A support sloop on deck and in the landing bay. #steampunk #neovictorian #aesthetics #design #Blender3D #Unity3D

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Frisbee is a brand name, but how newsworthy is that?

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Making a journalism game to teach myself ChoiceScript

Me: (Making a journalism game to teach myself ChoiceScript.)
Nobody:
Me: Maybe I should add a “current time” display.
Nobody:
Me: And I should code up all the special cases for a.m., p.m., noon and midnight, to match AP Style.
Nobody:
Me: How long could it take?
(Six hours later….)

ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners.

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Inside Voices — A Weekend Musical

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A #neovictorian #steampunk ship-of-the-line needs a dramatic flag and a conveniently located central ballroom. #Blender3D #Unity3D #design #aesthetics #blender3dart

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The film Carolyn was in is a finalist. The screening will start soon. #48hrfilmproject Support the arts in your community!

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An English professor tries to help ChatGPT write and revise a sonnet

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ChatBot Helps Crack the Case of the Missing 45GB

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The internet’s memory is fading in front of us. Preserve what you can.

Long, self-indulgent essays from a writer I idolized, a gorgeous online portfolio of photos taken by a photographer in Japan, a repository of old State Department language learning resources, all gone. Link rot is real, folks, and with it comes a slow, steady sloughing off things on the internet we once loved — or still love,…

Fancy a game of whist with your nemesis? The prospect of ruin adds piquancy to the pleasure. #indiefilm

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