ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Proposal to stop referring to covid in the past tense and climate change in the future tense.

Shadow of the Vampire (2001) in a Kubrick level of commitment to his craft director F.W Murtau (John Malkowich) hires a real vampire (Willem DeFoe) to play Max Shreck aka Nosferatu. Hilarity ensues. This comedy horror is just fun. Photography mirrors the original film. You can find this on YouTube for free and pretty good print at that. I feel like someone forgot to file some paperwork so check this out while you can. #Film #Films #TCMParty #Movies #SilentFilm

I just enabled #ElasticSearch (aka Full Text search) on my #Mastodon instance. More details about this here: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/optional/elasticsearch/
If you are on Masto Host (https://masto.host) it’s an extra $5 per month fee, but you do not have to mess with any code.
I do like how it only allows you to search for info from your own posts (aka toots). Functionality with privacy in mind. 👍🏾 👍🏾

People asked for it, and it's here: The Great 78 Project Bot has come to Mastodon. Regularly linked interesting songs on 78rpm records digitized by Internet Archive.

https://mastodon.archive.org/@great78

Tomorrow's wordle answer is UNION, and the spelling bee pangram is SOLIDARITY.

Don't cross the picket line.

#introductions hi everyone, I’m Jay! An AI artist and researcher and all around nerd. I adore cursed images, discussing AI development through a critical lens and gender theory. I’m autistic and obsessed with D&D and making cool art around gender and AI. I also just submitted my PhD and am awaiting the results!

Oh having seen some discourse here... please #selfpromo your amazing creations! Books, art, craft, I want to see them. Creatives have to self promote or we will simply not survive. A creative promoting their work is not the same as a corporate.
In summary:
Corporate = BAD! No self promo for u
Creative = GOOD! Yes please promo (especially in the lead up to Christmas!)

I saw a question today that raised my ire a little. "What existing issue with art does AI art fix?"
This bothers me for a couple of reasons, an #aiart 🧵

Did you know that when the tops of trees grow enough to touch over a street or sidewalk, that’s often nick-named a “kissing canopy?” It creates a beautiful, comfortable & cool street condition, but it ONLY happens when the right design decisions are made. Trees need to be prioritized, not thought about last. #StreetsAreBetterWithTrees #trees #cities #urbanism #KissingCanopies

Okay, here we go: my new post: "Hello! You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Twitter And Hunter Biden’s Laptop"

Feel free to refer people to it as needed. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/07/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-twitter-and-hunter-bidens-laptop/

The Moon and Earth rotate around a point that's quarter way from Earth's core to it's surface. That causes Earth to travel around the Sun on a slightly sinusoidal path.

It's amplitude is close to 10000 km, but if Earth's orbit was the size of a bicycle wheel the bumps would be around 4 microns tall, which is a hundred times too small for a human finger to feel it. And a human finger is nothing to sneeze at - it can feel the difference of height of single layer of teflon molecules.

#Apple Announces End-to-End #Encryption Option for iCloud Photos, Notes, Backups, and More

https://flip.it/kMZgz3

What are some common triggers that often lead to meltdowns that you try to manage or avoid altogether?

#AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic

Pluto backlit by the distant sun, captured by the departing New Horizons spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
https://www.nasa.gov/nh/nh-finds-blue-skies-and-water-ice-on-pluto

#science #astronomy #nasa #pluto

Ginni Thomas was involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election using the independent state legislature theory—central to a SCOTUS case that could let extremist state legislatures pick the president.

Clarence Thomas heard the case today and—you guessed it—endorsed the theory.

With all this talk of #AI, I often wonder whatever happened to #Cyc.

OpenCyc seems to have been mothballed.

The full-blown Cyc project (assuming that's what this is, still) now seems to be selling itself as, like, AIaaS to giant corporations (and nobody else) -- with what degree of success, I know not.

I just want everyone to know that in 2023, Goodnight Moon enters public domain.

https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2023/

Goodnight, moon.

Goodnight.

goodnight...