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@PsyChuan I'm afraid I only have this in screenshot format because various [semi-]walled gardens make people do the worst things, but

A cute puppy has been spotted in Fedi! @lunazera Go follow her!

Good news story!

Switzerland said "no" to Palantir after 7 years of Palantir lobbying
Journalists FOIA'd and published this
Now other nations are looking into the extraordinary pressure and whether it might not be prudent to let a USA-aligned corp handle citizens' most private data (medical, tax, residence, assets, etc).

we must have made them very nervous, since lawmakers in Germany and UK are questioning the contracts. It is possible that authorities are hesitating to sign new contracts. So we have triggered something that they are starting this PR campaign against us (I don't remember another media company being mentioned on their blog).

All of this thread infosec.exchange/@adfichter/11 is encouraging! Now while the story is hot, it is a great time to email your local journos and ask if maybe your municipality, state/dept/province, or nation is being pressured to work with Palantir or other authoritarian-aligned corporations!

#GoodNews #news #Palantir #Switzerland

Particularly as we watch the abject failure of US media, I find it hard to believe that fewer than 8,000 Canadians want to get foreign ownership out of Canadian media.
ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet

suggestive (upskirt) 

In other news, I'm sorry I was inactive but I was a bit tangled up this christmas.
...I can't help it, the lights are so pretty 😭

(picture by StarlightNoelle, vgen.co/StarlightNoelle)

Mild observations about LLMs in workplaces 

I just realized part of why these things are being pushed to be used by managerial types. On top of the pie-in-the-sky promise of getting more work done in less time (bullshit), they are unaware of the shortcoming these things have because it takes an actual working knowledge of a subject to find the numerous flaws in their outputs a lot of the time.

And goodness knows, most management knows *nothing*

FUCK we just got an eviction notice, need to be out of here by the 12th January cause they will come in and kick us out and take our stuff then if we're not! need money NOW please!!!

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:boostRequest: :boostRequest: So I was making toast this morning, and I got to wondering how many folks here are both furries and mineral enthusiasts (shortened here to “M.E.”). There’s no strict criteria just pick what you feel describes you best.

I quit Spotify a few years ago and have been mainly using Bandcamp instead. You can make public playlists now, so here's one I made collecting some of my fave tracks and artists!

bandcamp.com/sarah_i_jackson/p

#music #playlist #bandcamp

big endian is the best endian,

I will not be taking any comments on this matter

did you know that you can just do this:

:neofox_floof:

👉 :neofox_floof:

:neofox_boop: hold for a few seconds

:neofox_floof_cute: the bluetooth device is ready to pair

@nelson I am blind. Seeing people who think I'm not worth the effort fill my timeline with AltBot generated AI stuff that isn't even accurate in lots of cases.

Human alt text is always better, because it doesn´t focus on ocular seeing. Seeing people think, and AltBot was designed around that notion, that blind people must compensate for missing "eye-seeing", but that's not the case. I am interested in the meaning of an image to you, its maker or publisher.

Again, human alt text is better, also because it strengthens reciprocity between seeing and blind people. AltBot doesn't but it makes seeing people believe they have done their bit for accessibility. In actuality, the reverse is often true.

!!!!!!!!!

My two great successes (or failures, depending, though you know me I'll take the former).

The SUPERDANA 66x outlet from 2023, now filling up search results in shit search engines everywhere (ok - and because of it, good ones too)

And the Iced Vovo with Marshmallow in multiple forms since ~1998, which has convinced more than half of my home country that they remember the days when Iced Vovos had marshmallow topping (it never did)

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