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

I've seen a couple of youtube channels now that have the whiff of SALAMI ("AI") generation of music. "Novelty" channels stuffed with recently produced videos with almost plausible music. I'm not a musician, but the songs contain strange transitions and other audio artifacts and uncanny valley lyrical delivery. The lyrics may have been written by a human, but I haven't spent too much time analyzing that. Best to stick to my trusted outlets for music and ignore the algorithm.

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DavidDarnes@mastodon.design ("Dave 🧱 :cursor_pointer:") wrote:

I'm still hyped about everything that happened at #11tyconf. The talks were so great, and I'm once again keen to try out @eleventy in new ways.

Especially interested to try out the new ‘Eleventy Transform' option within the Eleventy Image plugin, allowing you to transform any `` automatically into something more performant https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/image/#eleventy-transform

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

Does your lawn look this glorious?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/10/lawns-should-be-golden/

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• Dandelion lawn (remote)

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

very fun stuff in today's Crossword Craze! a full-page ad for the puzzle book and some solver feedback from 1924 https://crosswordcraze.today/in-love-and-war-and-puzzledom/

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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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• This is a stand-up dinosaur meme where the dinosaur asks, "What's the difference between a light bulb and a programmer?" The light bulb stops working when it burns out. The audience was not amused. This joke is meant to highlight the issue of burnout and mental health problems that are common in the IT industry but are often not taken seriously. #MentalHealthMatters

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

Just hangin' out.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/10/my-door-guard/

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• Cranefly (remote)

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

So yeah. A colloquial word for “kid” in the far, far East of Asia, ultimately has its origins from India.

#AsianHeritageMonth

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lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

It’s apparently a sino-Japanese word, with the kanji 餓鬼. It literally means “hungry ghost”. What is a hungry ghost?

Apparently, it’s a concept comes from Hinduism/Buddhism, and it’s the Chinese translation of the Sanskrit word “preta”, “the Sanskrit name for a type of supernatural being described in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Chinese folk religion as undergoing suffering greater than that of humans, particularly an extreme level of hunger and thirst”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preta
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lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Work reminds me it’s #AsianHeritageMonth again, so here’s a related nugget:

In Japanese, sometimes you call kids “gaki” (not exactly polite but not really considered a bad word). If you’ve watched anime or Japanese television shows, you’ve probably heard it.

Where does it come from? Most people probably don’t know.

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keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

E con l'intervista allo stand della casa editrice si conclude il mio primo #SaloneDelLibro come #autore -
#fantascienza #scifi #scrivere

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• Qualche copia del romanzo di fantascienza "Il Grande Collasso", sullo sfondo due telecamere. (remote)

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

I say "I've never been a gamer" mostly as an observation in hindsight and not as any sort of judgement on people who enjoy video games. I, of course, tried video games multiple times in my life, often as a means to connect socially. I even went so far as to work briefly in the video game industry. But every time I would eventually bounce off and walk away. Some reasons I understood at the time, and some I only understand now, some 45 years after playing my first video game.

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ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org ("Carl T. Bergstrom") wrote:

Yeah lots of bad shit going on but it's also gosling season.

#birdphotography

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• Canada goose gosling almost buried in weeds, eating fresh growth (remote)

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

I admit I've never been a gamer, and until this video, I didn't actually know what a Fortnite was, but I somehow got sucked into this video last night when I should've been sleeping. It's an interesting exploration of trying to play Fortnite as a "pacifist" and even attempting to "make friends" in game. The concluding remarks resonated with my own thoughts on games as of late. "Searching for Humanity in Fortnite's Battle Royale":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SArtgoMMDNg

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ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

Such a key time for search on the web, for the survival of indie and small-medium publishers. I'd like to see OpenAI put the squeeze on Google with citations...although I have no confidence that's what they'll do, because if anything OpenAI has proved itself even more rapacious than Google.

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

Goodbye to those majestic plumes from the coal plant we could see from I-94.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/10/the-future-is-battery-powered/

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• Sherco coal plant in Becker, MN (remote)

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michelle@front-end.social ("Michelle Barker") wrote:

Wrote a thing: https://humanewebmanifesto.com/

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

USS Halsey (DDG 97) today “asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the South China Sea near the Paracel Islands, consistent with international Law.” https://www.c7f.navy.mil/Media/News/Display/Article/3771278/us-navy-destroyer-conducts-freedom-of-navigation-operation-in-the-south-china-s/

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Nonya_Bidniss@mas.to ("Nonya Bidniss") wrote:

Is #nursing not a biological science specialty? And I say this as someone with a biology degree, who did not go into research or academia. It's still a STEM field. Let's say, what if nursing is a primarily male field. Would the science-based field be considered STEM then? I bet it would. https://www.axios.com/2024/05/09/nurses-stem-math-science

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dbattistella@mstdn.ca ("DB 🇵🇸 🌎🌏🌍") wrote:

#FreePalestine

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• wearthepeace Kids trying to save each other across oceans are the best of us. (remote)

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Chrishallbeck ("Chris Hallbeck") wrote:

Did it hurt when you fell from heaven? You may be entitled to compensation. Call 1-88-FALL-DOWN today to talk to our cloud mishap experts.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Jay's skeet was presumably in response to this interview that dropped today. It's worth the read. Jack never talks this much.

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

#BlueSky #Twitter

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Oh.

https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team/post/3ks3uplto5c2r

#BlueSky

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• Jay @jay.bsky.team With all due respect to Jack for having the vision to invest in decentralized protocols, we've carried out the work in a way I don't think he fully understands. Bluesky is structurally open in a way Twitter has never been, but the design of atproto allows it to feel familiar and easy to use.

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stroughtonsmith ("Steve Troughton-Smith") wrote:

Why would Apple's brand be at risk? Their products are manufactured in China, chips designed in Israel. They keep breaking laws and bullying their partners, tell us that developers leech off their success. They monopolize the market, nanny their users. They kicked the leading game engine developer off their platforms over a dispute over an (illegal) clause in their contracts. Their prices keep going up in a cost of living crisis. And they tell us it's for our own good.

I see no problems here? 😜

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SteveBellovin@mastodon.lawprofs.org ("Steve Bellovin") wrote:

Well, the Brother support web pages kept me from going out and buying a new printer/scanner—their fix worked. They lost out on an immediate sale, but that (plus, of course, the fact that they don't play weird, privacy-invasive games with toner cartridges) has helped confirm that this is the ONLY brand I'll buy.

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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:

If you're interested in working with me in public on open specifications for miniature racks like those in 1970s computer labs then check out this newly created Codeberg repo: https://codeberg.org/trevorflowers/desktop-computer-lab
I just really want many people to be able to make interoperable miniature rackable retrocomputers, OK? 😺
#desktopComputerLab

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kaoudis@infosec.exchange wrote:

This is all the RSAC marketing booth stuff I saw that I’ll share, and only because I was so amused 😄

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• Securityade (remote)
• Cup sudo (remote)
• AI Magic Powder! (remote)

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

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• d8c95b55fb237dc3.png (remote)

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

having just incorporated, Argh Studios Inc. has now received it’s first piece of mail: a scam.

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

OH PETER JACKSON NO.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/09/oh-peter-jackson-no/

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• GOLLUM SNARLS! (remote)

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Catlynn@nerdculture.de ("squirrelygirl") wrote:

Haha oh my goodness, they’re so cute. I had almost forgotten about these guys but it’s very nice to have them around again. Itty bitty oak titmouse.

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• The cutest little all grey bird who is shaped like a dollop, like if you squeezed a dollop of cream out of a pastry bag with a little point on top. A grey dollop with tiny feet, a metallic looking beak and beady black eyes. Super duper cute. (remote)