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My dad was (is) a “Mad Men”-era 📺 advertising guy.

#MadMen #Advertising #Dad #FathersDay

Illustration of Don Draper from the Mad Men show experiencing an acid trip

@whittenbourg Your outfit 🔥🔥🔥

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My latest @theguardian.com Books cartoon

A cartoon in four panels.

A heavy swiss Fountain pen is uncapped with a satisfying click.
(closup image of the pen)

The gold nib scratches pleasingly across heavy, textured paper.
(image of the pen writing)

Each completed page is deftly turned with a light rustle.

The writer sighs gently and closes the handmade leather notebook with a soft thud.
(image of a hand closing the notebook)

These sounds are captured with a high-resolution Microphone and uploaded to the author's "Sounds of Creation AMSR" Youtube channel.
(Image of a laptop with a youtube video playing)

The story itself is utterly dreadful.

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#MAGA #Grievance #Fear
What is MAGA exactly, in a psychological, spiritual, and sociological way? The author of this article brilliantly describes it all to a T, better than I have read anywhere else. We still don’t have a prescription, but at least we have a full-throated, professional explanation.

https://open.substack.com/pub/therationalleague/p/they-warned-us-in-1945-fascism-in?r=4vltlk&utm_medium=ios

Don't be fooled! This kitty is a punk. #CatsOfMastondon #caturday

Sleeping man and sleeping cat. The cat is a small tabby cat. The man has a beard and a septum piercing. A tattoo of a Game of Life glider is visible.

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Really enjoyed David Gerard's amusing take on how programming with AI becomes like a gambling addiction for many.

"Large language models work the same way as a carnival psychic. Chatbots look smart by the Barnum Effect — which is where you read what’s actually a generic statement about people and you take it as being personally about you. The only intelligence there is yours."

"With ChatGPT, Sam Altman hit upon a way to use the Hook Model with a text generator. The unreliability and hallucinations themselves are the hook — the intermittent reward, to keep the user running prompts and hoping they’ll get a win this time."

"This is why you see previously normal techies start evangelising AI coding on LinkedIn or Hacker News like they saw a glimpse of God and they’ll keep paying for the chatbot tokens until they can just see a glimpse of Him again. And you have to as well. This is why they act like they joined a cult. Send ’em a copy of this post."

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/

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Nothing has been more important to my being queer than when I went to my first Pride parade, got seperated from my group, had a panic attack about it, and was sitting on the side of the road holding a tiny genderfluid flag and freaking out. Then this six-foot-five drag queen in four-inch heels appeared from literally nowhere and sat down next to me. I, this scared-shitless trans bi kid at Pride for the first time, very nervously told her she looked pretty and I told her my name and that I got lost and didn't feel like I should be at Pride, and she held my hand and said, “Oh, honey, everybody deserves to be here, especially you. Pride is for everybody who's ever gotten lost, who's been scared of who they are or where they are. You think we never been scared before? Pride's for you, honey, because you're scared. You don't have to be proud right now, but you're gonna be one day, honey, I'm sure of it.”

I found my group soon after that, and I never saw that queen again, but to this day, I am convinced I met an angel.

So yeah. Pride is for you. Pride is for all of us.

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Mood today 😌

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Wonderful thread from @xankarn on moral panics, press coverage, and people living through a time of change. https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/112253975617354814

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New in PN: The real cover-up is of Trump's disordered mental state

"Despite the endless handwringing about Biden Old, a sitting president acting like a cross between a 4Chan thread and Q truly is a major concern — one the mainstream media actively minimizes." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cognitive-decline-cover-up

@easer79 @jay "Hey buddy. My tits are down here."

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Upped my shaping and scoring game.

Two sourdough batards, one box ends, the other pinched ends... And look at those ears!

Two loaves of sourdough bread on a cooling rack.

Sliced loaf and slices on a cutting board, showing the crumb.

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Latest comic: AI gone MAD
#tech #technology #internet #ai #cartoon #comic #cows

AI GONE MAD

1. AI has been feeding on the creative efforts of humans for a while.

We provide "grass" for this hungry digital bovine. Shown: pixelated cow labeled COWGPT

2. But as the internet increasingly becomes filled with AI-generated content, AI is consuming itself.

Researchers at Rice University have compared the resulting data corruption to mad cow disease, spread by cows eating other cows.

Cow eating ground up cow with hoof sticking out

3. They say "without enough fresh real data, future generative models are doomed to madness." (Model Autophagy Disorder)

Cows eating other cows, devolving into multiple legged three eyed AI cows

4. Is this really the dream of the future? A diseased digital brain full of misfolded data prions leading us to certain death?

1990s - Woman using Netscape Navigator: The whole world is connected!

Soon - Waking away from laptop as frothing cow emerges from screen: I think I'll read a book.

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I never feel like I'm good at these sort of things, but here we go. #Introduction

Hello! I'm a 40-something security engineer, with an interest in folklore, technology, and how the two may work together over time.

I'm into slow fashion, human rights, crafting, cats and music. My latest obsession is snails.

A few more of my interests:
#knitting #crochet #python #SlowFashion #folklore #snail #cats #sewing #candles #CozyGames #Privacy #Nature #CyberSecurity

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News about a new, open-access journal covering original work in the intersection of mathematics and fibre/fiber arts.

Details are on the website :

https://interlace-journal.org

Looks intriguing!

This *definitely* needs to get outside my bubble, so boosts are especially welcome, and if people can suggest more hashtags, that would be great.

#FibreArt #FiberArt #Mathematics #Math #Maths #Journal #Knitting #Crochet #Weaving

More hashtags suggested ... adding here as an edit ... not all are applicable, but ... who knows!

#Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crafts #HandMade #SurfFeeds
#PrintMaking #Woodcut #Art #HandMade #Analog #Arte #Xilografia #Grafica #ArtIsForEveryone

Thank you for your indulgence ...

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I very much get a "we just discovered radium and want to put it in everything" vibe from this whole generative AI bubble.

(Including the thing where companies used to slap the word "radium" on existing products even though they thankfully did not actually have any radioactive materials. Like "radium butter".)

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