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seav, 4 days ago to random

That expensed #WashingtonPost bulletin corkboard is one of the most amusing running gags I’ve seen so far. 😂

#IYKYK #WaPo

seav, 4 days ago to civ

I have never played 2 through 6 but this trailer still gets me excited! 😍

https://youtu.be/pygcgE3a_uY

#SidMeiersCivilization #Civ #CivilizationGame #CivVII #Civ7

seav, 5 days ago to pakistan

The Glassworker is a really intriguing feature-length anime-style film from #Pakistan 🇵🇰.

As a friend of mine observed, the studio did some interesting design choices that obviously was meant to appeal to an international audience. The depicted nation appears to be fictional but has elements of European and Middle Eastern cultures in it.

https://youtu.be/mTuPHCyV6mw

#films #movies #animation #TheGlassworker

seav, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

I became aware of this Reddit post from over a year ago and I can’t decide if this is a joke (to get some viral lulz) or actually real because some bosses can be unbelievably toxic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1052w37/i_left_my_job_shortly_after_receiving_this_prize/

#antiwork

seav, 6 days ago to ai

Big news in the #AI world: Current and former employees of #OpenAI and other AI companies like #DeepMind and #Anthropic warn of ethical and safety risks and want a way to publicly whistleblow about these without fear of retaliation.

https://righttowarn.ai

Media coverage:
• https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/353933/openai-open-letter-safety-whistleblowers-right-to-warn
• https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/ex-openai-staff-call-for-right-to-warn-about-ai-risks-without-retaliation/
• https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/06/openai-right-to-warn/678607/
• https://www.wired.com/story/openai-right-to-warn-open-letter-ai-risk/

seav, 7 days ago to hongkong

Respect for Sanmu Chen for what he did. ✊

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/04/tiananmen-square-massacre-anniversary-hong-kong-police-arrests-artist-sanmu-chen

#Tiananmen #TiananmenMassacre #HongKong #SanmuChen

seav, 7 days ago to LGBTQ

I’m dismayed but not really surprised that there are a lot of self-righteous and homophobic comments on pride-related posts on this other social network that’s very popular in my country. 😒

#LGBTQ #PrideMonth #Pride2024

seav, 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago) to random

I often struggle with the #ShipOfTheseus problem when modeling buildings and the like in #Wikidata. At what point does something get ‘too’ different that you need to split items and link them with each other with “[structure] replaces” (P1398 or P1365) and “[structure] replaced by” (P167 or P1366) properties. 🤔

seav, 8 days ago to til

#TIL that there were two airports so close to each other but located on different sides of the Israeli–Jordanian border that a commercial pilot mistakenly landed in #Aqaba, #Jordan 🇯🇴 instead of #Eilat, #Israel 🇮🇱 in November 1986. At that time, both countries were technically at war with each other.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/11/04/Pilot-mistake-puts-passengers-in-wrong-country/8048531464400

#aviation #avgeek

mdione, 9 days ago to Parenting

Has anyone else watched The Americans and couldn't help themselves asking when do they sleep or why they're never tired at "work" after spending the night chasing or being chased, who takes care of their children at night, and whether they ever go to the beach, where they kids could see all their scars from so many injuries during fights?

#parenting

seav, 10 days ago to random

Just saw this video and I am suddenly craving for #ChickenInasal and #halohalo. 😋

https://youtu.be/kceHa2XteNs

#FilipinoCuisine

seav, 11 days ago to random

Because it's June. 🏳️‍🌈

https://youtu.be/OygsHbM1UCw

#pride2024 #PrideMonth

seav, 13 days ago to puns

We live for news article title #puns! 😂

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/05/29/strawberry-truck-overturns-on-san-jose-freeway/

#news #journalism #humor

seav, 13 days ago to OpenAI

So a few media outlets, including #TheAtlantic, #VoxMedia, and the owner of #Politico and #BusinessInsider have recently signed deals with #OpenAI.

An Atlantic senior editor describes this as a devil’s bargain: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/05/a-devils-bargain-with-openai/678537/

seav, 13 days ago to OpenAI

Finally tried #OpenAI’s GPT-4o chatbot and asked it about my go-to LLM topic (my favorite #CahillConcialdi map projection). It gave a factually incorrect answer. 🤷

#AI #LLM #GPT4o

seav, 14 days ago to Philippines

It's about time; rainy season is here! 🌧

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1946269/pagasa-declares-official-start-of-rainy-season

Yeah, it will still be hot: it is technically still spring going into summer in the northern hemisphere. But scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms will do a lot to lower the temperatures. Although the expected onset of La Niña in a few months means a wetter rainy season. 😕

(FYI, there are three seasons in the #Philippines: cold and dry [Nov to Feb], hot and dry [Mar to May], and hot and wet [Jun to Oct].)

#weather #climate

seav, 16 days ago to random

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/27/billionaire-backlash-shows-the-power-of-basic-income

#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome

seav, 16 days ago to Tokyo

Did you know that there is a 1:1 scale replica of the world-famous #Shibuya Scramble intersection that can be rented by TV and film productions located 80 km northwest of Tokyo in the city of #Ashikaga? The real intersection is so busy that nobody can close it down for controlled filming.

This set was notably used in the hit Japanese TV series Alice in Borderland.

Location in OSM: https://osm.org/go/7Q9Mdm_mk?m=

#DYK #Tokyo #Japan

seav, 17 days ago to Weather

There's flooding and rain and wind damage in nearby provinces, but the (admittedly selfish) silver lining for me is that the weather has been pretty cool these past couple of days.

#weather #AghonPH #Ewiniar

seav, 17 days ago to random

My TL;DR on this video: What happened to #Etsy? It’s floundering due to #enshittification + generative AI.

https://youtu.be/KxxW9grVDfs

seav, 18 days ago to Philippines

A few years ago, I came across this #Esquire #Philippines article about #Mars craters named after Philippine towns:

https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/features/mars-craters-named-after-philippine-towns-a00289-20210223

I wondered if these craters are in #Wikidata and have the correct P138 (named after) property set so after writing the following #SPARQL query, I found out that all six craters are already in Wikidata as expected, but only two had their etymology indicated. Naturally, I completed them!

https://w.wiki/ABWy

#astronomy #etymology

seav, 21 days ago to random

I probably shouldn’t get too deep into reading about entitled or obnoxious people on Reddit or I’ll turn into a misanthrope. 😂

seav, 23 days ago to random

It should’ve been enough for her to say that solo traveling isn’t her cup of tea, but then she had the gall to comment, “parang ang lungkot” (“it’s so sad”), and assume “grabe yung pinagdadaanan talaga siguro nila” (“they [solo travelers] must be going through some very tough times”). 😠

https://www.pep.ph/lifestyle/travel/180206/why-loisa-andalio-fears-traveling-alone-a5128-20240518

#traveling #SoloTraveling #introverts #loners