ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Fashion plate from La Mode Illustrée, 1885

No one challenged me to a duel when I was in high school

I feel like student councils in anime are somewhat exaggerated

@shoq The 1/10/100 rule has always been there on user-generated-content sites, as we used to call 'social media'… 10% of users occasionally comment, 1% of users post most of the original content. Funny to see it talked up as a sign of something more than what it is — expected ratios of investigating, lurking, and participating.

Benzie is not really into squirrels. Just ignores them. The puppies, not so much...

Hello, me.dm!

Inspired by @brittany, here's an #introduction thread.

I'm Senior Content Manager at #Medium and #editor of #BetterHumans.

I 💙 #pyrotechnics (a member of 3 #pyro clubs) and am a newbie #overlanding buff. This year (2023) I'm working on the build-out of a #FordRanger with an #OVRLNDCamper. I have a loosely held goal of driving to the Arctic Circle someday.

I was a #PeaceCorps volunteer in #Ghana, West Africa, where I worked with cashew farming families for two years, 2011-2013.

Do you remember when we actually owned stuff? Now you need a subscription to run a seat warmer in a BMW. Am I taking crazy pills?

In this video, How Money Works explains how and why companies moved to making everything a subscription.

#Subscription #HowMoneyWorks #Economics #Capitalism

https://youtu.be/-34rDklImXY

From 12 Jan: Demanding employees turn on their webcams is a human rights violation, Dutch Court rules • TechCrunch - https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/09/ixnay-on-the-webcams/amp/ #work-capitalism

Sitting at a traffic light an hour ago, I saw a transfer-style sticker in the rear window of the SUV in front of me, that read

WHY ARE YOU WEARING A MASK IN YOUR CAR??

Two things came to mind:
1) Why are you so concerned about what other people do to protect themselves and others that you not only obsess over it but actually went to the trouble to obtain and apply this message to the back window of your car?
2. I often don't bother to pull my mask off right away when I get into the car. Sometimes I don't get around to taking it off at all between stops. Because unlike you, I don't like to imagine that my mask is hurting me, and I genuinely forget about it sometimes.

Make it a weekend to remember! Party every Saturday night in January with live singers, DJs, and dancers at SmokeFest, a free Music Festival in Second Life! https://youtu.be/6lWU-89gRmw

#SecondLife #SecondLifeDestinations #VirtualWorld #Metaverse #Machinima #SmokeFest #SmokeFest2023 #SmokeFestSL #MusticFestival

"Jim Jordan's 'weaponization' subcommittee bears no likeness to the Church committee. Jordan and company intend to generate headlines rather than needed reforms. They seek not to expose wrongdoers but to deflect attention from them." https://www.thebulwark.com/jim-jordan-church-committee-pretender/

We used to have a nice rail system in the US. What happened to it?

In this video, Wendover Productions explores the history of rail in the US and explains why one terrible rule made Amtrak so bad.

#Amtrak #WendoverProductions #Rail #Transit #History #Economics

https://youtu.be/qQTjLWIHN74

ACLU has a nice press release out today about the NAACP v. Kohn decision, which ruled that a ban on scraping court materials could violate the first amendment: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-judge-rules-ban-automated-data-collection-could-violate-first-amendment

(Wonkette)

Ohio school district communications director halts class reading of Dr. Seuss' "The Sneetches" when 3rd graders notice it's about equality and fairness
https://www.wonkette.com/oh-sh-t-ohio-student-noticed-top-secret-anti-racist-message-of-the-sneetches

Fisherman's Beach Sunrise (vertical photo)

I took the shot this morning. I almost stayed in because it didn't look like the sky was going to do anything. Glad I went out.

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #LakeSuperior #Minnesota

On Medium, Ian Sales

reviews John Crowley's ENGINE SUMMER
https://ian-93054.medium.com/engine-summer-john-crowley-fcf79159ff4b

#introduction time!
I'm a #scifi author from Nova Scotia, Canada and have spent 25 yrs working in the trades. In my spare time I run a used bookstore out of our house, love to cook, read, and watch my wife play Mass Effect on repeat 🙃 .
My Consensus series features a dysfunctional family caught up in an alien invasion, and one man's struggle to save his daughter.
https://mybook.to/Con-Series

What should I dream about? I will abide by the results of this poll.

#StableDiffusion #AIArt #AIGenerated #AI #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt

I’m imagining a story that does place the Resurrection in a very prominent place but also leaves things ambiguous as to whether it literally happened, and instead focuses on what all these extremely complicated, freaked out people are doing in response to this world-shattering thing that’s happened. How they reckon with it and what they themselves believe.

It’s a *great story*.

#stablediffusion #aiartcommunity

I'm very happy with the additional level of detail I'm getting in this animation render after merging the two models.

This is a still frame from a 40 second animation. It should take about another 9 hours to finish.

TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY

TALES OF THE CITY - 1/12/1994, PBS

Today in 1994, PBS ran the final installment of the fun British miniseries ARMISTEAD MAUPIN'S TALES OF THE CITY (the first of several series based on Maupin's novels) set in 1970s San Francisco. Some PBS stations canceled it and certain stations aired a censored version.

It was, I think, the first nationally aired series on U.S. TV that just took it as read that gay people exist, bi people exist, straight people exist, and trans people exist, and presented all their stories unapologetically without distancing the audience from queer characters. The same-sex couples were filmed at least as frankly as other couples, and the major trans character had a love story.

In the mid to late 90s, right-wing state and federal lawmakers used the series as one of their pretexts for slashing funding to public television, arguing that PBS was promoting perversion and immorality. #LGBTQ #gay #queer #trans #lesbian #bisexual #MediaStudies