evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

It's ridiculous that I've got a 3D game on my site that happily runs at 120fps on normal mid-spec PCs/phones but there are news sites chugging away harder to show some text. Browsers have come so far but every improvement gets pissed away on ads & bad coding

You know the "repeat the previous text" trick to get initial chatbot prompts?

This variant sure makes it look like Bing Copilot GPT4 is leaking state between user sessions. I have never used copilot before.

OK, so someone just put Brass Against - Killing in the Name into my timeline and while it was playing my Friday dancers started doing this.

That's some dark magic going on there.

the first thing they tell you at the cyber academy is if anyone shows romantic interest in you they are a spy 😔

Have just discovered that it's now possible to buy a Covid booster in the UK.

Ignoring, for the moment, the issues in not providing them for more people via the NHS, I thought there might be others out there keen to take advantage who had also missed the news, so there's a summary of current situation here:

https://mastodon.richardloxley.com/@richardloxley/112179567279423742

Thanks to @ProfLouiseL for the initial heads up & @richardloxley for the summary.

#covid

🎵Peep peep
🎵That's the sound of parakeets

People trying to train AIs are now complaining that all of the AI data on the internet are making it hard for them to get quality training sets of natural language and images.

*bitter snickering*

I cannot wait until we come full-circle and someone builds a model to convert youtube videos into written articles

Twitter just doing a "redirect links in tweets that go to x.com to twitter.com instead but accidentally do so for all domains that end x.com like eg spacex.com going to spacetwitter.com" is not absolutely the funniest thing I could imagine but it's high up there

In case anyone outside the UK is wondering - yes, our media & govt really are that transphobic, and the views of extremist bigots are being gradually & carefully rubber-stamped as moderate & scientific, it's grim

(Are there complex and messy issues around the precise details of how certain aspects of gender identity should be handled? Yes, of course! But people like R*wling and Gl*nner fundamentally believe trans people don’t/shouldn't exist, a view that's being rapidly normalised)

I suddenly feel very self conscious and slightly judged

#sillyScribbles #photography #silly #drawing

@Melissabeartrix
This made me chuckle

In case it wasn't clear

This is kinda funny.

#eclipse2024 #eclipse #space #moon

This video from Corridor Crew is pretty amazing. They re-create the nearly perfect compositing from the penguin dance sequence in Mary Poppins, which was achieved using high intensity sodium vapor lights and a very custom beam splitter, instead of a blue or green screen. It truly feels like a lost art rediscovered. When the matted footage just perfectly drops in I gasped haha https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk

important eclipse safety tips:

- never look at an eclipse without eye protection
- ensure your eclipse glasses are ISO 12312-2 certified
- do not listen to the whispers of the faceless men who emerge during totality, they speak only lies
- always supervise children closely

- Do you think you're a suggestible person?

- Me? No, not really.

- Did someone mention to you that you might have been the sort of person to make Cerne Abbas Giant style pictures?

- Well, they might have...

- And did someone else mention the possibility of large chicken hill carvings?

- Well, maybe...

- Did you just search through your photos looking for an appropriate grassy slope for a giant chicken picture?

-

- Well?

- No comment.

#sillyScribbles #MyfanwyAndFriend #silly #drawing

"AI accidentally made me believe in the concept of a human soul by showing me what art looks like without it."

#AI

#earthquake #newyork #meme