Lilac Ounce (לילַך אונץ)

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Mainstream journalists lack pattern recognition and object permanence because their job is not to report patterns but to uphold the power structure that allows their Epstein-adjacent billionaire owners to not only exist but thrive.

The reviews searched over 12,000 references. They screened 547 full-text papers for inclusion. They included 17. That's a 96.9% exclusion rate at full text. 530 studies were relevant enough to survive initial screening, then rejected by the review criteria. 6/10 reviews found 0 included studies.

This reminds me of the "automatic wheelchair" I saw someone using at the Miami airport last week. Here's the upbeat article describing these travesties:

www.fastcompany.com/91071380/ame...

Kernighan's "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." applies to editing.

LLM's provide *infinite* quantities of dogshit you'd need to manually sift through.

bsky.app/profile/pook...

It turns out to be hard to accept that the guy trying desperately to cram orphans into an orphan crushing machine, really truly isn't trying and failing at achieving a totally different goal.

Even if he's spent his entire career loudly and repeatedly declaring that crushing orphans is his goal.

RFK's goal is to kill children, specifically sick children.

If you assumed that was *not* his goal, you'd think that he was failing at an entirely, completely different goal: not killing children.

Also NO skill points in reading comprehension

A post from Mike LaPorte, a head of talent acquisition on LinkedIn: "I owe job seekers an apology. Not for anything I did intentionally. But for what the industry I've spent my career in has normalized. We normalized ghosting candidates after interviews. Just never responding. Like the 3 hours they spent preparing and the PTO they burned to come in didn't matter. We normalized job descriptions that are 40% aspirational fiction. Listing 15 "required" qualifications when we'd happily hire someone with 8 of them. We normalized 6 round interview processes for mid level roles. Panel interviews where half the people in the room haven't read the resume. We normalized asking candidates to show all their cards, current comp, competing offers, career goals, while giving them almost nothing in return. We normalized treating candidates like a pipeline metric instead of people making one of the most consequential decisions of their lives. I'm not saying every recruiter does this. I know a lot of great ones who fight these patterns every day. But as an industry we've built a system that asks candidates to invest enormous time, energy, and emotional labor into a process that gives them almost nothing back unless they get the offer. That's broken. And a lot of it has nothing to do with technology. It's choices we stopped questioning. But I do think we can build better systems and smarter tools to start fixing it. What would you change first? Genuinely asking."

Then let us begin normalizing the acknowledgment and understanding of this grim reality so many have found themselves ensnared in. A large number simply don't know because they're not currently affected by it. The existence of this post alone is a wonderful beginning move.

If KOSA passes it will fundamentally change how we are able to interact and use the Internet.

KOSA must not pass.

I know calling reps is very nerve racking. You're not sure what's the right thing to say, and tbh having a script thrown at me makes things just as nerve racking.

I called today, and I figured I'd write up a transcript of how my call went down. Hopefully it helps demystify the process

I've done a lot of lobbying and a lot of activism. It seems stupid, it seems pointless, it seems ineffectual, but phone calls are one of the few things that legislative offices really pay attention to as a barometer for public opinion.

Call early and call often.

And a formless, vast uprising wouldn't fare any better. I remember "Among The Hidden." The mass protest where the government shoots all the illegal third children, and it doesn't even make the news.

I just watched the Folding Ideas about those guys who buy for the chance to bankrupt the U.S. economy and become short-sell millionaires, the comments section was great. "As if the government wouldn't declare those shares invalid. Fake. They want to be gamblers but forget the house always wins."

A star drawn in a naïve, friendly style in front of a background of wavy pastel stripes of sky blue, pink, purple and green. The star has rosy cheeks, is smiling, and has two frogs sitting on its arms. A caption reads “Turns out, I was never broken, I just hadn’t met my people yet”

I was thinking along these lines today, about how I never fit in at school or as a teenager and how I was always a target and I assumed that was my fault and actually, no.

I'm an art professor I made an art

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Nouveau strip ! "Bilingue". Une histoire tragique sur fond de fossé linguistique.
À lire sur le blog: www.bouletcorp.com/rogatons/202...
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Well... A while back my computer exploded, and my new friend offered me an old PC she wasn't using. Only problem is, that PC isn't working now either :/

Please help. I'm so sick of not having a keyboard...

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Xanatos plan foiled once again by human error

Two workplace horrors that wi haunt me until I die:

-I had an employee take in monopoly coins instead of actual change and they didn't notice.

-I also had an employee take a $50 with Santa Claus on it instead of Grant. They too didn't notice, and worse, tried to argue that it was a common mistake.

My boss once found a 1980s Hungarian coin in an area I'd just swept. Fell out of a pocket, maybe?

I have a 1923 dollar coin for a good luck charm that a little kid insisted on giving me as I busked, it was HER charm. I'm trying to make a wire cage to make it a necklace.

all brits born before the 1970s remember their da' giving them 2 Carthaginian coins to pop down t' shoppe for spanks and bibs (a popular and nationally beloved treat)

Has anyone considered that the person using the 2000 yr old coin might have been a newly arrived time traveler?

Head In The McClouds by LiimLsan Did a Bluesky meme.. . https://bsky.app/profile/anxiousounce.bsky.social/post/3mgo6nf6v7c2p. . Panel from "Understanding Comics.&qu ...

www.furaffinity.net/view/64272691/ good enough for gallery scraps

Two crow quill and ink sketches, à la Kley. A cartoony snow leopard. Housecat eyes, bigger neck. A more realistic snow leopard, striding down a hill, studied from a photograph.

A blind redraw, exaggerated to the opposite effect. The limbs are still long. Now the eyes are tiny and the chin is huge. A study from a photograph of a snow leopard with more realistic proportions exaggerated in the other direction, more Ralph Wiggum than Tai Lung. Anybody remember Scandinavia and the World? "One Special Lion."

The Shrimp Method works on snow leopards too, it turns out. Every few months I need to practice my crow quill skills, or I forget how to be fluid with them.

Wikipedia screenshot about Cattle Guards - apparently they're called Donkeykillers in Brazil and Venezuela.

An ink and phone-editor doodle of Bray from Richard Roberts' "Wild Children," a child with donkey hooves and ears, backing away terrified from a cattle guard.

*Rachel Weiss in Eragon voice*
"This road is a donkeykiller."

It is such a bonkers challenge trying to emulate Bob Lappan lettering, but I was really jazzed to try.

This was way more fun than I expected.

this might be the last thing u guys see of mine in a while im back on that art school grind oTL