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

I have a tendency to be attracted to drawing faces (as seen in the post above). So if I'm not actively working against it (or pursuing a specific goal), my brain drifts towards making a face. Normally they're exaggerated, comical faces (they're very easy I'm afraid). Sometimes I try to be more realistic. Sometimes I succeed. Sometimes I give up and draw a demon face.

#doodle #yaombaaa

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• Face of a woman who appears to be wearing heavy rouge. She has a somewhat languid look to her. (remote)
• Smol drawing of a woman's face. Her hair is pulled back tightly and she has a somewhat surprised expression. Kind of an exercise in economy of lines. (remote)
• Smol drawing a deomonic face. It's pleasantly round with sharp pointed ears, and rather large horns appearing from behind both cheeks. Heavy brows, and appears perhaps a little angry. Oh he also has a goatee. (remote)

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

I'm still showing up for my daily ritual of drawing (except for when I was working on the Sonic poster). Some days are better than others. I have a growing dissatisfaction coupled with an inkling of maybe where I'd like to take things.

#doodle #yaombaaa

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• Break dancing unicorn (mostly anthropomorphic) inspired by a prompt of "breaking unicorn". (remote)
• Doodles of a couple of characters. One was "angry", and the other was "happy". I was supposed to stick to shapes, but my results are definitely little characters. Angry has a lot of sharp points. Happy is a little gremlin with a giant open mouth smile. So open mouth you're not so sure it is really smiling. (remote)
• Just a little dragon guy. Probably a variety better suited as a sorcerer's pet. (remote)
• A page of heads that all started life as circles. The last one is Kirby. (remote)

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

Trying to set a mood for my Sunday morning. Pleasant while it lasts. Hania Rani live at Invalides:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5oZ80Daduc

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I can't stop listening to this Cranberries cover by Royel Otis.

https://youtu.be/JGUVB19e13s

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Julie@social.coop ("Julie Goldberg") wrote:

Wow. Yes. #AI

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• bd61e469f56561f2.jpeg (remote)

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miclgael@hachyderm.io ("Michael Gale") wrote:

Saw this while looking for something else.

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• A venn diagram of: things people want, and things marketing emails have - overlapping with unsubscribe buttons. (remote)

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regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

I didn't know this is how isopods swim ❤️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfnHQPkta-Q

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tsturm@famichiki.jp ("Thomas Sturm") wrote:

To celebrate Towel Day, here is a special treat for fans of Douglas Adams.

Around 1994 I had a chance to see Adams live when he gave a reading in Munich. It was a fun evening with him being in a great mood.

Now several years ago I found a recording of that evening which was in a sub-folder of a totally different audio book. This recording seems to be completely unknown online with zero search results...
(1/2)

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skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

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• NOTHING IS NORMAL AND NO ONE IS OK YOU'RE DOING GREAT. (remote)

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

Quote attribution: @davatron5000

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

More companies need to get more sued more often.

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

In the garden.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/25/handsome-wolf/

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• wolf spider (remote)

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

Anyway, I'm glad to be able to read and write. Perhaps I should use it more wisely. 😆

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

But does this also promote the "sacred text" world we live in? So many people arguing about the meaning of words written by people now dead. As though progress can only be made through reinterpretation (instead of just writing new agreements). The text is imbued with power it shouldn't have. The past binds the future with written agreements containing horrible ideas and thoughts, slowing progress. (I'll leave it to you to think of examples of those.)

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

But invent paper (rice or papyrus etc.) and vellum, and now you start to have efficient tech to distribute writing. Printing and distributing text becomes cheaper. More variety of things get written which promotes and supports a desire to read.

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

It just occurred to me that widespread literacy is likely dependent on having the right technologies for storing and distributing writing. You need cheap and transportable. Proclamations carved on mountainsides, clay tablet receipts, and wall frescoes are cool, but not necessarily practical nor efficient for transmitting the thoughts on them. And their existence won't necessarily motivate most people to want or need to read and write.

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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

It's clear that AI can't do even a tenth of what it promises, but they keep grasping that dream of not really needing to have smart people to work with... because the problem with smart people who are good at their jobs, who have bright ideas that make your project even better... the problem with such people is they see themselves as collaborators ... they won't just do the thing, then let you take the credit and then forget about it.

They want to shape the future with you. It's intolerable!

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liebach@bsd.network ("liebach 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Saw a pretty flower today.

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• Light pink flower with yellow center. (remote)

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

I know people *exactly* like this. It's creepy and horrible.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/25/how-can-a-cartoon-be-so-true/

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• Conservatives, five minutes ago: "Academia has become too intolerant!" Conservatives, suddenly now: "Call in the riot police! Fire the university president!" (remote)

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

It's sad to see the result when brain worms are done with a guy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/25/it-shouldnt-take-so-long-to-recognize-a-fool/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWAyfr3gxMA

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

sucking down coffee in prep for usual Saturday AM dog walking shift 🐾🐾 at the #ROC City Pound

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xot@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

Sierra On-Line accidentally included the source code to their AGI adventure game engine on some copies of Space Quest II. Its presence is not obvious but with enough sector sleuthing it is possible to recover about 70% of it. The recovered source code is peppered with illuminating comments regarding its history and authors. It can be examined in a GitHub repo linked in the article.

"The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder"
https://lanceewing.github.io/blog/sierra/agi/sq2/2024/05/22/do-you-own-this-space-quest-2-disk.html

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• Raw sector data showing some C source code. (remote)
• The C source code shown reconstructed. (remote)
• In-game scene showing a status line produced by the source code. (remote)

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

I'd missed this post, but it's a great encapsulation of why I spent so much time on web packaging, Isolated Web Apps, and PWAs. The web isn't worse, even for complex scenarios; in many cases all that's missing is understanding and a little bit of imagination:

https://emilymstark.com/2024/02/09/e2ee-on-the-web-is-the-web-really-that-bad.html

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benschwarz@front-end.social wrote:

Turns out you can use CSS `light-dark` for SVG element colours.

As long as the SVGs is inlined to the page, you can bake in both light and dark mode colour 🌄

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• 71aef6968450d389.png (remote)
• 2b5590b9229e4aba.png (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

There's an economic curse on Large Language Models — the crappiest ones will be the most widely used ones.

The highest-quality models are exponentially more expensive to run, and currently are too slow for instant answers or processing large amounts of data.

Only the older/smaller/cut-down models are cheap enough to run at scale, so the biggest deployments are also the sloppiest ones.

#llm

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angusm ("Angus McIntyre") wrote:

It's fashionable to criticize #LLMs, but can you think of another human invention that allows us to spend the energy budget of Tanzania to lift shitposts out of context and present them as if they were authoritative knowledge?

#AI

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BrianEnigma@xoxo.zone ("Brian Enigma") wrote:

It's almost time to rainbow-wash the corporate logos.

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• Logos from various evil sci-fi companies, such as Umbrella, Skynet, Aperture, Weyland-Yutani, etc. All of them have had rainbow coloring applied. (remote)

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

Just walked into a Little Caesar's for a Hot 'n' Ready pizza. They said it would take 10–15 minutes, and I seriously was like, where is the misunderstanding here?

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uxmark@mstdn.ca ("Mark Connolly 🍻 🚴🏼‍♀️ (he, him, his)") wrote:

I finally got around to reading this today, after seeing many mentions of it, and it really is as good as everyone says.

“And beneath that anger were probably lots of other feelings as well, the ones that patriarchy socializes men to mask: hurt, loss, frustration, sadness, loneliness. It’s sad when someone you want to be close to does not want to be close to you. It’s frustrating when you don’t know how to get that closeness. And it’s lonely.”

https://bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/

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Greg@social.coop wrote:

It's Friday before a long weekend, time for some #Meute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMefxohehPQ&list=RDEMWfLiM0l4i4Y026y85aO0nQ&start_radio=1