Kalason Oto: Singing Bus Horns in West Sumatra — aural archipelago

Sound: Kalason oto (often simply “ kalason ”) Location : Alahan Panjang, Kab. Solok, West Sumatra This post is dedicated to Pak Budahar - a real Minang musical legend who literally spread music across Sumatra, providing sweet solace to his passengers for decades. Next time you honk your horn,

By the power of grayscale!

A brief introduction into computer vision and image processing using Grayskull library.

CAD / stěhování na Letnou / Srbsko / krabice / ryby / tramvaje

červenec

- 1.7 - asi ekoprocházka po Břevnově?
- 7.7 - procházka za čápy
+ období kreslení okultních symbolů a písma v CADu
- 8.7 - čtení Veroniky, Theodory a Kamily ve Skauťáku
- 9.7 - průzkum křížové cesty (zatím tam byly jen kameny)
- 15.7 - výlet do Neratovic
- 16.7 - koncert Petra Hrušky na Kulaťáku
- 17.7 - koncert Duo Marz (pršelo)
- 19.7 - výlet s Már do Hlubočep
- 23.7 - blitzkrieg úklid zahrady
- 26.7 - výlet do Hvo na borůvky
- 27.7 - cesta z Poděbrad do Libice + Richardovo čtení v přístavu
- 29.7 - spatřena nejnovější tramvaj + výlet na Hutě
- 30.7 - místo k vyklepání snů
- 31.7 - pokračování téhož

srpen

- 2.+3.8 - stěhovala se Cizí holka
- 4.8 - výprava do Bukové pro nějakou kytku či co
- 5.8 - výprava na nové nádraží Bubny
- 12.8 - film Simona + David Woodward rabbit hole
- 13.8 - průzkum odpočívadla u Staré Hutě
- 15.8 - totální vedro - 31°C v 21:39
- 18-24.8 - Srbsko (má vlastní záznam)
+ po návratu ze Srbska jsem začal dávat dohromady Slovník méně častých slov
- 26.8 - IKEA
- 30.8 - matka si pořídila do jezírka ryby
- 31.8 - Poděbrady + záchranná mise havarovaného disku v Nbk

září

- 3.9 - návštěva Sofie či co
- 7.9 - začátek přesunu knihovny + zatmění měsíce + výroba ryb
- 11.9 - po pádu dronů v Polsku jsem si radši napsal frekvence rozhlasu na papírek
- 12.9 - generálka vystoupení v Muzeu Literatury
- 13.9 - vystoupení samotné
- 14.9 - hlídání Logeše
- 16.9 - večer slovenské poezie v Plavu + pomníček Kirka na Václaváku
- 17.9 - Filipova vernisáž ve Vzletu + náhodná kočička ve Vršovicích
- 20.9 - Poděbrady + den železnice v Nbk + DOD vozovny Hloubětín + Volca sample pack
- 21.9 - tramvajový průvod

Zaznamenány jenom nevšední dny. Ve všední dny můžete čekat práci, fotky Mňau a koťátka, procházky za čápy a oslíky a fakt hodně květin.

Zažíváme společenskou změnu, v níž vítězí totalita? - Visegradský jezdec 🏇

from https://www.visegradsky-jezdec.cz/zazivame-spolecenskou-zmenu-v-niz-vitezi-totalita/

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

30 minutes with a stranger

Broschüre aus 1931, die auf die Gefahren des elektrischen Stromes hinweist

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing

This is a list of writing and formatting conventions typical of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, with real examples taken from Wikipedia articles and drafts. Its purpose is to act as a field guide in helping detect undisclosed AI-generated content. This list is descriptive, not prescriptive; it consists of observations, not rules. Advice about formatting or language to avoid in Wikipedia articles can be found in the policies and guidelines and the Manual of Style, but does not belong on this page. In particular, this list is not a blanket ban on certain words, phrases, or punctuation; no one is taking your em-dashes away. Nor is it a claim that only LLMs use them. Not all text featuring the following indicators is AI-generated, as the large language models that power AI chatbots are trained on human writing, including the writing of Wikipedia editors. This is simply a catalog of very common patterns observed over many thousands of instances of AI-generated text, especially on Wikipedia. The patterns here are also only potential signs of a problem, not the problem itself. While many of these issues are immediately...

My attempt to win San Francisco's performative male contest

Hundreds of Gen Z men filled Alamo Square for a meme-inspired contest Friday night.

In Search Of AI Psychosis

Milan Kundera je Sally Rooney boomerů

Meta’s flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York.

Why AI Is Becoming A Religion (It’s Not Psychosis)

from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k23eHouOUzk

David Woodard, who has been featured in these pages experimentating both with ... - Log Illustrated 14: The Life and Death Issue - A publication from the Physics Room

Is David Woodard's Life His Art?

from https://www.ocweekly.com/is-david-woodards-life-his-art-6393040/

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost

A global look at teletext

from https://text-mode.org/?p=23643

Algorithmic Underground

I have been thinking about something Jean Baudrillard said a lot recently. It comes to mind because of the current moment and what is happening around generative AI. He said, "Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much."

Cursed Knowledge

As a linguist, I want to find the words to measure chronic illness

from https://thesicktimes.org/2025/08/01/as-a-linguist-i-want-to-find-the-words-to-measure-chronic-illness/

The Future is NOT Self-Hosted

In a world where corporations have detached buying from owning, one man attempts to do something radical: build his own cloud.

Age Verification Doesn’t Need to Be a Privacy Footgun

from https://soatok.blog/2025/07/31/age-verification-doesnt-need-to-be-a-privacy-footgun/

ADiveIntoOpenChat

Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic which translates as "Translation by Nancy Qunqar" · openai/whisper · Discussion #2608

If you generate complete silence in a wav file and run whisper on it, it will always hallucinate the same thing ffmpeg -f lavfi -i anullsrc=r=44100:cl=stereo -t 30 silence.wav whisper ./silence.wav...

Who is Nicolai Winther?

Who is Nicolai Winther? — and why does OpenAIs Whisper impersonate him when transcribing Norwegian? Does he exist, or is he merely a…

The Sumerian Game: The ancestor of modern city builders

FAQ: What’s a @KevlinHenney?

In the name of failure

Cats As Horror Movie Villains

10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages

The other day I read 20 most significant programming languages in history, a “preposterous table I just made up.” He certainly got preposterous right: he lists Go as “most significant” but not ALGOL, Smalltalk, or ML. He also leaves off Pascal because it’s “mostly dead”. Preposterous! That defeats the whole point of what “significant in history” means. So let’s talk about some “mostly dead” languages and why they matter so much.

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