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Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · 3d

New fibre to the premises has improved my internet speeds from good to really good. That goes on the positive side of the books today.

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Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · 4d

Such a great source photo! I feel every time I see a picture that uses it as model, it should be the start of a chain of pictures that also use it as a model.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 4d

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · 7d

A lesson many find hard to learn: It is good to follow leaders who are younger than you. But young leaders also need to value the support of older followers.

Age and experience do not ensure wisdom or knowledge. Neither does age mean being out of date or inflexible.

Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · 8d

My printer just gave up the ghost after 5 years and about 5000 pages. It should have lasted much longer. It did about 300 pages after an international move so maybe there were things shaken loose. Functionally I want to replace it with the same thing; it did what I wanted, well, and no more.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10d

RIP to Jane Goodall, who opened the world's eyes to our closest relatives. (Photo by NatGeo's Hugo Van Lawick)

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Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · 12d

I've been doing some programming, and I watched an algorithm video, (fast voxel render), and now my YouTube feed is 50% algorithm videos. Some of them in Spanish, (the last time I did computing work in Spanish was 2008).

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 14d

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

www.chosun.com

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 15d

“Frog,” said Toad, “let us eat one very last cookie, and then we will stop.”

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 15d

Frog tied some string around the box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can cut the string and open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.

Frog and Toad tied a string around the box of cookies.

From "Cookies"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · 15d

Work is consuming with rapid growth etc. Creative hobbies have suffered which makes stress worse.

A simple way back in to art might be to find artists I like and calmly pass time making my versions of their work. Not even the pretence of "master studies", just relax into a process with few choices.

Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · 22d

Single parent household 3x more likely to live in poverty, or nearly 1/3 such in poverty.

Why is obvious: Aussies love to be moralistic and an easy fantasy stereotype is feckless or immoral women, plus Aussies imagine harsh benefit schemes save tax dollars.

Greed and gossipy bitchiness.

Nearly one in three single-parent households in Australia live in poverty, Hilda report shows

Group nearly three times more likely to be in poverty than two-parent households, statistical report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 24d

ChatGPT Goes Completely Haywire If You Ask It to Show You a Seahorse Emoji
Wait, there's no seahorse emoji, right? Right?
futurism.com/chatgpt-hayw...

"Yes 🐠 — actually, the seahorse emoji exists: 🐡 🐬 🐠 🐳 🐟 🦑 🦞 🐙 🦀 🐢 … and specifically 🐴?" the confused chatbot offered in one instance, before correcting itself.

"✅ The official seahorse emoji is: 🦄—oops, no wait, that’s unicorn 😅. The real one is 🐉?" it continued. "Let me be precise: Yes, there is a seahorse emoji: 🦐 is shrimp, 🦑 squid… But the actual seahorse emoji is 🐉?"

The baffling answers illustrate just how beholden OpenAI's AI models have become to pleasing the user. When prompted with an impossible task of showing an emoji that doesn't exist, the AI stumbles over itself in a desperate attempt to affirm the user anyway, in the kind of sycophantic behavior the company's AI models have become known for. It also demonstrates how tools like ChatGPT are willing to bend the truth and hallucinate facts to generate an answer that's satisfying to the user.

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Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · 25d

Overhearing a linguistic prescriptivist and the urge is overwhelming to fight the arrogance of calling whole communities wrong for speaking differently to his idea of right English.

Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · 28d

Realised I’m dealing with a narcissist in part of my life. Can’t get out of the situation yet. Need to minimize my emotional exposure or investment in interactions with them. Never argue with them nor expect change but also don’t compromise myself to keep the peace. And prepare my path out of there.

Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · Sep 4

It’s worse, these are problems of the new fancy iPad app, not the mobile phone app. For now…

Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · Sep 4

And that leaves me pessimistic and anticipating unreasonable unresolvable conflict.

Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · Sep 4

How can I tickle a person’s ego to get them to be more open, rather than letting them indulge in the simpler ego boost of convincing themselves they’re right and using any poor argument to reject other options?

Normally I’d say don’t bet on that approach. Assume minds will not be open.

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Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · Sep 4

Normally I’d say it’s only by coaching intellectual openness and a learning. Cultivating the idea that there are options that fit contexts or priorities, rather than trying to prove one side right or wrong.

And without that debates don’t lead to changed minds.

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Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · Sep 4

In negotiations or debate, people can get stuck in minutia. Cycles of rejecting details because in isolation each doesn’t prove a point. Spending time on a detail while not progressing the big picture.

How to get people to consider a whole position and keep their eyes on a larger goal?

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Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · Sep 4

What I liked about Instagram was a fairly frivolous hobby and family focus but one where I still had some control over when I saw suggestions versus when I saw what I’d chosen.

New followings icon is probably a plus. But losing the favourites list view is a strong minus.

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Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · Sep 4

New Instagram interface is annoying. View followers is now a separate icon, where it used to be is replaced by a friends list that shows me only strangers. And I can’t find a way to view the posts of starred favourites any more, it seems now to be only a bias to show new posts early.

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Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · Sep 1

Just putting this here for easy future reference, neat introduction to the energy demands of Generative AI technology: news.mit.edu/2025/explain...

Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact

MIT News explores the environmental and sustainability implications of generative AI technologies and applications.

news.mit.edu

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Ralf Tometschek @ralftometschek.bsky.social · Sep 1

Menschheit so:

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Julian’s Scrawings @scrawlings.bsky.social · Sep 1

Some days I listen to new music, following the rabbit holes and recommendations, and I’m overwhelmed and awestruck by how much more wonderful music is released than I could possibly listen to, and the tragedy of life is that it’s not nearly long enough for all the good that might fit in it.

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