#SilentSunday #Milkyway #astrophotography #sea #photo #photography #noAI

We need a maximum working temperature. 50,000 people have already signed this petition to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Please add your name too. https://www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/we-need-a-maximum-working-temperature

The internet promised us a library and mostly delivered a pub argument that never closes and has no bouncer.

#Woke #Humanity #Empathy

I just had to confirm to my washing machine that I'm over 18

In the EU, social media platforms are accountable for their addictive designs.

Our investigation of Instagram and Facebook shows Meta has not adequately assessed the risks of features such as infinite scroll, auto-play, push notifications, and recommender systems.

Meta can now exercise its right to defence before these preliminary findings are confirmed.

More: https://link.europa.eu/VBCdx8

I've been using Dreamhost for nearly 20 years and need to move. Any recommendations for a UK/EU host? I'll just be manually uploading my static site (2gb), no databases needed.

#Meme #Humour

Imagine things being so bad that your best solution is to cut yourself off from Google Search traffic.

I don't think that people realise just how much of a bad actor Google has been, for year. No other company has damaged the web nearly as much. 🧵
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RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vibracobra23/116894819381888529

Ha, I don’t just misread words in English. I misread this as Le Palais de Difficultés

#HumbleBrag

✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨

I picture this cat has a French accent.

Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day!

#happy #funny #cat #cute #joyousjoyness #repost

Just finished these prototype LED hats. I'll be leading a workshop to make them at #emf2026.

Meta faces $1.4 trillion in damages for hooking kids on purpose. The company's market cap is $1.5 trillion. They're arguing the number is unprecedented in consumer protection history, which is technically true. It's also the first time anyone built a $1 trillion business on deliberately addicting children.

https://gizmodo.com/metas-teen-safety-case-just-became-a-1-4-trillion-existential-threat-2000782306

The four-year-old figured out that he can dictate into Messages on the iPad and that grownups can mostly read the results. But a). He’s four, and silly, b). he has a couple of the common preschool speech impediments, and c). he can’t actually read what he dictated. The results are dadaist puzzles.

Gym Bro: I get up at 4am and go for a run, by 6am I'm at the gym training... That's the peak of being an alpha male.

Me: Not it's not... Have you ever actually seen an apex predator... they're all lazy as fuck. Bears hibernate for months, lions sleep most of the day as do tigers, cheetahs and other large predators.

Gym Bro: So

Me: You know who gets up a 4am and runs about the place.

Gym Bro: Who?

Me: Squirrels... you're a fucking squirrel.

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@taoish/116884161402249680

One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides "what is taking up all my cloud storage??) is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don't want it. I'm going to make a handout that explains how to do some of the basic AI-removal or AI-avoidance things.

Would appreciate links which give simple steps to do this for the most-used (Siri, Alexa, Gemini, Copilot, Firefox's AI nonsense &c.) so I can collate and synthesize. Thanks!

Finally put the trinket dishes up on my Etsy!!

https://littleguysltd.etsy.com

#Clacton