catventures continue

summer office

Again, the only thing copyright maximalism can deliver is a world where AI models are very expensive and licensed from the likes of Getty and Universal Studios, not a world without AI. Here it is spelled out in the Ars Technica article. arstechnica.com/information-... bsky.app/profile/fili...

there’s something deeply funny about the fact that a platform led by cutting edge technologists, that exists due to their innovation and effort, managed to gather a huge cohort of people who use the decentralized protocol to argue that innovation and technology is bad

unfortunately it appears we need to take the website back, despite having the strongest technological underpinnings of potentially any social media site, it is, as many current things, defined by its userbase and not the technology because social effects are what create value. or something, whatever

sounds good to me

I still miss summer (weather)

so can we talk about blockchain on here yet or

Board games with the boys

rrdtool graphs are a total vibe

barely any sleep then Saturday rolls around the twelve blesséd hours.

bullish on hot girl summer this year

when the delivery driver says your postcode doesn't exist (that's boat life)

I miss summer

Cats don't know it's almost Christmas

Can't believe I've never had tempeh before. Definitely a new favorite (thanks @punk.place for cooking)

update: I think the cows are blocking the cell signal

had to explain to a friend “lmeow” yesterday “no no, see, there’s this autistic crypto trader who larps as a cat in a yellow hazmat suit and he just says ‘lmeow’ and ‘gmeow’ and it just became a thing in my industry anyways crypto is totally legit, you sh-“*call disconnects*

the cows woke me up at 2am

morally dubious but unarguably bad-ass

there's always that one guy in some small british pub in the middle of nowhere that could be a literal leprechaun

ocean machine is the best album ever released

vibe

always weird to see CRT memes on the skyline

When you do the math on compute, storage, and bandwidth at significant scale it becomes very hard to avoid the conclusion that it's the only way to get the 10x+ efficiencies you need to run a big network with a (relatively) small budget.

wait isn't the whole point of a network state is it's on the net and not on some island somewhere in one place

ai bf and crypto gf

between dalle+chatgpt and midjourney it's like a $50/mo tax on living an augmented life

Pals! Ca. 1930 - 1940. digitaltmuseum.se/021018469767...

finally got a weighted blanket. so worth it.

I can't RT across apps so I will simply screenshot @dystopiabreaker.xyz

i've never been so happy to overhear a passionate conversation about D&D in a pub. hearing about people's favourite enchantments is an absolute joy

more llangollen autumn

losing what.cd was the library of alexandria of our age

the rare time of year where I use AI to generate a new phone wallpaper

dreams are a good indicator for me of how much I've recovered from something, whether it be extended periods of high throughput social interaction or simply being too dehydrated for too long

finally said I was going to learn rust and promptly sat down and now I have 800 lines of rust in one file - but it works!

this one is tied for best mooring spot this year

Just finished writing a blog post about the on-board telemetry system on our narrowboat! blog.narrowboat.life/2023/09/19/n...

what a lovely day, I sure hope nothing bad happens

quite happy with this one "when the moonlight hits"

would anybody like an ASK NOT FOR WHO THE VENGABUS IS COMING / IT IS COMING FOR THEE sticker because I have a lot of ASK NOT FOR WHO THE VENGABUS IS COMING / IT IS COMING FOR THEE stickers

why would i read books when i can read the backlog of github issues

this icon represents the weather this entire summer

Happy birthday to this little guy, who is two years old (his birthday is the anniversary of when we found him abandoned in a hedge). He's grown a lot and is no longer starving, he seems very happy and fulfilled & loves the boat life as much as we do. Happy birthday Scraps! Pics taken a year apart.

still waiting for someone to build all the parts of atproto I need to make my own thing that I want because I know it's just a matter of time and I'm lazy

made money off my art for the first time today and it was ai art. couldn't be more proud of myself honestly. small sum but big mental impact. 🖤🕯️

some people live in the United States. for real. it's fucked up

midjourney ceasing to be mid today