ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Mars rovers Curiosity and Perseverance roll past each other.

“It must be rush hour,” comments Dr. Manhattan in a flat monotone.

He’s known for sixty years he’d make this joke. He’s always been saying it.

ART🌻 HANG IT, WEAR IT, SIT ON IT, GIFT IT, COLLECT IT

This little empty garden by the brownstone door
And in the cracks along the sidewalk nothing grows no more
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
A gardener like that one no one can replace
- Elton John (about John Lennon

"MONET'S GARDEN"

See ❤️ Art Here : https://lynnie-lang.pixels.com/featured/monets-garden-squared-pastel-abstract-lynnie-lang.html

#MastoArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #AYearForArt #mastodon #ArtBooster #art #artistsonmastodon #artist #abstract #abstractart #fediart #music #lyrics #song

It's a Tuesday, which apparently means another wild flurry of AI related announcements: Google Bard, Bing Image Creator, Adobe Firefly (an image generation model trained entirely on licensed or public domain art) - here's my blog's archive page for today with notes on everything so far https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/21/

One sign that you're not making a technology for the right reasons is when you have to fucking lie about it, or misrepresent others in order to compete. For example, Nostr (the protocol which currently enjoys zero million daily active users) says of Mastodon, "There are no clear incentives to run servers" — proving that this is, indeed, a protocol created by people who have no idea how to make friends.

Every time I see a post content-warninged with "ph - " I keep assuming I'm going to click and it's going to be like a photo of a vial of hydrochloric acid

The Trashcan MacPro eBay prices are into the “why not” price range (<= $300). If you ever wanted one might be a good time to pick one up, if nothing else it makes for an attractive piece of tech art on your desk.

This white peacock was ready for his big debut, Green Meadows Petting Farm, Orlando FL #BirdsOfMastodon #FotoMontag

Back in 2020, I published Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a concise book – 64 pages – that actually starts centuries before Gutenberg, with Chinese and Korea printing, and then digs into 1450 to 2020 period, covering ~600 years of technological advances. Set in hot-metal type (Monotype Bembo) in North Yorkshire, printed in London, and bound in Germany with a foil-stamped cover & slipcase, I still have copies available for shipping worldwide! https://glog.glennf.com/tiny-type-museum-time-capsule-and-more/six-centuries-letterpress (ebook edition available)

2013: clothes arent gendered
2023: if I wear a sweater I'm a man

#Zen #Buddhist koans help us understand #lifeexperiences like #science helps us understand the world
https://bigthink.com/13-8/zen-buddhist-koans/

#introduction time.

Hey everyone mid thirties guy here. Into tech and software design and cyber security though I have no formal education. I love to tinker and make new programs and the such.

I love tech news and podcasts and web design and making programs.

In my free time I game! I play primarily on Xbox but do play on pc sometimes.

I love to cook and I love my puppies.

So hi everyone!

It’s the Equinox. Remember to hug your friendly neighborhood Druid and thank them for following the rites so the seasons continue as they should.

Not satisfied having claimed my work desk, Fishy has decided to conquer my work chair as well.

@wendynather there was that era when you could hang up a flip-phone by snapping it shut like a cheap paperback.

The eight most wonderful words you can say on the internet:

" I don't know enough to have an opinion."

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pilot project in 1962. The opposition at the time argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

#cities #Copenhagen #cars #streets #denmark

Community garden mural, Brooklyn NYC 2023

In the past 24 hours, I have been at a gathering of college students and an assisted living facility for the elderly.

Both sound systems were playing ABBA.

Whether Mastodon has 5K or 5M users doesn’t matter. You only need to follow about 500 of them to get a pretty rich social media experience that doesn’t suck like ad driven social media.