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Me: We have too many #LEGOs. I can barely walk without stepping on something.

Also me: Ooh, helicopter.

Kid is learning #Chinese at school. My own ability to read Chinese is pretty terrible. Any recommendations on apps that can help me out here?

Google Translate / Lens will translate this into English, but will then read this in English rather than the original Chinese. It's also regularly tripped up by the Taiwanese phonetic helpers on the right (which would be helpful to me if I could remember them).

Happy New Year! In honor of Mickie Mouse entering the #publicDomain, I give you Steampunk Willie and his 3D reboot, created using a latent diffusion model trained on images that aren't in the public domain and may or may not be fair use.
Looks like #Meta / #MetaAI spent a bit more time thinking about #diversity and inclusion than some of its competitors at launch.
It’s summer and that means disturbing swim advisories. Here’s our top 5

Behold the most nauseating and mesmerizing swim advisories floating around.

Ars Technica

"Why don't you trust #Tesla's full self driving?"

Eh, well, reasons.

I left some starchy #pasta water in the pan for a few hours and got this. Can any #science people ELI5 why this happens?
Nailed it. #clay
Today, the child was disappointed to learn that this bag is about 80% yellow/orange goldfish.

Me, a JavaScript programmer: Trying to write a shell script

Bash: