Do you experience significant sensory difficulties relating to clothes? Do you, despite that, consistently wear masks to protect yourself from COVID, which is still not over?
Share which #N95-or-better masks you've found to be comfortable for long-time wear. Pictures/links are a bonus.
#Deextinction is a BS scam and a distraction from real conservation work. It's the AI of biology. They are genetically modifying animals to superficially resemble extinct species while vaguely gesturing towards sci-fi ideas about finding/reconstructing entire genomes. We are nowhere near this stage, and it's doubtful we ever will. And guess what, that still wouldn't bring anything back, because living things are much more than their DNA on so many levels.
Voorronde 7 van de #groteKleinLeedVerkiezing. Is het klein leed? Ja. Op het moment zelf ook? Nou…
Wat is het KLEINSTE leed?
servo AI shit, other politics
it's frustrating to see that a big reason why at least one person at servo is begging them to unban AI tools is because they're worried about funding
as if any of the existing massive companies who care about AI give a solitary shit about servo
this is the same kinda "comply in advance" shit where companies have been bending over backwards to help trump and it has only hurt them more, and I hate to see people at servo wanting to do this
Ugh, Python got over 500 #GSoC applications this year and so many of them are absolutely trash, didn't follow any of the instructions. Most years about half of our applications are like this. But usually we have a lot fewer applicants and the submissions were blank files not plausible AI nonsense.
So I'm stuck reading hundreds of incredibly low quality nonsensical submissions today in hopes to take some workload off my other unpaid volunteer mentors. This is not the volunteer gig I signed up for 15 years ago when it was mostly working with new contributors and not their AI chatbots and I'm grumpy.
Well. With my magnum opus being effectively realized, NOW is finally the time to share it: images of my very own museum exhibition!!!
The name of the exhibition is „On distant worlds- how could aliens look like?“ and is located in the natural history Museum Niebüll, in northern Germany! The exhibition is on display from April to October this year!
Here is a thread.. >:3
Thats all! I have been working on Phtanum privately for over six years, and to have my work displayed in a natural history museum like this is still absolutely surreal to me. I overhauled the entire project for this exhibition- new groups of life, new weird features, and a crazier and more grounded biosphere than ever before. And thanks to all the wonderful fedi entities who supported me in one way or another as well <3
The Home Assistant wiki badly needs a section on how to properly apologise to your family members
I am so, so exhausted now. Did a second trip to Action today, bringing back a crapload of ground cover, so I was already tired by the time I got back, and then the vine removal... including removing the two 'base plants' which had developed roots with a diameter of like 8-10cm...
Completed! That's like, 3 years worth of vine backlog deleted. Now nice things can finally grow there, instead of just endless uncontrollable vine overgrowth!
I don't think I'll ever get over the attribution of "elevated sense of justice" as a "symptom" of autism. My sibling in science. This is not what you discovered. What you discovered is that "willingness to cheat when nobody is watching" or (perhaps, even) "virtue signaling" are symptoms of allism.
Autistic people have the sense of justice that allistic people claim to follow. Autistic people are more likely to actually behave ethically, regardless of whether anyone is watching or there is a social reward for it. This is not a weird foible with autists! This is a wild ethical breach by allists! Willingness to compromise on your stated ethical values is not "normal" regardless of how common it may be. Thats's weird! And troubling!
That's something worth looking into when it comes to allistic people. Leave autistic people with our propensity to simply believe and act accordingly out of your doublethink.
@joepie91 and Jevon’s paradox for energy!
food, capitalism
Supermarket croissants feel very illustrative for the state of food manufacturing; you can get them anywhere and their ingredients are of higher quality than ever in history, but they still taste like shit because letting it proof overnight and develop sufficient flavour is too expensive in a capitalist manufacturing environment, so instead they just add a bunch of sugar
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.