ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Welp, somebody just spun up a new subreddit for ChatGPT to answer legal questions:

r/ChatGPT_LegalAdviceUS.

My first thought: it can’t possibly be worse than r/legaladvice. Guess we’ll find out!

#lawfedi #legaltech

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT_LegalAdviceUS/

So, the same people who think the spy balloon is loaded with biological contaminants want to shoot it down & plaster the neighborhood with toxins. Smart thinkin', Margery. #msnbc #alexwagnertonight

Facts

This is a big deal for me, so I hope you can read and share. My dad gave his first hacking con talk at @CypherCon last year. It took convincing because he doesn’t normally talk about stuff other than science lectures. He talked about the problem of light pollution and how hackers can help solve it. Send some support? Tia!!! https://youtu.be/Ib3qbJ8HjpA

A request written on a slip and rolled up in a bottle, thrown onto the tide:

For anyone who was into the SCA (especially West, Caid, Atenveldt, Outlands, and Ansteorra) or in Amtgard or any of the Renfaire circuits, and collected Filk / Folk songs, an APPEAL:

I’ve been trying to find a copy of the lyrics to “Don’t Drink the Dregs of the Bottle”, a country&western-ish song about the dangers of drink, which was in at least a few songbooks in the 1990’s. It was OC AFAIK so not strictly filk.

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Sunrise at Blachford
20×30″ 50×76
Oil on Canvas
2022

Based on a September 2022 photo I took during my Artist In Residence for the Cloud Appreciation Society at the Blachford Lake Lodge near Yellowknife, NT

https://earthskyart.ca/product/sunrise-at-blachford/

In Kyiv, mysterious underground passages were discovered during repair and restoration work on the grounds of the National Conservation Area St. Sophia of Kyiv. These passages are believed to lead to St. Sophia Cathedral, however, there is very little known about them in the historical record. (Photo: Vadym Kyrylenko).

Today is the #WorldWetlandsDay. I can only hope that this place, which I pass many times on my way to work, will still be so wet in the coming years.

#Polesia #wetlands

Ava, Mo. man delivers flowers to frontline workers around the Ozarks

I reluctantly agreed to this interview because a friend really wanted to do it. She is on weather so this is like extra credit. As you can see, I almost melted down and nobody was asking hard questions.

https://www.ky3.com/2021/09/15/ava-mo-man-delivers-flowers-frontline-workers-around-ozarks/

'The whole thing cost $5': The simple tool that helps my kid through stressful moments

https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/simple-homemade-stories-help-toddler-through-life-transitions/101915140

Future ICS News - Multiple Ransomware Attacks on Artillery Contractors - #futurenews - https://tinyurl.com/uw8n2dkk

Rep. Nancy Mace has done this performance every week with the media, framing herself as a reasonable center and getting all the press... and then she votes with the rest of them every single time.

Mace did it this week with Omar, on the Foreign Affairs Committee I wonder what next weeks performance will be, and how Our Failed Political Press ™ will fall for her again?

@Elizafox Isn't Half Life 2 really just Life 1?

Besides more urgent problems centralized models like #DALLE and #Midjourney winning over open-source-models like #StableDiffusion everyone can further train, merge and generally fork at home would also mean a much sadder more generic far less diverse stage for AI-art in the future.

Nails didn’t turn out as intended.

Instead of cat eye, they’re giving Batman villain whose hands dipped very specifically into a vat of toxic sludge.

I ain’t mad.

The Reconstruction Era Is Not Taught Well in US Schools — Here’s Why That Matters

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/reconstruction-era-not-taught-schools

FRIEND: It's called cauliflower. It's not ghost broccoli.

ME: [taking a long drag on my cigarette] Listen kid, I know what I saw.