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Last Notes npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea the last time I posted about how "The Hague" is actually just a town and people live there and it's where I go for bubble tea, someone got really weird at me about why on earth would I repeatedly go all the way to The Hague just for bubble tea and not just buy it where I live???, apparently failing to grasp the entire point npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea my husband started going on a rant about how people misunderstand what the International Criminal Court does and doesn't do; he said something like "for example, if I went and did a terrorism here in the Netherlands, I wouldn't end up in the Hague, I'd end up in..." and he realized his mistake in using himself as the specific example, who'd go to the local court which is in, well, the Hague npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Rare sighting of the silliest of beans npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Okay, we have a new contender for Most AI Thing to Ever Happen npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…sp4z yes, it must be, and I'm not sure but presumably they're trying to build "social credit" for their brand or something, respectively npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea well, it finally happened to me: an unattended github account submitted a pointless, stupid change request to MY PERSONAL WEBSITE npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea I often narrate my thoughts to Odin, calling myself mommy, and honestly mommy has been struggling to remember she shouldn’t use this as her default reflexive pronoun in most social contexts npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…vnlz that’s a lot harder, admittedly, but actually the paperwork I submitted for my visa only certified that I had never been arrested in Everett, Massachusetts because there’s no such thing as a document certifying you’ve never been arrested in the entire United States! npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Honestly, my brother has almost no chance of holding a real job ever again anyways because the American system turns a prison sentence of any length for any reason into a lifetime stamp of unemployability npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…d3nc literally what the fuck is wrong with you. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea My mother happened to have a stopover in NL on her way to Norway, so I went to see her. My brother called her American cell phone from his American prison at 7 am his time; I had assumed I wouldn’t hear his voice for many years yet. I broke down crying in a Rotterdam public cafeteria. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…0ny6 the part where he ties his support rope to the public urinal is a nice touch npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Amsterdam murder rate: extremely low npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…5raw I believe the destination article of these games is often "sexual intercourse", so... npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea sometimes I wonder if people add some of these links just to increase their score in those games where you find the shortest possible route between two distant topics npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Odin is all socialed out after a big trip to a park in the center of Amsterdam to see his new friend Brother Thomas. He works at a research institute in Rome and came to the linguistics summer school for classes in ancient Near East languages npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea not to imply no-one ever spectacularly fucked up their accounting software the old-fashioned way, but Amazon suddenly billing customers over a billion dollars apiece for routine S3 usage certainly does have a certain... vibe, doesn't it? npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea while we're here talking about Linguistics Summer Camp and rare scripts, have you seen the Elamo-Minoan Hypothesis that I worked very hard on and will surely pass peer review any day now npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Today in women in the ancient world: this Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription bears the warning “Whosoever would tear down this engraving or efface my name from it, may the gods oppose them, may his masculinity be severed, may her femininity be severed, may they be no longer manly nor womanly!” npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea The year is 2026. Video call technology is so advanced that the university sends technicians around at the start of every class period to poke their head into every classroom and check if the zoom call for remote learners is working properly npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Odin got a bit hyper this morning when he realized that mommy had *not* snuck out the door at the crack of dawn this time npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea There may be less Odin Posting while mommy is at Bronze Age Languages Summer Camp all day but rest assured he continues to bode npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Medieval cozycore IS real and it CAN heal you. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea I have an update on this sad tale. I think if this fatal prank call had gone down on an English-centric Youtube channel, it’d have been an omnipresent Discourse Event. But you can get your small-country-bizarre-crime coverage here on Mastodon from me npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea years of online discourse about pronouns and queer virtue have left me unable to read linguistic theses without bursting into giggles over sentences like: npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea copying Luwian Hieroglyphs by hand for class and noticing that my learned habits for stroke order and cursive shortcuts in Chinese are automatically carrying over to other non-Latin scripts npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea A charming little quirk of Leiden is that most of the windows are too old to stay up when you open them, and so every warren of students has their Designated Unimportant Heavy Object to hold up the panes. Old dictionaries, laundry detergent, especially thick and sturdy dildos, a random chunk of wood pried off ikea furniture broken during a drinking contest … npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea wow, discord acknowledged on the Bad Place that it was true that an overfitted CSAM detection AI started flagging grids (spreadsheets, game inventory screenshots, etc) as illegal and instabanning people. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Good Morning Leiden npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea This morning’s translation exercises included a guy panicking about being promoted to Prime Minister of Imperial China and submitting his resignation three times in one week (all refused). npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea I like to rag on Confucius for being so “kids these days!” so here’s a fair and balanced quotation of his better side: npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Today on ancient diplomacy: npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Terribly amused by this alleged "CEO" who set up a bot to make himself sound smart by generating "intellectual discourse" replies on his behalf, which proceeded to write a comically high-brow pseudo-intellectual reply to a joke diagram, get flagged by one of Mastodon's biggest accounts (hi) and vaporized by mods within literal seconds (thank you mods) :neodog__w_: npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea I have clarified any and all confusions you may have had about ancient Chinese political thought in one convenient chart. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea (LONG POST) Fell down a fascinating rabbit hole today about a few little boys and a little girl in ancient China about 2100 years ago. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea the temperature has dipped below 30 after a high of 37 (99), so I think it's safe to call that Odin has officially survived The Hottest Day Of His Life (So Far) npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea In several different Chinese epub files from different sources, I kept seeing the letter "g" specifically, and no other letter, be rendered in a fallback font when pinyin pronunciations were given. The mystery of it drove me to madness npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea (as an interesting aside: the signs had only a dog icon and not a baby icon because the Americans are an extremely kidnapping-paranoid culture, and leaving your own young child unattended for even a moment in public can easily get you arrested for negligence. So, it's pretty rare for a young child to be alone in a parked car regardless.) npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea One more “Peoples of the North, hear my plea” for the Netherlands and friends today: npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea y'all I know that if you have AC (most houses here don't) then obviously the windows should stay closed, or if you have good insulation (lol, whoever rated our apartment was clearly doing some creative math to avoid falling beneath the current legal minimum) that not opening the windows might work out better, assuming you did close the curtains. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Dutch people. Peoples of the North, who lack a strong cultural awareness of how to handle heat waves. Please heed my words npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…u9rc Marianne apparently has absurd amounts of Charm. My husband is very mechanics-focused; he's starting on the Hard difficulty so he can learn what he needs to know to do Maddening. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea My husband successfully recruited so many students in Three Houses that Edelgard was forced to enroll Hubert in the dance competition. #fe3h #fireemblem npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea The weather is hot, but Odin’s love for Mila burns hotter. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…k0dt pronunciation hints for either very rare characters, or unusual definitions of characters that are pronounced differently from the usual one. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea This is a pocket study guide for Chinese high school literature exams. I think they had to invent entire new frontiers of typography for this thing. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea We are a normal standard family npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea We’re both so normal. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea You know a hole-in-the-wall ethnic restaurant is legitimate when there’s an obviously broken sound system from the 80s sitting on a high shelf because the business has been owned by the same person since it was new and he keeps telling himself he’ll fix it npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea it’s funny how I end up speaking the most Dutch to a Moroccan lady because her Dutch is good but not good enough to find my slip-ups deeply aggravating, and her English isn’t good enough for either of us to fall back on npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea look mommy I too am burdened by the moral crisis of the information age just like mommy :neodog_glasses_phone: npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…mrhw I started studying (modern) Chinese at all about four years ago, and got serious about Classical specifically, which has some different vocabulary, about a year ago. I stopped keeping formal count at about two thousand characters, because at that point, you know all the common ones and flash card drilling doesn't help much. The number that I can recognize in-context in a sentence is probably between 2500-3000, which is the low end of fluency. (A highly-educated Chinese person will know 4000-5000). npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea You know why I can read Classical Chinese? Because I have spent the last year slowly but surely making a complete handwritten copy of my favorite textbook. Every explanation. Every example sentence. With my own original translations and margin notes. On nice sturdy paper with a pen I find comfortable to use. I’m at 183 handwritten pages so far. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Hi it’s me, “English speaker who learned grammatical nightmare Dutch and then randomly decided it was time to get serious about Chinese, and did in fact learn to read Chinese” npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea "hey boss, what do you want me to write on this sticker to demonstrate that it's writable?" npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea I love fountain pens but you do have to be aware of things like “weather decided it’s a leaky pen day” npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea I will share a small anguish with you: the Chinese terms for writing code, compiling code and assembly code are all given the translation "compile" in Chinese-to-English dictionaries. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…cpqn please turn down your sunny evangelization rays for a moment so you can hear me repeat that is not in any way different from how it works on Windows npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea to my genuine but relieved surprise, it still booted after this. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea well this is the scariest thing my work computer has ever done. I didn’t even know it was structurally possible for popup windows to appear over the Windows Update screen npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea It astounds me that I routinely post photos that look like they must be perspective tricks (that is a normal human adult loveseat couch) and people still say “he’s bigger than I thought” when they see my tiny baby in real life npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea noble beast, awaiting his father’s triumphant return from the chicken nuggie stand npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea What? Nooo, I didn’t jump up here to avoid a chore, I was just very keen to read “Western Philosophy from Chinese Perspective” for myself like the very clever little baby puppy that I am npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea my very serious translation of a very serious piece of Chinese philosophy continues apace npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea My husband and I have had a really rough few days for various reasons but Odin is here for us npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Odin and Mila are both still worn out from how hard they chased each other last night!, so they had a gentler date this morning npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…c3an yes npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea since this writing I want to translate is only available in printed form in small font size, I am photographing the pages and using Apple's honestly quite good OCR to extract the text and view it in a large font. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea A visual novel plotline sprung to life: npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea everyone please stop and appreciate Bronze Script 牛 npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Happy Flat Fuck Friday to all who observe npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…2sfs no one is confused by western style weddings in Asia as long as it’s clearly a western dress npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea this is the future liberals want npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea someone asked about the oddly specific tree marriage, so for the record I did not make that up, it was said that this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Bu "took a plum tree to wife, and the cranes were his sons" (and this poetic description of fucking off and doing Whatever stuck with me) npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea (this is from a lecture given by Xu Qianjin that I am in the middle of translating) On the one hand, "maidenless behavior" is such a savage summary of western philosophy, but on the other, "we" here is the culture that invented "desk jobs are utterly beyond intolerable; I, the greatest scholar of my generation, will fuck off to the mountains and marry a tree" npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea oh my gods, of course a proper wolf appeared in the 3D lego parts library a few weeks after I rendered a dozen shots of Callian with a not-very-satisfactory dog that she calls a wolf. Should I just re-pose and re-render all of them? :blobcatweary: npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea today on "you tried, little auto-caption": consistently transcribing Confucian as Confusion npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea more and more projects are adding an AGENTS.md that explicitly tells agents to stop, drop, and roll off a cliff, so if you see an AGENTS.md, remember to check what it specifically says before concluding it's there because the project is pro-AI npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Out of morbid curiosity, I started following a Chinese government-run foreign policy blog aimed at young people (it’s got this cool ancient wandering-warrior-hero branding) npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea psst npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea was watching a video of a Chinese guy playing an English-learning video game on bilibili npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Fascinating failure mode in youtube auto-generated captions: npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea I spent some time looking into the rsync regressions. I found the general shape of the cause of one of them, and a discord buddy was able to further nail the exact chain of failure. We reported our findings in the appropriate github issue. (It was a classic: security fix introducing a new bug. New tests for the fix didn't expose it.) npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…dws0 @nprofile…a4mq you’re getting this backwards. It’s not about whether the user checks. The user checks, and the result is meaningless. Non-Boolean. No actionable information has been gained. The USER is not the one who has any control here about whether they are clicking insanely sketchy-sounding domains required to do their job. The USER cannot fix this problem with any amount of paranoia and diligence npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea when I was younger, I didn’t get the “goat farming” trope. I sincerely loved computers, after all! And my job was to make them even better for everyone! npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…dws0 @nprofile…a4mq “just look at the domain name” does not work in the real world of real emails sent to real employees by real managers. The domain name will be xqz789.vacation whether it’s legitimate or not, and the email client (the one that you are required to use) won’t be helpful and user-friendly for this task. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Had to do a Mandatory Corporate Training on AI policy. For some reason, the language selection defaulted to Chinese, so I went ahead and did it in Chinese just to amuse myself. However, corporate English that has been clearly machine-translated to Chinese is still quite excruciating, and being told that the official policy is that it's the *end user's* responsibility to prevent the AI absorbing unfairly biased *training data* is even more excruciating npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea phishing training really doesn’t spend enough time on “how to structure your mass corporate communications in such a way that your employees won’t conclude that you communicate exactly like scammers and still expect a reply so they’d better assume scammy emails are legitimate” npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea the infosec people at my work are rioting because the Distant Corporate Overlord sent an email that scores 10/10 on the phishing scale (“We want to give you a present to thank you for all your hard work! [Click here] to claim your gift!”) npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea She’s putting Emily on. There haven’t been any gansbroemen fatalities in over 30 years because the canals don’t freeze over anymore npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea o noble beast. o mighty hound npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea in all, ahem, seriousness, if you want a Liberated Social Network but you only want stern serious grown-up posts on it, you haven’t liberated jack npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea a stalwart Man was subjected to my post with a cute girly aesthetic and he took the time to let me know how much it annoyed him that there are posts on Mastodon that are cute and girly. There is of course only one solution npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Writers: here are ten free and easy ways to add a dash of visual interest to your blog posts without resorting to AI imagery (which signals to readers that your blog post is probably also AI and there’s no need to bother reading it): npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea just got insulted by a particularly offensive dark pattern: I went to the first online character counter I could find to check the length of something I'd written in a web form, and aside from the character count, it popped up this brazen lie that my completely handwritten post was "obviously" AI-generated. But don't worry, they can automatically "remove AI" and make it "100% human"! By which they mean charge me for an LLM to continuously rewrite it in stranger and stranger ways until it scrapes a "0% LLM" detection score npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea 犬守夜鸡司晨 npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea I assume the story about the impoverished kid who learned to read "by the glow of fireflies" is an "uphill both ways" tall tale, but it is poetic, I'll grant it npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea 如囊萤如映雪 npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea "Unforeseen Interactions", a play in three acts: npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Odin’s incidental daily life adventures on a day it was too warm to go three hours into the park:
