C'mon tech bros.

"Bitcoin...uses 4,227 gallons of fresh water for every single transaction, either for buying or selling. Because of these transactions, many countries, such as the United States, could face freshwater shortages if the currency becomes more widely adopted."
Narrator: It will NOT be more widely adopted. Unpossible.
#cryptocurrency #bitcoin

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/each-bitcoin-transaction-consumes-4200-gallons-of-water-enough-to-fill-a-swimming-pool-and-could-potentially-cause-freshwater-shortages

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-sustainability/fulltext/S2949-7906(23)00004-6#secsectitle0010

Today I had a shockingly great experience at a local muffler shop. I thought I was ready for anything but I was not ready to be in and out in less than an hour, get charged much less than the estimate, and the work looks fantastic.

I mean who does that.

Wonder if anyone's adapted a snowblower into a leaf mulcher

LMFAO.
Oh hi Eliza. Again.

1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study
(Eliza is really really really simple).
(People can easily be fooled).

#oldManShoutsAtClouds #bitTiredofAIHype

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/real-humans-appeared-human-63-of-the-time-in-recent-turing-test-ai-study/

Here's a sentence with words in it I read:
"AGGRASOPPAR is a flower-punk / axekiller-pop band from the Faroe Islands. "
#huh #music

Google Translate thinks their lyrics are Icelandic, which is close but no cigar.

https://www.tutlrecords.com/artist/aedrasoppar/

daggumit have to order an asbestos test kit. What is lurking in this linoleum that I found under some other linoleum?

Somebody kicked this can...

Government's too big, corporations have our best interests, the FDA did what now?

"FDA warns chemical company not to mix brake cleaner into hand sanitizer" (AGAIN)

"Your firm manufactures over-the-counter (OTC) hand sanitizer drug product, (b)(4) 70% Hand Sanitizer Solution, as well as non-drug products including Class 2 solvents and industrial chemicals, including automotive brake parts cleaner using the same equipment."

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/fda-warns-chemical-company-not-to-mix-brake-cleaner-into-hand-sanitizer/

#FDA #news #omgwtfbbq

...and while supporting CoSo artists, consider:
"Etudes Documentary: bit.ly/etudesvideo

In writing about Igor Yalivec’s music it’s important to get the big thing out in the open right away. Igor Yalivec is a Dnipro, Ukraine based artist who at the time of this writing is currently living there, recording music, taking field recordings and generally existing as his country is under a pall of unease punctuated with moments of terror."
#music #ambient #ukraine

https://yalivec.bandcamp.com/album/etudes

Last Bandcamp Friday of 2023, best way to directly support artists. Download the music to keep access, pay per song or collection(s).
Support CoSo artists! I don't know who they all are! Find them!
#bandcamp
#music
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays-update

Very interesting, _huge_ scholarship initiative to collect the history of Ukraine in the context of Europe.

"Ukrainian History Global Initiative is a charitable foundation registered in the United Kingdom. It will support the work of roughly ninety scholars engaged in roughly seventy themes over the course of three years. "
#history #ukraine
https://uhgi.org/

Welp. The pecan tree I thought might be stressed out 1) produced no viable nuts this season and 2) just dropped a big branch on the newly shingled shed roof (minor damage it'll be fine).

Silver lining: have a bunch of pecan wood for smoking chicken and veggies.

Home, warm, and did not get eat by a bear

@BosmangBeratna
What.
The Captive’s War is a science fiction trilogy (only three books, not nine or ten!) which Franck described as, “The Book of Daniel, from the Old Testament, but as a science fiction story.”

Franck also called it “the disappointing love child of Frank Herbert and Ursula Le Guin,”

https://www.tor.com/2023/11/10/a-new-trilogy-from-the-expanses-james-s-a-corey-begins-next-year/

I want it. Someone give me 15k USD please. jk there's a rafflle-y thing (see below).

"Mother Ukraine is an engineer's miracle, the tallest monumental sculpture in Europe. Its height is 102 meters. For comparison: the Statue of Liberty is 93 meters high. The figure of Mother Ukraine of LEGO is made on a scale of 1:200, its height is 54.8 cm and its width is 22.4 cm. When you complete it, you have to find a decent shelf."

#ukraine

https://u24.gov.ua/legowithukraine

Rye bread experiment 23.741 in the oven.

Can already see it won't get the loft I was going for, but that's okay it'll eat fine.

#baking #bread

Don't think this boy is very bright.

I guess it's possible that he is, but has never in his life faced a consequence.

Or it could be both.

"We recently found ads for Apple, Bravo, Oracle, Xfinity, and IBM next to posts that tout Hitler and his Nazi Party on X"

IBM: "suspended all advertising on X while we investigate this entirely unacceptable situation."

#musk #twitter

https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/musk-endorses-antisemitic-conspiracy-theory-x-has-been-placing-ads-apple-bravo-ibm-oracle

The fall foliage is getting good so I tried to capture an image.

#dogs #photoBomb #smdh

Making pizza with whatever I've got.
Collards go on pizza now, alert the press.

#collards #pizza #noPineapple

Mozilla has 131 job openings.

HOW
#wtah
https://opensourcejobhub.com/company/488/

What is this heresy. LaTeX* type setting has been around since 1993(?) Now some upstart Rust developer thinks they can make a more friendly, better system that compiles 100 times faster, and oh hey that's pretty nice output....

\grumble {Get off my lawn}

https://github.com/typst/typst

*pronounced «Lah-tech» or «Lay-tech» (to rhyme with «blech» or «Bertolt Brecht»)

/nosanitize