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CatherineFlick, to random
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General election! Let’s sort ‘em out.

CatherineFlick, to random
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Made a thing!! Thanks to dad for some suggestions on the engineering and excellent tube wrangling. And thanks to all my followers who suggested materials! #emfcamp #emf2024 https://mastodon.me.uk/@CatherineFlick/112439027576222333

peterainbow,
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@CatherineFlick ooh looking good, if course now you'll need to make mud sleds for all the rain you'll cause

CatherineFlick,
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@peterainbow maybe just put some flower planters down the side 🤣

CatherineFlick, to random
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CatherineFlick, to random
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10 years or so ago I went to Australia and saw that the big thing was bao buns. Now it’s finally caught up here. Like bubble tea and good coffee the UK is roughly a decade behind Australian culinary trends. https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/20/sales-of-bao-buns-on-a-roll-as-britons-fall-in-love-with-asian-treat

kofanchen,
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@CatherineFlick I know this is about the up picking of mainstream dinning, and I've never been to Australia but I wonder if this is simply reflecting there is a bigger East Asian community there than UK?
Btw the next trend will be Taiwanese/Japanese rice ball😋

CatherineFlick,
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@kofanchen possibly, Australia is known for its fusion food so regularly transforms non western food for western audiences :)

CatherineFlick, to random
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Village WhatsApp groups are such great spaces to find out how people think the internet works. Just write “is anyone having trouble with their internet?” And immediately you’ll get all kinds of bizarre theories about what to do to get it back. Today’s: “we had a power cut so it might take a while to come back on”

CatherineFlick,
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@danieldurrans hahahaha wow that is so accurate 🤣🤣

jsbilsbrough,
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@CatherineFlick “Well, I thought there was a power cut, but then I saw a bus going down the road with its lights on “

CatherineFlick, to OpenAI
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Exactly what I talked about in my TEDx talk the other night - the incentives just don’t align with making responsible technology. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/openai-putting-shiny-products-above-safety-says-departing-researcher

Theriac,
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@CatherineFlick
I think autocorrect didn't like "shitty"

CatherineFlick,
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@Theriac hah!!

CatherineFlick, to random
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I had a fantastic night. Met some lovely people! Nailed my talk. Yay!

CatherineFlick, to random
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CatherineFlick,
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@amcewen Grazie mille!

Tyr,
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@CatherineFlick beir bua agus beannacht! :partyblobcat:

CatherineFlick, to random
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This Defector article is spot on about Kevin Roose. He’s a consummate band wagon jumper, licking the boots of SV VCs and other useless fools. https://defector.com/if-kevin-roose-was-chatgpt-with-a-spray-on-beard-could-anyone-tell

CatherineFlick,
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Full disclosure: with my crypto skeptic friends (led by @molly0xfff ) we edited Roose’s dreadful attempt to butter up cryptobros here https://www.mollywhite.net/annotations/latecomers-guide-to-crypto/

CatherineFlick, to random
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I have a TEDx rehearsal today for my talk. I’m pushing the timing a bit so I need to talk faster! 😅

cloudhopper,
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@CatherineFlick ...and if you end up still with more to say, remember to tell them to 'Like & Subscribe' for more (o;

CatherineFlick,
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@cloudhopper hahaha

CatherineFlick, to random
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I'd like to make a canopy for our outdoor folding trolley for mostly so the kids have somewhere a bit weatherproof during the festival. I'm thinking olde times oregon trail style round canopy, so could be made with some sort of flexible tubing, cable ties, and a tarpaulin. Does that make sense? Does anyone know what sort of tubing I could use for that?

(not buying one off amazon or wherever because they're all coming from china and won't get here in time and also boo amazon)

18+ CatherineFlick,
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@peterainbow ooh, good shout, thanks! (definitely not mansplaining, I am well out of my depth! :D )

18+ jezhiggins,
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@CatherineFlick @peterainbow The blue water pipe is exactly what I was going to suggest. Natalie uses it in the veg garden for supporting mesh over cabbages and whatnot.

CatherineFlick, to random
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This is why I love to help run @emf - it just gets so ridiculously nerdily good.
https://mstdn.social/@lpbkdotnet/112438381844530784

CatherineFlick, to LLMs
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Just FYI, if you have older parents or other family members, set up some sort of shibboleth with them so they know what to ask you if you ever call them asking for something. These new generative models are going to be extremely convincing, and the idiots in charge of these companies think they can use guardrails to stop it being used inappropriately. They can't.

CatherineFlick, to random
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Can someone just give me some sort of anaesthetic and wake me up when the LLM hype has fizzled out please? I don't want to have to watch everything I've said will happen actually happen (yes this is re: new OpenAI model)

18+ CatherineFlick,
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@duncan_bayne sign me up!!

CatherineFlick,
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@tech_himbo hahaha where to start 😭

CatherineFlick, to random
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I printed a hexpansion with a fidget spinner on it? I dunno, I don’t even use fidget spinners. I guess wanted to see if it worked! (It does!)

concretedog,
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@CatherineFlick Ha I'm like the worst person for this as I work with @FreeCAD and wrote a book on it etc! I hate the vendor lock in stuff of autodesk.. also the fact that here in Wales the government signs up EVERY child to autodesk (for tinkerCAD) aged 7. Horrid... and thats before all the ways they've ripped off the maker community!

CatherineFlick,
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@concretedog @FreeCAD oh no! I get it, I’m old skool Linux user from the 90s but lazy in my (busy) old age 😅 I’ll have to get your book to learn FreeCAD!

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