Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

@aeva Mixbox has a nice paint simulation. https://scrtwpns.com/mixbox/painter/

[x] doubt

mind you, we still believe that it's a moral obligation to, at a bare minimum, bear witness to what happened.

it's just so frustrating how the foundation of consensus reality is denial. fighting against something like that is a lot.

Happy Sunday! Back at it with a lemur suggested by @horrowfide

Help please!

I have a distinct memory memory of a machine from my childhood, used in grocery stores around New England [probably primarily New Jersey or Connecticut.]

There was a machine that would tie together groceries instead of bagging them. It was placed over top or in place of the checkout belt [after the register] and used twine. It was fast and super cool and I remember being needlessly fascinated by it.

This would have been in the 90s.

Anyone have -any- clue what I'm talking about?

And I think this was part of this group too, here’s a caterpillar

Thank you so much everyone for the little guy suggestions! I'm going to keep working my way through the list this week. Here's the roundup so far:

why does the bird take the tube?

it is going to watford and it’s none of your business public transit is for everyone

"Meet the underpaid workers in Nairobi, Kenya, who power OpenAI"

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/30/meet-the-underpaid-workers-in-nairobi-kenya-who-power-openai/

unsolved problems in computer science:

breakfast

consider the following English words:

slut sly slush slaughter slums slur slit slow slap sloth slip slam slog slick slide slime sleazy slack sled

get the vibe? sl- is not a morpheme, not really. it doesn't *mean* a thing. but it conveys a certain sensation, a feeling of wet stickiness, and also frames that sensation as negative. linguists call this sound symbolism; English is particularly rich in it, sound sequences that suggest a feeling.

anyway what I am saying is, the collective wisdom that picked up "slop" to describe the output of "AI" dealt a very significant blow to the AI industry, on the force of this word choice alone. excellent noospheric self-defence

Whoever made that “Wikipedia-as-DNS” system was kind of cooking! Every time I visit a site, I already check Wikipedia to make sure the URI hasn’t changed…
#lang_en #wikipedia #dns

#BlackFriday.

Webnerds! Is there something like a codepen that doesn't suck? hopefully an app I can install, something without ADs or accounts, or support for 9000 different CSS frameworks or any of that crap

I just want a thingy, that makes it easy for me to prototype UIs using bare CSS, HTML and perhaaaaaps a little bit of JS

#webdev #web #dev

*mutes mastodon tab to stop the bleeping of notifications* "hmm, I wonder why all videos in my mastodon feed are silent must be some linux webm html5 nixos kernel pipewire incompability"

Apparently the Balatro dev put a clause saying "Never, ever let casinos make any kind of Balatro anything. NEVER make a gambling Balatro" into his will

And I know there's a lot of people who'll read that and think, "Oh that old nugget. I can't believe she's malding about some junk mail." But that's the fucking point? I'm over 40. I've seen some bullshit. And here I am spending 10 minutes getting increasingly excited about telling my partner about this as I'm looking for tricks how this paper wasn't legally lying to me about winning money, money that would really take a strain off, until I found the trick. The trick I knew had to be there. A trick they've been doing for at least a decade now, probably way longer. There are people who aren't able to look for those tricks, or who don't spot them. How many people make that call and give away their info, excited at the idea they won something other than landfill e-waste, only to be let down? They shouldn't be thrown to the wolves! This shouldn't be okay! Fuck the people that not only come up with this grift, but also the people so uncreative they recycle it whole cloth! I haven't even gotten to the part yet where they reveal the prestige, and I already feel like shit because I foolishly believed for a moment something nice was unexpectedly happening. The silver lining gave me mercury poisoning.