#ListenBrainz thinks I'm old.
#Music
Remote
A Republic, while we kept it
@arensb@mastodon.social
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Joined March 26, 2018
Shrimp yoga.
#CatsOfMastodon #cats #Mango
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social @BernardSheppard@mastodon.au I had a coworker who took one home to serve as a bar, when ours was decommissioned.
IIRC it originally held something like 64 multi-megabyte disks. I don’t know how many bottles of tequila it now holds.
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@cmconseils@mastodon.social Looks like the artist has a whole series of #fountains that use water as sculpture elements:
https://www.skulptur-chodakowska.de/en/fountains/
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@aparrish@friend.camp I'm old enough to remember when Apple prided itself on ease of use and intuitive GUI.
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@pomarede@mastodon.social When 4800 sols old you reach, look as good you will not.
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@davefischer@hachyderm.io @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social @BernardSheppard@mastodon.au Oh, that's right! To act as a disk controller and coordinate the I/O for all those disks.
Oatmeal Raisin in the Sun
(probably too obvious)
#CookiesAMovieOrPlay
#HashtagGames
That supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way? Ticketmaster can fuck all the way off to its singularity.
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@401matthall @paninid @ytscorp @gknauss I've been wondering the same thing. The hypothesis that makes the most sense to me is that they want to say "See? It's the evil Democrats causing long lines in airports!"
@aadmaa2@mathstodon.xyz I guess paragraphs breaks are in short supply in Freedom250land?
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@Tuckerkiste97@mastodon.social @cmconseils@mastodon.social Looks like Kościuszko Square in Poddębice, Poland:
https://www.whitemad.pl/en/prima-ballerina-in-poddebice-is-this-the-most-beautiful-fountain-in-poland/
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@cstross@wandering.shop It always was. Did someone gaslight you into thinking that it was for porn?
@phooky This will be a boon to Maryland’s economy.
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@snowy Another possibility is that there used to be a whole _forest_ of wisdom, but people chopped down all the trees of wisdom until only one remained, protected by a royal conservation decree.
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@exocomics@mastodon.world I had a cat who'd jump up on the counter, then onto the fridge, onto the cabinet, and then onto the cabinets on the opposite wall. He nearly gave me a heart attack the first time he did that.
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@Computeforloot@twit.social @quasirealsmiths@beige.party In this case, I could eat a one-dollar gas station burrito and shit out a better president.
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@robparsons @dramypsyd From what I've seen, it seems pretty good at summarizing long texts.
I'd also love to see the AI learning phase followed by an optimization phase, where a trained model is cleaned up and made more efficient, so that it takes fewer resources to run it. Especially for any model that will be used by many people.
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@robparsons @dramypsyd It won't, any more than the Internet went away when the Internet bubble burst.
Generative AI will spend some time as a punchline, and then it'll come back, somewhat tamed by the bubble, so people will be more likely to use it where it makes sense, and not try to shove it into everything.
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@MaryClark @401matthall @paninid @ytscorp @gknauss Plus, doesn't ICE have a bigger budget than Canada's entire military? They could probably pay for all of TSA out of their Friday pizza lunch budget.
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@fatboy@fosstodon.org @pluralistic@mamot.fr Ah, looks like the commission invited him to give a talk on enshittification.
Nice to know someone’s listening.
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@Nymnympseudonymm@mstdn.science @itgrrl@infosec.exchange @dazfuller@mstdn.social I was thinking “cdesign proponentsists” myself.
An underreported bit of mediocrity for the DC Fourth of July celebrations: the cheap-looking projections on the Washington Monument (photo from https://wjla.com/news/local/washington-monument-illumination-returns-for-fourth-of-july-celebrations-freedom-250-independence-day-projection-mapping-250th-anniversary-national-mall-patriotism).
This looks like a cheap neon store sign, not a tribute to America's anniversary.
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@JdeBP@mastodon.scot @cstross@wandering.shop @GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk I mean, by all accounts it’s not really a movie: it’s a movie-shaped bribe.
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@quasirealsmiths@beige.party Also Baltimore
Happy Bastille Day to all who celebrate!
Allons enfants de la république, le jour de gloire est arrivé!
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@fatboy@fosstodon.org @pluralistic@mamot.fr I don't know about the ad, but I see his face on the commission report page: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/siste-nytt/digital/seminar-og-lansering-av-rapport-om-enshittification/
From an article about electing the president by popular vote:
"The upside to the swing state system is that it forces national campaigns to focus on the diverse regional interests of places like Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Mexico instead of simply trying to appeal to the entire nation all at once."
So it's a *feature* of the current system that some states matter more than others?! Are you fucking kidding me?
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-democrats-harebrained-popular-vote-scheme-
#NPVIC #Elections #uspol
Looks like #trump fucked up so bad with his Jesus cosplay that even BillDo won't defend it: https://www.catholicleague.org/pope-and-president-clash/
"Trump does not help his case by posing as Jesus blessing a bedridden man; he released this Truth Social picture after he criticized Leo. It is offensive and immature."
And that's the paragraph after the one where he praises mass deportations.
Tiens, j'avais jamais remarqué, dans "Les Aventures de Gérard Lambert" de Renaud:
"Alors, pendant une demi-heure
Dans son moteur il tripatouille
Il est crevé, il est en sueur
Il a du cambouis jusqu'aux coudes
Dans le lointain le jour se lève comme d'habitude"
"coudes" rime pas avec "tripatouille".
#musique
Good on AP for not sanewashing (some of) Trump's more blatant bullshit:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-fake-math-drug-price-reductions-1c89714a4b60ead1485d1de31b27da92
#news
Joyeuse journée Gérard Lambert à tous!
https://youtu.be/dkCxWZhP6pc
#Renaud #musique
Les aventures de Gerard Lambert - Renaud
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@ajcain @onpaperwings That makes sense. Thanks!
@scalzi You know we’re all going to be scrutinizing the displays in future SF movies and TV shows to see if we can spot one of these, right?
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@pzmyers Is it "go be poor somewhere else"? That seems to be the Republican plan for homelessness everywhere.
When you're so delusional, you think your speech, not the fireworks, is the big draw.
@scalzi You know we’re all going to be scrutinizing the displays in future SF movies and TV shows to see if we can spot one of these, right?
If rock bands were named the same way as law firms, we might have groups called Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr; or Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
Voluntary Charity
There's a trope I've run across a couple of times in conservative fora, that of voluntary charity, the idea that charitable giving should be a personal decision, not something forced by the state. To quote the Encyclopediat of Conservatism: Charity is voluntary and personal; state welfare is compulsory and bureaucratic. Conservatives argue the two differ in kind, not merely in scale.
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@iFixit I can justify several of these in the name of making the product smaller, lighter, or more elegant (at the expense of repairability). But there’s no reason for stickers, especially if they’re lying or illegal.
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@onpaperwings I didn’t see any mention of Donald Knuth. Did I miss it?