Also sort of related to all this, I checked out an audiobook of The Island and, man, the narrator and the sound design in general on the Minecraft books is just totally on point
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Psyche in transit, please hold.
starfox 64a CEO can never be held accountable therefore a CEO must never make a management decision
After listening the The End by @Catvalente like five times as a bedtime story with my oldest he finally let me start the first Fairyland book with him. So when he wouldn’t let me shut it off, even though he was half asleep, it felt pretty good
Janelle ShaneDrawing prompts for #Botober2023 are up! This year was a challenge to generate.
https://www.aiweirdness.com/botober-2023/
#botober #drawtober
Botober 2023
Since 2019 I've generated October drawing prompts using the year's most state-of-the-art text-generating models. Every year the challenges are different, but this was one of the hardest years yet. Large language models like chatgpt, GPT-4, Bing Chat, and Bard, are all tweaked to produce generic, predictable text that doesn't vary
mccWhat I'm listening to today: "War Photographer"
Jason Forrest. Sample artist. Originally used the recording alias "Donna Summer" just to see how long it would take him to get sued. Creator of songs such as "My 36 Favorite Punk Songs" (it samples them all). His one brush with popular appeal was this *absolutely incredible* music video, which presents some kind of baffling narrative about a Viking mecha powered by rock music. You want to watch the video while you listen.
Jason Forrest - War Photographer
Eric A. Meyer
TherealbigalSome ideas just clicked together in the right way in my head and I realized something: Eventually on Mastodon I'm going to get told I should try out Linux by someone who was born after the first time I installed Linux
Steve SilbermanExactly this, this all day, *THIS THIS THIS*.
"That Trump will be tried for his coup attempt is not a violation of his rights. It is a fulfillment of his rights. It is the grace of the American republic. In other systems, when your coup attempt fails, what follows is not a trial." - Yale historian Timothy Snyder via https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-3-2023?utm_campaign=post
August 3, 2023
In a special election today, voters reelected Tennessee state representatives Justin Pearson and Justin Jones, whom the Republican supermajority in the state house voted on April 6 to expel for their participation in a demonstration in favor of gun safety. “Well, Mr. Speaker, the People have spoken,” Jones tweeted. The Tennessee legislature will convene on August 21 for a special session.