Yalc

@Yalc321
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Tech Consultant by day.
Tired by night.
Omnicrafter
Crafting and dog pics on my Instagram: Yalc321
New DB craft who dis?

Senate Republicans blocked legislation establishing a binding code of ethics and stricter recusal requirements for Supreme Court justices.

A day later we learned that Clarence Thomas received even more free vacations from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.

You can't make this stuff up.

Crafters, prepare your pitches! Submissions for the Desert Bus for Hope 2024 Craftalong will be opening tomorrow, May 6th.
@ihorner You've got 12 weeb clan coasters and a wall sign coming your way along with Cori's wooden moveable type and @UnarmedOracle 's updated tarot box...in the next week or so... I've been terrible at self imposed deadlines these past few months

It's kinda depressing how tumblr is imploding now and I'm seeing half my follow list go "man, after seeing both twitter and tumblr do this, it's really showing how it's a bad idea for a social media network to be run by a company who can make arbitrary changes without user consent.

anyway, here's my bsky: ..."

Boo tokens are sold out or very expensive, so I decided to make my own. #magicthegathering
Painting progress from tonight's stream. I really like the contrast the green background is providing.

McGill: Microsoft says server farms are destroying the planet, so we're limiting the institutional cloud disk space we're giving you to 20 GB only

CIHR: You're still required to keep all your original data sets for all your research until 5 years after the end of the grant though

Me: If you and Microsoft want to actually do something about the planet, maybe pull the plug on OpenAI instead

McGill: If you have questions about the new policy read the email again good luck bye!

This isn't a joke

Microsoft instituted a new policy limiting academic accounts to 20 GB only

FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REASONS

McGill has no internal, local research data storage service because they went all-in on Microsoft services

And yes, CIHR requires that researchers hold on to original research data for 5 years after a grant ends

Meanwhile Microsoft is boiling the fucking oceans with its AI bullshit

Hypothesis: queers make up roughly or more than 50% of the active people on Fedi.

Boost for science!

You are:

queer
40.5%
not queer
59.5%
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