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nantucketebooks, 1 day ago to random

Happy 10th anniversary to @serenityforge https://serenityforge.com/ I directed their first Kickstarter campaign back when they were working out of a basement in the foothills of Boulder. I am happy for their success, though not surprised. They were good people and they were ready to work hard to make good games.

nixCraft, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow. Sama took down sky’s voice because of legal notice. This guy is really pushing boundaries 🤣 Source: NPR tech correspondent- This statement was provided exclusively to NPR by Johansson's publicist, Marcel Pariseau. https://x.com/bobbyallyn/status/1792679435701014908?s=46

nantucketebooks, 2 days ago to random

I haven't written too much about my presentation script. I write my slideshow presentations in my Shanty markup language, and I've written a free-software script that converts them into slides.

I've written a short lecture, and this morning I was able to convert it into a presentation in ten minutes. It's all plain-text, and it's on my server, so I don't have to mess with thumb drives and format compatibility.

It's very bare-bones, but for most presentations I find it's convenient.

lowqualityfacts, 1 month ago to random

Poor Brian.

nantucketebooks, 3 days ago to random

Montezuma, Colorado is one of the most unusual towns I've visited. At 10,200 feet (3,100 m) and population of 78, it is both one of highest and smallest towns in America. More than 1,000 people lived there in the late 19th century, but several fires and the collapse of silver mining took their toll.

Today, it's a small hodge-podge of historic buildings and modern ski getaways. There are no bars, coffee shops, or stores of any kind, and the six-dozen residents want to keep it that way.

nantucketebooks, 3 days ago to random

Some recent audiobooks:

The Three Musketeers had memorable characters, the most interesting of which was the villain Milady. Mark Smith is a good narrator, but this audiobook used a very old translation that obscured some of the more risque parts of the story. https://archive.org/details/three_musketeers_v_2_mfs_1805_librivox

Seven Keys to Baldpate is a reading of a play, based on the best-selling novel from 1913. A silly send-up of the mystery genre. Good voice acting, the epilogue is a huge letdown.

https://librivox.org/seven-keys-to-baldpate-by-george-m-cohan/

ai6yr, 6 days ago to random

National Park Service officials seek help from the public on archeological theft incident at Canyonlands National Park -- Law enforcement park rangers at Canyonlands National Park are seeking information from the public to help identify suspects involved in an archeological theft incident at Cave Spring Cowboy Camp in the Needles district of the park. If you were in the area of Cave Spring Cowboy Camp at approximately 5:30 p.m. on March 23, 2024, or if you have information that could help identify the suspects, please contact investigators. https://www.nps.gov/cany/learn/news/news05152024.htm #crime #Canyonlands #NationalParkService #NPS #archeology

gerrymcgovern, 9 days ago to random

"ChatGPT consumes a lot of energy in the process, up to 25 times more than a Google search. Additionally, a lot of water is also used in cooling for the servers that run all that software. Per conversation of about 20 to 50 queries, half a litre of water evaporates – a small bottle, in other words."

AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030

Training GPT3, took 1,287 MWh (Megawatt hours) of electricity.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/world-all-news/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google

brianmerchant, 8 days ago to random

For tech CEOs, the dystopia is the point

Why Altman, Musk, and Zuckerberg turn bleak sci-fi works into useful dystopias for marketing their products:

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/for-tech-ceos-the-dystopia-is-the

nantucketebooks, 5 days ago to random

MTG: "I'm going to play a banned banding ante manland from my hand."

nantucketebooks, 5 days ago to random

Spotted this porcupine near the town of Montezuma, Colorado. https://sopuli.xyz/post/12754301

nantucketebooks, 7 days ago to random

I thought there was a Payphones channel on Lemmy. Oh well.

Here's a phone booth I spotted in Kremmling, Colorado yesterday. (No payphone inside, but it appears to have been repurposed as a privacy booth)

nantucketebooks, 7 days ago to random

The marketing team at Apple must have been out of their minds for that commercial.

amin, 7 days ago to random

Well I worked out a way to back up my photos from my phone directly to my computer. Of course, in the process I accidentally deleted all the photos on my phone with a ill-advised rm -r, but at least the ones deleted are backed up to my computer? 🫠

nantucketebooks, 8 days ago to random

I've been reading an abysmal novel for book club, and I've never been more proud of the writers I've gotten to work with on my platform.

nantucketebooks, 11 days ago to random

The Illustrated Harlan Ellison is the thirty-eighth book in the #harlan_ellison directory. First published in 1978, this book features seven Ellison stories paired with rich, sumptuous illustrations by world-class artists. Includes the classic "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman, the hauntingly horrific Croatoan, and the unreal Shattered Like a Glass Goblin. Also includes an essay appreciating his longtime illustrators Leo and Diane Dillon. https://www.ndhfilms.com/other/ellison/index.php#illustrated

nantucketebooks, 11 days ago to random

Sorry to hear that Roger Corman has passed. Corman's influence in cinema extended even to anime: the first US theatrical release of an anime film was through his company New World Pictures. The anime film? Galaxy Express 999.

nantucketebooks, 13 days ago to random

https://www.ndhfilms.com/other/ellison/index.php#stalking Stalking the Nightmare is the thirty-sixth book in the #harlan_ellison directory. This book has some outstanding stories, including Djinn, No Chase, Night of Black Glass, and Quiet Lies the Locust Tells.

And get a load of that cover!

nantucketebooks, 14 days ago to random

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-1999 Roger Ebert's review of The Phantom Menace.

"If Stanley Kubrick gave us man humbled by the universe, Lucas gives us the universe domesticated by man. His aliens are really just humans in odd skins. For 'The Phantom Menace,' he introduces Jar Jar Binks, a fully realized computer-animated alien character whose physical movements seem based on afterthoughts. And Jabba the Hutt (who presides over the Podrace) has always seemed positively Dickensian to me."

nantucketebooks, 15 days ago to random

Made a backup copy of the Harlan Ellison Directory with a curl -O request. Just needed the peace of mind.

nantucketebooks, 20 days ago to random

There's going to be a little research in the Harlan Ellison Directory soon. There's one story that Harlan re-wrote the ending for when it got collected, and I've wondered what in the original ending. We will soon find out!

nantucketebooks, 20 days ago to random

I for one am not flooded with AI submissions, so I have plenty of time to review what you send in.

Here are some stories I'd be interested in, and will pay for: https://nantucketebooks.com/blog/2024/03/2024-03-21_in_the_market.html

I'm also looking for articles on pinball and vintage arcade gaming. I'm paying for those too.

njb@nantucketebooks.com

nantucketebooks, 20 days ago to random

I have now read Harlan Ellison's essay where he talks about getting fired from Disney. Unbelievable. He had been on the job for four hours.

nantucketebooks, 21 days ago to random

If you have not yet done so, start an account on the Internet Archive. I was able to borrow a book from them which would have otherwise cost hundreds of dollars to purchase.