kat_angstrom

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kat_angstrom , (edited )

I have some Goldenrod plants in the backyard where every summer a few hundred 5-banded Wasps congregate. The males mob a few plants to show themselves off, covering every leaf and branch and stem until they're weighing the whole plant down, while the females buzz about checking out the dudes to decide who to mate with.

I'm grateful to support that colony; they've been on and around the neighborhood longer than I have, and honestly, they're pretty chill. They're not going to attack unless you do first, and they're pollinators.

And for those people who view a mob of several hundred wasps on a single plant as being "gross", just chill. They got a right to life like we do <3

kat_angstrom ,

Created by Peter Luisi, the movie has been marketed as the "first feature film written entirely by AI".

It follows a celebrated screenwriter called Jack who finds his world shaken when he encounters a cutting-edge AI scriptwriting system.

After initially being sceptical, Jack realises the AI matches his skills and surpasses his empathy and understanding of human emotions.

This sounds like the dumbest movie ever written, by AI or otherwise.

kat_angstrom OP ,

Adorable.

Can you pay the cat tax by providing an image of said cat? :)

We had a very special cat who did a lot of chirping and trilling, and at night in the summer we'd keep the back door open with the glass screen door shut, and all sorts of animals could come by and she'd watch them and make various excited noises to let me know when animals were around.

Possums, raccoons, other cats, groundhogs, they all brought excited trills to let me know we had a nocturnal visitor.

One night she was making agitated sounds, but before I got there to see what it was, she made a clear as day "uh-oh" sound, but with a meow. I hurried over to see a fox staring down through the glass at her, while she stared back nervously. Never heard the "uh-oh" before or after except that night.

kat_angstrom OP ,

Yes, though it was my sister in law who named her, and this was years before the Netflix version, if that might matter. I don't know if it does or not, I didn't finish season 1 :)

kat_angstrom ,

Nice goat

kat_angstrom ,

Oooof, I hear that. Things are more political than ever at my work and it's like, I just want to do my job and go home

kat_angstrom ,

The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde. It's... Okay. Not that great to me, but I'm not a fan of villains chewing up the scenery.

It's pithy and innocuous though, and not without its charms so I'll definitely finish it.

kat_angstrom OP ,

Good call, let me edit

kat_angstrom OP ,

No idea

But it's definitely majestic!

kat_angstrom ,

Yup. Anything punishable by a negligible fine is Legal For A Fee.

kat_angstrom ,

We got a ping pong table. Everyone is convinced that if you're seen using it during work hours that puts a target on your back

kat_angstrom ,

Fantastic read. Frustrating AF though

kat_angstrom ,

If Mother Teresa couldn't beat the charges, that would mean that it's because a fair and impartial trial found her guilty? Definitely word salad

kat_angstrom ,

Just finished Cordwainer Smith's "Norstrilia", which was kind of a charming but innocuous mess.

Now started Alfred Bester's "The Demolished Man", which is decidedly not good, though it's old school fun

kat_angstrom ,

11, so that when I outrun the bear, it'll be 11 who dies, while 7 is waiting for me at home

kat_angstrom ,

Vaguely human-like

kat_angstrom ,

A garbage "hot take" that willingly ignores the exploitation the corporations routinely visit upon workers.

kat_angstrom ,

Yup, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine theme song as my alarm, 5 years and counting

kat_angstrom ,

I don't care about AI.

It's not because of posts like this; it's not because of the endless hype cycle. It's not because hundreds of billions are going into it and it's not because everyone's doing it; it's all these things combined with the fact that I don't have a use case for AI in my life. I don't need AI's sanitized, corporatized opinion on anything, and there's nothing a chatbot can do that a human can't do better.

But that's just me. If you and others like it, Cool Beans.

kat_angstrom ,

May I inquire what you think we'll be using it for?

kat_angstrom ,

I'm already amazing at emails and summaries, I can write my own code but rarely need to outside my job, I don't have a use case for translation, I don't use my current phone assistant and can't see myself using a "true" virtual assistant.

Got any better scenarios? Cuz all those use cases fill me with apathy.

kat_angstrom ,

Oh, perfect. The Gollum videogame was wonderful, and everyone loved it. Hopefully it's 3hrs of similar quality

kat_angstrom ,

Most people have the will; but our civilization's leadership doesn't have the interest because the status quo serves their needs adequately.

Nothing will change until we have either a full collapse, or a general strike.

kat_angstrom ,

Hear hear

kat_angstrom ,

That's some hostile workplace kind of BS, and shouldn't be tolerated. Document everything, names, dates, info etc.

kat_angstrom ,

Yup, it's a little known secret of our economy that roughly 15% of the populace makes over $10,000 a month evaluating restaurants, aka, eating at them and filing reports.

Those reports are essential for us all, and I for one have been perpetually grateful for the knowledge I have gleaned from them.

kat_angstrom ,

Build personalities from childhood onwards, so as they get older they already possess personalities instead of being vapid empty shells of humanity

kat_angstrom ,

Huh?

kat_angstrom ,

Our civilization is more than capable, but those who have money and power are unwilling, because that's not something they're interested or invested in.

Reptilians are REAL. They attach to your Lower Chakras and harvest Loosh Energy from you. They hate humans and see them as cattle to be enslaved, exploited, and recycled. ( lemmy.ca )

Some researchers incorrectly believe that the groundbreaking pioneer in Mind Research as well as being legendary Master of the "Out of Body Experience"; Robert Monroe was not involved in the CIA Experiments, when in fact; he definitely was:...

kat_angstrom ,

Hey now, there is plenty of evidence that Chakras exist. For example, people and the books that they write say Chakras exist. Also, vague esoteric traditions. Also, both of those things. I think that should settle it satisfactorily, amirite?

/s in case nobody could tell. :P

kat_angstrom ,

Sad but true. When BoingBoing first started there were some nice long articles that would make it into the feed, proper journalism mixed in with the fluff.

Like for example,
https://boingboing.net/profits_of_fear.html

Things just kept getting more "short form" until I stopped visiting entirely. Damn shame

kat_angstrom ,

I was at the job

Coworker sees news on his phone, tells everyone

Goes room to room telling people. I do his job to cover for him. He comes back after an hour. Doesn't say Thank You.

kat_angstrom ,

One of my favorite moments from last summer was sitting on my back patio watching a hummingbird flying circles around my back yard in the dying light of sunset, gobbling up insects with every lap. Adorable.

They also repeatedly killed wasps that were attracted to the sugar water from the feeder I set up for them, that was pretty fun to see

kat_angstrom ,

Heaven's River by Dennis E. Taylor, book 4 of the Bobiverse. Had Covid last week (for the 4th time now) and read books 1-3 in three days flat. Good series

kat_angstrom ,

Nice! I'll be starting that series at the end of June. Last summer was a Wheel of Time summer (and autumn), this year: Malazan!

kat_angstrom ,

Heck yeah! I'd even do it for free

Just gimme that chance

kat_angstrom ,

You tooooooooooo

kat_angstrom ,

Torb Borbson

TIL about the Crackpot Index, a humorous post for people who claim to have disproved Einstein's theory ( math.ucr.edu )

A scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory replied to my email with a curt, please don't waste my time again. The head of the Physics Department at the University of Miami dropped Bob's research paper like it was radioactive. He receives one of these papers each week, he said. It turns out, there is a whole community of...

kat_angstrom ,

I remember being taught that multiplication was all about "groups of", so for 3x2=6, 3 groups of 2 equals 6 because you're summing up the total number of objects in each group.

This makes sense to me, and more importantly, it's logically consistent. For larger numbers, it's the same thing; 54 groups of 392, when summed up, total 21,168.

But this garbage? 1x1=2? 1 group of 1 equals 2? That's not how numbers work.

kat_angstrom ,

It's simple, then:

We ban ads. All ads, everywhere.

At what number of grains of sand does a non-pile graduate into being a pile?

I'm of the view that this is a semantic question where we have a word, "pile", that describes a general amount but doesn't have a specified quantity to it, and so the only way we can determine the amount of units required to constitute a pile at the bare minimum, is through public consensus on the most commonly shared idea we...

kat_angstrom ,

Depends how fine the grains are

Help motivate us to watch season 5

So my wife and I were watching through Babylon 5 on Tubi. We've both never seen it and have really enjoyed it. We hit the end of season 4 and it really felt like the end of the show (I'm aware of the background issues and also that the season 5 finale was filmed for the end of season 4 but then shifted around) and we were very...

kat_angstrom ,

It's not as good as seasons 3 or 4, but it's still good. Better than Andromeda or some other shows from the same era

kat_angstrom ,

"To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis. Fantastic time travel misadventure, good British comedy, I'm definitely enjoying it so far.

kat_angstrom ,

I'm not interested in easing my anxiety, I'm interested in large scale systemic changes to economic policies that are the root cause of climate change

kat_angstrom ,

Totally agreed. Would have made the universe richer, and cuter in a way that Ewoks never could

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