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wmblathers.bsky.social @wmblathers.bsky.social · 4d

New ideophone for Kílta: ata-atau [ˈʔata ˈʔataʊ̯], depicts an astringent flavor, like over-steeped tea or the skin of walnuts. It is also used to depict speaking disapprovingly, and especially suggests the pinched facial expression the person doing the disapproving speech.

#conlang

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 6d

the very basic, mundane function of "AI actors" is to use as a threat against human actors w/the promise that if they won't do something that excessively violates their dignity or artistic purposes, the studio will get an AI-generated representation of a younger woman who has none of those things.

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wmblathers.bsky.social @wmblathers.bsky.social · 7d

The ladies are back. The woman walking the stroller, on the other hand, just turned around rather than waiting for them.

Seven female turkeys grazing in my front yard, with the street just beyond them.

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 8d

A journey of a thousand miles begins with 4 disgusting yet delicious gas station snacks

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wmblathers.bsky.social @wmblathers.bsky.social · 8d

Congratulations!

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wmblathers.bsky.social @wmblathers.bsky.social · 8d

Mine hasn't even shipped yet.

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wmblathers.bsky.social @wmblathers.bsky.social · 10d

Kílta doesn't use "love" in this way. Otherwise...

(Ha në) navím kwan tëlpët surílo.
ha në navím kwan tëlp-ët suríl-o
1SG TOP wine INST cook-CVB.PFV enjoy.PFV
"I enjoy cooking with wine."

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wmblathers.bsky.social @wmblathers.bsky.social · 10d

Can I get paid $36.5 million a year to brainlessly shove stuff into a chatbot?

Massachusetts MCAS tests: sorry kid, AI says ‘fail’

The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System is a standard school exam. Most Massachusetts students sit it. This year, about 1,400 essays got bizarrely wrong scores and had to be reassessed. Y…

pivot-to-ai.com

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tante @tante.cc · 17d

"Our government is being run by aggrieved elites who were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else in the 2010s, where they could finally read what we all think about them. And it caused them so much psychic damage that they have decided to ...Petty, powerful, and pathologically online

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Arabic Poetry @arabicpoetry.bsky.social · 19d

—These Days—
📅

Real people are gone, there's no one.
Greed's been replaced by despair.

The lowest rule over everyone;
the head is under the tail.

— Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd al-Jarrāḥ (Iraq, d. 909)

قد ذهب الناس فلا ناس وصار بعد الطمع الياس

وساس امر الناس الاناهم وصار تحت الذنب الراس

Quoted in Farrūkh, Tarīkh al-adab al-ʿArabī, 2:382

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wmblathers.bsky.social @wmblathers.bsky.social · 20d

Shadow exactly.

A black cat is standing on top of a cat tree with windows behind him. He is leaning out eagerly.

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wmblathers.bsky.social @wmblathers.bsky.social · 21d

Kílta —

Ha në tinsa kwailo.
ˈxa nə ˈtinsa kʷaɪ̯lo
1SG TOP chest hurt.PFV
"My chest hurts."

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wmblathers.bsky.social @wmblathers.bsky.social · 21d

Why not.

Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.

The Rotten Tomatoes page for Jupiter Ascending. 27% tonatometer, 38% popcornmeter.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 22d

ezra klein's impulse is to normalize far right ethnonationalists, not to denature them, and certainly not to put in any effort to prevent them from accessing you. it's important for him to clear his throat and remind you that "they won", as if to say it would be unsporting now to protect you or me.

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wmblathers.bsky.social @wmblathers.bsky.social · 24d

We went to the official reopening of the Thai Pavilion at Olbrich Botanical Gardens today.

#madisonwi

Three yellow waterlilies in a diagonal line, surrounded by lily pads and dark water reflecting a bit of other foliage.

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wmblathers.bsky.social @wmblathers.bsky.social · Sep 6

Oscar having an ennui.

#caturday #SiameseCats

A Siamese cat is lying down in the Comfy Chair. He has his head up, resting on the armrest. He is looking wistfully at something off to the right.

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · Sep 3

3100-1820: ye olden days
1820-540: peak cuneiform
540-740: Age of Empires II, Definitive Edition
740-2020: whatever this is

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wmblathers.bsky.social @wmblathers.bsky.social · Sep 1

Playing with my #CommonLisp #fractal toolkit a bit this morning.

This color scheme is amusing.

$A rather intense looking wreath-like fractal shape with quite intense purples and reds, with a touch of cyans, against a nearly black background.$ $A wreath-like fractal in purples and cyans, against a dark background.$ The Common Lisp call that generated these images:

(with-canvas-to-file (canvas "m.png" :width 4000 :height 4000)
(mottle-canvas (color 50 50 20))
(paint-wreath -0.2375d0 0.74d0 -1.2d0 -0.283452d0 -0.4d0 0.39999d0
(concatenate 'vector +80s-cyans+ +80s-purples+)
:scale 1.1d0 :alpha 0.95
:color-times 6500000))

The Common Lisp call that generated these images:

(with-canvas-to-file (canvas "m.png" :width 4000 :height 4000)
(mottle-canvas (color 50 50 20))
(paint-wreath -0.2375d0 0.74d0 -1.2d0 -0.283452d0 -0.4d0 0.39999d0
(concatenate 'vector +80s-cyans+ +80s-purples+)
:scale 1.1d0 :alpha 0.95
:color-times 6500000))

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wmblathers.bsky.social @wmblathers.bsky.social · Aug 31

New Kílta ideophone: astóm-astát, of being stupefied from screen time.

Koluchát si allui numë rinko, ëlli runtúnin chaso — astóm-astát.
cellphone ACC long.ADV aimlessly look.at.PFV, so.that befuddled do.PFV — IDEO
"He screwed around on his phone so long he became befuddled."

#conlang

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wmblathers.bsky.social @wmblathers.bsky.social · Aug 29

Well now I’m trapped.

#cats #siamesecats

Closeup of a Siamese cat resting with his head on the inside of my knee. It does not look like a comfortable angle for the neck, but his eyes are closed, napping.

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Chentomology @chentomology.bsky.social · Aug 28

The Great Old Ones - this is something already existed in my mind when illustrating the previous cephalopods piece; and so glad I’ve completed it so now I can display them side by side💙 Never stop missing prehistoric cephalopods! Thinking about making this one a silver foiled print as well!

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wmblathers.bsky.social @wmblathers.bsky.social · Aug 27

I don't have anything specifically for that. Yet.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 27

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

anthonymoser.github.io

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wmblathers.bsky.social @wmblathers.bsky.social · Aug 27

Think of it more like, “she answered me; she took her time.”

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wmblathers.bsky.social @wmblathers.bsky.social · Aug 27

Ël në ha kë taha si mítët tëtilo.
3SG TOP 1SG DAT answer ACC say.CVB.PFV take﹒one's﹒time﹒PFV
"She took her time answering me."

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