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Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

⭐ The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit https://aftermath.site/the-internet-is-full-of-ai-dogshit

"The once ubiquitous phrase “let me Google that for you” is now meaningless. You are as likely to return incorrect information as you are complete fabrications, and the people who put this content on the Internet do not care"

Yep. Google is basically useless at this point for anything beyond specific programming problems. I really need to look at other search engines.

📌 https://rknight.me/links/the-internet-is-full-of-ai-dogshit/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Something about this shot appeals to me. From my trip to Cumbria last autumn.

Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak Portra 400
Helios 44M 58mm/2

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

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• A roof on a grey stone building featuring a clock tower, a wind vane, a second tiny tower, and loads of moss, under a grey sky.

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

i've always liked the getty center but I will admit i'm looking forward to its eventual reuse as starfleet hq

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• Shot from Star Trek Into Darkness of Starfleet HQ (remote)
• Suspiciously similar arrangement of buildings in a photo from the Getty Center today (remote)

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

anyway today I took the 761 bus to the Getty and it was gorgeous as always and they had a cool exhibit on medieval books

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• A museum garden, photographed from above (remote)
• A very old (medieval) book, with gold framing around text on the verso and a graphic (I think it's Jesus having a particularly bad day) on the recto (remote)
• A ridiculously haphazard and casual shot of Van Gogh's Irises (remote)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

“Have nothing in your home, that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”

-- William Morris

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"In England in the 19th Century there arose certain thinkers – John Ruskin, William Morris – who believed that the quality of material objects reflects and affects the quality of society, even of the spirit."

By those standards, I guess we're screwed.

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

I was today years old when I learned Bluey and Bingo are girls.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

hrheingold ("Howard Rheingold") wrote:

Social media and user generated content 10 years too early

#OnlineCommunities

https://www.newsweek.com/look-whos-talking-175040

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

angiebaby@mas.to ("Angie 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

"Looks like you're using an ad-blocker"

Looks like you're trying to install 52 trackers on my computer.

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

UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

“Get your shit together, Todd.”

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• A man sits clothed in a shower as a dog, looking annoyed, holds the shower head on him. (remote)

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

absolutely love confounding angelenos by telling them I'm getting around LA on transit

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Anything that makes the web feel smaller is good for business. A #SocialWeb browser would be a VC's wet dream:

Bake-in some open source social features, like #microPub, #ActivityStream, and #RSS. Then smother it with a proprietary layer and ad network.

It would be like AOL for social media— nothing but shopping and free user-generated content.

Best of all, since it's a browser, you side-step the #AppleTax, so anything we sign up for we'd have to call to cancel. Just like AOL, too. Wow.

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

FinchHaven@sfba.social wrote:

@mbbroberg

Just looked into this again today

There is *no* "interoperability" between #Mastodon and #Threads currently

You can search for "Threads.net" and find profiles (Mosseri et al) than can seem to be opened on Mastodon, but they are *not* linked back to the original profiles on Threads

Thus you can *seem* to reply to one of those profiles on Mastodon, but your reply does *not* propagate back to the original profile on Threads

@mosseri -- seeming to be here on Mastodon -- is an illusion

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

lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

In 1940, Paramount released "The Three Stooges" short "You Nazty Spy!". At that point in time, the U.S. had not yet entered what would become World War II, and the pro-Hitler German American "Bund" was strong after its largest rally the year before in New York City.

In the short, the Stooges portray three simpletons recruited to lead a dictatorship in "Moronika", with Moe as the Hitler character, Curly as the Goring character, and Larry as the Goebbels character. Their flag was a pair of twisted snakes resembling a swastika, their slogan was "Moronika for Morons" (like Hitler's "Germany for Germans").

As a further dig, the Stooges, who were all Jewish, threw in a variety of Yiddish in the dialogue.

Some powerful congressmen who were either pro-Hitler or pro-neutrality were incensed at this short, but Paramount went ahead and released it anyway, resulting in Moe being the first American actor to portray Hitler in a released film production.

The Stooges were a remarkable trio. One of the high points of my life was meeting Larry Fine. He was in a wheelchair from a stroke, but still had his sense of humor.

We shall never see their like again.

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

ReticentTurnip@universeodon.com ("Reticent Turnip") wrote:

Suffering for no apparent reason was a bit of a hard sell, and that's why they invented religion

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

Free_Press@mstdn.social ("Aure Free Press") wrote:

The brother from another Mother - and Father!
#AureFreePress #Caturday #dogsofmastodon

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• f4d987be98e38896.mp4 (remote)

Reblogged by mbrubeck@mefi.social:

dirtyoldtown@mefi.social ("DirtyOldTown") wrote:

When I was growing up, we lived for about five years in a house whose landline was two juxtaposed digits from the local drug and alcohol crisis line. We got wrong numbers all the time.

I remember one particular time a guy called up crying saying everything he did in life was wrong and he really needed help. And, being eleven years old, all I could do was try and be nice when I told him he had also dialed the wrong number.

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

40m JS8 is the busiest I have ever seen it right now #AmateurRadio 📡

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

lmfao

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• Screencap of a youtube video thumbnail. The thumbnail shows a pair of glasses sitting on an open book. Overlaid on the image is the text, "Por que a ortografia do inglês é tão estranha?" The title of the video is "Por que a ortografia do inglês é tão irregular?" The name of the channel is, "André Machado - Língua e Linguística"

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

Mr John Lee Hooker

https://music.apple.com/us/album/endless-boogie/1442843579

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Time for the best slam of the year!

Aussie Aussie Aussie
OI OI OI!

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

bobmonsour@indieweb.social ("Bob Monsour") wrote:

@fromjason That was some cool link…WTF?

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

malwaretech@infosec.exchange ("Marcus Hutchins :verified:") wrote:

Real freedom is saving 4% on my taxes by living in in a country with no healthcare, child support, or functional education system, then paying like 50% of my post-tax income if I happen to want any of those things

Europeans simply cannot comprehend this level of freedom

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

well, with that winter weather advisory maybe I’ll tune in ti the emergency nets tonight #AmateurRadio 📡

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• df77caf0c866b5dc.jpeg (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Security Alert: #Meta has gained access to your account lmaoo perfection.

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• A screenshot of a security alert email for a Gmail account, with personal information redacted, informing the recipient that Meta was granted access to their linked Google Account.

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

well, the example Rust code runs https://burn.dev/book/getting-started.html

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

keirFox@furry.engineer wrote:

It bothers me so much that most used fonts have no easily visible differences between "I" and "l" -- there's quite a difference between "Weird Al" and "Weird AI" as only one gets permission for and pays to reuse the work from a talented artist.

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

yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("Mandu 🥟") wrote:

no, he's not friendly.
go on and pet him if you dare.

#dogs

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• man holding chain with big links acting as a leash to a small terrier puppy wearing pajamas. chain is obviously not a real metal chain and is tongue-in-cheek. (remote)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

That's a pretty interesting and unexpected statistics! https://fosstodon.org/@writeblankspace/111744426795021145

Reblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

tedu@honk.tedunangst.com wrote:

"Why 32GB of RAM is becoming the standard"

Because programmers are incompetent.