ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Sources: the prospect of fired Fox News producer Abby Grossberg's secret recordings being played during trial helped push Fox News to its Dominion settlement (Jef Feeley/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-19/fox-news-producer-s-secret-recordings-helped-spur-dominion-deal
http://mediagazer.com/230420/p3#a230420p3

[6 AM] Good morning southern New England! Here's the view from the webcam on the Cape Cod Canal! Expect highs in the 60s away from the coast and 50s along the waters

Hello #Fediverse! Some #MastodonHelp needed here! I'm trying to include a mastodon feed to my #Wordpress website, but I need my "user ID" (https://wordpress.org/plugins/include-mastodon-feed/#description)... Does anybody knows where to get this info on @QOTO #QOTO
Sorry to ask such a basic question... Can anybody help me, @freemo maybe?

Eid Mubarak! To all the fellow brothers and sisters out there.

#eid #ramadan #dubai #greetings #religion #islam #christian #muslim

New Study Sheds Light on Origins and Domestication of Grapevines | Sci.News https://www.sci.news/genetics/grapevine-origin-domestication-11764.html

I'll add: people don't have to be likable or nice to you or grateful, to deserve food, housing, kindness and care (including healthcare)

There is no such thing as "undeserving poor".

Every poor person deserves help and respect; if you have a mental file or image of people who are undeserving of either, you need to look at yourself.

Poverty ain't a moral failure.

Study shows human tendency to help others is universal https://phys.org/news/2023-04-human-tendency-universal.html

Turning an Atari 2600 into a computer...

I just came across this interesting bit of computing history.

Back in 1982, there was a peripheral that turned an Atari 2600 into an (incredibly simple, ZX-Spectrum level) home computer, including a keyboard, BASIC, and cadette support.

But the addon is/was incredibly rare, and there's very little information about it online.

So it's interesting to see there's now a video up on YouTube profiling this device (known as a Spectravideo CompuMate) and how it works...

https://youtu.be/AQfdWfJhqAs

#tech #technology #atari #Atari2600 #retro #retrocomputing #retrogaming @technology @videogames @retrogaming

Update to my #Introduction, as a #Thread, because I'm wordy 😉​

I was big several times on Twitter
#TwitterMigration 2022

Ex-sailor, tried #Navy, didn't like it, quit after 33 years.

Ran a Mobile #DJ Biz; Taxman took the fun away.

"I"ve been to both ends of #Halifax, have you?"

#Military Brat: attended more schools than years, incl.Germany.

3 #Cats, Feral, Rescue & Stray.
You'll notice that I have #ADHD.

Background: Management, Safety, Quality, Engineering, Computers, PERL, HTML

OLD THREAD REPOST

Since it's 4/20 (if you write the date in US format), let's address a rumour about Queen Victoria: was she the first medical marijuana patient, treated for her period pains?

The short answer to this is absolutely not, although we might as well take the opportunity to explore where the rumour came from.

How to Make Lemonade when Life Gives You Lemons

This visual deep dive into one of the largest AI language datasets is nonstop fascinating, jaw-dropping, and troubling, and anyone who is remotely interested in how LLMs really work, their biases, or intellectual property should read it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/

Musk systematically punishes reporters on Twitter for coverage he doesn’t like. For this reason alone, no journalist should be on Twitter. https://journa.host/@w7voa/110228528322091511

If anyone wants to create a #MagicTheGathering instance in the #Fediverse, here is a logo for it free of charge:

Ego and superego walk into a bar.

Barman says “I’m going to need to see some id”.

And of course since I dropped a new newsletter, a major new open (CC BY-SA) model release: https://stability.ai/blog/stability-ai-launches-the-first-of-its-stablelm-suite-of-language-models