Looking at the new Instagram ML-generated accounts, all of them follow 17-18 other accounts — 6 are Meta properties (FB, Insta etc.) and the others are the other ML generated accounts.

One of them, curiously, follows a human (or at least, an account which is not labeled a bot)

Of the remaining bots, 8 are more or less female (one is a fairy) and 4 are male (one is an alien and another a robot — a robot bot 😛).

Five of these could be black, and two might be Asian.

So that's the breakdown as it stands now.

I'm still confused as to what this is in aid of though ...

#Instaverse
Screenshot showing all the acco…

I don't understand the point of Instagram populating their "universe" with generated people.

Are they saying that there aren't enough real people on Instagram?

Or that they want more diversity and so will create fake people to diversify?

What is the point?

#Tech #Dystopia

I'm a sucker for love stories — especially if they're offbeat, or improbable. Here are the most improbable ones I've seen recently:

Miss You - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32553846
Hi Nanna - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25433734
Super Machi - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11603828

Interestingly (or not 😛) each one is from a different year from the past three years.

#Movies #Tamil #Telugu

New year, new server, new #introduction !

I've become a #cinephile over the past 5 or 10 years, so I mostly talk about #movies here. I started a #MovieReview blog about two years ago (link in profile), covering new releases (no spoilers).

I'm also a #PhysicalMedia collector, both movies and #music (mostly #rock / #metal ).

Outside that, I'm a professional #programmer living in the Northeastern US. I spend a bunch of time on the #pickleball court. And I love (and collect) #BoardGames

Hello!

Hey!

I am looking for work again. So if you are Germany based and looking for an awesome machine learning, data scientist, statistician, software human I want to talk to you!

#fedihired #getfedihired

If I used an ML-based (Machine Learning, I refuse to call it AI since there is no intelligence there) dictation app to write my novel, would I be accused of writing an AI-generated novel? 😛

#Musings #TechVsCreativity

I have less than a month to leave the USA. It is more important than ever that I get a job ASAP.

If you or anyone you know is hiring for: IT support, Technical writing, or Psychiatric care in the Toronto,ON area.

Please contact me for a resume and portfolio of my writing or forward this message along:

Email relay:
2y3ujkeh7@mozmail.com

If nothing else please spread this around, it's free and could save my life. Thank you.

#jobs #it #technicalwriting #mutualaid #trans

Did a quick digital painting last night to serve as the icon for the reference image app that I'm building. Not happy with the image (and it needs work) but putting it up since this is the first digital art I've done in a while ...

Won't work as icon either 😛

#DigitalArt #Painting
A digital painting of a multi-c…

There are a lot of wonderful artists online and I'm inspired by just looking at their work. I also look at these images to learn from them.

I wanted an easier way to collect and look at the images I liked and so yesterday, I created a new app for that 🙂

Now I'm inspired to start doing some art again!

#Coding #Flutter #Art
A screenshot of a macOS applica…

Didn't get any writing (at least the text kind) done today ...

Started out wanting to do a couple of minor changes to the Bluesky client app and then to get to writing, but instead, spent the whole day adding list functionality to the client. It works. But no writing 🙁

#Coding #Writing #YakShaving

I like amnesia stories 🙂 "Miss You" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32553846) was interesting not just because of the amnesia aspect but also because of the way the story unfolds.

What you think happened/is happening is not always the case. I liked the layering.

#Movies #Tamil #Kollywood

30+ years ago, I used to do Freeware because I enjoyed building stuff that others found useful. (I also met my wife because of that 🙂)

Today, I think most people won't download it because it's free. Or, they'll wonder if I'm stealing their data or training AI with it 😛

#Coding #Freeware #Musings

Exciting news! Trip Tunes was named App of the Year by What the Tech! 🎉

Thanks to everyone who’s downloaded, shared, and supported the app.

To celebrate—and to help with your New Year’s travel—I'm running a 2X tapes sale. Perfect time to relive the mixtape magic! 🎵🛣️

Check out the broadcast: wbbjtv.com/2024/12/26/what-the-tech-app-of-the-year-trip-tunes

When you say SciFi, people might think rayguns and aliens. For humorous SciFi though, I don't know if they'd have a clear idea.

To me, it's Reagan and aliens — not the crossing borders without visas kind, but the extraterrestrial kind 😛 How would Ronald have reacted to aliens?

#Writing #Humour #ScienceFiction

I had a vivid image of a scene (and the text to accompany it) as I was halfway inbetween sleep and wakefulness last night 🙂

While my ability to paint isn't great, I want to try painting the scene first, and then try to write the story ...

Will I get to it today? No idea 😛

#Writing #AmWriting

"The Wild Robot" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29623480) is beautifully animated, emotional, and heart-warming.

Sure, the story might not make sense logically, but who wants to talk logic when a story makes you smile, laugh, and want to hug somebody? 😛

#Movies #English #Hollywood

If anybody's looking for a post-holidy light read, I'd like to offer a light sci-fi novel for your consideration 🙂

It's about a man on the run from his wife's wrath, a bunch of bounty hunter clones, and assorted other miscreants:
books2read.com/b/mB1zAM

#Reading #Author #FediBooks #Bookstodon
A book cover with the title "Ho…

Been trying out Windsurf as a VS Code replacement since some folks raved about it.

But I'm getting really tired of Windsurf because it seems to randomly recreate files that I'd deleted/renamed. I don't want no zombie files 😛

#Coding #IDEs #VSCode #Windsurf

Wrote close to 4.5k for the Flutter kids book yesterday but it's become a massive chapter 🙂 Time to move on to a new chapter I guess?

#Writing #Coding #Flutter

Somebody quipped that "Sir Lanka Files" (https://books2read.com/b/mgw00v) is not fiction since it's about an island nation ruled by a guild of thieves 😛

I started the book during the aragalaya. Have a sequel in mind but I will have to wait a couple of months to see where things go?

#Writing #LKA