@MichiganPal I’ve just started the Red House by Roz Watkins. I’m only a few chapter in but am so far enjoying it, after a couple of false starts on books that failed to keep my interest. It is about a dark topic but hopefully will be suspenseful rather than grim.
It does have the below quote, which my greyhound-adjacent part-whippet would resent if she could bestir herself from her bed…
I'm the reviewer you want today: I just submitted an "accept as-is" on this R&R two hours after receiving it. Somebody give me a cookie (or send this kind reviewer energy my way, please).
I was thinking about getting a Steam Deck but I'm not entirely sure if it's better than my GTX 970. I'll have to do more research since there's no point in getting something that isn't an upgrade.
The official Valve dock has connectivity issues, but there are plenty of third party docks that are cheaper and work better.
Using the default system settings, I’ve never had any performance issues with it docked compared to handheld.
It’s important to note that unlike the Switch, docked mode does not improve performance. Trying to play a game at your TV’s native resolution most definitely will cause performance issues, but again, default system settings work perfectly.
@eurunuela I'm also starting to see groups like @neurobuzz (I joined) and @academicchatter (haven't yet joined) which are designed to boost within-topic posts that are shared with them.
@neilhimself Hello from Vancouver BC, Canada. You autographed a 1st edition of Good Omens for my husband at a signing decades ago.
I am about to commit my husband to a columbarium cell (yes he is dead, we call him Urny now); authentication of your autograph ( DM me) would be worth a few installment payments. Would you kindly supply authentication?
Thanks
Last RT - many mental health providers I know (myself included, though less often nowadays) use zoom for clinical work/meetings/teletherapy. We’ve been told by the company itself, by the health insurance industry, and by our agencies that it’s HIPAA compliant and safe/ confidential to use.
Is anyone out there talking about or able to explain the implications of the TOS change for this use case? #socialwork#telehealth#zoom#HIPAA
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Hey, therps, wake up a new (apparently super problematic) new Zoom Terms of Service just dropped that seems to say they can listen in to communications across their service and use them to train AIs, no opt out, HIPAA BAAs be damned.
Lots of people, clinicians and otherwise, are understandably freaking out. I'm just hearing about this and haven't had a chance to investigate, and won't for a while.
"80% of the planet’s remaining biodiversity is on Indigenous land. Silently, they have proven that the smartest way to save us all is to recognise and protect their territories."
@MarkRuffalo And to prove it, here is a recent scientific study I participated in showing how primate species fare much better when their territories overlap with indigenous lands.
@emilymbender “an LLM generates output “by emulating a nervous system but without attempting to simulate it. This precludes the possibility that it is conscious.” Great read!! @linguistics#linguistics#AI#ChatGPT
One of my big books bookshelves, including tomes of fairytales, folktales, art, fashion, boats, cartoons (Asterix), and children’s stories (the complete Thomas the Tank Engline). The unbound volumes are academic works, including a master's thesis written about my older kids’ language acquisition. #ShelfieSunday
I've been on a quest to read books from as many countries as possible and would love recommendations books in English from South East Asian countries other than Singapore (already have a stack from there). Originally in English or translated are both fine, as is almost any fiction or non-fiction genre, although I don't love crime fiction and try to avoid western expat memoirs where work by local authors is available in English.
@CandaceRobbAuthor@clive Agree! For delivery of books & music in the UK there's also www.hive.co.uk
My current favourite #IndieBookshop loves Hive.The #bookshop is tiny, with very high danger-to-size ratio, & has made as much money through nominations on Hive as on direct sales. Hive is run by Gardners the big UK book distributor. If you can pick up in the shop, it earns 25%.