dustbunnies [she/her, comrade/them]

💔 oh. that makes perfect sense. I’m sorry.

you deserve help and support just as much as anyone else, and I hope you can find a way to feel safe enough to accept it

it sounds like you’ve got good instincts and a support system in case things go south at all, in which case, I’m wondering why you’re hesitating?!?! this sounds fuckin amazing

okay, so let’s run through what the possible scenarios could be here, so you can figure out how you feel about them and how you would deal with them

everybody help, I won’t think of everything

• he’s exactly what he claims to be
• he’s a serial killer and you’re in danger
• he is mostly what he seems but also very lonely and maybe a little weird and has a hard time making friends except in this way
• he is looking to trap a slave
• he is running a cult
• he is part of a cult

as I’m typing them, the third one seems the most likely to me – and I bet this strategy tends to backfire a little, because it can make for an awkward beginning to a friendship when there’s so much inequity from the jump. it can be hard to recover from that, but finding a way to make the aid mutual really helps, so if that is the situation, just seeing the act of friendship as a gift you’re giving in return might be helpful.

if I had more money, I would be trying to take people in constantly, so I’ve been more trusting of these kinds of situations than I ought to be and gotten into trouble. but I am that kind of person, and I know there are others, and some of them probably have money. so maybe it’s legit.

Can I get fucked over by accepting this dude’s help?

well, I’ve learned the hard way that sometimes often people who are offering to help are hoping to get a little something in return. sometimes it’s just the good feeling of helping, sometimes it’s just your friendship, but sometimes … 😐

what does he want from you? how certain can you be that whatever answer(s) he gives are accurate and complete?

it can be a risky situation to put all your eggs into someone else’s cushy basket. do you have any local-enough sober/in-recovery friends you could crash with if it turns out he’s looking for sexual favors or a virtual slave?

sometimes they go into a tiny little office so they can concentrate better, and it’s so much easier to hear those docs

fuckin incredible

his evil smirk reminds me of Weyoun from DS9

as much as the speech-to-text gets wrong on my phone, I can only imagine what it does with doctors’ notes.

one of my million previous jobs was in medical transcription, and it is so easy to misunderstand things even when you have a good grasp of specialty-specific terminology and basic anatomy.

they enunciate the shit they’re recording about your case about as well as they legibly write. you really have to get a feel for a doctor’s speaking style and common phrases to not turn in a bunch of errors.

But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers. Those experts said some of the invented text — known in the industry as hallucinations — can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments.

Edit: oh yeah, ✨ innovation ✨

While most developers assume that transcription tools misspell words or make other errors, engineers and researchers said they had never seen another AI-powered transcription tool hallucinate as much as Whisper.

Edit 2: it gets better and better

In an example they uncovered, a speaker said, “He, the boy, was going to, I’m not sure exactly, take the umbrella.”

But the transcription software added: “He took a big piece of a cross, a teeny, small piece … I’m sure he didn’t have a terror knife so he killed a number of people.”

A speaker in another recording described “two other girls and one lady.” Whisper invented extra commentary on race, adding “two other girls and one lady, um, which were Black.”

In a third transcription, Whisper invented a non-existent medication called “hyperactivated antibiotics.”

Edit 3: wonder if the Organ Procurement Organizations are going to try to use this to blame for the extremely fucked up shit that’s been happening

🥰 sounds adorable, I hope you keep that yodelling spirit forever ❤️

The people native to the mountain regions of the world are well-known for their joyous homosexuality while the despicable people of the flatlands’ heterosexuality is as boring and monotonous as their physical landscape

and that’s why we hillfolk are all bi

while I’m sorry about the misstep, the mental image of someone puttering around their home, surrendering to the occasional irrepressible urge to yodel is absolutely delightful

this is honestly truly incredible clickbait and I respect the hustle

who doesn’t instantly want to know more about such an inscrutable quote?! why was she talking about either subject (Kurt Cobain or GPS) at all, let alone together??

whoever decided to post that quote really knocked it out of the park with this one

from what I understand, this

parents who are so annoying that they are given this role to shut them up

is not a thing here, which might be because we’re in a pretty rural, pretty poor area, and there aren’t enough bored parents with enough disposable income

parents who are in industries big enough to have a plan to recruit from primary school

there are no big industries here anymore.

from primary school

this is actually secondary school – my son will graduate high school next spring

I actively read the newsletter every week and have never seen them ask for volunteers 🤷

where’s the lie

It’s much easier to lean to republicans and middle of the road voters because you wouldn’t have to offer much

our politics run on money in the US, and this is where the money is: “Nothing Will Fundamentally Change.”

hilarious bit, we should all do this

the title image is the beginning of the list

I asked my kid for what the options actually were when he told me how bummed out he was by them

once I saw them, I was similarly bummed. how terribly uninspiring.

we live near-ish to several nationally-respected universities, they could have had speakers about so much more interesting shit

guaranteed that the people who facilitate this thing every year are barely paid enough to give a fuck, I don’t hate them for not hunting down people from outside our county to inspire our kids. I hate capitalism for making the educational system be set up in such a way that the person in charge of this shit just takes whatever is easiest instead of trying to offer a range of options.

don’t worry, none of the nurses here wear masks

I found out all about it when my mom was in the ICU a couple years ago

the healthcare professionals here do not understand airborne pathogens, as far as I can tell

fr fr

like, there’s so much that is missing from this list, but we have Military plus Drone Pilot, like those are actually separate things

it’s just so bleak, the difference between what they’re telling kids now about their future versus what I was told in the late 90s is just wild. “learn to oppress, or else” seems to be the sum of it