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#Ukraine pauses.

Will you join us in a minute of silence to honour the fallen heroes who gave everything for freedom?

Their sacrifice will never be forgotten.

Stand with Ukraine.🕯️

George Clooney is an actor.

Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.

Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.

This is a post about LLMs.

seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"

folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself

it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird

“Currently playing at #BelvoirStTheatre, A Mirror is set in an imaginary #authoritarian regime where the #MinistryOfCulture closely presides over the arts.

Written by British #playwright #SamHolcroft, the play seemingly begins with a wedding; however, it soon becomes clear the ceremony is a cover for an illicit performance of an unsanctioned play.

In a clever meta-fictional flex, the banned play in A Mirror is about a banned #play. The result, says Thanos, is an exploration of "#censorship, art and #whistleblowing".

#Arts / #Australia / #MargaretThanos / #STC <https://abc.net.au/news/2026-03-15/margaret-thanos-director-a-mirror-belvoir-the-river-stc/106431664>

Any journalists want to write an article about all the environmental costs of the more than 10,000 Starlinks that are now in orbit? All I'm seeing are breathless articles mindlessly worshiping That Awful Billionaire for crossing the 10,000 satellite mark.

Every single one of those will come down in an uncontrolled reentry. That's a lot of metal in the atmosphere, and a lot of dice-rolling to see if any more pieces will make it to the ground.

SpaceX is truly awful.

Sigh.

New boss: “You’re good at writing notes.”

Me: “Thank you, it helps me to remember so I have been writing summaries for many years.”

New boss: “You should try CoPilot and see what it can do.”

Me: “Well I enjoy summarizing my notes, and it helps me to learn and remember.”

New boss: “Let me show you something I did in CoPilot.”

Ugh. Writing it myself helps me LEARN and REMEMBER. Why are these AI zombies so intent on changing a process that is helpful to me? Feeding notes through CoPilot won’t benefit me when it’s the act of writing that works for me.