FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

"i have a problem where my program that generates plausible nonsense is generating plausible nonsense, so to fix this, i have another program that generates plausible nonsense read the plausible nonsense from the first program and tells me whether or not the first bit of garbage is real" — very serious people telling me that their program to generate plausible nonsense "works"

A comma! A comma! My kingdom for a comma.
#oxfordcomma #comma

There used to be such an interesting theme ecosystem for stuff. There used to be constantly interesting and innovative window-manager and DE themes. WinAmp existed.

And not just themes. Music players had visualizers, and an active community producing new and interesting ones. There used to constantly be new screensavers pushing the capabilities of new hardware/OS facilities/etc.

These things are just... gone. Stagnant, or completely removed.

some enterprising Finn needs to invent a coffee machine and name it The Perkeletor if there isn't such a thing already

Behind every "AI gone rogue" or "AI breaks out" or "AI hacks into" headline is someone - a real human - who is not being held accountable for their terrible work performance because we've anthropomorphised a technology.

Media needs to get this story straight as soon as possible.

#artificialIntelligence #media

What Do Triple Numbers Mean? The Significance of Repeating Numbers & How to Interpret Them

why is it going up?

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( bad data visualisation design)

#baddataviz #dataviz #badcharts

Ahoy!

adjö Tidö!!!

the preliminary vote count is finally over and the left-wing parties + the centre party have a three-seat majority with a more than 50,000 vote difference

🥳

SVT's live visualisation of how today's counting of late-arriving votes affects the seat distribution is super cool. it's fun to watch (I say in a thread that was supposedly about Not keeping up with the election. oh well)

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/folj-onsdagsrosterna-live

Secret Panel HERE 🐭 https://patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/mouse-trap-130511040

so distractible •ᴗ•)꜆\

#art

business school isn't actually teaching you a science. It's teaching you an ideology.

It exists to produce the managerial class - enforcers of capital who normalize the idea that "profit" is the natural goal of human existence, rather than a parasitic extraction.

#capitalism #workingclass #labor #profit

A lot of things inside you
#fascism #meme #memes

fucked up that computers don't look like this anymore. tell me you wouldn't live here if you were a one or a zero

Which came first, the eggplant or the egg?