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researchbuzz, 7 months ago to politics

#politics #FultonCounty #SidneyPowell

It's gotten to be a habit for me, when big news breaks, to put the breaking news person's name into Gossip Machine and do a little walk down WTF Lane.

Let's do that with Sidney Powell, shall we? Let's see what's cracked and cracking besides the Kraken.

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researchbuzz, 1 month ago to random

@StillIRise1963 don't read this if your blood pressure is janky, I'm about to punch a wall

https://capitalbnews.org/black-women-hair-relaxers-us-lawsuits-africa-sales-climbing/

researchbuzz, 7 months ago to politics

#politics #FultonCounty #KennethChesebro

Now that Kenneth Chesebro has pleaded guilty, let's spin a little thread on his doings. He only showed up on Wikipedia in summer of 2022, but there's still plenty to talk about.

Let's fire up Gossip Machine!

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researchbuzz, 7 months ago to politics

#politics #MikeJohnson

This morning I was asking myself "Who the heck is Mike Johnson?" and I wasn't the only one. Now that the representative from Louisiana is the nominee for speaker, his profile's high while public knowledge about him isn't.

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researchbuzz, 6 months ago to Canada

#Canada #music #musicians #BlackHistory #CulturalHeritage

'Canada Black Music Archives (CBMA) is excited to announce its official launch as a digital repository dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich and diverse musical heritage of Black Canadians.'

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/canada-black-music-archives-cbma-launches-as-the-definitive-digital-repository-of-black-canadian-musical-heritage-827968984.html

researchbuzz, 6 months ago to Raleigh

A couple of days ago I connected the #Raleigh open tree database to #Wikipedia and #ChatGPT so the trees could be tour guides.

Today I added random moods to the trees and gave them current weather data so they could use that in their descriptions.

Gossipy Japanese zelkova tree:

researchbuzz, 6 months ago to random

There are about 100 people in the place where Granny is. Some of them are mostly in bed like she is, but some of them are mobile and go around the place, go outside into this little courtyard they have, etc. One of them is an older Black lady who roams the halls in a wheelchair. She has one leg. She wears a sneaker on the foot of her one leg and uses it to pull herself up and down the hall. When she comes by Granny's room she'll wave and sometimes she'll come in.

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researchbuzz, 7 months ago to random

When I first bring Granny her strawberry milkshake, I hold it for her while she drinks. It's too cold and too heavy for her initially until she's drunk some of it.

She was very into it today, though, and before I could stop her she grabbed it with both hands and lifted it up, tilting both the cup and the straw toward her mouth. It spilled right over.

I stuck my hand under the cup and said, "Sweetie, stop! It's spilling!" but she kept drinking away while I got a handful of strawberry milkshake

researchbuzz, 4 months ago to random

@mariyadelano I haven't been ignoring your question, I've been wondering if I could explain in a series of Stract tools. 🙃

researchbuzz, 4 months ago to random

I've been chewing on something @holyramenempire said about tracking the "basic facts" that he learned and how they changed.

I thought about tracking changing ideas like that with some almanac datasets but it was easier to use the Wikipedia API.

I made a program that downloads different versions of a Wikipedia article over a specified set of time then outputs each version to a ChatGPT prompt which asks the AI to read the content and then answer a question (the same question each time.)

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researchbuzz, 8 days ago to random

@stefan You must think I'm awfully primitive, lol

researchbuzz, 5 months ago to art

Y'all, the Georgia Museum of Art is on Mastodon ... and they only have 102 followers? I'm giving them a follow: @georgiamuseum

#art #museums #Georgia #GLAM

researchbuzz, 6 months ago to Raleigh

I connected #Raleigh 's #dataset of #trees to a #Wikipedia API query for finding nearby items of interest and then to a OpenAI API query so the trees could describe themselves and the area around them.

As you do when you're a weirdo

researchbuzz, 5 months ago to random

Do y'all have a little dance you do when you eat something and that first bite is so good it deserves some choreography?

I have a roasted okra dance. 🤣

researchbuzz, 1 month ago to tea

#covid19 #healthcare #PreventiveMeasures #tea #PublicHealth

'[Professor Malak] Esseili and then-graduate student Julianna Morris...studied 24 different types of commercially available teas... Of those, they found five that significantly reduced the virus in saliva: raspberry zinger, eucalyptus mint, mint medley, green tea and black tea, with black tea showing the greatest reduction. All testing was done in the laboratory in simulated conditions.'

https://newswire.caes.uga.edu/story/10391/covid-tea.html

researchbuzz, 6 months ago to random

What? No Rover McRoverface? @anathema_device

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-20/live-updates-australia-moon-rover-names-shortlist-public-vote/103044826

researchbuzz, 5 months ago to random

Hey @GottaLaff you catch this?

researchbuzz, 5 months ago to random

Today in Brief Fun: I was reading an article in Search Engine Journal about a spam attack that Google's search results are currently under. The article mentioned that the spammers were operating with recently-registered domains. That made me wonder if I could dodge the spam by forcing Google into date-bounded searches that end two days before today. 1/6

researchbuzz, 3 months ago to random

This headline is from Scotland but I read it in American South and was very confused.

"Senior judges rule sheriff was wrong say 'hun' is Protestant slur"

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottish-news/24093916.senior-judges-rule-sheriff-wrong-say-hun-protestant-slur/

researchbuzz, 1 year ago to random

@bok @adelgado Are you getting any console messages? This is just plain JavaScript and I'm baffled that it's behaving so badly.

researchbuzz, 2 months ago to random

The stuff Google is sending me via Google Alerts has gotten really weird in the last week or so. As appropriate as this article feels right now, it's really from 2014.

researchbuzz, 3 months ago to random

@Pollinators Fermentation, you say?

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/02/did-fermented-foods-fuel-brain-growth/

researchbuzz, 6 days ago to random

Local instance folks, say hey to @ray , they just got added to the instance.

researchbuzz, 1 month ago to Michigan

#Michigan #newspapers #BlackHistory

"Flint's Black historical newspapers could easily have been lost to the eroding effects of time. These publications, which ran from the late 1930s to the late 70s, chronicled the lives, perspectives and priorities of Flint's African American community.... these historical publications are not only digitized for posterity but also freely accessible online for the public."

https://news.umflint.edu/2024/04/25/um-flint-archive-collaborates-to-digitize-flints-historical-black-newspapers/

researchbuzz, 1 month ago to random

#prisons #IncarceratedPeople #PrisonsServices #PriceGouging

"Today, The Appeal published Locked In, Priced Out, a project that includes a first-of-its-kind database of prison commissary lists from 46 states. This project also examines the availability, prices, and markups of products across several categories, including food, hygiene, and religious items."

https://theappeal.org/locked-in-priced-out-how-much-prison-commissary-prices/