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Arrow by Konstantin Korobov

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by vegantreats

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people who made names for themselves in the mid 2010s talking about "AI Safety" as a hypothetical sci fi doomsday scenario trying to connect their ideas to the current day technology of large language models is so fucking embarrassing. if we invent artificial general intelligence it won't be a neural net. they called it AI to swindle money from you specifically

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Will there be a dashcon three. Might apply to table. The energy seems fun.

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"New Yorkers bite more people than sharks annually" is an excellent example of how statistics can be misleading. Like yeah no shit, do you have any idea how rare it is to even encounter a shark in the wild? They're not exactly urban animals. I'm pretty damn sure that if sharks were living in big cities like pigeons, just strolling down the streets looking for food scraps, you'd see a lot more news stories about New Yorkers biting them.

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pig,,

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We are moved in. The floorspace is an ocean of boxes. I am so incredibly fucking tired. Woo hoo.

We have been rental house hunting and it's so. Make a snap decision. About this place you will be living over a year. If a single person submits an application before you, too bad. It's theirs now. Hot spot your laptop in your car after the tour. Be first to the open house if you even want a shadow of a chance to live here. The listing had photos of a sunny backyard that no longer exists because we're laying foundations for two more units. Live here for a discounted price of 3k a month while we turn this small single family lot into a rent extraction machine. Pay us fifty dollars now.

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MY DIRT!!

We have been rental house hunting and it's so. Make a snap decision. About this place you will be living over a year. If a single person submits an application before you, too bad. It's theirs now. Hot spot your laptop in your car after the tour. Be first to the open house if you even want a shadow of a chance to live here. The listing had photos of a sunny backyard that no longer exists because we're laying foundations for two more units. Live here for a discounted price of 3k a month while we turn this small single family lot into a rent extraction machine. Pay us fifty dollars now.

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Really cool graphic broadly explaining how we've selectively bred dogs over millenia for different jobs. Drives like herding and guarding prey animals may seem counterintuitive to the dogs' nature but these actions are in fact rooted in ancestral hunting instincts, we've just "muted" down the rest of the hunt sequence resulting in a kill (but even well bred dogs need training!). This is also why crossing dogs belonging to different job types should be carefully thought out, if your breeding goals are a calm nonworking companion animal the last thing you want is to breed is a royal flush of this predatory sequence.

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someone from the Massachusetts Army National Guard properly documented a rare clam shrimp (Eulimnadia agassizii) via iNaturalist and you really must see the gorgeous untouched natural paradise in which the rare and delicate shrimp were found:

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Tupandactylus imperator with Ginkgo huolinhensis. Both species from the Early Cretaceous. There is an interesting paper which discusses how pterosaur pycnofibres may be synonymous with bird feathers featuring T. imperator. Cool stuff!

Colours and patterns were inspired by toucans, various parakeets and monarch butterflies :)

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Packing the essentials

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What is with these transmascs trying to bring back "misandry".... Bro, stop it, you're embarrassing us .... You are experiencing transphobia and misogyny and for some reason deciding to redirect that feeling of hurt by bullying online trans women.... Cringe...... Go volunteer for invasive plant removal or food not bombs or something

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Seth Armstrong (American b.1983), Neutra, 2024, Oil on canvas

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it you

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Hearing about people going to fucking war over kris deltarune's gender even when I don't go there is so sad and predictable. People, even trans and nonbinary people, constantly misgender my sexless computer worm vector animation generated by a server room full of code invented by a unisex alien species, and at this point I don't. fucking know why, other than, I guess, their character archetype in the story is something commonly filled by a male character. I've joked about putting eyelashes on them too much. At this point I'm considering changing the Official Word of God to a feminine register voice bank for them just to make people have to think about it slightly harder.