luciole

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[–] luciole 3 points 4 hours ago
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Canids as pollinators? (esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
submitted 5 hours ago by luciole to c/animals
 

Doggos exploring their inner bee yay! bee happy emoji

Shamelessly stolen and dememefied from !science_memes@mander.xyz

[–] luciole 1 points 7 hours ago

User: merrily uses Office, words in Word, excels at Excel.

Microsoft: Hey user, buy 365 because we want all your data.

User: fuck off I like Office.

Microsoft: ok then

Office is now 365

User: ugh FINE

Microsoft: Hey user, pls use Copilot we really splurged on that one.

User: bro I’m busy doing spreadsheets rn

Microsoft: ok then

365 is now Copilot

User: oh ffs

[–] luciole 22 points 12 hours ago

Ahah fuck it I’m taking the worst decision: I’m grabbing that hermetic spec, I’m cannibalizing every other implementation under the sun and I’m writing my own. Because you only live once

[–] luciole 4 points 1 day ago

As a matter of fact Nvidia must be giving so little fucks about gaming now that they’re a super massive chip maker for AI that I’m surprised they even bother to still make GPU.

[–] luciole 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Heh, I didn’t know Luigi liked Breloom. Fine taste in Pokémon. I’m all in for this badass grass type becoming an obscure symbol for class war.

[–] luciole 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

And what are we supposed to do with our Switch now? I know it’s been out for a while, but my growing resentment for the linear economy is giving me huge console generation cycle fatigue.

[–] luciole 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Normalize aging!

[–] luciole 11 points 3 days ago

Heh, neat. Here’s the original University of Alberta announcement. The pictures and the video are shared on Google Drive.

[–] luciole 8 points 5 days ago

gotta fart more, so you eat more, so you digest more, so you fart more, so you eat more, so you

[–] luciole 67 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Facebook is claiming its use of copyrighted works for training was fair use.

Yeah, teens downloading Metallica albums off Napster twenty years ago to listen in their parent’s basement was a serious crime, but Big Corp Inc. feeding books to the copyright erasing machine is somehow fair use. The gall.

[–] luciole 9 points 1 week ago

Right? The Internet started really picking up in the early~mid nineties. Twitter opened in 2006. Facebook in 2004. There were actual online communities before that. The idea that social media would be a rampart against the disinformation supposedly inherent to humanely-sized, coherent online communities is the worst take ever. The culprit for polarization is precisely social media, and their method was channelling engagement through algorithms fostering gut reactions and virality (I’m adding forums, chats and mIRC to your examples.)

[–] luciole 15 points 1 week ago

To answer your question: You did a good job, that’s the organic, locally sourced memes I crave. 5/5 would chuckle again bee fingerguns emoji

 

The widely held belief of the echo chamber has been bothering me for a while now. I don't question the phenomenon itself. It's happened often enough; I totally agree this is a thing. What bugs me though is the idea that the root cause is members of a group agreeing too much.

Agreement is good wtf. Consensus should be a welcome occasional checkpoint. How are you even supposed to build healthy communities if you don't share some common ground, like say equality for all. Sealioning is not a vaccine against radicalization. If anything the constant bickering from contrarians has the opposite effect.

Diversity may be a better sign of healthy community. Diversity of age, origins, gender, whatever. I don't believe such a community turns into a radicalization timebomb for being like-minded. We need shared values to build upon, lest loneliness swallows us all.

Nevertheless I feel that obsessing over the homogeneous aspect of an echo chamber is mistaking the symptoms for the essence. My intuition is that the danger is in the discourse itself and to a certain extent in the platform used. I can't say I've made up my mind on the specifics though.

What do you think? It's OK if you disagree lol 🤪

 

[alt text: Due to the sick and twisted nature of people in this group I am not leaving.]

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Sleepy cats live (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 month ago by luciole to c/animals
 

Every Friday https://www.youtube.com/@shironekoshiro streams hours of their cats sleeping. It’s so relaxing.

 

Un autre chapitre dans la saga de la toiture du stade

 

Dominique Lalonde partage quotidiennement des petites séquences vidéo de nature québécoise. C’est relaxant de prendre une minute pour chaque jour pour regarder.

 

Love the dark autumnal vibes. Music that takes its time.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/23941424

Blue ticks, but for business web links.

 

Inquiet de la « crise des services publics » et en rupture avec les orientations du gouvernement, le député caquiste Youri Chassin claque la porte du caucus de la CAQ et siégera désormais comme indépendant.

 

Salamander (Life Force in the USA) is an arcade scrolling shmup developed by Konami in 1986 as a spin-off of Gradius.

I never actually played. I just enjoy that artwork 🔥

 

Young artist with inspired angsty compositions. They have an EP out and I'm hoping they eventually get around to dropping a full album.

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