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trying to help; public good; webdev; porting reading to the web @booksAreNext; making games @MouflonCloud; making money at… oh, shit; https://xitter.gq/t.co/gAqAf8ffGL

Brno, Czech Republic
Joined December 2008
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Why move publishing to the open web? or (almost) everything about next-book and my thoughts on WPUB in too many words. jan-martinek.com/archive/wpu… #longread I worked on this article for over two years and it’s A LOT. Feedback, help and RTs much appreciated ❤️ Context in thread 👇
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The Guitar Hero oral history book has six days left in the crowdfunding campaign and it’s still only 76% funded. If you wanna see it get printed, preorder yours and share the news! vol.co/collections/guitar-he… (It’s gonna be great: written by @metallicaisrad and published by @romvg.)
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Babe I'm not crying I just have a hole in my eye through which the sky is visible
During a sad moment in the ending of Super Mario Sunshine, Bowser appears to have a tear in his eye. However, this is actually a hole in his eye through which the sky is visible. As such, it is merely a serendipitous error that coincidentally fits the mood of the scene.
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this should hurt to look at. this should make you feel sick. this is one of the worst tragedies in human history and you can see it from space.
Replying to @latestinspace
15. Gaza (2023 - 2024) 🇵🇸
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shitposting will save the world from AI, pass it on
Seems the origin of the Google AI’s conclusion was an 11 year old Reddit post by the eminent scholar, fucksmith.
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🦀 ANOTHER CRAB'S TREASURE IS OUT NOW 🦀 The world's crabbiest soulslike is available now on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Game Pass and PS5‼️ We did it folks 🥹 Time for crab.
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what do you do for a living? short oversimplifications only divs
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From this article by Dr. Irfan Galaria in the @latimesopinion latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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If you read anything today, let it be this. This is Israel.
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If you are feeling sad and hopeless that is completely understandable, but it's also a luxury we can't afford right now. Here's a list of some great organisations helping on the ground, just as a handy guide:
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a new, year-long study found Google Search really has gotten worse, and top-ranking sites are "on average more optimized, more monetized with affiliate marketing, and they show signs of lower text quality" Also evidence of AI-generated top-ranking results 404media.co/google-search-re…
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Experts quoted by the AP: “Gaza is now a different color from space. It’s a different texture.” “Gaza is one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history.” “The vast majority of bombs dropped on the besieged enclave are U.S.-made.” apnews.com/article/israel-ga…
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Chilling display in Guernica. In 1937, the Nazis bombed this village on behalf of Franco’s Spanish Nationalists, who saw it as a center for the resistance against fascism. 86 years later, descendants of that horror express solidarity with Palestinians.
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BREAKING: More than 700 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip during the last 24 hours, according to the Director General of the Gov't Media Office in Gaza aje.io/ggedls
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For those who don't know, DALL-E3 attempts to combat the racial bias in its training data by occasionally randomly inserting race words that aren't white into a prompt, but this leads to bizarre overspill like this
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Startups are very good at many valuable things! But research is not one of those things.
Replying to @bimr1
No, you can't do sustainable research in startups. You quickly have to build products and generate revenues before you run out of money.
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🔴UPDATE: Over the last few hours, the attacks against Al-Shifa Hospital have dramatically intensified. Our staff at the hospital have reported a catastrophic situation inside just few hours ago channel4.com/news/i-cannot-l….
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