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blabberlicious

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Doing doughnuts in Life’s car park.
🇦🇷 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Worked for Games Workshop. Author of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks. Designed the Playstation website. Creative at Leo Burnett, invented Kellogg Characters & wrote TV spots. Video Projections for Theatre and Opera. Filmed London Mayor Sadiq Khan's election campaigns.

Please unfollow or block if you don’t like my crappy takes 🙏🏻

#Animation #Videography #Editing #Argentina #Ireland #UK #NoSearch #NoBot

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baldur, to random
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So far, AI hasn’t been profitable for Big Tech | Ars Technica

"the cost to Microsoft exceeds $20 a month per user on average, according to a person familiar with the matter. In some cases, individual power users have cost the company as much as $80 a month." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/so-far-ai-hasnt-been-profitable-for-big-tech/

blabberlicious,
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@baldur
[A]bysmal [D]ecrepit [O]verpriced [B]usiness [E]ntrapment.

blabberlicious, to random
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Hoping has good support. 🙄😫😵

StillIRise1963, to random
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Whatever, Liz Hurley. It’s weird.

blabberlicious,
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@StillIRise1963 eewww. Nepo babies ruin the film industry.

clive, to random
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Excellent investigation by the New York Times into all the ways major AI companies are frantically grabbing, copying, and stealing text to feed their AI models: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-harvest-data-artificial-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iU0.xcEk.CIQuR1C9u9N1&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

(Gift link there)

apparently Meta considered buying Simon & Schuster

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@clive
I was wondering about ’s automagic Podcast Transcription feature. I bet they are scraping all those podcasts for juice.

No doubt as a condition of playing in their walled garden.

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I suspect part of the reason took off in Paris but have spawned conspiracy theories in the UK is that invested in the benefits alongside the traffic calming measures, whereas UK councils had no budget to invest in the positives and also no budget for proper public consolations explaining what was going to happen so people felt it had just been dropped on them without warning.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2024/apr/06/why-has-15-minute-city-taken-off-paris-toxic-idea-uk-carlos-moreno

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@afewbugs @dajb
They also had ‘rival’ agencies having to coordinate implementation. Road signs meant to filter off cars arrived weeks after cycle lanes and road partitions appeared.
It was messy, but 100% effective, once it bedded in.
Made a fantastic difference to our local streets and cycling.

StillIRise1963, to random
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That earthquake was a really confusing episode. I had no clue what was happening and headed to the basement.

blabberlicious,
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@StillIRise1963 Glad it wasn’t worse, and that you have a chill emergency dog.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Gipsy Kings

Un Amor

https://youtu.be/1fmBChhEoo8?si=DDeApBmIfoRERqr4

blabberlicious,
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@StillIRise1963 Que stupendo!
Saw them play in London a few times.

A floor filler for my mum. She hears a few notes and starts striking serious flamenco poses!

blabberlicious,
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@StillIRise1963
This is my Ma’s current jam. She belts it out like a BOSS. All the words. Music 🙏🏻

(I used to abhor Argentinian music. Now I get proper tingles. )

https://youtu.be/Z25Zw3691ZM

Loukas, to psychology
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When I was studying I learned about the theory of semantic memory - how people will remember the meaning of something better than raw facts.

This is certainly true for me. I can remember long strings of numbers if I have time to give them a context. And this must be what mnemonics and memory palaces do: give data a semantic structure and context to help us remember it.

blabberlicious,
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@Loukas
Fast food, for the brain. Rather than cooking from raw.

GrimmReality, to random
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Sometimes I want a sandwich and sometimes just a momentary rift in my certainty that I inhabit a blighted scape of travail wherein mere hope is hubris.

blabberlicious,
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@GrimmReality
Love your craft.

blabberlicious, to random
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“Soames, a former minister who spent 36 years in the Commons before being made a peer, said that in the wake of the deaths of seven aid workers for World Central Kitchen, among them three Britons, the UK needed to stop providing Israel with arms.”

As @StillIRise1963 said; The ‘wakes’ have been happening for months. But now it’s urgent?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/04/tory-infighting-grows-as-peer-calls-for-end-to-israel-arms-sales

blabberlicious, to random
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Adam is spot on.

https://youtu.be/Ie5hOGMsgNQ

StillIRise1963, to random
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Netanyahu has fucked Israel for generations.

blabberlicious,
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@StillIRise1963
My wife, son and daughter are all German Jewish, from their Holocaust surviving Grandmothers side.

Netanyahu has radicalised them. But not in the way despicable people like him hoped.

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay now, pick this up and eat it like a sandwich. I want to see it eaten like a sandwich.

blabberlicious,
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@RickiTarr
If you do try and eat it, make sure you add a Content(s) Warning. 😗

EighthLayer, (edited ) to uk
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One of the worst things since lockdown happened is that couriers now think it’s acceptable to leave packages on a doorstep and consider that “delivered”.

I say “a doorstep” as my wife just had a notification to say a package has been delivered. It’s nowhere to be seen.

Unless you’ve handed it to me directly as I’ve opened the door, I do not consider it delivered!

Edit: I don’t blame the drivers themselves. It’s the companies who dictate how drivers are supposed to perform their duties.

blabberlicious,
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@EighthLayer
Food banks? Quite a long list of things worse than that tbh. Including the pressure the drivers are under.

blabberlicious,
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@EighthLayer
Fair dos. Sorry for my grumpy take. A bit of a drive by!

Take care

blabberlicious, to random
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Kara Swisher is the Kara Swisher of Bad Tech Journalists.

Great article.

https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-miseducation-of-kara-swisher-ongweso

kevinteljeur, to random
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Got to Mastodon Timeline 0 with a ‘divide filters and conquer’ strategy.

blabberlicious,
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@kevinteljeur I need to know more.

blabberlicious,
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@kevinteljeur what client are you using?

blabberlicious,
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@kevinteljeur slaps forehead. No replies! Of course. Doh! I use ivory. They must have crept that in recently.

ernie, to random
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Not an April Fool’s joke: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/01/trump-media-lost-58-million-last-year-sec-filing-shows.html

blabberlicious,
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@turgon @ernie
Who would he cash out to?
Wouldn’t that crater the stock?

(Admittedly, I know little about the stock market, like his fanboys).

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“Trump Media shares fall sharply after company reports 2023 loss of $58 million”

This whole thing makes sense if you understand it as a scam to funnel money to a professional grifter.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/01/trump-media-lost-58-million-last-year-sec-filing-shows.html?__source=iosappshare%7Corg.joinmastodon.app.ShareActionExtension

blabberlicious,
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@LouisIngenthron @samlitzinger

@spacehobo Put me straight on this:

“a money-laundering scheme so someone could get the cash into his hands for payment of his bond.”

https://teh.entar.net/@spacehobo/112197555076747431

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@LouisIngenthron @samlitzinger
Ok. I’m IN with that theory.
I'll buy everything you’re holding!

ColinTheMathmo, (edited ) to random
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[I'm not asking for advice ... please don't try to help me]

OK, so ...

Trying to assist to to things on the computer. These are things that they are absolutely capable of, and will (I believe) greatly enhance their quality of life.

Then Oh. My. God.

The misconceptions are f'n unbelievably. The way they think things work, the things they believe happen when they perform certain operations, it's just ... inconceivable.

I've started to unpick some of what's going on, and it's horrendous.

To start ...

blabberlicious,
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@ddrake @ColinTheMathmo @skua
Could not agree more. It’s borderline criminal.

I’m reminded of the addage we had in the studio designing Web 1.0 Flash home pages:

Client:
“How do I navigate off this page?

Designer:
Click on the Monkeys head, doofus!”

dgar, to random
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clogged

blabberlicious,
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@dgar @PaulNickson
That toot was a Croc O’ Shite.

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