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Made these posters for Mother's Day to replace some old photos my mum doesn’t like any more (based on my design Day & Night, which you may have seen in the past.

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All hail the EU DMA for this beautiful moment

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Was setting up a Windows 10 install for my dads old laptop (I know how to pirate Office for him lol) so he can use it for car diagnostics and had to do the dreaded task of opening Microsoft Edge to download Firefox (my dad is actually a long time Firefox user, since like it released, he tried Chrome and hated it. He’s such an old school Firefox user that he uses the menu bar still) and I noticed how hopelessly bloated and messy Edge is by default. This screenshot is what Edge looks like after going through onboarding (which asks if it can periodically take your browsing data from other browsers and connect to your Google account). There is so much stuff on the screen, like, what are they thinking? This is horrible UX, it’s convoluted, overwhelming, and confusing beyond belief. No wonder Chrome is so popular. For all of Chrome’s faults, it doesn’t through a trillion things at you at once. Also, having to add a cookie pop-up on your new tab page is peak bloat lmao.

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Just noticed I’ve reached the top users page on beta/alpha about a week ago… I am coming for him…

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It's always strange to me when someone says something like "your spelling is good" or something along the lines that I'm good at writing, constructing sentences and/or expressing myself in written forms, or even going as far to say I don't seem dyslexic. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate compliments, but it's such an indescribable thing to me, but I never truly feel I can express myself in words properly. To me it's like there's some kind of barrier between what my brain is thinking and what ends up coming out in writing or conversation. It's not that I'm not being truthful or omitting things, rather that I feel it's not how I wanted to express myself. I dunno, it's weird. Again, the compliments are nice, especially when my dyslexia is really bringing me down, but at the same time it always feels as if I can never find the right words or way I want to say something.

this sparked a few ideas for me…

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i introduce you to: wasteof advertisment

I don’t like Twitter but this has to be one of the few good reply chains on that website ever (Screenshots aren’t mine)

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rumour has it if you say wombat 3 times in the mirror you get early access to alpha.wasteof.money

While I don’t care for the music much on twenty one pilots’ 2021 album Scaled And Icy, the cover with a blue dragon (he’s called Trash btw, never knew that until I looked it up lol) is cool as hell

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Is this the first post on wasteof to be sent from Arc on Windows?

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better luck next time mate

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Happy 100 days online @onion! Happy I could help contribute to the bot, even if it was in a small way! (Pretend I didn’t take like forever to write this headline in the style of The Onion)

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Feb 16, 2024, 11:45 PM
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This video was generated entirely by AI.

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It was generated by OpenAI’s new text-to-video model called Sora. It’s currently only being tested by a small group of experts and creators.

I don’t know how other’s feel about this, but I find this kinda terrifying. A lot of the videos that they’ve shown off so far are already very convincing, and I can already imagine the kind of misinformation that will be created with this tool. Even if OpenAI can keep the lid on it with Sora, the fact that they have pulled something like this off probably means we’ll see others turning up soon. I wouldn’t be shocked to see an open sourced equivalent for this, like Stable Diffusion.

I know we can’t put the genie back in the bottle now, but I do really worry about the future when the tech is getting this good this quick. This feels like the end of the information age, because we might be soon be unable to tell what info is real and what is fake.

You can see more examples from Sora here: https://openai.com/sora