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@vagina_museum We did breeding experiments on fruit flies (D. melanogaster) when I was in junior high school. We were supposed to euthanize them with ether (as opposed to, say, a flyswatter or a rolled-up newspaper) at the end of the experiment.

Ether not only failed to kill my fruit flies, but the little degenerates came crawling back for more. I may have single-handedly bred a new strain of drug-crazed ether-addicted (and ether-proof) fruit flies.

You’re welcome.

—@angusm

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If you consider yourself an #ally of the #Blind #Disability community, have you heard of #BeMyEyes?
BME is a platform which allows blind people to connect with volunteers through their phones camera to get assistance with things. Be they trying to find something in their kitchen, locate an item they dropped or identifying a shirt. If you haven’t, I’d encourage you to sign up as a volunteer today! Your help will make someones day.
https://www.bemyeyes.com/
#iPhone #Android #Smartphone

—@JesseF8693

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@StillIRise1963 I’m 65. Domestic violence was considered a family matter. No one was prosecuted for it, women were told by their various churches to do better and endure.
Rape was impossible to prosecute. There was no Miranda Law. No fault divorce did not exist. My mother had to get written permission from her father to go to college.
Abortion was illegal at every stage. Segregation was the norm. Civil rights did not exist.
They want us to go back to that time.

—@CatDragon

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Holy fuck, the GPT2 tokenizer, which is used by nearly all AI models which have anything to do with text or prompting, is really, really bad with non-english languages. In English, even uncommon words like “amplification” or infographic take up one token while words like “socialization” and “enterprising” take two, but in Polish, one token is usually two or three letters, there are common 6-letter words that take 4 tokens. This matters because more tokens means slower text generation, higher pricing and smaller supported prompt lengths.

—@miki

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It’s almost as if #Meta declared that they’d federate #Threads as a way to get the “fediverse” crowd not to bitch about Meta/Facebook/Zuck’s horrific past abuses of privacy and other data abuses, and the fact that the Threads app has quite possibly the most invasive set of anti-privacy demands of any app in history. Almost like Meta thinks the fediverse gang are all suckers.

—@lauren

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My new social media app is called Grouse. You can only post criticism of the 3,000 other new social media apps.

Posts are called “Gripes.” No likes or reposts—just one button to “Commiserate.” If a Gripe receives enough Commiseration it’s elevated by the algorithm into a “Complaint.”

Also there’s an academic version called “Faculty Meeting.”

—@ryancordell

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A lot of phone companies liked to upgrade their old polyphonic ringtones into audio. Here’s one example. Flashback. A sort of romantic, orchestral-style ringtone. It first appeared as an MMF on several LG phones in 2005, such as the SV900 and SB120. Then, in 2007, it got renamed from “Flashback” to “Like a Movie,” and was lengthened and upgraded quite considerably. Downloads:
Flashback (original MMF): http://onj3.andrelouis.com/phonetones/unzipped/LG/SB120/lovesong/Flashback.mmf
Like a Movie (original MP3): http://onj3.andrelouis.com/phonetones/unzipped/LG/GD900-Crystal/33%20Like%20A%20Movie.mp3

—@MutedTrampet