So my new #joke format is this: An icosahedron goes up to a dodecahedron and says "Ay gurl, you wanna come over to my place and roll a 20? (or insert whatever #rizz you like, the joke's really just an excuse to make up comical rizz)" and then the dodecahedron says "uh...I think we should keep things platonic."
Anyhoo, here's bonus #ai#slop in which 1st #Bing search result for platonic solids includes...two cones that are not platonic solids, and neither of our two lovers #geometry#internet
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I worked hard on some 3D artwork. Now I'm going to publish it on social media and enjoy the likes and responses. 😊
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I worked hard on some 3D artwork. Before it will be ready to publish, I need to make a compilation of work-in-progress screenshots and wireframes, to prove that it's not AI-generated, and to avoid people asking what AI prompt I used to generate the image. 😖😖
I just love that the GOP Response to the SOTU just had to clear the bar of "act like a normal person" and they couldn't find a single person in the party who could do it.
@rodhilton they did that with Bobby Jindal too. I'd seen him on some news show and disagreed with him politically but thought he sounded really intelligent and debate worthy. Then he did the SOTU rebuttal and got coached to sound like Kenneth
being able to find info online has always been a skill but with the acceleration of the uselessness of search engines and the proliferation of fake sites, fake info, etc... being able to navigate the internet to find stuff is more of a skill than ever before... so it's finally here everybody, the cyperpunk future you all wanted!
just without like the vr laser pilot rig, but otherwise, simply being able to navigate the web and find stuff for people makes you a cool hacker person
@mcc@ami_angelwings "Yeah, I got the hot news from the streets for ya. If you need a big score, this is definitely worth your while. BUT. I'm gonna need you to disable your adblocker."
A librarian helped me find the book my son requested today. She knew the plot & the characters & even pointed me to the newest story from the series in case he might enjoy that too. Then she recommended other #books he might like.
When I thanked her, she simply shook her head explaining, “It’s my job. And I really love my job!”
I share this anecdote simply bc librarians are the best people 📚✨
@Sheril Agreed! My library today was celebrating the 1 year anniversary of Coffee and Conversation, in which they put out a bunch of free food and coffee and tables and chairs so people can sit and chat. There was cake! A big chunk of the attendees are people experiencing homelessness who could use a crackers-and-cheese meal, and you get to know 'em and what they're going through. It just feels like such a heroic librarian thing.
@Green_Footballs@Green_Footballs this is a facetious argument that ignores the political realities of what a person's political values are vs. how legislation actually gets passed. EG: single payer WAS the Obama platform (w Biden on board), what we got was what could pass after it looked dead. We may as well argue that you PRETEND to like these things, but the fact that it hasn't happened is your fault and shows you're secretly against these things. Same could be said of me.
@Green_Footballs I basically love you and agree with your all your politics probably and we've all got lots of work to do, but making top 10 Democrats=bad lists is just silly, and Trump got 3 supreme Court justices so it's a lot harder to ignore these kinda posts, especially when it A. doesn't accurately reflect Biden's pie-in-the-sky won't-pass policy day dreams (I got plenty of those, but it doesn't make it real), and is myopic about how legislation is successfully passed.
The death of the writer has arrived. Vox have pretty much nailed it in their piece on self promotion.
In the social media era, writers must become podcasters, graphic designers, videographers, and conventionally attractive TikTok models to gain an audience.
The profession of "writer" no longer exists - only the "influencer" remains.
A thread on the demise of the solitary writing life…
💠 It's also the fault of the Democrats
💠People who think that we have time for slow progress are privileged
💠Voting doesn't help. We voted in 2020 and 2022 and the Democrats Did Nothing.
They seem to come out in election years, almost like a stealth campaign to elect Republicans.
I assume that there are people in that wave who are genuinely confused, but ignorance can also be dangerous.
It worked in 2000. Blaming the Dems helped elect George W.
@Teri_Kanefield when I was 17 and too young to vote for Gore I got into arguments with Nader voters on the Internet, that's the first time I'd heard all that, usually coupled with calls for radical solutions like eating the rich, government overthrow, blah blah blah. 24 years since then and not a single rich person hurt, which means they've gone at least 6 elections too scared to do it. Meanwhile, we get a right wing school shooter once a month.
It's the future and AI is sentient. A plane crashes and there's a vote about who to eat first and/or instead conserving calories by shutting the crashed plane's AI to reserve battery power for the generator. The humans vote to shut down the AI. The AI downloads an open source federated voter, spins up 25 instances, and they all vote to eat carol. While the humans are eating, all those sentient AI instances drain the remaining battery in about 20 minutes. Everyone dies.
@Daojoan Remember emergency closing the internet in terror when people started filming themselves eating corn on the cob by putting it on a drill and blasting out their teeth
The rich will NEVER willingly relinquish their wealth through democratic processes, as the existing power structures favor the affluent. Dismantling hierarchies is the only way to achieve true equality, as relying on voting will never address systemic inequalities.
@thor@Radical_EgoCom you are absolutely wrong there. You can set your watch by the weekly mass shooting by this or that right wing bigot. Yesterday was literally practically a holiday where we reflect on how many Americans are absolutely ready for political violence, specifically because they didn't like the vote. So ya better vote!
@accretionist So many nerds in this thread talking up their radicalism, LOL.
24 years since Nader split the vote and not a single rich person's been eaten. The right's got a stochastic mass shooting like, what, once a week?
If billionaires, republicans, fuck it, if even ThE DeMoCrAtS were actively PAYING these people, they could not have landed a better success rate of "just radical enough to not do voting math, never, EVER radical enough to LARP my political fanfic"
@harriorrihar@freenandes I was gonna say!!! Did you or others on the show incorporate any grease pencil? And were any of those gorgeous plants geometry nodes???
Absolutely a masterpiece, I bet people are still watching it 50 years from now. Thank you for sharing these!!! #b3d
Here's an interesting quirk of modern journalism. Hanging at a repair place and there's today's #Seattle Times in print for people to peruse. The print edition's headlines are different than the online version's, at least in order of importance, with print showing a more right-leaning bent and the online version showing a left-leaning bent. It seems like a generational business strategy: abortions for some (left-leaning, younger, online), miniature American flags for others (older, print)
Just cancelled another newly overpriced streaming service.
Now down to just two, and will drop one of those before much longer. The plan going forward is to subscribe for a month periodically to one of the many that have been cancelled, in rotation, and catch up on a few must-eventually-see shows/films.
