"Pareidolia is a well-known psychological phenomenon, our brains see human faces in naturally occurring patterns.
However, this face on Mars clearly shows that we once lived on that planet before migrating to Earth.
That's perfect, thank you!
What labeler are you using for the "allergic to touching grass" flags?
Transatlantic accent when cispacific accent walks in
"Opinions are 96% my own" in bio
Imagine the following scenario. You are mentoring a student, and they come to you asking you to solve a coding problem. You help them, walking through the solution step by step. They then come back and ask you to solve another problem. And then another. Eventually, you might pause as you recognize that something is going wrong. You realize that your student isn’t learning how to code and is simply learning to rely on your help. You subsequently sit them down and talk about the value of persisting through challenges, of practicing new skills, and what it actually means to learn. This scenario highlights a fundamental aspect of human collaboration. Good collaborators optimize for long-term objectives (Bratman, 1992; Grosz & Kraus, 1996; Balcazar & Keys, 2014; Mattessich & Johnson, 2018). For example, a mentor encourages independent development by adjusting the type of help given and sometimes offering no help at all. In essence, the best collaborators maintain a balance between helping and fostering autonomy; they know when not to help (Koedinger & Aleven, 2007; Van de Pol et al., 2010; Soderstrom & Bjork, 2015). Current AI assistants are a stark contrast to this dynamic. They never refuse to help (unless for safety reasons), and provide instant answers to almost any query, across domains ranging from writing to coding to tutoring (Brynjolfsson et al., 2025; Buc¸inca et al., 2024; OECD, 2026; Shapira et al., 2026). In this sense, AI systems are fundamentally short-term collaborators: extraordinarily helpful in the moment, but indifferent to what that help does to the person receiving it over time
From the study -- this distinction between helpful human mentorship + collaboration vs. what chatbots provide to people by default is really striking:
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HART KÄSE
Dafür verheiz ich doch gern die Mecklenburger Seenplatte
And another thing: I don't know anyone named Barbra Streisand!
DO NOT EXPLAIN THE STREISAND EFFECT TO ME IN THE COMMENTS. DO NOT!
‘I wished for death’: Sexual violence in Israel’s prisons is an ‘organised state policy’ Palestinian testimonies reveal how sexual violence, including rape using objects and dogs, is approved by 'highest levels' of Israeli leadership
The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it.
It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...
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Don't know about anyone else but my Head Situation has made some attempts on my life so I don't feel like giving it a fun nickname
Coming out of agnostic retirement to rejoin the Counter-Reformation on the side of the papists is not how I expected my fifties to go.
Reminder that you should defend your political allies even if they’re vulgar or you don’t like their personality.
movies are too fucking long now
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."
Ain't nothing Marxist about only sitting on your ass reading dusty tomes
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Deutschland hat sich mal wieder zum Mittäter in einem imperialistischen, völkerrechtswidrigen Angriffskrieg gemacht (bzw. wird es weiterhin, wenn die USA den Waffenstillstand bricht). Es wird Zeit, die Ramstein-Airbase zu schließen & mit der Abrüstung zu beginnen.
www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
But she's right of course, you can't do that. This has to end.
No hate to this lady in particular, but annihilating people and taking their resources is what America does. From the genocides it's founded on, to the slavery that propelled its rise to imperial power, to the global "interventions" post-WW2.
It's not just Trump. The US is a terror state.
let's be clear about what's happening: donald trump and benjamin netanyahu, whose countries have been committing genocide in gaza since 2023, unilaterally started a war with iran, and are now threatening genocide there.
![Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.
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Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation. [alt text from NASA]
#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍
A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.
Political activism is the only context where full-grown adults say shit like "I tried once and it was hard, now there's no more hope" like a teenager after their first breakup
Fool me once, shame on... shame on you..... fool me 255 times, can't get fooled again
"I flew to Cuba on a humanitarian aid mission to bring 40 tons of food, medicine, and medical equipment to the island nation as the United States maintains an oil blockade strangling the country."
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"The process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose."
"...even a single interaction with sycophantic AI reduced participants’ willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts, while increasing their own conviction that they were right."
Two years of live-streamed genocide and now this. Just horrifying levels of depravity.
Why's it called "dead internet theory" and not interdead