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some people are taking "doomed" to mean "dead". this is actually a misconception! you can be doomed even if you don't die! it's sometimes worse if you don't die!

Palestinians are starving!!!!

no one tells you how much of life takes practice. not just writing, painting, running, singing, etc, but practicing how to make friends. how to make the right ones. getting practiced at how to be a good friend, a good sibling, a good person. practice identifying when people haven’t earned that. learning to recognize your right to rage and, eventually, how to offer mercy. so much of life is muscle memory, and i’ve begun to realize there are so many more parts of ourselves to flex and stretch and strengthen than those we’re taught in anatomy lessons

Made by SunnyVids.

I can't handle them, and it's not even the beginning 🫠💗💗💗

flyers on the olympus quest board 🧐

He’s so funny

Watching the new Percy Jackson episode, and while by no means is the show perfect, I do love how they updated the blending of Greek mythology and the American Gothic for social commentary.

What I mean is Echidna, the mother of monsters, is some respectable-looking vaguely southern white woman who is able to convince the police on the train that three kids shattered a train window and used those institutions to isolate the kids so she can target them and scare them for the chimera's hunt. The way that the police especially treat Annabeth. Now, as a young black girl, she has to know how to ask if they're getting arrested, and gets called out by the police for her tone.

And then, at the St. Louis Arch, we see Grover upset because of the museum, which is basically a monument to Manifest Destiny (literally, there's a shot where the words are in full display in the background). And while they say, "Grover is upset because he doesn't like it when people hurt animals," they explicitly depict America's colonization and destruction of indigenous communities as The Bad Thing. It adds another layer of flavor for the whole "Pan is missing" - it's not just about Climate Change. It's about the extermination of indigenous groups (the centaurs they saw on the train, the reminder that there used to be more of them until humans started killing them). They say "humans" are bad, but they're showing us Western/American colonizers.

Also, a rare yet interesting moment of conflict between Annabeth as a daughter of Athena and Grover as a Satyr. Annabeth insists that the museum's commodifying and glorifying of American colonization is "not what the arch is actually about, it's about architecture and math," but Athena is the goddess who protects social institutions and a patron goddess of the state, law, order, industry, and war. The Industrial Revolution and Western social institutions definitely contributed to colonialism; just saying. We also see in this episode that Athena can be arrogant and cruel - letting a monster go after her own daughter because she was embarrassed.

Anyway, idk. Maybe I'm overthinking this but these were the things that popped out to me on first watch, and now that I think about them more, I would love a continuation of these kinds of themes and tropes in future seasons, if we get them.

"Impertinent isn't a 12 year old word" TO YOU. It's not a typical word in a 12 year old's vocabulary.

But Percy isn't an average 12 years old. He's smart. He's beyond average smart. The only reason why he sucks at school is because they don't accommodate his dyslexia and ADHD, and even then he managed to get good enough grades to be accepted into a university after missing most of his 11th grade.

And to really nail down this point, please look at this quote:

Percy has a superior vocabulary, one that includes big words like impertinent. And it's all thanks to one Sally Jackson, who nutured her son's education when the system failed him.

The main reason why a huge part of the fandom thinks Percy is stupid is because some characters (cleary not our queen Sally Jackson) talk down to him, call him stupid, encourage others to make jokes about him being stupid etc. We should recognize that those dialogues are not a reflection of Percy, but of what those characters think about Percy and Percy's non-existant self esteem.

11 year old me walked so i could run (to my computer to draw these)

7 Reasons you might be procrastinating and how to solve them:

i read an article that really puts into perspective part of why zionists and israel apologists and “leftists” want to be victims so bad.

you want us to hate you because if you reconcile with the fact that we don’t… you have no justification for your indiscriminate hatred and prejudice.

“Many white South Africans told me that Black forgiveness felt like a slap on the face. By not acting toward you as you acted toward us, we’re showing you up, white South Africans seemed to hear. You’ll owe us a debt of gratitude forever.”

sound familiar? that’s what most zionists are afraid of. this (among a myriad of other reasons) is why they convince themselves that this genocidal ethnostate is their safe haven. they don’t want to be proven wrong when palestine is liberated and there is no “reverse nakba”.

you want palestinians to want to kill you, because if they don’t… it just means you’re the one who’s genocidal. and that’s a tough pill to swallow, huh?

you, so badly, want palestinians and their supporters to be the barbarians you’ve indoctrinated your children to believe. because if they’re not, your children will raise questions and come to the conclusion that it is actually you who is barbaric and cruel. and you’ll lose your power over their brainwashed minds. so what do you do? you lie.

“Apartheid-era white elites had justified white domination by saying that, without their rule, Black people would take revenge on them or ruin the country. When widespread revenge and ruin never came, many white people felt forced to fabricate it; otherwise, white dominance became all the more shameful—not only to apartheid’s proponents but even to anti-apartheid progressives, who had inevitably benefited from a regime that comprehensively promoted white interests.”

this is a tactic we’ve been seeing zionists and their apologists use pretty often. false reports and outlandish allegations crafted to fit the disgusting and racist image of palestinians they’ve created and instilled into their society. a way to fear monger—to control the public. to somehow justify the massacres and the occupation. to justify stealing the land and livelihoods of the natives. a sorry (and failed) attempt at making themselves seem less cruel and depraved than they are.

you fear the kindness of the people who oppose your harmful ideologies. and that’s why you choose to label them as antisemitic, and accuse them of hating you. of course, there is antisemitism in the world. nobody is denying that. but the things you label antisemitic? the way you refuse to separate a harmful political ideology from your identity? things like this???

yeah this… you do this because if you don’t, you’ll have to admit that you’re the one who’s being vile and disgusting. you’ll have to admit that your state was built upon war crimes, theft, and lies. you’ll have to admit that the land should be returned to the palestinians. and that’s not something even the most liberal of you israel supporters can reconcile with. because at the end of the day… you do not want to forgo the privileges you currently have. even if they exist at the expense of taking away the rights of another civilisation.

at the end of the day… it’s just you > an entire civilisation being murdered in your name.

that’s the bitter truth people like you don’t want to acknowledge. and that’s the exact bitter truth the people you hate so badly are forcing you to face.

btw. can i be very clear that this post is addressing the racist sentiments a lot of israel’s supporters have towards palestinians in general? it’s about the vile imagery they’ve created on arabs by constantly lying and misconstruing facts. it’s NOT about the palestinian resistance. palestinians have a right to resist and it has nothing to do with the notions of arab/muslim barbarism that pervades the western world. this post is strictly about victim complexes and the similarities oppressors share all across the board when victimising themselves in front of their victims.

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If you ever feel like you can’t think of a project idea or you’re bored but still want to code something up, you can try any of these!!

Best of luck! 🙌🏾💗

POV you ate shit during the family drama hour and your adopted peepaw needed your dogs help finding the Temple

why is animation so hard <- literally an animation student

it seems like my ask from a few days ago didn’t get sent 😭 argh stupid tumblr

i was basically asking there what resources you would recommend for everything that could be useful for neocities,, like html, css,,(and you mentioned java script i think?) especially beginner-beginner stuff and then maybe for intermediate 👉👈 i know you probably have all those on your blog already but you know me in a bit 😵‍💫

also yes i’d love to work on ours together, even if we didn’t make them match! cause you know you have millions of brilliant ideas :33 🌻🌻💛

Hiya,

These are the stuff I used / still use, hope it's useful:

W3Schools

Mozilla Developer Network (MDN)

Codecademy

freeCodeCamp

Khan Academy HTML/CSS Course

Shay Howe's HTML and CSS tutorial

HTML Dog

CSS-Tricks

CSS Layout

Flexbox Froggy

Grid Garden

CSS Zen Garden

CSS Animation

Try them out and see what works best for you! 👍🏾

in case you missed it: MIT's CS & AI laboratory just posted a TON of free full computer science courses with video lectures on their github (like, 800 a ton)!!!!

Hi lovelies if anyone is interested in learning more about computer science there is a (virtual) hackathon in the weekend of October 21-22! You don’t have to know how to code and even if you do you don’t have to build anything, I went last year and there were a bunch of workshops for beginners. For college students I think they might even cover travel to MD+lodging if you want to go in person! I will be there virtually if you want to be hackathon buddies 💃🏿

Btw this is for underrepresented genders!! So no cis men please.

Signup link:

https://href.li/?https://gotechnica.org/register?referral=sarabauf

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While scrolling through Twitter, I saw some posts that highlighted some free IT courses and resources being offered by Harvard University! Harvard University offers a wide range of IT courses that are available to the public for free! Here are some of them!

1. Introduction to Computer Science - LINK

An introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.

2. Web Programming with Python and JavaScript - LINK

This course dives more deeply into the design and implementation of web apps with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Django, React, and Bootstrap.

3. Mobile App Development with React Native - LINK

Learn about mobile app development with React Native, a popular framework maintained by Facebook that enables cross-platform native apps using JavaScript without Java or Swift.

4. Introduction to Game Development - LINK

Learn about the development of 2D and 3D interactive games in this hands-on course, as you explore the design of games such as Super Mario Bros., Pokémon, Angry Birds, and more.

5. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python - LINK

Learn to use machine learning in Python in this introductory course on artificial intelligence.

Hope this helps someone and do check them out! 💻👍🏾💗

Iconic Things My Coding Professors Have Said (and it’s only day one)

“that sounds very hacky, but smart”

“i’m not sure where i’m going with this… its quite similiar to my life”

*Entire class and prof spends fifteen minutes trying to solve a problem before eventually giving up* “great work guys, that was some good debugging”

“is this a super big issue?” *longggg dramatic sigh* “… yes”.

Professor 1: “it’s still not working? um… okay, maybe you should… turn off your wifi and turn it back on again?"   Professor 2: "40 years of experience in networking and computing at its finest”

“whenever i’m doing my taxes, i never use the calculator app on my phone, i always just open up a notebook and use python and i think thats very brave of me”

“your life quality with improve when you use python 3 instead of python 2. your skin will improve and you’ll even sleep better”

“so this compiler doesn’t recognise cases, so if you’re really perverse, you could do Apple, aPple, apPle, appLe, applE, but if you do that then i’m going to kick you out”

“so, let’s give an example: "True = False”. Asides from causing the end of the world, much like dividing by 0, this will also cause an error"

“if you want to see my cat, i’ll show her. if you DON’T want to see my cat, too bad, cause I’m going to show you her anyway”

“today we will use three keywords: `if`, `else`, and their weird cousin `elif`.”

“if you want to type something else, like… uh, goodbye world? maybe? is that too dark? i think its too dark, so lets save that for later on in the year… by the way, have you been told about your exams yet?”

Professor : “is everything clear so far? shall i go faster?”   Literally EVERYONE: “no! slower!"   Professor: "Slower?! you can go slow when you’re dead, you won’t need python then!”

“you can’t use functions as your variable names. for example, you can’t call this number "if”. i mean i don’t know why you’d use that as your variable name to begin with, but i’m not here to question your life, i’m here to teach you python"

“it’s probably not the most efficient but its just what came out of me so we’re running with it”

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Since we're all talking about plagiarism now, I'd like to share this video which came out last year about a paper accepted at the CVPR 2022:

For the people not in the know, the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference is the biggest conference in computer science. Last year, in 2022, the paper featured in the video got accepted. A few days later, this video was posted. The first author, a PhD student, apologized and the paper was retracted and removed from the proceedings. Hilariously, the first reaction of the co-authors, including a professor at the Seoul National University, was to say that they had nothing to do with it.

My point here is that scientific papers are not rigorously checked for plagiarism, and a background in academia tells you absolutely nothing about whether or not someone will be diligent in avoiding plagiarism. The biggest difference is that there are consequences if you're caught.

I also don't want people to be too harsh on the first author of this paper, or to think the situation is equivalent to the whole Somerton debacle. For starters, you don't get paid for publishing papers, you (or more commonly your university) pay the publishers. But the phrase publish or perish exists for a reason, and everyone in the field wants to get published in the CVPR, because it's supposed to show that you're great at research. Additionally, the number of papers and the prestige of the venues they're published in criteria on which you will be evaluated as a researcher and a university employee.

The way I see it, there are basically two kinds of plagiarism that are shown in the video. The first one concerns sentences that are lifted completely unchanged from other papers. This is bad, and it is plagiarism, but I can see how this would happen. Most instances of this appear in the introduction and on background information, so if you're insecure about your mastery of English and it's not about your contribution anyway, I can understand how you would take the shortcut of copy-pasting and tell yourself that it's just so that the rest of the paper makes sense, and why waste time on phrasing things differently if others have done it already, and it's not like there are a million way to write these equations anyways.

Let me be clear. I don't approve, or condone. It's still erasing the work of the people who took the time and pain to phrase these things. It's still plagiarism. But I understand how you could get to that point.

The second kind of plagiarism is a way bigger deal in my opinion. At 0:37 , we can see that one of the contributions of the paper is also lifted from another paper. Egregiously, the passage includes "To the best of our knowledge, this is the first [...]" , which is a hell of a thing to copy-paste. So this is not only lazily passing other people's words as your own, it's also pretending that you're making a contribution you damn well know other people have already done. I also wasn't able to find a version of the plagiarized article that had been published in a peer-reviewed venue, which might mean that the authors submitted it, got rejected, and published it on arXiv (an website on which authors can put their papers so that they're accessible to the public, but doesn't "count" as a publication because it's not peer-reviewed. You can also put papers that are under review or have been published on there as long as you're careful with the copyrights and double-blind process). And then parts of it were published in the CVPR under someone else's name.

I think there's also a third kind of plagiarism going on here, one that is incredibly common in academia, but that is not shown in the video. That's the FIVE other authors, including a professor, who were apparently happy to add their name to the paper but obviously didn't do anything meaningful since they didn't notice how much plagiarism was going on.

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