ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

This may surprise you, but I was in Powell's Books not long ago. While there, perusing the natural history section, I happened upon an old volume that had clearly experienced a fair bit of physical trauma during its century and a quarter existence. However given the signifigance of its contents, partiularly chapter 3, I felt it deserved a good home, so I bought it and it is now safely in my library.

#bookstodon #oldbooks #naturalhistory #huxley #essays

I've been screwing around with an #LLM prompt filled with various Max Headroom quotes as examples and having it create new bits of dialogue "in that style".

Here's some ramblings it generated on the topic of "hot dogs".

What's interesting is that this almost works great in the spirit of Max from the original movie version of him: a rambling randomized idiot who's often funny, but just as often muttering incoherent nonsense.

I really need to do something with this...

Brad Smith is Microsoft’s secret weapon when it comes to lobbying.

The company is taking a two pronged approach to regulatory capture in AI where Sam Altman talks up how scary AI is and Microsoft proposes regulation which happens to work out great for them both.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/25/brad-smith-microsoft-ai/

“A better world is one in which we have a dynamic system that can seek equilibrium against a variety of activities and circumstances.

Where rather than having to hope that every time the world changes Mark Zuckerberg guesses right…

And if he says that our future is being legless, sexless, low-polygon cartoon characters in a heavily surveilled Metaverse named after an idea from a dystopian science fiction novel…”

(@pluralistic with the mic drop)

https://youtube.com/shorts/v_gUDx0nlPI

PPPoE stands for PowerPoint Protocol over Ethernet and thus belongs in the Presentation Layer (layer 6).

#Capybara #Capibara #Carpincho

Prowides.

#comics #comicstrips
#GeorgeHerriman #KrazyKat

Enthralled by sea, neither alone; only a sky of clouds abound.

(vertical image)

#Aotearoa #NZ #Photography #blackandwhite #beach

#RandomComicBook today. Cover artist #RCrumb

#comics #Comicbooks

“Until a drag queen walks into a school and beats eight kids to death with a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird, I think you’re focusing on the wrong shit.”

- Wanda Sykes

Russ Heath 1954

#Comics #comicbook #ECComics

The name of Sonic's sidekick, 'MIles "Tails" Prower', IS A PUN ON MILES-PER-HOUR HOW AM I JUST FINDING THIS OUT TODAY?

babe are you ok, you've barely touched your lorem ipsum dolor & cheddar wrap

"The anti-woke right is increasingly wielding heavy-handed tactics — including state power and violent threats — to block corporations from making their own decisions about how to adapt to social change." (no paywall) https://wapo.st/3qdxsJ0

Still looking for a good website/blog which covers recent scientific info about reptiles, amphibians, and other #herpetology stuff. I've got a lot of science blogs I follow, but I only get a trickle of my favorite subject there :(. #science

And yet another entry in The Histories has arrived!

Say hello to Tammy Orville Coxen, Empress of the Campari Express (1893-2005)

You can read this entry (and 38 others) right here: https://www.shaunduke.net/thehistories/doku.php?id=wiki:tammyorvillecoxen

Thanks to Tammy for the support. This one took a lot of research to write, but the final product came out well, I think!

If anyone else wants an entry (or get something added), deets are here: https://www.shaunduke.net/thehistories/doku.php?id=wiki:buyhistory

Thanks for reading! #writing #sciencefiction #althist

The question that many gay and trans people are wondering is not, “Can Ron DeSantis get elected?”but instead, “How many of us will end up dead if he does?”
#USpol #politics #LGBTQ #fascism

Saw a Bunny!
#bunny #rabbit