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

If your cyberpunk story includes people who do aesthetic only cyber body mods, but don't add at least one person with some sort of robo-animal ears/tail you are a fucking coward!

I wonder what the cumulative psychological effect is of subjecting people to thousands of ads every day that do nothing but remind them of their every ache, pain, and unsatisfied craving. Prolly not great, if I'm taking a guess.

Mild take: right wing media is emotional comfort food for those who have been battered and abused by their own culture to the point where they are only comfortable when they are afraid.

If you're an instance admin, would you be happy to opt in to a 'list of trusted instances for people new to fedi who need a safe instance' that asks you;

- Are there BIPOC/queer/disabled/neurodivergent people on your mod team
- Do you maintain a block list, either importing from a trusted source and/or actively monitoring fediblock
- Do you proactively moderate
- Do you defederate from instances that don't moderate hate speech
- Do your rules prioritise safety of marginalised folk

#FediAdmin

These systems built by search engine giants can only generate correct answers to mainstream topics because they have enough data samples for those.

Which means they're essentially just a search engine that is capable of calling you slurs and always gives a wrong answer instead of saying "I don't know".

They've built a worse, more expensive search engine.

I love that GtS has a steal emote button

"It's not public transit if it's not fare-free"
Spotted in Downtown Toronto, Ontario

I'm going to put this here now so I can say "I told you so" later, but from seeing #Bluesky's privacy policy stuff today it totes only exists as a freeze peach dataset to train AI and have the harvested data sold off to whoever wants it when it eventually tanks and the social media mask falls off of it. I think this also somewhat explains the completely bizarre labels feature so buyers can filter stuff out that's too hot for them easily. That's where they're planning on making their money

I met a Canadian tech worker who wants to know what his organizing rights are. Does anyone have connections who know about Canadian labor law & organizing?

please do realize there isn't a single thing online with any money in it that can't die the same way twitter did, the same way waypoint did, the same way everything does

if it has a billionaire's greedy fingers in it, it can and will die at their whim

we are in the looting phase of collapse and the only thing keeping whatever You love off the serving tray is that they haven't noticed it yet

OK, but: who ships a keyboard by, essentially, wrapping a single layer of cardboard round it, plugging up the open ends with card flaps each held on by a single piece of tape (meaning, yes, it's only connected on one side), and with the only padding being a piece of brown paper?

I'm lucky the only damage was a single missing keycap, which presumably fell out through the massive gaps between the tube-"box" and the flaps. On the plus side, it was super easy to get it out: I didn't even need to undo the tape, just pull one of the flaps out of the way. 😂

I dunno who needs to hear this, but this is one of the best things my therapist taught me. If you have ADHD, and you find something that works for you, but you're worried that you won't stick to it, don't worry about that.

Temporary solutions are still solutions!

"A social network is about the feature's you don't implement" - @nasser #causalislands