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Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland -- Volume I, A Tour of the Land
arxiv.org/abs/2404.17625

Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland -- Volume I, A Tour of the Land

Neural networks surround us, in the form of large language models, speech transcription systems, molecular discovery algorithms, robotics, and much more.
arXiv.org
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Hoy, por ninguna razón en particular, me viene a la mente esta canción: El Intocable, de La Polla Records. youtube.com/watch?v=OwMyTemh1i…

El Intocable

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesEl Intocable · La Polla RecordsHoy Es el Futuro℗ 1993 Cultura Rock Records SL / La Polla RecordsReleased on: 20...
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I'll say this for Linux: if you're comfortable on the command line, life is sometimes way easier. Forget the terrible Windows update UI. Just apt update && apt upgrade -y and there ya go. 245 pacakages are now updating. I'll restart in a bit and I'm done. I also have all the bash commands I'm used to, without the few limitations and lag of WSL.
in reply to Alex Hall

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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I've never looked into Linux as a desktop OS. I run it on everything else, though
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Alex Hall
Alex Hall
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@cachondo I've used Debian on servers for years at work. I've run a Raspberry Pi or three. I have Unraid installed on a home server. But I've never given Linux a serious chance as a desktop OS either.
@Sean Randall

Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Todo bien y con ganas. Eso sí, el plazo que dimos para proponer artículos de la ley de medidas, ni puto caso.

Por lo demás, tengo puesto un poco el aire para refrescar el despacho de mañana, pero en un rato lo apago. Lo pondré mientras alga al café. No es necesario tenerlo todo el día.

spal by som #dobréRáno
#dobrerano

BBC Says 450 Million Consume Its Global Programming radioworld.com/global/bbc-says…

BBC Says 450 Million Consume Its Global Programming

The BBC says 450 million people consume its content globally each week, exclusive of its content targeting U.K. consumers.
Nick Langan (Radio World)
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rooktallon
rooktallon
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Yeah, and they'd have 300+ million more potentially if they actually allowed America to access their content. It's far less biased on American issues since they don't live directly in America and are therefore less affected.
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David Goldfield
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@rooktallon I know. I wish they'd allow us legal access to iPlayer. That would be amazing.
@rooktallon

Music

Now playing "City of the Dead" by "The Coffinshakers" from "Graves, Release Your Dead" via "mpv"

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A command line client for Pleroma, written in bash.
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We had a fantastic time watch the Rockies vs the Red Sox with everyone! Thanks for joining us at Coors Field!
#GUADEC2024
Group photo of GUADEC attendees at Coors Field with baseball pitch in the background
#guadec2024

Get ready, it’s likely Meta’s new Llama 3.1 models will be released tomorrow, and from results published by Microsoft the 405B parameter version goes head to head directly with GPT4O in most benchmarks, with the smaller variants showing significant performance gains when compared to Llama 3. If this holds up, I’m not sure I could see a reason to use cloud providers unless you have extremely specific requirements that open source can’t meet. We are truly living in a golden age for LLMs.
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Mikołaj Hołysz
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@chikim How would you consider 70b q4 versus 8b q8, or even unquantized?

If 70b q4 can be run on inexpensive-ish hardware, this could be professionally relevant to what I do.

@Chi Kim
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Chi Kim
Chi Kim
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@miki Even 70b-q2 will outperform 8b-fp16 by a huge margin.
@Mikołaj Hołysz
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victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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@chikim @miki What is it good for if we can’t run it on our local machines? :)
@Mikołaj Hołysz @Chi Kim
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Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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@vick21 @chikim
You can only run Open AI models on the Open AI Cloud.

You can run Llama at any company you wish, finetune it for your own use cases, have an internal chatbot that knows your company codebase etc.

@victor tsaran @Chi Kim
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Chi Kim
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@vick21 @miki Yeah, You need to figure out the best model you can afford to run on your local machine and use that. For me, I can run llama3.1:70b-instruct-q5_K_M with 5 tokens/second on m3 max 64gb. If you have 16GB, you could can probably run llama3.1:8b-instruct-q8_0. If you run the model with longer context, it'll eat up more memory too.
@Mikołaj Hołysz @victor tsaran

Immer wieder findet man private Aufrufe zur Suche von vermissten oder gesuchten Personen. Warum es keine Gute Idee ist, diese zu teilen, haben wir hier für euch zusammengestellt.

#sicherimnetz #vermisstenmeldungen #fahndungsaufruf #blaulicht #medienkompetenz

Fahndungsaufrufe im Netz Gesuchte Personen haben Rechte! Bei jeder öffentlichen Fahndung, egal ob vermisste Personen oder Straftäter*innen, greift das allgemeine Persönlichkeitsrecht (Art. 2 Abs. 1 i.V.m. Art. 1 Abs. 1 GG). Dies umfasst auch das Recht am eigenen Bild, an persönlichen Daten und der Privatsphäre. Steht der Aufruf im Presseportal der Polizei? Nur Strafverfolgungsbehörden dürfen dieses außer Kraft setzen und nach Personen öffentlich fahnden. Nicht selbst strafbar machen! Teilt man ein Bild einer vermissten Person ohne deren Einverständnis, kann diese Regressforderungen stellen und man erfüllt u.U. selbst Straftatbestände, wenn z.B. private Daten der Person geteilt wurden. Besonderer Schutz für Kinder und Jugendliche Niemand kennt die Hintergründe eines privaten Aufrufs. Handelt es sich z.B. um einen Sorgerechtsstreit? Nur die Polizei kann daher entscheiden, wann der Nutzen einer öffentlichen Fahndung gegenüber den Nachteilen und Risiken überwiegt. Im Extremfall behindert man ggf. sogar die Suche, indem Täter*innen durch den Aufruf gewarnt werden. Das Internet vergisst nichts! Ist der Aufruf wirklich authentisch? Ist er aktuell? Ist die Person überhaupt (noch) vermisst? Vor allem, teile keine Screenshots von Suchmeldungen, sondern immer die Meldung selbst!
#medienkompetenz #sicherimnetz #vermisstenmeldungen #Fahndungsaufruf #Blaulicht
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Doppelmastermanderine
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Was noch fehlt: Solche privaten Suchmeldungen werden teils auch von Tätern selbst erstellt, um eine Person ausfindig zu machen, die sich vor ihnen versteckt. Zb. weil sie aus einer gewalttätigen Beziehung geflohen sind. In so einem Fall bringt man die gesuchte Petson in grosse Gefahr.

According to the commit for download.sh on meta-llama Github repo, we're getting the updates: llama-3.1-405b, llama-3.1-70b, llama-3.1-8b. #LLM #ML #AI github.com/meta-llama/llama/co…

Update download.sh · meta-llama/llama@12b676b

Inference code for Llama models. Contribute to meta-llama/llama development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#AI #ML #llm

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Some of you have been asking us about the #remoteIncidentManager integration with @AiraVI and what this means for pricing. Good news, no changes whatsoever!
Receiving assistance through RIM itself is completely free, in fact, if all you plan to use RIM for is receiving help, you need not even register an account! Therefore, receiving help from an Aira agent incurs no extra cost to your Aira plan!
#accessibility
#Accessibility #remoteincidentmanager @Aira
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An update on this episode. Our foster:

RE: threads.net/@jdickerson/post/C…

Photo by John Dickerson on July 19, 2024. May be an image of 1 person, people kissing and Entlebucher mountain dog.

John Dickerson (@jdickerson) on Threads

Episode 3 is live. https://slate.com/podcasts/navel-gazing Ep. 1 is about marriage. Ep. 2 covers parenting. Ep. 3 is about our dog George and mornings. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Threads
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John Dickerson
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Per this episode: Dogs Can Smell Your Stress and Make Choices Based on It - New research seems to support the notion that dogs can read a person's mood via their scent. Dogs involved in an experiment appeared to have their own moods changed by the human sweat/breath odors presented to them. This "contagious emotion" then appeared to inform choices and actions made by the dog. dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…

Man's stressed friend! Dogs can smell stress in your breath and sweat - and it puts them in a bad...

Researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered that dogs really can tell when you are stressed and are even put in a bad mood by the smell of worried humans.
Wiliam Hunter (Daily Mail)

Tech companies are desperate to convince you that laws come out of nowhere, for no reason. “I'm just a poor, innocent prisoner, who's been physically assaulted (by another inmate)”, they say to the media, leaving out that they're there in the first place for armed robbery and multiple homicides.

Any preferred-media site that begins a story with some variant of “first, the EU introduced a law,” is actively, knowingly, lying to you. It took nearly two decades of misconduct before the laws came in

Přeji krásné páteční ráno. Týden utíká, úplně jako by pondělí bylo včera 😉

Something you may not have realised is right-handed: playing cards.

When you pick up a card with your dominant hand and add it to the front of a card you're holding in your non-dominant hand, you create a fan towards your dominant hand.

Standard playing cards have a small version of the number and suit in two corners so that you can see them no matter which way up the card is, *as long as they're fanned right*, and many modern card games follow suit (ha!) without thinking, for the convention or aesthetic

Consider mirroring important summary information in both left and right corners (Ticket to Ride does a great job putting the suits in both corners while maintaining the pleasant asymmetrical feel of having them in one)

It's admittedly only a tiny accessibility issue, but it IS an accessibility issue, so have think about it.

#GameDev #Accessibility #a11y #TableTop #CardGames #BoardGames

Standard playing cards
Cards from LOOT. In addition to the summaries only being in the left corner, they rely on colour-vision to distinguish them, (despite the MAIN image having different symbols!)
Cards from Love Letter, with the number shown only on the left.
Cards from Ticket to Ride, with symbols in all four corners (colourblind friendly, too, although the carriage pieces in the same game are a problem)
#a11y #Accessibility #gamedev #boardgames #tabletop #cardgames
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Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
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@bornach @ben @MedusaGladiatrix poker deck vs bridge deck. In Europe I was used to the latter. The size of cards is different too.
@Bornach @Medusa Gladiatrix

Fake O'Reilly-style book cover called Coding with GPT (7th Edition). Subtitle: "Introducing the uncanny into your codebase". The animal on the cover is a weird hybrid of a collie dog and an emu, joined together at the midsection.

When Hillary Clinton was the nominee, she was called "Hillary” by fans, opponents, and media alike. I was told “that's because 'Clinton' means 'Bill' in people's heads," and I didn't entirely agree, but OK.

Now Kamala Harris is the presumptive nominee, and she's "Kamala,” not "Harris.” There is no other President Harris.

Trump isn't "Donald," Biden isn't "Joe,” Obama wasn't "Barack.” In 2016, it was possible that this wasn't gendered. But I can’t buy that anymore.

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Since I started posting music on Soundcloud in 2015, if I sum all the money I've earned from my music across all the streaming sites, including Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube, my music income is $40.51.

My yearly Soundcloud subscription is $145 a year.

I pay for my music to be available for you to listen to.

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In case you missed it: Accrescent is now mirrored in the GrapheneOS App Store! This helps GrapheneOS users securely and easily obtain Accrescent from a trusted source.

GrapheneOS highly values privacy and security as we do, so we're excited about this collaboration.

grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…

#privacy #security #accrescent #appstore #android

GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)

GrapheneOS App Store now includes a mirror of Accrescent, which is a privacy and security focused alternative to the Play Store distributing developer builds of apps: https://accrescent.
GrapheneOS Mastodon
#android #privacy #security #AppStore #accrescent
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Accrescent
Accrescent
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@PaintedDurian We don't plan on allowing other app installers such as Obtainium in Accrescent at this time. But in general, all apps in Accrescent are uploaded by their respective developers, so it's up to them to determine whether they want their app in Accrescent.
@FDA approved :verified: lychee

The Simpsons predicted it.
Two pictures side by side with Lisa Simpson and Kamala Harris wearing alike outfits: Blue jacket, lighter blue shirt underneath, pearl necklace and pearl earrings. Below a scene from the Simpsons, where President Lisa simpson is in the oval office with her staff. Caption "As you know, we've inherited quite a budget crunch from president trump."

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Hot Pink Dreams Triangle Peyote Stitch Beaded Bracelet

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DM with customs or questions!

#Cvkvlv #CvkvlvBeadwork #Mvskoke #Native #Indigenous #NativeAmerican #Beadwork #Jewelry #Bracelet #Handmade #IndigenousCreatives #IndigenousArtist

A triangle-patterned pink and white beaded bracelet with a gold clasp on a marble background

Hot Pink Dreams Triangle Peyote Stitch Beaded Bracelet

Materials:Glass beadsAdjustable gold claspApproximately:8 1/2 inch or 21 1/2 cm cm long1/2 inch or 1 1/2 cm wide
Cvkvlv.com Beadwork
#indigenous #jewelry #handmade #NativeAmerican #native #cvkvlv #cvkvlvbeadwork #mvskoke #beadwork #indigenouscreatives #indigenousartist #bracelet

Today, Reaper's release candidate tightens up tab order and labelling in a single reworked dialog. No changes other than accessibility. Nada. Zip.

TBH it was already solid enough that I wouldn't have been at all mad if they'd decided to press go and refine in the next update, but instead, they went one more round and made sure that keyboard/screen reader users have a decent UX on arrival.

Why is this small gesture a big deal? Well, I might be able to take a day off at some point! I mean, name another DAW developer who's done that without anyone asking/convincing. I'll wait...

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victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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@jcsteh Let’s ask our good Reaper friends to improve the a11y for some of their stock plugins. My forum posts didn’t get any traction. I really think that part of Reaper has been a bit undertaken-care-of. I know JS stuff is hard, or nearly hard, without some serious extra work, but VST? :)
@Jamie Teh
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Scott
Scott
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@vick21 @jcsteh Have you checked them lately? I did a full run through of stock plug-in GUIs and had them clarify a load of labelling, there have also been improvements in js GUIs in recent times. They've even adopted OSARA's keystrokes for adjusting sliders in stock plugs now.
@Jamie Teh @victor tsaran
in reply to Scott

victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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@jcsteh Good call, and thank you! I was so used to the old way of doing things. It didn’t even occur to me to just tab around… Thank you! One immediate thing I see though is that when the tab stops on a slider, VoiceOver on Mac OS doesn’t speak anything. SLiders are workable if you use VO navigation though. But at least edit fields can be typed into! :)
@Jamie Teh
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Scott
Scott
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@vick21 @jcsteh Yeah VO navigation still needs some love, that's a much bigger project and I've got no idea when it'll happen. Sorry to hear sliders are still acting goofy with VO, thought they'd already been fixed. I'll chase that up.
@Jamie Teh @victor tsaran
in reply to Scott

victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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@jcsteh No worries! We still have the old way as a plan B! :) Cockos guys have gotten us so far already! :)
@Jamie Teh

Disability:IN Announces 2024 Inclusion Awards with Winners in 12 Categories disabilityin.org/releases/disa…

Disability:IN Announces 2024 Inclusion Awards with Winners in 12 Categories - Disability:IN

Companies can now analyze and progress their disability inclusion efforts in Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Allyce Torres (Disability:IN)

Color me surprised.

digiday.com/marketing/after-ye…


After years of uncertainty, Google says it won’t be ‘deprecating third-party cookies’ in Chrome

After much back and forth, Google has decided to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. Turns out all the fuss over the years wasn’t in vain after all; the ad industry’s cries have finally been heard.
Kayleigh Barber (Digiday)
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Hugo Awards Disqualification Statement locusmag.com/2024/07/hugo-awar…

Hugo Awards Disqualification Statement

Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for our Futures, released the following statement today: In the course of tallying the votes on the final ballot for the 2024 Hugo Awards, the Glasgow 2024 Hugo Administrat…
Locus Online

From Hadley: Reading Apps, Gadgets, and Resources: Tuesday, July 23, 2:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/73…

From Hadley: Reading Apps, Gadgets, and Resources: Tuesday, July 23, 2:00 PM Eastern Time

groups.io

From the Florida Outreach Center for the Blind: Workshop Recording Available; Learn About Computers for the Blind groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/73…

From the Florida Outreach Center for the Blind: Workshop Recording Available; Learn About Computers for the Blind

groups.io
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Scarlet Phoenix Collective
Scarlet Phoenix Collective
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They're not a bad program. I would warn folks that since the computers are donated, they might not be the latest and greatest.-t

Master these Windows 11 features to supercharge your efficiency pcworld.com/article/2403670/fo…

Master these Windows 11 features to supercharge your efficiency

How to be efficient with innovations such as virtual desktops, multitasking and clipboard history.
Martin Appel (PCWorld)

Celebrating 34 Years of the ADA and Explaining the Latest DOJ Web Accessibility Regulations! - Blind Institute of Technology blindinstituteoftechnology.org…

Celebrating 34 Years of the ADA and Explaining the Latest DOJ Web Accessibility Regulations! - Blind Institute of Technology

Join us Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at 11:30 MT for a very special webinar! We will be celebrating the 34th year since the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and exploring the latest DOJ regulations! We will be joined by Ken Nakata, form…
James Warnken (Blind Institute of Technology)

The First Doctor and Steven reunited bigfinish.com/news/v/the-first…

The First Doctor and Steven reunited  - News - Big Finish

Award-winning, full-cast original audio dramas from the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blake's 7, Class, Dark Shadows, The Avengers, Survivors, The Omega Factor, Star Cops, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Gray, Pathfinder Legends, The Prisoner, Adam Adaman…
www.bigfinish.com

Do y'all have any suggested resources for writing a resume when you're career switching?

heh

Privacy Browser Android 3.18.1 has been released.

stoutner.com/privacy-browser-a…

Privacy Browser Android 3.18.1 – Stoutner

www.stoutner.com

Wir alle so:
Foto eines bedruckten Sweatshirts, auf dem "Internet" steht. Darunter, vor einem bunten Hintergrund, surfen Kinder auf Tastaturen.

:drgn_think: Why on earth have we failes to make it easy to hook up our most sophisisticated document renderers to locally running applications, while it is trivially easy to point them at some centrally hosted application on any other computer.

No localhost isn’t the solution, why can’t the application talk to the browser without involving the network?

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Seirdy
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I think I understand, but I think a separate local web server that accesses the sockets used by any number of applications to “translate “ this protocol to HTTP is probably a better solution than teaching a browser to use this new sockets-based protocol, simple as it may be.

This sounds similar to CGI and its cousins.

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Seirdy
Seirdy
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This is because the browser still needs an HTTP stack anyways, not just for browsing but just to keep its components and extensions up to date. Either way, it’s using the network. What you’re describing is better for a basic webview than a full-fledged browser.

Cool OSPO job at UC Davis, within the library system, focused on sustainability. This could be really interesting for the right person. CLOSES THURSDAY so pull the trigger quickly if this is you.

#getfedihired #OpenJobs #opensourcejobs cc @jobs @osjobhub

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#getfedihired #opensourcejobs #OpenJobs @Open Source JobHub @Public Interest Jobs

Kinda tired out tonight, so obviously I spent it doing a bunch of art stuff and then I made a fake safety infographic as side content for my game projects, instead of actually working on those.
A safety infographic with the following text: Caution: Zone of Discontinuity. There have been reports of discontinuity or “time-damage” phenomena in this area. If you encounter any of the following: Deja-vu Event Sudden memory loss Unexpected Doppelganger Dizziness Time skipping or slipping Reality shift (you will hear the distinctive sound) Extremely strong smell of ‘pears’ Continuum Collapse Please remain calm and quietly vacate the space, then report to your nearest Mulligan Institute operative, who will handle the situation from there. Do not attempt to resolve the situation yourself. There is then an monotone image of a screaming woman with her hands to her head, and a series of blocky symbols. A final box contains the text "Stay Safe: remember the time rhyme" "If there's more, shut the door. If there's less, tidy the mess." In the background is a watermark with the text "Mulligan Institute"

youtube.com/watch?v=EGH2eJdVLY…

El futbol llanero devora las chinampas de Xochimilco:

Desde hace más de una década en cientos de chinampas ya no se siembra, se juega futbol. Ya sea porque los propios chinamperos decidieron cambiar los cultivos por balones o porque otros fueron despojados de sus tierras. Se trata de una zona declarada Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad.


El futbol llanero devora las chinampas de Xochimilco

Desde hace más de una década en cientos de chinampas ya no se siembra, se juega futbol. Ya sea porque los propios chinamperos decidieron cambiar los cultivos...
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