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I don’t know Karate, but I know Le Creuset

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batkaren, to random
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If my AI chatbot voice has to be coded female, I demand a 90-year-old chain-smoker.

jimfl,
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@batkaren Shoreh Agdalishu

Binder, to random
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It’s easy to see why managers thought that a facile conversationalist willing to agree to any premise but fundamentally unable to actually achieve anything useful was their peer.

jimfl,
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@Binder

gsuberland, to random
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cursed concept: quantifying the strength of your held opinions as impedance

jimfl,
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@gsuberland rhymes with impudence.

yogthos, to random
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Bloomberg discovers material analysis. Turns out cost of living is a more important measure of economy than than the line measuring rich people's feelings.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-13/us-economy-why-are-americans-so-angry-while-chinese-are-calm

jimfl,
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@yogthos Don’t worry about Bloomberg; it’s just an opinion article.

lzg, to random
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absolutely hate living in a world where I see something wonderful online and immediately think "is this generated by a monster machine"?

jimfl,
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@lzg I had my hand hovering over the boost button, but then I thought…

jimfl, to random
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WARNING: DO NOT OPEN FILES WITH .WMV EXTENSION. THEY CONTAIN THE WOKE MIND VIRUS AND CAN DAMAGE YOUR BRAIN PAN.

polotek, to random
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What does "community-led" mean in this context?
https://toot.cafe/@baldur/112428431536118693

jimfl,
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@polotek “community-driven” seems like a better description of SO. The content, content curation, and content refinement was done by the community. Moderation was done by moderators “elected” by company personnel.

I just realized I’m talking about SO in the past tense…

zvavybir, to Typography
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Is there a punctuation if you want to say something, but also signal that the other person could correct it (so something between "." and "?"). The interrobang ‽ has a different meaning.

jimfl,
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@zvavybir I don’t know of a punctuation, but a common English pattern is to end a statement with “, no?” to invite corrections. I had a Swiss German speaking professor who would end statements with “… Or?” To accomplish the same thing.

kellogh, to random
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just had a conversation with my neighbor — he’s wearing an NRA tshirt and explaining that the pistol he has strapped to his hip is for shooting copperheads. And also he’s concerned that we leave our garage open too much and that copperheads might get in

jimfl,
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@kellogh Aren’t “Copperheads” those criminals that steal wiring and such?

jimfl, to random
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Mulligatawny soup suggests the existence of Mulligaruby soup.

kellogh, to random
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sperm whales have a complex language! they use complex patterns of clicks to communicate

it turns out that the hardest part of the search for intelligent life is recognizing what you’re looking at

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/07/1249546255/sperm-whale-communication-ai-language

jimfl,
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@kellogh interestingly, the NPR article says the investigators used ML, but reading their Nature paper, there is no mention of it, nor does it seem to be used in their GitHub repo.

jimfl, to random
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Hannibal Lector-al College

jimfl, to random
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Cats are stochastically domesticated. Every once in a while, they become wild again and flip out at being inside your house.

Binder, to random
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It’s a misdemeanor to stop the song Africa (Toto sense) midway through performance.

jimfl,
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@Binder it is, however, compulsory to stop the Robert Palmer song “Addicted to Love” so that it sounds like he’s singing “Might as well face it, you’re a dick—“

jimfl, to random
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Hey, where are all the aurora photos from last night?

kate, to random
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Glen Sligachan, Skye:

jimfl,
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@kate Skye is so amazing. And the one way tracks are like a driving game!

mathowie, to random
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I wish I could tell my ten year old self reading Omni Magazine and sci-fi short stories that in 2024 shit will actually get a little weird, like that time solar flares caused our robot tractors to not plant seeds at the right time, jeopardizing our food system https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/112428406876457168

jimfl,
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@mathowie

2000: Non-GMO corn
2024: Non-GPS corn
2030: Non-GPT corn

simon, to random
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Several of the major social media platforms - Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter - have effectively declared war on linking to things and I absolutely hate it

"Link in my bio" / "Link in thread" / "Link in first comment"... or increasingly no link at all, just an unsourced screenshot of a page

jimfl,
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@rysiek @simon [Citation needed]

jimfl,
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@simon there’s also the “WARNING: this is a link to the outside of our walled garden, and could cause irreparable damage, for which we cannot be responsible” pop up approach.

It’s an older dark pattern, sir, but it checks out.

stux, to Cats
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. Destroyers of worlds

Cats and their accidental destruction habits

jimfl,
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@stux There must be a way to prevent these animals from getting into your house.

jimfl, to random
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Lol. NOAA space weather site is 504 right now

jimfl, to random
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I can’t remember being so impatient for the sun to go down since the 4th of July when I was 10.

middleclasstool, to random
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Shoutout to local Arkansas news for being trash in a delightful way this time https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2024/05/09/beaver-liquors-shut-down-in-latest-fairfield-bay-skirmish

jimfl,
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@middleclasstool Beaver Liquors is goin’ down!

jimfl,
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@middleclasstool How can you accuse Beaver Liquors of not payin’ their dues!

jimfl, to random
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“Delivery failed” in a group chat is the least useful error ever. Like worse than just letting it slide. What, precisely, went wrong and who do I gotta blow to set it right or GTFO.

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