szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

Does anyone have a digital copy of ANSI/CGA G-13 Storage and Handling of Silane that I can use? I just need to read and reference it, but do not have $214 to pay CGA for access.

While doing a thorough cleaning of my room, I found this anatomical embroidery I did a while back with red silk thread on white cotton. #embroidery #textile #TextileArt #AnatomicalEmbroidery #EmbroideryArt #IndigenousCreatives

I like to imagine that Joe Biden’s going to use his new-found freedom and his presidential immunity to go on an absolute killing spree. Four months of non-stop malarkey. Untouchable, beyond remorse, beyond the law. Fear the rise of Dark Brandon.

Cosmos in front of my favorite mountain shrine. It's going to be another scorcher today. Stay cool and well hydrated everyone.
🌸 ⛩
昌信神社の前の野生のコスモス。今日も暑くなりそうだ。皆様、涼しく、十分に水分を補給してください。
#SakakiTown #Nagano #Japan

Hey look, a distraction!
#DailyDoggo #DogsOfMastodon

@briankrebs Maybe WaPo is too old to carry on this kind of work anymore. Maybe they should consider passing the torch to some younger, more intelligent, better edited organization… before they embarrass themselves too… oh, nm, I see it’s too late.

Someone recently suggested to me that AI systems bring the users' ability closer to the average. I was intrigued by this idea because it reflects my experience. I am, for example, terrible at any kind of visual art, but with something like Stable Diffusion I can produce things that are merely quite bad, whereas without it I can produce things that are absolutely terrible. Conversely, with GitHub Copilot I can write code with more bugs that's harder to read. Watching non-programmers use it and ChatGPT with Python, they can produce fairly mediocre code that mostly works.

I suppose it shouldn't surprise anyone that a machine that's trained to produce output from a statistical model built from a load of examples would tend towards the mean.

An unflattering interpretation of this would suggest that the people who are most excited by AI in any given field are the people with the least talent in that field.

While we're at it, is there any possible use of the word "talent" that isn't riddled with bias? Isn't it invariably a distraction from opportunity as the determining factor in achievement? I think it maybe needs to get in the bin alongside merit tbh.

As the token poor kid who got to go to uni I can assure you the idea that policies like affirmative action lower standards is extremely hilarious. You want to see low standards? Surround yourself with the privileged LOL

A friend who's an artist living in #Ukraine struggles with daily power outages. A UPS allows them to save their work, but they are looking for some #photoshop / Clip Studio Paint capable #hardware which could allow them to work for 4-8h a day on battery.

I was thinking about #lenovo P52 #notebook with some spare, hot swappable batteries. Dedicated GPU, 32 GB of RAM.

Do you have any better ideas? The budget is around $1000 for everything.

If shipped from abroad, there's ~30% customs tax.

#art

The speed at which I reversed my car when I saw these ladies modding their yard sign

So, I just heard from a friend that said they are not voting because they feel it is “pointless”.

#US friends, please don’t go down that path. Don’t lose heart.

Please #vote. It is what we have.

#USPol #USPolitics

Własny ogród to najlepsza rzecz jaką można mieć

Aww... The battery feels safe enough to open it's shell. Hi there little guy!

Trump: I will crush you like the bugs you are.

Journalists: Haha there goes Trump again.

Biden: I'm incredibly disappointed in your coverage:

Journalists: How dare you? Resign immediately, you ungrateful pathetic SOB.

Stop doing billion dollar fines to Google, start with trillion dollar or percentages of yearly transaction values.

That will get them to sit the fuck down.

I'm sorry but CrowdStrike's "technical details" post is well below the expected standard in our field. What kind of logic error was it? More importantly, what was your QA process like? Why did CI not catch it? Why was there not a staged rollout? These are the absolute basics that should be expected.

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-update-for-windows-hosts-technical-details/

Bralczyk powiedział w TVP Info, że pies nie umiera, tylko zdycha i nie podoba mu się mówienie o adopcji zwierzęcia. Miodek powiedział, że język śląski to „gwara”. I burza w mediach.

A może po prostu przestańmy słuchać mędrców językoznawstwa, którzy sami mianowali się kreatorami języka? Jak myśmy przez tysiące lat sobie bez nich radzili? Byliśmy niemi, niepiśmienni i błądziliśmy jak dzieci we mgle. Dopiero jak pojawili się językoznawcy, zaczęliśmy w ogóle mówić!

Ano jednak chyba nie. Językoznawcy i najczęściej poloniści, zostali mianowani prawodawcami języka dopiero w wyniku powstania nowoczesnych nacjonalizmów i w czasie batalii jedynie słusznie narodowej przeciwko lokalnym językom. Trzeba było koniecznie ulepić jakiś sztuczny najczęściej język „narodowy”, „literacki”, elitarny i jedynie poprawny. Szło to w parze z ideologią jedności narodowej. Wszyscy mieli myśleć, wierzyć i mówić tak samo. W Polsce notabene ten eksperyment społeczny, dzięki głównie Stalinowi, dzięki przesiedleniom, a potem Gomułce, dzięki jego „narodowemu komunizmowi”, osiągnął niemal stan idealny.

W banieczce naukowej znany jest bój preskryptywistów z deskryptywistami. Ci pierwsi, jak Bralczyk, nadal chcą jak dawniej siedzieć na tronach w szatach mędrców i mówić ludziom co jest poprawne, co jest niepoprawne, tworzyć kodeksy, prawa i ściśle z ich przestrzegania rozliczać. Ci drudzy uważają, słusznie, że to z nauką nie ma nic wspólnego, a więcej z ideologią. Językoznawca ma się zajmować opisem zjawisk językowych, a nie pełnić funkcję normatywną, czy wręcz represyjną.

Cały tekst:
https://wolnelewo.pl/kraina-jezykowych-medrcow/