1. (half rant half story)

    I'm a physicist. I work for a company that helps develop car parts. Essentially, car companies come to us with ideas on what they want from a part or material, and we make/test the idea or help them make/test it. Usually this means talking to other scientists and engineers and experts and it's all fine. Sometimes this means talking to businesspeople and board execs and I hate them

    A bit ago when AI was really taking off in the zeitgeist I went to a meeting to talk about some tweaks Car Company A wanted to make to their hydraulics- specifically the master cylinder, but it doesn't super matter. I thought I'd be talking to their engineers - it ends up being just me, their head supervisor (who was not a scientist/engineer) and one of their executives from a different area (also not a scientist/engineer). I'm the only one in the room who actually knows how a car works, and also the lowest-level employee, and also aware that these people will give feedback to my boss based on how I 'represent the company ' whilst I'm here.

    I start to explain my way through how I can make some of the changes they want - trying to do so in a way they'll understand - when Head Supervisor cuts me off and starts talking about AI. I'm like "oh well AI is often integrated into the software for a car but we're talking hardware right now, so that's not something we really ca-"

    "Can you add artificial intelligence to the hydraulics?"

    "..sorry, what was that?"

    "Can you add AI to the hydraulics system?"

    can i fucking what mate "Sir, I'm sorry, I'm a little confused - what do you mean by adding AI to the hydraulics?"

    "I just thought this stuff could run smoother if you added AI to it. Most things do"

    The part of the car that moves when you push the acceleration pedal is metal and liquid my dude what are you talking about "You want me to .add AI...to the pistons? To the master cylinder?"

    "Yeah exactly, if you add AI to the bit that makes the pistons work, it should work better, right?"

    IT'S METAL PIPES it's metal pipes it's metal pipes "Sir, there isn't any software in that part of the car"

    "I know, but it's artificial intelligence, I'm sure there's a way to add it"

    im exploding you with my mind you cannot seriously be asking me to add AI to a section of car that has as much fucking code attached to it as a SOCK what do you MEAN. The most complicated part of this thing is a SPRING you can't be serious

    He was seriously asking. I've met my fair share of idiots but I was sure he wasn't genuinely seriously asking that I add AI directly to a piston system, but he was. And not even in the like "oh if we implement a way for AI to control that part" kind of way, he just vaguely thought that AI would "make it better" WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEANNNNN I HAD TO SPEND 20 MINUTES OF MY HARD EARNED LIFE EXPLAINING THAT NEITHER I NOR ANYONE ELSE CAN ADD AI TO A GOD DAMNED FUCKING PISTON. "CAN YOU ADD AI TO THE HYDRAULICS" NO BUT EVEN WITHOUT IT THAT METAL PIPE IS MORE INTELLIGENT THAN YOU

    fuck-customers:

    Posted by admin Rodney.

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  2. inthefallofasparrow:

    tenderanarchist:

    tenderanarchist:

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    These are so fun to make

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    @thedisablednaturalist @fagtabulous

    Ask and you shall receive!

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  3. ambivalens999:

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    The Marquis of Georgette Heyer’s Devil’s Cub (1932) is monstrous, fascinating, and devilishly witty in equal measures, and I am–in a word–obsessed.

    1930s historical romance? I’m a newly converted fan :o

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  4. pardalote:

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    Finished damp stretching these four littlies.

    I’m happy with the direction this new work is taking me. More ideas whirling, new canvas in the frame ready to stitch!

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  5. raisedbythetv89:

    Kristen is literally describing how she used to make peanut butter, whipped cream, blueberry bowls and the way Jason is looking at her while she does is making me psychotic

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    GIVE THEM ALL PLUS MAC BACK TO ME YOU COWARDS😭 AND STOP WITH ALL THE NOIR GARBAGE ROBERT.

    Veronica Mars should be bordering camp at all times you made the new sheriff DAN LAMB aka Don Lamb’s “evil brother” that is RIDICULOUS and Weevil says to Chardo “You’re out. Out of the club…. out of my life” the most cartoonish line you could ever have a gang member utter 😭

    Basically just start season 5 with Veronica waking up from the bad dream that was season 4 and try again and stick to season 1 vibes please and thank you because I need them all back together and I need Jason and us to have Logan back 😭

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  6. sp1c3-r4ck-synd1c4t3:

    How close have you gotten to a dead person

    Saw one in another room

    Saw one in the same room

    Touched one

    Seen a skeleton (or individual bones) in another room

    Seen a skeleton (or individual bones) in the same room

    Touched a skeleton (or individual bones)

    Death is a foreign concept (None of the above)

    What the fuck??? (see results)

    See Results

    Very curious if this is a common experience (only answer skeleton if the first 3 don’t apply)

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  7. mosylufanfic:

    Thank you! I think (hope?) that the last chapter will satisfy.

    High school AUs are a particularly fondness of mine, since I’m a children’s librarian and read a lot of YA IRL. Ditto for college AUs since it’s a time of life where there’s so much figuring-out to do. I think when it comes to modern AUs I often gravitate toward very everyday settings and plots, because the movie is so focused on big fate-of-the-galaxy, do or die (do AND die? :((((( ) type action.

    I also love AUs that are set in a highly specific world or profession. Here are some of my faves:

    @luciechat’s medieval France AU: un feu pareil au mien

    Set in the world of race car driving: never had a shotgun (shot in the dark) by ev0lution

    Look I don’t *know* that @rifle-yes wrote from personal experience with her assassin AU, buuuuuuuut: The Devil You Know

    And if you want more fic recommendations (I always have them!): the fic recs on my blog.

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  8. katy-l-wood:

    memewhore:

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    This one really does just gain momentum with every new word, huh?

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  9. youareiron-andyouarestrong:

    anhyatt9: ❤️ RebelCaptain, please?

    ❤️ first kiss / realization

    Not that anyone would ever ask Jyn, but believe it or not, she really doesn’t want her first kiss with Cassian to be for the sake of a cover.

    Again, not that the unfeeling galaxy gives a single flying kriff about what she wants, but if you were to ask her (under duress, at knifepoint, and possibly under threat of torture, and potentially not even then), Jyn would say that she would sort of like any kind of kiss with Cassian to be…oh hell, meaningful? Maybe? Something that she could be sure they both want?

    But it’s Cassian we’re talking about here, the only man in the galaxy who will offer to lead a potential suicide mission before admitting what he wants. But even after Scarif, he’s been…well, he’s a been a constant, steady, watchful presence by her side. Standing up for before Alliance High Command, recommending her to Intelligence. Even getting her situated with the quartermasters. He wouldn’t do those things for just anybody, right? …Right?

    Unfortunately, short of just asking him, outright (who does she look like to you, Organa? Get out of it), Jyn isn’t going to say anything. If Cassian–if Cassian wanted her that way, she would know. He would say something.

    Wouldn’t he?

    But unfortunately, she doesn’t have time to think about that now. Because the galaxy is vast and unfeeling and doesn’t care one parsec about that she wants, she needs to kiss Cassian. For the sake of the cover.

    Admittedly, circumstances could be worse. It could be some sick, twisted bastard trying to get them to “prove” something and getting off on it (which, gross, no thank you), or in some fancy party full of Imps, leering at them. Instead it’s a smiling old granny, who spoke to Cassian in Kenari, and Cassian is absolute lothcat grass for old ladies and grandmothers, regardless of species, for some reason. They all just think he’s adorable, with his shy smile and slightly sticking out ears, and his earnest eyes and the little dimple that appears when he’s trying to be charming, not that he has to try very hard–stay on topic, Jyn.

    But he’s referred to her during this cover as my wife, the only slightest bit of wonder in his voice every time he says it, so the old granny running this stall that might be a cover for a fence that the Alliance can work worth, teased him about giving his wife such pretty roses in her cheeks by kissing. Cassian had laughed it off, wrapping his arm around Jyn’s waist, smiling, and Jyn had seen that speculative look in the older woman’s eyes, and she’s never been one to back down from a dare. So when Cassian turns back to her, still smiling a little, Jyn smiles back at him, rises on her toes and–

    Kisses him, in front of the entire market, the Force and everyone.

    Cassian’s mouth is soft under hers, his lips slack with surprise just for a moment. Then he recovers, returning the kiss with ardor, but somehow just keeping light enough so that it’s not completely inappropriate for being out in public. Just a besotted married couple, indulging in a public moment of affection. Jyn wants to sink into this moment and never, ever come out of it.

    She doesn’t, though. She can’t. She doesn’t know if he wants it, or this, or her, or if it’s just for the sake of the cover to him, but even if it is, Jyn will take this moment with both hands and cram it in her mouth, her pockets, clutch it to her heart like the greedy, striving thief she is. So she steals a few more kisses, and then one more, sinking back down on to her heels. Cassian chases after her mouth seemingly unthinkingly, before the amused cackle of the old granny alerts them both–they still have an audience. So he stops, looking at her with a question in his eyes only Jyn knows the answer to. She stares up at him, hoping against hope (that wild, reckless thing) that she can give him a proper answer.

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  10. unicorn-of-mischief:

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    In position.

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