Zakia

how it feels to write mediocre fanfic every once in a while

do ppl not get embarrassed when they ai generate anything

Uneducated voters are more dangerous than illegal immigrants.

i miss my prime (reading 10 books a month, finishing a book in a day, no reading slump)

Matilda did not walk her four-year-old self to the public library every afternoon to soak up every possible moment she could in the comfort of books and joy of learning for you to not take advantage of your local library’s innumerable charms

His name is Professor Mashudu Tshifularo and this landmark surgery took place in March 2019 at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa.

Stop using ChatGPT. Consult a local grandma…text your friend gc w/ a weird name…type ur problems into Reddit dot com…go to the library…pay a psychic…the ancient sources of wisdom…

I made a zine about why AI sucks I thought people might enjoy looking at it

spider-woman india (commissioned work)

It sickens me how this phrase is thrown about daily in academia. It's an excuse to be lazy. Got asked the other day about my yearly PDP. "What AI development have you done?" I want my students to do deep thinking & use AI with integrity. I don't want to learn co-pilot!

100 years old and still the coolest person alive. Happy birthday, Sir David!

vintage telugu art rabbithole is too deep bro.. there're so many down there, but some just be stunning

I didn't expect such a crossover from myself, but so be it. Snow White and the annoyed Sadako.

Sugar × Spice × Not So Basic Bandhani

Greetings Kindred, The Bloodhunt servers are now closed. Thank you for all battles in the streets of Prague and the passion you shared over the years. Bloodhunt was shaped by its community, and we’re truly grateful. The sun has risen over Prague, the hunt is over.

desi betty boop stickers made by mansi patel. so cute 😭🤎

some of you are so privileged and blind to oppression that if you had lived during the freedom struggle, you would have condemned our freedom fighters for resisting against the colonial rule only because it wasn't peaceful or docile enough...

The research behind this is wild. Your sperm carries a set of instructions that tell your genes when to turn on and off. A Duke University study found that THC rewrites those instructions. The more weed in your system, the bigger the changes. It goes straight for the genes your future embryo needs in its first week of life. I had to read the "day 3 crash" part twice. For the first three days after fertilization, an embryo runs entirely on the mother's DNA. Day 3, the father's genes switch on. If those genes carry cannabis damage, the embryo just stops growing. Fertility doctors see this happen in their labs: embryos that fertilized fine and looked healthy on day 2 go completely still by day 5. Boston University tracked 1,535 couples trying to have a baby. Men who smoked weed once a week or more doubled their partner's miscarriage risk. That number held up even when the woman herself never touched cannabis. And the miscarriages clustered in the first 8 weeks, right when the father's damaged DNA would be doing the most harm. Duke also found that the specific genes THC alters in sperm overlap with genes linked to autism. One of those genes, called DLGAP2, helps brain cells communicate with each other. It was changed in cannabis users' sperm. When researchers bred THC-exposed male rats and checked their offspring, the same altered gene pattern showed up in the pups' brains. The damage crossed a generation. Weed has gotten way stronger over the last 30 years. THC content was about 4% in the 1990s but nearly quadrupled to 15% by 2018, and modern dispensary strains regularly sit at 20-30%. Concentrates go up to 95%. Quitting for about 11 weeks (one full cycle of sperm production) reverses some of the DNA changes. Not all of them. Duke's lead researcher says men should stop at least 6 months before trying for a baby. Half of your kid's genetic blueprint comes from you, and right now, THC is editing that blueprint before conception even happens.