dreamless.bsky.social
Wasting everyone's time. Old enough to know better, not smart enough to care.
Graduate student in Library Science. She/her
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Hey, if we're on the same side-- and I think we are-- maybe less fighting about this kind of stuff is better while we are trying to fight (in our own ways) against the Big Bad? Because this kind of conversation doesn't feel helpful at the moment.
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Pistachio, always. 🥰
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Oh yes! Tubi is absolutely another great, free service. 😃
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There's entire channels for Stargate, Star Trek, and original Doctor Who just as examples. It is my go to when I just want to put something on without having to think about it. It's the lost piece of television that lets you just turn it on without scrolling endless options.
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Ok, but Pluto is awesome and totally free. You really should check it out. Tons of older content like that streams all day on a single channel on the platform or you can watch on demand.
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This is where people get confused and believe they are multitasking, when they aren't. They're task *switching*. And no matter how good or fast you are, the fact remains that you cannot do both simultaneously. You attend to one, you drop the other: there is a lag in response.
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Family is such a complicated weaving of love and hurt, trust and betrayal: bursting with the unforgivable and redemptive. All wrapped up in such a small, benign word that is... less descriptive than we need. I'm glad you were able to find some comfort because your stories are so needed now.
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If you haven't seen Cellular, might I recommend it? The trailers made me not want to see it, but it's actually tremendous fun, and pretty smart, imo.
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Oh, I took a class in health informatics, and thought it was fantastic-- absolutely my hardest class to date, but I learned so much. Trying to bridge information science and clinical research to create better/more useful data.
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Thanks! Done for the semester, and managed an A in project management, so slowly making my way through!
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Oh how i wished...
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You love to see it!
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Nope, still there, I just blocked. You do need the whole Gemini.botsky name to find it.
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Even more so. The only way for a male cat to be a calico is if he has a genetic anomaly. Virtually all calico cats are female.
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Because my dentist said something about my teeth having fishers, I thought there were little traps to catch fish in my mouth. It wasn't until many, many years later that I realized he must have said fissures...
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Doesn't sound familiar, but now I too wish to read this book!
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It's only gotten worse with the rise of for profit IRB's...
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I think, though i could be wrong, that generative AI is a large class, and LLM's and images both fall under that umbrella. LLM's scrape content to generate their answers, writing essays, poetry, or general advice in the same way image generators scrape artwork to generate images on request.
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I learned my lesson from goatse: yes, there are things I do NOT want to know and am far better off for my lack.
It was a painfull lesson, but it has saved me from further pain.
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Our fear of government death panels leaves us subject to corporate death panels, who are thus far held accountable only by Luigi Mangione.
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People will fight with their whole being to believe they live in a world where cops protect and serve and insurance companies provide care. To believe otherwise would force them to acknowledge that they too could be a victim and that is a truth they cannot face. It might spark empathy.
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Thank you!
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I *was* wondering what an equal artist was and puzzling over if it was some sort of math artistry-- which would be cool! But this makes more sense. 😂
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Exactly so.
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...let's be honest, it's mostly what they're there for.
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Not my planet monkey boy!!
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Weight loss is so hard, and it's frustrating when it plateaus. But it's a whole journey, so even when it feels like you're not getting anywhere you've still come a long way. Or that's how I try to think about it.
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PUT BABY IN PELICAN MOUTH
(I'm sorry, something happened in my brain.)
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I think people just don't get the scale of it. Our brains aren't really built to understand numbers that large. So people think, billionaire now is just like millionaire used to be, right?They do not, cannot, grasp how fundamentally different those are. Being a billionaire damages you fundamentally.
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Yep: Chuck Norris. He just seems insufferably smug. I don't have any supporting evidence, I've never read anything about him. It's entirely unfair. But it seems his resting face reads smug to me, and apparently that enrages me on some deep level.
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Self-defense skeet!!
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The TEXTURE! OMG how do you think it's just like meat??! WTF makes you think THAT? I also would love to enjoy mushrooms there are so many lovely appetizers with them. But no. I cannot.
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I... I have questions, and I'm quite certain I don't want answers.
But still. The questions. They reside. In me.
The questions!
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...perhaps you should sit and think on why so many people felt the need to explain that to you and what that might mean in a larger context. If we want people to change, we have to make room for them when they do. Do you want people to change more than you want to punish them?
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...which is exactly the same here.
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Ok, I have one other suggestion/experience I've had where our professor would schedule a zoom call and let us all ask questions about the assignment. (I'm a grad student in Library Science and this was on using MARC, DDC AND LCSH. It was very effective for that, ymmv on different assignment types.)
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Ah, then I'm sorry, it's the best idea I have. 😬😔🫣