Dan Jones shared 8 months ago
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds
https://pixai.art/artwork/1866864850048214189
#AIArt
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A man stands facing away from the viewer, looking westward into the sunset. The viewer is looking up at the man from the ground. The man is standing in the desert. A few small cacti are visible on the ground. The man is standing on a small mound of dirt. An aurora is visible in the sky. The sky is also filled with stars, while closer to the horizon near the setting sun, a few whispy clouds are seen.
Dan Jones shared 8 months ago
Something I stumbled upon recently. Considering the number of book lovers around Mastodon, this seems like a must-share.
"Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost."
Dan Jones shared 8 months ago
Donald Trump has 3X more felony convictions than there are transgender athletes at the NCAA level.
Dan Jones shared 8 months ago
Arduboy creator says his tiny Game Boy won’t survive Trump’s tariffs
https://www.theverge.com/news/645555/arduboy-victim-trump-tariffs-us-china-kevin-bates?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Tech News @tech-news-theverge
Dan Jones shared 8 months agohttps://pixai.art/artwork/1866140148298984171
#StarTrek #TOS #StarTrekTOS #Gorn #Draconian #Dragonfolk #SciFi #Fantasy #FantasyArt #SciFiArt #AIArt
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A Reptilian humanoid creature. He appears to be 6½ ft, or 2 meters tall. He has scaly skin, and no hair at all. He has sharp spikes running along the length of his head, as well as several other ridges. He appears to be grinning at, or attempting to intimidate the viewer. His teeth are extremely sharp. He has claws on the ends of his fingers, and webbing between the index and pinky fingers. He wears a red uniform common to Star Trek: The Original Series, with an additional gauntlet on both his wrists. He's looking to the right of the viewer. He's standing in a non-specific room aboard what appears to be a Federation starship.
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A Reptilian humanoid creature. He appears to be 6½ ft, or 2 meters tall. He has scaly skin, and no hair at all. He has sharp spikes running along the length of his head, as well as several other ridges. He appears to be grinning at, or attempting to intimidate the viewer. His teeth are extremely sharp. He has claws on the ends of his fingers, and webbing between the index and pinky fingers. He wears a red uniform common to Star Trek: The Original Series, with an additional gauntlet on both his wrists. He's looking to the left of the viewer. He's standing in a non-specific room aboard what appears to be a Federation starship.
Dan Jones shared 8 months ago
3073. Tariffs
3073. Tariffs
title text: [later] I don't get why our pizza slices have such terrible reviews; the geotextile-infused sauce gives the toppings incredible slope stability!
(https://xkcd.com/3073)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3073)
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8 panel comic. 1. Pony tail is looking at a phone and walks up to No hair, who is sitting at a computer. Pony tail says "You know how I blocked all news sites at the start of 2021 to avoid spoilers for Avater 2, and then forgot to start checking them again?" No hair replies "Yeah, we've been meaning to talk to you about that…" 2. Pony tail says "Well, I just checked the news for the first time, and why is the economy tanking?" No hair replies "Uh, the president is mad at other countries and imposed lots of tariffs." 3. Zoom in to Pony tail "What, who's the president now?" From off panel no hair replies "Donald Trump." Pony tail says "…still???" From off panel No hair replies "No, again." 4. Pony tail asks "Ok, fine, what's a tariff? Why is he doing this?" No hair says "You know that pizzeria your company orders from? They don't buy anything from *you*, right?" Pony tail says "Why would they? We do geotechnical landscape surveys." (alttext continues on the next image)
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(alttext continued from previous image) 5. Zoom in to no hair who is gesturing wildly while saying "Right, so they're ripping you off! You're paying *them* tons of money and what are *you* getting for it?" Pony tail replies "I mean…pizza?" No hair continues "See? They're no helping *your* business at all! What a ripoff!" 6. Pony tail says "What would they evne buy from us? I guess we could survey a pizza…" No hair responds "Yes, perfect! You refuse to let the delivery driver past your security desk unless they venmo you for an equivalent value of lidar scans" 7. Zoom in to Pony tail who says "Wouldn't they just stop taking our orders?" No hair replies from off panel "Perfect, balance restored!" 8. Pony tail says "Ok, I still want pizza." No hair replies "Can't you just make one? You have all that gear." Pony tail says "I don’t think a pizza made with lidar diodes would be very good." No hair replies "Ugh, why is everyone so picky about toppings?"
Dan Jones shared 8 months ago
🏳️🌈🖖🏽A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
Dan Jones shared 8 months agoOnce they accepted "grab 'em by the pu$$y," there was never any going back.
Dan Jones shared 8 months ago#FantasyArt #AIArt #Fairy
https://pixai.art/artwork/1865795456006511517-thomaskincade-gnome-girl-costum
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A young fairy girl stands in a stream. She wears a sleeveless blue dress with a large jewel embedded into the chest. She wears a crown of leaves. She has a set of double wings, similar to a dragonfly, but smaller. It is nighttime. The moon is full, and reflects in the water. Glowing flowers dot the banks of the stream.
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A young fairy girl stands in a stream. She wears a sleeveless blue dress with a small jewel embedded into the chest. She wears a crown of leaves. She has a set of double wings, similar to a dragonfly, but smaller. It is nighttime. The moon is full, and reflects in the water. Glowing flowers dot the banks of the stream.
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A young fairy girl stands in a stream. She wears a sleeveless blue dress with a jewel embedded into the chest. She wears a crown of leaves. She has a set of double wings, similar to a dragonfly, but smaller. It is nighttime. The moon is full, and reflects in the water. Glowing flowers dot the banks of the stream.
Black Mirror season 7 drops on Wednesday. And Last of Us season 2 starts on Sunday. Nice week for TV.
Dan Jones shared 8 months ago#Dragon #DragonHoard #FantasyArt #AIArt
https://pixai.art/artwork/1865657951425983085
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A golden dragon lays on top of a large hoard of gold and jewels. He is in a snow-covered cave with sunlight streaming in through the entrance. Golden lamps and censers hang like stalactites.
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A golden dragon sits atop a large hoard of gold and jewels. He is in a snow-covered cave with sunlight streaming in through the entrance. Golden lamps and censers hang like stalactites. A snow-capped mountain peak can be seen in the background.
Dan Jones shared 8 months ago
Remember: March is procrastination awareness month.
Dan Jones shared 8 months agoWhy do trees seem suspicious on sunny days? Dunno, they're just a bit shady. #dadjoke
Dan Jones shared 8 months ago
🦖 HTMLAnchorElement: pathname property
✅ Widely available (from Jul 2015)
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAnchorElement/pathname
The HTMLAnchorElement.pathname property is a string containing an initial '/' followed by the path of the URL not including the query string or fragment (or the empty string if there is no path).
Dan Jones shared 8 months ago
Check your GOMAXPROCS in Kubernetes — you might be silently wasting a ton of CPU
https://blog.esc.sh/golang-performance-penalty-in-kubernetes/
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://blog.esc.sh/golang-performance-penalty-in-kubernetes/
Dan Jones shared 8 months ago
Season Three Trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds https://kottke.org/25/04/season-three-trailer-for-star-trek-strange-new-worlds
She was so excited to be on the Enterprise, she accidentally took two combadges.
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A young Starfleet officer standing in what appears to be the engineering section of a starship. She wears a red uniform similar to that of The Next Generation, but has two combadges. The woman appears to be in her twenties and of African descent. She is slender and has curly hair in an Afro bob style.
https://pixai.art/artwork/1864673615750579352
I used the prompt "dragon flies over snow-capped mountain".
Instead of generating a picture of a dragon, it gave me a picture of dragonflies over a snow-capped mountain.
But sure, tell me about how AI is going to take everybody's job.
Dan Jones shared 8 months ago
Hi folks, I'm trying to jumpstart federation on my little gotosocial instance and get a more full feed of things to read and interact with.
I could use your help. If you could boost this, I would appreciate it. If you see this and favorite it, I will follow you if your interests seem to align with mine.
I'm not asking for follows... rather I'm asking for you to help me shout out into the ether that I'M looking for people to follow. My main interests are going to be hashtagged below.
By the way, the way hashtags work here is that currently, if I search, I only see what my server is already knows about... which would mean just the folks I follow, since I'm a single-user instance. Not very helpful 😂
I will also be using one of my apps that can load the main feed from other servers, to see if I see something interesting. If you see a follow from me and come here to check me out... I mean you no harm and I come in peace.
Thanks all!
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