Nice little nerdy computer with sensible-looking spec & low price https://tulip.computer
@JennyList big internet hugs
If any Twitch streamers want something silly & Olympics-related: play Janey Thomson's Marathon & spend a couple of hours running a whole marathon https://mattround.com/flash/
#mastodon social removed a post today.
It was a map showing the drastic shrinking of Palestinian territory since 1946.
I challenged it - and mastodon social agreed they were in error.
It seems some bad actor is going around taking down anything that highlights Israel's crimes - 75 years of crimes.
To that bad actor I say -- "The world is waking up to what Israel is, you can't stop that."
Here's the map again because the post was not restored.
#freepalestine, #BDS end the #genocide
This is hilariously bad peak bubble bullshit marketing. The value proposition of this product is apparently you don't have any human friends so you want inane LLM babble at the press of a button to convey the impression of a "friend" interacting with you.
It's like a Furby without the fur.
People: AI is destroying our environment.
Tech bro: This is an incredible opportunity for innovation in green tech energy!
People: There's no such thing as green tech energy. It all pollutes. It's just a matter of scale
Tech bro: The more energy and water AI consumes the greater the opportunities for tech innovation in energy and water conservation
People: You're not making any sense.
Tech bro: AI is the future. You can't stop progress. Innovation is key to everything.
People: Are you AI?
It's FRIIIIIIDAAAAAAY! As ever have a good weekend, if you possibly can. Whoop whoop!
RIP John Mayall
For those of over 60 John Mayall was one of the ways we discovered the blues (and its interaction with Jazz) in the 1960s/70s.... a fabulous advocate for the blues whose (often) mixed-race bands were a lesson in recognising your influences.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/23/john-mayall-blues-dies
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.