Serge Thill

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) kann in Chats offenbar schneller Nähe VORTÄUSCHEN als echte Menschen. FTFY.

*planning* to reverse. It's a minority government, all their plans first need to find support from the opposition....

2023 post from Avery Edison: I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications

Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution - Slashdot Craig writes "Journalspace.com has fallen and can't get up. The post on their site describes how their entire database was overwritten through either some inconceivable OS or application bug, or more ...

Anyway, since we're looking to learn some lessons, here's a much older story of a company that went bust because their 'backup' was just a mirror of the live system.

You know, just in case someone missed Backups 101 too.

hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/01/...

So that "chatGPT ate my notes" thing today. Imagine complaining "I put all my stuff on someone else's machine and now it's gone" a decade ago. You'd have been laughed all the way back to Data Security 101. But wrap a non-story in genAI and suddenly you're in every feed.

I would have thought this is (Artificial) Cognitive Systems, rather than Cognitive Science (see e.g. the definition from David Vernon's primer):

I used to live on Avenue Road Extension, a name made up of three road types but no actual name.

I suppose they just need to balance out stuff like this 😉 And place names like Tiddleywink 😁

Polanski tops leader poll after backing refugees as Starmer sinks Polanski surged to the top of UK leader rankings after backing refugees — while Starmer slumped to the bottom chasing Farage-style politics

I couldn't either, but it did find this, which has the scores (and links to an opinium page but I can't find Polanski on that one). In any case, the scores are, in descending order, -1, -4, -10, -12 and -43 😉
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

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A post by Rebecca Johnson: “I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.” A tumblr respond from mightymur: “The final, brilliant word on passive voice. "She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

it requires synchronous communication but at the same time cuts out all the multimodal aspects while giving you just enough to really notice their absence. At least text is obviously impoverished (and asynch is possible)

phone calls are the uncanny valley of comms and not even practical

hatred of phone calls, no competition. We will accept Whatsapp/Signal as well as Teams/Zoom calls before we will even consider the phone.

Amusingly, Godzilla is also the original name of Gojira (the band).

I wonder if unlocking that kind of higher level metacognition would be a power or a curse 😁

Ben tu vois, quand un éclair et un pain au chocolat s'aiment fortement..... 😁

Me too! Especially now that I seem to be living in Luxembourg again 😁

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Protocol Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Protocol

Sadly, it feels like more people than you’d hope can still learn from this. 😉https://www.smbc-comics.com

Yeah, there is definitely skill involved. Also making sure you don't turn the yolks into scrambled eggs because you didn't pay attention to the heat, etc. I still think it qualifies as a quick comfort-food-level dish though 😉

Carbonara is great for teaching Mise en Place 101. There's really not a lot to prep, and it's not hard, but the difference between doing it and not doing it is the difference between a smooth 10 mins in the kitchen and overdone pasta congealing while you pick grated finger bits out of the cheese.

YouTube video by MobileVideo Luke Change - an Inside Job

There's also this spoof of 9-11 conspiracy theory vids in case you still think Luke and Leia are the good guys in Star Wars 😁
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B47M...

Unused Audio Commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002 for The Fellowship Of The Ring (Platinum Series Extended Edition) DVD, Part One CHOMSKY: The film opens with Galadriel speaking. “The world has changed,” she tells us, “I can feel it in the water.” She’s actually stealing a lin...

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/unu...

I’d say that depends on the faculty 😁

I still have a pic from the blue drinks evening that miraculously survived a dozen mobile phone changes since then. Those were the times.

Well, I probably wouldn’t make her chocolate guinness cake in a Glastonbury campsite tent 😁

the trick is to realise they’re not mutually exclusive 😉

Image of the Microsoft Error Reporting tool being auto-added to the macos dock.

Heh, apparently MS stuff has crashed enough times for macOS to think it appropriate to auto-add the error reporting tool to my dock 😂

I have difficulties accepting this hypothetical because it feels like accepting that a thought would have an agreed-upon look seems to go against the definition of thought. Seems like this is creating an analogy or metaphor, not literally defining a look.

as opposed to questions like “can something look like a thought?”

It’s a concept with a relatively clear agreed-upon definition in terms of concrete components, so you can assess the degree to which something matches that definition?