elilla

elilla, 2 months ago to random

wenn dir kalt ist, ist ihnen auch
☝️😮

#bienen

elilla, 2 months ago to random Finnish

México: granos de maíz reventados son tan blancos y ligeros 💖 son como pequeños y delicados pajaritos. llamémoslas "palomitas" 🕊️

Chile: ｃａｂｒｉｔａｓ

elilla, 2 months ago to random

I'm a Portuguese-speaking Japanologist staying with a Peruvian friend in Germany to study Kurdish and I'm still speaking English. this focking language

elilla, 2 months ago to random

all the bad things of cyberpunk became real and none of the cool parts. I've been prowling European metropolises for years and I'm yet to spot cyberdrugs, laser swords, or nights alight by the soft glow of neon kanji

elilla, 2 months ago to random

perhaps a dumbphone is actually safer because of the lack of encryption. no fake sense of security.

the thing with smartphone security is that even if you fork off the cash to set up a shiny GrapheneOS with purely open source apps etc., 95% of the people you're sending those perfectly encrypted messages to, are running Apple or Google services, and thus if the cops are onto you, they can just screenshot your messages anyway. to say nothing of hardware backdoors I'm sure we'll find out about 15 years from now. and every activist group on Signal probably has at least 1 informant, etc.

with a dumphone you know you're being listened, which increases the chances of you shutting the heck up.

still there's something to be said for a degree of security by obscurity—bugging phone calls is trivial and an operation cops are used to, and while I'm sure the State has ways to pry open your Matrix chats, it's probably reserved for things they care about a lot. heck half of the time your recipient can't open them either lmao

elilla, 2 months ago to random

Google in the 2020s is unusuable for multilingual people, it does some sort of censorship that all but enforces monolingualism. I just looked up "dvergr svartalf mitologia nordycka" and got a grand total of 3 results, all of them about some videogame—in English. zero Polish results, not even Icelandic results. I looked up my language filter settings to find it has been reset behind my back to one language only, for the nteenth time. For the nteenth time I set it to all my languages—or almost, because there's some new interface and it turns out Kurdish isn't a language anymore, according to Google—but even after adding "Polish" to the filter, I still got the same 3 results.

duckduckgo gives me actual Polish results, but all of them are ads for Gaiman's book "Mitologia nordycka"—closer to the mark, but still doesn't answer my question ("how do Polish people translate dvergar and svartalfar in natural text"). I only found a grand total of 2 relevant results by forcing-quoting the Polish words in... Bing. (the answer to my question: it's just karzeł and czarne elfy, no fun Slavic parallels after all.)

it didn't use to be like this, it used to be that search engines exposed you to the full internationality of the world. capitalism is breaking apart a cornerstone of the Internet. not for the first time, I feel compelled to brush up on how to do research the old-fashioned, paper-based way.

elilla, 2 months ago to random

> The Dunning-Kruger effect also emerges from data in which it shouldn’t. For instance, if you carefully craft random data so that it does not contain a Dunning-Kruger effect, you will still find the effect. The reason turns out to be embarrassingly simple: the Dunning-Kruger effect has nothing to do with human psychology.1 It is a statistical artifact — a stunning example of autocorrelation.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/

elilla, 2 months ago to random

infuriating that I'm struggling with money so much and if I was a total ghoul who doesn't care about indirectly killing millions I could easily jump into a scam like "AI" and get a lot of investor money from suckers

elilla, 2 months ago to random

"how much space could you need for flowers anyway" me:

elilla, 2 months ago to random Portuguese

número primo
número tio
número sobrinho

elilla, 2 months ago to random

cow milk is produced under terrible conditions for the cows and their babies. if your stomach "can't handle milk" it has a sound ethical compass

elilla, 2 months ago to random

well all the girls are doing it and, as a notorious maria-vai-com-as-outras trend-following bimbo, I think it's about time I do it too.

I'm going to write anarchist genre fiction :blobcatfluffowo:
I need deadlines and accountability so I will give myself exactly 1 moon cycle (starting from today's crescent moon) for research, and provide updates in this thread every moon phase. it will be a fantasy story about the Teotihuacan Revolution.

elilla, 2 months ago to random

this young little thing was having trouble with the cold so we're giving him a bee's favourite human things: body warmth and syrup :pinkgirl_hearts:

A young Osmia cornuta—a fluffy orange-black bee, this one still the size of a fingernail—liking a droplet of syrup between my love's two fingers. The bee has a cute long snout, from which protudes a cute long tongue that goes like lickety lick

elilla, 3 months ago to random

there should be more videogames where you are a bug and do bug things (as opposed to being a bug and do videogame things)

elilla, 3 months ago to random

> But the most insidious source of the anti-trans movement in this country is, quite simply, liberals. Butler, in their survey of the political landscape, misses the liberal faction altogether. I suspect this is because the anti-trans liberal sees himself as a concerned citizen, not an ideologue. He is neither radical nor a feminist; he is not so much trans-exclusionary as he is broadly skeptical of all social-justice movements. He is a trans-agnostic reactionary liberal — a TARL. The TARL’s primary concern, to hear him tell it, lies in protecting free speech and civil society from the illiberal forces of the woke left, which, by forcing the orthodoxy of gender down the public’s throat and viciously attacking anyone who dares to ask questions, is trafficking in censorship, intimidation, and quasi-religious fanaticism. On trans people themselves, the TARL claims to take no position other than to voice his general empathy for anyone suffering from psychological distress or civil-rights violations.

> ...the demand [for gender healthcare] itself was suspect, a result of poorly explained psychological and social forces that had “bewildered” experts, whose warnings were as usual being drowned out by activists. Indeed, the average Times-reading liberal is left with the impression that, because politics obstructs the slow work of scientific consensus-building, trans people’s best shot at receiving health care is to stop asking for it.

Chu, "Freedom of Sex"
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trans-rights-biological-sex-gender-judith-butler.html

elilla, 3 months ago to random

it's March and our hard-earned money is being burned, time to repost this