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@benlockwood@ecoevo.social I actually have turned off all my notifications, and my phone is always on silent.
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Except it’s even worse than that. In this analogy, the bus doesn’t even take you to Balham, really, most of the time. You arrive at the next suburb over, or in an eerie simulacrum of Balham that gives you the creeps.
Still more than USD$1 trillion in the hole. It’s like watching an addict unable to leave the craps table.
10yo and I have been doing up Granny’s old doll’s house, room by room, and it’s offering extremely peaceful respite from, you know *waves hand in direction of planet Earth*
Here is the little kid cat’s bedroom:
RE: https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/116897952707477120
“Google does not have the next Google Search, Microsoft does not have the next Microsoft Office, Meta does not have the next Facebook, and Amazon does not have the new AWS.
That's why they need you to believe that Al is a big deal without them ever having to prove why outside of capital expenditures. They want you to assume that all this money can't be wrong”
Bueno ice-creams are maybe my platonic ideal of ‘treat’
Daughter got a merit award
Excellent and very funny adult ballet class today
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@samerion@mastodon.gamedev.place @ameel@mastodon.social Yep, I think you’re right (Pangram is very, very effective. More than the previous iterations of AI detectors).
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@SrRochardBunson @maxleibman I think I was the last person to enter journalism without having completed any paid internships. Not sure how I managed it.
Made a quilt out of remnants from my ever-growing fabric stash for my cousin’s new baby and cannot wait to give it to her.
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@tinker I know this a hyper-local project but it’s clear there were no Aussies working on that app. ‘Rootable’ has a very specific meaning here.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rootable
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@jonah I was close to voting ‘yes’ because… they absolutely do understand consent. They just refuse to acknowledge it as a concept.
RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116883056238329898
This is one of my favourite reads of the entire year
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"What do we learn from all this? Mostly the same thing we learned when the crypto bros repeatedly rediscovered financial fraud, or when effective altruists decided the most effective altruism was to buy themselves a castle, or when ride share companies kept accidentally reïnventing the bus. If you start by ignoring everything that we already know, the best you can ever hope for is to accidentally rediscover the already-known."
- Rusty Foster, Over Leveraged https://www.todayintabs.com/p/over-leveraged
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@rinkside@mastodon.online @benlockwood@ecoevo.social next step: portable faraday cage. Then throw phone into an abyss. Finally: disappear into the forest.
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@ehproque@neopaquita.es @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange I actually do take off the ‘kind’ if I’m feeling spicy.
Why is it that it’s only on here that people are talking openly about how bad most LLM output is? People might joke about its ‘quirks’ and hallucinations, but otherwise it seems to be universally accepted that AI is Very Important.
At the consumer level it’s making products worse. Google search is worse (and that was a high bar. It had already been pretty thoroughly bastardised). Autocorrect is worse. All the small interactions we have with tech are worse and no one is talking about it.
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@CiaraNi @qurlyjoe @inthehands I’ve seen this a few times but those companies inevitably get new management eventually and either offshore everything or, now, move to AI agents. My car insurance company used to have local agents on the phone and they were lovely to talk to. It was a real point of difference.
Now it’s a mix of AI and offshore call centre staff and their phone trees are a nightmare.
If only I’d known I could just write “GAofB”, my editing career might have looked different. More from David Sedaris #bookstodon
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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party Anyone who’s been on an Australian road trip will sadly tell you this is definitely a thing.
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@Szescstopni @tinker most Australians wouldn’t know that definition of the word. I daresay only a vanishingly small number of them would! But the crass meaning is universal here.
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@themipper @eniko Oh. OH. This is an angle I had zero awareness of until now but it makes so much sense at face level. Mentally adding it to my list of reasons why.
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@coolandnormal @mayintoronto Side bar, I’m currently living in a very well insulated place and it has made summer so much more bearable. I didn’t actually know before I lived here that those really hot summer nights could be tolerable.
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@xerge @marjolica @Eetschrijver @grrlscientist In Australia we have to register ourselves to vote. Once you’re registered you’re legally required to vote at every relevant election from local council up to federal. But if you never register, you can avoid voting. I’ve only ever met one adult in my entire life who admitted to not registering.
Aussies overwhelmingly view voting as both a privilege and a civic duty.
Found this in an old kids’ almanac today. It really was a different time
Tf is fashion doing, seriously. Prada what is wrong with you. Fascism cosplay at a time like this!
The internet is a mess. I couldn’t remember whether dehumidifier water is non-potable because it’s distilled (thus no electrolytes) or stagnant (bacteria) or both, and here is a ‘resource’ I found
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@TheBreadmonkey @KaraLG84 This appeared on my timeline independently of anything else you may have said and it really gave me pause.
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@agaitaarino@todon.nl @pezmico@mastodon.nz Or simply use the existing audits of large-scale polluters and compile a list of the worst offenders.
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@theraccoonbytes@theforkiverse.com More Hormuz, more Palantir, some stunning sunsets and a smattering of baby goats.
Edited to add, I’m not trying to minimise the significance of what’s happening in Iran. I’m just sharing the main things I’ve seen on my feed!
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@aethernaut@mastodon.art Haha now that I’m on board I am also a fan of the aesthetic. Style + substance!!
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@aethernaut@mastodon.art I voted ‘WTF’ but afterwards realised I’d read about them in Hearing Things (and still found the overall look too offputtingly stylised to bother listening). Finally watched their KEXP yesterday and… wow. So thank you!
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@stargazersmith @inthehands I think this is closer to the Harvard model that emerged in the 1970s but I could be wrong.
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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer That post is truly mindbending. Every single example they used was a blown-out, insipid rendition of the original! What is going on!?
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@sundogplanets Just when I think you can’t post anything cuter.
I have to ask, will these baby goats wear pyjamas if it gets too chilly?
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@maxleibman Hey yeah, where are those articles??
I know companies are going HAM on implementing agentic AI in hopes of cutting the bottom line but is it actually working?
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social these look as though they were heavily inspired by Judson Beaumont’s (the original designer of the ‘cracked cabinet’) work.
Reading about Oswald Mosley and pondering the difference between his very stereotypically macho (‘swashbuckling’, apparently) mass appeal vs Trump, who when you think about it is actually not very conventionally masculine at all. He’s all soft and big bottomed and small handed and milkweed voiced.
Still running iOS 18. Do I absolutely have to update to iOS 26 eventually or can I just stay here?
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@mattblaze@federate.social @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @20002ist@thepit.social as in, you have to flip it over if you realise it isn’t charging? The gall and the gumption, honestly. Modern life is a hassle in so many ways, big and small.
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
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@nblr@chaos.social I thought cephalopods were the only invertebrates that had active sleep phases
Saw loads of whales frolicking surprisingly close to shore this morning
Execellent weekend with a good mix of family and social stuff (and a little bit of doing nothing much)
Got Wordle in two guesses today
#threegoodthings