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@picardtips Yeah... no.
I don't believe that for a second, neither would Jean Luc Piccard, the captain of a Starship that would have conversations with people light-years away.
When the Linux daemons start to get out of hand https://twitter.com/sysadafterdark/status/1642527094587490307/photo/1
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“When the Linux daemons start to get out of hand:”

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AI Written, AI Read cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne

One piece of slang that has long embodied the short attention span Internet age is TL;DR, short for “too long; didn’t read.” With the explosion of generative AI tools, we’re rapidly entering the age of TL;DW: “too long, didn’t write.” A January survey from Fishbowl found that 40% of nearly 12,000 workers have used ChatGPT

Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne - Marketoonist is the thought bubble of Tom Fishburne. Marketing cartoons, content marketing with a sense of humor, keynote speaking.

The problem is not that "AI" will replace coders.

The problem is that leadership *thinks* that "AI" can replace coders.

A few years ago, the BBC compared the amount of time that men & women spoke in the films that won best picture at the #Oscars between 1991-2016. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-43197774
100 Women: How Hollywood fails women on screen

Under half of Oscar best picture winners pass a simple gender test, BBC 100 Women analysis shows.

10 years ago Steam released for Linux

I'm starting to feel old. I remember a time before Steam for Linux, back in the dark days even before the first set of Humble Indie Bundles, it's truly crazy how far Linux has come overall as a platform for gaming.

GamingOnLinux

Physicist John Tyndall is often credited w discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3yrs earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer #history #science #ClimateChange #HistoryRemix

Happy 200th birthday to Eunice Foote, hidden climate science pioneer

American Eunice Foote was an amateur scientist and women's rights pioneer from the mid-1800s whose experiments foreshadowed the discovery of Earth's greenhouse effect. 

NOAA Climate.gov
In Poland, waxwing birds love to eat fermented fruit, get drunk and then lie insensible on the pavement.
People collect them and put them in a safe place until they sober up... #OurBeautifulWorld
Thanks to @StateofPoland for the photo.

I love closing out the year with this. 😊

On December 31, 1995, exactly 27 years ago today, legendary cartoonist Bill Watterson published his final 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip.

How beautiful and appropriate it was, and a timeless reminder of what we have before us in 2023. ❤️

Happy New Year, ya'll!