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glitch girl

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mcc , an Random Englisch
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A sticker I saw in Kensington Market

mcc , an Random Englisch
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Me, stepping out of the Paris Metro: Aha, now that I am outdoors and the risk of COVID is reduced, I can remove my N95 mask and appear Socially Normative to the people around me.

Me, 3 seconds later, after removing my mask: Holy crap has the smog in Paris always been this bad

mcc OP ,
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Hey btw how do I say "Your city smells like somebody ate a pack of cloves then vomited it back up" in French

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@mcc « Votre cité a d’une poignée de clous de girofles régurgités l’odeur, mais curieusement, en manque la vertu »

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A really startling number of the informational/advertisement stanchion screens at Charles De Gaulle are showing the Windows 10 login screen

That same desktop image of the cave. You know the one

mcc OP ,
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I am in the France

fasterthanlime ,
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@mcc Welcome!

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A funny thing about Google's terrible "AI" is that sometimes when people try to defend it, they say "but if you don't want Google to use 'AI', wouldn't that mean they'd have to remove 'Featured snippets' also?", and this is extremely humorous because featured snippets are also consistently terrible and I've been watching people make fun of them constantly for like ten years

foone ,
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@mcc it's fun because they haven't actually removed featured snippets, so sometimes you have to scroll past both wrong answers to get to the results

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@foone @mcc
I've been using DDG for years now, and, on the rare occasion I do use Google search, I always find it jarring to see all the extraneous crap Google throws up these days.

mcc , an Random Englisch
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Plastic brain

foone ,
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@mcc I heard this to the tune of chocolate rain

SonnyBonds ,
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@foone @mcc Some stay stuck while others change their ways 🎶

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In 2014, Steve Wozniak woke up in the middle of the night and suddenly thought of a possible improvement on the Apple // design he had until that moment entirely missed https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.apple2/c/iiLgD-7INtE

foone ,
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@mcc that's the most woz thing I can imagine. He really does seem like the kind of guy who wakes up realizing he made a mistake 37 years ago in one of his designs

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@foone I have encountered Steve Wozniak IRL… I was at NASA* and Steve Wozniak zoomed by on a Segway

  • Used to be a yearly concert event at NASA Ames on the anniversary of the Yuri Gagarin flight
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In the future, the only way to escape execution by the Microsoft killbots will be to legally change your name to be longer than 256 characters, thus rendering you invisible to their AI https://helvede.net/@jwcph/112485841825022134

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@mcc jokes on them, my name is fractal and of infinite length.
Foone B. Turing
The B stands for "Benoit B. Mandelbrot" and so on.

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I feel like very recently— like, the last month— Google has gotten massively worse about aggressively correcting acronyms to unrelated, similarly-spelled words. Like look at this search where I search for the wiki for the C# game library FNA, and Google simply decides, without even offering a "Did you mean…", that it would be more interesting if I had instead been looking for "FNAF"

foone ,
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@mcc I did just realize that google search on my phone knows that I have the github app installed. so it may have adjusted my results based on that. The desktop version of google can't know that

mcc OP ,
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@foone Hmm, I'm logged into google search which means it in principle knows my Android download history, but I don't know if privacy policy allows it to check that.

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I love watching speedrun history videos because they always contain a sentence somewhere like "It seemed all hope was lost. The people cried out for a hero, but none appeared. But then entered… FartMurderer77"

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@mcc there's a great self-referential bit in one of the summoning salt videos where he's like "but there was a problem: no one with a silly username had held the record in a long time"

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Just discovered a new YouTube cheat code: Search for the seemingly nonsensical phrase "biodata sonification" and you will be rewarded with a wealth of incredibly weird shit

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@mcc JUFFO-WUP

foone ,
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@joeyh @mcc

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Well. I guess that's it then. https://antabaka.me/@mochi/112412569121873646

foone ,
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@chrisamaphone @mcc oh I missed that whoops

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@foone @mcc So if gender fluid exists, can we say that cis means gender frozen?

mcc , an Random Englisch
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I hate it how transit apps will have a mode that lets you say you're about to get on a bus and then tracks your trip but if you're already on the bus and you just want it to estimate when you'll get there this is always awkward or impossible in the UI

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@mcc a recurring problem is definitely that people who make transit apps have clearly never used transit :(

mcc OP ,
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@megmac Maybe it was a mistake to have all the mobile OSes in the world be made in a ten mile radius in a part of the south San Francisco bay area where it is impossible to do so much as buy a jug of milk without a car.

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For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.

If you'd like to see, here's my "year two" thread: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110266770603341546

Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DM_kacOW8zo2vtr-aWpTNX6

And here's the thread for "year three":

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What I'm listening to today: "Upside- Down VHS III", A Beautiful Burning World ft. FERRIFET

So if I understand this correctly, this is VHS footage where the tape's been removed from the cassette & re-inserted upside down, causing it to play back backward and all messed up. The artist sets this video to some noise ambiance from a previous collaboration and it hits the tone perfectly. I realize I describe a lot of music as "ominous" but oh my god this is super ominous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRGQER_XF00

foone ,
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@mcc oh hey that VHS thing sounds interesting, I'll have to try that

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