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LEDs are a wild west and I feel like with street lamps nobody cares about picking the right color temperature or high CRI.
@Gargron Flicker rate… some of us see and/or perceive it, and it seems to trigger headaches. There are LEDs that don’t. Use them, especially where folks can’t easily opt out.
Re: https://mastodon.social/users/404mediaco/statuses/117592857554097967
This is incoherent. The "open weight" "local" models are largely coming out of the AI labs that are making hackable hardware inaccessible to many people, and have this outcome as one of their goals. The future of hacking your devices is having devices that are accessible.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #hardware
I've gotten a couple parents reaching out about their kids' FIRST Lego League projects, pitching designs that seem a little too advanced for a kid's project (ie, ideas that feel advanced for me with a PhD in this stuff to take on, never mind a fourth grader). I have been trying to steer them back towards ideas that would be more appropriate and engaging for kids. Is it an open secret that many parents are doing their kids' projects for them, propped up with AI?
anyone with a camera can post #bankycameraclub
If I wanted to switch to a window I'd switch to that window. I have no idea what is wrong with people that they think that 'raising a window' is a valid response to being given a filename, instead of opening a window with a second view on it.
You could get surprisingly far with the design of a usable desktop if you just practiced the black mass of the Gnopple HIG.
@georgetakei Nope.
A wave or a whale? The erosion on this area of the Saltings at Little Loch Broom could be seen as either.
An impressive amount of soil has been laid down over time as the saltmarsh has grown. The layers are now exposed due to erosion events.
Some aerial shots I've been wanting for a while (pt.2) Ornsay Lighthouse and the Lighthouse Cottages looking back towards Camuscross and then looking out over the Sound of Sleat towards Loch Hourn and the mainland. A lovely day today. #Skye #Landscape #Scotland
I am 58 years old. My work regularly puts me in senior-level discussions with senior executives and political leaders. I can only tie my shoelaces via the bunny ears method.
@fesshole Oh.
oldie but goldie: i'm still quite fond of this animation
#OldieButGoldie #PixelArt #Art #Animation #AnubiArts
anyone with a camera can post #bankycameraclub
Today in Labor History November 10, 1887: Chicago Haymarket martyr Louis Lingg, 22, “cheated” the state the day before his scheduled execution by committing suicide in his prison cell. He exploded a dynamite cap in his mouth. It took him 6 painful hours to die. Using his own blood, he wrote "Hoch die anarchie!" (Hurrah for anarchy!) on the stones of his cell. In 1893, Illinois Governor John Altgeld granted Lingg a posthumous pardon because he, and his 7 codefendants were actually all innocent of the Haymarket bombing. None of them had even been present at Haymarket square when the bomb was thrown. All 8 were, however, anarchists, and were railroaded because of the political beliefs and affiliations.
On May 1, 1886, 350,000 workers went on strike across the U.S. to demand the eight-hour workday. It was the world’s first May Day/International Workers’ Day demonstration—an event that has been celebrated ever since, by nearly every country in the world, except for the U.S. Two days later, another anarchist, August Spies, addressed striking workers at the McCormick Reaper factory. Chicago Police and Pinkertons attacked the crowd, killing at least one person. On May 4, anarchists organized a demonstration at Haymarket Square to protest that police violence. The police ordered the protesters to disperse. Somebody threw a bomb, which killed at least one cop. The police opened fire, killing another seven workers. Six police also died, likely from “friendly fire” by other cops. The authorities, in their outrage, went on a witch hunt, rounding up most of the city’s leading anarchists and radical labor leaders, including Albert Parsons, Louis Lingg and August Spies.
Read my article on Lucy Parsons and the Haymarket affair here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/
#LaborHistory #workingclass #haymarket #anarchism #prison #deathpenalty #EightHourDay #chicago #police #policebrutality #lucyparsons #louislingg
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/117593068171654579
Oh how I wish for sodium lamps to make a comeback 😔
@Gargron they are still gradually being replaced here, and every one that gets replaced with a bright white LED lamp pisses me off all over again. i walk at night a lot and there's such a difference
New from Gus Bova: What’s happening now goes far beyond #Texas’ historic financial neglect or legislative incapacity to invest in #education. What we have before us is a many-tentacled crisis, one that looks and acts like a colossal heist in broad daylight. https://www.texasobserver.org/texans-are-losing-their-democracy-school-by-school/
For each wedding anniversary I always cook my wife an anniversary meal which she posts on social media. Main reason for me doing this is to remind in laws that we didn't have their choice of food at our wedding which annoys them to this day.
@fesshole battle couple
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I’m new to the Fediverse, and so far I’m loving it
It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.
I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.
I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.
And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.
If you are one of these people, at innumerable thousands of companies or open source projects right now, engaging in principled resistance, doing your professional best and advocating for what you believe is right, then I want you to know that I and many other people respect what you're doing. It matters that you do this, and it's unfair that you've been placed in this position. I'm sorry that you have to work with people who are less conscientious than you.
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