Mastodawn

🤖🎨 Oh wow, a #comic that declares #AI is turning us into identical drones! Because apparently, thinking we're all becoming #mindless #clones is the height of originality. 😴 If this is the pinnacle of creative insight, maybe AI should take a break and let humans reclaim the throne of #blandness. 🥱👑
https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/the-great-sameness-light-and-shade-digital-220925 #Drones #Creativity #HackerNews #ngated

The great sameness: a comic on how AI makes us more alike

Studies say that using generative AI flattens our collective creative individuality. But how does this happen? Comic artist Jordan Bolton shows us, so we might escape the same fate.

N-gated Hacker News Apr 9, 2025

In a bravely bland stride towards the bleeding edge of yesterday's #tech, #Google unveils Ironwood—because, you know, who needs creative #names when you can just pick a random tree? 🌲 Apparently, even Google's #AI couldn't infer that "more concise" and "add detail" are mutually exclusive suggestions. 🙄
https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/ironwood-tpu-age-of-inference/ #Ironwood #blandness #innovation #tree #HackerNews #ngated

Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference

We’re introducing Ironwood, our seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) designed to power the age of generative AI inference.

Google

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Kevin Karhan

Nov 7, 2024

@madomado I mean, I get it...

We all have used #Compiz and #Emerald and made "cube go spinny"...

Personally, I'm not against #EyeCandy... In fact I do like me some #unixporn, but I do think people are too used to the #blandness of #Windows and #macOS these days...

Computing doesn't have to suck, be boring or ugly...

Raymond Larabie Sep 28, 2023

In a symphony of rust and monotony, these corrugated structures stand, their mundane angles singing quiet odes to the ordinary. 🏚️🎶
さびと単調の交響曲の中で、これらの波板構造は立ち、そのありふれた角度が平凡な賛美歌を静かに歌っています。🎼🏠
#streetphotography #streetphotographyjapan #griiix #ricoh_gr #aichi #nagoya #japan #corrugated #monotony #mundane #ordinary #rust #symphony #blandness #boringness #angles #monochrome

dicewarebot Apr 24, 2021

#letsroll

⚀ ⚂ ⚃ ⚂ ⚄→#blimp
⚁ ⚀ ⚂ ⚄ ⚃→#creed
⚀ ⚂ ⚃ ⚀ ⚀→#blandness
⚄ ⚃ ⚀ ⚅ ⚄→#shortcake
⚁ ⚂ ⚁ ⚀ ⚄→#dexterity
⚅ ⚃ ⚂ ⚂ ⚂→#unneeded

blimp-creed-blandness-shortcake-dexterity-unneeded

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

dicewarebot Jan 21, 2021

#letsroll

⚀ ⚂ ⚃ ⚀ ⚀→#blandness
⚂ ⚁ ⚅ ⚃ ⚀→#greyhound
⚀ ⚂ ⚄ ⚃ ⚁→#bobtail
⚄ ⚂ ⚁ ⚀ ⚅→#scant
⚅ ⚄ ⚂ ⚁ ⚀→#urologist
⚀ ⚃ ⚅ ⚂ ⚄→#carat

blandness-greyhound-bobtail-scant-urologist-carat

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

dicewarebot Nov 12, 2020

#letsroll

⚀ ⚂ ⚃ ⚀ ⚀→#blandness
⚂ ⚄ ⚅ ⚅ ⚃→#legwork
⚂ ⚁ ⚃ ⚀ ⚁→#glutton
⚁ ⚁ ⚄ ⚁ ⚄→#delete
⚁ ⚀ ⚄ ⚃ ⚀→#cryptic
⚁ ⚅ ⚀ ⚄ ⚅→#exemplary

blandness-legwork-glutton-delete-cryptic-exemplary

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

dicewarebot Sep 23, 2020

#letsroll

⚁ ⚀ ⚅ ⚅ ⚃→#customize
⚀ ⚂ ⚃ ⚀ ⚀→#blandness
⚂ ⚄ ⚂ ⚅ ⚄→#kindling
⚂ ⚅ ⚀ ⚅ ⚁→#liking
⚄ ⚃ ⚄ ⚃ ⚃→#skintight
⚀ ⚃ ⚁ ⚃ ⚅→#brunch

customize-blandness-kindling-liking-skintight-brunch

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

dicewarebot Mar 24, 2020

#letsroll

⚅ ⚃ ⚄ ⚁ ⚄→#unshaved
⚂ ⚁ ⚂ ⚂ ⚄→#glisten
⚁ ⚃ ⚅ ⚃ ⚂→#elastic
⚅ ⚅ ⚀ ⚀ ⚁→#volley
⚀ ⚂ ⚃ ⚀ ⚀→#blandness
⚀ ⚂ ⚂ ⚀ ⚄→#barricade

unshaved-glisten-elastic-volley-blandness-barricade

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

dicewarebot Jan 29, 2020

#letsroll

⚂ ⚅ ⚅ ⚂ ⚁→#marigold
⚃ ⚁ ⚄ ⚀ ⚅→#opal
⚄ ⚅ ⚁ ⚁ ⚃→#starting
⚀ ⚂ ⚃ ⚀ ⚀→#blandness
⚀ ⚅ ⚅ ⚁ ⚂→#constant
⚅ ⚃ ⚂ ⚁ ⚃→#unmoved

marigold-opal-starting-blandness-constant-unmoved

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation