Brian Campbell

OK, I was looking for some glitch art and I know @mcc has posted some good accidental glitch art in the past so I was scrolling through her media tab, and well I guess I got what I was looking for? Thanks Mastodon and/or Firefox and/or the Linux AMD graphics stack.

I guess they've finally just decided to give up on that whole AI part, huh? Must just be a chat app now.

Wait, what? YouTube removed the "sort by: most recent" feature? That was the best way to find just random videos with like 2 views on various topics. It was great for finding stuff outside the mainstream, just seeing everything weird and messy that people were doing with no monetary incentive […]

Wait. I think I've been confusing Dana White and Joe Rogan for a while. I seriously can't tell them apart even when side to side. I think they may have taken enough gender affirming hormones that they've actually morphed into the same physical form by now.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/117312357271897508 Ah, fuck.... This might be me

Can't wait until the legal system starts applying the attractive nuisance doctrine to GenAI. But don't limit it to just children. There are millions of adults using it who do not have the means to evaluate whether their use of it is helpful or harmful.

At a bar with sports on the TVs, and half of the ads are AI ads for gambling apps. It's pretty disgusting. I can't believe how normalized they're trying to make casual gambling.

not to be confused with quesadilla

If you see ads pointing you to votesafe.org to check your voter registration, read this first. VoteSafe is run by America PAC, Elon Musk's super PAC. It is not a government site. Its own footer says "Paid for by America PAC." It also doesn't register anyone. The flow ends by telling you to […]

Was reminded recently that it's illegal in Vermont to serve apple pie without a glass of milk, a scoop of vanilla ice cream, or a slice of cheddar cheese.

Trains and spiders!

Happy birthday @ezterry !

OK, the Smarter Every Day guy calling it "encrappification" is kind of cute, actually.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@unlambda/116796810596674071 Just 19 hours left on this Kickstarter! In case you missed it, this is my friend Blair's #horror #fantasy #GraphicNovel/#comic set in #Vermont . He's a talented freelance artist trying to get some traction with his own graphic novel. It's […]

Crazy things you read about from your local library. It's absurd that ebooks cost more to the library than physical books; pure rent-seeking: "Did you know that electronic materials like e-books and digital audiobooks are significantly more expensive than their print counterparts? Whereas we […]

Hey Fedi! A friend of mine, Blair Shedd, who's a very talented artist but not the best at marketing, is launching a Kickstarter tomorrow for his #Vermont #horror #fantasy #GraphicNovel, The World's Between Us […]

Saw this guy while having lunch today. Very friend shaped.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@unlambda/116670809576576676 Content warning: be prepared to go outside and touch some grass after reading this. You'll need to. brb, touching grass

I'm not sure if this is the first story about a Torment Nexus, but it's an early one, and seems fairly prescient for its time. The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf

Wait, why didn't anyone tell me there was a new bill wurtz video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH_CUSu7M1Q

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@wf__games/116602549109961744 New CAPTCHA just dropped

You know, genAI might be kind of entertaining, if we weren't actually staking our entire economy on it, and using it to vibe-code our entire industry. I experiment with some audio models; I give it an audio clip where I say "Testing, 1, 2, 3". And then it processes in its reasoning trace 'The […]

Seeing the news that gas prices has hit yet another all-time high reminds me of my video from December, on the state and future of sustainable aviation I think it's good, but that opinion is clearly biased. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95JWx3O5sGE #aviation #avgeek #ElectricAircraft […]

Good to know that we're facing not one but two existential crises (climate change and automation based economic collapse) where the obvious solution of "tax the negative externalities" is a complete non starter in the current political climate. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20617

Hmm.

This old hospital laundry closed approximately 15 years ago and is filled with a glorious palette of colours set against a backdrop of natural decay. There are wooden signs with stencilled lettering on the walls: dresses, blankets, bags, and sheets. There is […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Good god, yall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztZI2aLQ9Sw

Wow, StackOverflow. Are you trying to stay relevant by collapsing all timestamps on conversations to "over a year ago"? There's a big difference in relevance, in the tech world, between "2 years ago" and "17 years ago", collapsing everything down to "over a year ago" is pretty useless.

These two are so good! #bunny #rabbit #BunniesOfMastodon #RabbitsOfMastodon #bnuy #bnuuy

Lol, I find it rich when LLM companies, built on scraping the world's data without permission to build their models, accuse rivals of intellectual property theft when the rivals prompt the models to train their own. So it's apparently "intellectual property for me but not for thee." […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@unlambda/115937191941370163 @dragonminded This is the oil on glass animation that I was mentioning the other day.