John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

Well, at least Gigi Sohn got to be a question on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me? #goals

cc @bergmayer

How do I feel about this? "AI-generated images from text can't be copyrighted, US government rules"

https://www.engadget.com/ai-generated-images-from-text-cant-be-copyrighted-us-government-rules-174243933.html

I've learned many new vocabulary words from reading Ashbery over the years. Not sure if that's a plus or not, just a fact. Tonight's is "pellucid" -- adj, transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity. As in, "Yet the froth of activity / before mealtimes crowded the pellucid element, frosting it slightly." #poetry

Nearly to the point of self-hosting Mastodon just so I can write a plugin that removes "Let's be clear" and close variations from all posts in my timeline.

The PinePhone FLOSS modem firmware provides a local SMS command interface. But it's stopped answering my messages. Ghosted by my own phone!

https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/blob/kirkstone/docs/SMS_INTERFACE.md

Mysterious NYT correction: "A picture caption with an article...misidentified the brand of office chair that Brandi Susewitz was examining on her visit to Sitecore's office. It was not a Herman Miller Aeron chair."

so what chair was it???

Ashbery vowel sounds:

"withers wrung, stalls swept, a stray colt consoled, mud / drained, dried, blown off into the sun."

("The History of Photography")

#poetry

Dry time with Kakimori pigmented ink on Regalia paper is unfortunately untenable. Two great things that don't go great together. #fountainpens

Wordle but you track how many consecutive days you've plugged in a USB-A cable the right way up in 1 guess vs how many days it took 3

I guess I need to get serious about finding a solution to this problem of my mail to gmail users being rejected because of my laptop VPN IP -- even though the mail is actually delivered by an upstream SMTP server that gmail has no issue with.