ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

@wendynather there was that era when you could hang up a flip-phone by snapping it shut like a cheap paperback.

The eight most wonderful words you can say on the internet:

" I don't know enough to have an opinion."

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pilot project in 1962. The opposition at the time argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

#cities #Copenhagen #cars #streets #denmark

Community garden mural, Brooklyn NYC 2023

In the past 24 hours, I have been at a gathering of college students and an assisted living facility for the elderly.

Both sound systems were playing ABBA.

Whether Mastodon has 5K or 5M users doesn’t matter. You only need to follow about 500 of them to get a pretty rich social media experience that doesn’t suck like ad driven social media.

After one week in rough

"The Librarians Are Not Okay

​​I’ve been called a pedophile. I’ve been called a groomer. I’ve been called a Communist pornographer.”
By Xochitl Gonzalez in the Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/book-bans-censorship-librarian-challenges/673398/

Has anyone done any fun/useful activities with students and ChatGPT to get them to think critically about AI? #chatgpt #AI

In a world where a bit of math can pass as human on the internet, we are obliged to be more unpredictable, more chaotic.

Be the language model failure mode you want to see in the taco.

I never know who's gonna show up for dinner!

#bird #birds #birding #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #nature #woodpecker

I’ll be in Denver for a week. Any suggestions of things to do or see, esp: food, art, books, history, coffee, or other quirky stuff?

Fine Details of the Vela Supernova Remnant - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/2mQAAbZ

#Garfield #music #TwoPrinces
#bot #lyrics

A Machine Learning algorithm walks into a bar.

The bartender asks, "What'll you have?"

The algorithm says, "What's everyone else having?"