Curious multidisciplinary designer, graphic design educator at @cegepduvieuxmtl, EdTech student at @Concordia. GDSE Mod.
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Two close friends, both paramedics, one Arab and one Jewish, were on duty at the music festival in Re'im on October 7.
This is the story of Yaniv Riz and Awad Dravsha.
Let the world know.
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The most difficult Chinese character in the world means 'biáng', a noodle dish.
It's made up of 58 strokes in its traditional form and it was encoded in Unicode in 2020 only
[📹 takumitohgu]
teapawt.org/Rainmaker1973e/status/…
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You hear stories from the Holocaust of people with little children in hiding, and I always thought, “How do you keep a child that small, that young, quiet in this situation?” But the energy was so heavy and we were so quiet.
I told my daughter, “You need to be as quiet as a mouse. We’re not talking now.” And she whispered through the whole day. Even when she fell over, she didn’t cry.
"‘I Understood My Life Is Going to End’: A Mother Describes 20 Hours in a Safe Room"
thefp.com/p/my-life-is-going…
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I'm currently looking for a position in a writing or community management capacity. If anyone's looking, please feel free to let me know - my DMs are available, or I can be reached at mith [at] superplane39 [dot] com. [RTs appreciated!]
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Wonder if this research would change @StackOverflow's mind about allowing ChatGPT answers?
jlericson.com/2023/05/31/mod…
* People ask LLMs to write code
* LLMs recommend imports that don't actually exist
* Attackers work out what these imports' names are, and create & upload them with malicious payloads
* People using LLM-written code then auto-add malware themselves
vulcan.io/blog/ai-hallucinat…
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Gujo Hachiman, in Japan, has been a center of food replica production for decades. This 2014 video by Tony Begbie shows how display lettuce is made out of wax
[source: buff.ly/3AkLAn8]
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I always thought people were in their prime at ages 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, & 97.
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"Once you start looking for confirmation bias you see it everywhere." — Michael Feathers
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One appealing thing about Mastodon is that because it was so clearly designed by nerds for nerds there is a literal zero chance of family members finding their way over to it
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Like many here, I have created (or reopened) my #Mastodon account recently. If you're thinking about doing the same, I have some thoughts for you.
Long 🧵⬇️ (1/17)
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Right. As a heavy tweeter/content creator who is now maintaining BOTH a Twitter and Mastodon presence, here is a short guide to what I have set up, how to do it and lessons I've learned, for others.
TLDR: It's been WAY less hassle than I expected thanks to tips from followers /1
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My 4yo just said "Mommy, why do people make up things that their children have said for social media? Isn't it just inherently dishonest & indicative of an inability to construct a compelling narrative themselves?"
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McDonald’s staff harvesting apple pie filling teapawt.org/fasc1nate/status/15784…
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I’ve installed a projector on the ceiling above my gaming table.
Painting dynamic lighting using @Procreate onto the game or layout.
I use this for grid overlays, stats, fog of war, area of effect simulations, and for some dramatic lighting. #boardgames #conceptart #3Dprinting
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On every equinox day, March 21 and September 22, everyone visiting the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in the capital city of Kerala, will see the setting sun aligning through each of the window openings in almost five-minute intervals [read more: buff.ly/3lqryNY]
