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New babies! Toulouse (orange), Marie (white), Duchess (tortie with a tail), and Beriloz (tortie with a little nubbin).

They are about 1 week old and even though they can't really see or hear, they are very fierce and hiss at everything!

#FosterKittens #CatsOfMastodon

Four 1-week-old kittens. There are two torties, one orange boy, and a white/cream girl. The photo is top down, so you can't see their closed eyes.
#catsofmastodon #fosterkittens

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#Sunset from the garden of my Bed & Breakfast in #SanktAndreasberg .

#Harz

A garden with shine shrubs and flowers as well as wooden benches and a table in the foreground, with a lightly clouded sky at sunset in the background.
#sunset #harz #sanktandreasberg

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Our household has been sad the past couple of days because our kitten Marilyn snuck out of the house on Tuesday and was missing for two nights. We were overjoyed this morning to hear her little meows at the back door! Welcome home Marilyn!
#CatsofMastodon
A small brown tabby cat sits on a turquoise terry cloth blanket on a couch. She is happy to be home, warm, and fed.
#catsofmastodon

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Would be awful if hair happened to these beautiful bedsheets, innit?

#CatsOfMastodon

A white and black cat resting on my bed, set with indigo bedsheets. He’s looking up at the camera, full of expectation
#catsofmastodon

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this one is pretty funny ngl
#opsec #hacking #natsec
#hacking #opsec #natsec

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SALTY HAIR, DON'T CARE

Various SVG sample stock images including "Birthday Mermaid" and "Salty Hair, Don't Care"

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Hmmm?

#TheCatPicturesWillContinueUntilTheSituationImproves #TimelineCleanser #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #Pets #Photography

A photo of Ernie, a young tabby cat, lying sideways to the camera on the floor while he looks quite pointedly at the camera. He is wearing the traditional mildly disinterested expression of a cat quite well here. His tail is also stretched out behind him, so it is a very wide image.
#photography #pets #cats #catsofmastodon #catsoffediverse #TimelineCleanser #thecatpictureswillcontinueuntilthesituationimproves
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28 March 1908 | A Czech Jew, Bohdan Weber, was born in České Budějovice.

In #Auschwitz from 24 October 1941.
No. 22068
He perished in the camp on 3 November 1941.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
#auschwitz

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They know, but they also know that you can't sell the same thing to the same person multiple times if it doesn't look different at all.

via @dangerdyke

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Akkoma

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When you're a large woodpecker/small dinosaur and find something satisfyingly noisy to knock on.
A male pileated woodpecker, in bright sunlight, clinging to the side of a wooden utility pole. The woodpecker's body is all black, black and white on their neck and face, an impressive red crest on top of their head, and a tiny red spot on their cheek. The background is bright blue sky with bare crisscrossing branches.

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Random Toy Success continues, and will. - Amuse at Way of Cats wayofcats.com/blog/random-toy-…

Random toy success is increased when we have more cats. This is why I keep a good-sized toybox.
#CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfTheFediverse #Catstodon #CatLovers #CatAppreciators #TheDivineQueen

A cat toy with a thick gold cord is wrestled by a partially blurred dilute tortoiseshell teen cat with a happy pink filter, illustrating Random Toy Success.

You are being redirected...

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#catsofmastodon #catlovers #catstodon #catsofthefediverse #catappreciators #thedivinequeen

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Ten thousand angry comments about an Internet-of-Things dishwasher in two days

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I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud

I don't recommend the Bosch 500 series. It's dumb.Sadly, it seems all appliance manufacturers are going this route. Where will we be in 5-10 years _next_ tim...
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The top-rated non-Bosch model on the Consumer Reports list is from Ikea, of all places. No app or internet required — and I bet if they did add that, it would use open-standard, local-control Zigbee like all their home automation.

I'm not sure who actually makes it for them, but it's also worth noting that it's the only one on the list rated 5/5 for "gets dishes clean".

Dishwasher, you have _one job_!

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From Guido Palazzo on LinkedIn: "In 1931, all Italian University professors were required to swear an oath of loyalty to Mussolini’s fascist regime. Out of approximately 1,200 professors, only twelve refused to take that oath."

Ernesto Buonaiuti
Mario Carrara
Vito Volterra
Lionello Venturi
Giorgio Levi della Vida
Gaetano De Sanctis
Piero Martinetti
Bartolo Nigrisoli
Francesco Ruffini
Giorgio Errera
Fabio Luzzatto
Edoardo Ruffini Avondo

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In 1931, all Italian University professors were required to swear an oath… | Guido Palazzo | 127 comments

In 1931, all Italian University professors were required to swear an oath of loyalty to Mussolini’s f*ascist regime. Out of approximately 1,200 professors… | 127 comments on LinkedIn
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Join me on Sunday 30 Mar at 8:30am (AWST) when I’ll be going live on YouTube to talk about fountain pens, inks, accessories and more.

For other time zones

GMT - Sunday 30 March 12:30am
EDT - Saturday 29 March 8:30pm

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Garry Live - Fountain Pen chat + more

Join me for a chat focused on Fountain Pens, inks and accessories.See whats been going on this week and general chat around fountain pens and other interests...
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Trump's hopeless tariffs confusion, explained by a historian

"The president seems to believe he can impose prohibitively high tariffs *and* collect revenue, which you can’t do."
Aaron Rupar (Public Notice)

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OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman even made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait.

Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to the industry's biggest boosters that they have won—that they're free to use, appropriate, and commoditize art however they see fit.

bloodinthemachine.com/p/openai…


OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself

Sam Altman is promoting his new image generator by appropriating the work of one of the greatest living animators—who is "disgusted" by AI.
Brian Merchant (Blood in the Machine)

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I realize that language is strong, and for a long time I have been skeptical of this notion that 'AI bros hate artists' or such—but seeing the response to this critique, which on the other site really actually has too often been literally 'Fuck Miyazaki', what other conclusion are we to come to?
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Here's how one artist, Reid Southen, told me he feels about the AI Studio Ghibli trend:
I think one of the worst parts of it is that the styles that get aped the most inevitably end up being devalued and feeling cheap, at no fault of the originals. It's like how so much of the stuff out there rips off Pixar and DreamWorks stuff to the point where now my knee jerk reaction to seeing those styles is to associate it with slop. It's kind of an internal battle sometimes when just trying to view things, and it's extremely sad and worrying to me that the work of a beloved studio like Ghibli is now inextricably tied to slop due to this trend. At a cultural and subconscious level, AI is now eating away at part of what makes Studio Ghibli's work so special, and that's not helping art or animation, it's actively hurting it. I suppose a silver lining is that to a discerning eye, the actual similarity to Ghibli's style is superficial at best, and it won't be long until everyone moves onto the next set of jingling keys.

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"Just a short drive outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, the quaint city of Kannapolis is seeing a rapid economic revival. The city, which was traditionally known for its textile mills, has recently transformed into a research hub in the for Southeast."
#weird #offbeat #odd #fun #sports fastcompany.com/91301568/creat…
#fun #Sports #weird #offbeat #odd
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Group dynamics may influence individual survival as much as personal relationships, according to a new study on wild marmots, offering evidence for the controversial multilevel selection theory. buff.ly/I67puRt
#evolution #biology #relationships

Wild marmots’ social networks reveal controversial evolutionary theory in action

Multilevel selection is a controversial concept originally proposed by Darwin. A new study found evidence for it in the wild in a group of marmots scientists have been observing for more than 60 years.
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#evolution #biology #Relationships

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Don’t want to poke the baseball gods, but so far it’s shaping up to be a good Dithering tonight.

mlb.com/news/austin-wells-hits…

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Well, the baseball gods delivered a Cleveland Guardians win, away, in extra innings, on Opening Day. So, it’s already a good night.

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The guy who claims he's a "free speech absolutist" now says it's against the law to say mean things about his company. OK buddy. Sure. Good luck with that. Show up this weekend and show him what the #teslatakedown community thinks of fascists teslatakedown.com

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Tesla Takedown | Take action at Tesla showrooms everywhere.

The stakes couldn’t be higher. No one is coming to save us—not politicians, not the media.
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#teslatakedown

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Telling. Quantity of male versus female dialogue in best picture films of recent decades

(by @puddingviz)

A horizontal bar graph titled "Men speak most in best picture winning films," showing the proportion of words spoken by male and female characters in Best Picture Oscar winners from 1991 to 2016. The graph displays the year and film title, followed by two horizontal bars for each film, representing the percentage of words spoken by women (purple) and men (dark blue). The graph visually demonstrates that male characters consistently have a higher proportion of spoken words compared to female characters across most of the films listed.
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One interesting line on that is that The Hurt Locker had no women speaking (or too little to show up), and was directed by a woman.

Anora, which just won Best Picture, probably did pretty well on this scale, but still had a lot of male dialog.

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As for the years being off by one, some people refer to the year of the Oscar ceremony rather than the year the movies were made. Not that I have carefully checked this chart.

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New from Rumeysa Ozturk's lawyer:

Rumeysa hasn't been accused of any crime

And "DHS has not produced any evidence" that she did anything unlawful.

Rumeysa wasn't able to speak to her lawyer for 24+ hours & not until after she was in Louisiana
— despite a court order that she not be moved from Massachusetts

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@pluralistic : "Any good investor knows that anything that can't go on forever eventually stops. The only question is: will that halt is a controlled braking action, or a collision with reality's brick wall?"

Given the aggregate overarching greed permeating the CEO class coupled with the collective venality of the politicians profiting from granting those CEOs carte blanche, my money's on Brick Wall.

pluralistic.net/2025/03/27/use…

Pluralistic: Reality-Based Communities (27 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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@Cory Doctorow
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I don't think we make it out of the 2020s without some form of 1929 crash.

A Pandemic, a gilded age with high stock prices, a Smoot-Hawley style president, rise of fascist governments... It's not the same song, but man does the tune sound familiar.

And a president willing to ride this through pain. Willing to tank the US dollar and stock market to make these tariffs work. An ailing superpower.

I don't see away this ends smoothly.

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@gatesvp There is one critical difference. Most of the world will no longer give a toss. China will spin a US crash into the excuse for their self caused economic pain, Europe will be quite content to see a crashed USA become a Russian style low value resource export economy and India simply doesn't have to care any more.
It's going to suck but for Africa, India and to a fair extent China it's not a big deal once the waves die down
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@gatesvp The major difference between the coming crash and the previous one is that in 1929 the wealthy threw THEMSELVES out of windows.
@Gaëtan Perrault

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Excellent piece from @zephoria from Tech Policy Press arguing for "interventionism" - a form of pragmatism that seeks to recognise the uncertainty in socio-technical systems while ascribing importance to legal, policy and social mechanisms that counter-balance techno-solutionist narratives.

#STS

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We Need an Interventionist Mindset

To stabilize and enhance democratic practices, danah boyd advocates for an interventionist approach to AI regulation.
danah boyd (Tech Policy Press)
#sts @danah boyd

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Half The Reflow Oven You Expected

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Half The Reflow Oven You Expected

Toaster oven reflow projects are such a done deal that there should be nothing new in one here in 2025. Take a toaster oven, an Arduino, and a thermocouple, and bake those boards! But [Paul J R] ha…
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Royal Oak Township, Michigan, December 2024

#Photography #NightPhotography #NewTopographics #Suburbs #Detroit #RoyalOakTownship

Color photograph looking down a street on a foggy night, a car parked in the foreground on the street is silhouetted by the light of streetlights behind it stretching off into the distance, and the shapes of trees and poles and power lines are visible in the fog
#photography #nightphotography #suburbs #detroit #newtopographics #royaloaktownship

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Needed a barrel to usb cable for a solar powered camera I installed at the new place. (Not solar powered by default) Not my proudest work but it that will be the first soldering done in the new place. Yes it looks like I forget the heat shrink but I had to electrical tape it either way because I haven’t moved over the (surprisingly large) heat shrink box yet.

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Why did I make this
the text "Polymerization!!!" over the meme image of the pūkeko with one leg, arranged into chains

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Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for COSRX Ultimate Nourishing Rice Overnight Spa Mask. Look, you can't name your product "Ultimate Nourishing Rice" and expect me not to eat it. I am going to eat this.
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A white tube of Ultimate Nourishing Rice Overnight Spa Mask.

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Trump executive order seeks to 'restore' American history through Smithsonian overhaul
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342914/smithsonian-president-trump-executive-order?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-npr

@Politics

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"United Health" - Jesse Welles

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#UnitedHealth #luigi #antifascism #antifa #music


United Health

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#music #unitedhealth #antifa #antifascism #luigi
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Oooh - Jesse Welles is new to me - very talented!

"Red"
youtu.be/TPHafKOd9A4

[Edit - Lyrics]:
[Verse 1]
I got me a red house and a red car
Runs on big red batteries
It used to be blue 15 minutes ago
But it turned red just for me

I got me a red horse, and I ride it
I got some blue friends, they’re the best
We used to fly around the world on a big jet plane
They called the Lolita Express

[Verse 2]
I got me a red tie, and it’s 10 feet long
And it matches my red hat
I got me a red bird, and a red fish
A red dog and a red cat
And I got me a red pen, and I use it
I got a big red chainsaw too
My red friend likes that white powder
It makes his arms do weird salutes

[Chorus 1]
When the war gets here, we’re all gonna hold hands
All the Baptists and the Catholics
All the Marxists and the Fascists
When the war gets here, we’re going get on the level
Everyone looks a little bit nicer
When you finally meet the devil

#antifascism #antifa #music #folk #protest


Red

all the cowboys and the hippiesput away their strange misgivings
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Jay Drake 🇨🇦 ≠51
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@scruss so much talent, and such quick turnaround with songs/lyrics for timely events - amazing, my uncle who has been a lifelong musician (from the 60's, writes his own protest/commentary songs) who also didn't know about Jesse says he definitely evokes Dylan and Prine "feels" for this era.
@Stewart Russell

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The Creature loves all the murals around town!

#Compton #LosAngeles #California #Art #Merchtodon #Mural #Photo #Photography #Plushtodon

Photo of the Creature Mastodon stuffed toy in front of a giant outdoor mural in Compton during a bright, sunny day. The Creature's held in the air on the arm of a person offscreen, its back to the untitled mural about life in Compton and LA pride by Mel Depaz, AngelOnce, and GoopMassta at Foot Locker in Compton.
#photography #california #photo #art #Mural #losangeles #plushtodon #compton #merchtodon
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In all seriousness. this mural was done by Mel Depaz, AngelOnce, and GoopMassta.

Depaz is quicky becoming my favorite mural artist in LA, and it's so cool to start to recognize aspects of her visual style when I'm travelling around Los Angeles!

Here's a short documentary on this mural being made: vimeo.com/477296008

And I've never had the privilege of meeting the chick, but you can find her site over at meldepaz.com


Footlocker Compton Mural by Mel DePaz Angel Once and Goop Massta

Mel DePaz, Angel Once and Goop Massta create a beautiful mural for Compton at Footlocker's new store. A Film by @cliffordwilliam
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A classroom full of lampshades at the abandoned Central Junior High School. Thankfully this building was repurposed into apartments rather than destroyed.

More at abandonedamerica.us/central-ju…

An empty classroom with peeling paint and water stains on the ceiling. An odd, smaller enclosed room is built into the corner and in front of it is a fairly large stack of lampshades in roughly the shape of a pyramid

The Abandoned Central Junior High School in Chambersburg, PA | Abandoned America

Closed for decades, this Chambersburg High School will soon be renovated in apartments. This is what it looked like beforehand.
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The Eddie Show 📷🎧❤️
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Quick glance at the photographs...the pink drapery with mattress is special. Wow.

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So, after some inspiration from Polymaker and Alex Swavely on the birdsite, I decided to fix my PolyDryer plug that was chewed by Bentley the bunny by designing my own in @FreeCAD, complete with an attached plug and an opening that holds the PTFE tube nice and tight.

Used Recreus filaflex 82A.

A photograph of a Polymaker PolyDryer loaded up with some blue Recreus FilaFlex 82A flexible filament. The digital hygrometer shows a humidity of 10%.
A photograph of the 2-part finished print still on the build plate of a Prusa MK3S 3D printer. There is minimal stringing in the center of the hole that is connected to the strap. The actual plug itself shows no stringing whatsoever.
The finished plug is shown installed on a Polymaker PolyDryer with the cap plugging the opening of the plug, just like the original part that came with the PolyDryer.
In this photo, the PTFE tube that came with the PolyDryer is installed in the hole of the plug - it is held snugly by the design of the plug.
@FreeCAD

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I'll likely try another in 95A TPU, since a lot more people have that than the really soft stuff. I suspect it'll be a lot tougher to install it (the 82A gave some resistance), but if that is the case, I could tweak the parameters in my CAD some.

Once complete, I'll release it on Printables - watch my account for updates.

A screenshot of FreeCAD of the model from the prior post showing the numerous parameters that can be tweaked in order to adjust the model in case things don't fit well.
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Okie dokie. The replacement Polymaker PolyDryer plug model is now published to Printables. #3Dprinting #3dprinted
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#3dprinting #3DPrinted

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#Tahiti shows its volcanic origins by having mostly black sand #beaches , a few whitish beaches and a rugged interior. There is good #snorkeling, #swimming, #hiking and hundreds of #waterfalls after a rainy day. What did you like most about Tahiti? backpackandsnorkel.com/Tahiti/

Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guide for Tahiti - Tahiti Purple Travel Guide

This Tahiti Travel Guide tells you what the best things to see and do are in Tahiti in French Polynesia.
Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
#hiking #waterfalls #snorkeling #Tahiti #beaches #swimming

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ChatGPT’s new studio ghibli feature is fun but not, um, perfect yet. @carlton @simon
@Simon Willison @Carlton Gibson 🇪🇺

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I think he was right.
Nikola Tesla believed that batteries have a soul.
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Ben Ramsey
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Why else do we say they’re “dead” when they no longer have a charge?

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I vibe coded up a little web tool for pretty-printing incomplete JSON, using GPT4.5 for the initial version and then Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking to fix some bugs and improve the visual appearance

Tool is here: tools.simonwillison.net/incomp… - prompts and transcript are here: simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/28/…

Incomplete JSON Pretty Printer

Every now and then a log file or a tool I'm using will spit out a bunch of JSON that terminates unexpectedly, meaning I can't copy it into a text …
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merijn
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thats actually a very useful tool! Its pretty awesome its now possible to build it without real coding knowledge.
Read you article about vibe coding and now understand the term better.

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Security people, this is our fault.
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Adam Shostack
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@SpaceLifeForm yeah, I was mostly not wanting to point a hate cannon their way ... the qr code, strangely, just got me online.
@SpaceLifeForm
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