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what if we're just getting it all wrong and shipcourse is actually a free shipping vs paid shipping thing
Which side are you fighting for?
#personally I'm pro free shipping and pro stealing#funny poll#shipcourse#shipping discourse#ship discourse#proship#proship memes#proship please interact#proship safe#antis can interact I guess#antiship safe#<- is that a tag???#poll#anti harassment#profiction#ship and let ship#free shipping#paid shipping#pro stealing#anti capitalism
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"and Helaena, my sweet girl"
Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture
And save it from the funny tricks of time
(requested by @lawolfe)
#click for better quality#turn up your brightness#in the queen dowagers memories they dance and they laugh#under the cover the night before the dreams could steal them away#blood of her blood and blood of the dragon#her only daughter#her sweet girl💔#helaena targaryen#alicent hightower#team green#pro team green#hotd fanart#asoiaf#f&b#i love drawing toddlers theyre so cute💕
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"ANTI AANG TAKES" BINGO CARD + Fanfic ver
Well. The ultimate "Anti aang" Takes on a bingo card, go to the tag, see how much can be crossed out
Here's a fanfic version, though I don't have much experience in that section -
Yeahh...
#pro aang#aang defense squad#aang#aang meta#atla#avatar the last airbender#this shit is exhausting#Its funny asf tho#How is this even the same person?#Aang is not fucking vanilla he literally steals n shit he a menace#they can never make me hate you#Dont know what else to tag#anti zutara#anti zutara fandom#pro kataang#kataang
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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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No bc wtf is the IC's problem, treating Lucien and Eris the way they do? They've literally done nothing wrong. I think they're just threatened by that Vanserra rizz.
#they know#that if they tried#they'd steal their girls so fast#and they're terrified#anti rhysand#anti cassian#anti azriel#anti feysand#anti nessian#anti e/riel#feycien#lucnes#elucien#pro elucien#neris#anti inner circle#vanserra supremacy#vanzaddies#high lord eris#high lord lucien#autumn court males have fire in their veins and f*ck like it too
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Okay, I’m tired. They want to steal this from us too 😭
Guilty as Sin is an ELRIEL song. Why? Because it’s literally about wanting someone you shouldn’t want and fantasising about them!
No other ship has that, c’mon let’s stop the delusions because it’s getting embarrassing.
#elriel#pro elriel#they want to steal everything#ofc they want to because they have no tropes basically#sorry that your ship is boring
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Parallel play with your f/o.
Maybe you're both scrolling social media, and showing each other your favorite posts as your scroll by. If you're on the same social media, maybe you sometimes show each other posts only to realize you're showing the other a post from their own account. (Whoops!)
Maybe you're both playing your own games, peeking over at the other's game now and again or showing off an achievement and cheering each other on.
Maybe you're both working on your own hobbies or crafts, admiring each other's work, and pausing your own work to give the other a helping hand as needed.
Maybe it's a mix of things! One of you watches the other play a game while working on a craft. Or one of you shows the other memes on social media relating to what the other is doing.
Or hell, maybe you're both just quietly working on your own things, not needing to say anything as you work and enjoy yourself in the quiet!
Either way, you don't have to be doing the exact same thing to enjoy each other's company!! Your f/o just loves being around you and getting quality time together, and they know you do too! You can share your activities or just work side by side, all that matters is you're together.
Stolen from another anti🐇💕 I'm a bunny thief
#proship#proship safe#proshippers#proship positivity#proshipping#anti anti#ship and let ship#proshippers please interact#pro selfship#pro shipping#pro fiction#pro ship#proshipper#proselfship#proship selfship#🐇💕#sweet lady steals
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Imagine Elain talking to Helion in the Night Court and Lucien talking to his mom in Autumn (post Beron).
They have seperately seeked advice from the only people they know who have broken their bond because they know they need to resolve their own soon.
Helion: It has been centuries since we broke it, but I can still feel it...feel her...
LOA: I thought it would make it easier, but I still long for him everyday...
Lucien feels the lightest tug on the bond, and he just knows what it means. He winnows straight to the Night Court and Elain is waiting for him outside the River House. The second they see each other, they run towards each other, in desperation. Elain flings herself into his arms and they kiss each other until they're breathless.
They're done fighting it ❤️
#We need dramatic running!#Elucien drabble#If you're inspired to write more on this then please steal it!#elucien#pro elucien#pro elain archeron#pro lucien vanserra#acotar theory
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For the last time, fiction may affect reality, but reading twincest doesn't make people pro-consang, I do that.
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i believe a while back you mentioned that certain trees benefit from being cut but i cannot find the post? could you elaborate on that bc im Fascinated (curious eyes emoji)
That's coppicing! Funny you mention it actually, the next biome research post I'm gonna make (in the style of the moorland one) is British forests. It's not only good for an individual tree, coppiced woodland is like moorland in that it's an anthropogenic area that becomes extremely important for several animals. Butterflies, bluebells, nightjars...
But I'm getting ahead of myself. To coppice a tree, you cut it down to its stem, and then allow it to sprout back for a number of years. The length of time depends on the species and purpose you want the wood for. You can make perfect, straight poles for tools, beams for construction, bundles for firewood...
A coppiced tree does not die of old age. They can live forever, and produce wood for GENERATIONS. No need to clean-cut and devastate a woodland!
What's good about coppiced woodland is that it leaves the canopy clear. Clear canopy = sexy, sexy understorey. Lots of sunlight comes through which allows the growth of low-laying plants and berry bushes, lots of places for animals to eat and hide.
Downside tho is that if you don't come back and manage your beautifully coppiced grove, you will end up with a thick canopy of trees all the same age, blocking out the sun. That's bad. You're gonna see a recurring theme in all of this research that a TON of biomes in the UK REQUIRE human management and have really been suffering without proper stewardship.
Basically, coppicing without ongoing human management just results in a plantation (derogatory) with extra steps.
Lake cats did a lot more coppicing than modern Clan cats. Modern Clan cats don't really have the tools to cut hard trees like beech and hornbeam; they can only manage softer, thinner ones like birch and alder with their claws and stone tools. It's a lost art.
#Lake cats were probably not as 'Untouched By Man' as it seems#Those furry little bastards were nabbing things. Especially metal things.#This blog is pro-stealing from Victorians though#I think we should do more of it#Oh no. Wesleydale has dropped his beautiful iron axe and a cat carried it off. Wear arsenic underwear about it maybe?#Go buy some tulips ugly!!#Coppicing
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#drilla moloney#dan moloney#daniel moloney#war dogs#bullet club war dogs#new japan pro wrestling#njpw#please dont repost#dont steal
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Sometimes reading fics where the characters just break into speeches that are just paragraphs of pro-Jedi meta feel like they're kind-of over the top and cringy, but then I manage to stumble on a fic where Luke Skywalker is assuring Din Djarin that HIS Jedi will of course not be stealing children from their families or enforcing that non-attachment bullshit and I realize those fics where characters break into pro-Jedi meta speeches are still necessary.
#star wars#pro-jedi#jedi#i'm not even HERE for luke skywalker#this fic ain't about him#stop trapping me in a fic about something completely different and then ambushing me with this stupid assfuckery#ugh#pro-jedi order#attachment ≠ love#jedi don't steal babies#i hate it here sometimes
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Is genuinally shockig that I never found an animatic or an edit using Rät by Penelope Scott to represent Peter and Tony's relationship in the MCU.
#elon musk was literally the inspo for MCU Tony#this is just a fact#and while mcu peter will never truly be a working class hero because the mcu has a fucked up neoliberal pro military stance on everything#a peter whose arc was becoming the working class hero he is in the comics would need to be disilusioned for the old heros he idollized#specially tony#and he has a lot of reasons#including discovering what the Civil War was actually about or the fact Misterio just confirms Tony steals people's creations#anti mcu#anti tony stark#peter parker#tony stark#tony and peter#rät#penelope scott
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Pic for the writing 🤩
He’d expected so form of humiliation from the Night Court. Had known that his role would be played perfectly as it ever was. But he did not know that the raven that flew with the magpies and pigeons still held her talons.
She’d looked more like a wraith with that black dress of ribbons, oh how little he had known before she was curtsying to him with the grace of a cat, offering to take this dance instead of her High Lady.
He noted the raised brow as she waited for his acceptance, knowing it would be a yes, as if she were to have the foresight and not her younger sister. With his own grace he offered his hand, leaning down to kiss the one she put atop it, maintaining eye contact as his lips grazed over each finger in deft light kisses that were unseen from the onlookers.
Soon they were brought up in the sway of the music and he watched as her dress transformed into the iridescent colors that gilded the feathers that could come out of her arms with one too fast twirl with the way the ribbons practically turned to the very feathers he hypothesized she had hidden somewhere.
“How does the Night Court still fair My Lady Nesta?” He asked, perhaps hoping for an upper hand that Rhysand wouldn’t so easily give him. Or perhaps? No, he wouldn’t even think it here. Not even in his own court.
“As it always does My Lord.” Her piercing storm eyes stared up into his amber ones, “And the Autumn Court is as biting as it always seems to be?” She arched a brow with the same ease as he twirled her as far as his long arm could take her.
“As it always is.” He told her with a hungry smile as he pulled her as close as possible, holding her tightly as the music lowered to a near silent decibel even for the fae. “Are you to be a new spy? I do grow rather tired of the other one.” He whispered into the shell of her ear, running a lick of orange flame across her knuckles.
“If I were, why would I tell you My Lord?” Oh, how he knew she was taunting him. He could feel the gaze of her mate as he sent her into another twirl and gave a cold grin in the direction of that bat.
“I would ask what times you’d show in my forests. If I were a betting male, I’d say you’d sooner be more forth coming with that knowledge than the other one.” He had her back pulled to his chest, filling her breath still coming in even pulls.
Hands grasping hips, he sent another tendril of fire to graze up her throat kissing sweet and hot flickers to her jaw and cheek bones creating an elaborate collar of oranges, reds and yellows. That had done something to her cause in the next instance she was swirling her own silver flame through the slits of his shirt, winding around his biceps the way she might her fingers.
“I always win my bets.” Her voice was husky as they flew on the dance floor, they were spinning faster and faster claiming more and more of the floor until they were in the center of the floor. The center of a rosebud in bloom.
“Do you trust me My Lady?” He asked in her ear as the band began its last crescendo. She turned her tempest eyes on him a brow swiping.
“About as far as I can throw you My Lord.” Her tone was biting but he knew she would let him do this.
He tossed her into the air, spinning at a speed that made her dress all but lose the blackness that had be originally shown, a kaleidoscope of purples, blues and greens. He caught her with an ease as if they’d been dancing with solely each other for centuries and not for a dance here and there with these damned balls that Rhysand held.
As her feet landed on the ground, leaning onto him raising her chin for something he could not offer in the public eye, he raised his own chin, grazing hers. And because he was a glutton for punishment, he lit a crown along the top of her head, his flames mingling with her own in one last bid goodbye.
“Till the next time My Lady.” He bowed to her as she curtsied yet again.
“Till next time My Lord.”
#rowan’s art#Rowan’s writing#acotar#nesta archeron#nesta acotar#pro nesta#nesta x eris#neris#eris vanserra#eris acotar#mullet Eris#if it’s wrong grammatically#no it’s not#and I totally didn’t just write this as I was about to post just the picture#I want to read a dejected mating bond between her and cas#and have Eris become Mister steal o#yo girl#let this man become feral for her
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How funny would it be if SJM also posted The Prophecy now? That’s the most elriel song to ever elriel
Bloomsbury can you do sum for me?
#elriel#pro elriel#they would also steal that song#i already saw other ships claiming guilty as sin? was about their ship lol
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loser, baby
names angie or angel dust
pronouns he/she/love
info angel dust kinnie and fictive, aroace whore, adhd writer, i ship just about everything. a good boy™, official polycule manager. likes/follows from @xxx-angiedust which is also a rp blog. agere sideblog is @little-angie
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boundaries any being can interact, just don't be mean or i'll block ya. im a narcissist and support psychopaths. don't rush me please, i have severe adhd and depression. messages and asks every now and then can help me though
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