The hottest 21 days ever recorded on Earth were the last 21 days.
There are climate scientists saying that this summer will be the coolest summer of the rest of our lives. It won’t get cooler.
They can say that with confidence because Earth’s energy imbalance–the difference between how much energy comes in versus how much is radiated back to space–has been positive since around 2010. Prior to that, the balance would shift negative sometimes, so Earth would radiate a bunch of energy back into space. Not anymore. Earth is an energy sponge now. And net positive incoming energy means temperatures go up.
Climate disaster has been here for awhile, but it’s kicking into high gear now. This will not change until we take drastic action.
A house is a machine for living in
@prx@si3t.ch I like this idea but usually I am living in a terminal or Emacs.
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I've seen BlueSky referred to as BS (as in Blue Sky, but you know...), which seems apt.
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Do they legitimately believe that end users will encounter videos of gruesome murders, live streams of school shootings, etc etc etc, and be like “oh, tee hee hee, that’s not what I want to see! I’d better block that!” and go about their business as usual?
No, they can’t possibly be that foolish. They are going to be doing some amount of content moderation. Just not of Nazis, fascists, or far right reactionaries. Which to me means they want that content on there.
There is a “right” way to make something like GitHub CoPilot, but Microsoft did not choose that way. They chose one of the most exploitative options available to them. For that reason, I hope they face significant consequences, though I doubt they will in the current climate. I also hope that CoPilot is shut down, though I’m pretty certain it will not be.
Other than access to the data behind it, Microsoft has nothing special that allows it to create something like CoPilot. The technology behind it has been around for at least a decade. There could be a “public” version of this same tool made by a cooperating group of people volunteering, “leasing”, or selling their source code into it. There could likewise be an ethically-created corporate version. Such a thing would give individual developers or organizations the choice to include their code in the tool, possibly for a fee if that’s something they want or require. The creators of the tool would have to acknowledge that they have suppliers–the people who create the code that makes their tool possible–instead of simply stealing what they need and pretending that’s fine.
This era we’re living through, with large companies stomping over all laws and regulations, blatantly stealing other people’s work for their own profit, cannot come to an end soon enough. It is destroying innovation, and we all suffer for that. Having one nifty tool like CoPilot that gives a bit of convenience is nowhere near worth the tremendous loss that Microsoft’s actions in this instace are creating for everyone.
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a concept sketch of a full body end-time factory worker on a distant planet, cyberpunk light brown suite, (badass), looking up at the viewer, 2d, line drawing, (pencil sketch:0.3), (caricature:0.2), watercolor city sketch,
Negative prompt: EasyNegativ, bad-hands-5, 3d, photo, naked, sexy, disproportionate, ugly
Steps: 20, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 2479087078, Face restoration: GFPGAN, Size: 512x768, Model hash: 2ee2a2bf90, Model: mimic_v10, Denoising strength: 0.7, Hires upscale: 1.5, Hires upscaler: Latent
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@carsten@yarn.zn80.net Animals have inner lives. Computers do not.
Are you really so desperate to make this point thst you’re citing Quora??? Believe what you want to believe.
Entwives
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#event Upcomming Meetup in Copennhagen: algolab(the_art_of_live_coding) @ Støberiet / Computer Klub
#live #music idea: revived devices used as instruments, #sound coming from their own speakers. #livecoding #permacomputing #666cpu #uxn
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Good to know, specially if you live in Florida.
🤔 👋 Reconsidering moving Yarn.social’s development back to Github: Speaking of which (I do not forget); @fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com and I were discussing over a video call two nights ago, as well as @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org who joined a bit later, about the the whole moved of all of my projects and their source code off of Github. Whilst some folks do understand and appreciate my utter disgust over what Microsoft and Copilot did by blatantly scraping open source software’s codebases without even so much as any attempt at attribution or respecting the licenes of many (if not all?) open source projects.
That being said however, @fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com makes a very good and valid argument for putting Yarn.social’s codebases, repositories and issues back on Github for reasons that make me “torn” over my own sense of morality and ethics.
But I can live with this as long as I continue to run and operate my new (yet to be off the ground) company “Self Hosted Pty Ltd” and where it operates it’s own code hosting, servicesa, tools, etc.
Plese comment here on your thoughts. Let us decide togetehr 🤗
We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American President has been silenced.
LOL! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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LOL. Some days I feel like Forrest Gump, wanting to mow just for fun. Others is a chore. The other are way more frequent than the some. LOL.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org
Not anymore 😭. I still have a self-propelled one, and electric, which is very nice. But when you live under an almost constant 32-35℃, with super high humidity, you cease liking working outside pretty quick.
Apple Store online down before today’s event. Less than two hours till it goes live!
The features that macOS Monterey will bring, albeit minor, will made for a better “quality of living”. I am looking forward to Notes, and the iCloud+ integration (Private Relay, Hide My Email). It also bring macOS cohesively close to iOS. My work 2015 iMac and M1 Mini will get it, so looking forward to it!
@adi@f.adi.onl Oh boy… we don’t want to go down that route. There is plenty to know about the Taliban, not just from the news but from people who lived—and still lives—under their “governance”; all of which is, I am afraid, much more accurate than your highschool girlfriend story telling.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Are they your goats? They look so cute, and clean, almost unreal! Where I live it is an eternal sunshine, it might fool you into believing it is paradise, until you steam, toast, and burn. 🤣
#event Tomorrow, Saturday October 2nd, I’m gonna be hosting a workshop at Processing Community Day CPH about Live Coding Visuals in Improviz. Only 5 spots left, so sign up now at: https://pcdcph.com
re: post-capitalism living standards gemini://sunshinegardens.org/~xj9/posts/2021-08-23-post-capitalism-living-standards/
“The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines,” Leto said. “Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed.”
Why do I keep writing simple English words like change or chance and save or safe, and live or life wrong?
#event Upcoming Workshop / algolab: Music and Live Coding @ CPH Music Maker Space / facebook event
#event Upcoming Workshop / algolab: Visuals and Live Coding @ CPH Music Maker Space / facebook event
For a blissful month we had our own strawberry garden, now I know what fruitflies live on in the wild.
focus on the smallest scale. the place where you can make a dream manifest. any dream at all, and live it.
I like how it’s a widely acknowledged fact that we live in a country where you can get extrajudicially imprisoned in black sites or executed by a secret police (the CIA/FBI) and people just accept this and make jokes about it
This Memorial Day Weekend remember the lives lost, the genocides waged, and the destruction of land the United States of America and Canada have caused in the name of European expansion, imperialism and colonization. The precious military you pretend to care for is the reason for the deaths and genocides of native people. The destruction of language in the name of racism, and the silent murder of so many native people, and the theft of land that the native people lived on. European settlers are the cause of the destruction of the climate, without the industrial revolution the Americas might have been saved to exist away from the destruction Europeans loved causing in the name of greed and wealth and power. Were the natives perfect? Doesn’t fucking matter, it’s their land regardless. This weekend, let me remind you that Canada, and the United States of America should be dissolved, and the land returned to the rightful people; namely the native and indigenous people and Mexico. That’s right Texas, y’all pussies are on stolen Mexican land so how about you get off THEIR LAND. Everything has come full circle, and there’s no stopping the world from continuing to find the literal skeletons in the closets of the United States, Canada, Britain, and France.
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The keys that have some use would be nick, url/feedurl, avatar, lang
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@prologic@twtxt.net @darch@twtxt.net Like with many things that live in a diaspora there will be many names for about the same thing. Just look at e-mail headers!
creating an off-grid culture that can live in harmony with nature, as a bit
Live long and prosper 🖖