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Reblogged by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
I am designing an online game called "Titled Goose Game.” Gameplay will let you:
- Correct your entry in Burke's Peerage
- Design your armorial crest
- Hobnob at Royal Ascot
- Harass your tenant farmers for rent
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
how lovely the discourse is these days…
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
First day of the honeymoon! Still adjusting to not checking work channels, definitely feeling some withdrawals. It was raining all day, but we still went out. The area is beautiful and the air fresh.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is very good, and an approach we're taking at MSFT too:
https://blog.almaer.com/building-a-modern-design-system-in-layers/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Food doesn't need to come from dead animals to be tasty, and if abstaining from meat is better for me and the environment, that's what I'll do.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/15/wheres-my-big-carrot-money/
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Eleven days after National Guard troops fired into a crowd of unarmed anti-war protesters at Kent State University in Ohio, local and state police in Mississippi opened fire on a group of students at Jackson State College in Jackson. In a 30-second barrage of gunfire, police fired 150 rounds into the crowd, killing two Black students and injuring dozens more.”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
As long as I've been in science, I've hated Elsevier. Remember when they owned a military arms company?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/15/everyone-hates-elsevier/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
So pretty.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/15/ball-o-spiders/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The system is corrupt and broken to favor the rich.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/15/this-is-capitalism/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It was an abysmally stupid debate. It was in 2008. I'm trying to forget it.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/15/when-i-used-to-debate-creationists/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
tottoro@mastodon.online ("Totoro🍊🍃") wrote:
Good morning, fediverse❤️
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be wrote:
There was a time when developing a project through online collaboration was a novelty, unusual enough to be used as a project name, as in Netlib, NetHack, NetBSD. These have mostly nothing to do with sending packets. Netlib is for numerical computing like LINPACK & BLAS, Nethack is a single-player game. and NetBSD is not purpose-designed for servers. "Net-" was basically today's "open-", "free-", or "libre-"... #retrocomputing
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
A site, popping up a window while I'm scrolling through the article's text: "Enjoying ?
Me: "I was until just now, thank you."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
awooo@pawb.fun ("awooo :blobfoxcheck: 🏴☠️ 🐾 ⎇") wrote:
@kissane Very good point, sadly even if you had a reliable form of human verification, that won't stop a single person from managing multiple discussions with the help from an LLM, their output is still multiplied.
Either way I suspect LLMs will reduce the accessibility of online spaces, because speaking a human language no longer means being human, so additional barriers will be put in place that end up hurting everyone.
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The soldier’s greatest hobby, he thought as he listened to his own voice talking, the bull session, add a bottle and you have his greatest joy, also his greatest escape, he thought. The unofficial institution that is the first-string substitute for women and the age-old conversation where the man explains his ideals and his hopes for his life.…”
— From Here to Eternity, by James Jones
https://a.co/4yhb3QH
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhhh... https://music.apple.com/us/album/dance-me-to-the-end-of-love/1565053848?i=1565053851
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
pixel@desu.social ("Andy") wrote:
Just saw that Google started offering .nexus as TLDs
looked into buying https://torment.nexus and it's already taken and a Mastodon instance is running on it
glorious actually, this passes
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Sometimes you re-read #Pratchett's #Discworld, and an occasional phrase hits you enough to quote it.
"Maybe, she thought, that was a normal family state in any case. When push came to shove [..] they'd just rely on each other automatically, without a thought."
Sounds to me like as good a definition for a family as you can give.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Sheril ("Sheril Kirshenbaum") wrote:
Born in 1906, computer scientist Grace Hopper invented the first compiler for computer programming language & was among the first programmers of the Harvard Mk1 computer.
Hopper popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages & paved the way to develop COBOL (an early high-level programming language). She originated the term "bug" to describe computer glitches & became a celebrated Rear Admiral in the US Navy.
https://news.yale.edu/2017/02/10/grace-murray-hopper-1906-1992-legacy-innovation-and-service #HistoryRemix #science #history
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
a robot may not message a human being, or through inaction, allow a human to be messaged
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:
Journalists who would never, ever consider working for Fox "News" continue to give their work -- free -- to Twitter.
They surely know that they're supporting a business controlled -- and manipulated in ugly ways -- by someone at least as malign as Rupert Murdoch. They're giving aid and comfort to someone who hates journalism and amplifies anti-democracy memes.
They could, instead, use the fediverse and control their own destinies.
How can they be helped to grasp this?
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Anyway I'm enjoying Fatal Twelve. Here's the main character's bestie trying to gently ask if you're illiterate
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
adventure_tense@mapstodon.space ("Andrew Wedlake") wrote:
Not sure if I can say this right, but...
I think I discovered today what the magic is for me using #darktable.
Back in the day I would go to the darkroom and make b&w prints on a Beseler 23C enlarger. That only got more interesting when I was introduced to colour!
For me, #darktable is like returning to that photographic lab. Exploring different combinations of modules, experimenting, and trying out different workflows. It can be linear, but doesn't have to be. Thanks to the #darktable team.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Finished off another heap of grading, and the sun is shining. Got to get outside for a bit, and then call my mother, and then wrap up the last class.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/14/geneticsdone/
Mastodon FeedGoogle today: buy the $1800 #Pixel phone!
Google in 3 years: software support for *this*? No way. What a fool put these obsolete chipsets in this garbage.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
oglaf@socel.net ("Oglaf") wrote:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
oglaf@socel.net ("Oglaf") wrote:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mattwilcox@mstdn.social ("Matt Wilcox") wrote:
#CSS Colour.
1990’s - 2010: pick a colour. Use hex. Done!
2010 - 2023: oh, you can have alpha too. Use rgba. *sighs* ok, or hsl you art nerd.
2023: buckle up fuck-nut, do you even know what a colour model is? Well then how can you pick the right one for your design requirement then? What’s your gamut? Idiot! Do you even HDR? “Green please?” Simpleton. Get out.
Mastodon Feed"You look like a good Eurovision entry."
(Still think Finland should have won... :blobcat_tears: )
#Eurovision #Eurovision2023 #Käärija #EurovisionMeme #BladeRunner2077 #ChaChaCha
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The Morris commencement ceremony was quite nice, which is more than I can say for what went down at the University of Wyoming.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/14/commencement-2023-the-kids-are-all-right/
