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I’ll take your word for it. Checking history always makes me feel somehow creepy, and if I do not suspect you of purposeful bad-faith engagement (then I’d want to see what the rest of your engagement looks like so I could judge if it is a bad-faith post) I have no reason to bother. Sorry for the mixup!
On one hand I do appreciate you posting on the Fediverse and supplying a nice joke for us, on another, AI… it’s not exactly popular here and I can understand why. I think you might have posted something about that in Fedigrow before?
You might want to at least label this image as AI-generated. Obviously I know this is not a real picture, people don’t walk around with owl heads instead of person heads, but I’m one of those folk still really easily fooled by AI images and without people in the comments talking about it I definitely would have thought some artist made this.
The mixing of the themes with an owl on a football is delightful.
Not a sports person myself but I can see why people like them. I have also accidentally fallen into the baseball video pipeline on YouTube.
Clicked a related link in that article.
“Just take a walk in nature, especially at dawn and dusk,” they said. “It’s currently [article posted February 11] flirting season for owls. So there are a lot of them out there making a lot of noise, either looking for love or trying to defend territory.”
I’ve been taking my walks midday-ish, to coincide with the hottest part of the day. It is winter, after all. I guess that’s why I haven’t seen any owls.
Probably good to note dawn and dusk are good times for !bunnies@lemmy.world too. Guess I should alter my walking patterns.
Is this from something?
My brain instantly went to the Great Pumpkin…
Find a bear to sublet to. Call it the owlbear brewery. Rake in the nerd money.
Barn owls do have a use, yes, but it is nice to see that people still have room in their hearts for a bird even when things are going poorly.
I wonder where you get all these high quality owl pictures. Yes, you post the source, but that is not what I mean. Do you seek them out specifically to post? Are you already such a huge owl fan that they just naturally show up on your regular internet browsing, and you decide to share some with us?
I’m a mix of both. Sometimes I specifically browse the internet for cute animal content to post on Lemmy, sometimes I just am browsing for cute animal stuff on my own and think “huh wait, Lemmy could use this.”
Self-plug: !bunnies@lemmy.world, also active, posts don’t overlap with !bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org
Also !snakes@lemmy.world, though I don’t run that one.
Thanks!
It’s nice brushing shoulders on the Fediverse again after awhile.
Not an owl person but subbing because of this article. This is cool.
Nobody in my neighborhood, or the adjacent neighborhoods, has posted any owls online. But looking at the map of where people post, there are dots kind of near me so it seems I should definitely be able to find some owls!
I realize my wording “Gave up on All” probably came off as if I wanted to use it and was disappointed I couldn’t, so I appreciate you trying to give me advice on how I could still use it. I’m happy doing things this way though. I find Subscribed far easier to use than playing whack-a-mole with the many, many meme communities that inevitably have a “haha the world SUCKS” post, and then understandable but still-not-good-for-me-personally vents about the world sucking in the comments. Or news communities (not just politics!) that inevitably post something that could tie into politics, and then all the politics in the comments. You said it’s exhausting yourself, and I simply don’t have the energy to put quite that much effort into it. If you find it worth it anyways, more power to you, but I really don’t mind missing out on something I might like in exchange for missing out on 1) stuff I really don’t like and 2) a lot of stuff I’m ambivalent about and would rather just scroll past.
I do look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world, which is good enough for me in my opinion re: discovering new stuff, and although this isn’t really the purpose of !fedigrow@lemm.ee, it often tells me about communities I didn’t know about. And sometimes I click Communities on an instance and wander through the list.
I did take Algorithms.
The definition we learned (let me know if I am wrong) is that an algorithm is a concrete set of steps to accomplish some goal in a finite amount of time given legitimate inputs.
Although in practice we use this more for stuff with a math formula and/or stuff you code. “Given the input of the world, if your eyes see it is raining outside, grab the umbrella from your closet. If you don’t see the umbrella, search for it. If the search takes 5+ minutes, just go to your destination” is an algorithm for trying to not get rained on, but in practice nobody’s going to be using that word that way.
I think the definition used online today is “some computer code that I can’t reliably determine the input/output of, that is used to my/society’s disadvantage in an exploitative way.”
Words evolve, and the word you learn in academia sometimes also gets used in real life and its usage changes in real life from what you would use in academia. And sometimes academia keeps using it that way, and real life keeps using it their different way, and so you use the same word while talking about slightly different concepts. And sometimes people in real life use it the academic way, others don’t, making things even more confusing… you just have to be aware people are using the same word to talk about two different things (or in this case, one group uses the word to talk about an unpleasant subset of the thing the other group uses the word to talk about) and clear up that misunderstanding.
Leftist into tech.
My feed got very overwhelmed by depressing relatable memes that, guess what, had leftist views expressed in the comments, and posts that were not politics but ended up getting into there anyways.
I might be leftist but damn if outrage and despair isn’t exhausting, I come to social media for fun, not to be angry and sad and hopeless.
Gave up on All incredibly quickly, only use Subscribed (I explicitly excluded anything political from Subscribed). So much less outrage and despair, so many more cute animals.
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Hey, would love if you could crosspost to !bunnies@lemmy.world. I mod it so it should be alright.