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  I finally saw one of those AI generated menu boards on a food truck today. Last week someone said the posts about them were actually fake rage bait stuff not a real life thing. I’m here to tell you the shit is as creepy and disgusting looking as the posts I’ve seen. I feel bad for the food truck vendor because I’m sure they are just trying to scrape out a living and whoever made it for them could have done way better with stock photography. Instead they are paying for these things which make me...

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  Today I found out this marathon I’m signed up for this month as part of a longer race series has an official distance of 26.35 miles. That’s 0.15 miles longer than a marathon. Any race longer than a marathon is technically an ultra. So does that mean I’ll finish my first ultra? ;) #running

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  #ai #rant #humor

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  ♲ @bkoehn@diaspora.koehn.com:apple.news/A2znJigHaTzy4kxUxiH…

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  ♲ @bkoehn@diaspora.koehn.com:inthesetimes.com/article/maria…

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  Another reason not to use Claude: you'll be putting money into Elon Musk's pocket. #ai #ElonMusk theverge.com/science/935229/sp…

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  Speaking of putting money into Elon Musk's pocket, we all will probably be putting more money into Musk's pockets through our retirement accounts, index funds, mutual funds, et cetera once SpaceX goes public and they bend the rules to fast track trading of the stock in the various exchanges. Techbros seem to always win and never have to suffer consequences for their nefariousness, do they? #ElonMusk #SpaceX #rant morningstar.com/funds/spacex-i…

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  ♲ @sjvn@diaspora.glasswings.com:There will be a reckoning!

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  The past couple weeks of reading some articles about the "death of Bluesky" and irrelevance of Mastodon has illustrated that a big metric used for that assessment is lack of referral clicks to articles. Even when someone gets a lot of engagement on posts linking the article no one goes to read them. I think that is a problem going back to before the internet as a "I just read the headline" problem. Still, I do want to boost the signal of the alternative social networks. So n...

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  Today's Google Announcement that they are essentially killing search and making it just AI summaries so you don't need to go to the original sites may be a blessing in disguise. Present day content creators that really produce content will be strangled off. The new paradigm will be feeding the LLM bots. What will they be fed? They'll be fed more LLM generated content. It'll be a human centipede of content. Those of us who want that, which sadly is probably like >80% of the pop...

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  I admit to being uncultured so the term "Virginia Woolf" just makes me think of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", which I've never seen. Yesterday I learned she wrote a book in 1928 called "Orlando" about a guy who lives without aging for centuries but changes from a man into a woman at some point. In 1928. I have got to read this thing! Talk about being ahead of your time in exploring a topic. #writing #fiction #history #lgbt en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando:…

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  Version 2.0 of the Fediverse Archive Browser has now been posted at the below link. It is available for Linux, Mac, and Windows desktops. This version adds support for the archive downloadable from your Mastodon site. It can also read Diaspora site archives and Friendica archives generated by the Friendica Archive Generator. Along with browsing your old content you can perform free text searching, date span searching, look at your posting metrics, and more. Released under an Mozilla Public Licen...

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  It's finally happened! For the first time in history a person has officially run a marathon in under two hours. Sebastian Sawe actually ran the London Marathon 30 seconds faster than 2 hours at 1:59:30. The second place finisher *also* beat two hours, but 11 seconds slower. The third place finisher beat the previous marathon world record as well coming in 28 seconds slower than the 2 hour mark. What an incredible race! #running #LondonMarathon apnews.com/article/marathon-re…

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  I'm finally watching Common Sense Skeptic's coverage of the Tesla Q3 shareholder call. When this graphic showed up I literally laughed out loud. Brilliant! #tesla #ElonMusk #CommonSenseSkeptic

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  This game is cool! It's like Wordl but for history timelines. You place the events of history in chronological order #history #games 🥈 CHRONO #1515 🟢🟢🟢⚪️⚪️🟢 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 ⏱: 51.9 🔥: 1 chrono.quest

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  Relatica 1.2.1, a Friendica mobile and desktop client, has been released. The biggest visible changes will be the link with preview part of the post/comment composer screen and you can select text within posts. This is also the first release published to the Google Play Store, no beta team access required any longer. There have been some other smaller tweaks as well. APK, Linux, and Windows pre-compiled binaries still available with links from the install page. #relatica #friendica #fediverse My...

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  I love the diagram in this bulletin on the top 45 candidates for planets with life on them! #space #science The best places to look for alien life: Scientists identify 45 Earth-like worlds to explore for a 'Project Hail Mary'

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  I set up a from scratch Linux Flutter Dev VM for myself and installed the latest IntelliJ. I was pretty appalled by how sluggish things felt, even with the largest AI plugins off. I then turned off all the other plugins I don't use (probably a couple dozen) since I'm doing Flutter Desktop development. Thankfully things are much snappier. I'm sure part of it is Wayland under VirtualBox which is better than it has been but still quirky compared to X. Anyway, if you find your IntelliJ g...

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  The idea that GrapheneOS will have first class vendor support finally has me so excited. I hope there is good follow through and execution on this! I’d love to get a good phone in the US with Graphene pre-installed. #android #foss #grapheneos Motorola News | Motorola's new partnership with GrapheneOS