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@lnlyisol
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I like reading and riding, lasers and Linux.
Oh dear… tiramisu trays fit perfectly into my bicycle toolbox. 🤪

The essence of art is conjuring a form of communication where common language and its smoothed-out culture is bypassed, placing ideas directly in the mind of the observer. Barriers are broken, mental firewalls off, art goes straight to their core.

For example this is now in the minds of engineers.

@CoyoteTraveller reminds me of the classic Paint Red/Pressure Wash saga

Senior lawyer apologises after filing AI-generated submissions in Victorian murder case

“The lawyers explained they checked that the initial citations were accurate and wrongly assumed the others would also be correct.”

Disbar these clowns who can’t grasp the nature of AI slop.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-15/victoria-lawyer-apologises-after-ai-generated-submissions/105661208

Senior lawyer apologises after filing AI-generated submissions in Victorian murder case

The fake submissions included fabricated quotes from a speech to the state legislature and non-existent case citations purportedly from Victoria's Supreme Court.

ABC News
Breaking away from classic art, here's a drawing by my 13-year-old daughter using "Crayolas". #ProudMom #art

I just saw an ad for the Lexus LBX Morizo RR.
Did the naming department not say it out loud?

"RR" sounds like a manic pirate 🏴‍☠️

THIS ESSAY IS SO GOOD. I don't know that I've ever read an essay so thoroughly saturated with sarcasm and yet devastatingly accurately shredding someone's stupid ideas. This is the kind of essay our world needs right now.

https://medium.com/@steve.desch/this-is-not-the-quality-of-pseudoscience-infotainment-to-which-i-have-grown-accustomed-34268f892ba8

"We’ve come to count on Loeb to turn legitimately exciting space discoveries into aliens, aliens, aliens with the regularity of movies in the Spider Man franchise"

This is not the quality of pseudoscience infotainment to which I have grown accustomed

Teasing the public with fraudulent or self-deluded promises of aliens used to mean something. It took work. It meant slapping together…

Medium

An Open Source sustainability story in two slides. (for a coming talk of mine)

Slide 1: car brands using #curl
Slide 2: car brands sponsoring or paying for #curl support

@lnlyisol @aj @stilgherrian Why don't we just cue up & pee directly on the data centers?