Local moth fairy loves lämp, more at 11 @elfi@pixie.town

" #AI is not magic. LLMs are not sentient beings, and they won’t become sentient. And the problems with these technologies aren’t abstractions — they’re here now and we need to take them seriously today.

"'People’s lives are at stake, but not because of some super intelligent system,' [researcher Joy] Buolamwini says, 'but because of an overreliance on technical systems. I want people to understand that the harms are real, and that they’re present.'"

- Lorena O'Neil, These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/ (discussion of #racism, #misogynoir and other systemic harms at link)

Please meet my gamer moth

She's very, very young but already has opinions on LED colors and GPU brands

cringetober 5: ms paint

I have fondest memories of the version of MS Paint bundled with windows 3.1 up to 98.

i used a web-app to emulate a familiar experience.

https://mspaint.humanhead.com/

anyway here's a chocobo that's lost in the woods

#tsunderdogArt #cringetober

It's amusing how, after each Masto update, my feed turns into a chorus of "suck it, website boy!" as admins sort out how to override and undo this version's nasty UX surprises and questionable choices.

Anyway if you think the "danger, Will Robinson" styling of CWs in the new Masto skin is as dismissive as it is infantilising - or it's just not for your site - drop the css in reply into your custom css and be

wuvoo, kiss kiss

Bookshop.org is offering free shipping today and tomorrow, as Anti-Prime Day! Support independent bookstores and stick it to Bezos:

https://bookshop.org/

Ohhh the little animations for the Boost and Star is very nice! I normally cringe at change, but so far I'm liking all of this! May eat the words in a bit who knows!