Aileen E
@mofette.bsky.social
They/Them causing May/Hem. Neon Nuisance in Limerick, Ireland from Northern England. Computer games, Craft beer, Crafting and Music. Seahawks, South Shields and Treaty United FC 🏳️🌈
Report Suggests Nearly No One Is Buying AI Generated Goods https://kotaku.com/3d-model-markets-are-being-flooded-with-ai-sellers-but-no-ones-buying-2000724790
Report Suggests Nearly No One Is Buying AI Generated Goods
A classic conundrum of 'why would I buy something you didn’t make,' platforms like CGTrader has shelves of AI made models collecting dust
kotaku.com
Amazon keeps trying to sell me "4D padded" cycling shorts, and I think one of us is confused about how many effective dimensions objects inhabit. Unless the idea is that the shorts would get to the finish line of an event before me, which I think would be undesirable for a whole host of reasons.
EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.
Might post some good environment news every so often to showcase that it's not over yet and there are good things happening, we just have to fight for it First: beavers are basically magical creatures that help with drought and flooding, and we're reintroducing them more and more
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
Uk National Alert a secret method to prevent more wildfires by making the entire nation spontaneously piss themselves
Hey all! I am officially hanging out my shingle for book layout and design work outside of my immediate if-you-know-you-know circle. I can't start work outside my current client portfolio until sometime in mid-August so I am canvassing for work that would start in MID-AUGUST OR LATER for now. ¹/
This week marks five years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Mahbooba has made a new life in Cork but she is constantly thinking of what's happening to her loved ones at home. She's the guest on today's pod and has written this piece for us. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Five years under the Taliban: What Afghanistan has lost
Minorities are under attack and a gender apartheid is being waged against women who have seen their ambitions and hard-won freedoms destroyed by an all-male ethnic hierarchy
irishexaminer.com
Meta is so unbelievably evil. They make a technology primarily designed to enable abuse, harassment and privacy violations, but also embed real disability aids. The tactic now is to use an entire community as human shields to defend against criticisms www.engadget.com/2236054/meta...
... A fourth person I know has died in the last 3 weeks. I'd say friend but she was my Granddad's wife and a horrible person. I'm sad for him. He's 96. No doubt this will be very hard. Who knows where he'll continue to live now. Fucks sake.
Post your favourite muppet. Wrong answers only.
Post your favourite muppet. Wrong answers only.
[James Stewart as Odysseus] now listen here, Agamemnon, I'm going home, y'see. You keep your fancy armour, I'm getting off this crummy ol' beach. [Spotting the Cyclops] now here's a curious fella, he's only got one peeper
exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!
Arguing that LLMs are anything more than a load of numbers going into a complicated mathematical function and spitting some more numbers out. Yes they simulate. But they simulate *language*. They do not simulate the cognitive processes underlying communication.
Do not stand at Dracula's grave and weep. He is not there. He does not sleep.
My favourite is the anti-memorial to Dracula in the Whitby churchyard that’s basically “Stop asking for Dracula’s grave, he is FICTIONAL and also NOT HERE”
Nicest: Stuart Price Rudest: Stuart Pearce
Nicest celebrity you’ve met? Rudest celebrity you’ve met?
Had a zoom call with "our" florist on 28 May. Messaged on 5th June to confirm questions on that call. Been ghosted since. I've messaged 2nd Jul and 3 Aug and nothing. I'm now trying to ride the gauntlet of looking like I'm late to new florists, but also why was I dropped by previous one. Anxiety++
In Amsterdam, residents can apply for the city to remove the pavement stones and prepare a narrow planting bed helping Dutch streets become greener, cooler and better prepared for heavy rain. #ActOnClimate #Smartcities #ClimateActionNow
Fritz Lang didn't build a seventy-foot-long mechanical dragon, operated from the inside by ten puppeteers, breathing out actual fire via a built-in skull flamethrower, in Die Nibelungen (1924) so you could rock up and tell me "AI is inevitable".
Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.
I said to him 'sounds like you're just feeding veterans of the Trojan war to Magical Island Beasties' and Telemachus started crying
Has anyone considers that Odysseus's problem is that his men are just too delicious. Yes, he angered the gods, but so many of them getting eaten cant be a coincidence.
dear local business owners, nobody is going to tell you they’re bailing on your business because of the AI ads. they’ll just stop going. in a year you’ll have run out of customers and you’ll be totally mystified as to the reason
Hello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...
It’s pretty poor taste to give out comics about plane crashes on every flight.
I use a nail polish travel case to store sewing thread and the bobbins
Never too late to learn how to add ALT text to your images! It's a simple way to let people with visual or neurological impairments know that you care about making them feel included in the Bluesky community.
Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...