@TechConnectify It appears that our relationship has hit a boiling point /j
Cool vid, now recommending heat pump water heaters to the world
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@jenniferplusplus wew great stuff!
@flavigula This is my translation of the missing passage:
"When I'm looking at the snow, I somehow always think of sleep"
"... sleep?" After a brief silence, he repeated just that little word.
"Yes, odd, isn't it?"
"No, not at all," he said.
"It's not a very deep and complicated thought, just something plain and common. A thought that looks like a piece of half-eaten shortcake that someone left in the kitchen."
"..."
I put the funnel to my ear but no reply came, so I moved it again to my mouth.
"I put the shortcake in front of me and consider. Shall I eat it? Shall I throw it in the bin? Shall I feed it to the dog? When I'm looking at the snow, the image of me pondering like that in the kitchen floats up in my mind, suddenly and without any logical reason. The cake is of course completely covered in snow-white whipped cream. After staring fixedly at the snow for a while, before I realise it, the thought of shortcake has changed into the thought of sleep. That _is_ odd, isn't it?"
"It's not that odd, you know. That's what's called the workings of the mind. No matter how riddled with holes your mind is, you can still imagine things, can't you?"
"Crumbs of the spongecake, grains of powder sugar, the fork sticky with cream and all, gradually turn into a sleep-like dining table. I don't mean it's making me sleepy. It's the outline of sleep coming into existence. I'm still pondering: shall I take the sleep and put it in my mouth? Shall I throw it in the bin? Feed it to the dog?"
"So, what do you do then?"
"I don't know. I'm just pondering. I feel like I want to touch the cake and swallow it and go on somewhere deep into sleep, but I am also afraid because I think there might be no return from that place. The only thing I am certain of is that there is a leftover, half-eaten piece of shortcake beyond the snow."
That's brilliant. Thank you. It must have either been oversight or that there was some constriction or word limit on the translation.
Alex Akselrod
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The statement from Canadian Prime Minister 🇨🇦 Mark Carney
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/21/statement-prime-minister-carney-canada-us-trade-negotiations
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La déclaration du Premier ministre du Canada 🇨🇦 Mark Carney
#Canada #CANpoli #CDNpoli #USA #UnitedStates #ÉtatsUnis #USpol
Lunches for next week is shrimp, gnocchi, and broccoli in pesto
Not feeling anything in particular for dinner but should try to make life easy for myself with main job starting up again.
Might do pizza tomorrow and then a giant pot of pasta for sunday-tues...?
Actually I'm in the mood for tacos and similar so. Guess I'll try making some tofu quesadillas....?
Cory Doctorow
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I wish more Americans thought about the world in terms of luck rather than merit. I expect we’d have to become an entirely different people. 🤞
@pixelsfr
Je le répète : Facebook, Instagram, TikTok ou X ne sont *PAS* des réseaux sociaux.
Ce sont des *MÉDIAS* sociaux: Ils ont un algorithme qui fait un choix éditorial de vous présenter des choses auxquelles vous n'êtes pas abonnés. Et ils sont tous là pour gagner énormément de fric en vendant votre attention. C'est ÇA, la source de la toxicité: L'économie de l'attention.
@sebsauvage ce sont des organismes caritatifs ou plein de bénévoles offrent leurs donnés personnels et leurs temps, en échanges ils ont la satisfactions de savoir que leurs contacts tout comme eux ont désormais un accès limités à ces données offertes insupprimable.
Excuse me nectarine tree, you do realise it’s still winter yeah?
@jpm I thought the same thing
I guess they're going to take the bourbon back off the shelves. #ElbowsUp #ElbowsWayUp
@evan They put it back on the shelves?
'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_
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My thoughts follow interconnected threads. Please don't break the thread because I have no fucking idea where I put it. 😭
tools for commensality 🧿
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😪 unfortunately better than accepting a deal that fucks us, but I think our life is going to continue to get worse. Thanks, America
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-us-tariffs-trump-imposes-new-50-per-cent-levy-on-canadian-goods-august-22-9.7311417
Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
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Excuse me nectarine tree, you do realise it’s still winter yeah?
halcy :icosahedron:
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rough phone recording of the drone show at @evoke 2026 - our entry 'the creature is in the sky' runs from 3:50 to 6:00 !
particle sim created in geometry nodes, very happy to infodump about collision avoidance if you find us at the party ;p
the official video couldn't be streamed for tech reasons but will share it once it's released!
@latte <a><strong>Link</a></strong> send toot
@chriskirknielsen @latte hello 911? I would like to report a murder.
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tools for commensality 🧿
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Well, well, well, I KNEW that the hounding of Arday was gonna get connected back to the TESCREAL bozos somehow. See this "paper" by the guy who hired Cofnas at Ghent University.
Reminder "dysgenic" is the opposite of "eugenic," they mean Black people and other undesirables reproducing too much.
Reminder, the L in TESCREAL is for "longtermism."
Read more at https://dair-institute.org/projects/tescreal/
These are also the people pushing generative AI down your throats.
tools for commensality 🧿
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@timnitGebru
the grant Ghent gave him to supplement his (prestigious) ERC Starter Grant on loneliness, with which he hired Cofnas: https://research.ugent.be/web/result/project/2d10a669-1427-11ee-a391-81a6d079669c/details/en
the report Ghent professors compiled to protest and show evidence of Cofnas' unsuitability and shoddy scholarship when he was hired has also been released (apparently, and an English translation, with a dropbox link going round)
Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
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US is set to impose 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/canada-us-trade-tariffs-trump-857ef76b20a766e370d70176135b678e
http://www.memeorandum.com/260822/p1#a260822p1
