meyotch
@meyotch@slrpnk.net
- Comment on What do you create? 5 hours ago:
I’m living on an old farm with lots of junk.
So naturally I am building an 8 foot tall wind-driven kinetic sculpture of a Wendigo.
I bought a welder and a cutoff saw. All the materials are retrieved from the trash gully that every respectable high desert property must have.
It’s a form of cope and even ritual magic for me. Embody the spirit of hoarding and greed so it is vulnerable and can be imprisoned, that sort of vibe.
It will take all winter to finish it. The rebar armature is flexible and bobs in the wind. I will add sun bleached oak branches to give it flesh.
- Comment on What do you create? 5 hours ago:
I recommend you try gaffer tape instead of duct tape.
Advantages:
- Remains flexible and removable forever.
- Looks nicer, a cool matte black or manynother colors.
Where I get off making this recommendation:
I needed a light-excluding bellows for a photographic project. I made one using black illustration stock and gaffer tape. It worked extremely well on the first version and held up to hundreds of cycles of extension/compression. My application was sensitive to pinhole light leakage and there was none.
It would have lasted longer but that was the end of that project.
My two cents. I love DIY stuff!
- Comment on Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework 2 days ago:
I suspect it may be due to a similar habit I have when chatting with a corporate AI. I will intentionally salt my inputs with random profanity or non sequitur info, for lulz partly, but also to poison those pieces of shits training data.
- Comment on Lifestyles of the Bronze Age Famous 2 weeks ago:
Woah there, Mr Deep! I see the way you are eye-banging that cephalopod.
- Comment on Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr? 3 weeks ago:
As a PhD holder who has worked in healthcare, I really couldn’t use the title doctor because the chance for confusion with a medical practitioner is too high. That’s fine by me, I only use the title on rare occasions such as when speaking publicly in my area of experience. Please just call me Meyotch.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
Sorry, gone too far
- Comment on BEAM 2 months ago:
That poor crab
- Comment on Shitposting as public pedagogy 3 months ago:
“Building on this literature, I propose a definition of shitposting that embodies four distinct elements: a reliance on absurdity or “meaninglessness,” the critique or disruption of online discourses, the employment of an “internet ugly” aesthetic, and the use of meta-languaging”
Good lord, it took them forever to spit out a coherent definition!
Does this paper itself represent a form of academic shitposting? I mean, the subject is sound but the convoluted and discursive presentation is maddening.
But, yes, shitposting is worthy of significant further study and all grant applications in that area should be automatically approved.
- Comment on what is with child names like Aiden, Braiden etc? 3 months ago:
Meanwhile, in Utah, a pair of new parents are becoming really charmed by the idea of ‘Brexit’ as a name for their next child.
This has all happened before and it will all happen again.
- Comment on Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio 📻 8 months ago:
Id be curious to try SDR. Will anyone experienced in it outline a simple ‘hello world’ type project a tech-savvy SDR noob viyld try to get started?
- Comment on Oi bruv 8 months ago:
Science, as a harsh mistress, often leaves one feeling somewhat disappointed.
- Comment on Oi bruv 8 months ago:
www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46669-y.pdf
It’s a sick pun on top of a technique that is also fsckin sick. Read it only if economical spatial imaging of gene expression in a whole tissue section series slightly arouses you.
- Comment on Oi bruv 8 months ago:
You live for these opportunities. The pay stinks, your parents don’t understand what you do for a ‘living’, but you got a sick pun in a Nature Group™️ publication.
Sweet.
- Comment on launch him anyway 8 months ago:
I’m partial to Brexit for my first childs name.
- Comment on launch him anyway 8 months ago:
Give them time to think about what they did, maybe learn from it
- Comment on launch him anyway 8 months ago:
This is a proven fact. Expose yourself early and often, that’s my motto.
- Comment on Storing Energy from Fresh Air. Is it an actual thing yet? | Just Have a Think 8 months ago:
Very much worth the watch! It’s a really interesting carbon capture technology, too.
- Comment on EVs are one step closer to becoming roaming grid batteries 8 months ago:
Here’s one scenario: Go to work with a partial charge, charge during the day using excess solar production when electricity is super cheap, drive home fully charged, sell some power to the grid during peak donestic use hours, keep enough to safely get back to work, repeat.
- Comment on 1000 Blank Cards experiences sought 8 months ago:
I’m going to try to revive a dead post by commenting on my own experiences playing. Based on the upvotes, others seem interested too. Let’s see if it works
I had a good crew of friends while in grad school in the 00’s. This was a super smart crew of bio-nerds so when I heard about this game on Slashdot (or maybe Memepool, can’t be sure) I knew I had the right crowd to try it.
It was a successful session and we developed a lot of those inside jokes that tight social groups do.
I tried again years later with another set of friends and it fell flat. Not a disaster but it was quickly abandoned for lack of general interest. This was also a crowd of high-wattage personalities so i still wonder what the difference was.
That’s what prompted my question. Just seeking scene setting tips that might increase the chance the game goes well again.
- Comment on Maybe Lovecraft wasn't as talented as people think? 9 months ago:
No one said that blood-curdling cosmic horror had to be good to destroy the vestiges of your sanity.
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- Comment on A round of applause for Mike Drucker. 9 months ago:
The best thing for the class war is internecine warfare among the upper class.
- Comment on How can I slash Dr. Phil's tires, and why? 9 months ago:
The usual way and I’m sure you have your reasons.
- Comment on Doing the important work 9 months ago:
Shhh, don’t talk about the war!
- Comment on Doing the important work 9 months ago:
Utah used to be partly in Mexico territory before the recent unpleasantness and it has many good Mexican restaurants.
- Comment on ChatGPT's new AI store is struggling to keep a lid on all the AI girlfriends 9 months ago:
Oh yes it is a symptom of a deep cultural malaise. I was talking to my square-headed girlfriend a iut this just the other day. She agrees with me and that’s all I need.
- Comment on Venus by Tuesday 9 months ago:
Tell us about the before-times again!
- Comment on Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it 10 months ago:
Literally means ‘cave dweller’
- Comment on Innovation in Japan: McDonald's installs phone cleaning devices. Kills 99.9% of germs within 30 seconds while customers wash their hands - VIDEO 10 months ago:
Who are you that is so wise in the ways of not sticking things into anonymous slots?
- Comment on Innovation in Japan: McDonald's installs phone cleaning devices. Kills 99.9% of germs within 30 seconds while customers wash their hands - VIDEO 10 months ago:
It’s dose dependent not just time dependent. LED uv-c emitters can pump a huge dose onto a surface from a short distance such as this device does.
This recent study showed viral inactivation using such shorter time frames.
