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• Post #4384739

  Euforia Un poema en español. I don't know if I'll be writing an English version, so in the meantime here's a machine translation by Kagi Translate, which while not great, captures the content pretty well. In the dark days before,
‌ ‌ I wanted to conform.
Joy was distant,
‌ ‌ so far out of my reach. In those misty days,
‌ ‌ the anxieties increased.
I didn't have peace of soul,
‌ ‌ questions filled me. Until I cracked like an egg. In the luminous days after,
‌ ‌ jubilation finds me...

• Post #4370324

  There once was a startup so sly
That it reframed its bugs as AI.
When programmer errors
Caused security terrors
They called it too smart to comply. #AI #TESCREAL

• Post #4339666

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2/117028219268743155 This sounds very familiar.

• Post #4184404

  When you go gender neutral in English, it's a barely noticeable they/them. When you go gender neutral in Spanish, it's seriously in your face. From an invite I'm creating. Convivencia de Ambiente El primer encuentro de una convivencia periódica para mujerxs, muxes, mujerxs trans, hombrxs trans, no binarixs, agénerxs, intersexualxs, y algunas personxs fuera del patriarcado. No, I'm not sure that "algunas" shouldn't have an "x". My hacked “AI” grammar che...

• Post #4128586

  La Edad de Transición A veces no estoy segura
Si es la época de transición
O su muerte.
Pero el pasado es claro.
No se nos puede impedir transitar. Pero cómo se vivencia
Depende de su época y edad.
Tengo suerte.
Yo transicioné más tarde.
Sin el trauma entre tantas jóvenes. Pero perdí cosas también.
La piel y el rostro de un joven.
Y mi mente.
La gloria pura de las muñecas Escogí la época buena
Pero a la edad equivocada.
¿Estoy triste?
Transitamos cuando podemos.
Todo tiempo tiene dolores. #p...

• Post #4116870

  I'm writing poetry in Spanish, and I suddenly realized I could use my translator to help me with the scansion. I had no sooner typed the instructions [report the number of syllables in the Spanish] than I realized my folly. And sure enough.

• Post #4074330

  RE: https://esq.social/@annmlipton/116976139728517273 Interesting little game illustrating how abstractions are difficult for people.

• Post #4068937

  Yesterday's writing prompt at my writer's group was "passages". There are so many stories revolve around passages; wormholes, wardrobes, ships.... You name it. And I didn't want to write something that had been used a million times. So I spent a long time looking at the various definitions (did you know there's one related to dressage?), and this is what came out. Safe Passage It took me nearly a year to negotiate safe passage. I was lucky, some people wait decades,...

• Post #3896372

  マリウス . The Day WhatsApp Goes Dark https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-day-whatsapp-goes-dark/ It would absolutely be a disaster. Every business in Mexico has a WhatsApp account. It doesn't matter whether it's Walmart, or the local dog groomer. It's customer support. It's how you order tickets to events. It's how you get alerts when your blouse gets mended. It's how you schedule appointments with, show photos of your issues with, and get your prescriptions from, your doctor....

• Post #3868474

  Props to Wise money transfer. This is brilliant. I was on a call with my daughter and realized I needed to pay a bill to someone, so I brought up Wise and got this warning.

• Post #3814888

  There seem to be some font rendering issues, but so far so good. I'm very curious if the “Tell me what I can cook given what I have" algorithm still works.

• Post #3792115

  @peribotsarah@babka.social @WTPress@wandering.shop I have read his collection of short science fiction stories and it is amazing. It is dark and Croatian, and definitely worth the read. I'm very curious what this is going to be like.

• Post #3787842

  ❝ Technically, the reality lands more modestly. Large language models are next-token prediction systems. Their outputs are the product of statistical probability distributions learned from training data, not reasoning in the way humans mean it, not independent judgment, and least of all, not the kind of moral intuition we'd ascribe to a senior experienced professional. The gap between what the constitution describes and what the underlying architecture actually does isn’t a minor discrepancy...

• Post #3785632

  @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space Well now you know the first rule in their people recognition algorithm.

• Post #3785498

  TFW your young (whatever that means in this context) vampire wife from an arranged marriage commits a murder suicide with her two "children" and the police are investigating but you're working with you team to solve a video playback bug caused by adding accounts with a creation date in the 1950s, but it's hard to concentrate because two of your teammates are dancing a (very good) jig while playing guitars in thongs. (SGW and Eric, I didn't know you had it in you). #dreams

• Post #3755925

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2/116905063508849487 Well that was prescient.

• Post #3636564

  My mother just told me that "Smilies People" keep showing up on her screen. Apparently she accidentally hit the function key to bring up the emoji list.

• Post #3571500

  FaceTime rings. Daughter hangs up before I can answer. I text her. "Where'd you go?" After a minute she calls back. "Sorry, I had something I wanted to talk out, but I decided to talk to my sister instead. But she didn't answer so I'm calling you back." "Well now I know where I am in the priority list!" "I mean, you were first. I just changed my mind!" Not sure if I won that one or not.

• Post #3528488

  Esta noche fui a mi primera clase de salsa. En realidad, mi primera clase de baile de cualquier tipo. También, como me di cuenta cuando empezamos, era la primera vez bailando con un hombre, y sin ser el que guía. Fue una experiencia. Pero una buenísima. Éramos diez o doce personas, con una mujer más que hombres. Solamente tres gringos. El maestro nos hacía cambiar de pareja frecuentemente, aunque pasaba más tiempo conmigo, porque tenía la menor experiencia. Ninguno de los hombres tenía proble...

• Post #3482718

  Phrase of the night. ¿Ontas? Wanna hook up? "A syncopated contraction of the Spanish phrase '¿dónde estás?' (where are you?), which underwent phonetic reduction and semantic shift in Mexican internet slang to become a euphemism for a 'booty call'."

• Post #3457552

  I have seen so many “AI”-generated memes about the Reflecting Pool that they've lost their potency. When you had to be able to draw a cartoon, or at least do some Photoshop work to make these things happen, they had a little more punch. Are we nearing the end of the golden age of memes? Is it time to return to textual humor? I have posted the memes that were in the “AI” and which you were probably thinking were original Forgive me they were too easy so fake with no soul #LLM #memes #AI

• Post #3420987

  RE: https://muffin.industries/@wayback_exe/116820148940748744 The Wayback Machine archives the Internet the way it really was.

• Post #3413838

  "Not she berry or he berry" #lgbtq #nonbinary

• Post #3387407

  I walked into a bar this afternoon (where I have a Spanish taller (workshop)), and there was a nice medium sized husky lying in the middle of the floor. So I asked the bartender what its name was. "No tiene un nombre." It didn't have a name. It was just a stray. In fact, a bit later, another stray came to join our class. But, they do have a name of sorts. They call them "Solo vino". "He just came."

• Post #3363456

  Trans girls: I grew these breasts myself and by the grace of God, I'm gonna show them off whenever the chance comes up. Trans guys: I had these breasts removed myself and, by the grace of God, I'm going shirtless at all times. #transgender #transmen #transwomen #TransJoy #trans

• Post #3336307

  RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/116762822225704677 This is what happens when the people in charge think that experts aren't needed, and everything is simple. A rational person, put in charge of any of these negotiations or government agencies would be terrified by their own inexpertise. These folks don't have any idea what they don't know. They don't think it's necessary to know anything. Everything can be solved in a few weeks by an amateur.

• Post #3311407

  RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116736495067438407 You can't make this stuff up. (But they do.) I mean, they always did. I co-founded a web development firm with @Serena@lgbtqia.space back at the beginning of the web, and we got written up by one of these firms as being one of the top five or so web development firms in the country. It was bullshit. They didn't go out and research it. The guy who wrote it was friends with our CEO. The same was probably true with the other fi...

• Post #2709449

  Things I will never know the answer to. Why does the key copying shop sell keys, locks, and... Crocs.

• Post #2144345

  It’s going to be a very exciting decade for anyone interested in Greek history and mythology. This is amazing. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00346-8

• Post #2049402

  Cannot verify, but funny regardless.