Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@Extra_Special_Carbon If I knew a kid who was "really into" roblocks I'd talk with them about what they like about it and just have sincere interest on what it's offering them. Don't tell the Australians but roblocks *is* "social media" just as much facebook or mastodon. And as you know I'm a big fan of social media. At the same time, many of the implementations for young people are just terrible. I hope this isn't coming off as either too critical or nosy.

@semitones @mynameistillian Kids can't go to D&B's unattended. I do recall that my Baptist church advised parents not to let kids "play at gambling" at such places when I was young. Personally I don't think total prohibition is realistic or needed. (Because then you will have black market for gambling.) But D&B's should have an exclusion list. And I don't care if they are a casualty of effort to eliminate more obviously destructive enterprises. Does that make some sense?

@JeremyMallin @mcc @phooky @futurebird I always imagined that every other ship is normal and nothing happens. Mental image of an admiral realising that Picard's reports are not, in fact, elaborate stories he makes up because he's bored and nobody reads the reports anyway

@keithpjolley It's the latest tiktok craze "anting out"

@futurebird @Nickiquote We must not talk about this.Too much discussion online and some asswipe tech bro will get wind of it, then go and pipe it all out to cool his goddamn AI datacentre

RE: https://mastodon.social/@retroist/115743198161017194@michael_w_busch @mousey @Sheep_Overboard I thought this was about this post at first. https://sauropods.win/@retroist@mastodon.social/115743198334892802

@apLundell In the US I think you can get a permit if you live in an area with a proper winter. Which is a little paranoid.

@bebatjof @kasdeya @Bubotomyhttps://sauropods.win/@futurebird/113262397924385589

@electropict Someone suggested writing parallel scenarios that raise the same issues, but without LLMs involved. I think this is also a good exercise. In theory ethics don't really change, or they change much more slowly than technology.

@bug_gwen *** high pitched squeaking sounds ***I neeeeed these...Please don't force me to learn how to knit a whole sweater. I have made mittens and that is the limit of my poor little attention span.

@spacefinner OK... whose eggs are these? Chickens?

@futurebird @alexwild @MyrmecolNews I remain convinced the author of the mirror test for ants paper intended to be mockery of the whole concept of mirror test.

However, in the wild, there are more variables. Ant colony wars are less inevitable. In urban and suburban environments most of the conspicuous ant wars you see are between ants of the same species, often sister colonies founded at the same time. These ants are Tetramorium sp., the pavement ant, when these ants live under suburban sidewalks the summer nearly always ends in war.

@sashin I think it's on the bottom... like a surprise. But I think having her there kind of explains why they are... like that.