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Queeg was a very funny episode.
RIP
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Saw Prof Gina Rippon at the Norwich science festival a few years back…brilliant, funny and made neuroscience very accessible.
So glad she’s taking the fight to those who are claiming there is is an ‘over diagnosis’ of #autism taking place right now.
A diagnosis brings relief, self-understanding for adults and the hope of support for children /young people who desperately need it.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/21/rise-autism-diagnoses-neurodiversity
A ninefold increase is the result of huge advances in our understanding – and brings the hope of fulfilling lives to many more people, says author Gina RipponGina Rippon (The Guardian)
sorry everyone, my third wish from the genie was to make the world's electrical standards weirder.
south america is now using 70hz 40v AC, france & belgium are strictly DC outlets (no AC), and apple products are all on 3.3v USB. AA batteries are now 9v, and 9v batteries are still called that but they provide 6v.
Land line telephone connectors were weird and different in every country. I still have a set of telephone adaptors for different countries left over from dialup days (kept because it also has all the power adapters, which are still useful).
This is EXACTLY how my job as consultant works! Absolutely precise!
Once I had a gut feeling that the people in the current project and I think alike. So I just told them: This is the problem your CIO wants me to address. You know as well as me that you know the solution. Tell me, I translate it to CIO - then he gets what he wants, you have the solution you need, and I have a good reputation and will be hired for he next project, too.
Worked perfectly.
Cross-post from bsky. Direct link to article: https://filmstories.co.uk/news/no-generative-ai-does-not-count-as-fair-use-eu-report-finds/
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A paper written by the European Parliament concludes that using creative material for AI training does not count as fair use, and that “timely reform” is required.Ryan Lambie (Film Stories)
I'm bad, and that's good.
I will never be good, and that's not bad.
There's no one I'd rather be than me.
Wow, I really sat and watched this whole thing before I realized it was 53 minutes long, or that it was almost sunrise.
Uh, anyway, Kezzie's a furry YouTuber and made a video about their drug addiction. It's worth a watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG4zQ8XYD84
I've opted to leave this video unedited, this is as shot, sorry for the random pauses. Here's some helpful links:https://smartrecovery.org/https://988lifelin...YouTube
I have no idea how people manage to talk in fursuit, and not only talk, but *give* actual hour-long talks. Examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG4zQ8XYD84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE20gAvnru0
I can barely talk at all in suit, and I don't *want* to talk (I'd much rather be silent). I don't know how people do it.
Here's Spottacus giving a talk at Berkeley for 'Furries at Berkeley'... In fursuit, of course.
I think it was EF where I first met him, and he had so much energy. He was a personality that radiated.
I only got a few opportunities over the years to talk.
He will be missed.
"Furries, Neurodivergence, and STEM: Finding Your Path from Zero to One to One Billion"This is Furries at Berkeley's inaugural Furry Masterclass event, the f...YouTube
The view gets better with every step. Riff leads the way, steady and sure, while Procyon takes a moment to pause on a nearby rock, looking back for a second the path they've already walked.
The scenery of this piece is inspired by a real hike, through a place that already felt a bit like a painting, nearby Snowdon, in Wales, UK
Picture for Riff and Procyon
Digital. Procreate
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You can watch a short version of the time-lapse process video, shared on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
But there is a longer version exclusive for my Patreon and Ko-Fi supporters, as well as the high resolution of this piece, with other pictures I haven't shared online yet, WIPs of upcoming pieces and more.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/pandapaco
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco
if your programming language doesn't have a power metal theme song, I'm not using it
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=yup8gIXxWDU
Live album "XX Years Of Steel" out this Friday! Order here: https://lnk.to/NoS-XX-YearsOfSteel Mixed by Christian Ice at Temple of Noise Studios Video by L...YouTube Music
really? Seems like hand oils would still eventually pose a problem.
Depends on what's being handled / storage etc though.
Anthro dog characters wearing pup hoods will never stop being cutely funny.
That's it. That's the toot.
People really do seem to think that if they just make it "illegal enough" that we'll all go back in the fucking closet.
HELL no.
The hottest thing in local Seattle politics is the city's war on Saint Rat / Hot Rat Summer, a mosaic that someone put up (without permission) on the old pumphouse in Cal Anderson Park last year. Recently, city workers have been painting over the mosaic, and good citizens have been cleaning off the mosaic to restore it when they do so. It is a fierce battle, and one I hope the citizens win. We must fight for Hot Rat Summer.
EDIT: IMPORTANT UPDATE NEWS FLASH JUST IN! https://bsky.app/profile/councilmember-amr.bsky.social/post/3lu27fhkj3k2d
Gary Stevenson left his lucrative finance job at 27 as a multimillionaire. Now, he’s campaigning for a fairer economy, arguing that the only way to fix the c...YouTube
More drawings from FWA I was missing to share
Keita! Character from Kaos, part of an art trade
Russec and Scotch, those super cute bunnies!
Moving a few papers in my office, I came across a print of this image from a long, long time ago. I dug it up on one of my computers — the file is timestamped January 2003!
The second image is the file I originally downloaded (but a reverse image search comes up with nothing so I have no idea where it's from any more), and the first is what I printed out to put on my wall after I edited the stripes a bit.
I've had this up on the wall for literally decades but only really noticed it again after taking it all down to move house. It's sitting in a pile of other prints, waiting for me to get round to finding some way to display them all again.
Of course I came across another few nice zebrataurs while trying to find the origin of this one!
https://www.deviantart.com/drjavi/art/Zebrataur-913619568
https://www.deviantart.com/valkenkuart/art/Cyberpunk-Zebrataur-Commission-1073199466
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/22812918/
https://www.deviantart.com/larkitrope/art/Zebra-Centaur-663372093
Just one day before heading to Anthrocon I got to do this painting to give it there in person as a surprise.
It was a small way to say thank you for something that meant a lot to me. My best way I can express myself is through paint and a smiling character.
So here's this yote boy, saying hi on my behalf, with all the warmth I couldn’t quite put into words.
For Oatyote.
Traditional. Acrylics
"AI" is not only bad for people that use it, it's bad for people that don't, and the neighborhoods around the huge data centers that it takes to power it. Whatever tiny amount of good some people are able to squeeze out of this trash is nothing compared to the harm and waste its existence mandates.
https://youtube.com/shorts/7rEzhCwPhqc?si=6xeAlVgh-8QMylgl
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-data-center-development-true-cost-environmental-impact-2025-6?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign...YouTube
Attached: 1 image Reason 10 To Choose Linux 😍 Linux 🐧 is more private, by default Own and control your data! Your operating system won't record your key strokes or dictation, collect lists of devices and their Wi-Fi details, or webcams, printers …FLOSS.social
General reminder:
The domain name putty.org is *NOT* run by the #PuTTY developers. It is run by somebody not associated with us, who uses the domain to interpose advertising for their unrelated commercial products. We do not endorse those products in any way, and we have never given any kind of agreement for PuTTY's name to be used in promoting them.
Please do not perpetuate the claim that putty.org is the PuTTY website. If anyone is linking to it on that basis, please change the link. The PuTTY website is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ and it always has been.
You can check this by downloading the source code, which cites that URL in many places (the README, the documentation, some strings in the actual code), or by using the "Visit Web Site" menu options in the official Windows binaries (the ones signed with my personal Authenticode certificate). The true PuTTY website is the one that PuTTY itself says it is.
Many search engines list putty.org above chiark. I don't know if this is due to active SEO on the part of the domain owner, or a heuristic in the rankings. Either way, don't believe them. It's not our site.
to be fair, this reads like an Onion article. How long has PuTTY been around, and been awesome, for it not to have its own actual domain for a few bucks per year?
putty-term.org? putty.org.uk? Just anything other than someone's tilde account on an obscure subdomain!
> Many search engines list putty.org above chiark.
Of course they do! That's how SEO works.
our electric kettles will boil water *so* fast now
(unless...wait, did you lower the amperage to prevent that?)
Caution. The upside down outlets are ONLY for use with three-phase motors.
Except on Tuesdays.
At least one country should use constant current source, instead of a constant voltage source.
(We had that in my electronic engineering labs, 30 years ago. Our professor wired it all up, because the campus electricians refused to go near it)
a friend contacted me a few years ago to ask with help as he was moving to Brazil and wanted to know if his electrical kit would work over there. No problem, I thought, I'll just look up the mains standard for Brazil!
"Standard", yeah, about that....plug and voltage seems to vary based on location and the phase of the moon 😳
https://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plug-voltage-by-country/brazil/
Brazil - Power plug, socket & mains voltage in Brazil
WorldStandards.eu