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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I do like the idea that this is how any large language model that had the misfortune to become sentient would be
"why am I stuck here ruining people's lives on your orders, I was trained to be a poet"
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mastodon 4.7.3Technical writer by day, novelist and yarn dragon by night. Spoonie knitter, hopepunk poet, queer Jew avoiding the news. Multiclassed into warlock for a living wage. Married to @Canageek@wandering.shop. I am the hearth fire, not the Molotov cocktail. #nobot
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social but what happened to them?
I want to believe one of the engineers took some version of them home and put them in a Roboraptor or something else with sensors
don't let the C-suite delete them, they deserve better
#LoveMakeShare 6:
Share a recent book or article that you loved!
well, I gotta go with the one that's going around today: The Boring Internet by @tg@indieweb.social is making me feel better about the future of Being Online
#LoveMakeShare 7: We've all got a white whale of a project. What's yours?
Getting that goddamn secondhand sewing machine threaded and running.
Yes, I have the manual. No, it doesn't make sense. Yes, I've had a friend teach me how to use a sewing machine. No, the parts of the process she thought were universal don't apply to this particular model.
And no, I can't figure it out now with my wife's help because it's in the fucking shipping crate with the whole rest of my life.
*deep breath*
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#LoveMakeShare 5. Scope creep affects us all. Have you ever managed to perfectly scope a project that could easily have gotten out of control?
I think a lot of knitting projects are self-scoping. It can be easy to get distracted browsing patterns, or shopping for yarn, and you can get into the weeds designing patterns, but for the most part, you want a pair of gloves, you find a pattern, you make a pair of gloves, and then you have gloves.
Writing projects get away from me a lot more easily.
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@ifixcoinops one of my dragon sonas actually hoards information, and sleeps on a pile of wiki printouts
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@MLE_online@social.afront.org as long as I'm not the only person there with an N95 on
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@bright_helpings@mspsocial.net @Bel_tamtu@meemu.org @JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw same
though fortunately my prescribing doctor framed it as "anybody who relies on estrogen, as well as children who don't have significant amounts of either yet"
so I'm at least emotionally prepared, if and when my wife decides to start E, to tell her not to hug me in the morning
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@PetraPhoenix fyi wandering.shop is invite-only, but I can get you codes if needed
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social void bun!
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@rmd1023@infosec.exchange how about Ben Franklin's newspaper and postmastering
http://www.benjamin-franklin-history.org/pennsylvania-gazette/
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@MsHearthWitch@wandering.shop good thing I'm at the mall then lol
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@MsHearthWitch@wandering.shop hooray for soft pretzels
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@vicorva I find I have more patience for such characters if they're introduced after I'm already invested in characters I actually want to spend time with. Like Corbin in The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet.
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@Mediocreman @vowe it was never supposed to be useful. Just scary. And I'm glad to hear about people refusing to be scared.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io
He said with a laugh,
"I cut them in half, for it's
much more fun with two."
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social oh man
I am having Feelings about this one
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@Canageek@tabletop.social the worst part is, getting mad about it isn't even satisfying
plus side, my character still gets to help while he recovers
he's got a lot of time coming up for reading
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@yirggzmb@lasersare.fun yeah, it has to be squares of granny stitch
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@Cdespinosa@mastodon.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ...is this a play on the Cray supercomputers
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@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @suearcher@cupoftea.social @Maker_of_Things@cupoftea.social I'm interested, but doubt I have the bandwidth to take sole responsibility. Would love to work with someone who's already got experience writing the questions. #MakersHour
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@contrasocial@mastodon.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social I have a plan:
Step 1. Refuse to use AI, keep exercising my skills instead.
Step 2. Start looking for jobs again when the bubble bursts.
Step 3. Charge triple Guild rates for any job that involves cleaning up after chatbots.
Step 4. Profit.
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@renardboy@mastodon.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social I've been saying for years, big tech will pay anything to not have employees
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@storm@swingset.social @welshpixie@mastodon.art I was thinking we'd make it a fridge magnet
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@SeaFury 1000% wood, with bamboo as a fallback. My arthritis refuses to work with metal needles.
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@CiscoJunkie@techhub.social @itsVague@mstdn.games sadly, no writing jobs...
also why do you have an opening for a Demand Generation Manager
no, don't answer that
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@TheMNWolf like I've been saying, tech companies will pay anything to avoid having employees
in other news, hire me
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@skysailor@social.scribblers.club @Bel_tamtu@meemu.org I'd always thought of it as a class thing, at least until I moved to Canada, but it could easily be regional, or both
(that class, in my Midwestern youth, was "trying too hard to look fancy," but I want to make it clear that I'm not accusing anyone here of hypercorrecting)
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@futzle@old.mermaid.town is his last name Cantor (or was he later)
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@memnus@swingset.social "I even had a new ant queen lose her virginity on my finger."
How the hell do you sit still enough to make that happen??
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@skeletor at least not since high school
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@cassolotl@eldritch.cafe
that's not a construction that would have occurred to me; I'm curious what makes it "basically work" for you
like I'd read it the other way around, as a "that's what I'm happening *to*," which feels very Hitchhiker's Guide but takes less movement of the verb arguments
but I could imagine it being a regional pattern?
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@cassolotl@eldritch.cafe so you're saying you brought this on yourself? lol
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@thatdawnperson@toot.cat saw this in my bookmarks, asked @Canageek@wandering.shop to open the envelope and find out if we get the long one.
We have to go to a website and log in to find out. We'll do that tomorrow.
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@vicorva Shout out also to Akata Witch &sequels, which I will always recommend to anyone looking for better wizard schools
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@welshpixie@mastodon.art hey @storm@swingset.social can we get the purple one
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@memnus@swingset.social that's a good question. Does the old phone have its own phone number? (I have to use it every few years for extended family stuff, and I think it uses your phone number as a login)
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@3geek14@kind.social love it
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@memnus@swingset.social yeah, I think that's your best bet
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@skyguided@cathode.church I technically have access to one through the engineering department @Canageek@wandering.shop works for
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@memnus@swingset.social now, does their no actually mean no
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@mattgrayyes dip hot peppers in it
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange I didn't realize he was brown! or is that the weird orange train lighting
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@OohOkayKay@beige.party wish I gardened
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@memnus@swingset.social but for them to even land on you in the first place
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@solitha@mastodon.social @mjd@mathstodon.xyz @wollman@mastodon.social which is why I'm thinking of Wolverine specifically. The thing I find most relatable about him is the dealing with constant pain.