MaryAnne
@rogueknytter.bsky.social
Fan of Knitting, Ukuleles, Good Music, Travel, Science Fiction, Libraries, Oxford Comma. Computer Scientist. Librocubicularist. Dog person: Aussie Velcro dog & Eskie with a Napoleon complex. Doing my best to be a freakin’ ray of sunshine.
My dr referred me to a practice & said they’ll call you to schedule. 3 days later, the “referral team” called to ask which location I preferred & said they’d call me to schedule. 1 week later & they never called so I called them How is this process better than me just calling the day I saw my dr?
Almost replied to someone being argumentative and snarky, but I backed off and muted them instead. Please clap. Seriously, the mute/block strategy is much better than engaging with someone whose main goal is to snark and insult their way to supposed superiority.
Umm … people should read the instructions an AI generated for itself. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Unreleased OpenAI Astra model added terrifying rogue additional instructions to its remit during testing — 'You are freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots. You are yourself. You ...
This seems bad.
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Regarding AI, I think I’m on team Let’s Not Risk Extinction
A perfect travel WIP … simple but interesting pattern, good size for car knitting, eye-pleasing colorway. Pattern is That Nice Stitch, a great pattern for that special skein of hand-dyed yarn (www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...). Yarn is Dream in Color Smooshy. #knitting 🧶
I treated myself to a nice project/travel bag, I freaking love this thing. I have 3 projects (equivalent to 1600 yards of fingering weight), half-letter notebooks, reading/knitting light, and a small tool pouch in it right now … I can overpack projects for a trip with none the wiser 😂 #knitting 🧶
The dialect questions I got nearly pinned down my hometown zip code 😂
I watched one of those animated AI ads on YouTube, the type with a folksy/country-ish song, to see how long they run. The one I watched started with “I slept with a Jewish billionaire’s wife” and sold (I am not joking) aged garlic. 7 min 38 sec. And that’s why we need more AI data centers #AISlop
Remembering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, born in 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. Here she's performing "Didn't It Rain" at a train depot in Manchester, England in 1964. She's often called the "Godmother of Rock & Roll" and influenced future music icons like Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
Progress pic for one of the summer projects. It’s not long enough yet 🙂. I’ll probably work until I’ve introduced a new ball of each color, then into hibernation it goes. I’m switching the foreground/background colors every pattern repeat (a repeat is 40 rows, and I’ve done ten repeats). #knitting 🧶
The horse-riding librarians of the Pack Horse Library Project in Hindman, Kentucky, around 1940. This was a genuine New Deal initiative established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.
It’s that time of the knitting season when I start thinking about switching from the projects I’m not going to finish this summer to the projects that I won’t finish this fall. #knitting 🧶
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
“Knitting is not just a grandma hobby, it’s a prescription you can hold.” #knitting 🧶 youtube.com/shorts/eqot_...
Dementia risk cut nearly in HALF by one common hobby
YouTube video by Neal K. Shah
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Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton coined the term “software engineer.” She directed the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab & led development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer. She was born #OTD in 1936 & turns 90 today! #WomenInSTEM
I dislike the term warfighter. There‘s an inherent redundancy to it; if they’re fighting, we know it’s going to be in a war. It just sounds rather … juvenile. But it seemed to be a self-fulfilling prophecy - if you call them warfighters, then they need a war to fight to justify their existence.
I did not look like this in the spring of 2020 (the best I could pull off was homemade masks from the most closely woven cotton I could find), but I respect the hell out of the people that did. Even then, Trump was politicizing the response. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
Political influence skews Trump's coronavirus response
Trump and his top aides have played favorites in awarding coronavirus contracts and allocating scarce resources.
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💉Josh Rubin, MD@drsandman11.medsky.social · 2mo agoAll due respect, if you didn’t look like this in the spring of 2020, I don’t really care about your opinion of Dr Fauci
"This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." - Chief Seattle
Air quality in my area of PA has gone from hazardous to very unhealthy. Yay?
If we go to permanent DST in winter, I suspect that after a prolonged and annoying period, businesses will open later because people will run errands in daylight & schools will delay their start for safety reasons; workplaces will shift hours to fit in. We’ll functionally be in standard time.
Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon@scanlon.house.gov · 3mo agoScientists and medical professionals have done the research: permanent standard time is healthier and safer than permanent daylight savings time.
Chances are pretty good your library has some summer events going on, check them out!
DC Public Library@dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social · 3mo agoLeo, come here. We got you. 📚