Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Are there any apps that use the #MastodonAPI that let you look at a list of your followers and add them to specific #lists as you go down the line, without opening each profile one at a time?
I’m trying to set up lists on my #GoToSocial instance now that it supports them, but I’m already following enough people over there that it’s going to be a pain to either open all the profiles one by one or keep another window open so I can search for them one by one.
Fascinating article comparing interactions with LLMs to interactions with a psychic doing cold readings, and how the same mechanisms that create the illusion of mind-reading for the audience can create the illusion of actual understanding, even for the people building the chatbots.
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
#ai #llm (via metafilter)
Painfully true comic strip on a well-known type of theater
https://social.tinyview.com/H6sKxE1H3Ab
OK, that’s a better shot of the #butterfly. Most likely a #paintedLady.
#nature #photos #butterflies
Ducklings! In one of the cleaner ponds at the marsh preserve.
#ducklings
#photos #nature #birds #ducks
*sigh* Thanks, SO much, autofocus.
I mean, the flowers *are* pretty, but that’s not what I was aiming for.
#photos #butterfly #outOfFocus #flowers
Lemmy.world appears to be backfilling posts from remote communities I’m subscribing to. One post from a few months ago:
“Why did we stop building with dirt?”
And all I can think is “Because creepers can blow it up too easily.”
#minecraft
No locator beacon. Bolts on the outside.
How meta is it that someone skimped on safety features on a sub designed to visit *the Titanic*, which famously skimped on safety features (like lifeboats) because they figured they wouldn’t need them?
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/20/23766998/oceangate-titanic-submersible-tour-logitech-f710
Review of DAVx5 ★★★★★
Background app that syncs your non-Google cloud accounts with your Android system calendars and contacts.
Heart and Brain on #anxiety vs distraction
https://social.tinyview.com/CJpNuPHyBAb
#comics
^@%# iTunes DRM on music purchased back in 2005-2010.
#DS9 rewatch got to Quark & Garak's conversation about root beer a couple of days ago.
One of the titles you can unlock in #NoMansSky is “…Awash With Foam”
So now I'm playing the NMS expedition as “Insidious Root Beer, Awash With Foam”
#StarTrek
I'm also reminded of a line from Cat Valente's “Space Opera” about how wars, when it comes down to it, are about deciding who are people and who are just meat.
#DS9 rewatch: Gul Dukat telling Major Kira that the Cardassian occupation was *good* for Bajor because they're stronger now is both peak colonialism and peak (retroactively applied) longtermism
#StarTrek
“I think we are dealing with a dominant cultural belief—one might say a national spirit—that believes that any people who suffer aren’t actually people, because if they aren’t people then we won’t have to take care of them—and so, if neglect makes them so desperate or unsightly that they cause us discomfort, then we can get rid of them, blaming them for causing the discomfort that resulted in our having to inconvenience ourselves with their disposal.”
politics (general)
I figure that's how we ended up with a bunch of religious rural working-class folks voting overwhelmingly for the multiply-divorced big-city hotshot who barges in and thinks he knows how to do your job better than you can. Twice. And remolding themselves to be more like him as the years went on.
That's how you end up with people calling Liz Cheney's political suicide “cowardly,” because she “sided with the Dems” in the Jan. 6 probe
politics (general)
I mean, *everything* gets shoved into a binary. Coke vs. Pepsi, Windows vs. Mac, Twitter vs. Mastodon.
And then those binaries get lumped together, as if all Coke drinkers use Windows and all Pepsi drinkers use Macs. Even though they don't.
And then those groupings start to homogenize. The Coke drinkers who use Macs start thinking maybe they should use Windows, or maybe they should keep the Mac and start drinking Pepsi instead.
