Rob Tarr

@tarrkid
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@CARROT I love having a little radar widget on my Home Screen. It’s what I use to launch the app. But doing it that way always brings up the full-screen radar—usually not my intended destination. Is there a way to have a tap on the widget simply launch the app without opening the radar?
*kicks open your front door, breathlessly* the guy that wrote “spooky scary skeletons” also wrote the golden girls theme song

Im reading a batman comic where egomaniacal evil genius Lex Luthor has gotten himself elected president of the US, but in order to avoid conflicts of interests he has sold off LexCorp to another villain.

Simpler times.

TFW @tvaziri thoroughly blasts a bit of film information, then DOUBLES DOWN with new confirmation from Jaws's production designer and director.

Yep, that's right. He brought down the Spielberg hammer.

Todd's doing the lord's work out there.

https://fxrant.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-myth-of-jaws-shooting-star.html

The Myth of the "Jaws" Shooting Star

Update: If you've been here before, you absolutely need to scroll down to   Gigantic Update, 1/20/2025  for some new information. The GIFs...

Dice go way back. Some of these appear to meet today's standards for precision and fairness (all dice should have opposite sides add up to 1+sides. The d6's sides add to 7). The Greek stone d20 may be 2200 years old.

Learn more #DnD

A Brief History of Dice | Libris Arcana

Not to admit my ignorance here, or maybe to do just that, but until recently I thought the D20 had probably been invented by Gygax and company at TSR. I mean maybe it had been around before then and used by the wargamer community, but it was definitely an invention of the mid-20th century, right? Oh how wrong I was!

Libris Arcana
Now that Spooky Season is over, and it's too soon for Christmas Cheer, the only option is to put The World's Best Thanksgiving Song on repeat from now until the 28th. Enjoy! https://open.spotify.com/track/4DPrqJoEjM0DU5zakMGD7i?si=3e2c7166537648ca
Please Mr. Hungry Person (The Turkey Song)

Rob Tarr · Originals from my Teenage Years · Song · 2022

Spotify

We're so fucked.

"Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing. The resulting enhanced potential for malicious manipulation of society’s evidence base, particularly in politically divisive domains, is a growing concern."

https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation/

GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation | HKS Misinformation Review

Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, general-purpose AI applications, most likely ChatGPT, and mimic scientific writing. Google Scholar easily locates and lists these questionable papers alongside reputable, quality-controlled research. Our analysis of a selection of

Misinformation Review
@overcastfm Force Quit and reopen fixes it. Waiting overnight does not. Not sure about waiting for the next episode across my subscriptions to be released.
@overcastfm when I have played the final podcast episode I have downloaded, that podcast still shows in “Current”, and the application badge still shows 1. This is over 12 hours after I finished the episode.
@marcoarment Is this an Overcast thing or a CarPlay thing (or another thing altogether)? Podcast artwork in the Overcast app looks perfect, but out on the CarPlay Dashboard it’s blurry.