szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

World: Can the US please just use the metric system, instead of making up weird measurements no one else understands

US:

We can accomplish so much with no regulation and no oversight! 😒

Realizing that AI chatbot generated text reminds me of the 3.8 paragraphs my kids hated having to write in middle school. It was some formula of 3 paragraphs each with 8 sentences or some nonsense like that, where the first sentence restated the question & then there was supposed to be a thesis, and the first piece of evidence, second piece of evidence etc, and of course then the final restating conclusion. My creative, independent thinking kids hated them so much. "It's like a robot wrote it" 🤣

Polish science museum set up a robotic version of Mikołaj Kopernik with GPT3 chat functionality.

Someone asked it to recite the whole number pi.

Staff had to come in and reboot the robot.

The Onion is on a roll. https://www.theonion.com/evangelical-leaders-announce-j-k-rowling-finally-bigot-1850129128

I’m estimating visibility on the hill to be about 20-30 metres today, which makes for an interesting ‘Spot the dog’ challenge.

Clue: She’s within visibility range in all but #4 where she’s definitely testing the boundaries.

#quantocks #SpotTheDog #DogsOfMastodon #photography

My almost 13 year old daughter had a good idea. We’ve been talking about doing a podcast together - mostly for us to have.

Her idea was reviewing books that are being taken out of school libraries - discussing the content, reviewing the actual literature but also the reasons it was banned and our thoughts there as well.

This is something I think that we will do, soon.

#BookBanning #Books #Podcasts

TIL that one of Germany’s biggest supermarket chains will stop producing printed marketing flyers this year. Their main argument is the climate and the numbers are insane:

Yearly savings:

- 390.000 m3 of wood
- 70.000 tons of CO2
- 380.000.000 kWh of energy

It’s the CO2 equivalent of roughly 60.000 ICE cars and the energy could power 100.000 4-person households for a year 🤯

https://www.rewe.de/nachhaltigkeit/unsere-ziele/projekte/klimaschutz/papierlos/

There was a trial of #fourdayweek #working in 2022; the results in:

70 firms expressed interest but 9 didn't start for various practical reasons.

of 61 firms who completed the trial in UK:

18 will maintain the 4 day working week permanently;

38 are continuing with the trial;

Participating firms saw revenue rise & staff turnover decline.

#workers found level(s) of #wellbeing increased.

We now have good data on #productivity & better life/work balance; time for others to follow?

h/t FT

When i was young i thought Dr. Spock and Mr. Spock had to be the same person. I found this today...

Just a reminder that using "the children" and their need for "protection" has been the basis of every horrific moral panic targeting a marginalized group.

I think I worked out a process to turn cattails (typha) into a viable insulation, that won't burn my place down

- Open the heads inside a garbage bag (to contain the mess)

- Add some water to the bag to soak them (initially, the fluff is somewhat water repellent)

- Put into a pot, filled with water

- Heat while slowly adding borax (will also get rid of any insect eggs/larvae)

- Evaporate and spread into layers while moist

You'll hopefully get something similar to rockwool insulation

This Superb Owl is named Pumpkin*, and she lives at the National Aviary. (I'm also in the photo.)

*Yes, I named my cockatiel after my favorite Eurasian eagle owl.

A bull moose feeding in a pond near Fernie BC. He totally ignored the people watching, even though we were only about 5-6 meters away, until someone decided to swim out to him.
#PhotoMonday #PhotoMontag #WildlifePhotography #Photography

Back legs only

One aspect that comes to mind is a term I've heard from multiple people that they call the "collector's fallacy" which is the idea that writing notes and collecting knowledge isn't useful on its own it must be geared towards producing a work of some kind, like an essay or research paper. And that's kinda horseshit right? Like learning things is good per se, it doesn't need to be justified.

My mind has kinda come back to the whole Personal Knowledge Management fad. It's something I'm interested in and I really want to use things like Obsidian but there's this weird self-helpy atmosphere around it that puts me off.

Ouch! Another strong one in Turkey.

My mom asked me to help her trash some boxes she doesn’t need. This was inside. I am an only child.

Fijne avond allen.
A lovely evening all.
#GoodeveningMastodon #MyWorld #SpringPictures #FlowersOfMastodon