Mark Goody @marramgrass@nitech.online

Imagine you’re a divorced mother working as a spa masseuse in Kuala Lumpur.

One day, a guy asks you whether you’d like to earn some money by doing harmless prank videos for social media. Sure, you think, why not.

For the pranks, you approach strangers in hotels or airports, kissing them on the cheek or covering their eyes from behind (sometimes with baby oil or lotion on your hands, because that will surprise the prank victims even more, says your client), then apologize and run away.

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Last month I had 24257 streams. I gained £82.57. Streaming is killing the industry and the ability to monetise. If 8 folk bought a digital download of my album, or any of the singles, I’d have made the same amount. Today is Bandcamp Friday. ♥️ https://bit.ly/3LIVFOO

I’m so thankful that my music muscles never atrophied like the people who frequently say things like “Music was better when I was young”.

There is so much great new music.

# #Music #NewMusic #NewMusicFriday

I am 50. I use print("Here 1") as my debugger many times, and I am not ashamed.

In the bitterest of ironies, the Tories appear to be being publicly owned.

UK thought for today courtesy of Private Eye.

I appreciate that this is going to upset some people, and I thought I was too shy to say it, but I prefer #BlueSky over #Mastodon:

Here's why:

https://neilzone.co.uk/bluesky_over_mastodon.html

@marramgrass And, of all the router/firewall manufacturers in the world. Who do you think makes one that understands, and I hope honours, #PTerry?

Do boost

AI is racist.
AI cannot look into human issues.
Process "asylum" by accepting all the applications.
Hackathons are just a way for people to avoid investing into long term product development.

Programmers, product people, everyone. We do not join this

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/29/government-hackathon-to-search-for-ways-to-use-ai-to-cut-asylum-backlog

How can you find out how heavy a chilli pepper is?

Give it a weigh, give it a weigh, give it a weigh now.

"ELITE"

In all seriousness, the only thing I associated with this word for most of my teens was that space-trading computer game with those glorious line graphics.

I know I am supposed to take the arguments of those opposed to the "elite" seriously, but I can only think of docking my space ship to sell narcotics.

A long time ago I created a thing on Twitter. The idea was you could rate anything - anything at all - by tweeting a score (like 7/10), the name of whatever you were rating, and the hashtag #moot (for Marks Out Of Ten). My site would gather all these tweets and make them full-text searchable, aggregating all the individual found scores into a single mark out of ten.

Here's an example for 'tayto': https://www.hashmoot.com/search?q=tayto

@fedidevs