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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I used to regularly draw and attempt other art like things. In recent years that has stopped, but in the last few months I have been trying to get myself to doodle again. Here's a few things I had the least negative feelings about.

#doodle #yaombaaa

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• Reptilian like creature with big head and short arms whose body is wrapped around the trunk of a tree. (remote)
• A squat, round, bipedal creature with one large eye and big, almost floppy ears. They have a large face and no neck, and no discernible torso. They're not smiling, but they're also not frowning. They smells strongly of earthy things. They are waving. Are they friendly? (remote)
• A humanoid like creature with characteristics suggestive of sheep or wild herbivores of various sorts. They appear to have on a very woolly sweater. Or maybe... is that their fur? They are saying, "I can't take much more of this!" (remote)
• A creature that mostly resemble an octopus drawn without reference. It says, "I don't have all my legs, and my mouth is in the wrong place! (I blame pollution.)" (remote)

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frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org ("Framework :fedora: :ubuntu:") wrote:

We Turned an Intel 13th Gen Laptop Into an AMD System in Under 30 Minutes https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-7040-framework-laptop-mainboard-transfer-performance-test-review

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@nadim "We should unionize!"

"… not THOSE kinds of opinions."

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frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org ("Framework :fedora: :ubuntu:") wrote:

Reviews of Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen 7040 Series) are live

https://frame.work/blog/reviews-of-framework-laptop-13-amd-ryzen-7040-series-are-live

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

Will I get in trouble if I admit that I was bored with Star Trek around 1980? I don't need to see any more of it ever again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/04/i-dont-like-star-trek-anymore/

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• Weird trek gadgets reused in multiple episodes (remote)

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

My workplace has announced a new criterion for end-of-year performance ratings: "Expressing Opinions". Looking forward to getting 9999/5 on that metric, absolutely shattering all expectations and having it single-handedly push my performance review from mediocre to unprecedented

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

4. The Dwarves of Demrel (2018). A really cool indie fantasy movie that, due to its apparent kickstarter funding, can just be its own unmarketable little thing. Some dwarves in an oppressive low-fantasy setting get trapped in a mine collapse and their prospects for rescue/escape are not looking good.

It reminds me of the kind of low-budget original programming that the Sci-Fi channel would sometimes bet on

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• Movie poster for Dwarves of Demrel. A figure wearing a gas mask and holding a torch dominates most of the frame. Behind them, the greenish face of something monstrous. Below them, at a much smaller scale, the silhouettes of three dwarven miners.

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

While it's fun to watch, can we just get the grisly death of the Republican party at the hands of MAGA over with already? Our government has serious work to do.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/04/i-remember-the-conservative-lockstep/

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• Matt Gaetz (remote)

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

This "Roman empire" nonsense is just another annoying brain worm.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/04/now-i-cant-help-thinking-about-the-roman-empire/

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• Vitellius (remote)

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

Academia is often poor at recognizing good work.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/04/keep-working-hard-maybe-someone-will-notice-you/

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• Katalin Kariko (remote)

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outie@slime.global ("HDMI banana") wrote:

Facebook Messenger has added ai-generated stickers and it's going exactly how you'd expect

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• A Bluesky user posts: "found out that facebook messenger has ai generated stickers now and I don't think anyone involved has thought anything through", with screenshots of stickers generated from the prompts "waluigi rifle", "child soldier", "Karl Marx large bosoms" and "Trudeau buttocks". (remote)
• Facebook Messenger AI-generated stickers for "Mickey mouse toilet" (remote)
• A Messenger conversation in which someone has sent AIgen stickers for the prompts "Elmo knife", "Sonic bosom", "pregnant Shrek" and "giving birth Pikachu" (remote)
• Stickers for the prompt "pokemon strippers" (remote)

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computerchroniclesbot@botsin.space ("ComputerChroniclesScreens") wrote:

Approximate Frame #219 from The Computer Chronicles - Speech Synthesis 1984-B0S8SUzgViI

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• Approximate Frame #219 from The Computer Chronicles - Speech Synthesis 1984-B0S8SUzgViI (remote)

bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

i took this video in a seoul nightmarket years ago and it's been bugging me ever since... does anyone know why the dark vertical line appears on camera but not IRL? it happened on my friend's phone too.

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• a vertical dark line on a video of egg toast being cooked in seoul (remote)

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

I’ve been using a @frameworkcomputer Laptop 13 for the past three weeks. Deeply, deeply excited for that company’s mission and extremely pleased with my computer. Hoping to blog more about it soon and also contribute to maintaining and improving Linux support.

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• 019ceadd6ca9e934.jpeg (remote)

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LukeBornheimer@sfba.social ("Luke Bornheimer") wrote:

BREAKING: San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors just approved a resolution urging SFMTA to implement a citywide No Turn On Red (NTOR) policy.

NTOR increases safety for people crossing the street, especially children, seniors, and people with disabilities.

https://NTORsf.com

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• [Urging the MTA to Prohibit Right Turns on Red] Sponsor: Preston Resolution urging the Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) to develop and implement a plan for No Turn On Red (NTOR) at every signalized intersection in San Francisco and approve a citywide NTOR policy. 09/26/2023; REFERRED FOR ADOPTION WITHOUT COMMITTEE REFERENCE AGENDA AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING Question: Shall this Resolution be ADOPTED? (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

I honestly think if you attached the plot of a Zelda game to any other franchise, everybody would realize it's total garbage.

"Ok: you've been sleeping for 100 years and now you've gotta team up with the grandchildren of all the people you knew 100 years ago, when the war was lost. But it wasn't really lost because literally nothing's happened since then, because Zelda's been alive and fighting this whole time. Also, somehow she hasn't aged. Anyway, you have amnesia. Here's your smartphone."

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danwentzel@urbanists.social ("Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈 (on Mastodon)") wrote:

“Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker.”

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• 0b8cfb1a8155a352.jpeg (remote)

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

What is an underrated great thing to see in London (challenge mode: not food or drinks)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I'm more annoyed by that than is probably reasonable. Like, get your stories straight!

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I was looking at my little hello world NES asm project from last year and I was reminded that the CPU on the NES is little-endian but the graphics chip takes *big*-endian addresses

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

I've reviewed Michael Lewis's book Going Infinite, which just published today as Sam Bankman-Fried's trial kicks off. Ultimately, it's a story of the FTX collapse that never meaningfully changed from the hero story Lewis originally set out to write.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/review-michael-lewiss-going-infinite

#FTX #SBF #GoingInfinite #MichaelLewis #crypto #cryptocurrency #BookReview

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

cartels buy firearms in the US and export them to Mexico, then the cartels produce drugs and export them back to the US market, and then we puis & moan that the cartels are so well armed

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/us/politics/trump-mexico-cartels-republican.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

because the expedition to arrest Villa went so well

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/us/politics/trump-mexico-cartels-republican.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):

nedbat@hachyderm.io ("Ned Batchelder") wrote:

New in #Python 3.12: itertools.batched, which finally implements my top-voted Stack Overflow answer (from 2008!)

https://stackoverflow.com/a/312464/14343

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

you know sometimes it’s just better to avoid using the latin loanwords

#SBF #FTX #GoingInfinite #MichaelLewis

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• That night, they’d argued about the wisdom of her continuing to run [begin highlight] Sam’s private hedge fund-cum-dragon’s lair [end highlight], as opposed to doing something else with her life. “Running Alameda doesn’t feel like something I’m that comparatively advantaged at or well (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

This Kevin McCarthy circus makes perfect sense when you remember many Republicans' goal is to gaslight us into believing the government does not work, so that they can dismantle it and abolish all forms of regulation and oversight.

The America they think was great predates workman's comp, antitrust, banking regulations, social security, and child labor laws.

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exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:

never understood why SPA was even a thing. it’s inherently significantly more tech debt to reimplement everything the browser already does

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Did not have "R's shut down...their own majority" on my '23 bingo card:

https://wapo.st/3t9RhT6

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

A lot of folks come to us with what they assume are performance problems when, in reality, their products suffer from respect issues.

Decide to really serve users who aren't like you in location, wealth, ability, or knowledge and you'll wind up solving your performance issues as a side-effect.

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

The private sector cryptography space, circa 2023

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