@epsi i dumped a log :(

@littlerao Now that you are mentioning it, there could be a lot more EU marketplace alternatives. I found this list, but most of these shops are restricted to specific EU regions: https://www.herm.io/shopping-tips/the-best-etsy-alternatives-in-europe-17-marketplaces-for-handmade-vintage-and-unique-finds/#final-thoughts.

when wait wait don't tell me has cake discourse:

"While the polls don't look great for his side, Trump himself is apparently doing well in the midterm erections" - Peter Sagal

"I think it's really nice for him to be sexually harassing men for a change." - Peter Grosz

"It's so great to see somebody learn something new at his age." - Sagal

"Slate sent an actual reporter to investigate and this is what they found, and I quote: 'From what I can tell, he appears to have a totally normal ass.'" - Sagal

"The most insecure man in America and the President should be two different people." - Grosz

(2026/10/24)

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism #asses #cake #NPR #WaitWaitDontTellMe #IsItCake #FuckTrump #FuckTheGOP #FuckRepublicans

I am not entirely sure what "Draming of cats" may be, thus I suppose "might be SOLARPUNK" is an acceptable answer.

I am relieved that IRC is SOLARPUNK.

Recently, after being appalled at how many dependencies irssi and weechat have accrued over the years, I started exploring a new IRC client: catgirl

I haven't figured out if it support connecting to multiple IRC networks simultaneously (though with tmux or screen, y'know, multiple instances can be invoked). I did make a horrible blunder with muscle memory of /mode * +o (someusername)

Which ended up parsing the (someusername) as channel modes.

It turns out: catgirl has an /op (ussername) command.

TIL.

@aesthr no, on the contrary, I learn new things. It is a tool. I think people said the same when other technologies were invented (eg. internet, smartphone).

My report on the hotel opening—for Fox News of all places:

(We were all so young!)

And this quote aged beautifully—

“'Today's a metaphor for what we can accomplish in this country,' Trump said."

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/already-a-success-trump-uses-official-dc-hotel-opening-to-plug-brand-triumph

SWORD ART ONLINE ALTERNATIVE

@ivory Thanks! That made it forget all columns 😊 Progress.

@jalefkowit ACAB includes 👆

bash.org #904301

<massacre> Rosti, can I ask you something as a close friend?
<Rosti_LFC> you could ask me something as a complete stranger, but go ahead
<massacre> Do you reckon Emma would go out with me if I asked her?
<Rosti_LFC> errr....
<Rosti_LFC> ask her yourself?
<massacre> no fucking way until I get a second opinion
<Daz> dude she's in the channel
<massacre> no she isn't
<Rosti_LFC> yeah she is mate, look up
<Rosti_LFC> she got op'd yesterday
<massacre> fuck
<massacre> PLAN B
<massacre> spam the channel
<massacre> with text
<massacre> so it goes
<Audia> hi
<massacre> off her scrollback
<Rosti_LFC> ahaha
<massacre> FUCK
* massacre has quit (PLAN C!!!)
<Audia> I'm going to go install Windows 7 right now
<Audia> so I'll be offline for a bit
<Audia> if he gets the balls to come back in here in the meantime tell him the answer is yes
<Rosti_LFC> rofl
* Audia has quit (QUIT)
<Rosti_LFC> that was some hardcore nerd courtship ritual right there
<Daz> Oh man, I wish I could fuck up asking a girl out that badly and still succeed

Going to be revising episode credits soon.

Should I add a "No AI" statement in the end-credits..? Right now, I just have the usual legal disclaimer about it being fiction.

I have mixed feelings about this.

It is a fact that there is no LLM or SD contribution to this animated film. Even had I wanted to use them, most of the animation was completed before 2022, so I didn't really have access to them. Since then, I've pretty much decided I just don't like them much.

I think my biggest concern is that using AI would introduce subtle biases into my work, and also remove the authorial fingerprint of myself and other contributors. The "voice" if you will.

Arguably, I have used "AI" to transcribe audio for behind-the-scenes video subtitles, although this is a quite different type of AI (apparently Vosk uses a neural-net system. If I switch to Whisper, that's a transformer architecture, apparently -- I do not actually understand the difference myself, FWIW).

I also have an interest in using machine-learning to aid in asset-management (e.g. it would be cool to have a DAMS where I could throw in my images, and then ask "show me all the shots with Hiromi Lerner in them" or "find fast paced music in the soundtrack archive"). I don't have this, but it seems like it could be useful, and remove a lot of laborious effort tagging files by hand.

I kind of hope it goes without saying that this was made by people and not humans.

And yet, there is no question that there is a great deal of automation here. I mean, that's how computer animation works. It just wouldn't be possible without it.

So I'm not at all sure I want to make any sort of promise (explicit or implicit) to never use AI tools. It seems like that could be a rash promise.

@fatsam so, what's the gym equivalent for your brain?