Been seeing a lot about #ChatGPT lately and got my first question at the library this week from someone who was looking for a book that the bot had recommended. They couldn't find it in our catalog. Turns out that ALL the books that ChatGPT had recommended for their topic were non-existent. Just real authors and fake titles cobbled together. And apparently this is known behavior. 😮
🇫🇮 Finland.
Winter.
The forest river did not freeze.
There is a cozy warm house on the bank of the river.
Beautiful nature.
Sourse: @javi_salas23 (inst)
#finland #finlandia #winter #forest #winter #naturephotopraphy
🦊#FoxiMax #134 7/8
https://foximax.com/
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Just now moving junk around to get access to a pipe for the plumber, found a box of cassettes. Inside on top was this mixtape I made a few copies of for friends in December 1991. I think almost all, if not all, of these tracks were released that year.
Full text list of sequence in the image alt-text, if you want to track down any of this music.
its almost 2am and its time to hand over to the ghost in the machine replaying the evenings requests.
signing off till i wake up lol
links to the streams are on my profile
#audio
#raspberrypi
#80s
#linux
#joinin
#FollowBackFriday
#music
#80s
#webradio
#retroaudio
#solarpowerdfun
#fediverse
Musk, Boring company, tunnels, trains
Shout out to everyone at CES right now, seeing first hand how ridiculous the Boring company Hyperloop tunnel is.
Go to Los Reyes restaurant in the Sunnydale neighborhood of San Francisco. Order some delicious food. I recommend Pupusas! 👌🏿 Wait a few hours. Use their restroom. Flush. Wash your hands!
You are now using a much better engineered tunnel, built by the same boring machine!
He bought a second hand sewer tunneling robot and built that nonsense.
@baddadda @eveiswurzig @ZekeMD @inherentlee @blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social I think boosting Black voices is important. I also think that if an internship, job, grant, etc comes across your eyes, tag a black hashtag, person, or group accordingly. Which reminds me, I have a writing contest for kids to post. That’s my 2 cents.
The churns are full once more. The holy drinking cup overflows with milk. Ghee pours forth like honey from Ninisina's great bowl. The gallu demons scatter in terror. The sheepfold is restored and the shepherd once again tends his flock. By which I meant to say that the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature is back up!
Nisaba, it is sweet to praise you!
https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/
ohhhhhh. I finally get what the "federated" timeline is now thanks to @stammy's massive piece on Mastodon.
> The federated timeline is composed of posts from any accounts anyone on your instance follows, in addition to anything provided by relays that the instance is subscribed to.
The 2023 Ninth Circuit Civics Contest essay contest for high school students. Prizes vary from $1000-$3000. Deadline: March 13, 2023. “What amendment would you propose for our Constitution? Why? How would you get your amendment ratified?” Students can answer in an essay and/or video. Students may also work in teams. https://www.orb.uscourts.gov/news/2023-civics-contest #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackTeachers #BlackParents #BlackFedi @blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social
Food, recipe
Naturally, #baking leads to weblogging! Here is the recipe and everything.
I feel like I always learn something about game design when I play a Sylvie game… what I learned playing this game is that being able to turn into a lime is actually a very powerful mechanic with many interesting possibilities that video games have woefully unexplored until now.
People wanting QTs for "good" reasons, so they can add a comment to what they're boosting, just haven't learned how we've been doing it here all along, without the need for a QT function.
How it works:
1) Reply to the post you want to QT with a comment, such as "Boosting so my followers can also respond to this!" My opinion is ..."
2) Boost your REPLY. Your followers will see it in their timeline. When they click on it they'll see the OP above your reply.
Done! 🙂
I should also mention another thing we can do if things start going off on a side tangent in someone's thread, is remove their name from any additional posts we make in that side-thread so they stop getting notifications of OT posts.
All these things may be a little more effort, but I think it's worth these work-arounds to avoid potentional QT toxicity, until we may come up with something that works even better than QTs in future releases.
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.