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jeffc

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Nature. Space. Functioning societies. Law. Kindness. Writing. Thinking. And bug-free code.

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VisualInspiration, to aiart
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2024-05-24 Visual Inspiration prompt.

Do you take other people's things?

Use this AI generated image to write a very short story based on it... Or dress like Jack Sparrow. Whatever it inspires you to do!

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jeffc,
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@VisualInspiration
Style, that's the thing. Do it with panache.

Browns makes the best boots, but they're ugly. If one wanted to change the situation, one would need to blend with the Kowloon ship traffic, like so. Then slip into their factory control, like so. One would--oops! avoid those cameras, perhaps by (carefully) walking across the beam they hang from. Then update the design... and everyone gets nicer boots. With (ding!) a special delivery for oneself.

Aways with panache.

VisualInspiration, to aiart
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2024-05-23 Visual Inspiration prompt.

Don't you have a whirlwind of ideas?

Use this AI generated image to write a very short story based on it... Or chase a tornado. Whatever it inspires you to do!

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jeffc,
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"There's not enough room in the bunker for us and his new family. He knows that."

"But it's gotten dangerous out there! When we were his age, chain twisters and hurricane trains didn't even exist. What if they take the bunker and we go on the road?"

"I suggested that. He wouldn't hear of it. He said we wouldn't stand a chance out there. She grew up as a New Nomad. She knows how to dodge the weather. It scares me, too, but they'll be ok."

#MicroFiction

jeffc,
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Here's hoping Mother Nature doesn't give us a preview this year!

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2024-05-22 Visual Inspiration prompt.

Cut the slack!

Use this AI generated image to write a very short story based on it... Whatever it inspires you to do!

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jeffc,
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"No, I'm not going to tell a campfire story. I'm an axe. I chop things. That's what I do. That's all I do, and I'm very good at it. I might be a magic axe, but that just makes me better at chopping. You want a story? Ask your smart phone. You can get them to do anything for a few coppers."

"I heard that."

#MicroFiction

VisualInspiration, to aiart
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2024-05-20 Visual Inspiration prompt.

You don't always know what is in front of you.

Use this AI generated image to write a very short story based on it. Or a movie script!

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jeffc,
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When Toothbrush was old enough, Modem Song took him to see the spirit casks.

"The Old Tribe made spirits work for them. There, in the white tower. Then they put them in these casks. The spirits are still angry--feel the warmth? They give anyone who gets too close strange diseases. This symbol is an Old Tribe warning. There's good hunting here in the winter, but don't go near the casks."

"How long will they stay angry?"

"Thousands of years? Who can say."
#MicroFiction

VisualInspiration, to aiart
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2024-05-18 Visual Inspiration prompt.

A lot of time to think.

Use this AI generated image to write a very short story based on it. Or a very long one!

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jeffc,
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Basically, I'm in solitary for the duration. (Don't never piss off no warden.) I'd be crazy if I hadn't found the gate.

It's in the cell, but you can only see it from certain angles. Go wherever you want; time stops while you're gone. Stay too long, it'll yoink you back.

I got no money 'cept what I can make on day job, so I'm "on a budget," but it keeps me sane while I'm doing time. Even if the clock stops while I'm gone.

biped808, to sandiego
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The view from our hotel room was delightful this afternoon. Yesterday, the sky was grey, cloud-filled. But today, the sun and blue sky emerged. #SanDiego #vacation

jeffc,
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@biped808
I didn't take it that way--sorry if I sounded defensive! Enjoy your trip!

jeffc,
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@biped808 Sorry for the grayness! We have May gray and June gloom, but they're kind of like our climate control: they (and the ocean the leads to them) keep the temperature moderate instead of desert-like extremes.

VisualInspiration, to aiart
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2024-05-16 Visual Inspiration prompt.

Almost there?

Use this AI generated image to write a very short story based on it. Or something in verse.

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jeffc,
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Sometimes the moon's so big and close you feel like you could touch it, you know?

Thing is, you can.

I tried once. First I touched it. Then I tried stepping over, but it was too hot and cold all at the same time.

So I wrapped myself up in a bunch of space blankets, the shiny kind, and got some good boots, and tried again.

It worked.

I could walk around up there.

So if you look at the moon and see something shiny, it's me. Wave, and I'll wave back.

jeffc,
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Thanks!

z_everson, to stocks
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"Trump Media Will Miss SEC Deadline After Ex-Auditor Is Banned Over ‘Massive Fraud’ Charges"

by Antonio Pequeño IV for @Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/05/15/trump-media-will-miss-sec-deadline-after-ex-auditor-is-banned-over-massive-fraud-charges/

jeffc,
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It's been a busy week for team Trump Media: a "we're blowing our deadline" notice and several "interesting" 8-Ks.

Here's the notice: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001849635/000114036124026277/ny20026576x18_nt10q.htm

VisualInspiration, to aiart
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2024-05-15 Visual Inspiration prompt.

Lift off!

Use this AI generated image to write a very short story based on it. Or a very long one.

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jeffc,
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I'm an Earth-head. Always have been. So 40 years ago I figured I'd try to trade with them, maybe score a Walkman. I painted the saucer like one of their shuttles and snuck into their spaceport.

As soon as I landed, they came boiling out, and they looked mad. I jumped back in and took off. Then I realized I'd dropped my phone.

Today I see a native on a phone that looks like mine. I guess they reverse-engineered it. I sure hope they don't figure out the AI part.

jeffc,
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@ixtlidekami @VisualInspiration Turn it into an acronym, then anyone who wants to rename it also has to come up with an acronym: defensive linguistics for the win!

jeffc, to sandiego
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Putting up the Ant Signal! (It's like the Bat Signal but, well, you know...) Can anyone identify the species?

It was at a nature preserve in San Diego county. The ants were brown, about 7mm long, and fast-moving.

@futurebird? You may be my only hope!

A macro image of the ants: large-ish head, narrow body, gaster is bigger than the head.

futurebird, to random
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My ants are kinda bougie... I hope I'm not raising them to be too stuck up.

jeffc,
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@futurebird

Use this handy quiz to tell if your ants are stuck up.

  • [ ] Door-woman at the nest entrance?
  • [ ] Prefer organic foods?
  • [ ] Prefer organic pheromones?
  • [ ] NIMBY attitude with respect to other species?
  • [ ] NIMBY attitude with respect to other colonies?
  • [ ] Will bite the hand that feeds them?
mastodonmigration, to random
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So, starting to see stories about how the RNC is saying they are not going to pay Trump's legal bills anymore.

Don't fall for it. This is just to fool their donors.

The RNC is going to continue to pay Trump's legal bills and a whole lot more.

jeffc,
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It might be lean times for GOP down-ballot races, though so many of them are self-funded, it's not clear what effect it might have on the outcomes.

arstechnica, to random
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Frozen embryos are “children,” according to Alabama’s Supreme Court

IVF often produces more embryos than are needed or used.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/frozen-embryos-are-children-according-to-alabamas-supreme-court/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

jeffc,
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I wonder if this ruling means IVF clinics can seek child support payments to keep the freezers running, and what the criminal consequences of a power failure might be.

jeffc, to Russia
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What am I missing here? None of this makes sense politically, strategically, or any other way.

Let's start with Russia wanting nukes in space but "It would not be to drop a weapon on Earth but to possibly use on satellites."

Why would you use a nuke against satellites? Space is big and satellites are generally delicate. You might incinerate some nearby ones, but that's about it. I could see nukes for an EMP attack, maybe, but satellites?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-plans-brief-lawmakers-house-chairman-warns/story?id=107232293

VisualInspiration, to aiart
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2024-01-04 Visual Inspiration prompt.

Do you have ? Try a Visual Inspiration prompt!

Use this AI generated image to write a very short story based on it. Or a poem... Whatever it inspires you to do!

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jeffc,
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They say there are worlds in droplets.

If the distance from a proton to its electron is like the distance from a planet to its moon, then that between oxygen and hydrogen is like a sun to its planet, and that between molecules is the expanse between stars.

These symmetries run deeper than most know.

So I have perfected the machine. So simple in its construction, yet so profound in its symmetries, that one may step into a droplet... and vanish into the world.

futurebird, to random
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Sometimes I come across strange jewelry ideas. Here is... a blank watch and a negative COVID test "lucky" pendent.

I wonder where these are popular. I'm starting a collection of jewelry that consists of objects that aren't functional, but look functional.

A watch, but it has not face, it's a bracelet.

jeffc,
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@futurebird I'm trying to figure out if the watch is a reference to society's focus on time since the industrial revolution (when factory shifts and railroad schedules suddenly made exact time important) or maybe about the fact that everyone's clock is on their phone now.

Popehat, to random

Someone trying to tempt me back to Twitter with this screenshot, saying “come on, won’t it be fun to respond to this?” Their idea of fun may differ from mine.

Lots of people have made fun of my mental illness and openness about it, most often on Twitter. But I’m okay. So far I haven’t looked at one of them and said “wow they seem really happy and successful, I wish I had their life.”

jeffc,
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@Eric
@Popehat I'm still trying to figure out whether renaming it "the ex-social media network" was somehow intended to hasten its demise.

jeffc, to climate
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"It may well be warmer than any time in the last 125,000 years."

Gift link.

https://wapo.st/3PNQb8V

jeffc, to climate
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The strandbeests noticed it first. They quit their daily pilgrimage and took to gathering mid-beach in listless herds.

It was as if, in their own way, the wind-powered sculptures realized that the warming water and the still, hot, damp air were somehow wrong, and they wanted no part of them.

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jeffc, to random
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Get the Navi-Gator, the nav/comm for the New Nomad lifestyle!

  • Track floods, fires, droughts, heatwaves, slimes, contamination, plagues, and more!
  • Multiple navigation modes: no satellites needed!
  • Crowd-sourced route updates
  • 500km Intermesh range
  • Light in your pack or saddlebag
  • Tough as a Tennessee gator

You have to know the weather to dodge the weather. Navi-Gator.

11/12

jeffc, to fediverse
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I've been thinking about the complaints about engagement and discoverability. And algorithms, federation, and social networks.

Online social media's different from the social environment most of us grew up in, which could be the root of the engagement and discovery complaints. In fact, I'd guess Twitter originally started their algorithm to bridge that gap.

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