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meejah 7h ago

Keith 9h ago

copilot is just for entertainment? Per the TOS...
Highlighting is my own. From that last boost.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/termsofuse

meejah 1d ago

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Prof. Sam Lawler 1d ago

Also with the way things went the past few weeks, you can't just say "I read your recent piece in The Conversation" because holy crap I co-authored a lot of articles in the past 2 months!

https://theconversation.com/a-million-new-spacex-satellites-will-destroy-the-night-sky-for-everyone-on-earth-277938

https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366

https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430

A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth

If SpaceX launches one million new satellites, it will increase atmospheric pollution and risk of falling debris. And we will see more satellites than stars.

The Conversation

meejah 1d ago

David Revoy 1d ago

The Matchbox Kingdom

#Sketchbook #BallpointPen #traditionalart

meejah 1d ago

Fight for the Future 1d ago

We need corporations to cut contracts with Flock! Lowe’s is one of their biggest customers & anyone in their Lowe’s parking lots could be targeted by ICE. Lowe’s is worried this makes them look bad –with enough pressure we can get them to drop Flock! Dozens of cities, incl Eugene, OR & Denver, CO have turned their Flock cameras and/or canceled their contracts & your city can too! Use our toolkit to launch a campaign targeting local contracts w/Flock + ALPR companies:
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/flockout/#lowes

FLOCK Out

SURVEILLANCE DOES NOT MAKE US SAFER Flock is a surveillance company that sells Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPR) and partners with Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and law enforcement to target people during immigration raids and to investigate people who travel for abortion care. Dozens of cities across the nation have already taken a stand […]

Fight for the Future

meejah 3d ago

Natasha

🇪🇺5d ago

A conceptual portable computer and communications system designed by Honeywell for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968.

It has a lightpen (vs uninvented mouse) and a camera.

Sadly it didn't make it into the final cut of the movie!

Credit: Stanley Kubrick Archives. More here:
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/gallery/the-making-of-2001-a-space-odyssey-stanley-kubrick

#RetroTech

meejah 3d ago

Gary Strydom's Tiny Car 3d ago

LLMs do not "democratize programming". A 4-year-old can learn to program. LLMs throw up stupid barriers by convincing you that you can't learn to program and you have to rely on whatever shit the bobot spits out. Every asshole that says that AI "democratizes" fucking anything is trying to scam you.

meejah 3d ago

Rob Landley Mar 23

Any time women make something lucrative, men push them out of the field. A 1983 MIT paper documented that purge in computer science: https://simson.net/ref/1983/barriers.pdf

See also https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/109545727584656667 for "beer brewer" becoming "witch", Julia Child giving way to Gordon Ramsey, Sarah Taber's great thread about "egg money", the origin of the word "spinster" and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire...

Once there's money in it, douchebros terf out the founders then claim to have discovered what others invented.

meejah 3d ago

Nanoraptor 3d ago

more keyboards should have obtuse parts. things that aren't needed. switches that will never be touched.

num lock. static lock. try. try not. F15. unpipe and unpipe 2.

meejah 3d ago

S.Tori 4d ago

Am I supposed to introduce myself and #introduction ?..I confess I have never known how to use the social internet properly and the Fediverse confuses me a bit, but I feel strongly in the need to carve out alternative social spaces on the Internet. So excuse any social faux pas on my part. I am an educator and musician in New Zealand with a passion for writing complaint letters, bringing the social sciences into everything and dreaming of a world where we radically take care of each other.

meejah 3d ago

David Ho 4d ago

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't received any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since grants are typically for 3 years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

In my 25-year career, I’ve never NOT had funding. I typically have 4 to 8 grants, which you need if you’re running an observation science program and have a technician, students, and postdocs.

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