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Peter Flynn

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jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
Jesse Locker@jessemlocker.bsky.social · 6d ago

Padovanino, Penelope Bringing the Bow to Her Suitors, 1620s(?), National Gallery of Ireland, an extremely rare subject in painting, and possibly related to Monteverdi’s opera "II ritorno d'Ulisse in patria" (Venice, 1640)

A Titianesque painting of Penelope holding a bow before a group of suitors feasting under a colonnade and, in the foreground axes, the axes with rings on top through which they must attempt to shoot an arrow
@alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 6d ago

#Spain combination of high solar irradiance, large available land, and aggressive #renewable auction programs has made it one of Europe's fastest-growing solar markets. #Solar regularly sets the marginal price in Spain's electricity market — meaning that when the sun shines, prices fall toward zero.

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Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 6d ago

If you’re obsessed with the lab leak theory you’re gonna absolutely go wild about this theory that the sitting US president in 2020 helped Xi cover up what was going on with Covid in China and then willingly pumped out propaganda on the internet running cover for the Chinese leader

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 7d ago

“She’s just a translator” shows that you don’t understand what translation is. Some of this comes from the ‘automation’ of translation, through things like Google translate. It’s as though it’s just looking words up in a dictionary. No. It’s an art and a science at once. To get meaning and feeling.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d ago

For years, Telegraph columnists told us climate breakdown is a hoax. Now they say: it's real, but it's too late to do anything about it, so let the bodies pile high (again). Just one long list of excuses not to reduce fossil fuel use. Such newspapers bear as much responsibility as the oil firms.

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 6d ago

People still think of Sweden as this sexually liberated place, but the reality is you're not even allowed to fuck inside the giant taxidermied Blue Whale anymore. Place has really changed.

jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · last wk.

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.

Malm whale in Sweden
Elf M. Sternberg@elfsternberg.bsky.social · 7d ago

"The Department of Energy acknowledges that the inclusion of grants in the October notice tranche was based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient's [sic]." The apostrophe abuse is part of the delight!

Delilah S. Dawson@delilahsdawson.bsky.social · last wk.

I want companies to understand that when I see an AI flier, my brain instantly deletes it. I don't think, "Ooh, I should go to this event!" I rush past it like it's a pile of dog poop. Same for ads with AI models. I assume that if your marketing is cheap garbage, so is your product.

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · last wk.

we have a decent amount of family spread across southern France and northern Spain + Catalonia so I've been watching the news closely and I asked my husband tonight if he was worried (it's his family) and he sighed "Yes, I think it's going to affect the wine quite badly"

Peter Flynn@docum3nt.bsky.social · last wk.

Yes, yes, yes. I can't emphasise strongly enough how important an Enduring Power of Attorney is, even though (here, Ireland) the government has made it a nightmare of complexity to get set up.

Kate Bevan@katebevan.com · last wk.

Yes, yes, yes. I have LoPA for my dad and stepmother (along with a couple of other family members) and that prompted me to set this up for myself, too. Bit terrifying confronting your own ageing and mortality in this way, but so important to put in place before it's needed.