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Dry_Monk

@ Dry_Monk @lemmy.world

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  • What is your favorite quote, proverb, or piece of wisdom?

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  • "The impediment to action advances action. What's in the way becomes the way."

    This is basically saying that anything that gets in the way of you solving a problem becomes the new problem to solve.

    "The tool works at both ends."

    This is about skill building and practice. Making cool stuff improves you as a result.

    Something I like about each is that they work in reverse. No impediment in your way? You're probably not going to have very focused forward movement. No need to use tools (literally or metaphorically)? You won't become more skilled.

  • So it goes

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  • Remember that buying things online always atomizes community. The less you know your local community, the harder it feels to go out and buy local and the more you crave the convenience of buying online. The more you buy online, the less you go out into your community.

  • Persona, Discords "Age Verification" Service, creates a profile of you, sends it to the US Feds and deems you suspicious based on your appearance, exposed by Hackers

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  • This exactly. It's meant to open up the conversation.

  • Persona, Discords "Age Verification" Service, creates a profile of you, sends it to the US Feds and deems you suspicious based on your appearance, exposed by Hackers

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  • My favorite is:

    "So take off your pants. Right here, right now."

    Gets the point across quickly and viscerally.

  • US Government Deploys Elon Musk's Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables

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  • Makes the title of this community sound like a desperate request

  • DHS Agents Arrest Man by Pretending to Be Stranded Motorists… A Ploy to Get The “Worst of the Worst” Who are Midwest Nice

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  • This is honestly pretty smart on the part of the fascists. A big portion of what is so effective about the resistance is that it's founded on strong community action. Neighbors helping neighbors, because it's the right thing to do.

    Posing as a neighbor in need makes that act feel riskier. It changes the calculus, just a little, in favor of not helping your neighbor. They achieve their near term goal of getting their victim, but there's an even more valuable (to them) effect of weakening community ties overall.

    Time to double down on looking out for your neighbors.

    EDIT: Looking out for them so you can help. In case that wasn't clear.

  • Telly’s "free" ad-based TVs make notable revenue—when they’re actually delivered

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  • Owners cannot disable tracking or cover up the secondary screen (or they have to pay for the TV, which Telly claims is worth $1,000),

    Tactically, I'm curious about how they'd actually enforce this.

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  • This is perfect. Thank you for sharing.

  • Scientists Reverse Human Rejection of Pig Organ Transplant for First Time Ever

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  • body { heart: pig !important; }

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  • The thing that flipped it for me was realizing the Spotify algorithm isn't actually about discovering new music, it's about driving profit. Idealism aside, what that tactically means for music discovery is the recommendations are based primarily around what they want to play, and then secondarily around what you might like.

    It means that you're only discovering a subset of music you might like that is profitable to Spotify and their big record label partners.

    After realizing that, the Spotify algorithm lost a lot of interest for me. Now I use SomaFM to discover new music. They do curated music channels in a bunch of different genres, and I find that the DJs have a similar taste to mine, so I hear a good amount of new music I'm into.

  • Birds of peace

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  • This definitely reads like it's written by the pelican, addressing someone with a baby

  • YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy

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  • 413524 Gang, rise up!

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  • This is the correct order. 5-to-2 sets the width of the star, which is important when writing multiple identical stars next to each other.

  • Ah yes, Because That Is What Makes a Good Logo

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  • I totally agree that more diversity in art makes things more interesting, and I'm a big fan of bucking trends to make things unique. Art should be able to exist on its own merit, as the artist intended, divorced from what would make a better t-shirt. Even stepping out of art and into design, it makes me sad how many cars are grey, black, or white. Let's get some variation!

    But... This is a logo. It's not a poster. It's not a t-shirt or a building or a painting. It's a logo. As such, there are some specific criteria that will make it better at being a logo. It needs to be instantly recognizable. It needs to be legible across a wide variety of contexts, sizes, mediums, and color applications. As a result, logos tend to be better if they're simpler.

    The AI output is an illustration because it uses things like shading, complex shapes, and shadows, etc... Can you use an illustration for a logo? By all means. In some situations, it'll probably look nice. But at a certain size, it just won't be recognizable, and then it won't be doing the main job you want a logo to do — be instantly recognizable across as wide a set of scenarios as possible.

    Also, to be clear, I'm not a fan of the logo on the left either. It's not particularly imaginative, the highly variable line weight makes it feel in cohesive, and the details mean it probably wouldn't work well at small sizes either.

  • Ah yes, Because That Is What Makes a Good Logo

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  • Personal taste is totally fine, but what you're describing isn't a logo, it's an illustration. A good logo specifically must be simple so that it can be applied across a bunch of different contexts — print, digital, large, small. What if you wanted your logomark as a favicon? Depth and lighting would make it look like a smudge at that size. What about stitching your logo onto a hat?

    This is the main issue. Logos are part of a brand system, and generating a logo with AI circumvents all that thought. You get something that might look good, but your whole system becomes super fragile.

    Again, there's no disagreeing with personal taste, it's just a matter of thoughtful use of the system and medium.

  • Turns out America elected Elon Musk, too

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  • This unprecedented relationship between the world’s richest man and the leader of the free world raises concerns about the influence of wealth on government.

    Raises?! Where have y'all been?

  • Is it worth getting into video games?

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  • Plus 1 to this. A lot of great games have broken through to mobile, and are really affordable. Two specific recommendations:

    1. Balatro— if you have any familiarity with poker this will make a ton of sense to you. It's very popular, easy to pick up, and has a lot of depth.
    2. Listen to video game podcasts for recommendations. I love The Besties, but there are a ton. Try the games they recommend. If you like what they say is good, then you've found a reliable source of Future recommendations. If not, try another podcast!

    I really do recommend the hobby. It's a lot of fun, there are a bunch of different kinds of games, and the landscape is constantly evolving so there's always something new (or old—retro games are super fun) to discover. Take your time and try a bunch of different things!

  • Here we are

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  • But look at the US popular vote. Even with different representation of the populace, this election would still have been fucked. We do need massive reform of the US voting structure, but this is not the biggest thing. Getting rid of first past the post in favor of at least ranked choice would make a much bigger difference.

    That would open the door for a true left wing party to actually have a voice.

  • A useful map for travelers

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  • For a second I read that as America, and I thought, eh, pretty close.

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