They're after me... @frickinLasers@qoto.org

NTP Synchronisation

#Memes #Networking #Time

Me: I want to think of a funny joke.

Brain: Bed Bath and Beyond. What's the Beyond?

Me: No, everyone makes that joke.

Brain: I'd like to purchase the beyond lol

Curious to know if folks are thinking about helium, and how we'll get it after we've shut-in our natural gas problem.

Stipulated: Fossil natural gas must end, soonest.

Problem: All of our helium comes as a by-product of fossil natural gas production.

Further Problem: A tremendous amount of natural gas must be passed by the helium separation step in order to park at "chronic shortage."

With all of that, economically speaking helium is headed for "none."

How much does it matter?

#Helium

Tom Brady's annual retirement announcement seems early this year... does that mean 6 more weeks of winter?

He needs those parts for his spaceship, he's going to otter space.🚀

The arrested protesters were kept incommunicado during the interrogation process and were subjected to both verbal and physical sexual abuse by their interrogators and prison guards.

"Some of my colleagues say that their clients have privately asked them for birth control pills during meetings in prison, without even letting their families know."

Amir Mehdipour,
Lawyer,
Iran.

#IranRevolution
#IRGCTerrorists

https://iranwire.com/en/women/113314-women-ex-inmates-give-accounts-of-abuse-in-irans-tabriz-prison/

A baker’s dozen of bad puns in the picture; @Ten will probably appreciate these!

I also found a “print” version online that includes the missing pun:

“It’s hard to beat a boiled egg in the morning.”

See also: https://tearablepuns.org/ (discovered during an image search for this).

This is an *actual* #meme, if it inspires people to imitate the behavior by putting up physical posters of “tearable puns”.

A man tells a woman to “cover up” while feeding her child.

So she does.

I like this woman.

The "Something Is Terribly Wrong" indicator has been on for years, I don't see how ignoring it can hurt

Not to brag, but I can forget a new password 3 mins after I change it and have to login from a different device.

Signs you have carpenter ants:

* keep finding tiny tools
* city sends a very tiny permit to affix to baseboard
* “when you try to move a book” you are told to “keep this entrance clear,ma’am” because of the “cement delivery coming later”
* Your dish rack is dismantled “because it’ll be cheaper to rebuild from scratch”
* no room on the dresser due to like 85 tiny pickups illegally parked there
* husband keeps hearing high pitched wolf whistles when exiting shower

@sixfootcandy -- Some people only CLAIM to want to be young forever...
Some people achieve it.

Yesterday I took apart a pair of secateurs, removed the rust, cleaned them, oiled them, and sharpened the blades.

My dad's stereo comes with a circuit diagram in a little pouch when you open it, so you can more easily identify and replace components.

Clothing is *supposed* to come apart at the seams, because seams can be restitched with almost no loss of quality, unlike a fabric tear that needs to be patched.

Having items that are actively hostile to repair is a very, very modern trend.

I totally forgot about this music video where Weezer got all the early internet celebrities together to be in their video.... my god the memories, back when the internet was an enjoyable place to be.

https://youtu.be/PQHPYelqr0E

OpenAI released a tool which purports to detect AI-generated text. At the highest end of detection, it labels text "possibly" or "likely" AI-generated. 21% of human-written text falls under "possibly" and 9% of "likely" does. That's 3 in 10 students being defamed and/or harmed.

Just like other providers of academic surveillance software, OpenAI states that their detector "should not be used as a primary decision-making tool".

It will be, though. And harm will follow.

https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/

The First Meme of the 20th Century?

For #WeirdWednesday, "Le Cochon Danseur" (The Dancing Pig), is a bizarre little silent film short from 1907 that knowyourmeme.com has called "the first meme of the 20th century."

The Silentology blog has a great investigation of the film's origins and history.

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY69-S7O9Mo

https://silentology.wordpress.com/2022/10/10/the-unsettling-charm-of-le-cochon-danseur-the-dancing-pig-1907/

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/le-cochon-danseur-the-dancing-pig

#WeirdWednesday #film #SilentFilm #surreal #pig #vaudeville #operetta #MusicHall #nickelodeon #DancingPig #vintage #1900s #meme

--How to be a *cute* cat lessons--

Lesson 1

Be a cat

#cat #cats #CatsOfMastodon

@JoParkerBear Isadore asked me to post this on her behalf, she said to tell Beto he has very stylish taste in markings.

"The Mystery of the Chewed Shoe" was solved rather easily when one of the two primary suspects folded under the strain of interrogation.