Every guys’ group chat looks like this:

Name: United Sufferers for Tokyo Drift

• unemployed guy who keeps hitting everyone up for drinks at midday
• corporate lawyer
• dude who wants everyone to go on holiday with him
• guy who only posts photos of his children
• Editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffery Goldberg
• Mark from the Accounting department

iirc the documentary is the source of miyazaki calling AI art "an insult to life itself". the context is him speaking up in empathy for his disabled friend btw. two programmers show him a prototype demo of an evolutionary algorithm training digital models to walk, and the models are just painfully crawling around, and miyazaki sees it as a cruel and mocking parody of his friend's mobility difficulties, and says so

My team at Internet Archive has 3 open roles: a senior product manager (we build web and digital preservation services for mission-aligned memory and cultural heritage institutions), a senior AI engineer (exploring how we might use AI/ML to better surface human-authored content to humans), and a (non-senior) backend software engineer.

If you want to help keep this ember glowing and growing, and are up for some unique challenges, please apply!

https://archive.org/about/jobs

When I bought the XEphem ephemeris and planetarium program in the 1990s it was the first astronomy software I used on Linux.

Now available as open source, it is still as advanced as back in the day with features few similar programs have. With its Motif user interface frozen in time and now turned retro, here is XEphem on my Linux Mint box where it still builds and runs fine. Almost permacomputing.

https://xephem.github.io/XEphem/Site/xephem.html

#astronomy #planetarium #linux

"Is that free as in beer, or free as in freedom?"

"It's free as in use-after."

I'm in a meeting with someone that has "program manager" as job title and I'm like

creative commons, creative uncommons, creative rares and creative legendaries