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tantramar

@tantramar@nojack.easydns.ca

single, strait, boring, genX guy. pro: science/vaccines/abortion/LGBTQ+. liberal. COVID = airborne

When I got hooked: STAR WARS/John Williams (1977), Dire Straits (78), Blade Runner (82), Pink Floyd (84), email (86), Apple (90), Web (93).

masthead: Great Spruce Head Island, ME.

form is a diagram of forces • hydrogen, given time, becomes self-aware • cynicism is laziness that expects credit for critical thinking

powered by caffeine & maple syrup. mostly here for the cat memes.

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tantramar, to random
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Apple: want to watch a 6 GB movie? movie starts instantly

Also Apple: wanna edit a 0.005 GB photo on your Mac that you just took on your phone? iCloud Photo waits for the heat death of the universe

make it make sense

tantramar, to random
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I wonder if some fresh AA batteries would bring back the pulsing red light on my CD case… 🤓 #PinkFloyd #PULSE https://music.apple.com/ca/album/pulse-live/1590001237

tantramar,
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@JohnJBurnsIII Same!

tantramar, to ai
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There was a time when professional design & presentation helped separate the fly-by-night from the well-established. Even those who couldn’t articulate why or how one ad (commercial, website) was better than another could tell one was. It was no guarantee, but it was a helpful clue.

Facebook stripped all that away. On Facebook, the guy selling stolen shit from his van looks as legit as Target or Home Depot.

Google’s AI-generated search results do this, too.

tantramar,
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@npilon Ooof. Yes.

tantramar,
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@npilon I’ve settled on only buying from Amazon when a product is both “Sold By” and “Ships From” Amazon directly. Haven’t been burned yet. 🤷‍♂️

Waitnwallflower, to random
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I agree

tantramar,
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@Waitnwallflower @MikeImBack Hard agree

paul, to random
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Wife’s away, time to run some fiber…

tantramar,
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@paul Lookit mister fancy pants, running TWO battery platforms. ;)

tantramar, to random
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Pro-ignorance dipshit strikes again. Vote these shameful, disgraceful people into unemployment ASAP. “Premier says sex education group will be banned from giving school presentations” | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/premier-ban-sex-education-group-1.7215157

Fred, to nature
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Got this shot while fishing this morning. I'm really happy with it. Not bad for a quick phone shot.

#nature #outdoors #geese #fishing #pixel6pro #pixel #Pennsylvania

tantramar,
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@Fred @dan613 That’s a fantastic photo. Well done.

Kierkegaanks, to NoStupidQuestions
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“You’re lucky to meet me on a train because I’m on my way to pick up my new cybertruck from the dealer”

Is the woman dressed for grief in the context of the time and culture of the painting? In other words… is the 19th century cryptobro knowingly chatting up a woman who just lost a parent, sibling or partner?

tantramar,
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@Kierkegaanks @CoachMark those white, frilly bits are doing a lot of undermining of the whole “modesty” thing. 🙃 (but then piety is mostly performative, innit?)

being, to random
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I'm exhausted

tantramar,
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@being 😕

tantramar, to random
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Operation Kitchen Window Screen Patch has been completed. Let’s see those June Bugs get through THIS (temporary & woefully inadequate half-assed repair job).

paulc, to random
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@hotdogsladies @siracusa You story of bringing tools with you all of the time, such as Merlin bringing a Leatherman, reminds me of quirk of my father’s.

The family was at a restaurant and I noticed a knife sticking out of his shirt pocket. He said it was a grapefruit knife and that he always had it with him in case there was grapefruit. There was so many things wrong with this, plus it was a pearing knife, not a grapefruit knife. I took it from him.

My father was in his 80s.

tantramar,
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@paulc @hotdogsladies @siracusa but what if there was grapefruit…?

tantramar, (edited ) to random
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@manton @danielpunkass Enjoyed the most recent episode of CoreInt.

You seem convinced of a future with AI, but mostly I see companies like Google jettisoning credibility, blockchain scammers that have pivoted, and people ingesting other people’s work with a disregard for ethics & legality that only Uber & Airbnb could admire.

I already use LLM-based video transcription; it’s great. Where else do you see it as being valuable today?

StillIRise1963, to random
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MSM tells you what THEY WANT you to know.

tantramar,
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@StillIRise1963 I resisted MSM conspiracies for years.

Yes, I had the once-you-see-how-innacurate-stories-in-your-field-are experience, but that wasn’t enough.

Relentless climate-change both-sides-ism and dutiful, political stenography when Public Health was spouting inconsistent, illogical nonsense at the start of the pandemic — and now seeing the leader of the opposition gets nothing but uncritical press while supporting fascists (but our PM can do nothing right)?

I’m out.

joshuatopolsky, to random
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Should I post content

tantramar,
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@flargh @joshuatopolsky poison the AIs: post malcontent.

tantramar,
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@flargh @joshuatopolsky if not a duty.

ianbetteridge, to random
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Tempted to write an article headlined "Are LLMs really artificial intelligence?" because... well you know what the answer is.

tantramar,
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@ianbetteridge very on-brand. sadly, there seems to be a strong need for such an article.

tantramar,
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@ianbetteridge can’t help feeling that this post really puts its finger on the fundamental issue — they’re exploiting a fundamental strength/flaw in humanOS: projecting. https://mastodon.xyz/@pmorinerie/112506480363973206

tantramar,
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@flargh @ianbetteridge oh, that’s good. evil, but good.

CoachMark, to random
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It's kind of important to press the start button on the automatic drip coffee maker.

Whoops.

More waiting.

I guess I needed a pre coffee making coffee, eh?

tantramar,
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@adhdeanasl @CoachMark Future Chris salutes Past Dean (yet will utterly fail to learn from him).

alexpsmith, to random

Women so often underestimate how much men hate us.

tantramar,
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@Kierkegaanks @alexpsmith I’ve seen this. Your description is apt.

jordinn, to random

A thing that seems historically demonstrable: this current wave of fascist creep and repression of civil liberties will not last forever

A corresponding historically demonstrable fear: the currently-rising order seems likely to do catastrophic harm to bodies and to communities, and to take a lot (A LOT) of lives between this moment and whenever a widely-shared peace and expanding context of collective well being next takes hold

tantramar,
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@jordinn Survivor bias is real.

dansup, to random
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The new @pixelfed app is vibes 🔥

New pixelfed app

tantramar,
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@dansup @pixelfed Which app? I don’t any links to any apps on the Pixelfed site

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