ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

D68,865 - issued in 1921 for a design for a "Boudoir Lamp." #DesignPatents

It's time to raze existence.
It's time to banish light.
It's time to call the void in,
On the Muppet Show tonight.

Some seasonal phone shots from the Eden Valley in #Cumbria with moody skies and a faint rainbow. Enjoy your day, the weekend is coming over the hill. #photo #photograpĥy #foto #clouds

HourlyWolves presents: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1593213029147021312/photo/1

🐦🔗: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1593213029147021312

@irwin @shengokai Also, a little hard to read but a thread from years ago on some thoughts about why BP didn't become Black Twitter. https://twitter.com/owasow/status/1589334289891876865

The #Hungarian pronoun ő isn't gendered, so GoogleTranslate (left) and Deepl (right) make unsettling assumptions based on the data they've been fed.

Programmers and computational linguists, how are we going to tackle #gender bias in AI?

#Translation
#Language

Great thread by @djoerd, a search engine researcher, in which he stepped away from his efforts to improve Mastodon’s search based on what he learned about the community: https://idf.social/@djoerd/109358168852731520

Had trouble choosing a mastodon instance? I got GPT-3 to generate some new possibilities.

flounder.club
Members discuss all different forms of flounder, from deep-sea to land-based.

dinosaur.pocket
All messages must consist of the two letters 'D', for fear that the dinosaurs will eat people's pocketbooks.

frozen.forest
Users must provide a source of warmth in order to post.

https://www.aiweirdness.com/ai-designed-mastodon-communities/

BREAKING: German Bundestag votes overwhelmingly in favour of requiring all programmers to wear witch robes and pointy hats, noting that the profession has been taken too seriously for too long.

For folks newly aboard the Mastodon train:

https://mastodon.lawprofs.org is an instance for law professors (#lawprofs) run by the awesome @jnsheff.

https://esq.social is a general-interest #law and #legal adjacent server run by the serviceable me.

There are probably more, and feel free to reply and I'll boost others.

The #lawfedi rolodex is maintained by the inimitable @heidilifeldman at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nE8WxgwTFCuVeFA8ZfOW0qonJTSnI_d6EBSJ4E9JqtI/edit#gid=1859751282

@law is a friendly #law bot that boosts messages that include a ping to it.

Wow! Please think about yourself too. You deserve care as much as anyone else.

oh no im real good at some things but real not at other things

Cryptocurrency, NFT, Blockchain, Web3 and all associated things are scams.

See https://jwz.org/blog/tag/dunning-krugerrands/

For more information please re-read.

In a final act of solidarity/defiance I will be publishing a book on the early days of the #fediverse

I can’t wait to reconnect with people from those early days before I disappear into obscurity.

Buy her a new cauldron. Keep her broom in good repair. Maintain a robust collection of eye of newt.

Witches love that.

An interdisciplinary team discovered a previously unknown Etruscan temple (45 meters by 35 meters) in the ancient city of Vulci, which lies in the Italian region of Latium. It is dated towards the end of the 6th or beginning of the 5th century BC. https://phys.org/news/2022-11-previously-unknown-monumental-temple-tempio.html

how did twitter end

What I love about #masto is that I've discovered more artists, photographers, writers, poets, historians, archaeologists, heritage experts etc. in the last five days than I have in 10+ years on all the other platforms combined thanks to all the introductions and sharing going on. I always felt that social media was an obligatory part of the job, now it feels like a place to discover a creative world beyond my own field.

red paradise apples, painted by bertha heiges, 1899