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  I just made a poolish. So no round three of ciabatta tomorrow. ​:meong_laughing2:​

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  Trying to make some of my own halftone textures for illustration purposes. Turns out doing that in Inkscape is a good way to use up all my CPU and RAM on the two computers I've tried it on so far. Might be time to fire up the workstation. Or accept that having a bunch of points on each of 2048 dots is not going to work well. ​:meong_laughing2:​

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  I grew up Evangelical Protestant and, like Moral Orel, it seems very much that in hindsight I took it more seriously than the people who were teaching it to me. I found inconsistencies between what I'd been taught and what was in the 66 book canon so I read the 66 book canon. Doing that, I found that a lot of things I'd been taught weren't true according to the scripture. I also found things about the 66 book canon that I couldn't accept as literally true. I kept searching. I bri...

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  I love (???) aspell but I don't love trying to remember how to install a dictionary the first time I get something installed. Oh, shit. Look at the time. I should eat lunch. #JBTechPost

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  Looking into some public domain stories I could read (and record) for spooky season. One early possibility is Mary Shelley's The Invisible Girl. The story is about 5.6K long. QPrompt estimates a read time of 51 minutes. I read a bit faster than it suggests. Neither here nor there, though. One of my editing tools reminds me if a sentence is longer than 40 words. Just about every paragraph of The Invisible Girl has at least one sentence that goes well over that limit. ​:meong_laughing:​ #Ma...

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  I'm a silly bean who gets confused about the date when the clock ticks over.

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  Biblical Literalism leads to some odd contortions. I look at one of them in today's short, Good God, Bad God. #Exvangelical #ShortVideo

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  #WordWeavers September 1: What is something your MC desperately wants but would never admit to wanting? I have like ... six MCs in The Novel and I can't think about anything that isn't The Novel right now. Going with who had been the titular character before I had to scrap the previous name, Allison would like to be in a romantic relationship with her roommate, Kelly. I wouldn't say she'd never admit to wanting it but she had to be backed into admitting it.

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  #ScribesAndMakers September 1: It's September. List 7 things about your creativity (accomplishments, goals, etc.) 1. I'm in spitting distance of publishing my first novel 2. My novel currently doesn't have a name because I realized the name was too similar to a Philip K. Dick short story 3. My mom really wishes I would finish writing the 3rd Vay Ideal story 4. I have 4 devices that would be considered primarily MIDI controllers 5. I currently have five guitars (2 acoustic, 1 electr...

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  #WritersCoffeeClub September 1: What are your writing goals for this month? I'd like to finish The Novel, give it a new name, make a cover, and possibly record the audiobook.

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  Adobe ad going around where you're invited to use their bespoke LLM thing to adjust existing text and one of the key options is "make it longer." As a consequence of my editing process, my novel is getting longer. Not because I need to hit a #. It's needed to add missing details or show v. tell. We're already in a situation where things are needlessly long for no reason (often instigated by LLM use), leading to people skimming things or using an LLM to summarize the overl...

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  It's nearly midnight in my timezone. I'm extremely tempted to start on my air fryer bagel video. We're not doing that. But I really want to.

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  While working on my upcoming cooking related short, I discovered a possible answer to a mystery that has plagued me for years: Did you see the dot? #DaVinciResolve #VideoEditing #ShortVideo #Technology

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  My next video masterpiece is a cooking/baking short, more than one week in the making. Second half of the video shot yesterday. Narration recorded and edited today. I'll do the editing over the next day or so. I'm curious to see how it'll go editing wise.

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  Since I'm learning DaVinci Resolve, I have youtube in a browser I'm not logged into. Filled up with DaVinci video recommendations plus guitar stuff and other random things. Kind of odd looking outside my usual "algorithm." Learned something new. There are shorts that are very soft / coy ads for their OnlyFans. Not complaining. Folks gotta do what they gotta do. Just surprising given Youtube's general prudishness.

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  #WritersCoffeeClub August 1: What are your goals for the month, writing-wise? My main goal is to finish writing The Novel (basically done). I usually do an edit pass after I've written a work. In this case, I already know I need to do a bunch of inserts and I've got a project-based todo list that's like ... 40 items long. Before I even bother trying to do an edit. So ... all of that.

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  Been meaning to talk about LLMs burning library of Alexandria by making human made work impossible to reach via slop. Unfortunately, Anthropic felt that wasn’t literal enough and have been physically destroying books too. https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/anthropic-destroyed-millions-books-train-174311566.html Because laws only apply to people, it’s legal. Anthropic’s whole gimmick was supposed to be “A.I.” with some kind of care about humanity. Seems like the people who warned us that...

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  I was talking to my roommate about this video earlier and he said "Oh, I heard that part and thought 'what a wonderful idea' and put my headphones on." Shortly after he put his headphones on, I got up to get mine for the editing process, following my own video's advice. But it was pretty funny. RE: https://hol.ogra.ph/notes/apa23qwef10i0apq

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  PSA You Shouldn’t Need: Wear Headphones #PSA #ShortVideo #WearHeadphones

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  Me and Shotcut are having a time today. I have 2 clips that need to be interspersed. Both have separate audio that needs to be merged. The simple solution would be to let me replace the audio track in the video. No go. Official solution is to export the joined video. Which is cumulatively bad. I'm trying it anyway but, for whatever reason, it's only getting like a half second of video before pausing the video stream and providing only audio. Rendering that "solution" worthles...

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  Video essayist: So, how I started was I fed everything into Claude — Me: Whoops. My finger slipped on the close button.

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  Takes a lot of gall to let your site falsely claim I'm using an ad blocker, demand I either turn it off or pay you, and then refuse to let me close it without bypassing a "sorry to see you go, won't you reconsider and also subscribe, and let us send you notifications?" screen.

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  The concept of original sin has injustice at its heart. Hear my argument for why in Cats in the Garden of Eden https://youtube.com/shorts/N7o_Wqg8-8U

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  STP is out here running ads where a woman is like "Thankfully, I partner with STP" because she (the character) uses STP. So, from now on, you are allowed to say "I partner with" with relation to any product you use. I partner with filtered tap water. Yes, it's a very big get for me.

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  I had an unusual upbringing so there's a lot of things that I haven't experienced or experienced on a very different timeline to folks my same age. I think the first book I bought without any supervision was 1984 and the second was The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. I was also at the beginning of my lowercase libertarian phase. I probably should have been able to get past the silliness of U.S. style libertarianism off of just the premise that people should have to pay to breath air. Today, I...

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  Gender affirming shapewear for cis men. I’m not making a joke. There’s so much about our world that cis people take for granted for themselves but, once it’s for trans people, becomes a special and unwarranted thing. Compression tanks hide the natural contours of your god given moobs, my dude. Hair thinning up top? Fate must have a reason, pal. Doesn’t feel so great when a small segment of the population is making the choice for you, does it? Don’t do it to others. Don’t allow it to be done...

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  Clean water and clean fossils fuels aren’t the same thing https://youtube.com/shorts/v8SOGeZl6nE?is=-2DpNC315fgGeQSt #ShortVideo #PSA #USPolitics #environmentalism #FossilFuels

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  Regarding the last boost, every single paper I turned in during my first attempt at a college career was over the high end of the requested range. Even ignoring the college structure of thesis + tell you what I'm going to tell you + tell you the thing I told you I would with more details and support + summarize what I just told you + closing remarks ... it takes words to do the job properly. Granted that structure is annoying and repetitive but still.

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  Waiting on bread to rise while I work on the last chapters of The Novel. (Air fryers make baked goods less problematic in the summer.)

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  Doing the actual cover is going to take awhile. It usually takes me about 20+ hours to make a final cover. I'm currently doing a bit of blurb work. I may tease the upcoming book with those but it's a little early for that since I haven't finished draft one yet.