“I would assume the place was haunted and just leave XD” so you’d go back to your employer and say “sorry boss, I abandoned your important deal with the rich lord after an expensive week of traveling you paid for, for my first ever work trip that you trusted me with, but the locals said his house has bad vibes” Is that what you’d do
favorite thing ab chatgpt is that if it doesn’t know something it’ll just start fucking lying. like blatantly fucking lying.
my dad teaches english classes and he just got a final paper with this sentence: “In terms of style, both poets are known for their use of imagery, but O'Hara's tends to be more straightforward and concrete, while Stevens' is often more abstract and metaphorical — for example, in O'Hara's poem "The French / Window," he writes: "A cat walks along the garden wall / and the tree waves its branches / The French / windows are blah" (lines 1-4).”
the thing about “The French / Window” is that it is not a poem that exists. at all. like, it was literally just written by chatgpt then inexplicably named as a famous frank o’hara poem. and it’s so. fucking. funny. sooo basically heads up for finals season — those of you who use chatgpt, be warned, because you will quite literally be citing nonexistent texts and your professors will show it to their daughters and together they will laugh at you endlessly and you will deserve it
the GPU is a tiny and simple minded wizard who can cast one spell very fast: linear algebra
longtime US donor, trying and failing not to spend ALL day responding to ppl's comments on here so I'm writing up some thoughts in a reblog
giving blood if you are able is always important but over the years of the pandemic it's gotten so much more important, our blood reserves have plummeted, I recently read my local blood services was only able to fill one in three hospital orders for needed blood.
the first question on the questionnaire in the US is "Are you feeling well and healthy today?" so if you are in poor health, if you have a chronic condition or you just feel shitty because you didn't get enough sleep, you got a bit of a cold coming on, whatever, don't feel bad about not donating.
If you have a surgery scheduled in the next month, even if you feel great, don't donate; save your blood reserves for your own healing.
If you are terrified of needles and faint when you have to give a sample at the lab, don't donate, and don't feel bad about not donating.
But if you want to donate and have been turned away in the past, here's a few things to know:
--the amount of iron they test for is slightly higher than normal/average for healthy AFAB people. If you have been told you were just under or borderline, take an iron supplement a couple days before you donate. Heck, they recommend regular donors take an iron supplement regularly anyway.
--because there's such a desperate need for blood, things that used to life or year long deferrals are now much shorter. The deferral for using intravenous drugs not prescribed by a doctor is 3 months (ie if it's been 3 months since you've done that, you can donate blood). The deferral for piercings is 3 months. The deferral for tattoos, in unregulated states, is 3 months. (In many states tattoo parlors are legally regulated/licensed and there is no deferral for tattoos.) The deferral for sex with men who have sex with men is 3 months (and yes it's bullshit but it's no longer *life.*)
--the list of drugs that prevent blood donation is actually pretty short. if you're worried about psych meds like antidepressants, mood stabilizers or ADHD meds, they're not in there. In the US they ask you to read the list and affirm you don't take those, you don't have to reveal any other drugs you take for any reason--if you're well and healthy, it doesn't matter what you take to be well and healthy.
--Major blood donor services let you do the questionnaire ahead of time online as a "rapid pass" or "express pass" or something. So you can see if you meet all the criteria before you physically go to a blood drive or donation center. But also, know that not all the questions are disqualifiers. For instance if you've had a vaccine recently, they will want to doublecheck which ones--most of the common ones you have as an adult like flu, TDAP, covid RNA, do not defer you even short term! There's a couple like MMR and chicken pox that use attenuated live virus, that you have to hold 2-4 weeks for, that's why the question is in there. If there's a question on the questionnaire you're not sure about, you can call the blood donation agency's 800 number to find out if it's worth going in that day.
--Don't know where to donate? There's two major blood collection services in the US, Red Cross and Vitalant (formerly UBS). Both sites have a place right up front to put in your zip code and find drives and donor centers near you.
--Also both are currently advertising gift cards and raffles for donors, because the need for blood is that high. Want a $10 gift card for doing a good deed? Donate blood.
Reblog to trans someone's gender at random
You must now spin the Gender-Wheel ™
My gender wheel won't stop spinning.
Gender wheel is a fidget spinner.
So it turns out that ChatGPT not only uses a ton shit of energy, but also a ton shit of water. This is according to a new study by a group of researchers from the University of Colorado Riverside and the University of Texas Arlington, Futurism reports.
Which sounds INSANE but also makes sense when you think of it. You know what happens to, for example, your computer when it’s doing a LOT of work and processing. You gotta cool those machines.
And what’s worrying about this is that water shortages are already an issue almost everywhere, and over this summer, and the next summers, will become more and more of a problem with the rising temperatures all over the world. So it’s important to have this in mind and share the info. Big part of how we ended up where we are with the climate crisis is that for a long time politicians KNEW about the science, but the large public didn’t have all the facts. We didn’t have access to it. KNOWING about things and sharing that info can be a real game-changer. Because then we know up to what point we, as individuals, can have effective actions in our daily lives and what we need to be asking our legislators for.
And with all the issues AI can pose, I think this is such an important argument to add to the conversation.






