Random links

[surreality]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/world/canada/plastic-bags-embarassing-messages.html

...how does one get that job, of coming up with these? I would do that job. I would fucking love that job.

[Ganymede]

@surreality

I'd get those for the vintage value.

[Alamias]

@Ganymede said in Random links:

@surreality

I'd get those for the vintage value.

Seriously. That would have the total opposite effect on me as I would just want to get all the 'embarrassing' bags in the series.

[Arkandel]

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/38-wonderful-words-with-no-english-equivalent

[Arkandel]

https://www.themarysue.com/how-dungeons-and-dragons-became-so-gay

[Auspice]

Aubrey Plaza on Hot Ones

I love her so much.

[Auspice]

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Because this is something I forget when I'm trying to code. I always feel like if I can't code it from scratch, I'm terrible and bad and should give up forever.

So Reminders that it's okay to search for shit are v helpful for me.

(This guy placed 11th out of 1054 btw)

[SG]

I discovered this channel a few months ago, and have been working through the videos. This one is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMesEO5_lWA

[Arkandel]

Dungeon Master for hire is a thing!

[Auspice]

https://medium.com/google-design/will-ai-take-my-writing-job-bb4400fdfdd0

I had never before considered the use of machine learning / AI to supplement writing in this way. As I’m here trying to dive right in to write technical documentation in a wholly new industry (and a company who does things A Very Particular Way), the idea of a tool that could provide common tidbits for me (‘oh what was that business rule we defined.....’) with simple prompting is an excellent idea.

I really hope to see ML get to this point. I imagine it’d be handy for developers as well (‘oh right, that’s the calculation I defined earlier!’).

I guess it’s sort of ‘the Clippy we always wanted but never actually got.’

[Auspice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS4X1JfX6_Q

Video about digital communication and how typing methodology is used to convey tone. I quite like this.

[Auspice]

https://youtu.be/y32bRcJzL2w

[Roz]

Victorian ivory dildo BELONGS in a MUSEUM!!!

[surreality]

@Roz said in Random links:

Victorian ivory dildo BELONGS in a MUSEUM!!!

How is this not upvoted 100 times. The comment thread is a joy.

This is the first time* I've ever read through a Twitter thread thinking "oh I hope they get the haunted dildo"

*ok, 2nd.

<helpless cackling>

[Auspice]

https://news.developer.nvidia.com/drive-labs-eliminating-collisions-with-safety-force-field/

[Auspice]

The Damned Mob of Scribbling Women

I include the article title because I find it amazing, but don't judge a book by its cover. The contents of the article are on point.

[Auspice]

https://twitter.com/witchofthewords/status/1159189832616304641?s=19

I kind of want to buy a bunch of Harlequin novels cheap, now, and rewrite the smut to be family friendly.

[JinShei]

@Auspice said in Random links:

https://twitter.com/witchofthewords/status/1159189832616304641?s=19

I kind of want to buy a bunch of Harlequin novels cheap, now, and rewrite the smut to be family friendly.

I want to buy anita blake books and do this...

[Tinuviel]

@JinShei We're just a simulation @Ganymede uses to research regular human interaction.

[JinShei]

@Tinuviel said in Random links:

@JinShei We're just a simulation @Ganymede uses to research regular human interaction.

Now I am deeply concerned for @Ganymede's mental health...and for the wellbeing of those around her