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Viss, 5 months ago to random

TIL: moose

an eletronic roadside sign reading: lick your car

dgar, 5 months ago to random

#Dgar is not John Mastodon.

gvwilson, 5 months ago to random

I finally got around to creating some lists here on Mastodon:

• Internet royalty
• Embalmed persons
• Those who are highly trained
• Those who use the word "octothorpe"
• Strays
• Members of the Antimemetics Division
• Those included in the present classification
• Those who shiver as if they are cold
• Those who are not countable
• Components of group minds
• Others
• Those who have just broken a cherished coffee mug
• Those who from a long way off look like punctuation

Daojoan, 5 months ago to random

My request / ask for the week: send me your best burger recipes, techniques and tips! I'm grilling this year

whitequark, 5 months ago to random

> look at how a webapp for LEGO is built
> it uses a React/JSX UI toolkit that looks nice
> open the toolkit page
> it's made by Palantir

fucks sake

aral, 5 months ago to random

The mental gymnastics skills of folks attempting to justify Mozilla paying their CEO $7 million while asking for donations.

#mozilla

arstechnica, 5 months ago to random

How watching beavers from space can help drought-ridden areas bounce back

An algorithm can spot beaver ponds from satellite imagery.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/how-watching-beavers-from-space-can-help-drought-ridden-areas-bounce-back/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

da_667, 5 months ago to random

find a really nice, comfortable looking car
lexus lm350h
okay... how much is it

Lexus: 🤷

okay, is it available in the US markets?

Lexus: lmao, no. fuck outta here

Ah, yes. wonderful. Such innovation in the US automotive market. Where your choices are generic Crossover Car/truck/thing, Transformers mega pickup truck, with engine bay that goes up to my nipples, or SUV that can seat 18 and whose fuel efficiency is measured in gallons per mile.

Wonderful. Subarashii. Innovation of the highest level.

Could have had a sub 20,000 crawler with the Suzuki Jimny. Could have had a sub-20,000 pickup trick with Toyota's new successor to the hilux.

Could have had a motherfucking minivan limousine with the LX 350h.

I hate it so much.

GottaLaff, 5 months ago to random

Say it with me: Everything out of Republicans’ mouths are lies and/or projection/confessions

Via @lolgop:

No one has more to hide than those who seek to ban books.

https://flcga.org/police-have-recovered-second-ziegler-sex-video-sources-say/

whitequark, 5 months ago to random

concept: a web service that charges you more for not providing you access to AI tools

arstechnica, 5 months ago to random

Large language models can figure out how to do chemistry

"Coscientist" AI checks references, reads hardware manuals, and sets up reactions.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/large-language-models-can-figure-out-how-to-do-chemistry/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

nf3xn, 5 months ago to random

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soatok, 5 months ago to random

If you're ever uncertain how bad people are at media literacy, ponder for a moment the number of people that accused Rage Against the Machine of going "woke" in recent years.

The "what, did you think The Machine was a printer?" phenomenon is very real.

bloor, 5 months ago to random

Normalise pronunciation of DNS as "Dennis".

lzg, 5 months ago to random

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aral, 6 months ago to ai

Even his own AI hates him.

#ElonMusk #grok #ai

whitequark, 6 months ago to random

whenever i need inspiration in life, I go and re-read the life story of the Saint Equal-to-apostles Olga of Kyiv.

I invite you to read it, too! Wikipedia has a good summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev#Drevlian_Uprising

arstechnica, 6 months ago to random

Bizarre worm can detach its own butt and make it swim away

The butt even grows its own eyes, antennae, and brain.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/bizarre-worm-can-detach-its-own-butt-and-make-it-swim-away/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

mercedesallen, 6 months ago to random

"One of the largest streaming services in Russia has changed its age rating for My Little Pony to “adult audiences” under the country’s so-called LGBTQ+ propaganda laws..."

Russia declares My Little Pony 18+ amid anti-LGBTQ crackdown
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/12/07/russia-my-little-pony-18/

bloor, 6 months ago to random

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-56462390

I think there is an important message in this article. I am not convinced it is the one encapsulated in the title.

gsuberland, 6 months ago to random

was working my way through this book for a while, but got distracted when we moved house. gonna have a nice long reading session today (with my very squishy reading buddy)

rysiek, 6 months ago to random

Revolution might not be televised, but apparently genocide will be mathwashed.

From the team behind "we kill people based on metadata", a new exciting project: "we kill people based on… we don't even know what, it's a 2bln parameters black box that we have no real way of actually understanding."

> The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans
https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/the-pentagon-is-moving-toward-letting-ai-weapons-autonomously-decide-to-kill-humans/articleshow/105420637.cms