characters who are absolutely convinced down to their bones that they are unlovable being subjected to the mortifying ideal of being wholly and unconditionally loved. that’s the good stuff. never get tired of it.
Johns Hopkins Computer Science prof Professor Peter Fröhlich grades his
students on a curve: the highest score on the final gets an A and
everyone else is graded accordingly.
Clever students in Fröhlich’s “Intermediate Programming”, “Computer
System Fundamentals,” and “Introduction to Programming for Scientists
and Engineers” figured out that this meant that if they all boycotted
the exam, they’d all get As.
So they organized a boycott, milling around the hall outside the class
where the exams were being sat, sternly reminding each other that if no
one sat the exam they’d all get straight As, ignoring Fröhlich’s pleas
to come and sit the exam.
Fröhlich praised his students’ solidarity: “The students learned that by
coming together, they can achieve something that individually they
could never have done. At a school that is known (perhaps unjustly) for
competitiveness I didn’t expect that reaching such an agreement was
possible.”
I love that even the professor was like, “YES! They did good!”
He told a bunch of PROGRAMMING students that he was going to grade on a curve.
PROGRAMING.
Like half of programming is looking at sorting algorithms and asking “what could break this?” They looked at the grading algorithm (curve grading) and noticed “if every grade is the same, everything is at the top of the list” and “the easiest way to get all the grades to be the same is to set them all to zero.”
Of course the professor praised them. He may have taught them the exact type of logic that had them organize the boycott in the first place. They found a bug in his grading system and loudly exploited it.
“humans don’t do anything for free” somewhere out there there is a guy who spent days if not weeks of his life cataloguing every stupid thing you can do on stardew valley so that you can minmax the fuck out of growing potatoes on a pixel grid for quite literally no reason but that it might help someone else
Incredibly disappointing behavior made all the more cynical by it happening just after Pride Month
Here are some LGBTQ+ helplines to call instead of the Trevor project in the wake of this:
Help is still out there!
[Text ID: A collection of four infographics from the ‘Friends of Trevor United’ (@/FriendsOfTrevor) from twitter. The first infographic reads as follows: “The trevor project just announced mass layoffs effective immediately… While our union was in an active bargaining session. Here are the facts” The next three slides give context to the layoffs, and are all titled with 'The Trevor Project is Union Busting’. They read as follows: “At 9:15 am pst, as many of our members and overnight staff were still sleeping, The Trevor Project announced layoffs effective immediately… while our union representatives were in an active bargaining session regarding the terms of these layoffs. Trevor lawyers threatened to proceed with layoffs and withhold severance in order to pressure our representatives into accepting a lesser package. This is bad-faith bargaining and blatant union busting. Our union made every attempt to bargain in good faith. We gave Trevor leadership an opportunity to demonstrate care, compassion, and basic decency in this process, and they refused.” /End ID]
[Text ID: A bulleted list of different queer chatlines to call for queer youth in crisis. The list reads as follows:
Q Chat Space is a bully-free online community of LGBTQ teens that can chat with other LGBTQ teens and trained staff from LGBTQ centers around the country. / You can access Q Chat Space at www.qchatspace.org.
Gender Spectrum Lounge is a global online community for gender-expansive teens, their families and support professionals to connect, collaborate and find resources. / You can access the Gender Spectrum Lounge at genderspectrum.org/lounge.
National Runaway Safeline is a federally designated national communication system for runaway and homeless youth, available 24/7/365, providing access to resources an listening professionals. / You can call NRS at 1-800-RUNAWAY or at 1800runaway.org.
Trans Lifeline Hotline is a peer support service run by trans people located all over the US and Canada, for trans and questioning callers. / You can call Trans Lifeline Hotline at 877-565-8860 or at translifeline.org/hotline.
The LGBT National Help Center offers a talkline and weekly chatrooms for youth, providing confidential peer-support, information, local resources and community. / You can call the LGBT National Youth Talkline at 800-246-7743 / You can access the Weekly Youth Chatrooms at lgbthotline.org/youthchatrooms.
True Colors United has created an online COVID-19 Action & Resource center providing the most up-to-date resources for youth and adults experiencing homelessness. They include resources for folks working in the field, advocates making a difference, and young people looking for help. / You can access the Action & Resource Center at truecolorsunited.org/coronavirus-action-resource-center.
Many PFLAG chapters are meeting virtually or providing 1:1 virtual support as requested for parents/guardians or LGBTQ youth. Go to pflag.org/find to look up the PFLAG chapter in your area and reach out by phone, email or on social media to learn more about their virtual support options.
Reblogging again because I got an anon last week whining cause they did this to one of my unfinished series and the bot killed Y/N so now they want ME to give them a happy ending. Like. No. Suffer, bitch.
AI is the death of creativity. Anyone who does this to my stories and is stupid enough to brag about it will be blocked from ever reading my work again, AND I’ll let everyone on tumblr know that you do this. We’ll see how much fic you get to enjoy when every author blocks you forever.
Fic is a gift. I’ve said it before. Don’t shit all over your lovingly handcrafted gifts, m'kay? This should be fucking obvious, but apparently for some of you it’s not.
THIS GOES FOR AI ART AS WELL.
I know this doesn’t really apply to my content because I make one off headcannons, but DO NOT PUT OTHER AUTHORS/ARTISTS WORKS INTO AI! If you do you’ll be blocked from my page. It’s incredibly disrespectful to the people who work so hard to make amazing content. Don’t do it.
I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of “people also watched” and “for you” into the results. That’s not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.
“I despise your wretched little games” perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy
They also refuse to actually show the parameters you searched for. If you sort by “upload date,” the first few videos might be more recent ones by upload date, but anything past that you’ll find a video that was uploaded five years ago, then five months ago, then three years ago, etc, which—NO! That’s NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!! PUT THEM IN ORDER!!!
Also sometimes the “people also watched” bullcrap will not only be entirely unrelated, it will also be videos with violent, sometimes outright triggering thumbnails. I’ve gotten some AWFUL unrelated video thumbnails just when searching for video game music videos.
ALT
