µblog - archive for 2024-08 🏳️‍🌈

I signed the employment contract for a new job. Starting 9 Sep 2024 #feelsgoodman

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Shorter HN on Pavel Durov:

If a dual-citizen billionaire founder of an effectively unregulated social network can be arrested in a first-world country, then no billionaire founder is safe.

And they fail to see this as a good thing!

LOL JWZ: https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113024385254398763

Update the conspiracy theories are going wild. Did he let himself get arrested in France to avoid Russia getting to him in the UAE? Why are Russian spokespeople (including former spy Maria Butina and Snowden) demanding his rights to be “respected”? Why have thousands of paper airplanes resembling the Telegram logo “spontaneously” been placed at the French embassy in Moscow?

This is the most fun since Nordstream.

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Farage, Musk, balajis, RFK Jr, Snowden, paulg… Durov’s defenders on Xhitter are truly the Best People.

Update apparently using Telegram is a fash shibboleth: How Telegram’s Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr.

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man I am having such a hard time getting started on the last two Culture novels

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I just wish everyone complaining about copyrighted material in [AI] models would actually help contribute to such causes, instead of just being the ones holding the torches on their way to the textile factory.

That’s like saying the Luddites should have worked with the factory owners to create cheaper, more efficient components for the textile mills, thus putting them out of work even faster, but with the glowing feeling that they’d made it easier for future factory owners to build better mills.

(this comment was removed from lobste.rs as “being the start of a political thread”. Nice to know that Luddites still have some power!)

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An LLM trained on public domain text would would write like a mix of a Victorian preacher and a snake oil salesman, and only generate images in b&w.

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🔗 Sailing Yacht “A Yacht”

Absolutely bonkers sailing yacht. Check out the images.

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Say what you will about Messmer the Impaler, his organization’s dedication to science as shown by the vastness of the Specimen Storehouse is admirable #EldenRing

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This Kickstarter project faces some obvious problems in Sweden: RUNK: The world’s smallest stylish mini portable power bank.

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Chris Isaak - Stockholm Waterfront 2024-08-17

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Clive Barker: hey guys you hear that Imane Khelif won the gold medal at the Paris Olympics
Poe: ah very cool
Barker: so where’s joanne
Barker: is she here tonight
Barker: ha ha
Poe: clive
Barker: cuz i just want to haha talk
Poe: clive don’t be an instigator

(part 1 of a thread)

– Lesbian Death Bed

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🔗 John Allison: Giant Days Archive

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The Bay is a decent Britcrim show but the title music sucks.

Update 2024-08-03: we finished season 5. It’s pretty good.

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JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: i’m VERY concerned about the olympicssss
Clive Barker: oh you found a new interest? that’s nice
Stephen King: i didn’t know you followed the olympics!
Rowling: I do now that TRANSS WOMEN ARE INVOLVED
Barker: so you didn’t find a new interest

(part 1 of a thread)

– Lesbian Death Bed

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HN commenter 'bitwize

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