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Do we know where the yellow filter on ChatGPT image generations comes from? I’m kinda sympathetic to it being an intentional watermarking measure because it seems trivial to correct in a post-processing step

Incredible movie with an incredible soundtrack. The "Beautiful Treasures" theme first shows up in the early scene at the textile mill, but slow and in the background. So when they finally actually sing the song, it's like a release of an unnoticed tension.

New sci-hub just dropped.

I love Mother I love her way I love her gospel Precepts to obey

Got this far in before realizing that the replacement battery I was using was also dead. This concludes your latest installment of Pedals Hospital.

Tonight on Pedals Hospital we’re examining @lostangelas.bsky.social ‘s RV-6. Angela said, intriguingly, that it only worked when the input cable was half-plugged in.

when i start a video call with bluetooth headphones connected my laptop immediately closes all programs and logs me out of my user account

Next show!!! 🎻🎷

so joyful!

idea i had

i’ve somehow attained an ideal sort of father-son relationship where we just send each other pictures of tools

“Texans are wimps about cold weather” theory continues undefeated

Hah no I haven’t watched that yet… I figured I’d watch Eadweard Muybridge’s stop-motion pictures of horses first, so I’d understand how to experience the illusion of motion from rapidly changing still images…

none of those notes are in the G minor scale

Starting work on a Rat clone. Here’s version 1 with a few missing/wrong pieces. (Starts quiet, gets loud.)

When did the tradition of reciting (singing?) the Homeric poems actually die? Rhapsodes existed in Plato’s time, at least. It’s a little surprising that it would die, given how consistently central the poems have been to Greek literary heritage.

My coworkers and I posted our weird math/CS paper on arXiv... 👀 arxiv.org/abs/2601.05972

do i gotta play this game

Every day patterns are being uncovered. An ear held to the quiet tapping on the silkstrands of culture. Another word translated from a secret language of masked, grinning faces, laid in a dictionary to one day be held above their heads, shouting “WE TOO SEE.” Credit @lannabellelee.bsky.social

Here’s an algebraic structure: R union {infinity}, with these two binary operations: +, and x || y = 1/(1/x + 1/y). What is this? Each binary operation is independently an abelian group plus an absorbing element. But I don’t see any obvious identities involving both operations.

oh my god

Hamlet is a classic, of course. They put JJ Abrams in charge of Hammet and we all know how that turned out. And the prequels, Hamjet and Hamket — complete pandering garbage. So I’m thrilled to see Chloe Zhao save the series with her latest offering.

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

yeah man I love the mountain goats

chomsky was very important to me when i was young, but i learned a long time ago that a sense of betrayal is a more appropriate response in moments like this than knee-jerk defense.

“be a scribe” was the first “learn to code”

my gf is so sweet and beautiful 🥺

Finding some good websites www.sphere.bc.ca/about/

learning how to do multi-GPU stuff at work today. feeling very powerful.

Ok smart people. How would you deal with this totally stripped, 1/16” hex set screw? I have now tried: - WD-40 - Penetrating oil - Heating it with a soldering iron (only melted the plastic a bit) - Flathead screwdrivers (1/16” too small, 3/32” too big) - Hammering a 5/64” hex key in (too big)

Oscilloscope guts. The CRT runs at 2000V 🫨

3 days after buying a reverb pedal: what i could really use is 2 reverb pedals

journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/doc... Who do we think he was talking to in this one? Seems to be giving advice about US-China Diplomacy? Advice such as "That's why a military display makes sense. Let them and others see, daddys. Spanking paddle" and "First chapter art of war"

This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate. Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

They really named it the Steam Machine and not the Steam Engine?

not gonna lie, I feel pretty cool for digging up this one! github.com/pytorch/pyto...

Might fuck around and invent a new form of masculinity. "Glancemales" or some shit. "Pastaboys." We'll lock down the exact language once we get some VCs on board.

this is so fucking funny www.metalkingdom.net/lyrics-song/... www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_9y...

What do you think they’re doing? Answer in the replies.

for almost every instrument you have to keep activating some muscle to keep the sound going. EXCEPT: the guitar family, harps, xylophones etc., and cymbals. (and some weird electronic stuff)

judyhauff.bandcamp.com/album/sacred... 1) this is really cool, 2) she sounds like Judee Sill kinda, 3) an underappreciated hallmark of shapenote style is the pangender octave-doubling of the tenors & trebles, which results in closer harmonies than you’d get from a sex-segregated chiurch choir

The people have spoken. It's OK to throw sandwiches at ICE officers. Encouraged, even.

Dog food… but for men. How devilish.

Many find these operations baffling. Vexing, even. But to me? They’re trivial.

saying "comathematicians turn cotheorems into ffee" and so forth is a way of demonstrating concept mastery (and thus group belonging) by successful play. that's pretty interesting, i think -- both the link between mastery and play and the idea that play can succeed or fail.

He code switches in the South and with black audiences.

Am I crazy or does he sound more Southern than he used to? He's doing /aɪ/ -> [a]. Is it because he's in Virginia?