Notices by Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org), page 5

It was my lucky finding day. I also got one of these whirly things. I've been wanting one for an art project for years

It always a good idea to look inside innocuous boxes sitting on the side of the road

Only a half hour until I can have the grocery store and the city streets to myself

@steter @ai6yr that's cool, but $2000 is just too much for me to spend on a project like this. It would take me years to recoup those costs!

@steter @ai6yr i want more power than that!

Plug-in solar setups require permission from utilities here and getting one that meets their requirements is not cheap, but the hell with these utilities.. I'm thinking more and more about getting some cheap used solar panels and an inverter and building my own without permission

@ai6yr I like the simplicity of a non-inverter setup, but I don't have anything that runs on 12 or 24 volts.

I just want to plug something into my house to offset the cost of running my refrigerator, etc

Dreamt last night that i was at a coffee shop with @fredy when i saw an unusual little old car go putt-putting past outside and towing a trailer.

I ran outside to get a photo of it for my friend who runs The Autopian website.

The car was a single seater about the size of a tall bathtub, and driven by a guy wearing driving goggles and leather helmet. It was painted a deep burgundy color and had brass trim, and a gilded filigree detail above the single headlight on the front.

The trailer was about the same size and enclosed with a lid, so I couldn't see what he was carrying.

@fredy Now colorized!

Update: My dream is on The Autopian this morning

https://www.theautopian.com/my-friend-had-a-dream-about-a-weird-car-she-wanted-to-show-me-so-lets-make-it-kinda-real/

@bigtuffal omg, some of you leftists and your letting perfect be the enemy of good, my god. it's insufferable.

Take a good thing when you can get it and stop being a crab

@bigtuffal A bad person can still be correct about some things. Acknowledging that a a good opinion held by a bad person is a good opinion isn't being an apologist for that person.

And no, lol. I won't follow your account. You're the guy who said community colleges should be shut down because instructors aren't paid enough. I see enough bad takes on here already

@bigtuffal you want to whine about strawmen while you're calling me an apologist for child abusers because I said the pope has a good message on AI.

Besides, I remember what you said. We argued about it enough for me to clearly remember what you said. And what does the fascist takeover have to do with anything? I've interacted with you like three times, and that was one of them. fascism and current events having nothing to do with that.

Why do you even follow me if you think I'm so awful? Good lord

@bigtuffal It's getting better already

"Do not renounce your ability to think," is a very good statement about AI, but also generally the state of things now

New problem at work: News articles quoting faculty members from our university.

However, these faculty members don't exist. Someone using an LLM made them up and keeps pumping out news stories that quote them. Those stories are getting picked up by other outlets that don't bother to do any kind of due diligence before copying and pasting.

I see a lot of posts where I just have zero idea what the person is talking about or referring to, and I wonder if there are people who look at my posts and think the same thing.

I feel like no. I mostly post about bicycling, projects, plants, cats, finding neat things.

@botvolution Jade plants have thick, succulent leaves. Money trees often have deliberately braided trunks and normal, thin leaves

@botvolution oh, so do they have money trees or jade plants?

@botvolution @rose_alibi huh! If I had to generalize, I would say chinese restaurants here have lucky bamboo or money tree