Itch io was down for a minute. During which I spent time inspecting the html to do this instead of using image editors.

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No "Overtime" tonight - we're hunkering down for HOPE prep!

OMG AMTRAX!

reminder that contracts are agreements between equals, and anyone who gets weird because you want to change something before signing thinks himself your master

It seems significant that "The Drumhead" happened to roll up in my #STTNG rewatch today of all days.

#StarTrek #TNG #IndependenceDay

*stares wistfully into the clouds*

I will never understand why so many activists still use generative images for their content, and rely on big tech for communications and organizations when there are now so many practical, more secure, and much more ethical alternatives.

Your principles aren't just to be stated, they must also be embodied and integrated in your work.

We must show by example what can be done with ethical tech and ethical practices.

#Activism #NoAI #NoBigTech

We’re all aware that a whole lot of people of aren’t exactly feeling America’s 250th.

What’s actually *amazing* is how thoroughly you have to fuck up to make Americans look at an excuse to get drunk, eat garbage, blow stuff up, & praise ourselves & go:

you know what nah

Them: I'm interested in AI ethics

Me: Oh like Enclosure of the digital commons?

Them: No

Me: De facto torture of Black people to curate the ChatGPT training corpus for starvation wages?

Them: No

Me: The environmental impact of manufacturing and constantly running server farms, and the colonial and exploitative nature of that?

Them: No

Me: Important decisions made by a machine that basically does bias laundering?

Them: No, like if the AI might be sentient

Me: (Internal screaming)

The current image challenge posed by delightful Internet place #b3ta is to photoshop comedy characters into classic artwork.

https://b3ta.com/challenge/comedyart/

For my entry I upgraded the #EdwardHopper painting "New York Movie" with a couple of #MST3K robot friends.

please stop using dogshit AI generated images for your cybersecurity blog posts and research. Thank you.

When Claude code is pasted into AO3, it preserves the CSS tags that Claude generates. So you can use a site skin to highlight them, because people lazy enough to use an LLM to write fic are also too lazy to go through the outputted HTML and clean up the tags. Tee hee!

https://www.tumblr.com/quietwingsinthesky/821027617258012672

headline: “Sony’s PlayStation Puts a Nail in Physical Media’s Coffin”

okay, but, stay with me here, what if we turn it around and make removing physical media from their platform a nail in Sony’s PlayStation instead?

I mean, there are millions of us and only one Sony, and that one Sony cannot survive without millions of customers.

take the power back.

giggle - lawful good
chortle - neutral good
guffaw - chaotic good
titter - lawful neutral
laugh - neutral
snort - chaotic neutral
scoff - lawful evil
teeheehee - neutral evil
cackle - chaotic evil

Because of the existence of pregnant people, the average number of skeletons in a human body is more than one.

RE: https://masto.hackers.town/@OffTheHook/116847162224907609

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I know we've talked about this before but I'm just so disgusted with how useless most search engines are now. They all second guess me.

The most obscure or unusual word is ignored so it's very hard to search for the intersection of a popular thing and an obscure thing.

I have a theory that for many people search has never worked well for them since they just didn't use computers very much, or it was not explained well. Now those of us who found search effective get to see what it was like.

The response to "I'm realizing and coming to grips with some interesting gender feelings," from cis straight RL friends vs. queer/trans RL friends is, just, way wider of a gap than I was expecting.

Queer friends respond with curiosity. They are encouraging of the journey, wherever it may lead, i.e. I don't get the feeling they're invested in the outcome. If I come back in six months and say, "Nope, I've been trying things on and I think I'm definitely cis," I don't expect it would change anything about our relationship. They just think it's cool that someone is journeying to figure a gender-something out.

Cis friends are quiet. They say (almost literally) nothing. Suddenly, they don't know how to relate to me and it's pretty clear they'd prefer me to stop talking about it. The underlying feeling is that this not a safe topic. It's not just uninteresting (which would be okay - no one is obligated to find your life fascinating) but rather...threatening.

#gender #nonbinary