Cuttlefish can change color to fade into the background. It can do it amazingly fast.
Stomp stomp
That’s a pikmin enemy
cthulhu made some tiny elephants and they are AMAZING
This is a flamboyant cuttlefish. It’s not changing to blend in, they don’t blend. They have those “don’t eat me I’m toxic” colors. This is probably akin to a facial expression, cuttles use their colors for expressions and communication just as much as camo.
Y’all need to have a greater degree of 1- healthy suspicion in Alexa and corporate surveillance devices personal assistants, and 2- understanding of how dangerous this kind of algorithm is in the hands of a multinational company (and anyone for that matter.)
To begin with, that data is both available for sale and able to be subpoenaed by the government. Alexa’s records and recordings have already been used in criminal trials. In the US, a digital record of your emotional patterns can be used to deny you housing, jobs, and to rule on your ability to exercise your basic rights. Consider that psychiatric stigma and misdiagnosis can already be wielded against you in legal disputes and the notion of a listening device capable of identifying signs of distress for the purpose of marketing to you should be made more clearly concerning.
Moreover we have already seen the use of algorithms like this on Facebook and other “self-reporting” (read: user input) sites capable of identifying the onset of a manic episode [1][2][3], which have been subsequently been linked to identifying vulnerable (high-spending) periods to target ads at these users, perhaps most famously in selling tickets to Vegas (identified in a TedTalk by techno-sociological scholar Zeynep Tufekci where she more generally discusses algorithms and how they shape our online experiences to suggest and reinforce biases).
The notes on this post are super concerning- we are being marketed to under the guise of having our emotional needs attended to by the same people who inflicted that emptiness on us, and everyone is just memeing.
Ok so I’m a little embarrassed to admit I actually fell for this one, even though I’m usually WAY better and seeing through these scams…but it happened to me so I’m gonna spread this around. I just finished changing my entire bank VISA numbers and passwords, and nothing was stolen from my account because I acted SO FAST once I noticed some red flags when looking back at the email shortly after.
Since I use paypal to get payed for my commission work, when I got this fake alert; I shrugged and went through with it like any other “UPDATED INFORMATION” sort of deal because I was distracted and only half paying attention at the time. Like a lot of people, I use paypal a lot and so much of it comes second nature. This warning is for anyone who sometimes half-pays attention to things or just misses things sometimes, even if 99% of the time they can tell what’s fake or isn’t. People make mistakes, shit happens. So anyways, here’s what it looks like when opened:
Obviously, there are a few give aways that spell out F-A-K-E here, but me being Dyslexic, the few spelling errors literally didn’t jump out to me AT ALL (thanks a lot neurodiversity + dyslexia) so to me it sounded legitimate enough to trust even for only one stupid second. It takes you to what looks PERFECTLY like the actual Paypal log in, like I literally saw NO difference. They looked the EXACT SAME!!!
I saw no difference from the unusual…until I saw the URL just a little too late. (this is the fake one:)
Ok, now I was feeling REALLY STUPID for not checking the URL first, but shit happens. I was distracted, and like I said it DOES sadly look pretty legit if you’re paying little attention or are going on auto pilot.
Compare that URL to the ACTUAL LEGIT paypal one:
Another thing that got me at first was that this was in my actual inbox, not a junk/spam folder. This thing is fooling filters somehow so once again, if you’re only paying half attention, it’s easy to be like “oh ok whatever this won’t take long.” So now let’s look at the emails senders.
Legitimate/Official:
FAKE/SCAM:
If you fall/fell for this one, don’t panic. (I FREAKED OUT when I first realized I fell for a fake email that just got all my VISA numbers, and that didn’t help at all.)
What you need to do is change ALL of your passwords ASAP, and cancel/change your card number ASAP. DON’T just change your passwords! There should be a phone number on the back of your card, call that number and explain that you need all numbers changed. As soon as all that’s taken care of, you should be fine. So this whole thing might not’ve been one of my brighter moments, but I had NO idea this was going around, so I figured I’d spread it around as much as possible! Be extra aware! Look out for anything that jumps out as unusual, especially if you actively use paypal.
i like where this person is going with this, but it’s also wrong.
cats aren’t mimicking human infant cries when they meow. Why would they do that? How would they even know if they’ve never met a human infant? You know when cats meow that doesn’t involve humans? To their babies. Their kittens mewl and they meow back, until the kittens can open their eyes and learn the non-vocal and sub-vocal cat language cues.
Cats don’t meow to us because they’re trying to manipulate us into thinking they’re our babies. Cats meow to us because they suspect that we’re just big, bumbling babies that Need Some Extra Help Communicating.
You know when many cats, including my own, stop meowing at humans? When you learn what non-vocal language cues they recognize, and use those to communicate instead. One of the cues best known by humans is the slow-blink of warmth and respect.
I’m glad I found this, because this is probably why my cat talks to me as much as she does.
She used to be a mother, before she came home with me. So it makes hella sense.
When I go outside, she watches through the window and makes a little ‘meep’ sound when I walk back in, or longer mews, probably asking where I’ve been. She also likes to alert me after she jumps on me, with a meow.
One of her non verbal things is getting behind me then putting her claws in my back to make me sit back so she can lay on me.
Cats probably did develop to sound more like babies because the ones that sounded more like babies were more likely to be let inside back when we were starting to domesticate them by accident.
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