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TerryHancock@mastodon.art ("Terry Hancock") wrote:

This is a video I posted some time ago about our production workflow, using open source software tools "From Conception to Completion".

https://vimeo.com/filmfreedomproject/c2c

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
dantheclamman@scicomm.xyz ("Dr. Dan Killam") wrote:

A new paper discusses a Bronze age city leveled by an asteroid airburst. Abstract reads like a Hollywood script: "A city-wide ~ 1.5-m-thick carbon-and-ash-rich destruction layer contains peak concentrations of shocked quartz (~ 5–10 GPa); melted pottery and mudbricks; diamond-like carbon; soot; Fe- and Si-rich spherules; CaCO3 spherules from melted plaster... Heating experiments indicate temperatures exceeded 2000 °C."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3

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MicroSFF ("Micro SF/F stories by O Westin") wrote:

RT @MicroSFF Arthur pulled the sword out of the stone, and tossed it aside. Then he sat down, and waited for the sun to set.
When darkness fell, the troll woke up.
"Thank you. That's been bothering me for years."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Lyrilith@mastodon.art wrote:

I just learned that I can export an InDesign file as an IDML file, which I then can open in Scribus! 🤯

I tested it wit a flyer and not all settings are converted correctly, but to work well enough! Things like missing line-spaces and such can be adjusted, but the rest is all there! :star_eyes:

#scribus #indesign #LibreGraphics #LibreOpenSourceSoftware

Anathema wrote:

Can’t decide if it’s more funny or depressing watching Labour completely implode.

Probably depressing.

God I hate England.

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aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

the delicious irony: creators of industrial language models are now worried about no longer being able to use the web as their "commons" (i.e. other people's labor that they appropriate and commercialize) because their own outputs are "polluting" it (via https://mailchi.mp/jack-clark/import-ai-266-deepmind-looks-at-toxic-language-models-how-translation-systems-can-pollute-the-internet-why-ai-can-make-local-councils-better)

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• One big problem: Today, we're in the era of text-generating and translation AI systems being deployed. But there's a big potential problem - the outputs of these systems may ultimately damage our ability to train AI systems. This is equivalent to environmental collapse - a load of private actors are taking actions which generate a short-term benefit but in the long-term impoverish and toxify the commons we all use. Uhb oh!. "Our empirical findings also raise concerns regarding the effect of synthetic data on model scaling and evaluation, and how proliferation of machine generated text might hamper the quality of future models trained on web-text." (remote)

owl@beach.city wrote:

slap base

owl@beach.city wrote:

data bass

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hiscursedness ("Crust Kringle") wrote:

RT @hiscursedness When it's the 21st of September

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Do you pine for the sexism and general regressive attitude of old school, traditional skeptical organizations? Barbara Drescher wants to bring them back, and some people think that's a good idea.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/21/i-escaped-in-time/

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laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com ("Laura Kalbag") wrote:

It’s that wonderful time of year where you get free online talks about inclusive design for a whole 24 hours courtesy of Inclusive Design 24.

In two days: 23rd September, don’t miss out!

https://inclusivedesign24.org/2021/schedule/

Anathema wrote:

Extremely disappointed in @WhichUK@twitter.com telling people to buy a phone with the goal of replacing it in two years. We need technology that lasts longer.

Nothing with less than 4 years support should be a “Best Buy”

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cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

As far as I understand it most experts believe the chinese government will support the competition to takeover parts of Evergrande and solve the problem that way without a crisis.

If that doesn't happen we could have a Lehman moment.

Over the last months the chinese goverment destroed whole sectors (e.g. E-Learning) without any help - so I wouldn't bet on support.

Also the company already tried to sell parts without much success and the competiton already has high debts...

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

ah yes, the discourse

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• A: Did you get that thing done that you wanted to? The research project on caterpillar symbolism in punk band album art? B: No! The friggin golf ball discourse waylaid me all day! A: Golf Ball? Oh is this the thing people were tweeting about? B: Yeah some guy bragged about giving his kids single golf balls as birthday presents their whole lives. He had this whole thread, and then he got ratio'd and everyone started weighing in on the classist implications and so on. People were sharing sad stories about their childhoods, "buckle up" threads were spiraling out of it all... there were a lot of angles to it. You didn't see ANY of this? A: I saw some people tweeting about golf balls but I didn't know what it was in reference to. so I ignored it. ... B: HOW??? (remote)

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lupyuen@qoto.org ("Lup Yuen Lee 李立源") wrote:

How Indian lawyers, scientists gave Sci-Hub its first legal defence team

https://news.careers360.com/sci-hub-scihub-libgen-alexandra-elbakyan-lawsuit-india-delhi-high-court-du-sol-delhi-university-iiser-jnu-mit-iit-science-research-elsevier

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Algot@mastodon.art wrote:

*Away*

Autumnal equinox
A really good chance
For an astronomy talk.
But not at the school dance
'Cause all the kids just walk.

--science teacher, chaperone

#Science
#SmallPoems
#FullMoon #Foolishness

owl@beach.city wrote:

Oh, actual Germans have used it.
Is it forum posts specifically?
I would have guessed that "shitposts" would be "Shitposts"

owl@beach.city wrote:

Can't spell my own fake word

owl@beach.city wrote:

Einstürzende Sheißbeiträge

Reblogged by technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see..."):
selfsame@tiny.tilde.website wrote:

Here it is, someone left a bag of store bought sand on the beach

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• Bag of 'play sand' on the beach (remote)

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bleeptrack@chaos.social ("Bleeptrack") wrote:

Dune might be the only movie where putting on your mask after the credits feels like the coolest move ever.

owl@beach.city wrote:

mufo (mundane UFO)

owl@beach.city wrote:

I need a sturdy stand for an 88-key stage piano.
It's not super heavy, I just don't want wobble.
Any recommendations?

owl@beach.city wrote:

"froot (plural froots)

1. A boot (storage compartment) located at the front rather than the rear of a car [...]

Synonyms

• frunk (North America)"

😆

owl@beach.city wrote:

Can fontconfig replace a glyph that's missing in a font, with a different glyph from the same font?

owl@beach.city wrote:

Soft gay and hard gay.

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• A laptop with a colourful lock-screen, with a split keyboard underneath, with colourful backlight similar to the lock-screen. (remote)

owl@beach.city wrote:

She always wants to drink from there.

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• Tabby cat in the grass, drinking water from a bowl that has collected rainwater outside. There's a mushroom by her side. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Jesus christ, please, just get the vaccinations now. Please.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/20/yet-another-of-those-stories/

owl@beach.city wrote:

Fisk of Fury

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

I wish I had wisdom... and the equanimity of mind to listen to it if I did.