A very interesting variation on Franklin's glass harmonica - the Cristal Baschet. The metal resonators make all the difference.
https://youtu.be/9RZg-AP3zM8

How search results have been polluted by crap code generated by #AI. Code is easier to check than other material, so assume more and more of what you read is garbage.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/pulumi_ai_pollution_of_search/

I haven't seen this particular phishing approach before.
I examined the attachment with VScode. The "contract" is a large, base64-encoded image. There are no scripts. The only function of the email is to trick you into supplying your Microsoft credentials.

Danielle Ponder - Roll The Credits (Live)
https://youtu.be/YodlhLHOKY4?si=akPOFsozZYUYhYOt
/nosanitize
#CoSoMusic

Pub Choir (1200 strangers) singing Natalie Imbruglia's Torn.
https://youtu.be/DYiNic4aGqs?si=D37ucySuZcey1EVG
/nosanitize
#CoSoMusic #feelgood

Borther Aryeh and Gil Gat perform their outstanding cover of Sultans of Swing.
https://youtu.be/6OqSvtz16O4?si=6M--vxhw95tY4BJe
/nosanitize
#CoSoMusic

I watched the movie Dark Waters tonight in Netflix. It's the origin story of forever chemicals and the dirty deeds of Dupont and 3M in suppressing the information about the health risks. It's a must-see to understand how so many dangerous chemicals are unregulated.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9071322/?ref_=ext_shr
/nosanitize
#CoSoMovies

#satire
https://theshovel.com.au/2024/05/09/government-announces-investment-in-gas-fired-wind-turbines/

The coders at Android/Google have delivered me another "enhancement" I did not ask for.

This will put a huge smile on your face and bring a tear to your eye. Over 18,000 strangers across Australia sing Africa by Toto. Absolutely awesome.
https://youtu.be/kTmRhPsJo5M?si=37PWzuMlMbKSH_pV
/nosanitize
#CoSoMusic

Calculus Rhapsody. This is brilliant!
https://youtu.be/uqwC41RDPyg?si=diEJw973Dg593YW9
/nosanitize
#math #calculus #CoSoMusic

#AI from my LinkedIn feed.

I caught up with some older episodes of the Because Language podcast this weekend. This interview with Sarah Ogilvie, a former editor of the OED, about her book The Dictionary People was fascinating. The OED was largely built from contributions from "outsiders" who didn't finish school, but wanted to contribute to something great. E.g., Mr. Collier submitted 150,000 citations from the Brisbane Courier Mail.
https://becauselanguage.com/85-the-dictionary-people/
The interview starts at 48:02.
#linguistics #english

Frank Stella, one of America’s great artists, whose career intersected — and helped catalyze — some of the most significant upheavals in 20th century art, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.
https://archive.ph/NitUf#selection-1911.0-1913.193

Owner of a Lonely Heart - Cover by Hindley St. Country Club
https://youtu.be/mTK5-l7FAvk?si=Sd_1MP5vlbjnvy9A
/nosanitize
#CoSoMusic

I got the urge yesterday to familiarize myself with #Fortran 2018 and bought a book on it. I installed gfortran in WSL and started editing in VS Code. The experience was delightful. I learned Fortran IV in 1970 and became expert at optimizing and debugging code on various architectures. I really appreciate the features in modern Fortran and look forward to experiment wiht co-arrays and teams.
#progamming

Bruce perens drafts a new open source license to guarantee an income stream to maintainers for projects that generate more than $5 million when used by corporations.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/30/bruce_perens_post_open_license/
#software #oss

TIL that the word 'delve' occurs 10-100x as frequently in material written by ChatGPT than it does in ordinary writing. It has been traced back to RLHF (Reinforcement Learning Human Feedback) in LLMs because #AI companies use Nigerian English speakers to save money. Delve is much more common in Nigerian English than in other variants of English.
#linguistics