This should be on TV every day, possibly multiple times per day…. #AI

Your future doctor is using ChatGPT to pass medical school, so you better start riding a bike and eating healthy now.

How to use a UK power plug properly.

True definition of critical infrastructure

Same.

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Sign: AT THE END OF THE DAY, I'D RATHER BE EXCLUDED FOR WHO I INCLUDE THAN BE INCLUDED FOR WHO I EXCLUDE.

I haven't done a post on the weirder side of life in Glasgow for a while, so here's a great, if rather surreal, bit of street art I came across today on Park Drive in the West End of Glasgow.

#glasgow #streetart #kelvingrovepark #banana #glasgowstreetart #keepglasgowweird #glasgowtoday #scotland #humour #scottishhumour #glasgowhumour

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A Victorian railing with fleur-de-lis decorations on the top, one of which has been painted to look like a half-peeled banana.

Where I get my ideas from

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An artist is at his desk. Another man says where do you get all your ideas from? What’s your secret? The artist replies there really is no magic secret. It’s just hard work patience and dedication. The artist then says “it’s a disappointing answer I know but it’s the truth“ the other man leaves and says “OK I’ll see you later” the artist replies “bye!” A moment passes then the artist looks around and says “did he leave” a hatch opens from the floor, and a large pig pop its head out the artist yells at the pig “idea pig! Give me an idea!” The pig replies “you should make a viral comic about raisins!”

Top dual- language effort spotted yesterday
#dogsofmastodon

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Blue canal and river trust sign. Text reads: Attention dog owners. Pick up after your dogs. Thank you. Attention dogs. Grrrr, bark, woof. Background is grass and daisies with trees and a bench in the distance and blue sky with white fluffy clouds overhead.

The Canadian and Mexican governments could set up COVID booster clinics just past the drive-in border crossings, and right near the exits at airports. Require a US passport, charge a service fee of $25, and have a kiosk to let the recipient send a personalized email to RFK Jr.

You know what? As a society, I don't think we have a data privacy problem, actually.

What we truly have is a
consent-respecting problem.

If, as a society and as individuals, we truly respected people's informed and freely given consent, we would not have problems with data privacy at all.

If we culturally improve our consent-respecting practices, we will inevitably understand better how to improve our privacy-respecting practices.

Ask first.
Give options.
Respect people's choices.
Never share without prior permission.

#Privacy #Consent #HumanRights #DigitalRights

A reminder of this great David Pope cartoon

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Two police officers on a dock receive a certificate from two people beside a figure wrapped in ropes; one officer says, "Net-zero murders by 2050!.

Das ist sooooo süsss!! ​​

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Terapacks mit interessanten Ansichten einer blauen Katze auf den Flächen, die je nach Orientierung der Tetrapacks unterschiedliche Ansichten der blaune katze zeigen können.

Handy bilingual mnemonic for tool use. 🪛🔩

#English #Spanish #screw #unscrew #tools #mnemonic

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"Rightie tightie, leftie loosie" in Spanish is "la derecha oprime, la izquierda libera." [image of a screw with a curved arrow pointing to the left, another identical screw image with an arrow pointing to the right] Meaning: "the right oppresses, the left liberates."

The word 'god' underwent a gender change.

It comes from the Proto-Germanic noun *gudan, which is reconstructed as neuter, based on Old English, Old Norse and Gothic - encompassing West, North and East Germanic - where its descendants still had a grammatically neuter form.

The masculine gender of the descendants of *gudan was introduced by Christianity.

Click my graphic to learn more.

This week's comic: A dangerous invasion of warblers, orioles, and hummingbirds

#immigration #birds #cartoon #uspol #comic

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FEDS CRACK DOWN ON SPRING MIGRATION DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICIAL: A BILLION BIRDS SNEAK ACROSS THE BORDER EVERY NIGHT UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS! "LEGIONS OF WINGED MIGRANTS ARE INVADING FROM THE SOUTH TO BREED IN OUR COUNTRY, STEALING INSECTS AND NECTAR FROM AMERICAN BACKYARDS." MAP OF NORTH AMERICA SHOWING AVIAN CARAVAN BORDER PATROL AGENT: WE CAUGHT THIS YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER TRYING TO SLIP ACROSS THE MEXICAN BORDER. IT'S STRAIGHT TO GUANTANAMO FOR YOU, LITTLE JAILBIRD! A SOLUTION IS PROPOSED. OFFICIAL ON TV: WE NEED A $2.7 TRILLION NET TO ENCLOSE ALL OF AMERICAN AIRSPACE. WOMAN: WHY DON'T THESE BIRDS JUST STAY WHERE THEY CAME FROM? BUILD THE NET!

@paul_ipv6 @the_etrain Ketchup on hot dogs is now a sin

More soy toots: when you buy soy sauce look at the ingredient list and label.

If it has ‘hydrolyzed soy protein’, it’ll be roughly the same quality as ‘cheap Chinese restaurant takeout soy sauce packets’. Soy sauce made from chemical processes. It doesn’t taste good to me and is usually amped up with sugar.

If it just says ‘soy beans’, and the label says ‘naturally brewed’ or ‘naturally fermented’ or ‘first draw soy sauce’ it will be pretty good.

#Food

No more work. Time to play.

#dog #meme #gif

Soylent Green is just the brand name. The recipe is available online. You can make it at home with your friends and family.

Boost if you want less generative AI in your tech in 2025.

(On an iPad or desktop, this isn't so bad as multiple depths can be displayed in panes that continue to slide out to the right, but on the phone it is a bit cumbersome.)

WRT tooot: the project as been archived and development discontinued.

I know people like to make fun of niche operating systems, but for the five years I was at Microsoft I used Windows (10 then 11) as my daily driver. It’s much less stable than a professional OS, but it does kind-of work. I wouldn’t say it’s ready for the desktop. The UI is inconsistent and changes randomly between releases, a load of common software is basically useable only in a VM, it lags and freezes periodically (unlike an OS designed for interactive use, random drivers run a load of things directly in interrupt handlers, so you get latency spikes that you wouldn’t see in a more mainstream desktop OS) and the update process can hose the system, so it’s mostly of interest to people who like tinkering with their machines than people who actually want to get work done. Oh and a load of random bits of the OS have ads, but that’s what you get from a free ad-supported system instead of one developed by an active open-source community.

I don’t think I’d recommend anyone use it as their daily driver or in a work setting, but it’s not totally unusable. It’s not at the level of maturity than you’d expect from, say, Linux or FreeBSD, especially not for client workloads. If you do have to use it, I recommend that you install FreeBSD in a Hyper-V VM for real work. That’s what I did and it works quite well.

My apologies, and I'll fix my original post. Thank you.

(And edit reverted due to miscommunication/misunderstanding.)

☀️⚡️ Everyone in Switzerland agrees we need more solar. But often, there's disagreement about where to put the panels without impacting the landscapes too much.

🛤️ Looking back, this one is a no-brainer, why not lay them down between train rails: there's already a strong connection to the grid, and it's infrastructure that's already ‘built’.

🇨🇭 First segment of the tracks got inaugurated today in canton Neuchâtel.

https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/neuchatel/2025/article/la-premiere-centrale-solaire-sur-rails-a-ete-inauguree-dans-le-canton-de-neuchatel-28863275.html
Supplier: https://www.sun-ways.ch

#Solar #Trains #Railways

Opus DEI.
That's it—that’s the post.

The most judgemental hot tub is of course the j'accuzzi

Also, XXY and XYY are there, too. In essentially every culture/civilization, it has been understood that sex ≠ gender, and most recognize more than 2 genders.

Thanks @grunfink@comam.es for the #snac server, @stefano@bsd.cafe for the blog posts that pointed me to it, @voron@snac.nya.pub for the theme and @manton@manton.org for motivating me with your book

@SecurityWriter
As someone who grew up on Linux it's easy for me to dismiss how difficult somethings can be as Linux has gotten significantly easier in the last 15- ish years. However whenever I use Windows, I'm almost completely lost and rage quit at the most basic thing that stumps me. This is how I'd imagine a Windows user would be feeling on Linux.

Every operating system has its faults, we the Linux community would be fools if we said that Linux doesn't. How else will progression and innovation happen if we can't look at the faults and find ways to improve?

I enjoyed Lost Girl until its final season. If you like the police-type shows, Flashpoint was pretty good. And for medical, I enjoyed The Transplant (although I'm not sure how wholly Canadian that one is.)

Giving credit where credit is due.

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Photo of a woman in a pressure suit with the caption: "The first all-female space flight was Valentina Tereshkova in 1963. Don't let them erase our history for cringe billionaire PR."

I’m super excited to announce something I’ve been working on for many years! Brain™: the natural intelligence engine that’s always with you.

Brain™ works on any platform, with any app. The more you use it, the smarter it gets! Brain™ trains only on data you feed it and it’s powered by a renewable caloric process. Start using yours today!

It's safe to say that I will forever be in the minority of Mac users who use and actually rely on text navigation and selection shortcuts such as ⌥→, ⌥←, ⌥⇧→, ⌥⇧←, etc.

This means that I will forever be a victim of software engineers who cater to the needs of the majority, and neglect to make sure that their choices don’t interfere with the use of these shortcuts.

Case in point : it’s impossible to rely on these shortcuts in tables in Apple’s Numbers and Pages apps.🤬

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/numbers/tana45192591/mac

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Apple's keyboard shortcuts for inserting columns and rows in tables in Numbers and Pages

Instead of using his Make-A-Wish for something for himself, 13-Year-old Abraham Olagbegi used his wish to feed the homeless in his neighborhood for a year.

Did not know he had a middle name

(I never used to care about this stuff, but I had a stem cell transplant right before Covid hit, so I had to have ALL of my vaccinations redone. Masking was a non-issue, because I had been masking in public for a year before Covid. But now I make sure that every shot I can get goes in my body.)

(And I agree about typing. I took typing as a full year course in grade 9, which also included document preparation/formatting, all on IBM Selectrics. Sadly, that was the last year it was offered as a full year course; subsequent students would only be able to take a single semester of typing. But the ability to touch type is still with me 30 years later.)

I’ve been poeming about how my nouns keep conversioning to verbs.

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Verb Your Enthusiasm     I recall the first time it circumstanced,   this problem that routines with my words – I was in the kitchen, plating my food,   when my nouns conversioned to verbs.      Friending others with similar troubles, we workshopped hard at it for days,  as we dialogued in search of solutions,    and flipcharted the hours away.     I can’t stop myself languaging weirdly.  Are they called nerbs or vouns? I’m not sure.   The doctors cannot antidote me,  while to poem provisions no cure.     Now I diarise each time they’re eventing – whenever I coffee or Youtube or gift.  I’d podium, too – if I ever won anything, and it weren’t for those medalling kids. Brian Bilston

(On a side-note: having a reserve of Cantonese salt & pepper seasoning to aid the chips to greatness may help, especially since my "pepper" is a blend of Tellicherry, white, and Sichuan.)