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LillyPip

@ LillyPip @lemmy.ca

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Sci-fi & horror author, UXD, software dev, composer/engraver, gamer, seamstress/tailor, nerd, etc; she/her. Aroace.

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  • And this a very common mindset, because most societies (some more than others) take children’s* innate curiosity and pound it flat for the sake of efficiency by way of standardisation. It really is a shame, since we waste a lot of potential as a species this way.

    e: a word

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  • We do, though.

    Just to make sure my understanding was accurate, I asked Gemini to critique my explanation:

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    Unless it’s lying to me about itself, I was able to explain the basics of it in two relatively simple sentences. Of course that doesn’t cover everything, but Gemini thinks that’s a pretty good overview. After expanding on each point in its reply, it said this:

    I think a lot of the confusion over these models stems from hype and marketing that makes them out to be more than what they are.

  • Letters to the Editor: Your 'protest vote' for Jill Stein is really a vote for Donald Trump

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  • The current electoral system has myriad problems, and you’re absolutely right that focussing on local seats is a better path. I’m glad we’ve been seeing more comments like yours that do understand the stakes.

    For people who rightly feel their interests aren’t adequately represented, rather than voting for spoilers or not voting at all, the best way to actually help fix these problems is to become an activist for electoral reform – starting now for 2028 and beyond. It usually feels like an afterthought brought up a month or two before the election, which is far too late.

    Organisations like FairVote Action have been working to get alternative voting methods implemented in various states, and they’ve had some success.

    If we want to escape this unfair and undemocratic voting system that’s shackled us to mediocrity and allowed fascism to gain a foothold, we have to keep thinking, educating, and acting now for the future. It’s doable if we work towards it.

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  • 45 minutes at 350F seems like it will burn these tiny filets to a crisp, but I’ll try. I do love a mayo and garlic sauce.

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  • I’m pretty vocally atheist, but I watch debunking content, and part of that is anti-Flerf and anti-fascist stuff, so maybe the algorithm picked up on that.

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  • It’s so fracking adorable, I could eat it up. Any recipes?

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  • Wait – is this how we prevent our socks committing suicide in the dryer?

    Alex Jones screeching

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  • The country with the highest per capita consumption of vinegar in 2018 was the Netherlands, with 3,108 liters per 1,000 people

    This checks out. As we all know, the Dutch only inflict depression, they’re never depressed themselves.

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  • I do, too, and alongside that are articles about how new discoveries in cosmology are upending all of science, and alongside those, thinly veiled creationist articles about how that means science has been totally wrong all along, therefore god. The Hubble tension has spawned a lot of these, with at least one article in my feed per day from the Discovery Institute and the like.

    e: articles like these:

    Were We Made to Make Black Holes? Evolution News is part of the Discovery Institute

    The “Hubble Tension” and the Big Bang Evolution News

    James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Fast-Growing Galaxies Answers In Genesis, speaks for itself

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  • I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend lately, and I wonder if the way these headlines are written is feeding it: creationist articles have been slipping into my science news feed, usually riffing off whatever bullshit alarmist/exaggerated headlines spread through the popsci realm the day before.

    If you don’t know what you’re looking at (and most people don’t), you’ll wind up reading creationist propaganda when you think you’re reading a science article.

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  • Thanks for the info! I appreciate it.

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  • I’d really love to see that video. I can’t find anything like that. I found one article claiming a couple was using the wrong hole, but it was the anus, not the urethra. There are two holes behind that, if you’re facing a certain way. The urethral opening is so tiny that ‘micropenis’ would have to be a vast overstatement.

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  • Thank you for your willingness to look into it and your potential acknowledgement that the story may have been bullshit. I appreciate that.

    I’m pretty sure this can’t have happened, because the urethra is quite narrow and the opening so small, it’s a massive issue to get used to catheters with a tiny diameter. From what I hear, it takes a lot of physical and mental fortitude to be able to insert a catheter into that hole, needing good aim and perseverance, and a lot of design goes into making the cath process less traumatic.

    Caths are quite small. Unless a dick was literally a millimetre in diameter, I can’t imagine how that could happen, especially since the vagina is right next to that opening. If you even tried, it would just slip a quarter of an inch towards the opening that would easily accommodate it. It just seems physically impossible.

    e: turns out this did happen, in a case where the woman’s hymen never broke (it had to be surgically opened), and the man was under-endowed. It was a rare and unusual combination of anatomy. I stand corrected and retract my previous edit.

  • A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit.

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  • Have you tried doing this? I have, for *nearly a year, on the more ‘advanced’ pro versions. Yes, it will apologise and try again – and it gets progressively worse over time. There’s been a marked degradation as it progresses, and all the models are worse now at maintaining context and not hallucinating than they were several months ago.

    LLMs aren’t the kind of AI that can evaluate themselves and improve like you’re suggesting. Their logic just doesn’t work like that. A true AI will come from an entirely different type of model, not from LLMs.

    e: time. Wow, where did this year go?

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  • They just don’t want this subject taught – it’s not about which class it’s in. If a school tries to put it in biology class instead, they’ll explicitly ban it in that class, too.

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  • No, and that sounds impossible. Like, I can’t imagine how that could happen even once. Do you have a source? I can’t find anything.

  • Trump calls MSNBC host a ‘bimbo’ after she makes case for voting against him

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  • My guess, internalised misogyny akin to Stockholm syndrome.

  • TIL that this cartoonish piranha catching technique actually works

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    • Fresh piranha about 2/3 down & under the duvet – an unusual surprise for your partner.
    • Piranha in the coffee mug - a classic.
    • Replace a coworker’s mouse with a live piranha (timing is important – don’t want the poor thing to suffocate, have a bowl of water handy).

    The possibilities are endless.

  • TIL that this cartoonish piranha catching technique actually works

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  • Piranhas have dozens of uses. Food, bait, aesthetics/decor, pranks, weapons of surprise, scissors, evil lairs…

  • Trump's 'body odor' leaves people 'gagging' as Republican says 'you need a mask'

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  • Dollar signs in her eyes are bigger than squiggly lines up her nose, it’s that simple.