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I just got a really nice piece of feedback and it really brought home to me just how rare it is to just see someone saying nice about your work. Come join the Washerwoman's Potlatch and say something nice about someone! itch.io/jam/the-wash...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Something that really stuck with me from The Kingdom of God is Within You is that when you do something wrong, that's one wrong thing. When you create justifications for why it wasn't so wrong, that's two wrong things.

#lisbon today continues to make demands for affordable housing and right to housing.

#lisbon there is a new festival celebrating independent publishers - uber cool stuff - across prints, zines, books. Last day today gerador.eu/en/print-pau...

At a private panel discussion with AI enthusiasts who are bs about “craft” and “feelings” and all things “human”. Eye rolling hard. Panel has a person from SpaceX AI for ffs. Next up in agenda is philosophy.

Overheard a conversation yesterday at Helsinki airport- person works for a UK AI company which is now going under and expecting to be laid off next week. She added that she wasn’t unhappy about it either given the growing hatred toward AI

Public transport from Amsterdam airport to the city centre feels overtly complicated, train and metro tickets are different - why? Signing up for Ovpay isn’t simple either. Just give me one ticket or let me buy it online without Ovpay.

Hoop Dungeon is 25% off right now and is a basketball game that you know is never going to be delisted to force you into paying for another game. store.steampowered.com/app/4250030/...

The only annoying bit is that I need to wait till 2027 to watch the new season and play the game. Apothecary diaries fan fic is banned at home.

Group of academics writing an encyclopedia

“…We are doomed to darkness, so let us celebrate in the shadow of the game industry's most expensive spectacle. Now, as there is no oxygen left in the room is when we shall sing of each other's work.” Instant sign up

Ramayana movie is straight up propaganda by BJP govt. You simply can’t miss its obvious link to hindutva ideology. someone I know worked on VFX + art team they said that the director rejected color green in set pieces as green is too Islamic.

Oh my gosh

I witnessed the solar eclipse in its totality by an abandoned train station in Spain. I noticed a bright red spot on left side of the sun. The coolest thing ever. The pic is a few mins before totality

Private equity is price gouging firefighters now. Yes, you read that right. Firefighters. Is this the most evil thing they've done yet?

My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/climatec...

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

Stranger than fiction. And then you shake hands and resist the temptation of a front kick

Button-Up Shirt Goes On Life-Changing Odyssey Around Dry Cleaner’s Garment Conveyor https://theonion.com/button-up-shirt-goes-on-life-changing-odyssey-around-dr-1828653305/

Didn’t expect to see a red balloon during the France- Morocco match 🎈

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys ☀️

Nuts

broteria.org/en/events/65... Looking forward to this talk at Broteria in #Lisbon. It is easy to feel lonely and find things pointless.

You can’t rename queries on Bigquery. You have delete it and create a new query and then save.

This amount would fund the US National Science Foundation for a decade. 🧪

What a crossover. Can’t wait to hear it!

Can’t wait to try making a linocut outta this.

Roller derby game this Saturday at 5pm. Watch us play. #lisbon #rollerderby I play as a blocker and sometimes as a jammer. If there was an award for worst falls, I would win it.

It was pretty much everlasting peace in the Middle East tomorrow. Then everyone had to ruin it.

Motorcycle film festival in Lisbon over the weekend. Sao Jorge cinema parking will be filled with shiny bikes. #filmsky

I finished the first draft of the first section of my book, where I break down how to come up with a feature. Does anyone want to check out a chapter or the full section and send me some feedback? I'll put the table of contents below.

Can’t get too excited about edge pieces with this one #puzzlesky

A primeira sessão do ciclo de cinema On the Move é já na sexta, com "Li Ke Terra" (2020, 65 min.), de Filipa Reis e João Miller Guerra. Vamos contar com a presença de um dos realizadores e do Miguel Moreira, um dos jovens retratados no filme, conversa com o público. É no Avenidas às 18h30.

Listening to BetterOffline’s break down of the palantir’s _manifesto_ is the perfect start to the work week.