Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town

"Meta’s misstep—and its hubris—show once again that Big Tech has a blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models. There is a large body of research that highlights the flaws of this technology, including its tendencies to reproduce prejudice and assert falsehoods as facts."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/18/1063487/meta-large-language-model-ai-only-survived-three-days-gpt-3-science/

I've updated our little list of queer and kink-friendly instances with a few new ones. Let me know if you'd like your instance added to the list! #admin https://blog.woof.group/docs/see-also

@zens *thirty years later*

26: our makeshift photolithography table can now etch up to three photovoltaic modules and one FPGA per ounce of crushed sea glass, now that our vegan photoresist recipe has been adapted to use with saltwater. Soon we won't have to barter with the atoll's magistrate anymore for e-waste

Does anyone remember the end of The Truman Show? Where he finally leaves the set and everyone's left staring at blank TVs and wondering what to do with their lives?

No reason.

I like myself much better since I quit Twitter. And, yes, I understand that many marginalized people found community there, but it's like making a home in a sewer. The people you live with may be wonderful, but your enironment is poisonous. The thing about Mastodon is that, unlike a big corporation, it's what the users make it. Come here and make a racket until the problems here are fixed. Is there toxicity here? Yes, but at least the toxicity isn't built into the software, as it is on Twitter.

#FediTips for new arrivals: Now is a great time to review who you're following, especially anyone whom you used to follow back on the birdsite, and decide whether you _still_ feel like following them.

Seriously, how do you _feel_ about each account that you're following? Check in with your gut. It may be time to let go of that account you hate- or dread-follow, not to mention the accounts you only follow out of inertia or guilt.

Now's the perfect time to clear house and make room on your feed for constructive voices, marginalized voices, future voices, and your friends' voices. Do what the algorithm couldn't and make your feed your own. Heck yeah!

it's entirely possible that the ex twitter employee mastodon instance now does in fact have more active users than twitter has employees left

This is a topic again, and it should be, but some of our newer neighbors aren’t aware of all the dynamics involved.

the primary developer of the mastodon software has a patreon. it generates tens of thousands of dollars monthly for him and supports his two enormous poorly moderated servers and development of mainline mastodon.

there are thousands of other servers and dozens of other projects that make the fediverse the fediverse.

your support there would be far more meaningful and effective than Eugen’s patreon.

it’s the difference between donating to a multi-national charity that pays execs big bucks from your donation and donating to the group of folks watching out for our unhoused neighbors in our local communities.

please look around this place and see where the hard work is being done and toss your support there.

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From a partner's CBT and ADHD workbook:

"Regarding the long-range management of ADHD, it is important to point out that the relapse rate for ADHD is 100%. "

What in the neurotypical ableist nonsense framing is this?!?

Don’t look for heroes.

Look for people who build community by making space for people to care for each other and raise one another up.

TRAINBOW!

Finally decided to give Mastodon a go. Here are some samples of my work and where to find me!

#introduction #pixelart

you're reading that right - fun levels are at 100%

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Little PSA:

A huge chunk of the fediverse came here because they were harassed, literally and aggressively, off birdsite. Understandably, they don't want to be inundated with reminders of the things they went through there.

I know it's big news right now, but please, if you're talking about that place, consider using a content warning <3

Thank you.

To be honest and maybe I forgot but since I started to use the Internet/Fidonet around 1988, I never seen a migration so big from a CORPORATE service to a community decentralized service in so many numbers, I seen the opossite but never from evil to good, tends to be from good to evil (centralized, closed source Internet) so I guess now I seen it all this gives me some hope all the new people will learn about other things also ethical in the fediverse, like #Matrix and #PixelFed even #Gemini

Het is allemaal decentraal, dus doe je donaties ook decentraal: steun eerst je instance met donaties (als je het kunt missen, en de admins om donaties vragen), en als je dan nog geld overhebt, dán is het interessant om "Mastodon" (de Duitse nonprofit) ook geld te geven.