Anyway I hate my neighbour. He is a bad dad.
Why aren’t duels allowed? I would happily fist-fight him, if all gave informed consent.
I don’t care if I came out black and blue. I need this brain worm of a child in adult skin to notice that we all share physical reality.
He’s a coward who LITERALLY. Like literally physically.
Literally hides behind his child. Kid’s like 10 or something and half his size, btw.

Anyway. Fucking hate him and I genuinely expect we’d all be happier having it out.

If your authority depends on making someone afraid of you, perhaps it isn't authority worth having.

When a company replaces workers with AI, the promised productivity gains somehow end up in shareholders' pockets rather than workers' free time.

Funny, isn't it?

Apparently, technology can make us more productive, but never quite productive enough to deserve a shorter working week.

@aelfsige or maybe cisgressive?

At the local supermarket there is a gender nonconforming cashier. Perfectly done painted nails. Feminine jewelry. Enby hairstyle, if I may say that.
They don't talk much. As usual, I am wearing my cap with the pride sticker.

I wonder if I can say something like: "Love your nails", or if that would be transgressive

I'm a plumber of sentence structure.
I fix leaks in meaning, unclog blocked syntax, and occasionally discover that the entire paragraph was connected to the wrong pipe.
No AI required. Just a human with a wrench and an unhealthy relationship with subordinate clauses. 💜🐙

My therapist says I need to establish boundaries.

I asked whether they meant syntactic boundaries, semantic boundaries, or the pragmatic implications of saying "no".

We have scheduled another session.

@donni oh no... now I'm thinking of medium boulders the size of small boulders :(

There are many big things to freak out about right now, but don’t forget to freak out about the little things too

Currently, hundreds of GW of residential solar power are controlled by terribly insecure & unregulated clouds owned by companies continents away. This problem is well known & could take down the whole European energy grid. We just had a conference about it, and still nothing is happening. Here's my writeup: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/solar-nightmare-at-the-conference/ #ENISA #NIS2 #CRA

If "AI" were a mere tool and not a political narrative you wouldn't need to headline "X used AI to do Y" all the time. Anything anyone does while "AI" is involved must reify "AI"'s power and relevance.
Because it's not "just a tool", it's a bigger project of disenfranchisement some willingly embrace.

The Encampment Movement against Evictions and Gentrification : A Report from Madrid and Barcelona

https://www.anarchistfederation.net/the-encampment-movement-against-evictions-and-gentrification-a-report-from-madrid-and-barcelona

As a Canadian-British dual citizen, I am begging #Albertans to take my word for this.

The same forces who brainwashed so many people into voting for Brexit are drooling at the prospect of #Alberta voting for separation.

This is what they do: it's called divide and conquer. And while you might have many legitimate reasons to feel agrieved, isolation doesn't solve your problems. It exacerbates them greatly.

Brexit diminished the UK beyond imagining.

If anyone is willing to sue over this, I will fund it.

https://mastodon.social/@transactualuk/117446435425311459

BREAKING: Mapquest now includes a layer showing known Flock and other surveillance cameras!

@maxleibman We put in a new heat pump in August and the heat wouldn't come on when the HVAC dudes were testing it on Wednesday. 😬

(Turns out that it's built NOT to turn on when it's hot outside to protect the machinery. It was 90 degrees.)

There’s a survey going around by someone trying to collect better sizing data for trans adults who have been on HRT long term (ie body stabilised in shape).
It asks for a lot of measurements and just “are you transfem or transmasc”. No identifying details.

Please fill it out trans friends, because having sizing charts and patterns that fit trans people better would be great!

https://tinyurl.com/Trans-Standard-Sizing

Wow! If an imaginary woman says that moving my furniture using their product is easy, it must be true!!!!

That speech bubble clinches the deal!

:derpface:

(If you look closely, you can see the man is not using the product, whereas the woman is. I'm thinking the original intent was "it's so hard that a *man* cannot move it, but with our product, it is so easy that a *woman* can do it." :headache: Yep, misogyny for the win! :holdthepain: )

#ad #marketing #misogyny

Hydroponics? Hydroponics. Large scale experiments. Land-based cruise replacements.
https://nebula.tv/videos/stewarthicks-the-buildings-ai-will-leave-behind/

Christ how depressing to remember living through This.
https://nebula.tv/videos/slownewsday-the-rise-and-fall-of-russell-brand/