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Stable diffusion even learns water marks! theverge.com/2023/2/6/23587393…

TIL: #algospeak is a language that evolves on social media which is sparked by people trying to circumvent/exploit algorithms on the web. taz.de/Algospeak-auf-TikTok-un…

German Public Broadcasting Service ZDF is considering investing in a non commercial alternative to e.g. Twitter . While I don't trust them to succeed with it, I'm curious to see what discussions this will spark. netzpolitik.org/2023/neues-aus…

Hah, bard provided wrong information even in the launch ad, and it never occurred to anyone at Google to double check the results. Which of course is the future we're all headed to. twitter.com/IsabelNAngelo/stat…

I keep coming back to TickTick for Todos, even though I like Things3 a lot. TickTick moves and evolves constantly, and Things3 is basically the same as it was years ago.

What the hell is this

@timapple the main recipients of the German church tax (which this article is about) are the German Catholic Church and the federation of Protestant churches.

The guy who once was supposed to be Germany's top nazi hunter moved so far to the right that his own party asked him to leave. He won't. tagesschau.de/inland/innenpoli…

Some serious Sherlock Holmes skills were needed to find that out. deutschlandfunk.de/generalbund…

The fact that we're still paying for the church even if we're not members (and mainly the Christian church) is something that has been bugging me for years. Good that the government considers abolishing this practice. tagesschau.de/regional/nordrhe…

How long to shower at the South Pole with a quota of 4 min per week. brr.fyi/posts/showering-at-the…

Risky Endeavour by Google. The Minute their AI provides wrong results, their reputation will go down the drain. cnbc.com/2023/01/31/google-tes…

🌞 Got back some Zzzs

Online ads are a real nuisance these days. They've always been, but I feel it's getting worse.

🎮 Playing sim city on a super famicom

🛠️ Off to help someone move

Wat. We're back to dumping poison into the ocean again? What year is it? tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/…

🫣 Slightly hungover.

What an intense and haunting song, and an equally intense video. youtu.be/s_nc1IVoMxc

Bookmark this for whenever you need to create a super legit link: github.com/defaultnamehere/ver…

Things I rather didn't know: bda.org/museum/collections/tee…

I never noticed, but the German 80s star Herbert Grönemeyer already did a song about Toxic Masculinity in 1984! Seems like he was woke before 'woke' was even a concept. youtube.com/watch?v=UnHRR_AFm1…

😴 Not enough sleep last night

😱 Overwhelmed with work atm

The US of A are more often than not a strange dystopia. Newest idea: Inmate can get a shorter sentence if they donate organs: theguardian.com/us-news/2023/f… .