Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@social.cleverlibre.org

Don't read my toots if you're easily offended. My favorite American comedy is Ghost World (2001).

Don't read my toots if you're easily offended. My favorite American comedy is Ghost World (2001).

And Jesus said: "Let's block whole online communities in the name of tolerance. That will teach them m***********s."

Kelvin Kiptum died today in a car crash in Kenya, at age 24. He was the world record holder for the marathon in 2:00:35.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/marathon-world-record-holder-kelvin-kiptum-died-car-107144332

#running #athletics #sports #marathon

<video of a guy who raised a baby bass in increasingly large aquariums>

Commenter: It's time to release Gerald* back into the wild where he belongs!
Me: Why don't you release your kids?
Commenter: I don't have kids.
Me: Good for them!

*his real name was changed to protect his privacy

Dans une bouteille de Klein !

Une devinette que nous envoie René D.:
J'y pisse donc j'y suis. Où suis-je ?

#devinette #math #maths #philosophie

*coquille

Zut, j'ai fait une couille.

Seriously.

- What does it mean to be intentional with your work?
- It's to show that you're in control. It's an essential component of macho culture.

#art #artists #culture

Linea Aspera - Entropy (2020)
https://youtu.be/4cP9_8fPP4A
#music #darkwave

The Time Traveler (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. And then the dragons arrived.

Poll result: 29% of the world believes chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
#science #cows #chocolate #milk #wow

Work in progress: a testing framework for OCaml that supports checking test output against expectations.

It works and we're using it at Semgrep but it needs basic documentation and other straightforward work.

https://github.com/semgrep/testo
#ocaml

Does chocolate milk come from brown cows?

#science #poll #statistics #cows #chocolate #milk

Wait, what? (screenshot #1)

Do I read this correctly: Artists submit their work for an auction, and if they're selected and the painting sells, they get between 0% and 15% of the selling price.

Oh, they list "benefits" (screenshot #2). Let's see.

> All selected artists will be included in our robust promotional campaigns.

Oh, you'll use my art in an ad campaign for free. Awesome. I'm gonna be famous.

> Artists will receive bidder information from their sold artwork after the Auction.

Do we get their cell number and the name of the school attended by their children? I can't wait to stalk them.

> All artist applicants will have their work seen by local art-world luminaries who jury the work for inclusion consideration.

Sweet, a jury of local randos will get to see my painting.

> Your contribution as an Auction Artist directly supports ArtSpan’s programs, and has a positive impact on our local art community.

Sounds like an ineffective way for artists to give their money to other artists.

You know what, I'll skip this and focus on making art.

https://artspan.submittable.com/submit/287572/artspans-50th-anniversary-juried-benefit-art-auction

#art #exploitation #artistexploitation #wtf #desperation #scam

I was reminded that most people outside the software industry have no idea that today, the world runs on top of free and open-source software. They're convinced that "nothing is free" "because capitalism". It's like some of those immigrants from communist countries who believe that selfishness is a requirement of capitalism...

Note that I'm not particularly advocating for the exploitation of free software authors, only stating facts.

#freesoftware #capitalism