ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

@Tinu @Jelaniya @jeffjarvis

I know people who depend on Twitter for a support community for themselves and/or their work.

Some are learning there are alternatives (like Mastodon) but I also know migration has costs for them.

So I do need to try to stop cheering every time something makes it look like Elon will sink the ship. He's going to take some good people down with him.

But it's hard give how much I despise the man and everything he stands for.

A new edition of my creative AI newsletter, with some recent art I've liked (3d images), captioning fun, text generation links, some games, a map or two, a little bit of knowledge and nlp. Lots of tv/books/game recs. And John Dee with skulls. #aiart
https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-36-skulls-and-pentimenti?sd=pf

"It’s an open question whether prospective students and their families would change their enrollment decisions if they knew how unreliable a guide to the classroom experience institutional prestige actually is." https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/trade-secret-we-all-know

@Jelaniya @jeffjarvis I’m not still there to fight. I’m there to survive. I can barely work. I have king covid & cancer. I run mutual aid networks for people there for people there who are worse off from me, for whom Twitter was a lifeline.

When I leave I lose my only source of income & work. And people who depend on the extra exposure I give through my network on Fridays lose my help.

We feel the loss of every giant who leaves but we understand.

For the newest of #Newbies

Your #Posts, #Boosts and #Follows power the timeline here. YOU are the algorithm.

#Following is king
#Boosting is queen
#Likes are sweet
#FollowingBack is neighborly
#Hashtags get you noticed

Also, if you feel someone you follow is #Boosting to much and cluttering your timeline, simply click the three dots (top right) on their home page and tap #HideBoosts. Much nicer than unfollowing.

Because this works, here's a reminder: if it's a cloudy-distributed-load-balancy-microservicy-fancy-rate-limiting-thing, it's often not concurrency-safe because there is no single-point-of-truth accessed in a concurrency-safe way and you can exploit it from the network https://www.pentagrid.ch/en/blog/password-reset-code-brute-force-vulnerability-in-AWS-Cognito/ #infosec #pentesting

Midjourney 4 AI Art
My journey is complete 😄
Rabbit dancing in the Forest
I uploaded an image that I had previously generated with Dall-e 2
And I used MJ 4. This is more of what I was hoping to get. #stablediffusion #dreamstudio #dalle2 #dalle #aiartist #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney

A FRIENDLY REMINDER

Please be nice to authors..! 🤓📚

They are delicate, highly sensitive creatures who spend large amounts of time transcribing conversations in their head between imaginary people and are easily upset by critical reviews, friends not buying their books & any suggestion that they're wasting time on social media rather than writing 😉

Oh, and if you're mean to them...

You may end up in their next novel! 😆📕👺

#WritingCommunity #Author #Writer
#AmWriting #Funny #Books
#Bookstodon

Wat een week, he?

I've been on #Mastodon for about a fortnight now, and I am so happy and grateful for this place. I have made new friends, engaged my brain on a variety of topics, read and seen so many new things, and most of all, found somewhere without judgement, prejudice, and with honesty. ❤️💖💝

I love you guys so much 😭

We've blocked ursal.zone for racism, queerphobia, and frequently participating in harassment campaigns that the admin of the instance encourages and joins in with.

Marina Abramović, who turns 76 today, on turning trauma into raw material for art https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/04/27/getting-there-marina-abramovic-interview/

B-52s NYC 1978-79.
(I took these pics except for a few I'm in or whatever. At some point I'll devolve into memes and witty repartee but for now I'll keep it photographically inclined)

@unnon1989

As some of you may be using the British rail system to travel for the first time this Christmas, I thought I'd share my number one train tip.

After visiting the toilet you might be tempted to place your hands under the soap dispenser before rinsing them.

Do not do this.

Always check the water turns on FIRST or you'll be left with a handful of liquid soap and no easy way to rid yourself of it.

Also, take hand sanitiser.

#Trains #Avanti #BritishRail #PublicTransport #TopTip

The neatest thing I’ve learned so far about Pompeii is about the scientist who was mapping signs of wear on intersections and figured out that Roman traffic control was a series of one-way streets.

Plus ça change…

"Waiting for Spring"
2019
Sedat Girgin

I recently found this wonderful artist and wanted to share. You can see more of his work at:
https://sedatgirgin.com