Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Ants have color vision. They are much less visual creatures than their close cousins bees and wasps. The larger eyes an ant has the more she will be interested in colors, and the more likely she is to be able to notice you as a larger creature.

Some ants have greatly reduced eyes, especially army ants who only sense light and dark ... they are much more tuned into touch, sound and pheromone signals from their thousands of sisters who act like a giant sensory organ for the colony as it moves.

*yawns* Well, it’s a relaxing Sunday morning and I just woke up, guess I’ll grab my Hell Rectangle and submit myself to The Horrors.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@matthiasott/116609310065016685

“One approach, proposed by Google Research, is what you might call a “token auction.” In this model, advertisers don’t buy ad slots on a page. Instead, they bid, token by token, on the actual text the model generates. Each advertiser brings their own LLM, and an auction mechanism decides whose model gets to influence the next word. The output is a weighted blend of competing interests, shaped by who’s willing to pay more.”

Affirmation: I have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put me to sleep.

OK, a •lot• of replies need this reponse:

Yes, of •course• they will start ignoring robots.txt etc as soon as they think it hurts their business. Of course.

It is important to •force that fight•, rather than just capitulating in advance.

PSA: you can borrow experience packs from your local library. You just need a blank neurochip and a chip reader that attaches to your phone. (I use a bluetooth one that I got from AliExpress). Yesterday I took a boat down the Seine over lunch and by the time I got back to reality that bug I’d been beating my head against all morning surrendered to my refreshed brain. I’m on the waiting list to borrow being Taylor Swift’s nipple wrangler.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_Experience_Pack