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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 07:01:56 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   "vulcan women are always t'something ... why not name your kid something else"

   "because it's t'boo"

   -- deep in the comments of STSP

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 09:14:17 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • Mans R

     @Mans R There is no canon explanation. It seems to be tradition for whatever reason, but e.g. Saavik and Valeris had parents that broke tradition.

     Fan theories include:
     - Honoring T'Pau (Nimoy's speculation, but as of ENT, T'Pol was named before T'Pau was influential)
     - "T' " means "of", and maybe it was originally given when you marry and become of your husband
     - The word "t'sai" is "lady", maybe it leaked into names
     - Maybe those few not named T'Something were conceived outside pon farr

     (information stolen from T'Kay, Vulcartist)

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 10:00:47 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • Mans R

     @Mans R Out-of-universe: When they made Amok Time there were a couple of Vulcan women in the script. They were named like this, and since then writers are doing it except when they're not.

     Any in-universe explanation will be a retrofit, as no Vulcan language and very little lore existed as of Amok Time. It was the first dive into any other Vulcan than Spock.

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 09:28:58 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • Mans R
     • Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
     @Alexandre Oliva @Mans R It fell through a rift in spacetime.
     Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) likes this.
2. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 14:44:44 EDT Hypolite Petovan

   It’s currently 92 degrees Farhenheit (33 degrees Celsius) but feeling more like 100 (37). I’m short of breath walking just a couple blocks. 🥵

   Last summer was comparatively mild, but this year we’re off to a hot start.

   • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 21:40:55 EDT Hypolite Petovan
     @A Sweet Gentleman It's been "just" 50% air humidity here so not that bad on that front, but still.
3. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 19:52:35 EDT Hypolite Petovan

   Filing to “pictures that hurt”. 😰
   
   

   ♲ @kingu@mstdn.social:
4. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 14:05:10 EDT Hypolite Petovan

   To give you an idea about how colossal Generative AI is a waste of time and ressources for everybody involved except the one skimming at the top, my company in the entertainment industry has been vetting or is in the process of vetting 60 different AI-powered tools for internal use. Most are requiring approval, only 4 have been unconditionally approved so far, and 42 need a "strong use case".

   #AI #GenerativeAI
5. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 16:21:52 EDT Hypolite Petovan

   This is stellar reporting and asks a relevant question about how many similar Venture Capital-funded scams are going under the radar because their founder isn't running their mouth off on social media.

   via @myrmepropagandist
   
   

   ♲ @sandofsky@mastodon.social: It took five years to write, but here's the full story behind Lambda School, Silicon Valley's disastrous foray into for-profit education.

   I explain how they burned through $120 million in funding, why Income Share Agreements failed, the crimes committed along the way, and how one developer turned journalist put an end to the fraud.

   sandofsky.com/lambda-school/
6. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 19:06:06 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Seven parties? Are all of these represented in Parliament? Or am I right in assuming that current Parliament is all Tory/Labour/SNP/LibDem?

   bbc.com/news/articles/clddkpy6…

   So that's:
   - Labour
   - Tories
   - LibDems
   - SNP
   - Reform (Brexit/Farage)
   - Plaid Cumry
   - Greens

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 19:25:59 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to

     I'm wrong! Except for Reform, they all have MPs, and these parties do too:

     - DUP
     - Sinn Féin (but abstain)
     - SocDem and Labour
     - Alliance Party of NI

     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Uni…

     That's pretty impressive for a FPTP system. They're all miniscule compared to the top 3 though. All smaller parties together have fewer seats than the SNP.

7. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 17:31:34 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   I have probably said this before, but I can't get over the idea that someone could make a material that has completely different colors if you shine RGB light on it or if you shine true black-body white light on it.

   If somebody made this, where do I put my money? I want a shirt that is red outdoors and green indoors!

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   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 18:10:30 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     @Chris Murphy LED lights and fluorescent lights do not emit a nice black-body gauss-shaped spectrum, they emit all their energy on a few narrow lines in the spectrum.
     
     

     ♲ @clacke@libranet.de: In case it's unclear what I'm talking about, sunlight or a good old lightbulb has a light spectrum that looks like this:

     111111122221111111111111111

     But an LED light has a light spectrum that looks like this:

     000090000000090000000090000

     A fluorescent light is not RGB, but it is also made of spikes rather than an even curve, the spikes are just just placed in other places. So you could have a shirt that has three different colors when you view it in white light, LED light and some common configuration of fluorescent light.

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 18:24:47 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
     @Chris Murphy Yes. I assumed they're RGB as we already have those colors developed for LED, and also RGB should be the most energy-efficient, but you may be right that made-for-white LEDs use some other coatings that result in different spikes.
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 18:43:01 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     @I am Jack's Lost 404 Yes! Cool term!

     What I'm talking about would be a deliberate "metameric failure".

     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metameri…

8. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 12:01:24 EDT Michael Vogel
   Ich habe gerade: "Vier in einem Raum und drei arbeiten." - Ich und drei Ventilatoren. Es sind gerade 28,8°C hier ...
   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 12:48:58 EDT Michael Vogel
     Wenn der Sommer richtig heftig wird, kann es sein, dass es bei mir auch Nachts nicht unter 35°C wird. Das ist leicht anstrengend.
9. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 10:36:30 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   People are calling output from an inbred generative AI trained on a corpus that accidentally includes AI-generated inputs "Habsburg Art" or "Habsburg AI", and I approve.

   I didn't expect this to be becoming a problem already.

   #HabsburgArt #HabsburgAI
   #GenerativeAI #AI

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   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 05:25:02 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • GNU Too
     @GNU Too My unscholarly observation and speculation is that I think what happens in a process like this, where you commodify a product and push the typical price below what a human laborer can live on, and only automated mass-production is possible, is that you lose a huge majority of skilled laborers, but the few that remain are able to charge a premium for their work, for those few rich that want something not mass-produced.
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 05:25:44 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • GNU Too
     @GNU Too Bladerunner: "is that a real owl?"
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 07:27:21 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • GNU Too
     @sj_zero @GNU Too They paid as little as possible, and now they will pay even less to fewer humans, except for those designing thousand-dollar shoes.
10. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 13:04:05 EDT Michael Vogel
    Auch immer "schön": Fußgänger, die erst nach Dauerklingeln und Dauerrufen bemerken, dass sie auf dem Radweg laufen und einen dann mit den Worten anblöken, dass man ja hätte klingeln können ...
11. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 04:54:19 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    CoPilot is pronounced copy-lot in French English.

    Accurate!
12. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 23:37:25 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    David Simon, writer and showrunner for The Wire and other shows, member of the Negotiating Committee of the Writer's Guild, talks to NPR's Ari Shapiro during last year's strike. They talk about what the issues at hand are, previous strikes, challenges for writers in today's corporate climate, and here's what Simon says about AI's role in the creative process:

    SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...

    SIMON: What?

    SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...

    SIMON: You imagine that?

    SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.

    SIMON: I don't think AI can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.

    SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.

    SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

    npr.org/2023/05/19/1177194215/…

    #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM
    #WritersStrike

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 23:40:45 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      Here the less spicy part of David Simon's take on AI in the creative process:

      I mean, if a writer wants to play around with AI as the writer and see if it helps him, I mean, I regard it as no different than him having a thesaurus or a dictionary on his desk or a book of quotable quotes. Play around with it. If it starts to lead the way in the sense that a studio exec comes to you and says, AI gave us this story that we want, that's not why I got into storytelling. And it's not where I'll stay if that's what storytelling is.

      npr.org/2023/05/19/1177194215/…

13. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 17:58:56 EDT Brian Ó

    My cukes have been getting ravaged by cucumber beetles for the past few weeks. Lately, these guys are hanging around too. I hope they're here to eat the other beetles, and not the plants. Anyone know?

    #gardening #insects #pests
14. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 17:57:24 EDT Brian Ó

    #grasshopper #insect #gardening #photo #mywork
15. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 13:06:39 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Kid fell asleep before movie night. I even woke him up and asked if he wanted sleep or movie night, and after first trying to get up he changed his mind and said sleep.

    So tonight I am finally watching #DoctorMordrid starring #JeffreyCombs of #StarTrek #DS9 fame.

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    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 00:46:56 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      @Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🐙 😄
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 03:33:38 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      He was a Romulan on ENT too! He is even the type specimen Romulan shown on memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/R… !

      And a Dosi on DS9. And a Klingon on TNG. And a Jem'Hadar on DS9.

      memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/B…

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 10:01:05 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • silverwizard

      @silverwizard Sounds interesting. I always enjoy a bit of urban fantasy. Is it worth watching the 8 episodes they made?

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindred:…

16. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 02:24:17 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    I'm going downstairs to post my tax returns.

    I'm holding the provided return envelope in my hand, the characteristic green envelope of the IRD. Anyone who sees it will know what it is and that I would have posted it two weeks ago if I had my life together.

    I post the envelope. I can glimpse that the mailbox is full of characteristic green envelopes.

    I feel validated.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 10:02:28 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      @tom Just that eTax was a horrible Java applet back in 2010 and I haven't yet recovered. I'm sure the current eTax is just fine.

      Also, I forget less easily when I get paper mail. I get my utility bills on paper too.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 13:27:35 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      @tom I really like that style to be honest.
17. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 22:56:04 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    "hawk thua" is the canonical spelling now, but I think the more phonetic spelling for clearing your throat and spitting would be "hrrgh tweh".
18. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 11:19:19 EDT Michael Vogel
    "Fruchtsaft" am Wochenende
    pirati.ca/photo/14995312046676…
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 17:21:44 EDT Michael Vogel

      • Rainer "diasp​.org" Sokoll ✅
      Das ist "Aspiring Beam of Light" von Sudden Death. Das ist ein "Fruit Sour": suddendeathbrewing.de/produkt/…
19. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 16:24:24 EDT Brian Ó

    Taking shelter from the rain.

    #mantisfly #insect #nature #gardening #mywork
20. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 13:15:06 EDT Michael Vogel
    Brauerei in der Woche, Bierbar am Wochenende. Das Sudden Death in Lübeck ist beides.
    pirati.ca/photo/19984389946677…
    pirati.ca/photo/17690426046677…