evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

The stages of playing with GPT-3:

- OMG this can do anything
- There goes my job
- I should start a business around this
- Some of the responses aren’t too good
- Actually, some of these responses are just awful
- This isn’t really intelligence
- This is just spicy autocomplete

(as was forwarded to me w/no attribution)

On maps of Ikea, slime mould ‘found the exit, more efficiently than the scientists who set the task’

#LRB

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n10/francis-gooding/from-its-myriad-tips

🌈💀

I'm pretty sure Mastodon is the first social network I've been on that didn't immediately ask me to betray all of the people in my address book.

I am going to be stripping out my print store and trying a different approach. If you want any of the existing signed pictures, order them now. 20% off A4 and 8x6s. When those designs are gone they're gone. www.happytoast.co.uk

Oh god I redid the math on re-entries:

Each Starlink v2 sat weighs 1250kg. They plan to have 42,000 of them in orbit.

Each satellite has a planned lifetime of 5 years. That means they'll be de-orbiting and replacing ALL of them every 5 years.

That comes to 23 sats per day, which is 29 TONS OF SATELLITE every day.

It doesn't go away, it gets added to the upper atmosphere. Most of the mass is aluminum. What the hell is that going to do?

WHY THE FUCK IS THIS OK?!

Having fun on Twitter unpicking a curious thing that happened to me this morning. Someone reached me on Signal thinking I was ChatGPT. Turned out it had given them my number.

Twitter is down like a kid crossing the street in front of a Tesla

hieronymus bob

I love how something as simple as adding a single eye can change a photo.

I mean, this is SUCH a cutie.

I want to find it sucking the life juice out of all my plants.

#nature #photography #creature #silly #plants

It's Valentine's Day and Patch Tuesday, so the chance I'm getting screwed is 100%.

Roses are red,
Your passport is blue.
Now stand over there,
In that very long queue.

This meme has been rattling around in my head for at least a year and I only just now finally bothered to write it down

(click to expand, it has the full 5 panels)

u have to be very quiet when hacking so the coputer doesn't hear you. thats why its called ssh

Ah, the joy of text localisation.

In this context, Microsoft, it is a zip file, not a postcode file, even though I'm in the UK :)

Mario has set unrealistic vertical leap expectations for plumbers.

Ok, so Madison Violet are all of the good. Like: they make you laugh, make you sad. Top musicianship and harmonies. Go see them.