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teledyn

@teledyn@mstdn.ca

The reality of me is just me.

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teledyn, to random
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5 second rule for fridge doors:

If you still don't know what you wanted, what you wanted was water.

ai6yr, to WX

"She's my baby, she can be all four seasons in one day" - Sting

Photo from same location in other location, with torrential downpours and clouds

teledyn,
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@ai6yr have you tried Randy Newman's 12 Songs? ๐Ÿ˜… Newman is hands down master of the creepy stalker genre.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n7N29zvTTxswstrwGRdnY1TiX3XQEXN4A&si=be710wf_dAdfP-I0

teledyn, to Economics
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Thomas Piketty's Capital and Ideology offers a stark choice for humanity | The Week

> Capital and Ideology is a work of political economy in the broadest sense โ€” a staggeringly ambitious effort attempting to synthesize centuries of history, economics, and politics into one grand picture.

https://theweek.com/articles/906013/worlds-dominant-ideology-breaking-what-replace

sundogplanets, to random
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Apparently within Hinduism, some consider eclipses to be pretty terrible events and take great pains to not see them. I learned this from a student, who was worried because I had given an extra credit assignment to observe the lunar eclipse and the upcoming solar eclipse.

I'm not religious myself, but I teach at a Catholic school, so I feel like if we're talking about one religion, we should talk about all of them. I"ll have to think about how to deal with this respectfully in the future...

teledyn,
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@sundogplanets could they observe using a pin hole camera?

teledyn, to random
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โ€œWhat would you be communicating if you had to become someone else to communicate it? I mean, what is that?โ€

โ€” Anthony Braxton (1985)

teledyn, to random
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Weekend reads: More retractions at Columbia; โ€˜an epidemic of scientific fraudโ€™; when articles cite retracted papers โ€“ Retraction Watch

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/03/23/weekend-reads-more-retractions-at-columbia-an-epidemic-of-scientific-fraud-when-articles-cite-retracted-papers/

thepoliticalcat, to random
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    teledyn,
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    @thepoliticalcat

    "Stay out of churches, son. All they got is the key to the shit house. And swear to me you'll never wear a lawman's badge."

    โ€” Wm S Burroughs, Place of Dead Roads (1983)

    golgaloth, to movies
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    No, no. Hear me out. I have a great idea for the next Muppet movie.

    teledyn,
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    @golgaloth @Susan60

    65dBnoise, to Israel
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    There is an ancient Greek word that fits perfectly the cynical US position in :

    ฮŒฮฝฮตฮนฮดฮฟฯ‚

    The US kept vetoing a ceasefire agreement in the UN when thousands of children and civilians were butchered by Israelis, who in their genocidal menace killed even freed Israeli hostages; it keeps pouring tons of weapons to to this day.

    The Guardian makes no connection of the sudden change of heart in the US position to the coming in November.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/21/us-calls-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza-with-draft-un-resolution

    teledyn,
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    @65dBnoise

    It's odd that no one mentions Smedley Butler much anymore. Has he been cancelled?

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

    teledyn, to random
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    https://www.tumblr.com/defjux/745352118208217088

    teledyn, to random
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    ai6yr, to random

    Take your bees to work day? I''ll bee in my office? Bee careful about those co-workers?

    teledyn,
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    @ai6yr that seems risky. Certainly the English beheaded a few monarchs and one might argue the replacements were 'better', but look what happened in France and Russia! Are we prepared for a Republic of Socialist Bees? ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ

    teledyn, to emacs
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    I just noticed my doesn't have ๐Ÿถ; I can use C-x 8 RET to select LUNAR ECLIPSE (there's no SOLAR??) but I get a white box that says 01F776 inside and now I wonder how many other (potentially useful) unicode chars I don't have.

    I'm mostly posting this just to see if anyone else has this character :)

    teledyn, to random
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    It's a very big elephant. And itโ€™s not just energy. Generative AI systems need enormous amounts of fresh waterโ€ฆ

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00478-x

    stux, to random
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    ginger cats make up a small part of the total cat population but they are responsible for a big part of the kitty crime :meowPraise: George and Washy totally agreed

    teledyn,
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    @stux hey, isn't that Profiling?

    teledyn, to random
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    It doesn't cost a million dollars to house a human, and if this was for soldiers in a war zone, there would be shelter built within the day.

    https://www.tumblr.com/theehabitual/743330166054567936/danismm-dymaxion-house-by-buckminster?source=share

    LoganFive, to random
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    Based on which of my toots have taken off, I've concluded that the Fediverse:

    • has poor posture,
    • has a bad back,
    • procrastinates regularly,
    • may have ADHD, and
    • is ready to overthrow the patriarchal corporatocracy.
    teledyn,
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    @LoganFive @Heliograph

    Also cats.

    skrishna, to space
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    There will be more information in the hours and days to come, but itโ€™s official: Intuitive Machines successfully landed their spacecraft on the moon

    teledyn,
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    @tsturm @ottaross @skrishna just before the first word confirming a signal, they were going through the last bits received and I thought I heard someone say eight degrees off azimuth.

    We may need to wait for Australia to come online, about ten hours from now.

    teledyn,
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    @tsturm @ottaross @skrishna to get as far as they got is no mean feat, only a handful of attempts have made the journey! But yeah, the rhetoric was cranked up for that one.

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    @tsturm @ottaross @skrishna but this now leaves treasure for future moon children to hunt!

    The moon hasn't been dusted in ages. As the thrusters stirs it up I wouldn't expect to see anything better than the while noise of the signal we're getting.

    From what I understand, if this thing does correct itself, the photos should be astounding.

    teledyn, to random
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    @JohanEmpa @teledyn @tml @Fabimaru @wikiyu @gerrymcgovern

    Is it true still that just one data centre uses as much power as a town with 50,000 homes?

    teledyn,
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    @gerrymcgovern @JohanEmpa @tml @Fabimaru @wikiyu

    That's what we're talking about! And Seattle is a tad bigger than 50,000! ๐Ÿ˜…

    The other thing about that original mis-info post about Scandinavian datacenters is they seemed to imply that even a country like Sweden needed several. Do we have any sense of how many of these planet-eaters are deployed and planned?

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    @gerrymcgovern @JohanEmpa @tml @Fabimaru @wikiyu

    This is tangental, and I wish I could find it again, but some months ago I read a blog post from an engineer who wanted to throw the alarm about our near-constant 3% annual growth in energy requirements. That's a compound interest.

    In the paper his napkin estimates show us that, at this rate, and assuming we get PERFECT 100% efficient E=mcยฒ within this year, humans will have consumed the entire mantle of Earth in a few centuries. ๐Ÿ˜…

    antikemagie, to ChatGPT
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    ChatGPT running haywire? Looks more like it finally got hands on ancient magic ... the end is near.

    "mallician cantanmrac lovare Davianmiia Damific Iharmmbine"

    Don't try this at home ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

    Source of post about ChatGPT running haywire: @0xabad1dea

    https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/111970088234880537

    teledyn,
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    @antikemagie @0xabad1dea

    Can we agree to call this affect Quebec Syndrome?

    brewsterkahle, to random
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    "Demand for e-books is at an all-time high, but library collections are being hijacked by corporations."

    "Love e-books? We do, too! Tap the comics to learn more, play games, and test your knowledge of e-book contracts."

    go @libraryfutures !

    https://www.ebooksforus.com/

    teledyn,
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    @brewsterkahle @libraryfutures

    This may be unrelated, but I was visiting a blind pensioner friend who relies on an Alexa machine for company, and I thought, "I wonder if it can read books off archive.org or Gutenberg?"

    An hour searching seemed to say no, you can read a kindle you bought, and there are subscription traps everywhere.

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