Sergio

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[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Does your university have a career center? Check them out because a lot of times they have good relationships with large companies and smaller local companies and know what the job market is like. Usually this just involves making an appointment with a career counselor and telling them exactly what kinds of things you like doing (math-related) and don't like doing (programming, bureaucracy.) There are jobs that have titles with words like "Analyst" and "Design" that might be right for you; the career center will be able to point you in the right direction.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 hours ago

The commercial is from a time before protein bars.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 18 points 18 hours ago

She said "no glove, no love" and so he

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 4 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I think getting a lot of downvotes for this post is actually a win!

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 18 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I assume bc The Fair Lady told him to. She bewitched him which is why his eyes are all crazed.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 34 points 1 day ago

As long as he farted in the general direction of France, he'd be OK.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

Go to scholar.google.com and look up the following, to see if it's what you're looking for:

  • training simulations
  • serious games
  • interactive exhibits
[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago

Sometimes I wonder if it's a complete waste of time to think through a post that I'm writing, if only a couple people are going to read it. But then I figure: a) doing so is its own reward: practice putting sentences together, keeping the mind sharp; b) some texts/ideas can be seminal, just as a music band may have very few fans but each of those fans goes on to create their own band; c) contemporary scholars study texts and articles (including ephemera such as handbills) from past decades, so it's likely that future scholars will trawl and study social media posts from our era, using techniques we can barely imagine. Plus, it's fun!

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They grow the mustaches to hide the fact that their teeth were kicked out during initiation.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

Also give us a chance to make a comment that will be seen, and maybe encourage discussion.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If Lemmy had weekly awards, you would win one for this post. The bland, LLM-inspired structure creates a feeling of rising dread until the very end when one is left with the horror of realizing this human (if they can still be called human?) has spent way too long talking only to AIs.

What's more, the text is not a story or essay submitted as a post; the text only really works AS a post, with its references to Lemmy, Aspect, and SocialAI and contextualized among a stream of posts. The fact that it's in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world provides ironic distance, but not so much to prevent it from being read unironically for at least the first couple paragraphs. I don't know what Aspect and SocialAI are like, but the differences between them and Lemmy that are pointed out in the text creates a picture of a platform that problematizes modern identity and the individual's role in a society mediated by social media (ha) and AI bots. I bet someone could write a half-decent critical theory research paper expounding on your post. Well done.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago

watching on the phone means I give it my all.

That's why I have Second Phone, an obsolete model but it has one of my favorite games on it.

 

Back in the 80s and 90s there was this cartoonist called Ace Backwords who would give out his cartoons so you could reprint them for free. He did a lot of them about counter-culture topics, so if you had a newsletter or zine and you needed content, a lot of times you'd put in an Ace Backwords cartoon. (this was just before the internet era, so you had a lot more newsletters and zines.)

Ace Backwords quit cartooning in the early 2000s. Now he "sleeps rough on the streets" in Berkeley (San Francisco area) and blogs about his feral cats, homelessness, and memories of living a counter-culture life.

I got this cartoon from his blog and cleaned up the contrast a bit, see the original here: https://acebackwords5.wordpress.com/2024/06/19/609/

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Backwords

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