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· February 1, 2024 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via nixCraft 🐧

I really don't think it's fair that my generation
* had to help our parents use the printer
* have to help our kids use the printer

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· January 30, 2024 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via Christina Warren

this is a perfect combination of all of my favorite things: movies, internet piracy, ASCII art, terminal nerdiness and shitposting https://ascii.theater/

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· January 29, 2024 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via Dwight (DB) 🤔

not sure who to attribute this to – there is NO reason any of us should have to "thrive in a fast paced environment" or "work well under pressure." most of our daily work is not an emergency and our culture of fake urgency and immediacy just to make more profit for people in the c-suite is burning people out.
stop sending people into fight or flight and expecting them to bend over backward because you dont know how plan or manage resources properly

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· January 22, 2024 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via Timnit Gebru (she/her)

"There’s a lot of disagreement over how soon the artificial general intelligence moment will arrive. Microsoft researchers say they’ve already seen “sparks” of AGI in GPT-4 (Microsoft owns 49% of OpenAI). Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AGI will arrive in just two to three years. DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg predicts that there is a 50% chance AGI will arrive by 2028."

Can I too pull numbers out of my behind & predict the 2nd coming, and get taken seriously?

https://www.fastcompany.com/90990042/agi-ai-explained

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· January 14, 2024 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via Dgar

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· January 11, 2024 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via Ghost of Media Studies, Assed

Folks remembering #AaronSwartz today – remember that he was moving publicly-funded research out from behind a paywall.

Then remember the only reason the case went forward is because federal prosecutors, specifically Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann, wanted to make an example of him.

“Theft is theft, and it doesn’t matter if you use a crowbar or a computer” were Heymann’s words at the time.

Notice how federal prosecutors aren’t bullying Sam Altman for the wholesale theft of content network-wide, to build a machine that spews bullshit and further destroys our ability to determine the truth?

It’s because he’s doing it for private profit, while Aaron worked for the public good.

Never let yourself be tricked into believing the legal system is a justice system.

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· January 10, 2024 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via Brian Klaas

Where is the internet? Part of the answer lies with about 500 undersea cables that stretch across the oceans. I wrote about them, a story that links colonial history and sharks to sabotage and geopolitics. https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-hidden-world-of-undersea-cables

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· January 5, 2024 · 1 minute to read

I am drinking Guinness Draught 0.0 by Guinness at Guinness Open Gate Brewery & Barrel House in Halethorpe.

Name: Guinness Draught 0.0
Brewery: Guinness
Style: Non-Alcoholic Beer – Porter / Stout
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 0%
IBU: 28
Brewer’s Notes: To create Guinness 0.0, the St James’s Gate brewers start by brewing Guinness exactly as they always have, using the same natural ingredients; water, barley, hops and yeast; before gently removing the alcohol through a cold filtration method. The cold filtration process allows the alcohol to be filtered out without presenting thermal stress to the beer, protecting the integrity of its taste and character. The brewers then carefully blend and balance the flavours to ensure the distinctive flavour profile and taste characteristics of Guinness.

The resulting product is a stout that is unmistakably Guinness, just without the alcohol, featuring the same dark, ruby red liquid and creamy head, hints of chocolate and coffee.

Untappd.

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· January 5, 2024 · 1 minute to read

I am drinking Guinness Draught by Guinness at Guinness Open Gate Brewery & Barrel House in Halethorpe.

Name: Guinness Draught
Brewery: Guinness
Style: Stout – Irish Dry
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 4.2%
IBU: 45
Brewer’s Notes: Swirling clouds tumble as the storm begins to calm. Settle. Breathe in the moment, then break through the smooth, light head to the bittersweet reward.

Unmistakeably GUINNESS, from the first velvet sip to the last, lingering drop. And every deep-dark satisfying mouthful in between.

Pure beauty. Pure GUINNESS.

Guinness Draught is sold in kegs, widget cans, and bottles. The ABV varies from 4.1 to 4.3%.

Guinness Extra Cold is the exact same beer only served through a super cooler at 3.5 °C

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· January 2, 2024 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via Human Kind — Be Both 👍🏻🙈🙉🙊🇺🇸📷

Hello friends. Yearly reminder that TurboTax is a scam, and that most people don’t need to pay for tax software every year. There are lists on IRS.gov of legitimate sites where you can file your federal taxes for freee

The one I used last year was just as simple as turbo tax, but wasn’t trying to upsell me constantly.

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Creative Technologist working in the Themed Entertainment and live events worlds. I've been part of the Fediverse since 2016, moved to my own instance from mastodon.social, and then in May of 2025 I moved to my own GoToSocial instance. I use Wordpress with ActivityPub (this) as my primary posting space.

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  • The Bezzle - November 18, 2024
  • A hologram for the king by Dave Eggers | Open Library - February 23, 2024
  • Red Team Blues - November 23, 2023
  • The Genesis Machine: Our Quest To Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology - October 8, 2023
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  • Plant or Meat? Either Fuels Muscle Growth Equally - April 30, 2025
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