summer really is like. this iced coffee is all that’s standing between me and incredible violence.
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ok if ghosts (consciousness without body) and robots (body without consciousness) are essentially opposites why do i feel like they r the same
at what point does a robot detached from its programmer become a record of that person’s consciousness which has been separated from their body (ghost) ! at what point does a ghost that is compelled to endlessly repeat its haunting become more mindless machine (robot) than sentient specter !
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So my coworker (lab mate?) is partially deaf and was given a sign language interpreter by the university (so he doesn’t pay for anything) and also got one at his new job, which is really cool.
I didn’t realize just how hard sign language interpreters work until I started interacting with his interpreter.
Any time I need a Zoom call from my coworker to get him to explain some machine learning stuff to me, his interpreter joins the Zoom call.
During 2 hour lab meetings, he has 2 interpreters that constantly switch so they don’t get tired, and when there’s only one, we have to take a break in the middle so she can rest.
Both his interpreters spent a lot of time reading complex scientific journal articles in machine learning in order to agree on what language to use during the lab meetings.
We went out for a lab lunch and everyone ordered all this delicious food…and the interpreter couldn’t eat anything, because she had to work (my coworker said it’s part of their job but still!).
She would constantly ask me what the group on the other side of the table was talking about so she could keep my coworker “in the loop” of the “office chatter” instead of only interpreting when someone spoke directly to him.
Having to struggle with words from other languages (I’m bilingual and when I mixed in some Urdu words, the interpreter asked me to translate so she could sign them). Also having to interpret conversations where everyone is interrupting each other.
Just…it’s such an important job and I didn’t realize how much work goes into it. Sign language interpreters are amazing and really do their part to not only “translate” for deaf people, but to make them feel included in all of the conversation.
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a funny story r.e. panic attacks-
I found the DARE technique more or less cured my panic attacks, which is super! Part of DARE is reframing the way you approach panic- repeating ‘I’m excited by this feeling’ when an attack is building and actively trying to make your panic worse/ trying to convince your brain that This Is Cool, Actually. It works very well for me but I’m always trying to find ways to refine it, and the other night I hit upon absolute gold dust:
I told myself “It is very important that I have a panic attack now. I cannot put it off until tomorrow.”
and, in result, i did not have a panic attack. good night xo
something @feathered-serpents said the other day made me realize that I may, perhaps, have been misinterpreting what everyone else has been meaning by this “[x] would have been a better archivist” thing. it appears that everyone else meant that being a better archivist would entail dealing with problems safely and efficiently and foiling jonah’s/the web’s plan to end the world, whereas I had been thinking that being a better archivist would mean better fulfilling the role of the archivist, i.e. being incredibly obsessive and curious and collecting all marks in as short a time as possible. I now see that when people say “sasha would have been a better archivist,” their intended meaning is “if sasha had been archivist then the world wouldn’t have ended because I see her as more cunning,” and not, in fact, like I had been assuming and agreeing with, “if sasha had been the archivist then the world would have ended like a year earlier because the first time we meet her she describes getting marked by the spiral and the corruption within the space of thirty seconds.” this is good information to now have.
(via martivist)
i love how many ships there are featuring murders, cannibals, supervillians, w/e that nevertheless fail to hold a problematic candle to house/wilson. I mean like there are characters who have stabbed one another who have a healthier “thing” going on than those two. i don’t think about them often but I see a gifset and I’m like WOW remember the time when house——-
That said, for all the talk of alllll the dramatic fanfiction in the world, no TV show ever went fucking harder than House like… the cancer doctor gets HIS OWN cancer so his soulmate starts a huge fire to stage his death so he could escape jail and go on a shared cross country motorcycle trip which included a gay suicide pact?????? what!!!!!!! I don’t know how many people got to the end of house but that’s literally it! That’s literally how it ends!!!!!!
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do any other Internet Olds find it incredibly weird to see people self-identifying as ‘minors’? not saying it’s bad, just that i’m always ?? when i see it
i feel like the noughties internet experience really was just setting your birthdate to 1970 from the tender age of thirteen onwards
I am an adult. I am in my 20s. I know for a fact I am unquestionably an adult by the standards of literally every country in the world.
And yet every time a website asks for my age to confirm I’m not a minor, I always, without even stopping to think about it, backdate my birthyear exactly 8 years. Literally ALWAYS. I will be actually in my 70s and still be puttin 8 years on my age.
do any other Internet Olds find it incredibly weird to see people self-identifying as ‘minors’? not saying it’s bad, just that i’m always ?? when i see it
i feel like the noughties internet experience really was just setting your birthdate to 1970 from the tender age of thirteen onwards
do any other Internet Olds find it incredibly weird to see people self-identifying as ‘minors’? not saying it’s bad, just that i’m always ?? when i see it