Max Headroom @Joel@qoto.org

The leader of Scientology is being sued for child trafficking and exploitation. Feels like this should be a bigger story.

Someone gave me great advice when I started here. Don’t be a wallflower, just scrolling through your timeline. Boost the posts that made you stop a moment. Say hello to others. You’ll be an “old-timer” in a few days. Don’t just follow all the same people who are like you. Use your filter to not see topics that wear you down. Visit other countries through their photos. This place is what WE make it. Let’s build a real community. #newbies #welcome

We invested 10% to pay back #TechDebt; Here's what happened

"#Engineers looked forward to the #TechDebtFriday. The team would happily remind #management that this day cannot (under any circumstances) be planned for regular feature/bugfix work. Although we fixed some #bugs along the way, this was primarily an investment to make future feature #development cheaper while improving the #maintainability and #reliability."

https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/tech-debt-day

“Ritual Enema Scenes on Ancient Maya Pottery” [the Ig Informal Lecture video for the 2022 Ig Nobel Art History Prize] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRmY5YQGu54

No doubt they'll ask: "What was the last straw? Why did Adam throw his keyboard through the window, and scamper out into the frigid darkness of an Ontario midwinter night? What was he fleeing? Whence the baleful howling, the bitter despair?"

You. You must tell them. You must tell them why. You must bear witness. Tell them it was the autocomplete functionality in the Jira cloud JQL search dialog.

Seriously, fuck that thing.

"The Wyoming Legislature is considering a resolution to phase out sales of new electric vehicles in the Cowboy State by 2035. " https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/01/13/take-that-california-wyoming-legislators-draft-resolution-banning-electric-vehicles-by-2035/

**Very** interesting interview with an applied topologist. Just as John Cook (the interviewer) I had no idea applied topology was a thing. Would not have thought homology can help with planning cellular network coverage. Apparently it does. #mathematics

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/09/13/applied-topology-and-dante-an-interview-with-robert-ghrist/

ChatGPT: Can It Make Huge Corporations Even Wealthier?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/chatgpt-has-investors-drooling-but-can-it-bring-home-the-bacon/

'Libin also sees tricky technical challenges ahead. One is that ChatGPT and other generative AI models are currently created by scraping content made by humans from the web, but are increasingly contributing to the text and images found online. “All of these models are about to shit all over their own training data,” he says. “We’re about to be flooded with a tsunami of bullshit.”'

#ai #ml #MachineLearning #ChatGPT

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Except when your foreign neighbour Keith received eight counterfeit beige sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters.
Weird.

Can't stop watching this @KFILE clip.
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RT @KFILE
In a 2020 clip, Santos said he managed $1.5 billion for Harbor City Capital w/returns rate for investors of 12%-26%. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/13/politics/george-santos-ponzi-scheme/index.html
https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1613943116679221249

3/ Looks like Elie Mystal agrees:

"One thing the media has to NOT do is portray every Republican who is against whackadoodle conspiracy theories and impeachment-as-political-retribution as "moderate." Being able to look up when it's raining without drowning doesn't make you a moderate."

Blues: The world is fucked
Punk: The world is fucked and I'm pissed
Emo: The world is fucked and I'm sad
Grunge: The world is fucked and I'm medicated
Ska: The world is fucked and I have a trumpet

TRIO

A first post from me and it’s a minimalist take on fishing boats moored up on the beach in Dorset. 🙏

#Dorset
#photography
#beach
#Earthcapture
#photooftheday
#martindolanphotography

#Science #Humor
#Funny
#Cars

Semafor said today that "a critical mass of conservatives do not trust McCarthy to lead them..."

Conservatives. Is that what they are?

John Boehner's description of the same crowd in his memoir:

"What they're really interested in is chaos... They want to throw sand in the gears of the hated federal government until it fails."

Are the sowers of chaos properly called "conservatives?"

Is MAGA conservative?

Why do #journalists with a commitment to accuracy maintain this fiction?

#uspolitics