“you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar”
if you’re wondering why spellcheck and grammar check is worse now, it’s because they replaced it with AI! 🥰
now, instead of maintaining a comprehensive, nuanced, and human-maintained encyclopedia by which to check your document, they have switched to an AI that just compares what you’ve written to what other people write in, say, Google Docs, and use the most commonly used iteration.
ever have it change something like “all intents and purposes” to “all intensive purposes” or “should’ve” to “should of”? that’s why!
people make the same spelling and grammar mistakes so often, AI thinks that’s the way you say it because it is a PATTERN DETECTOR and cannot THINK let alone use language.
“you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar”
Attempting to get my students to fucking come to class
Good news!!!! Had an average of 17/24 students in both classes show up to the review!! That’s 71% of the class! This is compared to an average 11/24 in previous semesters.
Bird worked
Also for everyone in the notes who wanted to see the Bird: I’ve got these pics pinned on my blog too but here is The Boy
The majority of people are horny. People are always going to be horny. You cannot stop people from being horny. Throughout history there have been extensive attempts to suppress horniness and they haven’t worked. You can be mad about it all you want but horniness will prevail against any adversity. There will always be an aspect of horniness within society. Sexuality cannot be contained by having missionary sex with your spouse alone in the privacy of a dark bedroom.
Due to some unexpected life changeups behind the scenes, this summer has been thornier than expected for getting projects finished! It’s deeply important to me to put the time and energy into our fifth season finale that the story merits, and unfortunately this will mean delaying the release date by a few more weeks. Please enjoy your summer weeks and we’ll be back with more Hallowoods soon! 🖤✨
i need Brandon Sanderson to pull a Brandon Sanderson, say fuck it to all his plans and secretly write the entire Stormlight 6 and release it in 2-3 years instead of 10 BECAUSE I HAVENT EVEN FINISHED WAT YET BUT I FEEL THE EXISTENTIAL DREAD AND FEAR OF NOT HAVING STORMLIGHT CONTENT TO CONSUME FOR YEARS TO COME.
Not shipping characters from canon, not shipping fan ocs, but a new secret third thing: shipping the unnamed (?) characters from the Stormlight World Guidebook
Small town murder mystery where it eventually turns out that literally everyone in town is a member of some secret society or sinister cult – except it’s not one big secret society, it’s a bunch of little ones, ranging from as many as a couple dozen members to as few as three. Each secret society is aware of their own immediate allies and rivals, but none of them have the complete picture of how extensive the town’s secret society problem is, nor do they know that every single resident is a member of at least one. Some residents are members of multiple secret societies. Some residents are unwittingly members of multiple secret societies, having mistakenly concluded that Secret Society A is Secret Society B’s hidden inner circle, when in fact they’re unrelated. There’s at least one pair of secret societies whose leaders each believe that the other is a false front that they set up to distract their enemies. This goes on for five seasons.
and how do we end up being the first person to discover this
This is the Stormlight Archive, but the small town is the entire planet of Roshar.
I (@ghostsandmermaids) am organizing a fan event to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Hello From The Hallowoods this October.
The plan is to have daily prompts for fanworks and some more general prompts (like “relisten to your favorite episode”, “leave a positive review on your podcatcher of choice”) for the event, so I made a form where you can suggest the prompts you would like to see!
The fact that animals that care for their young will sometimes adopt others’ lost or orphaned young to raise along their own is just funny to me. I know that it’s all hormonal and there’s no conscious thought involved in it, but the internal logic of it is so funny.
“Baby = success. More baby = more success. I have one baby and I found four other baby. I have five baby. I am being so fucking successful right now.”
i actually get a bit annoyed with people who get a bit annoyed when people say “sorry” in response to their bad news. “why are you apologizing you didn’t do anything :/” like okay well a) you don’t know that and actually yes i am the secret architect of all your woes and have been this whole time, way to refuse to acknowledge a woman (gender neutral)’s accomplishments. and b) we’re both fluent english speakers so you know perfectly well that “sorry” isn’t always an apology and is very commonly used as an expression of general regret or sympathy. not in this case, because i have been your secret nemesis for years, meticulously plotting your every misery, but, like, in general
Recently, I’ve started listening to the podcast Hello from the Hallowoods and oh my god if anything sad happens to Polly, Mort and Yaretzi I might just have to rip my heart out of my chest because theyre actually such a cute found family and I will sink into the earth never to return if anything bad happens to them. I also really like Olivier. I usually can never find a lot of gender-fluid representation in media.
