Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

The real story behind all those UFOs the Air Force was shooting down last week is quite embarrassing.

I’m guessing someone at NORAD has now figured out why the sensitivity settings on the radar was turned down in the first place.

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf

MICROSOFT: Alright, our last browser was super slow, so this Edge has to represent speed

WORKER: How about we make the logo a snail shell?

MICROSOFT: Brilliant!

Hey, can y'all please CW examples of transphobia, e.g. screenshots of transphobic articles? My mental health is not great today and I'm guessing a lot of other trans people's isn't either.

If there is an un-CW'd post you want to boost:
1. Fucking don't
2a. Make your own CW'd post about it,
2b. Make a reply to the post with something like "CW: transphobia" and boost your own reply instead,
2c. Put the link to the post in a CW'd post of your own

This French city is introducing free transport

Montpellier in southern France is set to introduce free public transport. It will become the largest French metropolis to introduce such a scheme.

“By introducing free transport, we are bold in taking a great measure of social justice, of progress, which works for the ecological transition,” tweeted the mayor of Montpellier, Michaël Delafosse.

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2023/02/16/this-european-city-is-making-public-transport-free-for-citizens-from-december

#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #France #PublicTransport

Y'know how sometimes you'll cut into a bell pepper and inside that bell pepper is a bell pepper?
That's roughly the technology that makes seedless fruits work.
Except this seedless orange tastes like crap and was a hassle to peel, cuz there was a small orange in my orange!!

Look, I'm not saying anyone *should* throw a brick through the NYT's windows. It would obviously be morally wrong. But we should certainly be allowed to talk about it. Open debate is an important part of a free society!

What if everyone leaves one line for a new metal song in the replies then other people who do An Music make it into a song

ok brain, new day, let's go, useful thoughts

brain:
"#define printf(...) putchar('f')"
":)"

Medium article: "Coding won't exist in five years. This is why."

First paragraph: "once upon a time, in a world not too different from ours, handmade clothing was the norm."

Comrade. Friend. I really need to tell you that clothing is still hand made. We just exploit people in the global south to make tons of it cheaply.

nothing makes be believe in empty internet theory more than when I look for a solution for a particular problem I have, and the only real solution is a blog post by someone I know

(everyone from the top down does it, and anyone buying anything related to adtech needs to realise that they're wasting their money)

Nobody wanted to listen when I said "the blockchain is fucking stupid" and "self-driving cars will never work," so I expect nothing out of this, but:

LLM based "AI" is godawful and will never truly work and will harm people with its brokenness. You can just... not build it, and not use it, and the world will be a better place. You can do literally nothing and have a positive impact.

Got a hobby website? Webcomic? Knitting patterns? Blog? Recipe page? Any web-1.0 website that you've made yourself? I'll run a free ad for it on the formerly-world's-most-popular text adventure Improbable Island, no catch, still over a gigabyte of text served per day:
https://www.improbableisland.com/hobbysites.php

Context:
https://mstdn.social/@ifixcoinops/109639352494996644

Reminder that most models trying to "explain" autism or ADHD are actually explaining what's "wrong" or "different", from a neurotypical perspective.

They fail to explain what a neurodivergent brain actually is, and how it manifests itself.

#adhd #autism #autisme

I feel like a lot of the hype for "machines are conscious now" even by smart people is the wish to be part of something big that's not just the climate catastrophe and crumbling infrastructures. It's a weird kind of futurism.

remarkable to watch the curve of computing go from "it will do exactly, precisely what you ask of if" to "here's a few heuristics for less well-defined problems" to "self-driving is good enough, give us billions of dollars" to "we put autocomplete on our search engine to generate a whole fictional website about what you're looking for but we don't really know why"

did someone set the locale to unicode?

Seeking photo: Does anyone have a good photo of the National Library of Thailand, preferably inside (showing books) that they'd be willing for me to use on a blog post?