Pablo SB @iPabloSB@qoto.org
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He/Him. Molecular scientist, Postdoc at Stanford. Plays with flies for a living.
I'm interested in too many things for the time a lifetime has. Some of them: board games, RPGs, music, playing my guitar, learning new languages, TV shows, tech and visiting new places.
I toot in English and Spanish.
Joined Nov 2022
What could go wrong with an AI trained on Twitter’s posts and interactions…
Not really looking forward to an extremely aggressive, fascist-leaning AI. I wonder when big lenders will stop funding Musk’s ideas. Or is this exactly what they’re looking for when they give him unlimited amounts of money?
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I'm a therapist and I've been watching this video on a loop for an hour
Today I just found Peglin. Such a great and addictive game! I praised Slay the Spire as one of the best deck builders and roguelike. Peglin is as if Slay the Spire and pinball had a child and it’s oh, so, good! Build a set of pinballs with unique abilities and fight by throwing them to a board.
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The fact that Microsoft Teams 🤮 contains a feature called "Teams" where actual teams can create a Team, and at Microsoft the teams working on that feature probably have a Team to discuss the Teams feature, suggests that there exists a Microsoft Microsoft Teams Teams Teams' Microsoft Teams Team.
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In an unbelievable act of corporate vandalism, Paramount completely erased the entire archives of MTV dot com, wiping out more than 30 years and hundreds of thousands of pages https://www.showbiz411.com/2024/06/25/paramount-shuts-down-mtv-website-wipes-history-after-20-plus-years
AI bros must learn to respect authors and online content: https://ipablosb.com/2024/06/19/ai-bros-must.html
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My biggest wish for WWDC24 is that they don't show a video of a few dozen developers being crushed by an industrial hydraulic press to create an AI coding assistant for Xcode.
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It’s so crazy that climate deniers think humans don’t cause climate change but volcanos eruptions do.
The eruption of Mount St. Helens released ~10 Mt of CO₂ into the atmosphere.
Human activities currently release that amount of CO₂ in ~2 hours.
@coffeegeek Have you tried the Flair coffee scale? I’m in the market for an entry level scale, I’m not 100% convinced by the 3Bomber mini, and the Flair falls at the same price point. I wonder if they managed to make a decent scale that goes well with Flair machines or if it’s not up to standards. And it seems nobody on the coffee scene has reviewed it…
@coffeegeek 1Zpresso is so good it’s scary. They are so far ahead of the competition and their prices are unbelievable. Had a J-Max for 2 years and use it daily. It works as good as new.
@charliemchapman did you say you hate pineapple pizza out loud? That’s a good Italian thing to do.
@drdrang oh I still remember that group some days ago named “Spanish pronouns” where two of them weren’t pronouns. They really mess up sometimes.
@coffeegeek We spoke a week ago about waiting for the flair 58 instead of going for the new Flex, and Flair did a memorial sale with about 20% off on all machines, including the 58+ which is the first time it gets a discount. You bet I bit the bait and got it! Looking forward to testing my ability to hand pull espresso.
@coffeegeek @espresso yeah my impression is that I might regret the 100$ expense instead of waiting and going directly for the 58. Specially if I’m going to pull 1 or 2 espressos a day the higher cost of the 58 will dilute over the span of years of use.
@coffeegeek @espresso I am so tempted by that Neo Flex to try a fully manual espresso machine! It looks like this new version provides amazing value for those 100$. Still, I’m saving for the 58 because if I get into manual espresso I want the best they can offer and I feel like it’d be a waste to get now the Flex. Looking forward to your assessment!
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The flip side to “Europeans are lazy and don’t work hard” is that we’re able to maintain a modern society with a high standard of living while still being able to spend time with our families. And why kill yourself through overwork when most of the rewards go to somebody else, anyway?
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Remember in Blues Brothers when they end up at the Nazi rally and the point isn't even that Jake really hates Nazis, it's that Nazis are about the biggest losers that anyone could imagine. They are portrayed as completely pathetic dead-ender assholes.
Or in the Rocketeer when the mobsters find our the Sinclair guy is a Nazi and join forces with the FBI to stop them because Nazis are clearly the worst thing.
Or when Christopher Plummer rips the Nazi flag in two in Sound of Music.
None of these films were making bold political statements. The Nazis were the bad guys because that was something that everyone in the audience could agree one. Dunking on Nazis was a guaranteed crowd pleaser.
When the hell did we stop agreeing on something so simple and self-evident as Nazis Are Fucking Losers?
@charliejane love to see the shoutout to Green Apple Books here! I support them locally and through Libro.fm
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There is no middle ground on the basic right to abortion care. Either you believe women should control their own bodies, or you believe the government should control women's bodies. That's it. Anti-choice hypocrites want us to believe it's murky, but it's not. It's that simple.
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The Verge article on the best printer in 2024 is just completely brilliant in so many ways.
And also kinda sad.
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- https://ipablosb.com
He/Him. Molecular scientist, Postdoc at Stanford. Plays with flies for a living.
I'm interested in too many things for the time a lifetime has. Some of them: board games, RPGs, music, playing my guitar, learning new languages, TV shows, tech and visiting new places.
I toot in English and Spanish.
Joined Nov 2022
