Bishma

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

Someone nominated Output Cargo elevators for the ship showdown. And part of me really wants to see them release a poster and reskin the elevators, and hopes it somehow ends up in the final 4

screen shot I got from discord
via starmat on the LUG Discord

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Ship Showdown starts today (robertsspaceindustries.com)
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  • Now through August 12th :: nominate ships
  • August 18th - Sept 2 :: Vote on the sweet 16 bracket
  • Sept 2 :: Winners announced.

Vehicles that clinch a spot in the final Elite Eight will be available to test-fly for free from August 26, so don’t forget to upvote, like, and share your favorite fan-made creations.

The Final Four competitors will also receive a special in-game paint and poster, while the winner gets an in-game championship pennant commemorating their 2955 win.

I'm oddly excited about the posters for no real reason. I'm also wondering if the Resource Drive is going to make this the Raft's year to shine.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I became adept in IRC in early 90s when I was under 10 years old, before my BB provider was even a full ISP (so I couldn't even look up help on what existed of the early web). Every time I hear an adult claim its too complicated/obscure/esoteric I realize how close to the medical exam scene in Idiocracy we've gotten in a few short decades.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 days ago

How did you get a picture of me this morning?

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 days ago

The area behind it is Waterfront Park. That's the Willamette river on the other side of that grass.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 4 days ago

Its been, on an off, the smallest park in the world a handful of times. The current world’s smallest park was built in Japan shortly after its creator payed a visit to Portland.

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The Eurasian brown bear sleeps in three beds of different firmness all at once. Then wakes up and eats 3 bowls of porridge without giving a shit what temperature they are.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago

If this episode was made in the 2000s, you know Armus would be wearing tar fedora and would precede each statement with "ummm, actually..."

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

Its the hats. Everything went to shit when hats and bonnets stopped being the norm... provided you ignore the many many things that were shit up to that point.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

First thing I do with my phone in the morning is turn off my alarm. That fills me with enough loathing for the device that I don't look at is again for a few hours.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

This feels like a targeted attack on parts of booktok. Has there been a counter-offensive, and where is the popcorn?

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Griffins an a few other mythical creatures would be too. Pegasus may or may not. The original was sired by Poseidon and itself was a god, but its since become a generic name for winged horses so that leaves room for debate.

Yes I do enjoy fiction taxonomy, why do ask?

 

The woman, Elisha Young, is the paper's former business manager. She was arrested in Whitehall, Ohio, after a nationwide warrant was sent out for her arrest.

 

I'd usually don't log my crimes so I don't need to delete them. But I guess that's why I'll never be the Emissary.

 

Local to me in Oregon, anyway.

Barred owl (slightly out of focus) hunched down a bit on the brach it's perched on

via Mastodon

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Happy Saturday everyone!

I'm sorry.

edit: so I'm not rhyming me with me

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I was listening to music at work today and when Bonnie Tyler came on, this popped into my head. Image and title. This place has broken my brain.

In a good way.

 

A team of researchers who say they are from the University of Zurich ran an “unauthorized,” large-scale experiment in which they secretly deployed AI-powered bots into a popular debate subreddit called r/changemyview in an attempt to research whether AI could be used to change people’s minds about contentious topics.

more than 1,700 comments made by AI bots

The bots made more than a thousand comments over the course of several months and at times pretended to be a “rape victim,” a “Black man” who was opposed to the Black Lives Matter movement, someone who “work[s] at a domestic violence shelter,” and a bot who suggested that specific types of criminals should not be rehabilitated.

The experiment was revealed over the weekend in a post by moderators of the r/changemyview subreddit, which has more than 3.8 million subscribers. In the post, the moderators said they were unaware of the experiment while it was going on and only found out about it after the researchers disclosed it after the experiment had already been run. In the post, moderators told users they “have a right to know about this experiment,” and that posters in the subreddit had been subject to “psychological manipulation” by the bots.

 

From the most recent episode of Game Changer.

spoilerSee if you can get a zero score, like Brennan managed to do.

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