Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

That thing transphobes do, where something trips in their brains and they end up doing nothing but obsessing about trans women, while probably in a darkened room with no clean underwear surrounded by empty pot noodles and bags of their own urine.

There is a pop-psychology concept amongst tech geeks of a "basilisk". This is something that, once you become aware of it, it breaks you. You cannot come back once you have experienced the basilisk. It's a one way ticket to, usually, madness, or perhaps total system shutdown. It's generalised from the idea from antiquity of the basilisk as a creature that turns you to stone.

There's a fun story called Blit - linked here, infinityplus.co.uk/stories/bli… about a visual basilisk. Another example is something called Roko's Basilisk which is basically Pascal's wager for atheists who spend too long in Silicon Valley (it's stupid, but some of the terrible people with more money than sense, like Musk and Thiel, actually appear to believe it, and are therefore broken by it, and I reiterate, it's really, really stupid).

Anyway, in the latter case, Roko's Basilisk breaks you by becoming aware of it, BUT, here's the thing: it only works on certain people. They have to be susceptible, and in the case of Roko, the susceptibility lies around a particular weak spot in the ability of otherwise intelligent people to think critically and realise, "this is fucking stupid".

But, here's the thing, TO THOSE WHO ARE SUSCEPTIBLE, I've realised that trans women are a basilisk.

Look at people like Graham Lineman, J K Rowling, and a load of less famous people who have ended up in the same state. They all reached a point where SOMETHING relating to the fact that trans women exist tripped them into some downward doom spiral that has basically pushed their brain into a self-reinforcing state of insanity that they can't recover from.

There are probably several psychology PhDs for the taking on the subject of this.

But it seems I, and many women like me, are basilisks. This is a public post. Some of the people hate reading it have already passed the trigger condition. If you're one of them, you should probably empty some of those bags of your own wee and eat a fresh vegetable, if you can. Good luck!

My name is Sarah, and I am a basilisk. Fear me.

can we get a moment of appreciation for the colors of the arcade's sign in town?

#KitsuneTails

Attack for Cherryvixennn!

“When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind. – R&A IT Strategy & Architecture”

https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/

> No really: ChatGPT doesn’t summarise. When you ask ChatGPT to summarise this text, it instead shortens the text. And there is a fundamental difference between the two. To summarise, you need to understand what the paper is saying.

This is why LLMs frequently make subtle but devastating errors while summarising

This is a secret few are ever told!

#webcanids #comics #webcomics #furry #foxes #wolf

ASK SYBIL (&co) #18: "best/worst". so often in my life i find myself thinking "you know, i'd be a lot better off if only i had a retractable bulletproof parasol forearm"

(thanks to Clegg for the question and to Grace for the Modemoiselle cameo! subscribe: https://patreon.com/distressedegg)

walk like a local

A wonderful drawing I got from Ram the Dragon (ramdragon.wix.com/ramarts).

Oooooh, I had forgotten I'd done a timelapse of this pic!
I really should just bite the bullet and try drawing again. I need to get over this whole "worry about how much I suck" bullshit. Really, who cares?

Thought this was a neat because I know so many people that live in Europe and the UK here, butt putting yhe size of these lakes into perspective as "inland seas".

"The Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River superimposed onto a map of Europe"

I am for sale! This is your opportunity to buy MastCar, an Ex BBC outside broadcast vehicle professionally converted with a 9m Clark Mast, perfect for Amateur Radio, Surveying etc

£2500 ONO

#WeirdCarMastodon
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Good morning all

I am back on my supervillain bullshit~ 😈
🎨 @Goatuna

Yuty non-taur version and some design tweaks :>

#FurryArt

"All software has bugs 🤷" is the "boys will be boys 🤷" of the IT industry.

#InfoSec

AAARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Channel 4 News, in talking about today's #Microsoft #CrowdStrike fuckup, stated that the expected Y2K effect was imaginary.

No! No! NO!

We did a massive amount of work to update and ensure systems would keep on working. And more importantly WE TESTED EVERYTHING FULLY BEFORE GOING LIVE.