Thinking about how carl is turned evil through monogram’s carelessness and turned good again through Perry’s love for phineas and ferb.

Reckless Driving: JinMao Analysis

Reckless Driving by Lizzy McAlpine is so light novel volumes 5 through 8 JinMao coded. It being a duet with Ben Kessler doesn’t help.

I don’t love you like that
I’m a careful driver
And I tell you all the time to keep your eyes on the road
But you love me like that
You’re a reckless driver
And one day it’ll kill us if I don’t let go

In the song, Lizzy’s saying she doesn’t love him like that as in but instead of taking it as “I don’t love you” I take it the way Maomao says it in light novel 12 where she compared Jinshi’s love to her own… “I don’t think I love you with the same capacity you love me.” To be frank, I don’t think that’s actually true, Maomao’s just blind to the depth of her own feelings, but we all have long known she’s an unreliable narrator haven’t we?

I don’t know how to tell you
That I feel safe when you say “shotgun”
Never felt this way with no one
And I lie when I tell you
I know exactly where we’re going
I get lost just for this moment

I don’t think this needs any explanation. Jinshi feeling safe around Maomao, letting himself get carried away in a manner that he never has before.

Guess I’d die to keep your eyes on me

This being Jinshi’s POV, where he’s ready to risk it all to be with Maomao, and now contrast that with Maomao’s POV below.

Would you hold me when we crash, or would you let me go?

Is this not what she fears, in light novel 5? About being a temprorary thrill, of simply being “a whore’s daughter” as Joka called her?

Don’t wanna scrape you off the pavement
I can’t be your savior
I don’t wanna be here when you lose control
Don’t wanna watch it as it happens
See the crowd’s reaction
I don’t wanna be here when you kill us both

And then this verse. Oh how it hits, how it screams Maomao to the point where I could hear it coming out of her mouth. The end of light novel 8 being the crash.

Nerdsniped by a Bad Update

So apparently Tumblr is making changes. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

But! The computer engineer in me is still intrigued by the idea of exposing more of the reblog tree for interaction. Or even using data about the tree for sorting/ranking. So here goes.

The old behaviour exposes only aggregate note counts, no matter what part of the tree you encounter. You see OP? 1,000 reblogs listed. You see a lengthy chain of reblog replies emanating from OP? 1,000 reblogs listed.

The new behaviour dis-aggregates those numbers, doing something like this, BUT ONLY SHOWING 1st-child RBs on any given node!:

4 [1st-child RBs] / 11 [all child-RBs] <– OP
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]
|- 1 [1st-child RBs] / 1 [all child-RBs]
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]
|- 3 [1st-child RBs] / 5 [all child-RBs]
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]
|- 1 [1st-child RBs] / 1 [all child-RBs]
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]
|- 1 [1st-child RBs] / 1 [all child-RBs]
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]
|- 1 [1st-child RBs] / 1 [all child-RBs]
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]

SO, if a big influx of activity on a post happens deeply in the tree (or really, anywhere deeper than direct-child), like this:

4 [1st-child RBs] / 111 [all child-RBs] <– OP
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]
|- 1 [1st-child RBs] / 1 [all child-RBs]
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]
|- 3 [1st-child RBs] / 105 [all child-RBs]
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]
|- 1 [1st-child RBs] / 1 [all child-RBs]
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]
|- 1 [1st-child RBs] / 101 [all child-RBs]
|- 100 [1st-child RBs] / 100 [all child-RBs]
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]
…
… and so on for 100 of these rows
…
|- 1 [1st-child RBs] / 1 [all child-RBs]
|- 0 [1st-child RBs] / 0 [all child-RBs]

Then OP’s badges still only show the “4” for the number of 1st-child RBs! There’s no indication of the extra activity! Boo! And apparently, OP might not even get any notification at all about the activity that goes beyond their own 1st-children? Double boo! Maybe? People seem more split on when/how they want notifications than on whether or not they want to see the aggregate numbers. But that, I suppose, is a tunable thing that can be configured per-user.

In any event, I think it makes sense to have the “all child-RBs” number included in the tallies and shown in the interface. I also think only including child reblogs (and not ALL reblogs across the entire tree) helps to identify (1) where interesting conversations and contributions are happening, and (2) how interest is flowing across the userbase.

An aside on comments: apparently, comments are now segmented according to the specific node of the tree they’re on? Rather than being a single comment space for the entire tree? That seems to be a bad move that’s definitely frustrating people too. I’ve never really used the comment feature though, given how paltry its threading interface is.

Nerd Sniping

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Behind the scenes and between the pages

Behind the scenes and between the pages

27 Sep 2006/David Hencke

The battle for influence between ministers and civil servants continues to rage, and a host of autobiographies have revealed the personality clashes and the tricks that keep the politicians in their place

Ministers and civil servants have always had fraught relations but Whitehall has always wanted to keep the rows secret.

The watershed for disclosure came 30 years ago with the publication of the diaries of the late Richard Crossman, one of the stars of successive Labour governments in the 1960s. Crossman was minister for housing, leader of the Commons and secretary of state for social services in the two Wilson governments.

Despite a last-minute attempt by Sir John Hunt, the then cabinet secretary, to block publication in 1975, the posthumous diaries revealed the rows between Crossman and his top civil servants. They turned a formidable lady, Dame Evelyn Sharp, a powerful permanent secretary at the ministry of housing and local government, into a public figure.

The first volume of his diaries chronicled the rows and revealed her opinions, describing her as “a tremendous patrician and utterly contemptuous and arrogant, regarding local authorities as children which she has to examine and rebuke for their failures”.

Once Crossman had revealed all, it opened the floodgates. Barbara Castle, another powerful figure in Harold Wilson’s government, revealed her Whitehall battles in transport and her attempt to handle the unions with her failed “In Place of Strife” white paper.

Then along came Tony Benn with his detailed diaries and battles while he was in charge of energy and aerospace.

More recently there has been the late Mo Mowlam’s autobiography, Momentum, where civil servants - slightly aghast at the informality of her approach and lifestyle in the posh residence of Hillsborough Castle - were seen as supportive, even for some of her riskiest gambles, such as talking to Protestant hard men in the Maze prison to save the troubled Northern Ireland peace process.

The present generation of ministers, however, are only too aware that they have to take control or be controlled. Some of the tricks used by Whitehall are obvious, others a little more sophisticated.

One is the “diary trick” where ministers come into the office and find a rather busy list of appointments to keep them occupied. Unless they come in with the determination to prioritise what they want to do, they find themselves distracted into meeting people they don’t really have to.

Another is the “red box” trick, piling up papers to take home every night but putting the most serious at the bottom of the box, so ministers are distracted into reading trivia and signing off the more serious stuff - or decisions that Whitehall wants - without examining the documents in detail.

The third and more sophisticated technique is the magic box policy option - first you see it, then you don’t, and miraculously like a rabbit out of a hat, it comes back again in a new form.

One Treasury minister recalls rejecting a policy seven years ago, only to find it resurfacing on her desk after repeated attempts to try the same policy on every new minister that got appointed to the portfolio in the intervening period. It has still not been implemented.

In my view

Adam Khalif, 50, Department for Work and Pensions, London

“In 10 years’ time I want a properly funded society which is supported by properly funded public services. The public service ethos which I experienced 20 years ago needs to be reinvigorated. People at the coal face of delivery aren’t in a position now to make the decisions.”

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Dear every mobile Tumblr user whose app updated, why do you have auto update turned on?

those few seconds at the end of the avengers with loki in the muzzle are INSANE because like. it’s so unremarked upon. we don’t see thor put it on him, we never saw thor carrying it around beforehand (although its design clearly marks it as asgardian, so he must have brought it with him, this can only be premeditated violence), and it will never be acknowledged again. but there it is. thor has done this horrifying, dehumanising thing to his brother, *publically*, and thor is able to look loki in the eyes afterwards without flinching. thor who seems so kind and forgiving. thor who seems to want nothing but to help and reconcile with loki. thor who looks blankly uncomprehending when loki speaks of inequality in their childhood and begs him to just come home. that same thor muzzles his brother like a wild animal before dragging him “home” in chains. does he even realise what he’s doing, what it means? did he just want to silence loki without ever thinking about what his doing so does to loki? which answer is worse?

“This new Tumble update is so bad, who the fuck wanted it?”

It’s me. I’m the one who wanted it. I don’t know how many times I wanted to add a tiny comment, then realized it wouldn’t make any sense because I’d respond to the first post but I wanted to talk about something that was five additions down. Or how many times I had no idea of what a comment was talking about because they were talking about something that was five additions down and I hadn’t seen.

Like, I don’t think this new update is good, or that it’s fixing Tumblr in any way. Tumblr seems incredibly inapt at realizing how Tumblr works. But right now, any post that has more than two additions effectively has no comment section other then in the YouTube video of a guy reading it out. Will this change make it better? I doubt it. Will it make it worse? I doubt it as well. I think it will just make things differently bad.

I have nothing against Wolverine or Spiderman as a character but occasionally the degree of man crush happening on the creative teams part gives me acute second hand embarrassment so bad

Some people find the tough guy persona / archetype a sign of something questionable brewing below the surface.

As a Fujoshi all I detect is the creative team being romantically head over heels for the leading man.

i wanna get more into tumblr because ts basically caters to me but the fuck do i actually post?? like does anyone care about my insane salmonposting??

Em um movimento significativo para o futuro da inteligência artificial, a Nebius, uma startup de tecnologia emergente, anunciou nesta semana um acordo com a Meta, no valor de 27 bilhões de dólares, destinado a expandir a infraestrutura de IA da empresa. Este acordo de cinco anos é um marco ambicioso e envolve o fornecimento de uma capacidade dedicada de 12 bilhões de dólares, utilizando a plataforma NVIDIA Vera Rubin, com início programado para 2027.(…)

Leia a noticia completa no link abaixo:

Doing my best to fill a much needed void Anon!

they’ve acknowledged the negative feedback and now they’re trying to pretend that means the ball is in our court. i’m not seeing what the point of them ‘continuing to monitor’ anything is, i think people have been pretty clear. now it’s their job to fucking do something about it.

what this means for us is that we need to keep up the pressure. 'continuing to monitor’ reads as 'if y'all aren’t still complaining about this tomorrow we’ll just go ahead and ignore you’.

make your feedback known on the original post, especially if you haven’t already. i’m also still gonna recommend submitting in the support/feedback line, even though the auto-reply directs you back to @changes. keep at them

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Ray-Ban Stories x Meta : les lunettes connectées débarquent en France

so, adding stat counters to each comment does have the potential to address a lot of the issues. an easy way to like the root post helps make sure you can show them that people are interacting with it, albeit without directly showing them people reblogging it. it also helps contextualize the post by showing its popularity outside of the latest comments, and it helps with finding other comments replying to a specific one higher up the chain - although comments further downstream of a different branch will still be very hard to find

also it stretches things out and makes the interface look way too much like twitter

the funny thing is that there’s probably a 70 percent chance staff had to consider the ides of march when deciding when to roll this out. if i had to guess they did it the day after in the hopes that the celebrations would have left everybody in a good mood concerning the site as a whole

Having finished reading Whale Star… I feel for Uihyeon. I feel for him so much. I hope he’s out there somewhere. I hope his love for Joseon sustains him. I hope he went and lived a long life. I hope he saw a bright shining moon under a free Joseon one day. I hope he found happiness.

I binged this story, so how much I love Uihyeon took some time for it to hit me. I was more enamored by Haesu on my first read because I found the tragedy of his story to be super compelling. But Uihyeon is just as compelling and tragic. His unbridled goodness is the heart of his character, and it changes and transforms as the story goes on. It took some time for that to really sink in, but now that the story has marinated within me, I can say wholeheartedly that I LOVE HIM, I do. i think he changed in such a complicated ways towards the end there, though he stays lovely. Also I was trying to gaslight myself into thinking I was okay with what we got but actually WE SHOULD’VE GOTTEN HIS POV FOR THE LAST CHAPTER, FUCKKK