Link for those interested:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5WT22-AO8&pp

Such a cute lil pinap

Whoa it’s wild that it was commissioned by a company as a way to improve staff morale after a series of mergers and acquisitions. Imagine being worried about your job in an era when job hopping was not common, & you get a smiley face pin from management.

Honk if you honk

I agree with you in real life, but I do think rogue would play up her bi-ness in a public setting cuz she knows she’s hot & is a bit of an exhibitionist. She’s also probably had a group break up session where she dumps all 6 of her partners at once in a hipster coffee shop then asks for the batistas phone number.

My personal tier list:

Honestly 100% unemployed becuase we have a good universal income system or something would be great. But sadly it looks like we’re in a different timeline :(

Mesh networks have been made using ham radios! It’s not ready for the general public since you need a ham operators lisence & their range is limited by line of sight. But if you own a large property, you can network your own space using the tech. It’s also a good back up in the case of a large scale infrastructure disruption.

Heres a link :)

I hope you know you’re a gift to humanity 🤣

Right!? I wish I was small enough I could pet his fur and maybe fly around a bit lol

Yeah! I think thats it! Especially the waves on the upper wing and the dark spots. The antennae also look the same.

Super interesting to think he’ll only be alive for at most one more week. Still glad I saved him from the kindergardeners lol

Thanks for helping with the ID :)

Close, but this guy has these eye like holes towards the upper center of his wings, and the lower lobe is a slightly different shape where it attaches to the body. I wish I had been able to got a pic while his wings were open.

Edited to add: thanks for the idea though :) someone else did ID what I think is the right species, the polyphemus moth

Yes sir, thank you sir. And this one is bailey’s, and this one is bailey’s a bit bigger, and this one is about as close as you can get to baileys without gettin’ your eyes wet.

What a treasure trove of deep sea anus jokes I didn’t realize I needed in my life lmao

Chiming in to say that on my asus laptop, the start up button is f12! Press as soon as the first logo appears on the screen. It might take a few times to get the timing right, if you miss it just restart the computer.

It should take you to a menu that looks like a classic hacker screen (blue screen with pixilated text, no clickable UI). Then go to the boot options and select the USB.

The potential for self hosted AI is there! I’ve seen a few projects in the works, and if youre tech saavy you can spin up your own. It is pretty resource intensive, but could be run on a home server.

I’m pretty excited to have my own personal AI, vut i want one that is trained on data I select and who only phones home to my server lol.

Super interesting to read your more technical perspective. I also think facial recognition (and honestly most AI use cases) are best when used to supplement an existing system. Such as flagging a potential shoplifter to human security.

Sadly most people don’t really understand the tech they use for work. If the computer tells them something they just kind of blindly believe it. Especially in a work environment where they have been trained to do what the machine says.

My guess is that the people were trained on how to use the system at a very basic level. Troubleshooting and understanding the potential for error typically isn’t covered in 30min corporate instructional meetings. They just get a little notice saying a shoplifter is in the store and act on that without thinking.

Definetly! AI is a tool and still needs a human to manage it. It works best when used to augment existing work flows & when used by someone who is able to fine tune what it’s doing when necessary.

Even AI security could be helpful to flag things for a human to then look into, but giving it complete authority is going to lead to so many issues.

Excited for the new book :) I’m hoping this time around I’ll be able to actually make it to the Sunday meetings

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Discord is well known to many people & there isn’t a good open source group call and message system.

It would be awesome if there was another choice, but I’d rather have discord book club than no book club at all.