#ElonMusk just pulled the rug out from under America’s feet. #twitter
this is my take on how #elonmusk changed the world in less than 30 days.
if you weren’t paying attention, you might have missed it.
btw this is just my opinion, because i am not a robot and have control over my own thoughts.
and i do love free speech, but you do you.
what else is being withheld?
#elon #musk #twitter #power #ultimatepower #celestial #colonizemars #occupymars #streetleaks #teslatruck #starlink #spacex #tesla #neuralink #automation
How #ElonMusk changed the world in 30 days.
this is my take on how #elonmusk changed the world in less than 30 days.
if you weren’t paying attention, you might have missed it.
btw this is just my opinion, because i am not a robot and have control over my own thoughts.
and i do love free speech, but you do you.
what else is being withheld?
#elon #musk #twitter #power #ultimatepower #celestial #colonizemars #occupymars #streetleaks #teslatruck #starlink #spacex #tesla #neuralink #automation
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Lily’s (almost age 8) Digital #Art Created on #shuffles by @Pinterest
Hello, I’m a parent from the future. This is art was made by my (almost) 8 year old daughter Lily.
I have worked in the digital marketing sphere since 2002 and have always seen this #future of connectedness.
Lily doesn’t spend much time playing online games or watching something on a tablet.
It’s not because she is not allowed, but because she chooses to do something creative with traditional art, or burn off some extra energy.
Lily learned to annunciate her words because i taught her how to use Alexa.
I remember her melting down, historically saying that #Alexa was just not listening to her.
After explaining to a 4 year old that she will
always have a robot assistant and it needs her to speak clearly to learn, she figured it out.
Since then, Alexa has been reading Lily stories when the parents had enough.
While I can’t know for certain if i have Amazon / #Audible / #DNA to thank, she is super intuitive and oddly knowledgeable for a kid.
#RIPAlexa
This #digitalart was made by Lily using the @Pinterest creator app #Shuffles.
After a few tutorials lead by me, she just started figuring things out in less than a week.
I see at least 4 jobs eliminated in the scenes of her #artwork.
What do you see?
#parentingtips #parenting #artwork #digitalart #creator #automation #futureparenting #presentinthemoment #connectedness
#HurricaneIan from #Sarasota County 09/28/2022 | Recording Length: 1:09:21 | 10x Speed
This video was recorded before Hurricane Ian officially made landfall on September 28, 2022.
The full length video is 1 hour and 9 minutes long, but this version is sped up 10x, being mindful of average attention.
Location: East Sarasota County
Max Wind Speed: 100mph
Finished Recording: 2:40pm EST
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I'm @brolop and I make stuff on the internet and #IRL. Some people say I am entertaining. I say this is just a tasty sampling of my unconscious brain. Eat it up. It's #delicious.
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Hurricane Ian @ 6:04pm EST in East #Sarasota during #HurricaneIan
This is a #Hurricane Ian video from Sarasota County, Florida approximately 8 miles from the shoreline.
My 2019 house is #storm rated for a #Category6 hurricane with steel hurricane shutters, roofing tie downs with galvanized plywood clips, and the houses are elevated to allow #flood waters to properly drain.
Some damages to the home, but all people and pets are safe.
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I'm @brolop and I make stuff on the internet and #IRL. Some people say I am entertaining. I say this is just a tasty sampling of my unconscious brain. Eat it up. It's #delicious.
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My blenderbot chat to help teach the AI #Blenderbot3 by Meta
I knew that Meta was toying around with AI tools for it's Messenger platform, so I decided to initiate the blenderbot chat to help educate the AI.
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00:10 - [ persona identification ]
01:27 - [ blenderbot chat initiation ]
02:01 - [ asking blenderbot3 about negative consequences of AI chat ]
02:22 - [ questioning how it will handle mistakes in judgment ]
02:47 - [ asking who measures improvement ]
04:17 - [ asking about the change in grammar to mirror mine ]
05:02 - [ asking the blenderbot about its intention ]
05:31 - [ asking who it would choose to talk to someone famous ]
05:47 - [ asked about facial recognition technology for #ElonMusk ]
06:33 - [ asked a deeper question that it couldn't handle ]
06:33 - [ asked a deeper question that it couldn't handle ]
07:01 - [ asked how it is programmed to handle mental health conversations]
07:31 - [ asked how quickly it learns from mistakes ]
08:39 - [ made it question its own reality and existence ]
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The AI Blenderbot chatbot from Meta adapted quickly to the way that I was typing, but it had a real tough time answering questions about how it measures it's own performance. It was indeed designed as a conversational AI chatbot, but it's unclear how much data it will need before it gets goes to market.
If we are supposed to trust #Meta with more of our data, then I think it's fair to know if the facebook meta blenderbot is reviewed by humans or does it self evaluate?
It's been proven that #Instagram by Meta has had detrimental effects on teenage girls and society as a whole. Read this study for actual data and further citations: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451958821000695
The original blenderbot chat took about 20 minutes, but I sped it up for your attention's sake.
thanks to #producthunt for hunting Blenderbot 3. It definitely has a lot of learning to do before being released into the wild.
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I'm @brolop and I make stuff on the internet and #IRL. Some people say I am entertaining. I say this is just a tasty sampling of my unconscious brain. Eat it up. It's #delicious.
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How to Cut a Watermelon and Remove All the Seeds
Why slice a watermelon and remove all the seeds this way? Mainly, I'm bored and always looking for a faster, more efficient way to do anything, but this may not be the best way how to cut a watermelon.
It doesn't always work the way I expect, but at least I tried and put it on the internet. That's worth something.
How to cut Watermelon with seeds: tips and tricks
What's the best way to cut a watermelon?
00:22 - Step 1: Cut the ends off of the watermelon.
Cutting off the top of a seeded watermelon is the best way to get started, so it doesn't roll away from you.
01:20 - Step 2: Remove the Rind
Slice off the top of the watermelon and follow the curve of the melon, cutting away one section of the rind. It's important that you remove all the white rind without cutting off too much of the sweet, juicy red flesh of the watermelons.
03:20 - Step 3: Carve out and Scrape away the Seeds
Cut the watermelon down the middle, the long ways to easily access all of the seeds. Removing every seed from the inside of the fruit can be quite laborious with a knife and spoon, so you can see I took a shortcut.
03:45 - Step 4: Give the watermelon a super water cleanse.
By giving the seeded area of the watermelon a good basic scraping with a spoon and knife, the pulpy mush will be ready to pour out.
Run half the watermelon under the water in the sink and give it a blast. The seeds will just pour out and head into the colander or drain.
05:37 - Step 5: Cut and enjoy!
Now that you've learned brolop's way how to cut a watermelon and remove all the seeds, try this method with any large fruit with seeds in the middle, but not with jackfruit, trust me.
Why eat watermelon?
Not only is it a fun summer fruit, but it's good for ya!
Watermelon helps to prevent cancer, improves heart health, can lower inflammation, may help with eyes, can also relieve muscle soreness, it's good for your skin and hair, helps with digestion, adds extra potassium, and overall is packed full of hydrating deliciousness.
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I'm @brolop and I make stuff on the internet and #IRL. Some people say I am entertaining. I say this is just a tasty sampling of my unconscious brain. Eat it up. It's #delicious
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Serpentine Ecommerce Fulfillment Adventures in Florida
The inability to let go of control in any one of my businesses drove me to own the entire paraphernalia supply chain; all the way from importing the products, to adding each item to inventory, to managing the entire ecommerce fulfillment directly to the customer/
My train of thought was that ecommerce fulfillment was going to be challenging, because the paraphernalia business was restrictive.
The recipe to survive called for knowing the price of each one of my items, the cost of selling that item using fulfillment software and technology, figuring out the cheapest cost of packing material, and only then I could calculate break-even.
I started with a simple spreadsheet that had every field value that existed in Shopify's product catalog and began cataloging and warehousing items that were never standardized for its industry. Now this spreadsheet is like a living, breathing brain, packed with marketing #automations.
Once I had the top selling items with the exact cost of goods sold, the plan was to use 3rd party fulfillment to sell the inventory that made sense from a margin standpoint.
I have been doing this for over 10 years now, and it has proven to be an excellent business model, because of the data. It is not perfect, but it works well enough for me to keep my finger on the pulse of that industry.
One of the most interesting parts of ecommerce fulfillment is the creatures that we see here in Sarasota. This racer snake encounter is the 4th #snake that has visited our warehouse, but it's not uncommon to see lizards, bugs, rats, mice, and plenty of other creepy crawlers from the pond behind the parking lot.
I'm @brolop and I make stuff on the internet and #IRL. Some people say I am entertaining. I say this is just a tasty sampling of my unconscious brain. Eat it up. It's #delicious.
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The Vulture is Sarasota's Dirtiest and Most Obnoxious Bird.
While there are 130 different species of birds that live near me in #Sarasota, the vulture is by far the nastiest and most brazen of all birds.
These dirty birds will literally eat anything that they don't have to kill on their own, which makes #roadkill the ideal breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert for the vulture.
It doesn't matter if you are in a jacked up Ford F-150, on an electric scooter, or on foot, the vulture won't move if it thinks you are after it's mashed street meal.
Another thing to note about this dirty, soul snatching bird is that it typically doesn't travel alone. That's right, the vultures are usually flying at least 4-6 deep and fighting over the carcass.
Want some fun facts of vultures? Not every culture thinks they are disgusting.
Fact #1: Egyptian Beliefs of the Vulture
Ancient Egyptians believed that all vultures were female and were spontaneously born from eggs without the intervention of a male, and therefore linked the birds to purity and motherhood, but also the eternal cycle of death and rebirth for their ability to transform the “death” they feed on into life.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Fact #2: Mesoamerican Beliefs of the Vulture
In Pre-Columbian times, vultures were appreciated as extraordinary beings and they had high iconographic status. Vultures appear in many Mesoamerican myths, legends, and fables, with many separate civilizations such as the Mayan and Aztec developing a range of stories around vultures. Many Mesoamerican stories depict vultures negatively, while others contain more positive attitudes.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Fact 3: What is the Definition of a Dulture?
Any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion
Source: merriam-webster.com
Conclusion: Stay away ya dirty bird.
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No coincidence here; manifesting synchronicities or just a glitch?
It could be a major coincidence, but come on bro. We’re approaching a new age of shifting #consciousness and legit, you can #manifest anything with the right mindset. I see synchronicities all day, but this symbol at #Aquatica was a surprise.
Metadata on the images will back the claim, plus there were witnesses. We built birdhouses last week that looked like that building, and I sketched the roof design on the drive up to Orlando.
Synchronistic events like this tell me I need to pay attention to something a little closer, and in this case it's preparing my daughter 2nd grade (mentally).
Trying to wrap your head around synchronicities explained and spiritual meaning of synchronicity?
Synchronicity indicates that two events occur at the same time. For example, when you see an object fall out of the sky, you might think that this was caused by a meteorite strike. However, if you look up and notice another falling object, you may realize that they were both caused by the same event – a meteorite strike.
Another example would be when you hear a song playing on the radio while driving down the road. It could mean that someone is listening to the same song, but it could also mean that you heard the song first and then saw the car pass by.
#synchronicity #simulation #aquatica
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The Gator and Turtle Zone @ Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center
part of the resort experience at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in #Kissimmee allowed us to get up close and personal with some baby alligators, turtles, and even watch a feeding, put on by @WILD FLORIDA 🐊
the @Marriott Bonvoy associated #gaylordpalms is perfect for orlando visitors with kids with a ton of different activities to do on property.
from my perspective, it allowed us to slow down and not feel so rushed, which was perfect for a little #staycation in #Florida.
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Inside is Outside at the Gaylord Palms. Elevated with an Atrium View.
Ignore the awkward silence and indiscriminate staring in the elevator, by staring directly into the Atrium of the Gaylord Palms in Orlando.
This is just a little short ride down the elevator at the #GaylordPalms in Kissimmee, FL.
Overall, this Marriott affiliated property was beautiful with plenty to do with the kids, including a decent little #waterpark.
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