@trochee@dair-community.socialThinking for no particular reason today* about the peculiar genius of Stanislaw Lem
A Jew, a doctor, a Pole, in the resistance against Hitler & Stalin & capitalism, an SF legend, feared by PK Dick, lauded by UK Le Guin
…& one of the earliest AGI skeptics
>… held that information technology drowns people in a glut of low-quality information, and considered truly intelligent robots as both undesirable and impossible to construct.
@Zer0Rank@social.linux.pizzaI'm quite excited about niri. I had some issues getting screen sharing to work with teams and meet, but got that fixed with the help of the community. Steam had minor problems, but that was fixed by following the wiki. Now I have niri working, and I can't wait to daily drive it. Running on Pop!_OS COSMIC. That was a quick rabbit-hole I dove into 😅
#niri
@seav@en.osm.town#OpenStreetMap is turning 21 next month! 🥳
If you or your community is organizing an event to celebrate, then add them to the OSM Wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Op
@johl@mastodon.xyzAs I thought of the game of Go this morning, I remembered that when Wikipedia started in 2001, I thought "oh, it’s something like Sensei‘s Library“, because that was the biggest and most active wiki I knew at that time.
https://senseis.xmp.net/
@trochee@dair-community.socialThe combination of pareidolia and clownish but menacing Nazis
It's making me think of the criminally-underrecognized MRS DAVIS
I need to watch this again. Perhaps it should be a Labor Day (US version) ritual
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Davis
