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a robot walks in with pixelated kiss marks all over its display screen saying “you should see the other bot” so you go look and there’s just a pile of crushed metal and shattered plastic and torn wires
#I am half asleep and thus cannot be held responsible for my posting#inverse problem.txt#robophilia#at least it is to me lmao#anyway you’re welcome#don’t worry we can rebuild the other bot we have the technology
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Transferred everything over from my old computer to my new one and was able to delete stuff off my old one for storage and now I can finally update that computer for the first time in like three years
#i was a little unsure if I really needed 1 TB of storage#but at least now i won’t run into this problem again#hopefully#the last one only had 128GB so it’s quite the adjustment#and it came with a discounted Microsoft code cuz my school one is going to expire soon#so I have an extra 1 TB of storage on my one drive#life is gonna be a bit easier#at least technologically#just need to get myself a new phone#cuz this one likes to freeze up on me#i love apple products I just wish they weren’t so corrupt#capitalism sucks
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Finally got around to painting my Inquisitor, Shivana
#dragon age#dragon age inquisition#lavellan#shivana lavellan#my art#dragon age fanart#I think I’m finally happy with my digital art making skills#I need to post literally anything other than portraits I promise I can do more#but#at least I’m posting two things in the same month that’s progress#dai#she’s such a problem I love her#hopefully tumblr didn’t just destroy this#I don’t know how to technology help#:) this is fine#she’s a knight enchanter btw#da: inquisitor#da:i
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fourteen’s speech about the tardis outlasting civilization on an outcrop by the sea was a story from experience btw. their arrival in our universe was met with curiosity, greed, and violence- then they get wise. they preserve it. they build a city all around it- until who the doctor used to be was just a tiny little dot, surrounded by skyscrapers and monorails- but time passes and the city falls, it all gets swept away- and there’s the doctor….
#‘sometimes i wonder where the tardis goes’ i wonder if this foray into our universe was just supposed to be a fun trip for them#got a little uh…… complicated#at least they got some sick fucking technology out of it#doctor who#fourteenth doctor
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Lowkey, I think one of my favorite little things about Rescue Bots is how we get to learn a little more about Optimus when he shows up. Like, not war stuff or Orion Pax stuff, but just little things about Optimus.
One of his favorite Earth stories is The Little Engine That Could. Does he read in his spare time and if so, how did he find Little Engine?
He tells Heatwave that he has also been learning from humans. What has he learned? The phrase "Nothing much, double dutch." Who the fuck taught him that? My money's on Miko. Jack would not have the audacity to add that to Prime's vernacular.
He has a motherfuckin' rocket powered car carrier capable of hauling four bots. And since Team Prime had four four-wheelers on the team prior to Darkness Rising, you could reasonably assume that he has used it with Cliff, Bee, Bulk, and Ratch
Optimus knows what a pogo stick is. That isn't anything noteworthy, I just think it's funny.
#transformers#rescue bots#tfp#optimus prime#rescue bots is so funny in the context of tfp and the greater aligned continuity#dinosaurs are still alive and optimus could turn into one prior to getting blown up with the base#optimus and bumblebee have canonically traveled to the past and to an alternate timeline#mech spent so long trying to build their own transformer only for some semi immortal dickhead to do it on his own with relative ease#triple and *quadruple* changers are canon to the aligned continuity#bumblebee almost succumbed to an alien pathogen and optimus (and maybe ratchet) was the only one who knew#shrink ray technology is canon and it was never used on the decepticons#team prime probably thought they were the last of the autobots but optimus and bee knew at least *nine* other bots on earth#eight if you don't want to count servo#but why wouldn't you count him?#optimus has driven across the sea floor after dramatically declaring he doesn't need a boat#laserbeak canonically becomes an autobot at the end of rescue bots academy
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你係咪好悶呀，李神醫？(x)
#sorry period costumes + technology is always going to be at least a little amusing#mysterious lotus casebook cast#cheng yi#mysterious lotus casebook#li xiangyi#gif#ashton originals
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Determined to use her skills to fight inequality, South African computer scientist Raesetje Sefala set to work to build algorithms flagging poverty hotspots - developing datasets she hopes will help target aid, new housing, or clinics.
From crop analysis to medical diagnostics, artificial intelligence (AI) is already used in essential tasks worldwide, but Sefala and a growing number of fellow African developers are pioneering it to tackle their continent's particular challenges.
Local knowledge is vital for designing AI-driven solutions that work, Sefala said.
"If you don't have people with diverse experiences doing the research, it's easy to interpret the data in ways that will marginalise others," the 26-year old said from her home in Johannesburg.
Africa is the world's youngest and fastest-growing continent, and tech experts say young, home-grown AI developers have a vital role to play in designing applications to address local problems.
"For Africa to get out of poverty, it will take innovation and this can be revolutionary, because it's Africans doing things for Africa on their own," said Cina Lawson, Togo's minister of digital economy and transformation.
"We need to use cutting-edge solutions to our problems, because you don't solve problems in 2022 using methods of 20 years ago," Lawson told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a video interview from the West African country.
Digital rights groups warn about AI's use in surveillance and the risk of discrimination, but Sefala said it can also be used to "serve the people behind the data points". ...
'Delivering Health'
As COVID-19 spread around the world in early 2020, government officials in Togo realized urgent action was needed to support informal workers who account for about 80% of the country's workforce, Lawson said.
"If you decide that everybody stays home, it means that this particular person isn't going to eat that day, it's as simple as that," she said.
In 10 days, the government built a mobile payment platform - called Novissi - to distribute cash to the vulnerable.
The government paired up with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) think tank and the University of California, Berkeley, to build a poverty map of Togo using satellite imagery.
Using algorithms with the support of GiveDirectly, a nonprofit that uses AI to distribute cash transfers, the recipients earning less than $1.25 per day and living in the poorest districts were identified for a direct cash transfer.
"We texted them saying if you need financial help, please register," Lawson said, adding that beneficiaries' consent and data privacy had been prioritized.
The entire program reached 920,000 beneficiaries in need.
"Machine learning has the advantage of reaching so many people in a very short time and delivering help when people need it most," said Caroline Teti, a Kenya-based GiveDirectly director.
'Zero Representation'
Aiming to boost discussion about AI in Africa, computer scientists Benjamin Rosman and Ulrich Paquet co-founded the Deep Learning Indaba - a week-long gathering that started in South Africa - together with other colleagues in 2017.
"You used to get to the top AI conferences and there was zero representation from Africa, both in terms of papers and people, so we're all about finding cost effective ways to build a community," Paquet said in a video call.
In 2019, 27 smaller Indabas - called IndabaX - were rolled out across the continent, with some events hosting as many as 300 participants.
One of these offshoots was IndabaX Uganda, where founder Bruno Ssekiwere said participants shared information on using AI for social issues such as improving agriculture and treating malaria.
Another outcome from the South African Indaba was Masakhane - an organization that uses open-source, machine learning to translate African languages not typically found in online programs such as Google Translate.
On their site, the founders speak about the South African philosophy of "Ubuntu" - a term generally meaning "humanity" - as part of their organization's values.
"This philosophy calls for collaboration and participation and community," reads their site, a philosophy that Ssekiwere, Paquet, and Rosman said has now become the driving value for AI research in Africa.
Inclusion
Now that Sefala has built a dataset of South Africa's suburbs and townships, she plans to collaborate with domain experts and communities to refine it, deepen inequality research and improve the algorithms.
"Making datasets easily available opens the door for new mechanisms and techniques for policy-making around desegregation, housing, and access to economic opportunity," she said.
African AI leaders say building more complete datasets will also help tackle biases baked into algorithms.
"Imagine rolling out Novissi in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast ... then the algorithm will be trained with understanding poverty in West Africa," Lawson said.
"If there are ever ways to fight bias in tech, it's by increasing diverse datasets ... we need to contribute more," she said.
But contributing more will require increased funding for African projects and wider access to computer science education and technology in general, Sefala said.
Despite such obstacles, Lawson said "technology will be Africa's savior".
"Let's use what is cutting edge and apply it straight away or as a continent we will never get out of poverty," she said. "It's really as simple as that."
-via Good Good Good, February 16, 2022
#older news but still relevant and ongoing#africa#south africa#togo#uganda#covid#ai#artificial intelligence#pro ai#at least in some specific cases lol#the thing is that AI has TREMENDOUS potential to help humanity#particularly in medical tech and climate modeling#which is already starting to be realized#but companies keep pouring a ton of time and money into stealing from artists and shit instead#inequality#technology#good news#hope
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You know how people say that we already have pixal Nya Jay and sora being interested in mechs and technology or smth? That it’s like so many of them have the same hobbie or smth?
I kinda feel like Jay could be excluded from it. I KNOW I KNOW he was introduced as an inventor or smth, but ngl I feel like barley saw him construct or invent stuff through out the series? At least def not as much as Nya pixal or sora. Like Nya and pixal are the samurai x girlies and Nya was even a mechanic before and all that- they were doing much more. And then there’s sora who, yeah you get my point.
This isn’t hate to Jay, im just saying that hes really at least not at the same level as the others or THAT characterized as an inventor or tech guy. Sure he knows some stuff and is kind of interested, I do think naya and him bond over that. But he’s not really part of the group that’s always creating mechs and stuff.
Edit : ok I wanna mek sure ppl understand 😭 I understand that aspect of his character is kind of there, but I myself just feel like the writers didn’t show enough of that side of him which makes me less sure about how we also call him an inventor or tech and all. It’s a cool part of his character and I don’t think they should take that away, I just think they already DID take it away, making it kinda hard to group him with the other girls who have been shown to be much more prominent with that, uk?
#do you guys get what I mean?#it’s that at least we can count one person less as a mechanic or inventor or smth#it’s like#it doesn’t feel like we can REALLY group him up w the others uk?#or maybe I just have bad memory but I srs barley remember him doing much related to that or similar to what the three girls do#im not saying he doesn’t like technology or robotics or smth#ugh this is hard to explain 😭#do u get what im trying to say?#again this is no hate 😭😭#ninjago#ninjago dragons rising#lego ninjago#dragons rising#Ninjago Jay#Jay Ninjago#jay walker
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group of deranged morally ambiguous capitalists go camping (and go feral over condiments)
#susie and taranza get into dumb arguments a lot while magolor ends up playing middle man#nooo this has nothing to do with the intrinsic magic vs technology that their games exemplify with magolor being a perfect blend of both#susie threatens to turn everyone into a robot at least once a day#for the record i like my hotdogs plain and dry. im very basic i know#kirby series#susie haltmann#susanna patrya haltmann#susie kirby#taranza#magolor#veves ultra cool art
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I was just thinking about the Dog Bois dancing!!! I figured Machete would be a little awkward and embarrassed, but Vasco would be a patient and enthusiastic teacher
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#on the list of romantic couples activities that make me kind of sad if I actually stop to think about it for longer than three seconds#obviously dancing can't happen in public#the technology to record music doesn't exist yet so everything has to be played live in person#would they risk hiring a musician or a few if they did it behind closed doors at home#or is practicing dancing in silence the only option#an-autistic-with-personhood#answered#I reckon Vasco would be adept at least a handful of court dances I think that's a standard upper crust pastime#Machete would feel foolish about even trying but be quietly thankful about being included
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Give Danny a nemesis who’s just a dude with no ghost theme, they just saw that the town had a superhero now and they are ecstatic to live out their supervillain fantasy, they don’t care about all the spooky stuff, they just wanna kidnap the mayor with a disintegrator ray and demand ransom in the form of cartoonishly large jewels
#danny phantom#danny fenton#DP#love villains who are hilariously off theme#freakshow hates them and the feeling is mutual#I dare Vlad to try to get out of that situation without exposing his secret identity#at least with ghosts he can claim to have anti-ghost technology#good luck getting held over a tank of piranhas
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cute thing I have learned during this conference: a couple different players are working in the quantum computing space, and specifically working on encryption protection algorithms to defend against attacks---these algorithms are called "kyber" and "dilithium" respectively.
nerds.
#this is like a previous conference I attended where they discussed different merger&acquisition concepts#in terms of different courses of food. so there was the amuse-bouche the main course etc.#I remember that so well! a triumph of messaging really#.....also I know a lot more about technology than I thought I did. kind of impressed by myself#that I can at least keep up with discussions of encryption standards and interoperability/data cleansing etc.#no wonder the company has to secretly manipulate you
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imagining 15 year old alex turner nervously typing ‘julian casablancas shirtless’ into yahoo search on the family computer while his parents weren’t home
#and then his technologically inept arse has to struggle to figure out how to desperately clear the search history#this definitely happened at least once#even if it was ‘just out of curiousity’#alex turner#julian casablancas
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Fuck it! I don't care how stuck up it makes me sound. I have no beef with AI art as a tool or method, but I really don't like otherwise able-bodied and able-minded adults looking at me and other artists practicing our craft, which we train and hone over years, with disdain and act like we're greedy for wanting to be paid for our work, and then asserting that not only are we now obsolete, but they're JUST AS TALENTED as any artist because they can type 'Angel with large breasts in the style of George Rutko with well-drawn hands artstation' into dall-e and get legible results. I don't like it, and like any person who suddenly watches their peers' jobs being replaced by automation, it makes me upset and angry that this technology is being, or will be, used by capitalists to rob people of their livelihoods.
#spitblaze says things#long post#i should be ASLEEP#And this is FOR SURE NOT AS ARTICULATE AS ID LIKE#but im BAD AT ARTICULATING MYSELF#and WANT TO MAKE THE POINT THAT I AM NOW OPENLY DIRECTING MY EMOTIONS ABT THIS#towards THE PEOPLE WHO USE THIS TECHNOLOGY WITH BAD INTENTIONS#or if not BAD at least KINDA SHITTY or ANNOYING#idk#im sure ill wake up to being dogpiled with people calling me a stuck up artist#i dont care#i just dont like seeing people getting mad at artists for working their asses off and wanting compensation for what they do#all of us worked for this
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I think everyone needs a Nemona in their life
#pokemon sv#this girl can't read tags. shame on you yui#also mochi mayhem made me love nemona by at least 80% more 🥰#we have yet to reach the technology requirement for this level of shit
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[Image description: 10 stills from the anime "Natsume's Book of Friends" featuring the character Natori Shuuichi with tumblr text posts edited in.
Image 1: Natori is waving and smiling in front of a background of sparkles and roses. The text post is by tumblr user YandereChild-Archive and reads "me, introducing myself: it is i, your local asshole"
Image 2: Natori, Hiiragi, Natsume, and Nyanko-sensei are standing in the wreckage of Natori's spare room after an exorcism. Text post by RoseCrystal reads "should i get my life together or should i just keep being sexy and chaotic"
Image 3: Close-up of Natori's smirking face in profile. Text post by ShirleyTemplar-Blog reads "I may seem like an asshole / but deep down I'm a good person / and even deeper down I'm a bigger asshole"
Image 4: At an udon restaurant, Natori is asking the server if she's seen or heard of anything weird in the area lately. He's posed casually with his chin resting in his hand and has sparkles around him. Text post by ManyWinged reads "*walks into an antique store* i'd like to see your most evil items, please"
Image 5: After a sleepless night, Natori is smiling and posing with sparkles surrounding him. Natsume, sensei, and Hiiragi look on, unimpressed. Text post by jumex reads "Making myself hotter. To cope"
Image 6: Natori is smiling at Natsume, his hand on Natsume's shoulder. Text post by avantegarda reads "I may be an absolute disaster of an adult but when someone younger than me asks for advice I turn into a Wise Professor"
Image 7: Teenage Natori is sitting in his family's storeroom at night, reading. Text post by FuckOffStraightPeople-Blog reads "occupation: the family disappointment"
Image 8: Teenage Natori glares at an offscreen Matoba. Text post reads "when people explain things to me i see red. if i wanted to understand iw ould have understood. leave me alone ."
Image 9: Wearing a bucket hat in an attempt to go incognito, Natori leans against a huge advertisement for his album "Unloved", half of which is a photo of his face. Text post by BPDSuperBoy reads "the lengths i would go to to both get attention and avoid it...astounding"
Image 10: On a poster for one of his movies, a sultry Natori smirks at the viewer, his hand poised to comb through his hair. The lizard youkai is visible on his cheek. Text post by semiotextiana reads "im so sexy and fun and fucking doomed"
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BONUS: live teen reaction!
[ID: Watched by a crowd of people, an embarrassed Natsume pushes Natori in front of him. Natori looks serene and is surrounded by a purple cloud of sparkles. Text post by LauraMercierBodyScrub reads "cause of death: second hand embarrassment" /end ID]
sorry for being obsessed with this three-alter-egos-in-a-trenchcoat 20-something big bother figure disaster-ass man. as if it's my fault 🙄
natsuyuu characters as text posts 1/?
#sorry for thinking about this pathetic loser day and night. as if i had a choice in the matter!!!!!#natsume's book of friends#natsume yuujinchou#natsuyuu characters as#text posts#natori shuuichi#links#my posts#at LEAST three alter egos in a trenchcoat. only three we can be confident of...though scientists have conjectured the existence#of up to seven so far...with the possibility of finding more every day...#it's just very hard to isolate them in the lab. we're trying but we're not there yet. we just don't have the technology#every time we think we've stripped away all alter egos & identified the One True Self it turns out to be just another alter ego#don't tell the grant review committee but i'm beginning to think there's no such thing as a one true self lads :/
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