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Dr H

More junk, a painting of a junk.

Dollshouse scale painting based on a photo I found online.
Plus a little stand I knocked up from cast sprue offcuts.

Enamel paint on polyurethane.
50 x 40mm.

A miniature painting of a Junk on the water near some islands.
Rear of the miniature painting showing the stand.
#Art#Landscape#Painting
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Douglas E. Welch

In a chronically online world, people are finding respite in ‘junk journaling’ [Shared]

CNN — Danielle Catton is the kind of person who hangs onto old birthday cards, boarding passes and business cards — ephemera that feels wrong to toss but doesn’t have a particular use.
These pieces of her everyday life sat accumulating in a large plastic bin until recently, when she came across a YouTuber who introduced her to the practice of junk journaling.

Junk journaling calls for taking those bits and bobs and sticking them onto a notebook page. A freeform hybrid of collage, scrapbooking and traditional journaling, the creative hobby is having a moment right now. Google searches for “junk journaling” spiked in late December and early January, and countless creators across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube have been documenting their junk journal processes and sharing tips with followers.

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/02/09

#junk#journal#journaling
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C.

Spoiler-free #movie #review...

Jules (2023) - a #SciFi/#comedy starring Ben Kingsley, Harriet Sansom Harris, and Jane Curtin.

This is a cute and #quirky take on the classic #alien-contact story. Ben Kingsley is a retired gentleman in a small midwest town, and an unlikely target for first contact with an alien species. It's warm, it's funny, it has a bit of the air of Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), and it doesn't go in the completely obvious directions that you expect it to.

It's another movie for #adults, with interesting characters, great performances, and very few #pixels.

Highly #recommended.

#film #CGIFestival #CGIFest #junk #crap #FilmsForAdults #MoviesForAdults

Aside: these mini #MovieReview toots seem to be appreciated. Given how difficult it is to find good movies for adults - things where story, people, relationships are the core, rather than Yet Another Horrible #Disney/#Marvel #CGI #Festival - and how little promotion #Hollywood gives such movies, I think I'll keep sharing these. And maybe start searching the #fediverse for others' takes on the same sorts of searches.

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Alexander Janßen

It's almost the Holiday season again and everywhere I'm seeing test reports about #Bluetooth #headphones.

I've burned through at least four pairs just to go back to a wired model and a USB-C->3.5 mm adapter.

They spontaneously broke across vendors; Bose, Sennheiser, cheap Amazon Basic; so I'm sitting on a small pile of plastic and electronic #junk which isn't even worth disassembling for salvaging components.

Can't we just agree that mobile phones shall have 3.5 mm connectors again?

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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Sorted this pile of junk in the attic. Looking to see if there's something I can build a bed from, since we're going to need one.

Surprise, not junk at all, it was mostly really nice planed beechwood. Or at least I think it's beech. A little worse for wear from being stored like that, some glue on the edges, lots of dust and cobwebs, but far from junk.

A few are even long enough for a bed project. Will have to do some sketching.

A pile of dimensional lumber in a dimly lit barn attic. It's a mess, there's some painted pieces, some with bark on, everything is dusty and full of spiders.
Most of the same wood, now sorted by width, length and stacked neatly on some spacers. Some of it has water stains, some is warped, but most is in relatively good shape.
#Wood#Timber#Lumber
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Chuck Darwin

Egregious examples of #artificial #intelligence that have recently made their way into #scientific #journals, shine a light on the wave of 💥AI-generated text and images washing over the academic publishing industry.💥

Several experts who track down problems in studies told AFP that the rise of AI has turbocharged the existing problems in the multi-billion-dollar sector.

All the experts emphasized that AI programs such as ChatGPT can be a helpful tool for writing or translating papers—if thoroughly checked and disclosed.

But that was not the case for recent cases that somehow snuck past peer review, such as:
🔹An infographic of a rat with a preposterously large penis.
🔹Another showing human legs with way too many bones.
🔹An introduction that starts: "Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic".

It is not always so easy to spot the use of AI.
-- But one clue is that ChatGPT tends to favor certain words.

Andrew Gray, a librarian at University College London, trawled through millions of papers searching for the overuse of words such as #meticulous, #intricate or #commendable.

He determined that at least
💥60,000 papers involved the use of AI in 2023
—over one percent of the annual total.

"For 2024 we are going to see very significantly increased numbers," Gray told AFP.

Meanwhile, more than
⭐️13,000 papers were #retracted last year, by far the most in history, according to the US-based group Retraction Watch.

AI has allowed the bad actors in scientific publishing and academia to "industrialize the overflow" of "#junk" papers, Retraction Watch co-founder Ivan Oransky told AFP.

Such bad actors include what are known as #paper #mills.

These "scammers"
♦️sell authorship to researchers, pumping out vast amounts of very poor quality, plagiarized or fake papers, said Elisabeth Bik, a Dutch researcher who detects scientific image manipulation.

Two percent of all studies are thought to be published by paper mills,
but the rate is "exploding" as AI opens the floodgates, Bik told AFP.

This problem was highlighted when academic publishing giant Wiley purchased troubled publisher Hindawi in 2021.

Since then, the US firm has retracted more than 11,300 papers related to special issues of Hindawi, a Wiley spokesperson told AFP.

Wiley has now introduced a "paper mill detection service" to detect AI misuse—which itself is powered by AI.

phys.org/news/2024-08-junk-ai-

phys.orgFlood of 'junk': How AI is changing scientific publishingAn infographic of a rat with a preposterously large penis. Another showing human legs with way too many bones. An introduction that starts: "Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic".
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