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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

If cancel culture is so powerful, can we just cancel everything for the next 6-12 months and give everyone a bit of time to recover?

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RevK :verified_r: 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Playing with ideas for chest of an IronMan suit…

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

This caustic treat just popped up at the other place, courtesy of David Osland:

'Do we have two-tier policing in Britain? With me in the studio to discuss is a former Tory MP who wasn't charged with betting on the election date, a ferry boss who wasn't penalised for unlawfully sacking 800 workers and a woman who sold £200m-worth of unusable PPE to the NHS'!

#humour #politics

#politics #humour

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BLUR 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

*notices your internet history*

Hif, a blue toony creature with snaggle teeth and a big snoot, poking his head out of a slot in a ceiling, looking down

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Kay Ohtie 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

oy the rafters ain't safe

Eric Lawton 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

100 people died in January, crossing the Mediterranean.

No "specialist search and rescue teams" out for them.

Not even reporting on each boat, let alone putting a name and a few sentences about each one.

We are told yacht owners are "worth" $billions.

Refugees are clearly thought to be worthless. We have to search for news of them.

They are humans in desperate circumstances, often caused by us.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/01/1145997

Bayesian yacht disaster: How specialist search and rescue teams work underwater

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-bayesian-yacht-disaster-specialist-teams.html

Bayesian yacht disaster: How specialist search and rescue teams work underwater

Search and rescue for missing persons is always challenging for the specialist recovery teams involved, regardless of the environment they're working in.

^{Jamie Pringle (Phys.org)}

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CharJTF :a11y: (she/her) 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

My chemo sweatshirt arrived!

It has zippers in both sleeves so that I can wear it while getting my infusions. And it's going to be awesome when I get labs done in the winter because I don't have to take it off.

I got this on Etsy from DangerZTone (https://www.etsy.com/shop/DangerZtone?ref=usf_2020). It can also include chest zippers for those who need them.

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Me wearing my new sweatshirt, along with a light blue T-shirt branded "human rights for women" with a picture of Rosie the riveter (it's not entirely visible) and black pants.

I've unzipped the left side a bit to demonstrate how it works.

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Ryan The Red 🖥️🚲🍺🏳️‍🌈 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Did you know there were multiple PhD's on the #Futurama writer's staff? They literally wrote math to make episodes work. I love that show so much.

#futurama

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Marcin Wichary 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Love how WarGames is filled to the brim with fonts no one wants: Gorton, low-poly vector fonts, old-school bitmap fonts, 14-segment stuff.

A screenshot from the movie WarGames showing a military panel typeset in Gorton

A screenshot from the movie WarGames showing a digital vector map

A screenshot from the movie WarGames showing a terminal screen with a bitmap font

A screenshot from the movie WarGames showing a red 14-segmented display

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Niléane 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

This is both the funniest and saddest thing I’ve ever read on Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_of_Dorothy

Section from the Wikipedia page “Friend of Dorothy”:

“Misunderstanding

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Naval Investigative Service (NIS), the predecessor to the modern-day Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) was investigating homosexuality in the Chicago area. Agents discovered that gay men sometimes referred to themselves as "friends of Dorothy". Unaware of the historical meaning of the term, the NIS believed that there actually was a woman named Dorothy at the center of a massive ring of homosexual military personnel, so they launched an enormous and futile hunt for the elusive "Dorothy", hoping to find her and convince her to reveal the names of gay service members.”

gay slang term for a gay man

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

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‏ 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

the irony of oled monitors becoming a thing for computers is the need for screensavers again lol

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Kootenay 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Got to bring Drogon out at #FanExpoCanada for a (sadly, not well attended) Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon photoshoot.

(Drogon by @komickrazi.bsky.social
Pictures found on FB)

#fanexpocanada

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Isolectra :therian: 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

And it is time for #retrogaming with the protogen! Let's see what educational software we find for #AppleII! The 1980s are back! Isolectra on Twitch. #fursuit #furry #protogen #retro #twitchstreamer #furrystreamer #livevirtaaja #twitchstreamer #gaming

#furry #fursuit #RetroGaming #Gaming #retro #protogen #appleii #twitchstreamer #furrystreamer #livevirtaaja

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Andrea Junker :verified: 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Hitler didn’t operate the gas chambers himself. But he was responsible.

Manson didn’t kill anyone himself. But he was responsible.

Bin Laden didn’t fly the planes himself. But he was responsible.

Trump didn’t storm the Capitol himself. But he was responsible.

Justice matters.

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Cy 1 year ago • ActivityPub

Content warning: me

mhoye 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Huh.

So, just now I learned that you can convert miles to kilometers with the Fibonacci sequence?

A mile is 1.609 kilometers.

The Golden Ratio, the ratio between Fibonacci numbers as they get large, is 1.618.

So, within about 1%. And large doesn't need to be that large, it's actually pretty accurate from about 8 onwards.

1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 etc etc

5 miles is 8 km.
21 miles is 34 km.
89 miles is 144 km.

etc etc.

Kinda neat IMO.

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Babana 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Leaflet! artfight piece done this year, character belongs to Eskiworks

Dragon person poking at some danylions while laying down

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Adrianna Tan 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Every restroom should have a sign like this

#Gender #Trans #Signs

A sign that says if you think the gender of the person in the bathroom doesn’t match, don’t worry about it

#trans #gender #signs

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spaf 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Al company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn't actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it's having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech.

CEO: awesome, I've fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders?

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Autism Jo :neocat_comfy: :v_enby: 🍂 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

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.

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Volpeon :wvrnFlight: 1 year ago • sharkey (AP)

Also important to remember that because of this, "hallucinations" aren't something you can fix without changes to the way LLMs work on a fundamental level. That would require an actual capability to understand.
All an LLM does is interpolating ouputs from the text it was trained on. Reasonable outputs are hallucinations that happen to meet our expectations, but it's all the same process. You can throw more data at the model to make the interpolation more precise, but you'll never solve the problems this way.

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Kay Ohtie 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

it's always funny seeing the preload for prompts from all these companies and it always includes lines like "tell the truth" and "do not lie" and similar and it's just like, the joke about programmers whispering to cursed sand was wrong. _This_ is whispering to cursed sand, politely asking it to do the right thing the way my sister says "please tell me about the weather" to my parents' Nest hub as if it might not if she doesn't say "please".

Although tbh it might not soon with the bs from Google.

(As a side note I snorted my drink seeing MKBHD testing some product and it literally reciting part of the preload prompt to him out loud)

Ricki Yasha Tarr 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

If you're ever scrolling online, and you see a piece of art, and you think, "Hey, that's nice, I like that!" Take the 30 seconds it takes to send that message. It can make such a huge difference to hear even one compliment. I know, I know, we shouldn't need so much validation merely to express ourselves through a medium, but art is a way to connect to other people for many people, and one nice comment can mean so much sometimes.

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Kim Possible :kimoji_fire: 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

A to the men! I know quite a few creatives, and oddly enough, often their own families are the most dismissive of their work! Emotionally, that positive feedback can mean more than we know.

Todd Nelson 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

@kimlockhartga my wife is a published author and it's remarkable how dismissive family can be.
She has this cartoon on her desk - apparently for a reason.
Source for cartoon: The Cartoon Bank

Cartoon image of Mark Twain and his mother standing on the front porch. She is saying "Are you still writing your little stories?"

@Kim Possible :kimoji_fire:

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Pomaranč 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

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

#space

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Autism Jo :neocat_comfy: :v_enby: 🍂 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

📝

A tumblr post.

The first post: "culture is so obsessed with the idea of lone geniuses that it doesn't really appreciate that most of the progress of science (and likely every other discipline) occurs collaboratively, in baby steps, and usually through a lot of very tedious, utterly unsexy, work.

The second post, a screenshot of tags on another post: "lotta progress also comes from people doing research and going 'well I dunno what this could be used for. But it works'", "and then someone else is like 'oh that's what I need to do this specific thing'", "and then another person looks at that thing and goes 'that's what I need to do this specific thing'"

The third post: "This is what's so faulty with our short sighted coverage of scientific discoveries. You hear politicians question why we spend money on science studying insect wings and then decades later that research gets used by NASA for the most efficient way to fold/unfold solar panels on spacecraft. All of science is connected and useful because it enhances our understanding of the universe"

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Wildfox 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Remember when I used to fursuit for hours on end? Pepperidge Farm remembers…

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Tomasz Oryński 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

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

Entrance to the tunnel with pedestrian access to the train platform on the left and separate cycle and pedestrian tracks on the right

In the tunnel- wide two way asphalt cycle road and raised wide pedestrian walk

@Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

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

🧵

#London

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Kianga 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

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

Photo of two plush foxes, one big, one small, snuggling next to each other on a tree stump, with woods in the background.

Photo of a plush fox sitting on another tree stump in the woods.

Photo of a plush fox sitting on a concrete wall overlooking a larger pond in the forest.

Photo of a plush fox sitting on a wooden bench next to a black "Jack Wolfskin" backpack. The backpack is decorated with various furry items: a circular "Coyote Mischief Patrol" patch, a black panther "snoot boop" pin, and a steel keychain thingy in the shape of a sitting fox. There's a large cornfield in the background.

#plushietravels @CynderCoyote‼️ @Keeya

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J. L. Westover 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Secret Panel HERE 🐢 https://tapas.io/episode/2491229

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Marie 🇸🇪 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

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

#pets #PetsOfMastodon #dog #dogs

bedspread and pillows with large brown single bears sleeping curled up & a dog lying on one of the large Bears and blending into the whole pattern so he disappears.

#pets #dog #dogs #petsofmastodon

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Quincy 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

In surveillance capitalism, web browses you.

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Dairishgoat 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Random fursuit photos from the archive.

Ember the dragon at Galacon 2018.

A closeup of a fursuit of the character Ember from ‘My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic’.
Ember is a blue dragon with large eyes and darker blue diamond patterns periodically on her body representing scales. She has curled white horns to the side of her head, and small wings with pink on the underside. She has a dark blue crest upon her head. She is standing in a convention centre lobby with other con attendees in the background.

A fursuit of the character Ember from ‘My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic’.
Ember is a blue dragon with large eyes and darker blue diamond patterns periodically on her body representing scales. She has curled white horns to the side of her head, and small wings with pink on the underside. She has a dark blue crest upon her head. She is standing in a convention centre lobby with other con attendees in the background.

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autumn-matic 1 year ago • sharkey (AP)

the three types of fedi posts

Niko (@niko@furry.engineer):
@psiie@anarres.family i gave up and ended up linking my site as a 26 byte way of transferring multiple kilobytes of data

austin emergency powers (@LARSNEVERDIES@labyrinth.zone):
ima doggie awoooo ^^

a figment of your imagination (@theking@mskey.nekomimi.party):
Why am I so tired

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Rabbit Cohen 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

This is a damn good point.

Tweet by @41Øfredo:
"Gender affirming care is so cut and dry. If any antidepressant reduced suicides by 73%, it would be called a miracle."

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Natasha Jay 🇪🇺 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

A battering RAM

A fortress made of Lego. Outside are two Lego men with a swinging battering ram in black, but with the wooden part replaced by a green RAM memory stick

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Burrito Justice 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

“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/

Centuri Aztarac: Finding THE Holy Arcade Grail…

Let me start by saying that this is the most amazingly poignant tale I’ve come across in arcade collecting circles. I’ve written before about incredible rare arcade “finds” …

^{The Arcade Blogger}

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