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garius

@garius@mastodon.me.uk

Author of The Brexit Tapes. Historian. Strategy streamer. Tech/Transport Strategist. Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Made Neil Gaiman cry (in a good way). Business: business@longformist.co.uk

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BethanyBlack, to random
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I hate having to ask this especially as I’m in the muddle of promoting my new live show, but I won’t get paid for that for a while, and this month has been particularly tough, I’m about £500 short of my rent which was due yesterday. I’m up to the limit of my overdraft and have 99p left. So if you can help even a couple of pounds then my ko-fi is https://www.ko-fi.com/bethanyblack and if you could use paypal I get the money immediately.

jaygooby, to random
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TIL https://aboutmy.email

This is a fab tool for testing all the various email standards/best practice you need to comply with. Plus it gives you scores and badges, which are like catnip to me!

Screenshot titled "Summary" with scores for alignment with best practice, large email provider requirements plus badges for compliance

KarenKasparArt, to art
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Enjoy my new addition to my collection of cat paintings -
Cat watching the world - hand-painted acrylic painting

https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/cat-watching-the-world-karen-kaspar.html

bookish, to Cats
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Definitely not on the counter

jasonkoebler, to random
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The publisher of a small imprint of roleplaying games magazines/speculative fiction shuts down after 22 years because their submissions have been flooded with AI to the extent they cannot wade through them:

“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. These are people who think their ‘ideas’ are more important than the actual craft of writing, so they churn out all these ‘ideas’ and enter their idea prompts and think the output is a story.”

https://www.404media.co/bards-and-sages-closing-ai-generated-writing/

WilliamKretschmer, to Cats
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Today's Cat

Daojoan, to random
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Just reworked the homepage for my main feed - https://joanwestenberg.com

It would mean the damn world if you gave it a read.

I write about tech + humans + philosophy.

Claydisarray, to art
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There's lots of clay art goodness over at my store, including these guys here 🖤

https://claydisarray.bigcartel.com/

My polymer clay painting of Freddy Krueger
My polymer clay painting of the protagonist couple from The Amityville Horror in front of the spooky house
My clay painting of Ryuk from Death Note holding a red apple

MevsMatze, to Cat German
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The reason I can only use about 10% of my bed.

agvbergin, to random
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The combination of very large claims about productivity of customer advisors with the cutesy language and logo here is very unnerving.

https://ai.gov.uk/projects/caddy/

agvbergin,
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> Caddy bases its advice on documentation provided to it.

The software is not "providing advice", it is producing plausible text strings in response to the prompt its given. I'm actually persuadable that this might make it useful software, but not if the people making the software appear to be confused about whether that software is capable of thinking.

jsbilsbrough, to random
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So, researching the story of the somewhat bizare story of 5 1/4 still being used on San Francisco trains:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/5-25-inch-floppy-disks-expected-to-help-run-san-francisco-trains-until-2030/

Can any of you folks tell me if a floppy emulator would help here, like a GoTek, is such a thing possible for 5 1/4” disks?

Boosts appreciated!

TheCatsMeow, to Cat
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Happy Caturday!

garius, to random
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Last week this wikipedia page was a single paragraph.

Now it isn't.

The proudest you can ever be as a writer is knowing you made someone deserving more visible than they were before.

I am delighted to see her finally get a small measure of the attention and recognition she deserves.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lore_Harp_McGovern

garius,
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@jessamyn oh I can't claim credit for updating the wiki directly! Kudos to whichever contributor did that.

I just wrote this piece about her on Monday as part of my 'Crazy Ones' column, to try and highlight how grossly overlooked by the general Silicon Valley history narrative she's been.

I pointed out her single paragraph on wikipedia in that. Been wonderful getting to add a footnote saying that's now changed. 😁

https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-woman-that-tech-history-forgot

JimsPhotos, to church
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The old church at Aldwincle (All Saints). It was declared redundant in 1976, and has been made into an architectural museum.

Kinda had to be about 200+ mtrs from this to get it in frame, as I only had my 560mm birding lens with me. 😂

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mathowie, to random
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Because of Arizona’s horrendous abortion ruling today, every event planner I know is going to cross another state off their list of “places we can hold conferences and offsites that support emergency healthcare procedures if they arise with any of our employees while they are there”.

mathowie,
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Imagine you're Salesforce with 75,000 employees and you do a winter offsite and an employee is suddenly having complications from an ectopic pregnancy while there. They can't be helped in any local hospital so do they fly home immediately while hoping they survive the flight? Does the family get to sue the company for taking the employee to a place that ultimately caused their death?

These are real situations we have to explore when you reinstitute a 160 year old law banning procedures.

dbsalk, to history
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Today is the 159th anniversary of Ulysses Grant's defeat of the US secessionist slavery movement's paramilitary arm. Please celebrate accordingly.

garius, to Futurology
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DELIGHTED to say that my latest tech history column is live on Every and they've made this one free-to-read.

Because it covers one of the most overlooked founders of the golden age of computing: Lore Harp McGovern, founder of Vector Graphic who pioneered small/medium business computing.

She deserves to be better known. Certainly deserves more than a single paragraph on Wikipedia. Read and spread the word https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-woman-that-tech-history-forgot

grickle, (edited ) to Cats
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Afternoon ritual.

IHateMichaelM, to random
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Got a tattoo of the windows mouse cursor so that I can sit like this on Teams calls in the hope that someone frantically tries to move it.

A closeup of the mouse cursor tattoo

garius, to Futurology
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Adam Osborne is a forgotten giant of computing. Steve Jobs first true rival and a friend. A man who struggled with his identity: was he British, American or Indian?

In my new column 'The Crazy Ones' over at Every, you'll find a full history of Adam Osborne and the rise and fall of Osborne Computers.

The number of outlets prepared to pay for longform tech history journalism is tiny. So please do read, enjoy and spread the word... #computing #history #histodons

https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-rise-and-fall-of-steve-jobs-s-greatest-rival

maugendre, to Futurology
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"I know now that I'm onto something good when everyone else thinks it’s a bad idea,” he said. “I just didn't figure that out until later."

"How Ed Roberts created the personal computer industry—and then walked away": https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-secret-father-of-modern-computing via @garius

knavalesi, to Belgium
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International workshop: “Sailors, Traders, Settlers and Potters. Interactions and Exchanges in the Ancient Mediterranean”

April 18th at the Royal Academy of #Belgium

All are welcome and attendance is free. Register by March 30.

Online attendance also available

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2024/02/29/sailors-traders-settlers-and-potters/

#histoire #Archäologie #archaeodons #archaeology @historikerinnen
@histodons @archaeodons #histodons #history #geschichte
@antiquidons #RomanArchaeology #AncientRome #AncientGreece #EconomicHistory

leftisright, to gamedev
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A year ago I was lucky enough to do some work on Corponation: The Sorting Process, a dystopian narrative game that’s just come out on PC and coming soon to Nintendo Switch. It’s created by two lovely Brighton people and published by ex-Rare people at Playtonic. Please check it out! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2159960/CorpoNation_The_Sorting_Process/

UKFilmNerd, to random
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It's all going wrong here in the UK, in terms of 4K releases related to James Cameron.

The Abyss has been cancelled due to censorship issues.
True Lies is still coming out in March.
Aliens, which was also due in March, has now been given a placeholder date of Dec 31st?!

Personally, The Abyss is the only one worth getting. The transfers on the other two are shocking.

True Lies and Aliens 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray | Delays hit UK releases | Film Stories
https://filmstories.co.uk/news/true-lies-and-aliens-4k-ultra-hd-blu-ray-delays-hit-uk-releases/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=true-lies-and-aliens-4k-ultra-hd-blu-ray-delays-hit-uk-releases

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🐾 Meet Phil, an elderly tabby cat who came to us by chance when his previous owners abandoned him on a train. Now under our care, Phil is a gentle and affectionate yet timid cat ❤️ Despite his age of 11, he suffers from multiple serious illnesses, including one affecting his mobility. Your support is crucial as we provide him with ongoing therapy and attention. We'll keep you informed about his health.

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