X is bad, though: https://lexontech.org/x-is-bad-though

“Have magic 8 balls gone too far? Steve Newman, CEO of Open8Ball think we are now only a matter of months away from an 8 balls induced doomsday event.”

RE: https://swiss.social/@xeophin/117376072186767410

Did… did an AI make those numerals!?

every conversation about the potential usefulness of AI, divorced from ethical concerns, is just this dril tweet

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

"Cars replaced horses"

This is what people say about LLMs, but it's based on a myth.

Los Angeles used to have an excellent tram system, with its suburbs laid out along the tram line. It was bought by General Motors and scrapped to get people into cars. The Key System, which went from San Francisco to Fresno, was scrapped by a tyre company. Cars did not replace horses in cities. They replaced effective mass transit by leveraging capital to destroy a common good. If cars were actually better, this destruction would have been expensive and unnecessary.

In more rural areas, bicycles were extremely common. They were most associated with liberating women, who were more able to commute and meet with neighbours. Bicycles became a symbol of feminism - for sexists. When male students at Cambridge wanted to protest women's admission, the built an effigy of a woman student and burned it. The effigy was on a bicycle. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-45096690

This notion of women cyclists overstepping their place in society and being a menace to the social order appears in the 'Wizard of Oz'. In Kansas, a woman neighbour demands that the family give up Toto because he's been causing extremely minor mischief. Auntie Em tells the neighbour that she wishes to say what what she thinks of her, but can't as she is "a Christian woman". This places her in binary opposition with the neighbour who leaves on a bicycle. Toto escapes and as Dorothy goes to Oz, the woman transforms into a witch and the bicycle into a broomstick.

Bicycles fell out of fashion in the US until mountain bikes, which are loaded with male gender baggage and unsuitable to riding while wearing a dress or for commuting.

Households switched to cars which are expensive, so they tended to only have one, which men took to work and women were placed back in the home.

Cars are a malign presence. Their use was not the advance of technology, but deliberate concerted efforts to harm the public sphere and especially to disempower women. They only became practical because of massive subsidies for highways and roads. They are an inherently wasteful technology, ill-suited to a majority of their current use cases.

I have tip-of-the-tongue syndrome with this one…

Font ID please (printed in Scotland 1925)

ElevationLab has released a product for killing the speaker in an AirTag. They should recall and discontinue it immediately. The intent is to improve theft tracking, but their precision tool also allows stalkers to more easily track people silently.

https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/10/silencing-airtags-enables-stalkers-and-domestic-violence/

https://letterror.com/ai

Does anybody have a flat-on photo or scan of Mecanorma Spring dry-transfer letters? We need to recreate a logotype and would prefer this over the Jojo digital typeface.

Of course, if you have a high res scan or picture of a 1979 cover (nos. 1 or 2) of the short-lived Spanish feminist magazine *todas*, that would be even better :-)

YOU USED TO BE ABLE TO FIND INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET. i sound insane right now because the internet is a store but it used to be a library

Also als die Leute anfingen, die Faschisten der AfD zu wählen, wurden die bürgerlichen Medien nicht müde, jedem Neurechten ein Mikro ins Gesicht zu halten, damit man seine "Sorgen und Nöte" verstehen kann.

Das passiert jetzt doch sicher auch mit den Wähler*innen linker Parteien, oder? Oder ging es etwa gar nicht um Erkenntnis sondern die Etablierung von Narrativen?

Who here told me they knew a person who fixes tape decks and walksman?

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-14/us-data-centers-set-to-burn-more-natural-gas-than-most-nations

Dropbox be doing the drugs again.

Type designers: Learn about CurveTo and Pen Protocol with Connor Davenport in 4 online Tuesday sessions starting October 27. Enroll today https://coopertype.org/events/curveto-drawing-fonts-with-python-and-the-pen-protocol-2

People just don’t do web searches any more do they 🙄

https://www.bleifreitype.ch/typefaces/bt-atlas

The German fascist party AfD has filed a criminal defamation complaint against Chancellor Friedrich Merz, for saying that "the word 'remigration' is nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color" before the Bundestag.

Dear Fediverse, I've never asked for boosts, but it's time to flood the zone. Put it in your own words if you prefer. Spread it everywhere.

#remigration #ethnicCleansing #Afd #fascism #streisandeffect
@renewedresistance
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/afd-files-complaint-against-merz-130350147.html