ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

avoiding doxing yourself is so difficult in the age of geoguessr champions who can look at a photo from inside a hermetically-sealed steel box with no discernible features or windows and they're like "utilizing visual quantum tunnelling and optical carbon dating, I can tell this box was fabricated on 2019-05-21 at 11:43AM GMT and was transported to 37.2431° N, 115.7930° W on 2021-01-26 5:22 PM"

#Threads is not federating with #Mastodon. Not anytime soon, maybe not ever.

In case you missed the #Meta inside information from the Verge's Alex Heath: "Re: ActivityPub integration, it's still a priority for Threads but a "long" way out."(https://mastodon.social/@alexeheath/110713788758597963)

This whole federating with Threads thing has never made any sense and now we see it is very likely they have just been playing us the whole time. Let's stop falling for this nonsense and get back to building open social media.

Follow up on yesterday's post of viewing a purple Hibiscus syriacus flower out the window from my desk. The blossoms only last a day or two.

Today there's another one, this time white...

I just realised I hadn't used ChatGPT, Bard or any other LLM-based chatbot for a few weeks. Maybe it's a failure of imagination, but I'm not finding any use cases where it makes sense.

And much of the "gender pay gap" is the "race pay gap" again. The pay gap between Black and brown women and white women is bigger than the pay gap between white women and white men.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109906587205614822

Reducing racism reduces the gender pay gap. Racism ruins everything!

So yeah, if a white man borrows $25K, he's more likely to have paid off 70% of it 10 years later than a Black woman who borrowed $60K.

Trying to understand the chart without understanding racism and sexism, is impossible.

How many times does this man have to tell you that he's building #Bluesky AT Protocol to help his bro Musk & their joint investment, #Twitter?

Where #Dorsey is one of the biggest stakeholders, at $1 billion.

Bluesky refuses to reveal who owns the company & its IT. But Bluesky the app is a complete clone of Twitter yet it's the only one Musk has never attacked.

It has happened! #DOStodon, the #MastodonClient for #RetroComputers running #MSDOS, is now listed on the official App-Page of https://joinmastodon.org/apps

Don't be a SNITCH

(I need to recreate this with Pica... it's just very... "her")

Hello #PortfolioDay! I’m a #watercolor artist from Alberta, Canada. I like to paint landscapes, flowers, animals. Anything from the natural world. My BFA was in printmaking, but I mainly draw and paint now, when I’m not writing. Past projects have included a World of Warcraft webcomic for five years fromdraenor.ca and lots of fantasy character portraits.

@GrumpyGirdle If you want to be found, make a pinned introduction post and put the hashtags #NewHere and #Introduction into it with a bunch of your interests in it as hashtags. Those can be searched.

If you're mostly looking for others to follow, you can follow hashtags (e.g. #DragonAge), and at least at the beginning, most people recommend following anyone who crosses your TL that you enjoy. You can unfollow later, but that gets RTs into your TL that might not otherwise be seen.

tests are showing art nouveau levels at 80%

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Aak grasshopper.
Photo by (IG: @cosmic__disco)
By #AmazingNature
#Nature #NatureLovers #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Photography #Photographer #Video #Science

Just posted this on the bird site - what is the last straw people need to leave twitter completely? I found my limit. I'm leaving.

For me, paying nazi, misogynistic 'influencers' is too far. I've long been passive on Twitter, but used it to distribute content. I can't do it anymore. The values conflict is too much.

I'd love it if some academics took a stand with me. I'm going to delete my (50K+) follower account on the 13th of August. I'm staying for a month to do a count down and encourage others to #DeleteTwitter.

I don't have a recommendation of where is best to go. Anywhere is better than Twitter and its ocean of hate. Appreciate a boost to build a bit of momentum for this protest attempt

The AMPTP put out a statement saying they offered #SAGAFTRA a historic deal with top pay, residual increases, pension & health protections, and a groundbreaking AI proposal and blamed SAG-AFTRA for work-stoppage. They didn't mention their "groundbreaking AI offer" included such things as, owning background actors' specific likeness forever; and the ability to feed 100 yrs of acting performances using actors' likenesses with NO permissions to train #LLMs to make new AI characters. #SAGAFTRAStrong

🧑‍💻Wang Tiles and other ways to tile a plane💾
Understand the concept of tiling a plane by arranging regular tiles in a systematic manner, creating visually pleasing patterns. Additionally, get introduced to Wang tiles, a fascinating method that employs specific rules for tile placement, resulting in captivating, non-repetitive designs.
Read More 👉https://ncot.uk/wang-tiles-and-other-ways-to-tile-a-plane/
#Graphics #Maths #Programming

'Over the past three decades, however, archaeological research has made it increasingly clear that the hunters were preceded by much earlier cultures that colonized the Americas between 24,500 and 16,000 years ago.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/science/archaeology-sloths-human-migration.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Science