If you knew your current career would involve as much time on the phone as it does, would you have picked the same career? Or one with more or less time on the phone?

Got hooked on this pretty imaginative series on Reddit NoSleep. It's concluded so if you enjoy it you won't be stuck waiting for the next installment like I was.

"To all the wannabe cryptid hunters, stay the fuck out of my woods"

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrypticPark/comments/114qyzb/table_of_contents_2/

Twitter allows you to report posts that use racist/ablist insults, but it does not have any means to report posts by Russian trolls pretending to be Americans and attempting to influence policy toward Ukraine and Russia. That tells you all you need to know.

News to me - Gisele Fetterman is training to be a volunteer firefighter.
Not sure how that works out if your husband works several hundred miles from your fire station.

So the prompt was "a group of hikers on a steep trail in summer.
And they are hikers. And they are on the trail. But they don't seem to understand that they should be walking along the trail.

Also, the AI has figured out that plaid has something to do with hikers, but it's not sure what part of them it should go on.

Interesting that if you post a link to counter.social on either Facebook or Twitter, they will block your post, but you can post links from one to the other without a problem.

Interesting to see what they consider an existential threat and what doesn't bother them.

Recently heard one I had not listened to in a while
"Overs"
Simon and Garfunkel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uIrXfVtXbI

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So apparently if the prompts are "hyperrealistic" and "a praying mantis is knitting a scarf," NightCafe's AI image generator loses its damn mind.

at a Philadelphia bakery credit @alextopping15

Seems viagra has horticultural applications.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1126921/

"Rather than stating that the study of humanities makes one humane, I propose that humane people are curious and therefore choose to
explore the humanities as well as the sciences."

https://www.bumc.bu.edu/facdev-medicine/files/2010/09/Fitzgerald_AnnInternMed_1999_130_70_Curiosity.pdf