Notices by Large Format Projectionist (benhm3@mastodon.social)

@br00t4c

How does one get the job of staging and shooting photos like this for The Onion?

I'd be laugh-crying too hard to hold the camera steady.

@Nonilex

Whooping cough is so very much more serious than people imagine. Coughing until one vomits, bruises a rib, or damages the cartilage in the ribcage are just a hint of what's in store. Plus a permanent, non-productive cough for the real winners.

@inthehands

The Pinto thing was a pretty minor increased-risk, since the gas tank placement on rear-wheel drive econo cars of the day was pretty much identical, IIRC the fix was a single shield on a single bolt on the differential. So really, it's an Audi 5000 preview: nearly-non-existent engineering problem went viral.

Swastikars are different: They're not cheap anything, and the plutes that are trying to virtue-signal with them are pissed because the Nazi came out of the closet too soon

@inthehands

....because they have electrically-retracted exterior door handles and interior locks?

@br00t4c

Because wives 1 & 2 were busy?

@inthehands

The Nazi would do that, only to the liberals owning, driving, riding, or standing near a Swastikar.

@cwebber

Time to implement the random calling/messaging idea from Doctorow’s Big Brother series.

Flood them with false positives.

@VeroniqueB99

I’d be reluctant to let the one on the left inside the house.

@TerryHancock

Graphite dust is conductive. Rubber eraser bits jam fan bearings.

@bicmay

Truly one of the most useful words in the English language. Second person ambiguous now has unspecified gender in addition to quantity. Perfect.

@cstross

While the word “ferrets” and the cartoon versions have huge comedic possibilities, the real thing is fuckin’ scary. If people knew about them, they wouldn’t be pets. (Their tenacity and willingness to attack creatures 100x their size are both legendary.)

@bmacDonald94

Way to go, Bill!!!

I love it, not only does Springsteen let the Harris campaign use his music at a rally…

…he performs it.

God I wish the Electoral College had a building we could burn down.

@inthehands

If you need one already made:
https://flagsforgood.com/products/new-minnesota-lgbtq-pride-flag

(We bought the double-sided, big one and it's really great.)

@selzero

I get the hands (fingers) and feet (toes) problem with AI images....but can't it figure out liquids and pouring?

So close, yet so far.

@selzero

Thank you. Won't be watching THAT ever.

How obvious is a televised live performance staged to allow for commercial breaks?

Does the action just kind of peter to a stop while the performers wait for a cue to pick it back up?

Eg: the Oscars.

@pluralistic has a way with words:

"This "AI debate" is pretty stupid, proceeding as it does from the foregone conclusion that adding compute power and data to the next-word-predictor program will eventually create a conscious being, which will then inevitably become a superbeing. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding faster and faster horses, we'll get a locomotive:"