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

Suddenly, I find myself the executor of an estate. Do I know what I am doing? I do not. I guess I'm going to have to get myself a probate lawyer.

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

Mer__edith@mastodon.world ("Meredith Whittaker") wrote:

This is why we're seeing dumb AI everywhere, and self owns like MS's Recall

Recouping revenue from massively expensive AI development is urgent, market fit's unclear, so corps are shoving "AI" into everything to please investors/hope for fit/keep the bubble inflated

IMO this also explains the lockstep turn to military contracting (OAI, et al). A good way to sell tech that "doesn't actually work" via lucrative contracts whose efficacy won't be assessed w trad. metrics.

https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/ais-600b-question/

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

Source here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tengen/6154899498/

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

TIL that southern lapwings have these cool boney spurs poking out of their wings. Vicious.

As far as I can tell, the photo was taken by Shanthanu Bhardwaj and is CC BY-SA 2.0.

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• Photo of a southern lapwing in flight moving from left to right. The wings are held high, and you can clearly make out the boney spurs. It looks a little bit like it could mess you up. As far as I can tell, the photo was taken by Shanthanu Bhardwaj and is CC BY-SA 2.0. (remote)

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

Just remembered Shaggy and Sting did a version of "Englishman in New York".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdneye4pzMw

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

objetdiscret@pocketpixels.club ("𝕠𝕓𝕛𝕖𝕥 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕥") wrote:

As a throwback, here is a fan logo that I put together for my favorite randomizer, #SMZ3. This includes both edited and redrawn assets from the original #SuperMetroid and #ALTTP.

#Pixel_Dailies #grassy #PixelArt #1bit #FanArt #MastoArt

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• a pixel art illustration of a logo for a video game that says "SMZ3" in large letters, with a sword piercing a lightning bolt S behind the letters; there is also an illustration of a stalk of bamboo with a few leaves shooting off it (remote)

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

Conservatives say raising the minimum wage would drive up inflation.

But the federal minimum wage hasn't gone up since 2009.

Average CEO pay has gone up about 60% since 2009.

Whose pay is contributing to inflation?

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

As a heavy Linux emulation user (WSL, Crostini), I cannot express how glad I am that Mozilla finally pulled it's head out of it's collective you-know-where and started making official debs again:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions

Flatpak was a mistake, full stop.

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

QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

NY Post reminds us it is a white supremacist outlet.

There are valid criticisms of VP Harris for her policies & votes. Have at it. But instead NY Post resorts to overt misogynistic, anti-Black, and anti-Asian hate mongering. To call this yellow journalism is an understatement.

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• NY post headline calls Vp Harris a potential DEI president

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

faerye@pie.gd ("Felicity Shoulders") wrote:

If Americans showed the same energy for civil disobedience about anything else that they do when it comes to setting off fireworks against the laws of city, state, courtesy, and self-preservation, we would have a three-day workweek, robust national healthcare, and a twenty-year plan for solar-powered luxury space communism.

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

augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

The CDC is taking the week off, so our data is partial, but right now, the US hot spot for #COVID19 is Florida, which has several sewersheds nearing some of the highest levels in two years (see chart). There are other areas with high levels:

- Hawaii's surge seems to have peaked
- Much of the Bay Area is at high levels
- Montpelier, VT has exploded 8x in 2 weeks
- Warren, MI is up 3x in one week
- Most of TX is moderate, but Woodlands is very high

Local data is spotty: https://data.wastewaterscan.org/

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• Current wastewaterscan.org chart of COVID in Florida sewersheds, showing many rising to the 2nd or 3rd highest in two years--and still rising.

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

RustyBertrand@kolektiva.social ("Rusty Bertrand") wrote:

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• What's something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand? Dr. Holly Witteman That $35 that scientific journals charge you to read a paper goes 100% to the publisher, 0% to the authors. If you just email us to ask for our papers, we are allowed to send them to you for free, and we will be genuinely delighted to do sò. (remote)

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benschwarz@front-end.social wrote:

Borrowed a thermal camera from the local library last week. Turns out all libraries in our council area offer them for free. Handy!

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• Photograph of thermal camera scanning a corner (remote)

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

Anyway. Riveting plot.

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• Yorgos Tsiantoulas laying on his side on a rocky nude beach, facing away from the camera.

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

tolmasky ("Francisco Tolmasky") wrote:

I really hate the term “side-loading.” We shouldn’t need a word for the normal way we’ve been installing apps for the past 40 years. If tomorrow Apple decided they were going to start only letting you visit web pages they approved of, we wouldn’t call some sort of alternating system that let you see *the rest of the fucking internet* “side-paging”. We’d instead call the whole thing bullshit.

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

Now that I know Dekkoo sells downloads I'll have to check in every once in a while.

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

Good news, everyone: The Summer with Carmen is now available on dekkoo for 10 USD. 1080p download, hardsubs https://www.dekkoo.com/products/the-summer-with-carmen

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

As for #darktable specifically… The photograph has a nasty white patch on the right heel, which only appeared due to particular lighting from the sky, you don't see it when holding the figurine in your hands. I tried unsuccessfully to choose different angles, but then juts went ahead and fixed it with CLUT and some retouching. Real world sucks without some work applied to it :-)

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

Blossom. Daughter's latest artwork. It reminded me of Mexican motifs, and after a short search I found this self-portrait by Frida Kahlo https://mungfali.com/post/26591028822D4ED7042B64DC45713A338EB4B368/Frida+Kahlo+Paintings+Images. Of whom we talked just this morning completely incidentally.

#darktable

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• Figurine of a sitting dragon pup painted in the yelllow-teal flowered style reminiscent of Frida Kahlo.

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

Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay :mastodon: 🇪🇺") wrote:

Cats cannot be beaten ... 🐈

#Cats #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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• A video of a cat refusing to be beaten by smaller and smaller openings into the next too (remote)

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

fonts@sfba.social ("Robin Rendle") wrote:

Creativity is the byproduct of work https://robinrendle.com/notes/creativity-is-the-byproduct-of-work/

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

wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"The failure of the media to confront Trump the way that they are confronting Biden now is dangerous malpractice of the highest order. ...

So I ask: When will there be a real interview of Trump?"

~ Steven Beschloss

#Biden #Trump #age #MediaFail
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/when-will-there-be-a-real-interview/comments

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

good Q

https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/112740368197879422

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

Glastomichelle@c.im wrote:

Stormy sunset tonight here in Glastonbury.

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• 039bc8b32a59b0dc.jpg (remote)

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

viabaltica@mstdn.social ("Via Baltica") wrote:

Language #technology company Tilde of #Latvia has received EU funding to develop a large language model (#LLM) for smaller European #languages. The new model will be #opensource, freely available to both researchers and developers of commercial solutions.

https://viabaltica.fi/latvia-tilde-to-develop-llm-for-small-european-languages/

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

linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

Shuffle and deal four hands of five cards with #Python #HK

#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
deck=['🂡', '🂢', '🂣', '🂤', '🂥', '🂦', '🂧', '🂨', '🂩', '🂪', '🂫', '🂭', '🂮', '🂱', '🂲', '🂳', '🂴', '🂵', '🂶', '🂷', '🂸', '🂹', '🂺', '🂻', '🂽', '🂾', '🃁', '🃂', '🃃', '🃄', '🃅', '🃆', '🃇', '🃈', '🃉', '🃊', '🃋', '🃍', '🃎', '🃑', '🃒', '🃓', '🃔', '🃕', '🃖', '🃗', '🃘', '🃙', '🃚', '🃛', '🃝', '🃞']
import random
random.shuffle(deck)
deal=''.join(deck)
print (" ".join(deal[1:6]))
print (" ".join(deal[6:11]))
print (" ".join(deal[11:16]))
print (" ".join(deal[16:21]))

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• 8f34d205fd7eacb1.png (remote)

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

“… a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”

- Terry Pratchett

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

The thread goes on.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/06/infinite-thread-xxxii/

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• tree, darkness (remote)

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

My mother has died.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/06/the-light-flickers/

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• Darlene Myers, age 16 (remote)

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

darkedinburgh@mastodon.scot ("Dark Edinburgh") wrote:

"There's things going on at a circus all the time."
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

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• A daytime black and white view of Circus Lane (remote)