I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

reblog if you are an ad hating commie

did this morherfucker just make apples out of apples??

psst... two and a half weeks, y'all.

We need the obnoxious atheists back. I know they engineered their own destruction by being annoying and pretentious, but it has become apparent how essential to the ecosystem they were. The religious fanatics have become too bold without their natural predators. Jesus wojaks would have been torn to shreds in 2011.

One issue is that many of the obnoxious atheists are also deeply racist. They might find too much common ground with the religious fanatics.

Jeez, just tag Ricky Gervais why don't you

Holy fucking shit of all the possibilities I did not see that one coming.

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— DERRY GIRLS 2.03 — FLEABAG 2.03

HOLY COW!

This is an extraordinary resource. (making a note to go hunting for some things...)

Hey. Please share this, bookmark it, whatever. Copy-paste the contents into the body of this post on your reblog if you want, I'm tired out from writing it.

if you'd like to watch something but everything feels too much, here is a 24/7 puppy livestream provided by the finnish national broadcaster. the bordercollie puppies are now 11 days old. the livestream will continue for eight weeks in total. this is an annual event and super popular in finland but you can watch it from abroad as well! the puppies will get names on sunday this week.

The puppies have names now! ☺️ They are Tuike (twinkle), Säde (beam), Välke (sparkle), Kipinä (spark), Salama (lightning bolt), Rusko (glow at twilight and dawn), Hämy (twilight), Pilke (glint), Kulo (burning dry grass) and Tähti (star) ☺️

I can’t believe one of the plot points in Hannibal was that he couldn’t get Will pregnant so he baby trapped him with a teenager? I feel like he could have asked him to dinner before he tried all that.

#at this point i swear yall are just trolling us

Murder Family <3

#and his mizumono c-section scar...

Hannibal's gift to Will

#truly insane show i love it so dearly #i know he can’t technically get Will pregnant but I also know that he tried his best ☺️ and that’s all that matters

I'm genuinely losing it at this tag

@cellardoor28

omg

The Robot Uprising Began in 1979

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On January 25, 1979, Robert Williams became the first person (on record at least) to be killed by a robot, but it was far from the last fatality at the hands of a robotic system.

Williams was a 25-year-old employee at the Ford Motor Company casting plant in Flat Rock, Michigan. On that infamous day, he was working with a parts-retrieval system that moved castings and other materials from one part of the factory to another. 

The robot identified the employee as in its way and, thus, a threat to its mission, and calculated that the most efficient way to eliminate the threat was to remove the worker with extreme prejudice.

"Using its very powerful hydraulic arm, the robot smashed the surprised worker into the operating machine, killing him instantly, after which it resumed its duties without further interference."

A news report about the legal battle suggests the killer robot continued working while Williams lay dead for 30 minutes until fellow workers realized what had happened. 

Many more deaths of this ilk have continued to pile up. A 2023 study identified that robots have killed at least 41 people in the USA between 1992 and 2017, with almost half of the fatalities in the Midwest, a region bursting with heavy industry and manufacturing.

For now, the companies that own these murderbots are held responsible for their actions. However, as AI grows increasingly ubiquitous and potentially uncontrollable, how might robot murders become ever-more complicated, and whom will we hold responsible as their decision-making becomes more self-driven and opaque?

Okay, I've worked in industrial robotics for about a decade - a huge portion of that time being working with safety systems - and this story just did not look true to me, so I looked into it.

"The robot identified the employee as in its way and, thus, a threat to its mission, and calculated that the most efficient way to eliminate the threat was to remove the worker with extreme prejudice."?

Come off it.

Robert Williams was working with the parts retrieval system, yes. The system was 5-storey shelving, where a robot mounted on a cart would move in and retrieve the parts and take them off to other stations. The robot+cart weighed at least one ton.

The system was either giving wrong results about the inventory level in the shelves, or wasn't picking anywhere near fast enough (reports are unclear) so:

Robert Williams was asked to climb up to get them himself. While he was doing this extremely unsafe activity (of CLIMBING THE SHELVES WHERE THE INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY WAS WORKING), the system was not switched off. Jesus Fucking Christ.

While he was up there, the robot, which to reiterate, was still switched on, was continuing its work without any input that a worker was in the operating area. It went in to retrieve the parts, and its pre-programmed path intersected with Robert's head, and killed him instantly. It is true that he was not found for 30 minutes until his colleagues came looking for him.

Williams' family successfully sued the robot manufacturers for $10,000,000 for not having installed sufficient safety systems.

Today, in any industrial facility where robots are working, we spend huge amounts of time and money ensuring these incidents (I'm not calling it an accident, because accidents imply there's no one to blame. Whoever sent him up there, and didn't shut the system down is to blame) do not occur.

We have 2 meter high fencing around everywhere a robot possibly moves in its work. We have "lightguards"; laser systems across anywhere the fencing has to have gaps, that kill the power to the entire system if they are tripped. We have emergency stop buttons on literally every piece of equipment. You can't even open a door without stopping everything. Hard hats, eye protection, and high-vis vests are mandatory for anyone even walking through the footpaths on the factory floor.

This is not a story of murderbots deciding humans are in their way and killing them without mercy to get the job done. It's so easy to ascribe that level of decision-making to something that moves on it's own, but it's completely incorrect. It was a machine working exactly as it was supposed to, without any feedback that anything was wrong.

This is a story of a flagrant disregard of worker's safety around industrial machinery.

The safety regulations that mandate the precautions we use today are written in Robert Williams blood.

reblog to diminish the horrors from the person you reblogged from

The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise