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Now I'm almost curious to see what an AI generated breakfast burrito would look like. Just not curious enough to open an acct to find out.
@chu @StefanEJones I’m not an AI fan, but I have to use it for my job, and the models these days are fairly good. You’d have to instruct it to produce something gross like that.
Using the alt text from the original post (sans the gross part), here’s an AI-generated image:
Grant deadlines are stressful enough without the nightmare of manual data entry. 🛑⏱️
Major national funding agencies integrate directly with #ORCID. Instead of re-typing years of publications and affiliations, one click lets the funding portal pull your verified history automatically.
🎥 📄 Watch the video to learn what your ORCID record can do for you and read about how Dr. Sofia saves hours on proposals: https://info.orcid.org/a-day-in-the-life-of-orcid-data/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZvFGLe7bg
This photo was classified as “adult content” on Bluesky, let’s see what happens here
@thomasfuchs can understand it - those socks shouldn’t be seen by children! ;)
@cubilotto appunto, "faceva" 😂
@informapirata @cubilotto @lavoro doveva licenziarne 901 ma si era inspiegabilmente fermato, e allora...
and then you get wild statements like that doofus Tristan Harris saying authoritatively that "no one opposed the bicycle when it was invented"
heavy sighing
https://daily.jstor.org/the-moral-threat-of-bicycles-in-the-1890s/
Well, crap.
I hit a wallaby shortly after leaving the observatory. It bolted out of the scrub on the right side of the road, I saw it straight away and slammed on the brakes but on wet road there was no way I could stop in time and I had nowhere to swerve either. It died... but not instantly. Horrible. The rental car was damaged, but fortunately still drivable.
The wet gloomy weather was bringing out all the animals that are normally hidden away in the middle of the day. Later I had a near miss with a turtle, and an uncomfortably close encounter with a wombat, all before reaching my first rest stop in Merriwa. The rain continued non-stop all the way to Kurri Kurri, making for a very stressful drive. The usual wet weather driving stuff, plus rampant anxiety about normally crepuscular animals poised to leap out from behind every bush.
This is only the second time I've inadvertently killed an animal with a car. The previous time was also driving back to Sydney from Siding Spring Observatory, also in a rental car, near the M1 end of the Hunter Expressway quite late at night. That was bad, but in a way slightly less distressing as I didn't see the kangaroo after the impact. It got flung away into the darkness and I opted not to go walking down the road to find it while cars were flying past at 110+ kph.
The car on that occasion was hired from the same place. I wonder if they're going to realise that this is the second time I've returned one of their cars with macropod induced damage to the front end? I expect to get a not fun phone call from them when they open up at 8 am tomorrow.
@spacelizard oh no
It's been a tough few years for MacStories.
An explanation of why we resumed posting on X, and what comes next:
@viticci Hey - thanks for the apology… I'm still pretty disappointed with this move, after y'all wrote before how you quit Twitter and Threads out of principle, and now you come back, and pay for a premium account, even though nothing changed there… but I understand that running a business is hard.
Claude Code (bear with me) has all these dumb little gewgaws & animations & "sorta slick, sorta annoying" TUI behaviors – none of this shit is germane to its use case.
However! The overall effect seems precisely like the AV presentation of casino games - their barrage of flashing lights, noises, and music. It tickles your lizard hindbrain, a constant pitter-patter of dopamine hits.
Those are literally designed to be attention-grabbing, focus-keeping & habit-forming, by (evil) psychologists. One imagines the same is true with chatbot UIs.
(Thoughts brought to you by my daily "what inane, mostly metatextual questions can I ask Claude Code so I don't get fired for zero usage statistics" meditation. Today's has been investigating if you can turn any of this shit off. Answer: of course not.)
FDA RECALL
Brand: Lindt & Sprüngli
Product: LINDOR chocolate truffles
Issue: Undeclared demon core
Date: 08/21/2026
@catsalad
You can't fool me!
That's NOT a candy.
That's the Demon Core.
And it's been at least a few months since I saw a post here about the Demon Core, so, thanx!
In @davidgerard 's Pivot To AI
Tante said a something I bet at least half of you mastodon users will appreciate:
"US Politics is the smog of the internet, you have to breath it in whether you want to or not"
And he then also pointed out that in Germany, many people are far more aware of what's going on with USA politics than the German politics that they do have some influence over.
if someone could make a curve tracer suitable for diodes and MOSFETs and sell it on crowdsupply or something that'd be great
@gsuberland I do not need yet another project. I do not need yet another project. I do not need yet another project. I do not need yet another project. I do not…
80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful https://zdnet.com/article/80-of-developers-find-ai-coding-more-addictive-than-helpful/ via @ZDNet & @sjvn
A new Coddy Developer Survey found that four in five developers, 80%, say their use of #AI has felt more like a dependence than an advantage.
Récupérer des noyaux et faire naître un verger urbain : près de Montpellier, une expérience d’écologie populaire qui porte ses fruits https://vert.eco/agriculture/recuperer-des-noyaux-et-faire-naitre-un-verger-urbain-pres-de-montpellier-une-experience-decologie-populaire-qui-porte-ses-fruits/
StreetComplete includes a useful link to "Weekly OSM".
not sure who curates this page but i always find it interesting hearing what people are doing. keep up the good work
#openstreetmap #osm #weeklyosm
@Shobeck Yes, @weeklyOSM does a great job! :)
@jpm ugh just copy the typical applications pic, or the first hit on google
/s
@ozeng okay but I’ll need a 2A LDO to bring the 5V down to 3.3V…
My favorite portion of the How Did You Contribute page is the collection of "earned" flags at the bottom. It's a bit hard to tell what you're still needing so now we have OSM Vexillophile!
Open each region in a common editor or (if you need ideas about what to do) links out to MapRoulette, Osmose, or HOT tasking manager.
Explore the world a bit more and happy mapping!
@watmildon Haha, that's so cool! :D
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