Goo Truther @thufie@pixie.town

I wonder how many hours I've had to waste obtaining scientific articles rather than being able to just click directly to the pdf so I can do science. Having to do university SSO/vpn/fifteen clicks to the actual damn pdf. Or discovering we don't have it, writing to the author or a colleague to ask for a copy. I wonder how much researcher time has been wasted globally on this. I wonder how much research time sci-hub has saved, the economic value of that time. I bet it's A LOT.

You know how in the early 1900s, radium was discovered and people started putting it into a bunch of random products that were marketed as having any number of magical or healing properties because "ooooo cool it glows" and because radioactivity was such a new concept that no one understood the danger? Or how asbestos was used in like, everything for a while?

This is what generative AI is like, but for the service economy. Future generations are going to treat this shit like toxic waste.

I missed #Caturday, and I’m too early for #TortieTuesday, so here’s the baby just as one of the #CatsOfMastodon

🎵 When someone asks "I don't know how to make music, what's a good beginner tool", people often recommend Bosca Ceoil, and that's a great suggestion!

Make sure to use Bosca Ceoil Blue, which works on desktop and on web, and has a ton of QoL features! It's free:

https://yurisizov.itch.io/boscaceoil-blue

It's made with Godot and it's FOSS too, so you can look at its internals all day long. It also comes with a software synthesizer, a GDExtension that everyone can use, which is also FOSS.

#gamedev #music #foss

Our neighborhood has a situation where a man was taken by ICE and left about 20 cats in need of care. If you're local to the Twin Cities, able to foster, AND have a separate space 1 or more cats could stay away from your resident pets, please comment below! #Minneapolis

THE SINGULARITY IS HERE!

[YTP] Lil Zucc - Meta Verse

YouTube link:
https://youtu.be/3Bq62TPh59A

PeerTube link:
https://bark.video/w/8vRcWYGLDyeBBT9CifPEsM

I put a lot of work into manually making the English captions, so if you have trouble with un-captioned YouTubePoops, don't worry!

Foxxo made a big haul

It is always morally correct to pirate Microsoft software - including Minecraft. ​​

So... this article on the Register, about (supposedly) indistry insiders seeking to poison LLMs came accross my timeline, and oh my, do I have Opinions.

Strap in for a short !

i support marxism-leninism not because i *don't* think the USSR devolved into stalinist bureaucracy in the 30s (it did) but because if i try really hard maybe i can be a really inportant bureaucrat next time

Spending #caturday helping out with an adoption event for the rescue. 💙