@powersoffour

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I work on open source data analysis and visualization tools, I stream occasionally at twitch.tv/powersoffour , and I have some ties to the astrophysics and HPC communities. I'm an assistant professor at a midwestern university in Information Sciences.
GitHubhttps://github.com/matthewturk/
WebPagehttps://matthewturk.github.io/
I do like this #dccrpg "Vote" image from https://goodman-games.com/
Goodman Games|Your Source for Adventures

Today youtube music sent me an email that they can accept natural language queries for what I want to hear. The second example (as seen in this GIF) was "music for my dog to chill out to."

I would estimate fully 40% of the queries my children make to the Google Home we have in the kitchen are for "Calming down music for dogs" so I have to wonder if this was targeted directly at me.

I'm going to hook up my VCR later.
Good. I believe that we should be using every tool at our disposal to ensure that Americans face equal justice under the law and to prevent further descent into an imperial autocracy.

I have experienced this myself and took a photo of one of the more egregious examples of an AI-generated cover featured in a Kindle advertisement.

https://maxread.substack.com/p/my-kindle-thinks-im-stupid-now

My Kindle thinks I'm stupid now

A journey into Kindle A.I. slop hell with Leah Beckmann

Read Max

In my head-canon, Grabthar's Hammer has been passed down from generation to generation of Mak'tar. Maybe sometimes the head was replaced, or the peen reforged, or the handle swapped out ... until finally, it ended up in the possession of Dr. Lazarus, where he rescued it from the genocide on Tev'Meck.

Is it still the "real" Grabthar's Hammer? I think so, even if all the pieces aren't the same.

Anyway, that's my proposal for replacing the term "Ship of Theseus."

My old postdoc mentor's data, loaded in NCSA Image with a palette named after him. Can't quite figure out what the deal is with the background color artifacts; I think those might be from a misconfiguration of my emulator.
NCSA Palette Editor 2.0
Also, here's a page from the Fall 1992 Sierra magazine InterAction that includes a rather vociferous letter railing against the existence of this game. The PDF of this issue, along with OCR'd text, can be found here: https://www.mocagh.org/sierra/interaction-fall92.pdf
Sketched it out in Excalidraw (thanks, @zsviczian !) and then used the TikZJax plugin to make it look precisely like I wanted.