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RickiTarr, 11 days ago to random

One of the things I love is when a noob starts watching Trek shows for the first time, and they're like, This is so silly, it's ridiculous, that guy turned into a lizard and impregnated his captain, that lady got possessed by a sex ghost that belonged to her grandma, the captain is sorting a room full of floofy guinea pigs, the ship runs on mushrooms, this theme song makes no sense, and I'm just like Yeah, isn't it great?! You either get it or you don't, I don't know what to tell you.

pseudonym, 14 days ago to Animal

You've all been very good. Have a picture of a bun-bun I saw on my walk.

#animal #photo #mosstodon

Baby bunny in a park, nibbling on a plant

pseudonym, 16 days ago to random

Friendly reminder not to link to, repost, reblog or otherwise reshare the "bad stuff" be it racism, politics, hate speech, whatever, even if your intent is just to ridicule it.

That's...how...it... spreads and finds an audience.

Call the bad actors out on their shit. Didn't let it slide. Speak up. That's how they know they didn't have a willing audience with you.

But please, don't directly link to their hate speech, helping it spread. That's what they want. A platform.

Thanks.

#PSA

pseudonym, 16 days ago to android

New #android Device. The "copy all my apps and data files over" is getting much better than it used to be, by why in the name of dog, can they not copy over notification preferences, or add a global default option to be "silent notifications"?

I have to go and manually re-mute almost all the apps.

There are a very few apps I want dinging my phone, ever. Go ahead and give me the dot, and even the one line silent notification at the top, but annoy me once with a ding I didn't need, and muted.

Alexlee, 20 days ago to academicchatter

Nobody told me about the snakes! #phdlife #phd @academicchatter

foone, 19 days ago to random

Apparently DoorDash has started filling in missing item descriptions by generating them with AI.

I'm sure this'll not cause ANY problems

pseudonym, 20 days ago to ai

More #AI shenanigans.

https://nitter.poast.org/petergyang/status/1793480607198323196#m

Link to X/Twitter replaced with nitter link.

Tl;Dr AI suggested adding glue to pizza to make the cheese stick. Sourced from 11 year old reddit post.

These are all good fun to mock until someone actually gets hurt taking these responses literally.

I'm torn. I've thrown my share of shade at #LLM s and the rush to shove "AI" into everything, and even what they do well, one can argue if it's worth the cost.

But I've seen some useful stuff too.

pseudonym, 24 days ago to KindActions

#mindfullness and #gratitude on a daily basis can be at odds with existential dread and fear for the future. It creates a good bit of cognitive dissonance.

RickiTarr, 24 days ago to random

Would half chicken half ducks be called Chucks or Dickens?

GottaLaff, 25 days ago to Canada

Ugh, totally wasted open house. Lookee-loo City. I'm so glad this was our last one before we leave. The rest will be after, and the house will be vacant.

Sigh.

So, with that, I'll perk myself up (and hopefully you) with another dopey #CountdownToCanada gif.

I can't believe it'll be a week from tomorrow!

Have a good evening, everyone!
#Canada 🇨🇦

video/mp4

pseudonym, 25 days ago to random

Aircraft museum.

Retro future that could have been.

Commuter electric VTOL aircraft

pseudonym, 25 days ago to tesla

Riding in passenger seat in the car, looking at my phone, and some nearby car (a #Tesla) tried to Bluetooth pair with me.

It nominally had the owners's name in the pairing request. That's a #privacy and #infosec problem.

I denied the request, of course, but was really tempted to accept, then play "Baby Shark" out their speakers.

RickiTarr, 29 days ago to random

Okay, since I'm on laundry today, a little story.

When hubs and I first got married, we were very much enjoying our little Honeymoon Bubble, and we were being lazy as Hell. We didn't do many chores, but the laundry we really let go. We weren't wearing many clothes at home anyway, so why bother. Anyhow, after weeks we finally reached the swimming suit bottoms situation, and decided it was time. It was loads and loads of laundry that needed done, so I had my husband back the trunk of the car up to a window of the house, then he popped the trunk, and I started tossing laundry out of the window into the trunk. We went to the bank, got about $30 bucks in quarters, and found the emptiest laundry mat we could, and did it all in one fell swoop. We folded it all and loaded it back into the car using those wheeled laundry carts. We never let it get that bad again, and decided it was time to be adults, and do regular chores, but it still makes me laugh imagining what the neighbors and the laundry attendant thought.

Feel free to share your own laundry story, if you feel like it, I love hearing people's stories!

pseudonym, 29 days ago to aiart

Another banger from @pluralistic . I don't know how he consistently keeps putting these out.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112435369749859354

There are too many great lines for a single pull quote. Spend the 5 minutes, read the whole thing.

This is brilliant stuff about #aiArt #copyright and the nature of meaning.

grimalkina, 1 month ago to random

I can't figure out if mastodon is a high context culture or not. People seem to be expected to give long introductions and do a lot of identity/positionality disclosure, but also an enormous reply guy culture which is defined by low context drive-by. Conversational turn-taking is extremely low compared to other platforms ime, but depth-seeking is high. What an interesting mix.

*obviously, these experiences are all situated within my own network effects, and I'm not well networked here.

GottaLaff, 1 month ago to legal

#TrumpTrial starts HERE. #Trump #legal
Please remember I don’t reply while live-posting. Plz use NFL (Not For Laffy, but no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies.

1/… Bower:

Trump enters the courtroom. Before arriving, he lingered for a moment in the doorway, talking to his lawyers, Emile Bove and Todd Blanche. He had a piece of paper in his hand, which he waved around as he spoke.

Wait for it….

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

What cracks me up is when you go to a restaurant, and they ask if you've been there before, and then they say, "Well, we do things a little different here", and then it's exactly like every other restaurant, but more expensive.

pseudonym, 1 month ago to random

@dumbpasswordrules

Try resetting your password on Southwest airlines website.

It didn't reveal the requirements, until you try to submit, then it tells you which you failed, onesy twosy.

Space not allowed at all (tell me you didn't trust your input sanitization)

Non-alpha required, but can't be the first character.

Other shenanigans

pseudonym, 1 month ago to infosec

From a friend's discord

#infosec #starWars

pseudonym, 1 month ago to random

Today I learned. I'm one of today's lucky ten thousand.

https://www.bluetooth.com/about-us/bluetooth-origin/

Origin of the term "blue tooth"

Also didn't know about the futhark runes for his initials

pseudonym, 1 month ago to random

Even the #LMM 's are on our side on this one. I had one create a fictional persona of an "average American" and it came up with a cisgendered midwest father of two, mildly conservative, that I could ask questions of. "He" fixes cars.

llama3-70b has internalized some of our more idealistic self-myths, of the US, and I don't think that's a bad thing.

pseudonym, 1 month ago to random

Any building civil engineer tyoes out there who could opine on this?

Structurally, could you build a human habitation house out of name-brand Legos? Do they have enough structural strength? Would it be more or less earthquake safe than, say bricks(not very) or other materials?

How many layers thick would you have to make a Lego floor to support a 100 kg human?

MLE_online, 1 month ago to random

I accidentally walked too close to my cactus yesterday and it shows

pseudonym, 1 month ago to dadjokes

Wife was talking to me about seeing geese with a single baby. I said "Oh the little one must be Ryan."

"Why Ryan?"

"Ryan Gosling."

"I walked into that one, didn't I?"

"Yes love, yes you did."

(And she's still married to me)
#dadJokes