evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Hi blog writers: You don’t have to attach a unique image to every blog post, and you *certainly* don’t need to use #AI to generate an image for every blog post. You may think AI-generated images make your posts more attractive, but you are mistaken; they are doing the opposite: they make your posts more *repulsive* to a good number of potential readers. If I see an AI-generated image in the preview, I won’t click through to read your post, I won’t boost the post that mentions your post, and I certainly won’t read the rest of your blog.

Edit: I cataloged some places that offer free images you can use instead: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/117177553434931602

So @robinince wrote about @emf in the Big Issue and gave us a new tagline. #emfcamp

Quoth the Raven, "Be careful with that cable, it's carrying 48 volts"

-- Edgar Allan PoE

Is anyone running a matchmaking service to pair recently-retired programmers with open source projects that need maintainers?

GitHub programmer ports playable Doom to DSLR camera with 3-inch TFT LCD display — Canon EOS 550D with open-source Magic Lantern firmware uses camera's button as controls, even plays sound

A developer posted their Doom port for the Canon EOS 550D on GitHub. The game uses the Magic Lantern firmware add-on to run on the camera, and uses various camera buttons to play the game directly from the SD card.
#hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/github-programmer-ports-doom-to-dslr-camera-with-3-inch-tft-lcd-display-canon-eos-550d-with-open-source-magic-lantern-firmware-uses-cameras-button-as-controls-even-plays-sound

Apparently almost nobody got this pun. Perhaps it was too subtle.

Moving from the right of the origin to the origin simplifies the x position, as well as simplifying the exposition.

See you tomorrow morning in the Corgi Cafe in San Francisco 9 to 11 for a "Help me fix this" meetup.
https://luma.com/weared-zzo9

Jeebus this entire piece is a phenomenal piece of writing.

Just a reminder that AI detectors don't work. You don't fix one broken machine with another.

I am shocked. Nobody could have seen it coming. Nobody, I tell you!
https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai

> As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

Oh, the humanities!

#AI