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Lina P. Sopiadou

I cannot forget
The perfumed dusk inside the
Tent of my black hair,
As we awoke to make love
After a long night of love.

#KennethRexroth
#poetry
#photography
#selfportrait
#BehindCurtains

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SwiftOnSecurity

Error: Your password must contain at least two characters who talk to each other about something other than a man.

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@BobGourley
Ah, interesting! I asked it one serious question, which it answered plausibly if very generically, and one silly one ("boxers or briefs?"), which it fielded very nicely. :)

I'm not particularly good myself at getting generative text AIs to venture beyond their intended bounds; I'm just always curious how well they work in practice, when we basically know nothing in detail about what's happening inside. Just a black box that seems to work for lots of specific test cases, we know not how. I'm very curious as to how that will play out in practice, in places where it matters.

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myrmepropagandist

Everyone assumes aliens will know higher math. So much so that some people think encoding the orders of the first 26 sporadic groups would be obvious. (IDK why this is better than a list of primes)

But would it, though?
We name the groups by their orders, and think it's neat that exactly 26 are special in this way, like the 5 platonic solids.

But couldn't you do a lot with math and never really focus on these facts? It's not free from culture. math has a culture.

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Death Cabbage

#mrnatural

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Catbus

Sign of the Times

strip club sign reading 'Lap Dances....cheaper than eggs'
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Amelia 🏳️‍⚧️ Baeddelia

tumblr.com/communistkenobi/702

#socialmedia #tumblr #trans #transgender #transsexual #queer

A screenshot of a Tumblr post by communistkenobi that reads "has anyone else noticed that being transgender is kind of hard".
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Pavel A. Samsonov

#ContentDesign

A card reader with two printed labels glued on: swipe with strip facing cardholder + you are the cardholder
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Carla G-S @ worldkey.io
Having cats in the house is like living with art that sometimes throws up on the carpet.
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Parker Molloy

Was looking at this photo of my dog Tater Tot from back in October and just noticed the other dog photobombing him, lol

A photo of a tan dog. In the upper left corner, a small white dog looks like it's smiling at the camera
The small white dog
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Masks #Midjourney #AIArt
Two masked faces; the rather elegant masks cover only the center of the face; mouths and foreheads are visible. The faces seem to have impassive expressions, looking out at us from the image. The masks are perhaps old brass; one has a green patina over most of it.
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Josh

Do you keep track of how many #books you read per year?

@bookstodon #bookstodon #reading #bookish

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Dan Gillmor

To understand why so many Americans have such contempt for the pharmaceutical industry, read this NY Times explainer on how a company gamed the patent system to enrich executives and shareholders -- and rip off everyone else. nytimes.com/2023/01/28/busines

The thing is, what the company did is legal. So if you're looking for who made it possible for sleazy corporations to do this, look at Congress, too.

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Ixtli Dekami :coolified:🍕⚾🖖

@ewdocparris
They called many things when he unveiled his creation. "Genius" wasn't in that list. But he was. This "abomination" was feared by every scientist. The feared thing would make them obsolete. They didn't understood that without them, the Automatic Brain was a pile of metal and crystal. It needed their input, their minds, to do its job. Yes, the machine he built would develop a mind and maybe a soul, but it wouldn't made them obsolete. It would made them immortal…

#WritingPrompt

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Eric J. Korpela

There should be no such thing as a "traffic stop" for any reason not involving immediate danger to life or health. Someone is speeding? Take a picture and send them a ticket. Someone has a broken tail light? Take a picture and send them a fix-it ticket. Someone ran a red light? Take a picture and send them a ticket. Minor accident with no injuries? Let the insurance companies take care of it.

The idea that it's a good idea to let heavily armed paramilitaries handle these jobs is freaking stupid. None of those tasks require heavily armed assholes.

Ana Marie Cox  
There is no such thing as a “routine traffic stop.”
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And done! Dense streaks and cracks in it, but it's soft and sweet, and I'm pleased.

A fresh loaf of bread, sliced and sitting on a cooling rack. Mmmmm.
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fakegreekgrill

NAMASTE, MOTHER FUCKERS!!!!

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miramusank

Back from a trip! I’m always fascinated about how camera-ready and fashionable #cats are most of the time. Or maybe I’m biased. Happy #caturday!

Black and white tuxedo cat lounging on a pool chair with a towel next to it. Their yellow eyes are looking straight into the camera.
A long-haired white cat with black spots around their temple and nostrils hides under a low bush and a rock on a sandy floor. Their fur is partly wet from rain drizzles.
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SP Rupert

Cooper hanging out this morning. 100 lb Golden Retriever.

#dogstodon #dogsofmastodon

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Still Life with Pizza #midjourney #AIArt #pizza
In the style of a classical oil still-life, a pepperoni pizza on a round pizza pan, sitting on a table surrounded by tomatoes, a liquor bottle and a glass, and a pitcher of perhaps sangria. An odd two-bladed knife sits beside it on the table.
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