Notices by Ken Sugar ☑️ (ken_sugar@mastodon.social), page 7

Amazon の #Kuiper プロジェクト、まじ頑張ってほしい所存。

"スペースXを追う「アマゾン」の衛星インターネット事業「Kuiper」プロジェクトとは？"

? https://www.sbbit.jp/article/cont1/99534

@Narako @sayuri_t_h
で、モハメド・アルファイド氏の奧さんがサミラ・カショギさんで、サミラさんの兄がサウジの武器商人アドナン・カショギ氏で、その息子がトルコのサウジ大使館で殺害された事件で有名なジャマル・カショギ氏という華麗なる (？)一族なんですよね。

@petrillic
Did it go well? ?

[ #NowPlaying ]

? Megadeth (ft. Cristina Scabbia ??)
"À Tout le Monde (Set Me Free)" (2007)

? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEyOwLY3rV4

? © 1994 Dave Mustaine

#Megadeth ??

[ #NowPlaying ]

? Megadeth
"Holy Wars...The Punishment Due"

? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d4ui9q7eDM

? © 1990 Dave Mustaine

#Megadeth ??

?

Toyah And Roberts Sunday Lunch
"HOLY WARS"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjIqlAHrc8o

#RobertFripp ??

TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2022

#2. Ultraflex - Infinite Wellness

A self-aware album of disco treats, made by two women who want to shake their booty -- even as the rest of the world is in no mood to dance. How voracious is Ultraflex's desire for close-and-sweaty dancing? Listen to their song "Ultrasex" and you'll know! I have no doubt that each of these women have a disco ball in each of their bedrooms -- we're better for it! https://ultraflexband.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-wellness-album

(ティム・ブレイ氏(XML標準規格の共同開発者で、AWS(アマゾンウェブサービス)の元VPとしても知られる著名エンジニア)もBirdsiteを離れたか…)

Bye, Twitter

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/26/Bye-Twitter

"I was beginning to think the End-Of-Twitter narrative was overblown, but evidence is stacking up."

People get angry when I saw the word "rip-off". But "rip-off" is the term people use to dismiss derivative works of art.

Nevertheless, the best art in the world is often derivative:

1. Michaelangelo's David
2. Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans
3. Most hip hop albums ever made

Maybe we should re-claim the term "rip-off".

Whenever someone gets upset about small studio animators making a knock-off of a Disney film, I just ask them, "Well, what about the Lion King?"

And then I tell them about Kimba: The White Lion, and how the Lion King is a rip-off of an anime.

Thereafter, I ask the following question: how many Disney movies are actually based on stories in the public domain?

Why get upset at small studio animators who also make movies based on stories in the public domain?

The most blatant of Disney-made knock-offs is The Lion King.

Which was clearly swiped from the anime Kimba: The White Lion—which was originally broadcast by Fuji Television in 1965.

In fact, in an early version of The Lion King, Simba was white!

@atomicpoet

"Everything Is a Remix"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrW3E6BN5Dg

?

[ #note ]

Dear Stephen King.
As a matter of fact, Elon Musk is not ethically an "original founder" of TESLA.
Its an on-paper retroactive status, achieved though a legal attack against the company and the winning of a law suit.

(Well, It's probably only a small thing on now but I think this is important in understanding how the man came to prominence.)

ref: "Did Elon Musk found Tesla?"

https://www.quora.com/Did-Elon-Musk-found-Tesla-1/answer/David-Brace-3

"No he is NOT an ‘original Founder’."

#ElonMusk

[ #NowPlaying ]

? Pay money To my Pain
"Another day comes"

? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WbKH5gicyc

#PaymoneyTomyPain ??

[ #NowPlaying ]

? Pay money To my Pain
"Paralyzed ocean"

? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbow1WaWRl8

#PaymoneyTomyPain ??

I see a lot of pundit speculation and debate that goes something like, “well, only the hackers and cybersecurity people are moving to Mastodon - and everyone else is just going to stay on #Twitter “, but the thing the folks saying this do not understand is that we are a canary.

We watched Twitter get rid of qualified #cybersecurity people who we personally knew. We understand the implications of privacy teams and lawyers being fired has on our data. We hollered about the way the new blue check system would be abused days before billions were lost by a couple companies. We understood the implications of rapid and haphazard terminations. The bottom line is:

1) We know our login data, DMs, and private posts really aren’t secure at all anymore due to lost competent staff and disgruntled employees,

and

2) Twitter probably won’t just shut down this month or next month, but it’s going to start having some serious and unpredictable financial and technical problems due to the people who were let go as well as Elon’s apparent instability and lack of checks.

So, we migrated. Other communities don’t necessarily have this inside baseball, and they understandably just feel like Twitter is too big to fail. We will see if stuff that happens over the coming weeks pushes more folks here, or to other social media sites. Depends a lot on our outreach and what we do with this community.

@otakuman
現存の機械翻訳エンジンの中で、トップクラスなのは間違いないです☺️

(機械翻訳に関して、日本語圏ではDeepLの評価が高いけれど、文意解釈が優れている翻訳エンジンだと個人的には思いますが、解釈できない箇所に当たると文節を丸ごと飛ばしてしまうことがあるので、あまり盲信しないほうがいいですよと思っています。
リバース翻訳(※)で翻訳結果の確認することをおすすめします。
僭越ながら。)

※機械翻訳で出力された訳文結果を再度元言語に機械翻訳し、文意が正しく共通しているかを確認する行為

[ #note ]

(W3Cの #ActivityPub の仕様書、英語なので、日本語圏の民でアルファベット苦手な方々にはイメージしにくいかもなので、
2017年末にmstdn.jp創設者ぬるかる氏が書いていた日本語での紹介記事が、簡潔でわかりやすいので貼っておきますね)

https://qiita.com/nullkal/items/accc5d62836a930b3cd9

We are extremely proud of the work accomplished at #W3C in the Social Web group, culminating in 2018 in the release of the #ActivityPub standard, a notable implementation of which is... #mastodon !
We are also humbled and inspired by the energy that we are seeing on the Fediverse, the good will, how constructive and helpful discourse embodies truly social interactions.
#gratitude

shout out to the enablers: @evan @cwebber @rhiaro @erincandescent @tsyesika @Annbass @lehors