Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Does anyone know a place in the Netherlands or Flanders that me, my partner, and cat can stay for a couple months from late april/early may as we try to get out of the kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare we have found ourselves in? Limburg or nearby preferred but if it's like a house sitting thing we'd probably go anywhere

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Hey. Yeah, you, hey: if you are not currently sick or disabled, one day you will be, and you will wish you lived in a world that had the resources and culture to make your life as full and thriving and happy as anyone else's. You will want that world, and you can start helping make it, right now.

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Did you know that you can customize the css on Wikipedia? You are even allowed to change the logo to your favorite submission to the official 2003 Wikipedia logo contest if your heart so desires (mine did)

one of the libraries underpinning the Linux graphics ecosystem is called the GNU is Not Unix Image Manipulation Program Tool Kit. It is primarily used by GNU is Not Unix Network Object Model Environment. GTK's primary competitor (qt) was created by a company called Trolltech, and qt is the primary library of the Kool Desktop Environment.

All of these bind to the X window system, which is named that way because it's the successor to the W window system, which was the window system of the V operating system. It is currently being succeeded by a window system named after a town in Massachusetts.

This applies to all current publicly available AI generators, not just those producing images.

Imagine if all the collective money spent of “self driving cars” had been spent on public transport.

As in, not cars - which are ultimately bad solutions for most of the world - but punctual and pervasive clean-energy public trams, trains, and buses.

It’d have cost less and been far more useful for far more people. Including non-drivers. And actually be here. Today. Working.

@NicoleCRust "Academic power structures as they currently stand are toxic - as evidenced by the outcomes" - Kay Tye

As relatively junior scientists, some of us have talked about academic toxicity in the past only to be harassed, silenced, ignored, or forced to leave. I'm glad that someone in a position of power acknowledged the toxicity. I hope that the toxic hierarchy collapses sooner than later.

Us choosing a cooperative form of governance at neuromatch.social, instead of a typical top-down hierarchy, is our attempt of trying a different power structure. I hope that we see more of such experiments permeate throughout academia.

hey anyone around here have a CPU with more than 32 cores

I feel like the gameplay teams behind most AAA open world games don't have a good handle on why walking around in nature is intrinsically enjoyable in real life

Pro tip: Every time you see the word “inflation” in the news, just replace it with “record-breaking corporate profits”.
#CorporateGreed #notInflation

there is no sign that says "you must be this androgynous" to be nonbinary. you can be nonbinary right now, as you are.

We gotta bring back the word "whelmed" for when you're not quite overwhelmed but also you've got enough going on that you don't really know what to do with yourself and yet you're still managing even if just barely.

So I know you’ve all seen that “tired Oompa-Loompa” photo from that #WillysChocolateExperience disaster. Please know that there is a human being behind that meme, and she is not enjoying the attention.

These are actors, and they showed up for a job. They got screwed along with the ticket-buyers.

https://www.tiktok.com/@kirstypaterson3/video/7340997397910211873