats.

Cannot heal the skin of their hosts, instead they will solidify their putty flesh around any holes or gashes made on the skin to plug up holes.

Creature Behavioral

An order of highly specialized and often sociable with each other.

Their collective intelligence is higher than their individual intelligence.

They seemingly function as a single unit, but they are not a hive mind.

They are nomadic and are notorious for the destruction of all life in their path. Going to new worlds to destroy and colonize it for their species.

Each Creature has a role within their species and function within that role.

They prefer ambush tactics, luring individuals away from groups in order to surprise attack them.

Logical, analytical, calculated, and orderly in their thoughts and behaviors.

They cannot think creatively. Possess no intuition, can’t pick up on subtle nonverbal cues and have a hard time understanding context and non-literal language, such as metaphors and irony.

They are mimics as they try to emulate the host specie’s behaviors and mode of communication.  The effectiveness of their mimicry varies.

The Three Roles

Scout/Foot soldier Creature

They are the ones who gather information and resources for the main colony. They are the ones survivors often fight. Usually travel either individually or in pairs.

Will either kill a human on the spot, or capture them to bring back their colony for assimilation.

Not as strong as the Warrior Creature, but they are smarter than them.

They make up the largest part of their population.

Relies the most on their mimicry in order to lure and kill/capture more hosts. Some preform these acts of mimicry with better accuracy than others.

Warrior Creature

They stay closer to the colony and are the last line of defense.

Their appearance is the least like their hosts as they sculpt their bodies for combat. Makes the most effective use of the bones stored in the bodies to make not only claws and teeth, but also construct weapons and make barbed needles they can eject at prey to injure/distract them.

The least intelligent, but the strongest.

Makes up a small portion of the population.

Doesn’t bother to preform acts of mimicry.

The Alpha

The one who leads the alien race

Less of a queen as they are a subtype of Warrior Creature, but are the ones who are responsible for organizing the others and for reproduction.

They are also the most intelligent of all other types of Creature. With access to all the information gathered by the scouts and the only one to think about the bigger picture.

They will often look the most like their host, taking pride in perfecting their mimicry as sign of their advanced intelligence.

Will only brake the illusion when they feel like they are in danger, in which all acts are dropped and they act more like a warrior class Creature.

Sussing out a Creature

Obscure Media References:

The survivor could casually reference obscure or niche media, such as books, movies, or songs, and gauge the individual's response. Creatures, lacking creativity and intuition, might struggle to understand or respond appropriately to references they haven't directly encountered or memorized.

Example: "Have you ever read the novel 'The Sirens of Titan' by Kurt Vonnegut?" A genuine human might respond with curiosity or a thoughtful answer, while a Creature might display confusion or struggle to engage in a meaningful conversation about it.

Personal Stories or Memories:

Asking for personal anecdotes or memories that involve emotional depth or complexity can reveal a lot about a person's true identity. Creatures can only access recent or prominent memories of their hosts and might struggle with details or coherence in older memories.

Example: "Tell me about a vivid childhood memory that shaped who you are today." A genuine human might recount a detailed, emotionally resonant story, whereas a Creature might falter or provide a superficial response lacking in personal depth.

Riddles or Complex Puzzles:

Presenting riddles, logic puzzles, or complex mathematical problems can test cognitive flexibility and problem-solving abilities. Creatures, with their logical but rigid thinking, may struggle with abstract thinking or creative problem-solving.

Example: "Here's a riddle for you: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?" A genuine human might engage in a process of deduction or creative thinking to solve the riddle, while a Creature might find it challenging to comprehend or respond appropriately.

Behavioral Observations:

Observing subtle behavioral cues, such as emotional responses, social interactions, or non-verbal communication, can provide insights into someone's authenticity. Creatures may mimic behaviors but can struggle to emulate genuine emotional responses or nuanced social cues.

Example: Watching how an individual reacts to unexpected news or interacts with others in a group setting can reveal discrepancies in their behavior compared to genuine humans.

Physical Reactions to Environmental Stimuli:

Exploiting the creature's sensitivity to environmental changes, such as sudden shifts in temperature or exposure to certain chemicals, can provoke revealing reactions. Creatures may react unusually or exhibit discomfort in response to stimuli that affect their viscoelastic physiology.

Example: Introducing a sudden change in temperature or exposing them to a strong scent might prompt a Creature to react in a way that exposes their non-human nature, such as physical discomfort or an abnormal reaction.

Best Weapons for Combat

Firearms with Precision Targeting:

Rifles or handguns: These weapons are effective for their accuracy in targeting specific weak points, such as the Creatures' nucleus-like brain. A well-placed shot can incapacitate or kill a Creature quickly.

Shotguns: Useful at close range for their spread and stopping power, which can inflict significant damage to the Creatures' viscoelastic bodies and bones used for weapons.

Projectiles and Explosives:

Arrows or crossbow bolts: These can be tipped with specialized heads designed to penetrate and disrupt the Creatures' internal structure, targeting their vulnerabilities.

Grenades or explosives: Particularly effective for their ability to cause widespread damage and disrupt coordinated attacks, potentially incapacitating multiple Creatures simultaneously.

Scent bombs: Scent bombs can emit strong, disorienting odors that overwhelm the Creatures' olfactory senses. This can create confusion among them, disrupting their ability to coordinate attacks or communicate effectively using pheromones.

Melee Weapons:

Bladed weapons: Swords, machetes, or combat knives can be effective for close-quarters combat, targeting vulnerable areas or disabling limbs and appendages made from hardened bone.

Blunt weapons: Clubs, hammers, or improvised weapons can deliver powerful blows that shatter or incapacitate the Creatures' viscoelastic bodies.

[jkseducationconsultant]

How does computer science help me in my career development?

How Computer Science Can Accelerate Your Career Development

It is astonishing how computer science impacts various industries today and how it can be used in our lives today and not only in constructing software and systems. Computer Science education thus makes one ready for the labor market and avails many options to develop one’s career. Whether you work as a programmer or in a field related to your work which involves computer programmes, computer science can revolutionize how you work. Here’s how:

1. Enhanced Problem-Solving Skills

What it means: Essentially, computer science is one way of solving problems through the use of computation. It is useful to learn how to analyze tasks that can seem overwhelming and then subdivide them into tasks that can be managed easily.

How it helps your career: This problem-solving ability alone can be taken to almost any kind of career. It helps you to solve problems effectively, introduce changes in your work setting and offer recommendations that may optimize the functioning of the organization. In the fields of finance, healthcare, and marketing, the need to analyze data and come up with byte and logical strategies is more important than ever before.

2. Improved Analytical Thinking

What it means:Computer science incorporates problem solving, mathematical and logical reasoning, critical thinking and analytical skills. The fact is that it enlightens you on the approach employed in decision-making using data and forms of algorithms.

How it helps your career: Sound analytical skills are very essential when it comes to decision making in all sectors. In any business strategy planning, project and research management, being able to analyze data and make a forecast in the project, you will be uniquely equipped for success.

3. Another advantage that could be attributed to online classes is that it would increase marketability for those willing to participate in the classes and open up a lot more jobs.

What it means: Computer science skills, therefore, contribute to flexible job opportunities, traditionally found in computing professions such as software engineering as well as new areas such as data science, cyber security, and artificial intelligence.

How it helps your career: Needs for people proficient in the digital world are increasing now. Being computer science skilled makes you more employable and has high probability of getting you a job with chances of having promotions. That is why knowledge of such tools as digital technologies could be a huge plus even in such non technical sectors.

4. Enhanced Technical Literacy

What it means: In today’s technological advancement computing skills including programming, algorithms, and data structures are important to have.

How it helps your career: It means that one is more likely to switch to new tools and technologies, if one has technical literacy. For those of you using elements of technology management, working with certain software, or are trying to implement certain forms of technology into organizations and teams, it can be helpful to know these workings.

5. Innovation and Creativity

What it means: Humanities is not just for the English geeks; it’s about understanding the human.

How it helps your career: Having the ability to weigh what could technology do when it comes to solving issues or enhancing procedures is a good way to stand out. This mindset is useful where there is a need for creativity such as in product innovation, start-ups or academic studies.

6. Career Flexibility and Growth

What it means: The fragmentation of the tech industry is well-documented due to its fast pace of change and the existence of starkly different roles. They allow shifts between specialties, for example, web developers and data scientists or between web developers and cybersecurity specialists, if a person has a computer science background.

How it helps your career: Career flexibility provides a chance in the case of flexible markets to be able to change to other jobs. It also places you for promotions within organizations that focus on technology or organizations that involve use of technology.

7.  Better comprehension of DT

What it means: Digital transformation is therefore the integration of digital technology into the businesses’ fabric. Computer science give a background knowledge concerning these technologies and their consequences.

How it helps your career: It is vital to grasp the meaning of digital transformation that will enable you to support strategic projects in an organization. By doing so you will be more prepared for changes and advances in the technological sphere, improve business processes, and manage digital tools for business development.

8. Networking and Professional Development

What it means: The computer science field is huge and widespread and there are many options of how to meet other like-minded individuals and progress in one’s career. 

How it helps your career: Therefore, interacting with this community means having access to possible contacts, partnerships, and valuable mentorship. Networking in tech meet up, conferences as well as on social media platforms is helpful in connecting with new employers and opportunities. 

9. Increased Earning Potential

What it means: It has been established that computer science abilities are in high demand and jobs relating to computer science often have attractive pay. 

How it helps your career: One of the most important reasons why computer science can be valuable in one’s career is that this field provides persons with a higher earning potential. In the process of attaining technical skills and experience, you qualify yourself for higher paying jobs, and equally enhanced benefits. 

Applying computer science in your planning of a career path is certainly quite valuable in enhancing its progressives Group of Education is a full - service education industry consultant, offering educational our specialization of operating and marketing effectively  Every year new technologies emerge and spread into different sectors of the economy; therefore, the knowledge and skills that the computer science offers will be relevant in charting your career.

[caustic-splines]

I can be soft and vulnerable, I am willing to let you hurt me because I love you and trust you. I know you are passionate I rediscovered part of the reason why I love you so much. Your love is discrete, inverse pun intended but both homonyms applicable in this analogy. It is private, our unique form of expression

But it is also literally discrete, like recent quantum gravity field theories I may or may not have a hand in. My mind craves clarity, more so, it craves discrete caustic lines an planes. I would like to be like that every day. I want my heart to be in the inner of a particle accelerator bit-west two colliding high energy beams. All the crazy spins and flavor's of normal, charming, and even exotic sub atomic particles smashing apart, smashing together, twirling off in random spirals based on EM fields. That is who I am, not a particle reactor,

but every emergent self and extended phenotype aspect of my projects, world views, emotions, experiences, thoughts and behaviors.

Do you really want to see what I have seen when I was manic, I will make a brief outline, which barely does it justice, nor was the experience worth it in my mind

I saw reality

Across all multi scale layers of objective, subjective, abstract existance. Both perceived and externally existing.

Across all of these non-linear and semi-non empirical scales

Ontology categories of conscious awareness -5 Planc Quantized Wireframe -4 Subatomic Interactions -3 Electron Orbitals -2 Biochemical Interactions -1 Neurological Activity 0 Perception Input and basic awareness/dispersibility [(x n-1…n5) State of dissociation of whatever perceptual order or unconsciousness/dreaming] 1 Awareness of perception and SV 2 Awareness of perception in context or awareness of awareness -Xa Intrapersonal models 3 Awareness of self, regarding one's cognitive topography -Xb Allocentric models 4 Aware of a disruptive axiomatic shift recursively impacting various areas and fidelity of one's consciousness -Xc Global and Orbital Cyberphysical Memetogeographic Space -Xd Cosmology 5 Aware of a fundamental change in perception or PMC affecting POV. Shift in paradigm -Xe Uber Universes/5D+ EGC splines (ego/exo/allo) centric/ totality of EISOA over CT0-9

In the context of modular frames, of which I have objectively real working minimal level of knowledge in all of these domains, some reaching PhD levels of mastery

1 Technology

1 Applied Science/Applied Uses of TSECpm Phenomenon 2 ~Sustainable, Agricultural, Ecological and Environmental 3 Fabrication, Trade/Craft, and Intra/Inter Human Skill/Functionality 4 Military/Security/OMA7 5 Educational, Knowledge, Cognitive, Cybernetics, and Information, DT/PT 6 Electronics, Computers, Software, Spectrum, AI 7 Industries, Material Collection, Cyclical/NA: Supply Chains, Accounting 8 Skills, Fabrication, Synthesis, and Patents, Logistics 9 Civil, Nationality, Era, Civilian, State, and Structural 0 Future Technology/Other

2 Philosophy

1 Logic 2 Epistemology 3 Aesthetics 4 Politics 5 Dialectics, Critical Thinking, and Rhetoric 6 Ethics and Morality 7 Metaphysics and Ontology 8 Meta Linguistics 9 Applied Philosophy 0 Analytic Philosophy/Other

3 Engineering

1 Nuclear Engineering 2 Chemical Engineering 3 Biological Engineering/Medical Engineering 4 Environmental Engineering 5 Systems Engineering  and Cybernetics 6 Electrical Engineering 7 Mechanical Engineering 8 Industrial Engineering  9 Civil Engineering    0 Personal Engineering/Cognitive Engineering/Experience Engineering, ME0002/0013/0034/0049, Other

4 General-Cultural

1 Interactive Mediums/4, 3//Middle World IO MR Interaction/Hobbies/EISOA interactions 2 Geography, Culture, [[SMPH/ME 1/Experiment 0032 TSeCIVii|Experiment 0032 TSeCIVii]] 3 Occult/Niche Allusion/Metaphor 4 Physical, Mental, and Cognitive Skills 5 Day to Day Functionality, House Keeping, BH, and Normative and Exotic Behavior (Anomolies vs Normative Phenomena, timescale/PoF independent) 6 Law, Rules, Conduct, Ethology 7 Finance and Business/Institutions/VSM/States/Governing Bodies 8 Dynamic PPF+/-PoV, People of Interest, UJSF 9 Politics and Society – Collective Conscious Gestalt 0 UM, Pop culture/other, (**(almost) ALL EISOA can be contained in USF(EISOA Correlate))

5 Frameworks

1 Gestalt, Non Gestalt (AS/S)_, Spatial and/or Temporal Patterns, and Non-Modular and Modular Ontology, Shapes, Objects, Sounds,  Qualia Framed Experiences which can be Axiomatized (basically an intersystem link to 1, 1 to enable dual +y/1, 1 functionality) 2 PT/MR Mathematical and Mapping/Fields Competition and Game Theory, NWF (applying [[Experiment 0024 LoUtrix]] to 1, 1) 3 UJSF/Society and Culture/Cyberphysical Environments (EISOA cybersocial considertations) 4 TSECpm, +y/PT, Exocognition/LLM integration 5 Mindmap/MEs, and Modelling, Psychology/EISOA, Thought Traces/2, 5/AE/DABPAx (self imposed 3, 4 for the meta task of utilizing +y effectively) 6 Experiential and PMC/5, x /1, 1/3, 1/2, x/PE (1, 1-2-5-6/2, x subjective experience. MM08, x 7 IESOA, CABS, Frames, (OMA7), Fuzzy Logic, 3, 4/VSMs/SMPH Optimal Scheduling and [[Unsignificant Sentience/Mental Experiments/Experiment 0005 Chewing Gum Loading Dock|Experiment 0005 Chewing Gum Loading Dock]] [[SMPH/ME 1/Experiment 0058 Just in Time 1, 31, 5AE+Y|Experiment 0058 Just in Time 1, 31, 5AE+Y]] HMI workflow (EIOA on IS) 8 Language and Linguistics, Metaphor/SWHs, [[SMPH/ME 1/Experiment 0012 Fractal Cosmic Regression|Experiment 0012 Fractal Cosmic Regression]] 9 Cognition, Learning, and Experience/ 09, x 0 Axiomatic Systems, Perspective Theory/other, PoFs

6 Science

1 Physics 2 Astrophysics and Cosmology 3 Chemistry 4 Biology 5 Interdisciplinary/System Science 6 Health Sciences 7 Earth Sciences 8 Formal Science 9 Social Sciences 0 Other

7 Abstract Constructs, Functions, and Relationships

1 Set Theory 2 Ontology 3 Epistemology 4 Metaphysics 5 Digital/Cognitive Twins 6 Abstract Object Mapping 7 Abstract Object Manipulating 8 Elucidating Abstract Space into IS space and vice versa 9 Metaphysical Abstract Space Workshop, CA 0 Communicable and interactive Abstract Entities/Engineering of the Abstract

At the same time, world building a sci fi universe and multiple systems of systems that would be abstracted and logically patterned into some of the most influential books in human history.

The fourth book? You are a main character you wrote your own part you played. It is probably the first case of hypersituatal fictional historic non fiction that guided the development of humanity culturally and scientifically. I became a living fictive, I had all of my human rights removed, but not my natural rights.

When you see everything, you can change everything

I had reality fuck it's way into my brain and leave gaping wounds that have never healed. I can handle some rough love dear

Maybe one day I will be able to share the light show

[hyliareborn]

Ace Attorney mbti (not a complete list because I haven’t finished the last two games yet)

I made one of these for p5 characters, which I don’t think anybody but me is interested in, but this is tumblr. Why are we here, if not for self indulgence?

(Also I’m sorry there’s no Athena, Blackquill, tgaa characters, etc! I didn’t want this post to get too long, and I didn’t want to type characters without knowing their full story. Maybe I’ll make a part 2 with everyone I missed!)

Phoenix Wright: ENTP

Phoenix has ne all over the place. He’s famous in-game for throwing out a million different possibilities in court to see what sticks, which is what sets him apart—I mean, the truth is never straightforward, and Phoenix never settles for the most obvious answer. That said, he’s also very analytical and strategic. He knows that a lot of scenarios he’s suggesting make no logical sense, but it’s worth considering, and it buys him time to piece together what actually happened. It’s most obvious in aa4 during his disbarment, how he can block off his emotions to make harsh, rational judgements, and doesn’t seem to consider how that affects Apollo. I get thinking that he could be an ENFP, given how much he cares about the human aspect of these cases and how strongly he stands by his morals, but thinkers care about people too! And the contrast between those types is clear next to…

Maya Fey: ENFP

Maya and Phoenix bounce their ne off of each other, which is why they work so well as a team. However, Maya doesn’t really care if anything she comes up with is plausible as long as it’s fun, which drives Phoenix crazy sometimes (he’s a thinker, everything has to MAKE SENSE). This isn’t to say that Maya is stupid! She’s brilliant, she just approaches things from a creative and emotional standpoint first (Will Powers can’t be the killer, he’s too nice! The Steel Samurai would never! I don’t have proof, I just FEEL IT. No Nick, I don’t care if the evidence points to him!)

Miles Edgeworth: INTJ or ISTJ, but I lean toward INTJ

Miles and Phoenix get on each others’ nerves partly because Phoenix will entertain any idea and Miles has tunnel vision. He comes to a conclusion and refuses to budge, then gathers (or fabricates) evidence to support what he’s already decided. I understand an argument for ISTJ given how he usually seems firmly grounded in reality, but I think that comes from te. Because ISTJ would require ne, which I just…can’t see at all, even as his inferior function. I haven’t had the chance to play the investigation games yet, but from what I understand, we see him find the underlying essence of the situation and piece together the most likely outcome based on what he can prove. He also says that he isn’t one for sentimentality, preferring to focus on the future, and that people can miss the truth entirely by only trusting what they see in front of them.

Apollo Justice: ISTJ

Apollo is the ISTJ poster child. His ability is literally si; close observation and gathering details to compare them to what he already knows to be true. His te wants structure in his life and his work (he’s surrounded by ne-doms though, so good luck 😵‍💫) and he likes playing by pre-established rules, so Phoenix’s whole ne/ti thing frustrates him sometimes, particularly in aa4 where he’s annoyed that Phoenix won’t be straightforward or use conventional methods to prove his innocence. He needs help seeing the big picture, but he gets there because of …

Trucy Wright: ENTP

She’s so much like her dad!! I won’t get too in depth with her because almost everything I said about Phoenix applies to her, too. Again, I see an argument for ENFP, but she’s a lot more analytical than people give her credit for, and she can detach from emotion much more easily than an ENFP. The murder of her father and the accusation of her uncle is obviously difficult for her, but she isn’t concerned in the moment with how the outcome will make her feel, and she doesn’t linger on how any of her family drama has impacted her. She’d rather take care of others’ emotional wellbeing and she sometimes feels responsible for them, which is tert-fe.

Klavier Gavin: ENFJ

BIG fe-dom. He connects with people so easily, he cares a lot about his image, he switches his stance on a case based on what will have the most positive impact on everyone involved. He was able to be manipulated by Kristoph because his brother’s approval was so important to him. But he always had a nagging feeling that what he did to Phoenix was wrong and that Kristoph couldn’t be trusted, because something just felt off. His tert-se shows in him gladly playing the role of the impulsive, artsy rock star archetype, which is clearly a genuine part of who he is, but he has much more foresight than an se-dom usually would.

[maximumpostcreator]

Why Rightpath Global Services Leads in AP Transformation

In the earlier parts of our Accounts Payable Services (AP) transformation series, we explored the  structure of the P2P cycle, key AP milestones, and the operational groundwork behind invoice  processing. In Part 5, we take a forward-looking approach: what happens when you evaluate your AP process critically and apply the right mix of intelligent automation? 

Every organization, regardless of size or industry, encounters friction points in its AP process.  Whether it’s delayed approvals, manual data entry, or inconsistent validations, these challenges  are more common than you might think. That’s why a comprehensive process assessment is  essential – it highlights inefficiencies at every milestone, paving the way for actionable  improvements. 

Tactical Automations: Building Efficiency with What You Already Have 

Many AP teams still rely on spreadsheets and Access databases for tracking and reporting.  While these tools are powerful, they often demand significant manual effort. Tactical  automations can bridge this gap. Using macros and scripts in Microsoft Excel or Access, you  can automate repetitive tasks like data consolidation, report generation, and reconciliation.  These lightweight, cost-effective solutions bring immediate productivity boosts without the  need for large-scale system changes. 

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Robotic Process Automation (RPA): Let Bots Handle the Repetition 

When processes are rule-based and repeatable, Robotic Process Automation becomes a game  changer. RPA can streamline invoice validation, duplicate checks, and even posting activities.  The real flexibility comes in how bots are deployed. 

In some cases, bots work side-by-side with AP personnel, handling tasks like invoice data entry  while the human handles exceptions. In others, bots run entirely in the background, processing  batches of invoices without any real-time oversight. There’s also a middle path – bots operate  in the background but pause for human intervention when the logic detects anomalies or gaps.  This hybrid approach balances speed with control, ensuring that human oversight is applied  only when truly needed. 

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Artificial Intelligence: Smarter Systems for Smarter Decisions 

While RPA is great for structured, rule-based processes, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is ideal for  managing unstructured data and more dynamic workflows. 

Generative AI creates intuitive interfaces between systems and humans. By using natural  language processing, these tools allow users to interact with systems in everyday language – whether querying invoice status or uploading receipts. AI also shines in extracting insights  from unstructured formats like emails or handwritten documents, further reducing manual  effort.

Machine learning, a subset of AI, uses large volumes of historical data to identify patterns and  optimize processes. For example, it can flag outlier invoices that may indicate fraud or errors,  or categorize invoices automatically based on past behaviour. 

Predictive analytics takes it a step further by forecasting trends. In the AP space, this might  look like identifying vendors likely to submit late invoices, projecting future cash outflows  based on historical payment cycles, or even prioritizing invoices that offer early payment  discounts based on past behaviour. 

Transforming AP with a Smarter, Scalable Foundation 

When applied thoughtfully, automation and AI don’t replace people – they empower them. By  freeing AP teams from mundane tasks, these technologies create space for more strategic work:  analysing spend, managing supplier relationships, and driving financial insights. 

At Right Path, we believe every AP transformation journey begins with clarity. Our Free  Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Assessment helps you evaluate current processes, uncover automation  opportunities, and design a smarter, scalable AP function tailored to your business. 

Explore our website to learn more and claim your free assessment today. Let’s shift AP from  reactive taskwork to proactive performance.

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