Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Here have some pretties

I was gonna do four to fill the image upload slots but I'm too eepy is bed time zzzz

#fractal

CC0, do whatever you want with 'em

@crablab Honestly, we need to stop referring to this stuff as AI. It's not AI, it's Predictive Modeling. We should call out the folks who are mislabeling it, because it gives a false impression. People are wowed at the thought of AI. Zeitgeist tells them that the computer can think. Calling it PredMod is awkward, but it takes away that assumption. #newPetPeeve

Once again, a reminder for those of you who scream about "e-begging":

None of us want to constantly solicit for funds, and in a society that actually cared enough for people to pay them livable wages if they work or provide enough to meet their needs if they can't work due to disability or age, there would be no need for #MutualAid.

This society, however, sometimes leaves us no other choice when all other avenues are closed off.

You don't have to like it or even donate, but respect it.

To be clear, this thread is not designed to discourage people from donating from their favorite Fediverse mutual.

If it makes you feel good to donate to someone who asks for it, if you're only doing it because you like this person and it is sort of functioning as a tip, or even if you're "consuming their marginalization", that's okay. These are all very human things in the process of how we choose to distribute resources

My issue is that you can't police people asking because whatever reasons you give are going to open up a can of worms that you're not ready for, and are going to be based in discriminatory prejudices on your part.

If you don't like a begpost, it's nothing to scroll past it. Though you should boost and/or donate 💜🖤

[opens oven to check on bagel]
almost there
[forgets them for another 10 minutes]

Okay so #CupOfTeaSocial, being on their bullshit, have argued that they're creating their rules because of the threat of "scammers" and people "abusing" begposts.

#hachyderm is also on some bullshit but I don't know what argument they're making if any so 🤷‍♀️

People have argued that scams are rare or even nonexistent and that they really shouldn't matter in the grand scheme of things. I agree with that, but let's try another argument out.

Let's say that there are "scammers" and there's a significant amount of them.

What then?

(Con't)

Dear #fediverse, please tag me when you come across #meowlogisms (i.e. cat-inspired wordplay) in any language, like the well-known purrfect or caturday.

I collect these words - for science (#linguistics). Thank you 🐈

@linguistics #DigitalHumanities #FurensicLinguistics

people who turn their noses up at asking-for-financial-help posts are the same people who don't give change to homeless folks cuz 'you don't know what they're going to spend it on'

in dragon language, humans are called "ositadagonrun" because that's the noise they're most frequently observed making

(this varies from region to region; humans with different plumage seem to have different sets of calls.)

gazing into my crystal ball to determine which characters the website considers “special” and acceptable for purposes of the password

Reminder that you're a piece of fucking shit if you continue to ban people asking for financial help, you fucking suck.

I probably would not be alive today if it wasn't for strangers helping me out every single fucking month and every single fucking year, so fuck you

just once i'd like to see people regard charity organizations

many of whom only actually use like 5% of the donations they receive for actual charity

with the same suspicion they do mutual aid posts

linux from scratch, the linux distro configured in the scratch programming language