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Bugsy posted:According to this, the old digg buttons sent an alert to one dude who basically ran the the entire digg site by manually ranking stuff. When they switched it over to an algorithm who gently caress knows if those buttons actually did anything because the site sucked so much. Lol that this company (and all of capitalism) would rather burn itself on fire than admit the essential nature of its workers
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Ive had a couple lucid dreams where it sprang from a book, as in the whole flow of it was left to right down the page, on to the righthand page etc.. but as I was traveling across the words it was illuminated and unfolding to show all sorts of cinematic visuals. Another weird text incident I had in a dream I was talking to this bald, strange man (wearing long white robes, had weird jewely on his neck and ear). The guy was nonplussed to speak to me, every word he uttered opened up paragraphs of wikipedialike text in a foreign script, with random words translated to english in these blocks. I asked him who he worked for, in the text of his response was "Universe's Killing Machine" To bring it back I hope that same guy has Mr. Musky scheduled soon!
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Tree Bucket posted:Dude, I don't know if you've got some kind of glitch going on here, but your post is just a stream of nonsense Hell, same
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Shageletic posted:How about writing, like fantasy or something that involves alot of description and world building. How does that work? Essentially the same; it's a process that you practice over and over until it comes naturally for you. Playing TTRPGs helps a lot in this regard. The way I taught myself basic creative writing was in high school, through adapting single episodes of old Doctor Who into short stories. Old Doccy Who isn't exactly stellar television to modern eyes: the effects are as infamous for their quality as they are charming; the camera work and set dressings are rudimentary at best. The scripts and the performances behind the main cast are the only thing propping the whole thing up, but even they are subject to the whims of the producer, the budget measured in pennies and the unforgiving runtime. The end result is best approached as a stage play with the understanding that a lot of the secondary performers are hired for their asking rates and not necessarily their talent. So, there's a lot of room for expansion. Take this random scene from The Time Warrior, a 1974 Third Doctor story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW9vSgUaXZU Once you get past how... janky it all looks, you've got so much to write about : what are the random knights in the background thinking of this encounter? What's going through the head of the lead knight, whose first instinct upon seeing something beyond his comprehension is to challenge it to a duel? How is the Sontaran commander reacting to the planet's natives attacking him? He needs their help repairing their ship, but his military training won't let him treat the locals as anything else than stock to be subjugated. That's enough to turn this two minute scene into a seven page short story. It won't be anything stellar, but it's good practice, and consistent practice is how you get good at anything.
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UndusMundae posted:I thought it was the fact that Bruce referred to himself as Bruce, and he knew he was trapped inside a dream of someone else's making, because he always referred to himself as batman, even mentally. Different episodes. The one you're thinking of is an episode of Batman Beyond. The one with the dream-text is 'Perchance to Dream' from TAS, and one of my favorite episodes.
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E the Shaggy posted:Elon out here liking Grimes' Tweets. He's so lonely. This song is great, very relaxing
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Jun 10, 2023 11:47
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Sentient Data posted:The thing about not reading in a dream is that you can't read in a dream. If you look at a sign you can absorb the fact that it's the mailman's nephew's name in Klingon, but that's kind of like looking at a cat and knowing it's a cat. If you actually try to look at text and make an effort to read, it won't be the same. Words or numbers will be different or nonexistent or nonsensical, but above all it will constantly change as soon as your focus slips. This based on absolute nothing
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I've definitely read words in a dream. I remember waking up and thinking "huh, that was a dream but I read some words, how odd" On the other hand, I think what you're describing does cover people speaking in my dreams. I understand what they're saying, but I don't hear it.
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Trying to operate a smartphone in a dream is the most frustrating thing, nothing works like you want it to, and often the phone breaks in half
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https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1667518082607386624 https://twitter.com/chancery_daily/status/1667404768438886400 kazil fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Jun 10, 2023 |
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Why are there 95 shareholders lmao
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https://twitter.com/HardDriveMag/status/1667517287006453763?s=20 Hard Drive has been delivering Onion level gold for ages now.
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Jun 10, 2023 14:17
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A bunch of old twitter idiots kept hold of their shares.
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Jun 10, 2023 14:23
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A bunch of holdovers and a few companies who specifically brought stock when it was still traded for the specific purpose of getting a piece of the private company under Elong's fabulous leadership. There may have been a few private placement deals (to avoid disclosure rules with block purchases of a publicly traded stock) at the deal close, but no one's sure precisely because it was obfuscated during the deal. Also it doesn't really tell us a ton because you can have shell companies owning bits of Twitter who may have multiple legal or beneficial owners in turn.
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Shageletic posted:How about writing, like fantasy or something that involves alot of description and world building. How does that work? I've tried writing, and people tell me it's great I guess. I remember getting the advice (not from my readers) "describe scenes with all 5 senses to improve immersion" and tried to write with that specifically in mind. I intentionally wrote with "you haven't had a [x] descriptor in a while" in mind, and 'visual' got no preferential treatment. Going back and rereading, my visuals are pretty sparse and vague. My wife made some "fan art" of my protagonist and asked if it was close to what I had in mind. Which was a really hard question for me because the short answer is "obviously not"
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Washington Post posted:17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/, archive link: http://archive.today/2023.06.10-132036/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/
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CharlestheHammer posted:Man twitter blue reply guys are going hard on the Call of Duty stuff Ah yes, the great GamerGate 2023 bot brigades.
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Whilip Poopman, a Marnegie Pellon Duniversity
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Waffle House posted:Ah yes, the great GamerGate 2023 bot brigades. Is it still all about Ethics In Video Games Journalism?
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CharlestheHammer posted:Man twitter blue reply guys are going hard on the Call of Duty stuff It's such a micro bubble of outrage too. No one gives a flying gently caress what Call of Duty did.
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armpit_enjoyer posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/, archive link: http://archive.today/2023.06.10-132036/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/ ok but have you considered that all the other car brand have like 9999999% more of these things happening just off frame that the msm anti musk media isnt reporting on?
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armpit_enjoyer posted:Essentially the same; it's a process that you practice over and over until it comes naturally for you. Playing TTRPGs helps a lot in this regard. That's so cool, and more than anything it shows your ability to follow things through. I've always been a daydreamer building elaborate visual diaoramas in my head to stave off boredom, but it's hard to translate that into writing when the thing imagine is so much cooler and maybe more satisfying than anything you can do yourself. But it all comes down to a matter of work ethic I think. Evilreaver posted:I've tried writing, and people tell me it's great I guess. I remember getting the advice (not from my readers) "describe scenes with all 5 senses to improve immersion" and tried to write with that specifically in mind. I intentionally wrote with "you haven't had a [x] descriptor in a while" in mind, and 'visual' got no preferential treatment. Going back and rereading, my visuals are pretty sparse and vague. I'm sure practice would help you there, like the other poster.
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PhazonLink posted:ok but have you considered that all the other car brand have like 9999999% more of these things happening just off frame that the msm anti musk media isnt reporting on? No, because that's obviously stupid.
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PhazonLink posted:ok but have you considered that all the other car brand have like 9999999% more of these things happening just off frame that the msm anti musk media isnt reporting on?
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armpit_enjoyer posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/, archive link: http://archive.today/2023.06.10-132036/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/ I don't have time to acknowledge, respond or investigate in any way as I am very busy posting transphobic memes
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https://twitter.com/JewishWorker/status/1667352395695763456 I've noticed this too - a lot of Twitter ads nowadays are these "stores" with generic-sounding names all selling the exact same poo poo. Edit: And another one just popped up while I was looking at that tweet lol 
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DaveWoo posted:https://twitter.com/JewishWorker/status/1667352395695763456 I thought maybe he was quietly unblocking those for me after I blocked ads with products I remembered seeing and blocking before, I guess an endless chain of new stores popping up with the exact same crap makes sense.
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Tiny Timbs posted:right, like dogs Yeah but humans can look up, unlike dogs.
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Musk just liked this. Come on Elmo, don't be a coward, steal the meme and post it as your own. The advertisers will love it. https://twitter.com/LibertyCappy/status/1667555052549033984?s=20
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lol Any day now, the woke are gonna rise up and complete thier evil plan to destroy western civilization. aaaany day now..
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Like 20 replies in, there's right-winging chud accounts changing the Swaztika to the star of David and moaning about Jews. But yeah, LGBT are the nazis.
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Bugsy posted:According to this, the old digg buttons sent an alert to one dude who basically ran the the entire digg site by manually ranking stuff. When they switched it over to an algorithm who gently caress knows if those buttons actually did anything because the site sucked so much. more and more i find out none of the sites in the early 2000s even worked... and they all made off like bandits. just loving incredibly that people consider the tech industry a meritocracy. did facebook even work back then or was zuck manually creating every single class a school had?
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Strong Sauce posted:more and more i find out none of the sites in the early 2000s even worked... and they all made off like bandits. just loving incredibly that people consider the tech industry a meritocracy. did facebook even work back then or was zuck manually creating every single class a school had? Considering the Zuck got his start with FaceMash, odds are he was indeed single-handedly creating every class
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