Every restroom should have a sign like this

#Gender #Trans #Signs

Mistaking the fact that LLM's "learn" or "evolve" is similar in mistaking the fact that there is "intelligence" in muscle memory.

LLMs are only language muscle memory.

Very finely trained, yes, and injected with reasoning patterns that stem from language use, but that's just it, muscle memory.

Triple alignment captured near Turin, Italy. The photograph took six years of attempts and was recently featured on the NASA Astronomic Picture of the day.

Credit: Valerio Minato

#space

A new pedestrian-cycle tunnel had been opened under Helsinki's main train station. With an underground bike park for 900 cycles, with chargers and cycle maintenance/wash station.

Cc: @notjustbikes

They say big trucks are just a reality if you want to make deliveries in the city.

I say there's other ways to solve the "last-mile" problem...

There's your beer kegs—sorted.

#London

🧵

Travel fox reporting in.

On mischief patrol duty today. No coyotes detected, but increased levels of vulpine mischief. @cynder_coyote

(Big fox friend belongs to @keeya!)

#PlushieTravels

When you’re searching for your dog realising he’s in perfect hiding 🙈

#pets #PetsOfMastodon #dog #dogs

Random fursuit photos from the archive.

Ember the dragon at Galacon 2018.

“That’s when Neil looked at the coin counter meter. it read “000001”:

And, sitting in the coin bucket was a single coin; a quarter dated 1983.”

https://arcadeblogger.com/2017/01/20/centuri-aztarac-finding-the-holy-arcade-grail/

Who knew that it's possible to boot straight into UEFI setup by just running "systemctl reboot --firmware-setup"? 🤯

It makes all those times I was mashing F12, as soon as the computer started booting, utterly pointless — especially after getting Linux installed.

Well, at least I know about it now.

#Linux #SysAdmin #Hardware

Hey, it´s fursuit friday.
EAST was a nice time again. :)
I hope to meet some cute fluffs at #Eurofurence, again.

Fursuit: Shane
#furry #fursuit #photo #ff

Doin my best gargoyle pose for Fursuit Friday :3

🐕: @norfdog

#Furry #Furries #Fursuit #FursuitFriday #Photography #Anthro #FurryArt #FurryArtist

Njaw! They both would really like to give you some cuddles! Are you in? 😜

🐺🐲 me
🔵🐺 @Thiro
🪡 me

📸 @Stejf

#FursuitFriday

Another pro tip from me for people who are new to 3D printing: unless you are in dire circumstances, ask yourself if you're about to print something that you could have bought for a ridiculously small amount of money. There are a lot of times you could have just NOT spent 20 hours printing something.

For example, you rarely need to print a tube. PVC pipe is extremely cheap. Use it. Which brings me to a side version of this same point: ask yourself if you could, instead of printing a large object, print smaller objects that would convert something you can buy on the cheap into the thing you're trying to print. Maybe instead of printing an entire storage box for something, you can print an insert that fits into a box you have that holds those things. Back to the PVC thing, instead of printing a large thing that's 90% tube, just print ends that can attach to PVC pipe. Instead of printing a big self waterer for a plant, you could print just a screw on lid that will convert a plastic bottle into one. There's a LOT of prints out there that will turn everyday objects or fairly standardized global products (this is why IKEA is popular with 3D print types) into new things.

Now I'm not saying never ever do this, if you see some special carrying case for something and you like it and want to print it then go for it! But I've met a lot of people who just see a thing, print it, and don't really consider that they could have easily avoided a large percentage of the print by spending $5 or less on some PVC pipe or even grabbing a water bottle for free, and spent that time and plastic printing something else (and for structural things could have had far more strength than a pure 3D print would have had anyway). It's always worth thinking about if there may be a better way to go about it. Sometimes the best 3D printing project results come from *not* printing everything.

I've saved a snuggly spot for ya here! 🤗

#FursuitFriday

Hectic weekend ahead? Don't worry, you will power through it!
👊🏻 💥 💙

🐂: @SteeleBovine

Content warning: Rant Reveal/hide

This article doesn't have the word "commute" in it at all. Not very many of them do.

"As much as an 8 percent raise", but 8% of an 8 hour day is about 45 minutes. Which is... a 20 minute commute to and from work, which is time out of your life your employer is taking from you, unpaid, for which employer and employee both gain nothing.

And a 20 minute commute in Toronto is a _joke_, it's nothing. 40, 60, sometimes 90 are common.

I wish journalists could do math.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/23/why-remote-work-has-staying-power.html

Why remote work has staying power: It's 'still kicking,' economist says

The pandemic-era trend of working remotely has endured largely because it benefits both workers and businesses, economists said.

^{Greg Iacurci (CNBC)}

Holy moly, 4.4% of people in England have long covid

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/23/fifth-patients-two-north-england-surgeries-long-covid-study-finds

That's 1 in 20 people! Not of the population who have had covid, but the general population. Not in the past, but right now.

WHY ISN'T ANYONE WEARING MASKS ANYMORE

NOT EVEN ON TRAINS WHAT!!??

#coronavirus #COVID19 #LongCovid

Fifth of patients at two north of England surgeries have long Covid, study finds

Report into prevalence of condition reveals stark north/south divide with the highest rates in north-west

^{Tobi Thomas (The Guardian)}

Peak oof

Source https://fosstodon.org/@deshipu/113000517135266583

I did a calculation yesterday that made me want to scream. If you look at the *current* density of satellites in 1km altitude bins in Low Earth Orbit, and assume they are travelling at circular velocities (generally true), then Starlink satellites pass within <1km of each other EVERY 30 SECONDS.

At Starlink altitudes, everything is travelling at 7 km/second, so <1 km close approaches are terrifyingly close. Every 30 seconds. WHY.