PSA: All the dudes mad that women's sports are getting higher viewership than men's sports should just log off for a few days. Because it's about to get a lot worse... 🤷🏿♂️
On Friday, Paige Bueckers (AKA Paige Buckets) plays against Caitlin Clark.
When they played in 2021, Paige Bueckers beat Clark.
When they played in 2022, Paige Bueckers beat Clark.
They didn't play in 2023.
Now they're playing in 2024.
This game will likely beat last week's record 12.3 million viewers.
@mekkaokereke That's bonkers. I admit, I weaned myself off college sports as I didn't agree with how they handled covid here, but Clark has dragged me right back into following the Hawkeyes (women's teams, trying to do my bit for metrics). So my frame of reference is limited. But watching Clark command a game (when allowed, WV did a good job of disturbing that), I suddenly really looking forward to tomorrow night if Bueckers is even better.
Maybe it's because I'm a naturalized U.S. citizen, but when people threaten to withhold their vote in protest I can't help but wonder what the actual fuck they think they're accomplishing by a) demoting themselves into non-citizen status and b) announcing their asinine decision
@DataDrivenMD I've voted in absolutely everything since becoming a naturalized citizen. There is enough disenfranchisement, FFS don't do it to yourself.
Random curb/dumpster diving tip: think twice about snagging that couch out on the curb next to the lawn. (having watched a dog pee on one... and then my dog trying to do the same!) #random#dumpsterdiving
@ai6yr Honestly, one minor (according to the guy) infestation of bed bugs, and how even that was a massive effort to get rid of, has made me hyper vigilant about absolutely anything entering the house. I don't think curb chair would get a second glance, unfortunately.
Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:
@ai6yr Encouraging Hollywood-style sliding over the tables to make a dramatic exit while you're trying not to panic. Or perhaps parkour up the table and over the fence.
This story reminded me that I only had 1 glass hammer in the big car (I'm going to keep a second in the back), and none in a little run about. Just ordered a big pack of them, and one to give to my daughter for her car.
The people that vote for the Oscars, don't look like the people that watch the films. The Academy is much older, whiter, and dude-ier*. Oscar winners, are the inevitable outcome of Oscar voters.
The question isn't "Has the Academy changed enough to where filmmakers from marginalized backgrounds have the same chance to win an Oscar yet?"
The question is "Will the Oscars have the same relevance to society 10 years from now, that they do today?"
@michael_w_busch@mekkaokereke My gut reaction was "guy who made (admittedly, enjoyable) Batman films is going to try to tell the story of an horrific chapter of human history?" and had zero interest. We did our part for Barbie by seeing it in the theatre and buying the disc release.
But yeah, there was no part of this that wasn't going to be a bit Team America about the story of creating atomic weapons.
@sundogplanets@cowboyscott that's interesting that it's still 10x the cost. That's the figure I was told at university (late 90s) by one of the people who worked on one of Hubble's instruments. We've had this whole launch industry swell up since then.
@ernie Honestly, the whole Surface line is a testament to what people actually wanted, after Jobs guffawed at using a stylus. The entire thing - the convergence of the iOS/iPad/macOS ecosystem, it's surely what Surface and Windows Phone was supposed to do.
Except, beyond the Xbox fluke, Microsoft literally can't do anything in the consumer space, so fluffed it. Just like Kinect, its always-on mic, etc. And HoloLens.
Hard to overstate how enshittified and botshitted Google Maps has become. Went looking for my local locksmith on Gmaps. Maps shows 20+ fake locksmith referral scam outlets and doesn't even register the real locksmith, despite it being fully visible in Street View.
Instead, a red pin on the shop identifies it as a fake locksmith scammer. The real locksmith - which has been there SINCE 1942 (!!) and is a verified merchant - doesn't even show up.
@eldubuu@unikitty@pluralistic I was searching my Gmail inbox for something yesterday, and happened upon 20 year old invites I sent to others, so that they could join Gmail themselves, the only way at the time.
"We can wrap you in a full-body suit of neoprene, heat-resistant rubber. Or we can raise the temperature in Cosmo's office to 98.6 degrees - which is probably what we'll have to do, because the neoprene would suffocate you. "
Mastodon culture is incredibly ugly right now. The relentless dogpiling and harassment is despicable. We were lead to believe that lack of quoted boosts would prevent this, but that hasn’t happened.
Nine months ago, I received death threats regarding a comment someone left on a post. Keep in mind, I didn’t say the offending remark—I was being punished because the offender replied to me.
Thankfully, I have thick skin and I’m not going to let certain entitled assholes rob me of my space on the Fediverse.
@atomicpoet WTAF. I somehow missed all that, absolutely appalling behavior.
Death threat is bang out of order. I'm glad you're not letting it put you off, but holy shit, unacceptable.
The fediverse could use some introspection.
And as a completely minor point, I didn't realize how much technical documentation is missing. To hear it described, "it's just ActivityPub". I'm even more impressed by the people who have working projects up and running.
Oh, HUH. Not only does SkateBIRD have a Wikipedia page, but so does Hot Tin Roof? That's a new one, wonder what encouraged that. Or maybe I just never noticed?
Weirdly tho, our studio doesn't have one yet, so nothing links the two. Seems like the two pages should have least have one of those undefined links that recognizes the two are connected.
Wikipeda is weird but very cool. Still wild to me that this whole thing is volunteer run by, basically, achievement-hunters. (their back-end is this WILD lightly gamified expanse of interlocking points systems)
@glassbottommeg I decided to look up how to do those red links, to encourage creation of a page. After going way down a rabbit hole, I actually found this link. Am I reading that correctly? Glass Bottom Games did actually have a page, but it was deleted?
I must admit, I've only ever fixed a couple of typos and helped tag some images in the mobile app, and don't know the ins and outs of the behind the scenes stuff.
Replaced a single pane, 1978-79 window with a very, very expensive modern equivalent. Why? Heatwaves. Lots of them in the future. Don't know how much it will help... but better than what was there before. #remodeling#windows
@metin well that looks excellent. I enjoyed watching the process there, really couldn't tell where it was going when the scene looked like chocolate yesterday!
@coreyspowell@clive Well this got me curious, and I have completely forgotten how to work this out, so to the wiki-mobile!
Apparently, ELT, with its 39m primary mirror, can resolve 2 light sources 30cm apart from a distance of 12,000km. Which is kinda bonkers when you think how large the ELT will be (see: Tom Scott video).
Assuming such a thing could be constructed, what effective size mirror would be needed to resolve Odysseus?
@clive@coreyspowell Isn't it. For comparison, the page notes a typical person could resolve those 2 light sources, 30cm apart, from a distance of only 1km.
So now we have a sense of what we could do with 39m eyeballs. TIL.
