#Professional Level

[psychiatricwarfare]

our autism isnt professionally diagnosed and it definitely wasnt self diagnosed either, but a secret third thing :)

#fungal spores #actually autistic #autism #asd #the secret is that multiple medical professionals have told us that we fit the bill for level 1 autism perfectly but refuse to diagnose us #because we dont 'look' autistic... despite that literally being mentioned as a possibility in level 1 autism.........

[qwikskills]

A great way to demonstrate your expertise in the AWS cloud platform

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud platform that provides a range of services and solutions for businesses. It enables businesses to build, deploy, and manage applications quickly and cost-effectively. AWS is an ideal solution for businesses that want to reduce their IT costs while providing reliable scalability and performance. With AWS, businesses can take advantage of its vast array of services such as storage, databases, analytics, content delivery networks (CDNs), machine learning tools, mobile development tools, and more. With its ever-growing list of features and capabilities, AWS makes it easy for business owners to get the most out of their investments in the cloud.

AWS Certification is a great way to demonstrate your expertise in the AWS cloud platform and its various services. It is also an excellent opportunity to showcase your knowledge and skills to employers. With an AWS certification, you can prove that you are capable of developing, deploying, and managing applications on the AWS cloud platform. You will also be able to gain recognition for your hard work and dedication in the IT industry. With this certification, you can become a valuable asset to any organization that relies on Amazon Web Services for their operations.

#AWS #Certification #Exam #Cloud Computing #Solutions Architect #Developer #SysOps Administrator #Associate Level #Professional Level

[blueteller]

You guys ever think about how funny it is that the whole reason why Cale did not have try at all to impersonate the original Cale, was because no one actually knew anything about him, despite the fact that everybody knew about him? On an international scale, even??

Cale: (doing an absolutely terrible job at being trash) Everybody else: That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about Cale Henituse to dispute it

#tcf #trash of the count's family #lcf #lout of the count's family #cale henituse #cale #tcf cale #humor #tcf humor #original cale henituse #og cale was a total mystery #people love to make angst about it but for me it's kinda hilarious #how can you know so much and yet so little about the guy #he mastered the art of doing a lot of being loud in a way that was actually really lowkey and quiet #not even his professional assassin butler suspected him #you gotta respect that level of subterfuge

[vergil-losing-archive]

Anyway... happy birthday V 🍰🎉

#not a wise choice to forget to wish him happy birthday when he now has a gun #dmc v #devil may cry #vergy+ #professional level editing right here

[black-cherry-faygo]

The funniest scene from Outer Banks is when Topper is like "Oh I can just track her (Sarah's) phone" and Rafe is all like "??? Are you spying on her???"

Like, my boy, you shot Sarah and tried to drown her.

#sarah cameron #rafe cameron #topper thornton #outer banks #Just sibling things i fuckin guess #Taking murdering your sibling over the last oreo to the next level #obx #rafe obx #sarah obx #topper obx #Professionals have STANDARDS

[moon-pepper]

I'm pretty firmly of the opinion that understanding history is necessary to prevent the worst parts of it from repeating, so I spend a lot of my free time trying to learn about things like colonialism, slavery, genocide -- and it worries me to no end to see how much the majority of people don't seem to understand even about events everyone is familiar with. I used to be baffled that anyone could genuinely believe slavery was "just how things were back then", but it makes sense when you realize that most history lessons only deal with what the people in power decided to do; public outrage about a particular action only matters in the historical context if that outrage led to actual mass revolution. Even before we get to the layers of whitewashing and propaganda constantly applied to history, there's an innate bias toward treating major political movements as though they just appear and disappear entirely at random. Which leads me to wonder...

Do fellow gentiles realize that the Nazis weren't new?

What I mean is that most coverage I see of the Nazi ascension to power in Germany presents them as this new, fringe group that came to power out of nowhere through solely violent means. Sometimes there will be explicit mention of the fact that antisemitism was extremely prevalent throughout Germany (occasionally even the rest of Europe!) prior to Hitler's political campaign, but oftentimes it seems implicit that mass antisemitism in Germany began when the NSDAP first formed. Even when the prior existence of antisemitism is brought up, the Nazis are portrayed as a new, unique evil; they did things that no democratic society would ever dream of doing, things that could only be achieved by either completely hiding them from the public or by threatening anyone who spoke against them. "Nazi" is simultaneously an easy epithet for any excessively cruel or restrictive person and a label that is far too severe to seriously apply to anyone because the Nazis were so evil in a way that nobody else was that nobody is truly deserving of comparison.

The thing is, though, that the policies put into place by the Nazi government in order to enable their genocidal end goal weren't original. Even setting aside the fact that they're often viewed as the inventors of genocide despite Hitler openly admitting that he got the idea from the treatment of Indigenous peoples by the U.S.A. (highly recommend watching this BadEmpanada video to learn about that), very few of the Nazis' beliefs or actions were original to the Nazis. The conspiratorial, racially-puristic ideas that the Nazis touted were derived from contemporary conservative thinkers all across the West, and many of the antisemitic legal policies they implemented as part of their Final Solution were practices that had been standard throughout Europe for centuries prior.

The infamous yellow-star badges used to identify Jewish citizens? Those were first devised and enforced the region (by both Christian and Muslim rulers) at least as early as the 800s; it was 1215 when Pope Innocent III declared that all Jewish and Muslim people living in Catholic lands should be required to wear identifying clothing with the explicit goal of segregating them from Christians. The Nazi ghettos to which Jewish citizens were forcibly relocated were inspired by ghettos which had existed to segregate and isolate Jewish populations for centuries; the only real difference is that these new ghettos were just preludes to concentration camps rather than being meant for long-term habitation. Just about every part of Western society had some form of restriction (mandated or voluntary) banning Jewish people from occupying certain jobs or limiting their presence in universities going back centuries before the Nazis existed. There were more than 350 years where Jewish people were not legally permitted to live in England.

The reason I bring all of this up is because, even among people who are conscious of Europe's widespread antisemitism prior to the rise of Nazism, there's a strong notion that the Nazis were so detestable because they came out of nowhere; that they completely defied the norms of the day and took their antisemitism to a level that even the deeply antisemitic societies of past Europe never would have.

In reality, the Nazis weren't much of an escalation -- they were a return. Legal segregation, expulsion, and even slaughter of Jewish people really only began to end when the Enlightenment came and public sentiment in the West began to favor secular government. The first country to abolish legal restrictions on Jewish people was Revolutionary France in the 1790s. Russia maintained its restrictions on Jewish citizens' rights up until it also saw revolution in 1917. The idea that Jewish people were responsible for all of society's ills and needed to be subjugated and exterminated was not a new idea that took hold of Germany due to its economic suffering after World War 1; it was a very old, very popular idea that most of Europe had only just begun to abandon and which was brought back in full force the moment it became politically convenient.

Consider how this compares to present-day politics. Jewish Germans were only granted equal rights in 1871 -- Adolf Hitler's father and mother were 34 and 11 years old, respectively -- and when the Nazi Party formed only 49 years later, the majority of adult Germans would have grown up in or been raised by parents who grew up in a world before religious desegregation. The Nazi Party's promise to the German public was not to introduce a newly bigoted society, but to bring back the bigotry they had grown up with and ensure that it would never leave again; they succeeded by using Germany's post-war suffering to "prove" their society was declining and blaming that decline on a recent major societal change, thereby convincing Christian Germans who were still deeply antisemitic that you see? we let the Jews have rights and not even fifty years later everything is awful. Many Germans did not need to be lied to or forced into supporting the Nazis because, to them, the Nazis were just fighting to revive the "Good Old Days" of their youths.

As a political party, the Nazis were functionally identical to all of the modern-day pundits eagerly proclaiming that racial equality and LGBT equality and religious diversity and welfare policies are destroying the country. Any period of significant economic downturn, any large cultural shift, any major catastrophe no matter the cause is automatically the decline of Western Society to them -- and the blame for that decline is always placed on the most relevant pro-equality social movements. What makes the Nazis unique is not their goals or the beliefs that fueled them; what makes the Nazis unique is that they're the latest and largest example of a group like them gaining power and then rapidly losing that power, which makes them simultaneously martyr idols for subsequent fascists and sacrificial vessels through which liberals can pretend the world's evils were expunged.

Any major shift in favor of granting rights to the oppressed inevitably stirs up a proportional conservative backlash with the effort of reversing course -- not just by revoking those new rights, but by making the previous inequality worse so that it becomes harder to undo again. If we care about ensuring an equitable future, it is vital to understand that the fight for that future does not end with a law being passed. It ends only when equality for all is so well-established as a social norm that there is no way to benefit from pushing for its destruction. Do not get complacent.

#pepperpost #antisemitism #long post #disclaimer that i am not a historical expert and this is not intended as a professional essay. it's pretty surface-level t.b.h. #second disclaimer that this is not meant as doomsaying. i believe people are good by default #anyway. spent way too long typing all this out mostly to try and mull over my own recent thoughts on this subject #hopefully it's coherent to anyone else

[spicyvampire]

Tinn being jealous [Part 5] : Mr Ruthless Night of the Horny Edition

LAWS OF ATTRACTION (2023) EP.7

#laws of attraction #laws of attraction the series #tinncharn #jamfilm #mjtag #user25shades #tagnads #userpharawee #becauseigtf #tansedits #edits:loa #this show is a comedy #slowly tryna go back to making edits cuz I kinda miss it even tho I have like 0 energy for them rn #how did they keep a straight face saying any of that #truly remarkable level of professionalism tbh

[canisalbus]

Not quite sure how to politely phrase this so I'll just be blunt, sorry, but would you ever open commissions? I'd pay big bux to get my priest mouse drawn by you

I do commissions extremely rarely, I'm afraid. It's not that I don't like drawing for people (or that I have no use for that extra income), I just can't handle the additional pressure and deadlines that well at all at the moment. Sorry!

#full disclosure #I've been struggling with severe depression and anxiety for over a decade now #it seems like I get completely disproportionate performance anxiety every time #it tends to make me lowkey freak out to be frank #I'd love to be able to do commissions at least a little bit more regularly in the future #but think I have to somehow get my mental health situation under control first #if I want to reach the level of professionalism and reliability that is necessary and required for the job #thank you for the interest though! It's good to hear there would be takers if I actually did the thing #answered #cawsket

[rotzaprachim]

I hope everyone whose been running their mouth about rebuilding diasporic Jewish culture and evil Zionist Hebrew destroying Yiddish, ladino, and judeo-Arabic knows that even the most mild limitations on contact with Israeli academia/study abroad programs/flow information would be a disaster for an already struggling field with extreme financial constraints and a very very limited time frame to record native speakers (who for every diasporic language apart from Yiddish almost entirely live in Israel or have language institutions based in the state of Israel), develop curricula, and stabilize/retransmit the language

#It would be very very bad for Yiddish studies too #On the msot basic level academic and professional proficiency in modern Hebrew is often a requirement and that’s very hard to achieve #Without immersion in ha’aretz

[volixia669]

OTW’s Legal Chair is Pro-AI and What That Means

traHoooooooo boy. Okay, so for those who don’t know, OTW shared in their little newsletter on May 6th an interview their legal chair did on AI.

Most people didn’t notice...Until a couple hours ago when I guess more high profile accounts caught wind and now every time I refresh the tweet that links the newsletter that’s another 10+ quote tweets.

The interview itself is short, was done in February, and...Has some gross stuff.

Essentially Betsy Rosenblatt agrees with Stability AI that its fair use, and believes that AI is “reading fanfic”.

To be EXTREMELY clear: Generative AI like ChatGPT is not sentient. No AI is sentient, and Generative AI are actually incredibly simple as far as AI goes. Generative AI cannot “read”, it cannot “comprehend” and it cannot “learn”.

In fact, all Generative AI can do is spit out an output created out of a dataset. Its output is reliant on there being variables for it to spit back out. Therefore, it cannot be separated from its dataset or its “training”.

Additionally, the techbros who make these things are profiting off them, are not actually transforming anything, and oh yeah, are stealing people’s private data in order to make these datasets.

All this to say: Betsy Rosenblatt does not actually understand AI, has presumably fallen for the marketing behind Generative AI, and is not fit to legally fight for fic writers.

So what does this mean? Well, don’t delete your accounts just yet. This is just one person, belonging to a nonprofit that supposedly listens to its users. There’s a huge backlash on social media right now because yeah, people are pissed. Which is good.

We should absolutely use social media to be clear about our stances. To tell @transformativeworks that we are not okay with tech bros profiting off our fanworks, and their legal team should be fighting back against those who have already scraped our fanworks rather than lauding a program for doing things its incapable of doing.

I have fanfic up on Ao3. I have fanfic I’m working on that I’d love to put there too. But I cannot if it turns out the one safe haven for ficwriters is A-Okay with random people stealing our work and profiting off of it.

#ao3 #otw #transformative works #otw discourse #fuck generative ai #everyone who thinks its okay to steal people's artwork and writing to make a quick buck can go fuck themselves #i already have to deal with this shit on a professional level i don't need it in my hobby too

[jackawful]

Y'all have got to realize there are ways to protect older teens from sexual predators without insisting that teenagers don't think about sex or sexuality until the magical moment exactly 18 years from their birth. Trying to reduce harm to teenagers (especially teenagers online!) is a good and valid goal but pretending none of them have ever viewed porn or fucked isn't it. You've gotta acknowledge that if they don't have safe ways to explore their sexuality with peers they are going to explore in unsafe ways & that secrecy, shame, and censorship are what open the door to predators & allow them to normalize unhealthy power dynamics.

Shit like (professed) minors allegedly being on ezra's site is most likely the result of that community being the only thing they could find that treated them as like, humans with autonomy and desire, and that's a pattern that plays out with adult exploitation of teens in-person too (the "you're so mature for your age" routine). Of course teenagers exploring sexuality for the first time fell into a community that told them they weren't bad for being attracted to adults or having sexual desire in the first place! Thing is, an "Adult Attracted Minor" is like, the default state of teenagerdom.

The shit that's actually been demonstrated to help with this isn't carceral whackamoling of bad actors - it's giving teenagers education about healthy relationships and power dynamics and safe sex and yeah, kink, and also giving them the autonomy to make their own decisions about sex. Specifically, you let them know that it's normal to be attracted to adults but that adults trying to date or fuck them are in a position of power that means those relationships can't be healthy. In absence of that, teens are vulnerable to the first adult that appeals to their need to be taken seriously. And for fucks sake, using "minor" to equate teens with young children in these cases makes this tactic easier for abusers to pull off, not harder, because it is self-evident to teens that they have more capacity for autonomy than the average 8 year old. Sure, it makes the people you're targeting in your callout Sound Worse, but it also immediately loses you credibility in the eyes of teenagers themselves.

And for fucks sake, don't let a handful of bad actors using a leftist framing for that old song and dance lead you to believe that's what youth lib is about OR take away focus from all the times the right wing has systemically & institutionally done this.

#csa tw #posting this may very well be inviting piss on the poor levels of bad faith but it's important #I've seen the doc & based on the professional experience I have I'd be surprised if LE actually takes action anyway? #it's uh. always surreal to see how badly the internet handles this shit & meanwhile have multiple years of professional experience on it #like even when allegations are reasonable there's still a lot that seems more designed to stir a mob than help kids #toonimal #ezra orena #also like. the fallout from this one to people who are obviously unconnected and just easy to target? bad bad bad bad bad #csa prevention

[pianokantzart]

https://youtu.be/6I-0cl3Fen4?si=vfanEV12rlNbRJy_

PLEASE look at this beauty. This guy is so talented.

Oh yeah! I know this guy! Originally discovered him through this video:

Apparently they're 14 years old!? Crazy.

#there are some insanely talented children out there #the most animation I did at his age was a flipbook containing scans from a Calvin and Hobbes comic #now there's kids making professional level 3d renders after coming home from middle school #absolutely bonkers #askbox #bberetd

[celestie0]

when ppl get too caught up in the accuracy of situations in fanfiction or if things are super realistic or as they should/would be in real life etc etc im like. my tumblr user in christ. it's fanfiction.

#ff writers don't get paid to put hollywood level research into their stories lol #also keep in mind ff writers don't have professional editors either #ALSO i've read a lot of published books and watched massive scale high budget production tv shows/movies that have put way less #effort into researching n making sure things are cohesive n legit compared to some fanfics i've read #js thinking ab a m00tie who had an anon come for her for something like this n i'm still pissed ab it #just enjoy the fic you're getting to read for free #like obv i think realism makes for a great story and is part of what good writing entails #but?? it's ok to bend the rules in some places?? it's a STORY #that's like getting pissed at a fantasy book for having dragons cuz they don't exist irl #just say u have a bad imagination n go #the author's pen is the will of the world in the story perioddd #either accept them or dont. but don't make fun of or criticize authors if you're not fuckin w it when ur just sittin behind a keyboard #also sometimes i just wanna read stories that don't remind me of the harsh truths of reality lmfao like get outtaaa heeerreee #just writer things

[karmirage]

why is it that kitty went through a traumatic event and then immediately decided that weaboo cosplay was her coping mechanism

#that and the hair straightener #btw very funny to me that she straightened her hair for her ninja era. #considering that I'm japanese-american and could NOT get that level of straightness w/o either a professional or a week without washing 💀 #kitty pryde/shadowcat #marvel #wednesday spoilers #river rambles

[windslar]

#saffron did not sign up for stans when she became a celebrity chef #she's all about reaching the top of the culinary career #but it's more about levelling up professionally and earning respect and recognition from her peers #she could (and lbr *I* could) do without the whole celebrity aspect of it all #the sims 4 #ts4 #ts4 legacy #tjolc #the joy of life challenge #the joy of life legacy #ts4 gameplay #tjolc gen 2

[frostbitebakery]

Cody made sure he was the picture of professionalism. Back straight, expression blank but for a sprinkle of bitchface becoming for a Marshal Commander. One of the tookas started grooming his ear. Cody giggled.

Obi-Wan just leaned harder on the doorway, arms crossed, eyebrow raised, Cody’s dignity forfeit. “I’m sure there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for this.”

Cody giggled again as the grooming continued to his chin. Clamped his mouth shut. Breathed deeply. Starting fresh. Serenity in action. “General, as you can find in my report, CW-638442-46, subsection F, this is all Waxer’s fault.”

(Somewhere else on the Negotiator, Waxer sneezed. “Pollen,” Boil nodded knowingly.)

“Furthermore, I have personally ensured,” he stopped, biting his lip, as another tooka looked up at him and laid its head on his chest, “personally ensured the situation is contained as per SOP and security level required of the incident.”

Obi-Wan smoothed a hand over his beard, watching yet another tooka curl up in the curve of Cody’s elbow, yawn, and fall asleep. “I see. Very good, Commander. Excellent handling of the situation.”

“Do you want to hold one?”

“Yes please!”

#commander cody #cc 2224 #star wars tooka #the clone wars fanart #my art #professional bs 101 with Cody #lection 1: #personally containing a deemed high security level incident #I pull rank on you so I can cuddle the tookas #the high command was absent this evening #rumors say general kenobi dashed through the hallways #carrying tooka appropriate toys #frostbitebakery art