wackyIdeas

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Florida and Italy - Un cittadino dell'Italia e degli Stati Uniti. Il mio italiano sta ottenendo un piccolo migliore, ma lontano da perfetto. Department of Wacky Ideas Content creator Cook Traveler Maker Musician Volunteer Utopian Past engagements: Research scientist - virtual education R&D for a statewide library consortium NISO delegate Homeland security researcher IT consultant Instructional designer and trainer Taxi driver Fishing guide

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MostlyHarmless, to random
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One day I'm gonna find the timer circuit in a car's engine that causes it to give major trouble within weeks of making the last payment.

wackyIdeas,

@MostlyHarmless If you have an active enough sex life in your car, and Ford makes enough money selling the videos, maybe they will wait a week or two before they start generating trouble codes.

heathen, to random

Today I drove by a house that had a big sign on their front porch that said PORCH and I have questions*. Did you need to further assert that your porch was indeed a porch? Was it not porch-y enough without it? Was this an impulse buy or did the homeowner set out like "You know what we need? A sign that declares PORCH." Does the homeowner get out there and forget what part of the house they are currently occupying? Hey, I've been spending time in nursing homes, I get it. Sometimes we need a reminder.

*I do not actually care what signs people want to put on their porches, I just have long drives and get to ruminate over these things.

wackyIdeas,

@heathen Was there a number after the word porch. The Professional Porch Sitters Union is a thing. To create a local, just append the numerical address of your porch. I recently rebranded my porch as Local 3990 because the post office changed our adddress.

annaghughes, to random
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this Annihilation bullshit is called a slime mold. Neither real mold nor fungus, slime mold is actually an aggregate of cells that all move together like one giant amoeba.

This one on particular is called fuligo septica, or "dog vomit slime mold". 🧪

wackyIdeas,

@annaghughes @kathimmel related to stink horn?

middleclasstool, to random
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders getting booed at a Razorback game being followed by P01135809 getting booed at Iowa State gives me some hope for my country.

wackyIdeas,

@middleclasstool If booing is followed by organizing, voting, and running the fascists off, then I’ll have a little bit of hope too.

slcw, to random
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maven and beclowned lunatic absolutely loses his shit during a when the opposing lawyer mentions unhappy customers calling to complain about lumpy pillows. This guy has been a national laughingstock since he became a leading purveyor of election disinformation and conspiracies, but he always kept his game-face on. It was a snide remark about his pillows that finally sent him over the edge. 🤣

https://youtu.be/IbhgPKVgb9M?feature=shared

wackyIdeas,

@slcw @WecanbeGyros Three cheers for the attorneys deposing this .

dugglebutt, to random
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I would risk a mauling if it meant I got to give skritchy scratchies to a bear’s adorable ears

wackyIdeas,

@dugglebutt Having worked in Yellowstone, I like my bears at a distance and don’t really care for grizleys at all.

Radical_EgoCom, to random

The Walton family is the richest family in the world. They've made billions off of exploitation of their workers.

wackyIdeas,

@Radical_EgoCom @GatekeepKen ?

jasongorman, to random
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I'm old enough to remember when only Bond villains had personal space programs

wackyIdeas,

@jasongorman @servelan I wonder what Musk’s Bond villan name would be?

wackyIdeas, to random

A small waterfall in the hills of . https://youtube.com/shorts/2WPmit2bskc?si=7VMXpnEFGdVh9fwY

w7voa, to DC
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A jury has reached a verdict, after four hours of deliberation, in the criminal case of former Trump White House advisor Peter Navarro, who is charged with contempt of Congress.

wackyIdeas,

@mjk_4mjk @w7voa @eilonwy I’m hoping that Trump ends up at Supermax but probably he’ll go to the federal “country club” prison at Eglin AFB.

Shachihoko, to random
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Fran Drescher: "When a CEO is making $78,000 a day, when a studio makes $1 billion on a weekend, please do not plead poverty to me. Just make a good deal."

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/06/1197987624/sag-aftra-leader-fran-drescher-has-some-choice-words-for-hollywood-studio-heads

wackyIdeas,

@Shachihoko @eilonwy

devinprater, (edited ) to accessibility

You know why some blind people are really leaning into AI to fix accessibility issues? No, not like overlays that probably barely have any if/else statements in them, let alone AI, but stuff like Be My Eyes, and gasp screen recognition in VoiceOver for iOS? Because shit sucks, and it's sucked for the last 40 years of computing history for blind people. That's why whenever we get even a bit more light, even if 20% of what an AI says is fake, that 80%, that gives us 80% more info than we didn't have before. And yeah, we should all, every single one of us, know that AI can give false info by now. Hell, Mastodon folks have been shoving that into our ears with an oversized cue tip since the day ChatGPT came out. We get it. But hot damn, being able to point my phone out the bus window and take pictures as I'm going to work, hearing about a fire station, or a house with a dog in the yard, or that it's a sunny, clear, nice day outside even, is really freaking nice. And sure, maybe it's not a firestation. Maybe it's a courthouse, or a post office, or something else. but it's something that I would never have known before. Because I don't have some sighted person telling me about what's around, and I wouldn't want any other human to have to do that for me. Like, this is the thing. In order to get 100%, perfect info, I'd have to hire another human who, all they do is look around and tell me in extreme detail, what's around me? Now, sighted people of Fedi, would you want that job? Maybe for a day. Maybe for a week. But months of that? I doubt it. And that is where AI comes in. No, it ain't perfect. And the more you deviate from its training data, the less accurate it gets. And maybe eventually we'll get to a point in the middle of what VoiceOver Recognition is, and what LLM's are. But I'm just getting tired of this OMG AI is the end of the world rhetoric. It's really getting old.

wackyIdeas,

@devinprater This is a fascinating look into your world. Thank you.

wackyIdeas, to random

A tiny but spectacular waterfall in the north Georgia mountains. https://youtube.com/shorts/2WPmit2bskc?si=QnThPQKOsQysHYue

vform, to random
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http://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2023/09/06

wackyIdeas,

@vform @mads also the New York City Public Library - https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/banned-books

knittingknots2, to random
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Musk Threatens to Sue Anti-Defamation League for 'Trying to Kill' X

Someone needs to check that man's meds

https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-threatens-to-sue-anti-defamation-league-for-trying-to-kill-x-2023-9

wackyIdeas,

@knittingknots2 @scottspeaking we all need to stop paying attention to this asshole, stop buying his shit, and stop giving him all your data.

wackyIdeas,

@scottspeaking @knittingknots2 It is a tricky balance.

GeriAQuin, to politics
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    wackyIdeas,

    @GeriAQuin @AnnMorris He’s a on the history of the United States.

    floatybirb, to random
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    Launching my thread for (from 1951)!

    Monsterdon is the thing where we watch an old monster movie at the same time each week and make fun of it. You might want to mute this thread (or the hash tag) if monster movie snarky summaries aren't your thing.

    wackyIdeas,

    @floatybirb @aprilfollies That’s the entire plot of Rare Exports, the best ever horror Christmas film. It’s from Finland, in Finnish, with subtitles in so many languages.

    barb, to random

    US will regulate nursing home staffing for first time, but proposal lower than many advocates hoped https://apnews.com/article/ebd1aad4a8bb13f892b930cae2f3f1cd

    wackyIdeas,

    @CatDragon @barb @Compassionatecrab and replacing long term employees with lower paid folks who don’t stick around. Even higher end corporate care facilities seem to see the residents only as a source of stockholder dividends.

    StillIRise1963, (edited ) to random
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    Also, stop calling people by their former JOB titles. Just say "former" JOB title or their chosen life "title" and name. They're citizens.

    wackyIdeas,

    @ArmyGirl @harmonygritz @StillIRise1963 So you haven’t met any officers who recieved “direct commissions” because of family connections?

    wackyIdeas,

    @ArmyGirl @harmonygritz @StillIRise1963 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_commission_officer.

    wackyIdeas,

    @ArmyGirl @harmonygritz @StillIRise1963 Yes. However, in my early middle years I was offered a direct commission by a relative who was a senior Pentagon official and of an advanced rank in the Army. I had no military experience and no specific skills of interest to the military. I didn’t take them up on their offer and who knows if it was real?

    wackyIdeas, to MandelaEffect

    So our power was out for two days after barely touched us. supplies us with because . They unplugged their neighborhood infrastructure from commercial power and into a generator this morning. This evening, power was restored () and the Harbor Freight generator ran out of fuel. What kinds of laws am I breaking if I get a ladder and plug Comcast back into the grid?

    wackyIdeas,

    @DrewNaylor I’m a former fire fighter and am pretty good on ladders. Also a kind of duck

    georgetakei, to random

    For as long as I can remember, politicians have been promising to involve the government in negotiating down the cost of prescription drugs. Now, the Biden Administration has finally achieved that goal. Medicare has announced it will negotiate prices on 10 popular prescription drugs, making them more affordable. Joe Biden is getting the job done. And we, the voters, should support him to finish the job.

    wackyIdeas,

    @georgetakei @servelan and of course, cue the trial lawyers.

    downey, to webdev
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    Dear devs,

    It's NEVER ok to lock people out of a webapp because their User-Agent doesn't match your predefined list. 😡

    Especially webapps they need to manage their healthcare.

    (I am in fact using one of the browsers on this list, your code just isn't able to tell.)

    :boost_love: Please boost for basic education.

    wackyIdeas,

    @downey @samhainnight one of the many reasons why I use a local pharmacist owned pharmacy.

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