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  Phone call to mygov, the compulsory online "service" to deal with the Australian government. Phoned the right number. Followed the prompts. It took 20 minutes to get through the chatbot and the hold music to get a person. "Oh, I can't help you with that, you've called the wrong number." He gave me the number. It's the same number I called. "But did you press 1?" I don't remember, it was 20 minutes ago. I followed the prompts. Now I get to try all ov...

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  @alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space @autolycos@beige.party @alice@lgbtqia.space Evil Alphabet is another good name for LLMs.

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  My brother-in-law's laptop stopped working. It's under warranty. So he called #Dell. "Hi! I'm your A.I. assistant. Before I can help you, you have to read me a tiny number from the back of your laptop." He can't read it, he's blind. I read it. The "A.I" has one job. It is very bad at it. I read it out 20 times before the machine got it right. In the middle of this debacle, I asked the "A.I." to put me through to a person. "I can'...

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  Two bees, or not two bees. #SimpleThingsASongOrPoem #HashTagGames

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  A mushroom. #Bloomscrolling

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  @Lana@beige.party I saw a comment that said the only medical emergency was a US sailor, who had to be evacuated from a US submarine that was suspiciously close to Greenland's capital, Nuuk. The sailor was apparently evacuated, and flown to Denmark for medical care. Without the enormous bills and bankruptcies that are such a feature of US wealthcare.* *not a typo

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  @SharG@mastodon.social Trump's Department of Injustice.

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  You aren't careful when opening the overhead locker, and get hit in the head by a falling ultra-economy class passenger who shifted during the flight. #UghOnAnAirplaneAnything #HashTagGames

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  @alicemcalicepants@ohai.social But that's TWO DUCKS!

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  @arichtman@eigenmagic.net Keep out of reach of vampires.

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  @David_Hollingworth@mastodon.social Drop bear? Chop bear!

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  @cstross@wandering.shop My favourite AI attempt was a woman crouching at the starting line of a running track. She had three knees. She had a disconnected blob of flesh floating by her shoulders. There were knuckles everywhere! The caption was: "You too can have a body like mine."

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  #WordWeavers 02 May: How much longer do you think it’ll take you to finish your WIP? Individual books? It varies. The series? The way I keep getting new ideas, I'll be writing more books in the series for the rest of my life.

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  @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social

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  @amydiehl Most anabolic steroids are based on testosterone. Trans women take estrogen (and possibly testosterone blockers). So trans women are on performance reducing drugs. Making it harder for themselves to win, and then getting paid less if they do. I think I see the flaw in that cunning plan.

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  @gnoll110 I thought Scott Morrison had secured Australia's oil reserves in *checks notes* the United States of America.

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  @Impossible_PhD I've been querying In The Year Of The Half-Arsed Wombat for nearly four years now. I've queried almost fifty agents, with responses ranging from no response, to a rejection in 2 hours, to a rejection that took 614 days. I thought I might have an advantage when I discovered a friend I'd done amateur theatre with in the 80s was now an agent. Her rejection took 9 days. 1/2

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  @molly0xfff And the odds that Returned Jesus would be racially profiled, thrown to the ground by six masked thugs, held down, pepper sprayed, bashed in the head with a steel baton, shot sixteen times in the back, and then called a fucking bitch?

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  ACME: because SpaceX isn't the only exploding rocket company. #IfCartoonsRuledTheWorld #HashTagGames

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  @XenoPhage I thought I knew all of Sir Terry's novels. I've never heard of his novel "Sorry, This Offer Is Not Available In Your Area".

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  @debcha *makes a note of the word "scrobbles" so I can use it more often in conversation*

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  #PennedPossibilities 980 — Have you ever had your work plagiarized or stolen? By the time I had made the princely sum of $6 US from my first novel (not bad for six years work), I found it on a pirate website.

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  The Fantastic Fur #SciFiDogsOrCats #HashtagGames

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  Fur-enheit 451 #SciFiDogsOrCats #HashtagGames

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  Star Trek III: The Search for Spot #SciFiDogsOrCats #HashtagGames

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  Slaughtermouse Five #SciFiDogsOrCats #HashtagGames

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  Bloodbath and Beyond #EvilCompanyNames #HashTagGames

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  @cstross@wandering.shop The space opera is not over until the alien lady sings.

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  @cstross@wandering.shop @davidgerard@circumstances.run @chiffchaff@tech.lgbt If it walks like a stupid duck, and quacks like a stupid duck, and none of its proponents can explain why it isn't a stupid duck, then it's probably ducking stupid.

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  @cstross@wandering.shop Signs of early heart failure in a man who has never shown any signs that he has a heart.