look at this random coolness I just found on mastodon.art:
https://mastodon.art/@pono/110854596268098045
mastodon.art is definitely my favorite server to just randomly browse
“I don’t LMAO. It’s just not what I do,” said Michael Messineo, a 27-year-old content creator who lives in Melbourne, Australia. “I associate LMAO with millennial humor."
where would we be without the Times styles section, I ask you
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/style/ijbol-lol-lmao.html
wild:
DARPA is soliciting designs for systems to capture the next Chinese spy balloon intact
via nostr:npub1cmehxcc75956jrd7t6p3dw3ma0zyn52afxxcz0jca5tm9qq60t2shaw4rh
One thing I did not appreciate about the whole China spy balloon fiasco is how far ahead China is in balloon technology.
Really.
nostr:npub1fkmhvlxt5l730ayvlx7m8er02rd62mp5zwy06psq3qx0ekkt6g2q50qhj4 oh yeah and she's in no way to blame for his behavior. maybe I want to rephrase that as: I'm personally surprised that she seems mostly OK with his nonsense
wild:
DARPA is soliciting designs for systems to capture the next Chinese spy balloon intact
via nostr:npub1cmehxcc75956jrd7t6p3dw3ma0zyn52afxxcz0jca5tm9qq60t2shaw4rh
nostr:npub1fkmhvlxt5l730ayvlx7m8er02rd62mp5zwy06psq3qx0ekkt6g2q50qhj4 it's weird that in all the takes I've read on "what's up with Musk" zero of them have been "also maybe Grimes is an enabler"
Grimes predicts the Musk v. Zuckerberg cage match will actually happen:
"Dudes need some outlet for trad masculinity. I told Sam Altman there should be a follow-up, him against Demis."
(context: Demis is head of AI at Google...)
nostr:npub1ajq6c35gnl2x6qy82s729ylkys0l57nyedr677lltuske6w52paqxqvnek So glad to hear it!
Zoom getting huge blowback for inarticulately mentioning the fact that your meetings could become chum for their AI algorithms (and then immediately walking it back / explaining themselves) shows just how freaked out those who are paying attention are about the privacy / value extraction implications of AI
calling it: the world's startups and press flacks have fully switched from "look at how my company is using blockchain / web3" to "look at how my company is using AI"
in the vast majority of cases, both are about as meaningful
watching the two billionaires taunt each other about a cage match that probably won't happen is just truly amazing, no one would believe this in a scripted show that wasn't satire
ours is truly the silliest timeline
nostr:npub1jlajptucu5r08pldegmncqhcdmf7cuspy375ghtaj3lumn9w86rspmzr22 nostr:npub12dd7hkdl94s2992t4my7fj8ug8vmt7hnduwznv2tm57jcetjr2zse8jscn brilliant in its simplicity, and the way you distill what we all suspect about spicy autocomplete when we use it. Plus the reference to LinkedIn’s auto responder was funny and relatable.
nostr:npub1mcu67rpj5w0waj753y70elgae47vrskumvvf684ult3ega84vm7swhrugk oh god, how I wish for this!
“Trying to solve a social problem with tech often only creates new social problems.“
nostr:npub1jlajptucu5r08pldegmncqhcdmf7cuspy375ghtaj3lumn9w86rspmzr22 in nostr:npub12dd7hkdl94s2992t4my7fj8ug8vmt7hnduwznv2tm57jcetjr2zse8jscn
on why AI crammed into every communications app you can name doesn’t actually accomplish anything
nostr:npub1sc08qgzm9x7chc83gl57l7nq76cxy23r9qt0w0yfxzrj59t3x2hsu8duc3 nostr:npub1vymleysve0lstktwfusketymkphluvevwpexwx8m6vw9p6gpp30qtpa8a2
we had the same problem when we blended two families.
Ford’s Transit Connect Passenger Wagon xlt turned out to be the no-frills, relatively svelte solution. We love ours. Same body as all the compact Ford box vans electricians and plumbers favor.
Later we discovered it had been designed in Europe, lol.