The first printed work in Swedish was a 1489 translation of a Papal bull offering indulgence to those who donated to a religious war against the Ottoman Empire. *sigh*
I hope everyone had a good start of the week. If not, take it easy.
#Mondog #dogs #dog #rescuedogs #DogsOfMastodon #AdoptDontShop #photography #fujifilm
I'm more cynical.
After all, they surely know what "intelligence" means, but they misuse that in order to mislead people.
Since all of my cars completely broke down in the past few days I had to get a working one ASAP. With limited resources at my disposal, I bought a 24 years old Volvo. A fucking diesel. Now I wonder what the environmental impact of buying an old diesel will be. I gave an old machine a few more years of life. No idea if it was a good or a bad thing to do.
New paper!
Under anesthesia, sensory signals get to the cortex but don't make it much farther.
Propofol-mediated Unconsciousness Disrupts Progression of Sensory Signals through the Cortical Hierarchy
https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02081
#neuroscience
"Grok" being the name for an AI chatbot is just the latest example of tech bros not understanding science fiction. In "Strangers In a Strange Land", the famous 1950's novel the term comes from, to "grok" something is to understand it on a deep level. AI chatbots, as we all know by now, do not grok—they bullshit.
I'm really tired of sci-fi terms being used by people who read the books and got nothing from them beyond “lol this word sounds cool”. (See also: “metaverse”.)
BAHFEST IS BACK!
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/bah-4
tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bahfest-ig-nobel-2023-tickets-713070271377
All my apes are blind.
Web3 is Going Just Great: "All this time I thought the lasers were going in the other direction."
Bored Ape collectors attending an ApeFest party in Hong Kong have now been subjected to the kind of eye pain the rest of us have...
https://jwz.org/b/ykFy
I know we like making jokes about being straight not being normal
But like
https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/12999-half-young-not-heterosexual
@m0bi13 @pawelkuzia@wspanialy.eu @pawelkuzia@tube.pol.social Od czasu uwolnienia się od google mam już drugi telefon z LineageOS (wcześniej Xiaomi, teraz Samsung), bez Google Apps/MicroG. Do rzeczy, do których używam telefonu, działa dobrze, ale trudno mi określić szanse powodzenia działania różnych powszechnie używanych aplikacji dla tych, którzy by chcieli/potrzebowali je mieć. Jak trochę testowałam z ciekawości to sporo aplikacji wyświetla po uruchomieniu komunikat, że bez usług Google Play nie działa, ale po zamknięciu tego komunikatu będzie działać normalnie. Przynajmniej dopóki to nie jest powiązane z Safety Net - czy jak obecnie to się nazywa.
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (also spelled #Polesie) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs – #IdąPsięta.
Luddite working with hi-tech.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding in #Python. Dealing with dirty data, cleaning them when time allows.
#Atheist. I don't *believe* in #science – science is the *only* thing that protects us from belief.
Fuck nazis.
My account on Twitter is still up, for good reasons. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.