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bendaubney

@bendaubney@social.lol

Oxfordshire, UK • Finds stories in data • Opinions my own, etc • He’s just this guy, you know?

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bendaubney, to random
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Hot take:

AI models in and of themselves: probably good.

AI models trained on copyrighted data without permission or citation, deployed to churn out endless content for SEO or to create meaningless and vacuous responses and descriptions: definitely bad.

AI models generating art in any form: the bleakest future imaginable.

bendaubney,
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“Don’t worry! EmotionAI can create a heartfelt card for your significant other so you can spend an extra seven minutes being productive!”

Give me a break.

bendaubney, to random
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Absolutely over the moon to learn that my nice local cinema is showing my all-time favourite film next month! And because I’m a member it’s stupidly cheap too!

Which is to say: I’ve just spent £1 booking a ticket to see Being John Malkovich on the big screen in June.

Cannot. Wait!

bendaubney,
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@jake4480 It’s the best. I’ve seen it so often but only once at a cinema when it was first released.

bendaubney,
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@jake4480 Have you ever seen the sort-of sequel, Adaptation? Massively underrated.

robb, to random
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Didn’t think I'd see a take this bad today and yet here we are
https://www.manton.org/2024/05/21/when-your-company.html

bendaubney,
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@robb 😬

I’ve known I need to migrate from micro.blog for a good few months. He's been properly all-in on AI for a while now. Need to accellerate my decision.

sophie, to random
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What would the name of your fish and chip shop be?

(Mine: Cod is a DJ)

bendaubney,
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@sophie In honour of my favourite Kendrick Lamar album:

Good Cod, M.A.A.D Scampi

jake4480, to random
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Thinking about burrito flavored gelato

bendaubney,
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@jake4480 How about this one? https://www.tastingtable.com/1221683/new-salt-straw-ice-cream-features-bone-marrow-fudge/

andycarolan, to random
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Maybe it's time for the internet to fork… One for AI, and the rest of the capitalistic crap that the majority of people didn't ask for, and another for actual humans.

bendaubney,
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@andycarolan Proposal: the Internet stays as it is, but the World Wide Web becomes that human-centric world you’re thinking of.

jake4480, to art
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Unveiling epic art of the one true King

🎥 via Apogee

Old rich white guys unveiling a painting with the true King on it, DUKE NUKEM

bendaubney,
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@jake4480 Haha!

bendaubney, to random
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Today’s post for : Why we need listlogs in order to make a happy web

https://bendaubney.blog/2024/04/30/listlogs-express-joy.html

Contains nods to recent posts from @bjhess, @amerpie, and @cory

keenan, to random
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Today's really taken the wind out of my sails. I think I'm going to call it and not publish anything today.

bendaubney,
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@keenan Don’t worry, you do you pal. This is all meant to be fun rather than an obligation.

bendaubney, to random
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Today’s post for :

Pictures of 1920s Australian criminals.

https://bendaubney.blog/2024/05/13/images-of-australian.html

These photos are astonishing.

bendaubney,
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@maique You are most welcome :-)

bendaubney,
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@hl @maique Very big apertures on those old cameras almost certainly contribute to that.

Glad you like them. I’ve got a similar post lined up for later in the month.

bendaubney, to random
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Today’s post:

How Japanese children learn multiplication (probably)

https://bendaubney.blog/2024/05/13/how-japanese-children.html

(A lot of alt-text on the image on Mastodon here!)

andycarolan, to random
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Feels a shame to throw this out, but I’ve nothing I can plug it into any more.

I probably only used it a couple of times 🤔

bendaubney,
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@andycarolan EBay it! That USB access is very helpful if you want to hack your iPad.

andycarolan, to random
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Something that I still can't get my head around on Mastodon... when I click on an account’s "Followers" or "Following" list, I can only see my own profile, maybe a few others if they are on the same instance. Is there any way around this? I feel that it's quite a barrier to finding interesting content 🤔

I'm using Ivory, but I assume it's the same on other clients?

bendaubney,
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@andycarolan I use @MonaApp which shows follows and followers across servers. Works well!

andycarolan, to random
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I just posted something on LinkedIn and now I feel dirty.

How long until the marketers slide into my DMs there? 😅

#LinkedIn #Pointless

bendaubney,
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@andycarolan I posted there back in October and now get an email every other day telling me how many impressions that post got over the past week.

“Ben, your post was seen three times this week!"

Yeah great it was from an event eight months ago.

Silly platform.

adam, to random
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This amazing chunk of Mac history turns 35 this year.

The “Flying Toasters” screen saver from After Dark

bendaubney,
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@adam Did you ever have The Simpsons expansion pack for After Dark? It was incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYb965ssyFs&list=PLFoORIQe4zILBhzJinEnfyOx2O20tcc1y&index=15

brandonwrites, to random
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It’s interesting how so much movies/television/video games/sports news revolves around numbers. It’s all ratings, viewers, sales… since when did any of this stuff matter to the consumer? Why is this stuff so heavily reported these days?

I mean, I don’t care how many viewers Fallout got nor do I care the price of the tv rights for the NFL. Was this type of stuff reported in the 90s and was I just too young to remember it?

bendaubney,
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@brandonwrites The one I find baffling is box office takings. It’s the prime piece of internet movie gossip nowadays - predictions, first weekend takes, all of that was just irrelevant ten years ago.

robb, to random
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🙄

bendaubney,
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@robb Had a very long request for feedback survey this morning… which, at the end, had a mini survey about the experience of taking the survey!

Proper Xzibit ‘yo dawg I heard you like taking surveys’ moment.

robb, to random
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Every Phone I've Ever Owned https://rknight.me/blog/every-phone-ive-ever-owned/

Now I've written this I really want to try and buy them all again.

#WeblogPoMo2024

bendaubney,
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@robb Ah jeez everyone wanted the Nokia N95. Glad I didn’t stump up the money.

bendaubney, to random
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Damn, this person can write https://social.lol/@keenan/112408000503307430

vinnatron, to blogging
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I think I'd quite like to get back to . More just to get into a good writing habit, and because recent braindumps have felt beneficial.

Any recommendations for a good blogging platform? I don't code/design, and the cheaper the better obvs.

bendaubney,
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@vinnatron Worth having a look at both http://pika.page and http://scribbles.page. Both fun little projects to start blogs quickly by very small teams.

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