Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

I was on a podcast where kids asked two people questions to decide who was the fake and who was the real expert.

The host said that early on, the kids chose the fake every time because the actors answered every question confidently and the experts would hedge or even sometimes say, "I don't know."

They eventually told the fakes to be less confident so the kids would pick the expert sometimes.

It just occurred to me this is now real life with #chatGPT (but nobody is telling it to back off).

This is just a reminder that trains in the Netherlands have run on wind power since 2017.

If we want to, we really can have nice things:

https://www.businessinsider.com/wind-power-trains-in-netherlands-2017-6

#trains #WindPower #netherlands

#dogsofmastodon
The chosen one

Fox

Meet Sarah and Andy. Sarah is an engineer, Dylan is a male engineer. The male engineer T-shirt is more expensive because "the standard version has to be adapted to fit the non-standard male body".

They sure got their priorities straight at the manwhohasitallshop.com. 👚 Brilliant! 🔥

In positive news, my daughter is a teacher and her classroom geckos hatched. Please enjoy this photo of a newborn gecko.

i planted a quarter last summer

Firefox rolls out total cookie protection by default

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/

*chefkiss*

Hold onto your butts, it looks like we're getting a state dinosaur. HB 1020 is on the Senate run calendar for this afternoon.
https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1020&Initiative=false&Year=2023

Going through my notes on There Are No Accidents by Jessie Singer, and I figured I'd share them here as I process them.

This is a book about how our systemic decisions make America a dangerous place to live. It really made clear to me that Covid is nothing new. We've always been needlessly cavalier with each other's lives - especially the lives of the poorest and most marginalized among us.

You can get the book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/There-Are-No-Accidents/Jessie-Singer/9781982129682

@bookstodon #bookstodon non-fiction

👋 Hello #fediverse! I'm going into a meeting at 4ET to talk about our newsroom's social media options.

If you think our station and other NPR stations should have a Mastodon server and a broader presence in the #fediverse, pls boost this post. If you have thoughts, please reply, I want to hear them!