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ohmu

@ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us

Public sector engineer and shop steward.

West Coast. GenX. White liberal.
I know #Seattle and the Bay Area.

Good with corrections, call ins, and call outs. I gotta learn somehow.

#housing #unions #bicycles #music #livemusic #seattlelivemusic #linocut #waterengineering #shoegaze

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elizabethtasker, to random
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For my talks, I draw a lot of my slide deck, with several slides used to illustrate a concept. I love the result: it's engaging and pretty, and I feel people remember images faster than words.

However.... it takes me bloody ages!

I've been designing two talks with a large number of new slides and it's taken me about a 1.5 weeks to get them together as each talk is close to 100 slides (~2 slides / min).

It's hard to justify this quantity of time to work, but it's also why I'm asked to speak 🤔

A second example slide, comparing the atmospheric content of the Earth and Mars.

ohmu,
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@elizabethtasker
Your slides are gorgeous!
I'm probably not helping.

vitriolix, to ai
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I just heard Sal Kahn on KQED talking about Khan Academy's new AI feature. They have it mentoring and doing socratic method stuff with students.

It will guide you, to lead yourself, to find the answer that there are 2 r's in "strawberry"

#ai #llm

ohmu,
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@vitriolix
Did you know the future would be so full of stupid? I was ready for terror, maybe. And, thank you William Gibson, ready for a lot of unintended consequences.

But the stupid. It's just .... endless.

flexghost, to random
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** IT’S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON **

Tonight’s theme is:

🛼📺🎞️👾 TOTALLY 80s! 🕹️🎸💿💾

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🎵 Like, gag me with a spoon! Another decade theme night?

Take a chill pill and post totally tubular bodacious music from the 80s along with what you’re drinking. 🎶
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🍷 Axel F / Tears for Fears / DeBarge / Sade / Madonna / Simple Minds + Sex On The Beach🍸

Post often • share • make some friends

Compilation of 80s music videos and ...I love them. People think the 80s had the worst music? 90s were meh with some flashes of brilliance. And has pop music even changed since the 2000s? Clear channel garbage: you're wrong.

ohmu,
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@flexghost

Wild West - Escape Club
You can't get more 80s than a dance club song that talks about being in the 80s.

https://youtu.be/wqrSYOVdPek?si=n5MeMHlwqfO_QjTY

ohmu,
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@flexghost

Sign Your Name - Sananda Maitreya

Avoir

I'm not using his birth name out of respect. He's been clear about that since a decade before I first heard the term "dead naming".

https://youtu.be/dluHzQhLcME?si=bCdNJPPbrGtrgwWq

jake4480, to microsoft
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With the impending doom of ICQ in June and the new crappy version of Teams coming in July, I would like to post this meme one final time

ohmu,
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@jake4480
What's weird is Teams worked just fine as recently as six months ago.
At my firm, we were all relieved to use it and stop using Webex.
Not anymore. Webex is still there but Cisco added "AI" to that, too, so I'm sure it's just as bad.

It's kind of the proof of what software as an industry is. If it was about competiton, an app that just worked would blow Teams away. But that's not going to happen. We're locked in.

RickiTarr, to random
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I used to babysit a lot, and I was kind of famous for getting kids to try foods they normally wouldn't. I was never pushy about it, just included them in the shopping/harvesting/cooking process, and asked them to try a little bite of everything, and to remember that your tastebuds change as you age, so keep on trying stuff.

This backfired on me occasionally though. Once as an adventure, we went to a Japanese restaurant, and I ordered the kiddos some Katsu (who doesn't love something fried with dippy sauce), and got myself a plate of sushi rolls and sashimi. Well, since I always asked them to try one bite of something new, they looked at me expectantly, so I let them try a bit of each. Turns out they were all in for sushi, and those little nerds ate most of my plate, and then they always wanted to go. Kids, I don't have sushi money every day!

ohmu,
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@RickiTarr
Sushi money
I think I might actually have sushi money now but that's kind of recent.

ifixcoinops, to random
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Ooooh should Pinball Dad stick his toe in the Linux Discourse

I've been on it since 2010, I guess I should maybe?

How about I stick my whole entire foot in, maybe if I poison it with my footstink then it'll die down a bit

ohmu,
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@ifixcoinops
This is wonderfully honest.

In 2000, I was in grad school, and I ran a SuSE box. it was a toss-up month to month whether the sound card would work. Forget printing entirely. And "help" was a user base that blamed me for things not working.

But it ran the model that I needed to run and I could print things at school.

Then, I got into the world beyond. I needed to print things and such.
I dropped it for Windows. I haven't looked back until now.

flexghost, to random
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In 2020 we has to defeat the far-right

In 2024 we also need to defeat the far-left.

Vote.

🇺🇸

ohmu,
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@flexghost
Which Skyler? Or should I just consider myself happier not knowing?

RickiTarr, to random
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The most ridiculous thing about cop procedural shows is when they ask where a person was, and what they were doing at a specific time the person always has perfect and immediate recall. I'd be desperately trying to remember what day of the week that was, and trying to open my phone calendar. If I was the cop, I'd immediately be suspicious of the person who remembered exactly where they were and what they were doing.

ohmu, (edited )
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@RickiTarr
There's been once in the past ten years I was in the position of being asked descriptive information about somebody (who broke a car window and ran away).
Bald. Male. Pale skin (as in a white dude).That's as much as I could manage by the time I was asked 45 minutes later.

vitriolix, to MountainBiking
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awesome to see some scientific validation of what you hoped was true

NPR: "Like to bike? Your knees will thank you and you may live longer, too"

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/20/1251561467/biking-knee-pain-longevity-arthritis

ohmu,
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@vitriolix
Well, good. Because my knees are not thanking me for Sunday's ride. They are kind of being an ungrateful jerk, TBH.

RickiTarr, to random
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Would half chicken half ducks be called Chucks or Dickens?

ohmu,
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@RickiTarr
Well fine YOU can get me to sleep tonight.

elizabethtasker, to random
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I’m listening to “Wildacre”; historical fiction by Philippa Gregory.

The protagonist is evil. An utter psychopath. Admittedly, life for a woman in the 18th century is rough, and the opportunities Beatrice’s skills warrant are passed to incompetent men. But the body count is unpleasant!

It’s a very long book and a stressful read. Frankly, I want to stop but I also want to know the outcome and I’m not sure a synopsis will be satisfactory.

In short, I’m in a hostage situation with an audiobook.

ohmu,
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@elizabethtasker
I hate when that happens.
And it's been a few times now!

vitriolix, to random
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Now we can all whip the llamas ass

"Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows.
"
https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-code

ohmu,
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@vitriolix
Yassss

RickiTarr, to random
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I don't know why, but these White Pharaoh memes crack me up.

ohmu,
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@RickiTarr
Where are they? That one you showed made me giggle.

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, since I'm on laundry today, a little story.

When hubs and I first got married, we were very much enjoying our little Honeymoon Bubble, and we were being lazy as Hell. We didn't do many chores, but the laundry we really let go. We weren't wearing many clothes at home anyway, so why bother. Anyhow, after weeks we finally reached the swimming suit bottoms situation, and decided it was time. It was loads and loads of laundry that needed done, so I had my husband back the trunk of the car up to a window of the house, then he popped the trunk, and I started tossing laundry out of the window into the trunk. We went to the bank, got about $30 bucks in quarters, and found the emptiest laundry mat we could, and did it all in one fell swoop. We folded it all and loaded it back into the car using those wheeled laundry carts. We never let it get that bad again, and decided it was time to be adults, and do regular chores, but it still makes me laugh imagining what the neighbors and the laundry attendant thought.

Feel free to share your own laundry story, if you feel like it, I love hearing people's stories!

ohmu,
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@RickiTarr
You're my heroes for this morning of 2024.

RickiTarr, to random
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Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

ohmu,
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@RickiTarr
I'm not sure what to do with this.
Most music originating in the US is, at its roots, Black music.
But I guess the request is for *current" musicians?

matt, to Oslo
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What's going on in this weekend? Anyone has any fun plans or recommendations of stuff to do?

ohmu,
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@matt
I just kind of assumed you'd be watching the along with everyone else in the northern hemisphere.

pitchfork, to random
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Steve Albini, Storied Producer and Icon of the Rock Underground, Dies at 61
https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Latest News @latest

ohmu,
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@pitchfork @latest
OMG!

He was living his best life playing cards on TV like ten minutes ago wasn't he?

ZekuZelalem, to random
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Utterly ridiculous from the Pulitzer Prize committee today.

This Pulitzer citation supposedly honoring 🇵🇸 journos doesn't actually do so.

"Journalists & media workers covering the war in Gaza" includes everyone, Palestinian or otherwise.

The citation fails to mention the nationality of the journalists who "died" (euphemism which downplays the worst recorded journo slaughter), or the identity of their killers, the Israeli army.

Please compare with the 2022 citation for 🇺🇦 journalists.

The 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Special Citations and Awards Journalists and Media Workers Covering the War in Gaza In recent years the Pulitzer Board has issued citations honoring journalists covering wars in Ukraine and Afghanistan. This year, the Board recognizes the courageous work of journalists and media workers covering the war in Gaza. Under horrific conditions, an extraordinary number of journalists have died in the effort to tell the stories of Palestinians and others in Gaza. This war has also claimed the lives of poets and writers among the casualties. As the Pulitzer Prizes honor categories of journalism, arts, and letters, we mark the loss of invaluable records of the human experience.

ohmu,
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@ZekuZelalem
I generally ignore any post that incites certain phrases like "let that sink in". I'm glad I missed it until the end this time. I'm glad you drew my attention to this.

I haven't paid attention to the Pull-it Surprise much, but even then, yuck.

RickiTarr, to random
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If people would just send me pictures of their homemade bread, I would both appreciate it, and be full of bread lust.

ohmu,
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@RickiTarr

There's so many!
Here are a couple, though.

Two more loaves of homemade bread.

Viss, to random
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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/counterfeit-cisco-gear-ended-up-in-us-military-bases-used-in-combat-operations/

video/mp4

ohmu,
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@Viss
This changes the lighting a bit on the must-not-use-Huawei thing.

ohmu,
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@inkican
Is it online only? I went to the website, but it opened a pop-up that I couldn't close. It obscured being able to read anything.

ohmu,
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@DigitalDruid
There they are! Thank you. That worked.

kissane, (edited ) to random
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US folks, we have an e. coli recall on organic walnuts sold in bulk bins or repackaged in-store (plastic clamshells, etc.)—recs are to throw them out and wash containers and contacted surfaces:

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/s0430-ecoli-walnuts.html

(Hat tip to the manager of our local co-op.)

ohmu,
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@kissane
Thank you.

folks: PCC sent out a recall.

matt, to music
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Nice album title from Arab Strap 👍

ohmu,
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@matt
I've never heard of them!
And they don't have a Bandcamp presence.
Interesting.

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