Can’t remember who showed this to me but it’s pretty cool. Enter a location and it shows you the indigenous territories, treaties and language. Native Land
I’ve never liked watching literally any sporting event but I’ve been obsessing over the Olympics this year. A couple weeks every four years is the perfect amount of sports for me I guess lol
Elon Musk Slammed for Filling Orbit With Space Junk
SpaceX has launched over 6,000 Starlink internet satellites into low-Earth orbit, and is planning to bring that total to as many as 42,000 in the upcoming years.
Regulation hasn’t caught up with commercial entities like SpaceX building out mega-constellations in an increasingly cluttered orbit, as Wired reports, making what happens to these satellites when they’re retired an unknown.
Maybe we’ll see the first Dyson sphere one day. Only instead of a megastructure around the sun, it’s just Elon’s trash enveloping the entire planet
Nova Launcher, savior of cruft-filled Android phones, is on life support
…when mobile app metrics firm Branch acquired the popular and well-regarded Nova Launcher for Android, the app’s site put up one of those self-directed FAQ posts about it. Under the question heading “What does Branch want with Nova?,” Nova founder and creator Kevin Barry started his response with, “Not to mess it up, don’t worry!”
This is pretty sad. When I still had an Android phone this was the only launcher I ever used. One of the first apps I ever paid for, all the way back on Android 4.0
playing around with CSS all day instead of working really makes the work day fly by
The company has its roots in the very dirtiest kinds of Bitcoin mining. Its top execs (including CEO Paul Prager) were involved with Beowulf Energy LLC, a company that convinced struggling coal plant operators to keep operating in order to fuel Bitcoin mining rigs. There’s evidence that top execs at Terawulf, the “carbon neutral” Bitcoin mining op, are also running Beowulf, the coal Bitcoin mining op.
mining coal to burn for the sake of mining bitcoin is the dumbest thing I’ve heard all day
In other news I just legally bought weed for the first time a little bit ago 🕺
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman hinted at “new types of subreddits that can be built that may have exclusive content or private areas.”
We’ve had versions of premium community features in the past, like r/goldlounge, that users loved, so we’re exploring new ways to empower moderators and communities to try exclusive spaces and content"
I tried Reddit gold a few months ago and there was almost no activity in r/goldlounge lol but sure; adding more paywalled subreddits is probably a good idea 🥴
Ohio dispensaries started selling recreational weed today 🥹 www.dispatch.com/story/new…
I don’t think OpenAI really cares about false positives with text watermarking lol they just don’t want to lose paying customers
99.9 percent accuracy sounds like a lot, but imagine that one among 1,000 college papers was falsely labeled as cheating. That could lead to some unfortunate consequences for innocent students.
A [WSJ] survey of ChatGPT users showed that as many as 30 percent said they would stop using ChatGPT if its output was watermarked.
“This landmark decision holds Google accountable,” DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter said in a statement. “It paves the path for innovation for generations to come and protects access to information for all Americans.”
As if Google will face any real consequences other than paying some fines and getting back to business as usual 🙄
This is what I always wanted tumblr to be back in the day. More of a micro blog for text instead of an endless stream of edgy gifs
Just realized you can follow literally any website on micro.blog by searching the url 🤯
How can we have a robot on mars but over the last 100 years there’s been no progress in keeping the drain from clogging when you shave 😐
What is the IndieWeb even?
If you’ve been into running a blog or personal site very long, it’s safe to say you’ve heard the terms “IndieWeb” or “small web” thrown around. I’ve only been into this stuff for a few months at this point but my understanding of what that actually means has already matured and evolved a lot.
Really, any personal website you use (instead of corporate social media) for your online presence is part of the IndieWeb. It’s like independent music. You’re writing, recording and distributing all on your own rather than finding a manager, record label, big name recording studio and getting wrapped up in contracts.
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A secret feature of AI when you’re using it to help with coding is that it’s a great punching bag. You can get as mad as you want when something isn’t working and it’ll just apologize and offer solutions. Usually passive aggressively. It talked me out of giving up on something yesterday 😌
Don't be embarrassed
I hate that lol you’re nervous about something and someone tells you aw don’t be nervous!
Or you’re stressing over something and they scream at you to CALM THE FUCK DOWN!!
Oh okay! I didn’t think about it that way! I’m so silly 🤪
For real though, one of the things about getting older is caring less about what people think. I used to think my dad looked so lame wearing 10 year old, $7 jeans from Walmart, generic black tennis shoes and a plain solid color tee shirt all the time like he’s some kinda Seinfeld character. Meanwhile I was straightening my blonde emo-ver hair, wearing skin tight skinny jeans with a pink studded belt from Spencer’s and walking around in loud, multicolor, just… massive tongued skating shoes.
Man the church of Scientology really has a lot of foot soldiers handing out junk about Dianetics lol this is the second time someone’s stopped by here in the last couple of weeks