@jamesgleick@zirk.usThis is my nominee for least-covered, least-understood story of the decade. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is the righteous and plausible path to ending the Electoral College. No constitutional amendment required.
That seems too good to be true. Also, to wrap your head around it requires a bit of effort. It’s almost like (content warning!) math.
But take a minute or two, and the light will dawn. This could happen. And it should.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok moves its Creativity Program out of beta, rebranding it as Creator Rewards Program, which requires videos to be longer than a minute to be monetized (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24090583/tiktok-c…
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieOne of Ireland’s unsung heroes is whatever genius comes up with new game show formats.
The Lyrics board (hangman-style blanked out lines. When you get it everyone in the room has a singalong)
Talkabout:
Ten hidden words on a topic. And, in one minute, you have to hit them all during an ad-libbed speech on that topic.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTikTok moves its Creativity Program out of beta, rebranding it as Creator Rewards Program, which requires videos to be longer than a minute to be monetized (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24090583/tiktok-c…
@jamesgleick@zirk.usThis is my nominee for least-covered, least-understood story of the decade. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is the righteous and plausible path to ending the Electoral College. No constitutional amendment required.
That seems too good to be true. Also, to wrap your head around it requires a bit of effort. It’s almost like (content warning!) math.
But take a minute or two, and the light will dawn. This could happen. And it should.
@crschmidt@better.bostonOne of the biggest challenges with managing the E-Bike Lending Library at bigger scale is just managing the logistics of getting people to show up.
This week, in order to attempt to schedule 12 bikes (plus some test rides), I sent emails to 36 different people.
And even after all of that, due to last minute cancellations, I still ended up with 4 more bikes at home than I had planned!
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok moves its Creativity Program out of beta, rebranding it as Creator Rewards Program, which requires videos to be longer than a minute to be monetized (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24090583/tiktok-c…
@mguhlin@mastodon.education#TeacherAppreciationWeek - Get A #FREE #TCEA Membership:
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTikTok moves its Creativity Program out of beta, rebranding it as Creator Rewards Program, which requires videos to be longer than a minute to be monetized (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24090583/tiktok-c…
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaWell this will be a fun week. Down to two people to do the work. I have a list of tasks by priority tacked to my board beside the work laptop. I know there will be people commenting that their work didn't get done as fast, but two of us are doing the work of four people so only priority tasks get done. If I get a spare minute (laughing at that one) I may get around to that. Team was originally 7, but with retirements down to 4 then 3.
Coffee is my friend this week.
@outer@mas.toThat kitty is heels over head in love. https://mstdn.ca/@EllieK/112354875830016017
@to3k@tomaszdunia.pl🇬🇧 Do you also have it so that on the one hand you know that sleep is important, but yet on the other hand you pity every minute "wasted" on sleep?
🇵🇱 Też tak macie, że z jednej strony wiecie, że sen jest istotny, ale jednak z drugiej szkoda Wam każdej minuty „zmarnowanej” na spanie?
@cliffwade@allthingstech.socialToday was a VERY SUCCESSFUL day!
The switch over from being a contractor to a full-time employee was smoother than I ever expected it to be.
Got the work laptop wiped and set back up with my new account and everything else is just working as intended.
I have one 15 minute Zoom meeting tomorrow to wrap up things and then I'll be done and back to work as normal!
#Work
@mk_rexx@metalhead.club
@lmc@mastodon.socialOne of my favorite venues and I love to see this. They provide a free shuttle with 15 minute headways that picks you up at the subway/transit stops. They're using the converted parking to provide more space for buses and shuttles and (unfortunately) rideshare but still happy to see it.
@bobwyman@mastodon.socialCongress relies too much on the Courts. Too often, the Courts make decisions that should have been made by Congress. Too often, Congress fails to incorporate into the law decisions that have been made by the Courts.
Bump stocks sole purpose is to convert legal arms into illegal arms. If there is ambiguity in the law, Congress should modify the law to clarify it. A one-page bill would do the job. The fact that we have a non-functional Congress is a disgrace.
@adrianco@mastodon.socialThe Golden Gate #Lotus Club are running a #trackday on May 3 at #Thunderhill. I can’t go but they have plenty of open slots and are a great group to run with, welcoming to novices and experienced dri…
@zimpenfish@social.rjp.isFinally jumped onto the Vampire Survivors bus and bloody hell, there might be only one joystick involved but a 25 minute game still feels like an especially strenuous workout.
(Kinda surprised no-one came up with the concept earlier because it feels like a perfect fit for Playstation / N64 kind of era but I suppose you couldn't really get that many things on screen at once in The Olden Tymes and that's kinda the point of it.)
@pre@boing.world😆
Well I got the per-frame render time down from fifty seconds to three, and it doesn't really look any worse. Mostly just turning down the samples and lower resolution volumetric lighting.
That ought to get a five minute spot rendered over-night.
Still won't be enough to get two versions rendered overnight for also doing vertical video.
Maybe my laptop can do the other one? It has a GPU. Not as good a one.
@brian_gettler@mas.toI love it when past students take a minute to fill me in on their lives and the wonderful things they're doing. This is truly one of the best perks of the job. #AcademicChatter #academia #HigherEd
@jake4480@c.imSometimes I run across something I'm not even sure what it is, but I like it. MOONBLADDER is one such thing. Released just a few days ago, this strange, wonderful over 22 minute track (an EP, I guess?) has some of the coolest ambient, avant garde, (harsh-ish) noise, experimental type stuff I've ever heard. For fans of Coil, etc.
There's some wild stuff on Crucial Blast Records, man
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys News: Last-minute draft strategy and commandments; dollar details for CeeDee, Micah https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/lists/news-notes-april-24-2024-draft-ceedee-lamb-micah-parsons/
@toothFAIRy@scholar.socialWe're diving into the unconference part of #NRSD2024! We have 14 pitches of people that want to lead a session.
We have pitches on art, hiring people with software skills, sharing software, ensuring #RSE careers remain attractive, reproducible software, software maintenance, #Ghost collective on collaborative game making, training, research software impact model, NL-RSE, best practice check lists, declarative programming, and prototype designs!
This one minute timer is magic ✨
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSo I've gotten a job #spam from #Samsung recruiting, regarding some project I don't really have skills for. Then I've gotten two more identical mails.
My first thought? They're spamming random #Gentoo aliases, so I've gotten multiple copies.
Nope. The same person actually sent 3 identical e-mails. The second one 2 hours after the first one, and the third one 1 minute later. Really professional.
Maybe I should reply and request three separate job offers then.
@fgraver@hcommons.socialOne might think this is a dog not wanting to go out in the bloody freezing temperatures. One might think, but one would be wrong. This is a dog not wanting to come in from the bloody freezing temperatures after a 40-minute walk…
#MastoDog #DogsWhoLoveWinter
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euUh, when I take a look at a website I've built a long time ago, and there's this one pesky, one-minute-fix background element I haven't centered properly because I didn't have a GINORMOUS monitor at the time 🧐 😢 🤕
(Or rather, because at the time, I also thought I have a ginormous monitor, and everything seemed set for eternity.)
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialWhite House staffers got Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), a friend of Biden’s and graduate of Yale Divinity School, on the phone. “Chris, it’s Joe,” the president said. “I need you to put your divinity school hat on for a minute and just tell me — do you think this is the right thing? Should we go ahead?”
@bobwyman@mastodon.socialCongress relies too much on the Courts. Too often, the Courts make decisions that should have been made by Congress. Too often, Congress fails to incorporate into the law decisions that have been made by the Courts.
Bump stocks sole purpose is to convert legal arms into illegal arms. If there is ambiguity in the law, Congress should modify the law to clarify it. A one-page bill would do the job. The fact that we have a non-functional Congress is a disgrace.
@trochee@dair-community.social> What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new terms of the present?
> What if artificial intelligence isn't actually capable of doing much more than what we're seeing today, and
> what if there's no clear timeline when it'll be able to do more?
Also "I have met exactly one person who has used GPT-4 for something useful" 😘👌
From ed zitron:
Have We Reached Peak AI?
@lukem@hachyderm.ioVideography is a lot like photography except a few things:
1. You take 30 (or so) photos per minute rather than one - and that has plenty of consequences.
2. LED flickering is a serious problem.
3. TONS of image stabilization is needed.
@nelson@tech.lgbtDear prestige TV makers. No one wants a 70 minute episode. I understand you are much too self-important to stick to a 30 minute slot. So take an hour, which means 48 minutes runtime. 70 minutes is a goddamn movie. #shogun
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caWent to an Official Community Plan public input event for #PortAlberni
Alll of the sticky note stations had at least one sticky note that said “15 minute Prison” 🤦♂️
#bcmuni #ConspiracyTheory
@arnie_dxer@mastodon.radio594 kHz: this one was real quick, unexpected, and what not, as it almost escaped the usual rise in my noise floor as streetlights are turned on for the night...
Myanmar Radio 🇲🇲!
YL announcer barely heard, then some piece of mx, but IMMEDIATELY obliterated by noise! - so no chance to recognize it 😞
This was right at 1629z. Within next minute, I managed to quickly increase waterfall FFT resolution & zoom in much closer to see a carrier drop within seconds of 1630*z.
@ripienaar@devco.socialThis is absolutely incredible. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112124746573939344
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgOne of my pet peeves when it comes to conferences. I know that sometimes you just add something last minute but don't celebrate creating your presentation the evening before.
I don't even give a shit about professionalism it's just a big "fuck you" to your audience who invested money, time, etc. to see you. https://
@bunnyhero@mstdn.cathere are at least a couple of uploads of PROJECT MOON BASE on youtube, which is handy if you have youtube premium. one is stretched wide, like the archive.org copy, but another one is taped from a tv broadcast and has the right aspect ratio, but it has about a minute or so of station identification at the start. be sure to skip the intro if watching that copy! #monsterdon
@servelan@newsie.socialPOTUS on a hot mic: “I told him, Bibi, and don’t repeat this, but you and I are going to have a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting.”
Dictionary.com notes that “Outside religious contexts, *come to Jesus* refers to a meeting or moment where one undergoes a difficult but positive and powerful realization or change in character or behavior.”
After his bodyguard stopped Biden, the President said, “I’m on a hot mic here. Good. That’s good.”
@zimpenfish@social.rjp.isIf I was king, I would ban petrol engine leaf blowers and also make it a legal requirement that anyone who sounds their car horn for more than one British second in a five British minute period has their car immediately confiscated and compacted at their expense with 6 points added on their license.
(no prizes for guessing what's currently disturbing my peace)
@ehud@scholar.socialListen, like everyone else I immensely enjoy that academic papers were published with chatGPT catchphrases in them and no one caught on…
But can we spare a minute to also reflect on the possibility that the authors used chatGPT because they felt they needed help with their English? I’m not excusing anything, mind you, just calling for a bit of empathy.
@jake4480@c.imSometimes I run across something I'm not even sure what it is, but I like it. MOONBLADDER is one such thing. Released just a few days ago, this strange, wonderful over 22 minute track (an EP, I guess?) has some of the coolest ambient, avant garde, (harsh-ish) noise, experimental type stuff I've ever heard. For fans of Coil, etc.
There's some wild stuff on Crucial Blast Records, man
@brian_gettler@mas.toUnder academics are animals too: when I arrived this morning, two geese were perched one right next to the other on top of one of the tallest buildings on campus. As I and a few others - their audience - approached they let loose, hollering at each other at the top of their lungs for a good minute, both unwavering in their positions while giving every impression they were having the time of their life.
#academia
@StampedingLonghorn@social.linux.pizzaThe experience of totality is such a surreal experience. It's not just the sun being blocked out by the giant tortilla in the sky. It looked like the sun was setting/rising from every direction around. Starlings started chirping and geese started flying. Definitely worth seeing one in real life. No crappy cell phone picture could ever describe the 4 minute experience of the Great American Eclipse of 2024.
The Great American Traffic Jam of 2024 now follows.
@ehud@scholar.socialListen, like everyone else I immensely enjoy that academic papers were published with chatGPT catchphrases in them and no one caught on…
But can we spare a minute to also reflect on the possibility that the authors used chatGPT because they felt they needed help with their English? I’m not excusing anything, mind you, just calling for a bit of empathy.
@elliek@mstdn.caWho loves her daddy then?
(One minute video)
Zaz certainly knows how to show her favourite human that she can't wait for him to come in. He had been out for all of 20 minutes.
I can't upload the 1 minute video here, unfortunately. It sank without trace, almost, yesterday. So the link to watch the clip is here
#EllieKPosts #Zaz #ZazTheCornishRex #CornishRexCat #happiness #timelineCleanse #CaturdayEveryDay #cats #CornishRex
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euHow do you expect me to take seriously #AI if, instead of circumventing the speed of light and colonizing planets for us, curing diseases, eliminating menial work and inequality, solving energy deficiency and resource shortages, becoming the godly right hand of the human species in its endeavors across the universes, IT'S FREAKING BUSY WASTING ELECTRICITY TO MAKE JANKY ONE MINUTE VIDEO C…
@arXiv_csSD_bot@mastoxiv.pageLarge Language Models: From Notes to Musical Form
Lilac Atassi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11976 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.11976
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaThis is going to be one very long week. Team is temporarily down to two bodies. National outage on a piece of software needed by thousands of users. Issues with another sub-system. Another last minute run of an annual job. Waiting for fix on 1st, fixed 2nd & waiting for approval, last I have on call-up for Friday morning for sched change. Mailbox was melting down from hundreds of messages. Upside is I am learning and writing SOPs for all the issues if it ever happens again.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys DC Mike Zimmer's emphasis on fundamentals shouldn't be mistaken with conservative style https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_dc_mike_zimmers_emphasis_on_fun…
@arXiv_csSD_bot@mastoxiv.pageLarge Language Models: From Notes to Musical Form
Lilac Atassi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11976 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.11976
