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

@jstevenyork it’s in the interests of the billionaire owned centralised social media to destroy any alternative because it show a different possibility so of course we hear ‘Mastodon is dead’ all the time. #Mastodon doesn’t have to be the biggest to win it just has to exist.

using antivirus software is like if you had a book of all the objects in the world that aren't safe to eat and you walked around putting random objects from the ground into your mouth after checking to make sure they weren't in the book

My mom, who is in her 70s, and not particularly tech savvy, just explained that she hates Google now, because the first results are always AI, which just pulls from other sources and is usually inaccurate.

So let’s stop assuming that non-techies, older people, and mothers and grandmothers are too naive to see through the hype. Mostly it’s the tech bros and finance douches who are too stupid to actually understand what they’re boosting.

can you immediately recognize the difference between ❤️ and ♥️ in your emoji font of choice, or are you normal

Kinda wild that “no one should die for shareholder profits” isn’t a universal belief.

(Der Wagen ist wegen defekter Heizung gesperrt)

/cc @BahnAnsagen

Apparently one of my skills is "mimicking the sounds of inanimate objects", like rusty playground swings, rubber duckies, and powertools.

(And a full range of cat sounds, but those are not 'inanimate')

Visual Artists:

Has knowing about #AI generated art had an impact on your art?

That is, have you shifted the focus or style of your work? Have you felt the need to make "making of" or process gifs/videos/image sequences to show how your work is created (to make it clear it is human made?)

Do you now use (or not use) certain elements/tools to distance your work from AI images? (For example, switching back to pen and paper.)

Check all that apply:

#aiart #art #artists #drawing

Laziness does not exist

https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/laziness-does-not-exist

🦊 🍁

“Casual Viewing | Issue 49 | n+1 | Will Tavlin”

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/

> According to Netflix’s rubric, two users who watch the first half of Sweet Girl and close their laptops equal one full “view” — as do 110 users who each watch a single minute.

Good, if depressing, read.

Hotel 'security' has been defeated once again.

I wonder how universal the password for the Mifare Ultralight is? Specific to the hotel, or across the entire chain?

#38c3

Ready to tackle big math problems.

#SilentSunday

Oh look, it’s me 🤣😅

Edit: someone in the thread points out that this formulation was paraphrased from Sean Tejaratchi: https://web.archive.org/web/20130621083214/http://www.readingfrenzy.com/ledger/2012/03/taking_the_piss

#banksy #advertising #publicspace

Hi all, I have what may be a strange request. My Nan is in a nursing home and can't go out due to mobility problems, but she loves birds. I show her bird photos I come across online but sometimes it's hard to find a lot of new/interesting ones. If you take any cool bird pictures, could you please add the hashtag #BirdsForBecsNan so I can find them more easily for her? The more colourful/exotic/pretty, the better, but she also likes to see rare/unusual birds.

(here is my crappy rosella photo)

I'm sure a lot of web folk are going to say "wow you're late to the party" but the fact that the <h1> tag's text size shrinks for every <article> or <section> it's inside of, but the other tags (like <h2>) do not.

That is a *BONKERS* decision and it's apparently intentional