unopenablebox

gonna get my hair dyed red apparently

dasdeath:

medusabraids:

lordparkjimin:

bop of the century

people weren’t lying when they said it was 20gayteen

this Tongue by MNEK just so ya’ll know and can go listen to all of his stuff cause it’s all amazing.

@priorwaltering

But Look, Sirs; The Automaton Can Feel Emotions, Just Like A Real Man–

mementomoriiv:

Angie Wang – The Pony Express Delivers Its Apologies

jesus fucking christ i don’t understand neuroscience at all

i have to read a paper that’s basically about comparing how monkeys’ neurons fire/are connected when they do a basic matching/pattern-recognition task, versus a neural network trained to do the same thing, and they’re making some kind of conclusion based on–– well, i think they’re arguing that their neural network is a good model for the actual brains, and then based on that saying they can make a bunch of extended other predictions now using their neural network as a “good”/“accurate” model. which, yes, is just how all data-based model-building works. i have no idea what those conclusions are, but uh––they made them, maybe!

see, i can very roughly look at a figure like this

and say, ok, the top is their biological data, the bottom is the model, and they’re arguing that the outcomes are similar enough that the model is doing a good job and can be studied on its own bc it’s potentially biologically relevant. i don’t know what any of these features mean (the x axis is milliseconds and the y axis is Hz, if you’re curious) or what it would look like for them to be disqualifyingly dissimilar, but sure. those look like they’re doing the same thing, why not.

but then they move into talking about the model on its own and like

apparently these graphs are of the “dynamical landscape” of neural trajectories.

my feeling on this: ‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽

i think of myself as being– ok, no, i was going to say “small” or something just to set up the mild experience of surprise but that’s not true. i think of myself as a collection of extended oscillating polygons.

stats:

heartsfemme:

heartsfemme:

sometimes i forget u cant say certain things to straight people? this girl just asked me how i was and without thinking i replied “oh u know, im fergalicious baby!” and she was like “huh ???? what do mean ur fergalicious lol hahaha” and this is why straight people exhaust me

someone’s not feelin very fergalicious

rgr-pop:

Remember that boycotting (or not crossing picket lines, including symbolic ones) is not about ethical consumption. It’s not about ethics at all, and it’s not about performing purity. It’s an organized action toward a material goal. Crossing a picket line can be thought of as working against the material goals of a strike.

If for whatever reason you can’t participate in a boycott in solidarity with strikers, it’s good practice not to make a lot of posts justifying your right to cross a picket line, or how you don’t believe in strikes for ethical reasons, or you don’t care, or whatever. At best, it shows that you are ignorant about what boycotts are and the issues at hand, at worst, you are just like… doing unpaid labor for Amazon. At worst you are doing harm to workers. And literally everyone has heard it before. If you want to end performative internet politics, start with you! 😉

Happy strike, everyone!

fungusqueen:

Pumpkin Nook is such a gem