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Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

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at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress

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I just registered for my first university class since graduating two years ago, and I am so freaking excited. I finally found something that's at least hybrid instead of fully online and asynchronous. I cannot wait to get back in the classroom. The closer I get to this year's grad school applications, the more excited I get. I haven't managed to get in yet, but I hope I will this time now that my mental and physical health is so much better and I have the time to rededicate myself to my studies and work on my applications this summer. I'm so ready to return to academia.

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Reblog to save a life

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Let's be intimidating blob with mama

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I'm coming to the conclusion that four legs is way too many for this poor fella.

In his defense, he is only three years old and also gaited, but still.

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Me: "Huh, I wonder why my house gets messy so quickly."

Me trying to make a grilled cheese sandwich: *drops the butter on the stove* *drops the cheese wrappers* *trips over my own feet* *almost knocks over the trash can attempting to open it* *smacks the microwave* *accidentally throws a knife* *drops the butter on the stove again* *almost twists an ankle* *half-falls onto the fridge*

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i ❤️ my phone so i made it a bedroom to go to sleep in when i want to reduce my screen time

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I can be your many-legged angle or your stingy satin. I've wanted to make this forever and finally got around to it. This is also on my Ko-Fi store as a printable, if interested!

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Oh hey, I forgot I reblogged this. Anyway, that person I was worried about having a crush on because she's younger than me? Yeah, so we've been dating for a little over a year now. Turns out she was waiting for me to get over myself and ask her out.

She trains my dog while I'm busy working from home or running errands. I work with the baby horse she bought because she knew I could help her start him under saddle. Lately we've been discussing our finances so we can move to a new city and get our master's degrees together. We're very happy.

"having sex with your friends is basically incest" is a take of all time

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from “baths”, 1987.

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Horse people are such a specific type of crazy (I know as I am one myself) because they’ve been staring at their horses for millennia with such meticulous fervor that they’ve developed a kind of weird equine phrenology where owners feel like they can predict a horse’s temperament and behavior just from the pattern of hair swirls (called whorls) on their face. Which results in absolutely unhinged diagrams like this

The craziest thing about this? It is almost certainly based in truth. There has been a decent amount of study into the connection between hair whorls and horse behavior. Many scientists theorize that because these hair patterns develop in the fetal horse at the same time as the nervous system, certain information about a horse’s behavior can be predicted by the whorls.

A 2021 article in Livestock Science explored the genetic heritability of these swirl patterns and found that a whorl on the forehead is highly influenced by genetic factors and could potentially be used to select more docile animals. Temple Grandin researched the phenomenon as well with several studies at Colorado state and made the same connection between the growth of hair whorls and the development of the horse’s brain, leading to certain manifestations of anxiety or docility. Obviously temperament in any animal is more complicated than just genetics or histology, and it would be silly to try and extrapolate a horse’s entire personality from its hair, but the connection is interesting and worth noting all the same.

There is an ancient history to these whorls. An Indian veterinarian mentioned them in a treatise on equine medicine from the third century, and the Bedouin people (who had an extremely developed lore around whorls) used the marks to determine the price of horses prior to sale. It’s pretty cool that our modern understanding of embryology and veterinary medicine is illuminating a phenomenon that ancient people first noted and passed down through folklore.

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Vegan Parmesan and Herb Polenta Fries

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Is this how you roll?

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who let this bird on the train