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Is there a browser(s) specifically for use in a media center. Ie it does not use system specific UI elements, supports controllers/remotes, has tabs and bookmarks that have ux specifically for this, etc.?

To celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility, Blahaj.zone has commissioned brand new Blobhaj emoji from the amazing @heatherhorns@plush.city!

Our little blobby friends are waving a brand new style of pride flag.

As well as several pride flags to celebrate our wonderful gender diverse community, there are many more pride flags available in the new style!

They have been released under a creative commons license, and if you would like to use them on your own instance, you can grab them from
Heatherhorn's emoji page!

:Blobhaj_Flag_Transgender: :Blobhaj_Flag_Nonbinary: :Blobhaj_Flag_Transmasc: :Blobhaj_Flag_Transfemme: :Blobhaj_Flag_Genderfluid: :Blobhaj_Flag_Progress_Intersex_Right: :Blobhaj_Flag_Intersex: :Blobhaj_Flag_Autism: :Blobhaj_Flag_Ace: :Blobhaj_Flag_BLM: :Blobhaj_Flag_BLM_Small: :Blobhaj_Flag_Gay: :Blobhaj_Flag_PolyPi: :Blobhaj_Flag_Lesbian: :Blobhaj_Flag_Bisexual: :Blobhaj_Flag_Aromantic: :Blobhaj_Flag_Pansexual: :Blobhaj_Flag_Demisexual: :Blobhaj_Flag_Polysexual: :Blobhaj_Flag_Polytricolor: :Blobhaj_Flag_Straight_Ally:

anti-misanthropy, venting 

if people truly were irredeemably shit, their hearts devoid of compassion and kindness,

do you really think those "donate to these abused kids/animals/etc.." commercials would ever go on air?

it's not the people. it's the systems, and the few who control them.

as a left handed person: fuck all fare gates

You know the saying about how a specialist doesn't get paid for putting an X somewhere, but for being the one to know *where* to put the X, with all the learning that that entails?

It works the same way for responsibility. "They can't be held responsible because someone else could have built the same harmful thing" is a bad excuse - because it's not about building the thing, it's about being the one to use your expertise for it.

I'm not sure who needs to hear this but you don't owe anyone on the internet your real name or a profile image that's a real photo of you.

This post is brought to you by the feeling of laying down in a bed with fresh sheets after you've showered

I hate how non-uniform android volume levels are. It goes straight from "I'm kinda having trouble hearing this" to "that's way too loud actually" in one step.

There should be a setting to let us choose how many volume levels there are. I'd probably double it.

The most important personal principle you have to decide for your life is whether you are pro-authoritarian, pro-oppression, or instead are anti-authoritarian, anti-oppression.
Once you have decided on that core principle, everything else will follow, as long as you actually do follow that principle.

drugs, important US PSA 

This medicine reverses opioid overdoses. FDA has now approved for OTC. If you think you might need to treat an overdose--yours or a friend's--keep some of this around.

abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStor

health- 

So... I have significant kidney failure. Potentially end-stage, but this is not clear yet. Should hear more on Wednesday.

Okay, so that AI letter signed by lots of AI researchers calling for a "Pause [on] Giant AI Experiments"? It's just dripping with AI hype. Here's a quick rundown.

First, for context, note that URL? The Future of Life Institute is a longtermist operation. You know, the people who are focused on maximizing the happiness of billions of future beings who live in computer simulations.

futureoflife.org/open-letter/p

#AIhype

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"ai" 

The risk to large language models isn't that they'll become sentient in ways that are inconvenient to capitalists, it's that capitalists continue to use LLMs without considering how they've been trained, what biases and hatreds they launder, what the climate impacts of their use are, or how to fairly compensate people who create the stuff that they're trained on.

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