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Dan Beeston

Dan Beeston

@invisiblespiders.com

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Podcaster. Web dev. Primary account is on Mastodon. https://smartenough.org I wrote a book that you can show interest in at https://invisiblespiders.com

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Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 22h

Your economy of line, your sense of form. It's incredible.

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 1d

Google Earth. Westpac is Aussie so went looking for a Westpac logo in a skyline.

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 2d

That was fun, though I tried four other cities before I hit the right one.

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 2d

But...

Gooey and enticing looking fried pineapple rings. The hole is slightly darker and glistening with delicious juice driplets.

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 2d

This weird looking building in Sydney.

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 9d

So you caught him for the 2 hours he has between novels?

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 9d

It's officially 'one' but you are more than welcome to say 'young'. Like when the rock band at our high school wasn't allowed to say 'fuck' but everyone in the audience did anyway so it didn't matter.

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 10d

This is fun. Looking forward to an episode about the Goodies. The Goodies was so popular down under. Apparently they were shocked when they came to visit.

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 10d

"...speaking of decomposition, don't you hate when you buy too much celery when all you really need it one stalk for your recipe?"

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 14d

i know it sucks but it must feel a little fun to be that guy with the backhoe destroying the white house. that’s like the final boss of operating heavy machinery

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 14d

Does this require creating it in the SCI format, rather than just putting together a png file? I've not delved into that side of things.

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 14d

That is EGA but dithered. Inspired by your games actually.

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 14d

Like big hands.

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 14d

I can't go past those SQ2 forests. So alien.

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 14d

Oh gosh! That actually sounds like a lovely hobby. I'll tentatively pencil myself in.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 19d

BRAND NEW Far Side from Gary Larson just dropped

a jazz club named "Club Gombe" with a chimpanzee band going nuts on stage and more chimps hooting and hollering at the tables. one empty table has a card on it reading "reserved for Jane Goodall"

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 18d

It's ghastly isn't it?!

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 18d

Well, there goes my alley-way shortcut after a night at the opera.

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Dave @daveturner.bsky.social · 21d

The hardest thing to get across to friends and family with casual understandings of AI is that every answer is a hallucination. Sometimes, those hallucinations are correct.

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 20d

I've heard this point before and balk at it. This program can be told the truth and still ignore it. It doesn't have the where-with-all to "lie" in the sense you're referring to, no. But from a human trying to communicate the difference is negligible. I'm happy to say they are lie machines.

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 22d

Good gag sir!

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 22d

@freek.bsky.social Are you aware that the ohdear-pulse package hasn't officially updated to Version 2 yet? Did that get back-burnered when Nightwatch came out?

Dan Beeston @invisiblespiders.com · 26d

Sorry... yes? Oh course. That has never been in dispute. The land is waist deep in Billy.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 27d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 28d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚