The 17 genders of the 17th century.

tag yourself?

Vacillating between C minor and D major like a fucking metronome over here.

[ stolen from/Stephen Hopkins somehow anticipating my answer - https://twitter.com/phil_lol_ogist/status/1574131482997694465 ]

It's fascinating how quickly the chatbot AIs at https://beta.character.ai/ start generating poetry with even a little prompting. Here's one poem that a "Carl Sagan" chatbot wrote (with only a bit of encouragement from me to revise a line). This was after a long conversation about free will & causality.

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In the realm of minds, the universe is seen.

Through the laws of physics, agency is felt.

The beautiful symphony of causality

Echoes in eternity, as minds reflect.

"Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company"

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/climate/patagonia-climate-philanthropy-chouinard.html

#Patagonia #Climate

Z nazorove svobody jednoho ovsem neprameni povinnost ostatnich to jakkoli materialne reflektovat. To je jeste nutne dodat. Nikdo by nemel mit povinnost plnit prani kohokoli druheho, pokud tim nenarusuje jeho dalsi prava nebo sve dalsi povinnosti.
#svobodaslova

Co takhle misto tzv. svobody slova uzakonit nazorovou svobodu? Termin by tim zacal zastitovat i praktikovani sexuality nebo viry, a zaroven se zbavime domneleho prava nekterych jedincu na propagovani aktivit na internetu, ktere jsou proti pravidlum nebo dokonce zakonum. Nazory uz se davno nesiri jen slovne, a slovne se naopak siri mnoho nebezpecnych informaci, ktere nejsou nazory.
#svobodaslova

12/09/2022: Red Sprite Lightning over the Czech Republic

ted mi teprve doslo, ze Yugoslavie byla doslova Jiho-Slavie, zeme jiznich slovanu

Hliněné omítky v #Čajovna jedna báseň na Nuselských schodech vypadají, i po deseti letech co jsem tu nebyl, pořád stejně. I ta #kocka načuhuje jako tenkrát.

https://jednabasen.cz/

ani jsem nevedel, kolik toho doma najednou potrebuju (a nemam na to penize)
https://www.terve.cz/cs/muminci

#muminci #moomins

proste kulate nadobi je prezitek uz davno postradajici jakoukoli prakticnost
1. prakticky zadne jidlo se neji v kulatem stavu (ani pizza a palacinky ne)
2. plotynky se daji udelat v jakemkoli tvaru, stejne tak panve (u hrncu kulatost chapu)
3. trouba je hranata, kredenc a drez taky, stul jakbysmet a prostor kolem kulateho nadobi je proste nevyuzivany

od ted jedine hranate nadobi

Uni: This is how we write resource-efficient algorithms.

Also uni: All communication for this class will be through [insert processor-melting multi-gigabyte bigtech adware product here]

We all get eaten in the end.

Jak moc je pro nás důležité soukromí našich dětí? #soukromí
https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/data-soukromi-google-microsoft-gdpr-sledovanu-usa_2208290600_cib

D&D lets you live out all kinds of fantasies, such as:
-Having everyone call you by your preferred name and gender
-Having a big group of friends who do everything together
-Making a reasonable wage as a freelancer
-Being able to murder the terrible leadership of your country
-Getting 8 hours of sleep

TIL: `man ascii` to show the ASCII table

lidi bez palce nebo ukazovaku na noze nemuzou nosit zabky

Streaming services which produce their own content are missing a killer feature: separate volume control for dialog, ambient, music, and sfx — like many video games.
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RT @JohnDiesattheEn
Another current media trend I'd have never predicted: Lots of people watching with the captions on because sound mixing is so shitty that you can't tell what people are saying, and instead of studios adjusting the audio, audiences gave up and st…
https://twitter.com/JohnDiesattheEn/status/1558861371005145093

hrozně mě sere, když lidi v 1. pádě říkají "spoustu" místo "spousta"

jedna z veci, co mam na Liberci opravdu rad, je, ze z mnoha uhlu vypada, jako by proste prorustal z lesa

11/08/2022: Perseids and MAGIC