David O'Brien

@iamdavidobrien
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Human being, being human. Trying, not always successfully, to leave the world a slightly better place than I found it. It's a modest goal, I know.

Anti fascist. If you’re not, what are you?

Profile header is a slice of a pencil sketch drawn by my brother, an architect. The crop focuses on my eyes, and the craggy lines radiating from their corners. My eyebrows appear to have gone feral.

Profile image is me as an almost 40 years younger man. I have dyed black crimped hair in a broad mohawk.

That dressing gown? It’s wood. Inside London’s strangest materials exhibition

A soft fluffy dressing gown might look simple enough, but it’s in an exhibition of wood products - and amazingly, it’s made from wood.

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/that-dressing-gown-its-wood-inside-londons-strangest-materials-exhibition-88110/

That dressing gown? It’s wood. Inside London’s strangest materials exhibition

A soft fluffy dressing gown might look simple enough, but it’s in an exhibition of wood products - and amazingly, it’s made from wood.

ianVisits

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116206039046249586

The scale of the ignorance is staggering.

Sadly, not surprising.

Update: I now buy 15kg sacks for £85, with free shipping, which works out at £5.67/kg. Which is compatible with supermarkets in the UK for standard #glutenfree flour. This is so much better.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116206874904164848

The ML 'live' subtitles on the BBC News channel are risible ... and that's transcribing English language speech to text.

Mastodon has a new human-over-AI contribution policy.

tl;dr:

- The human contributor is the sole party responsible for the contribution.

- If AI was used to generate a significant portion of your contribution (i.e. beyond simple autocomplete), we require you to disclose it in the Pull Request description.

- If you cannot guarantee the provenance and legal safety of the AI-generated code, do not submit it.

- Cases of repeated violations of these ... guidelines could result in a ban from our repositories.

https://github.com/mastodon/.github/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md

#AI #Mastodon #fedimeta

.github/AI_POLICY.md at main · mastodon/.github

Mastodon org-level files. Contribute to mastodon/.github development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Latest batch of #GlutenFree #Bread
I have the impression that primarily anglophone people don't read as much translated literature, because so much good literature already exists in their language, so this issue may not be as familiar within that demographic. As someone who did not grow up anglophone, I can tell you there is a world of difference between a good and a bad translation even when done by humans. Machine translations are not even on the scale.
I am exceedingly in need of a product icon designer. I am willing to pay around a thousand euros for some work here. Please, pass this to someone who 1) cares, 2) is good, and 3) can tolerate me :D

Shaved women.

This song is nearly 40 years old now.

Still sends shivers down my spine.

Still resonates.

I never thought we'd be here. Yet here we are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSoTEF-5V8k

Shaved Women CRASS John Peel 29th March 1979

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