Alrighty! arscyni.cc made the https://250kb.club/. Just barely with 234kb, but whatever 😎.

#SmallWeb

♥️ #CriticalMass #Brussels #FuckCars

“I reduced the insolent crowd of carriages which cumber our streets, for this luxury of speed destroys its own aim; a pedestrian makes more headway than a hundred conveyances jammed end to end along the twists and turns of the Sacred Way.” ―Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987)

Ron Wright: "Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number. When the United Nations replied saying $6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end famine for the year, Musk never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for $44 Billion. You struggle and suffer because of people like him, not because your neighbor is an immigrant."
#hunger #poverty #greed #politics

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@teun/116731478784240648

An extraordinary shallow act by #OCAD. The ultrarich disrupt society through corruption and greed, but who does justice go after? David.

The minimal requirement for a law enforcement job should be a degree in philosophy.

“…the phenomenon of evil deeds, committed on a gigantic scale, which could not be traced to any particularity of wickedness, pathology, or ideological conviction in the doer, whose only personal distinction was a perhaps extraordinary shallowness.” ―Hannah Arendt (1906–1975).

Curlicue

#AlgorithmicArt #CreativeCoding #Processing #glsl #shaders

RE: https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/2110509/women-in-brussels-filmed-without-their-knowledge-by-men-wearing-meta-smart-glasses

Actually, a decent simple counter-argument I didn't see coming:

“And soon women will wear those kind of glasses too to scan men for facial recognition and see if they’re flagged for secretly recording, convictions, … A huge discussion starts about privacy and data.” ―https://piefed.social/post/2110509#comment_11584017

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Ban Ray-Ban, for frick's sake.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/2166072/women-unknowingly-filmed-in-brussels-with-meta-smart-glasses-raise-concerns

#MarkZuckerberg #Meta #Creep #Voyeur #Privacy #RayBan #BanRayBan

Tick season is in. Careful all you forest bathers. Could find dozens if not hundreds of them yesterday, located on the end of plant stems on the edges of dirt paths.

https://www.smetterling.eu, full res image: https://stardust.pixelunion.eu/s/gallery/photos/92359398-f3c5-4a55-bb70-a0612f9d1630, #tick #LymeDisease #forest #NatureLovers

To see why lighting is everything, check:
https://mstdn.social/@toddanderson/114914009207265096, https://www.toddandersonart.com/collections/195705 #art #painting #watercolor

Obvious paintings, but feels totally real. Pretty much encapsulates the statement that any camera can capture excellent pictures, the photographer just needs to see the light.

The Seed Song

I said: Brave is a bloated creeptocurrency browser and its CEO is/was a homophobe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Appointment_to_CEO_and_resignation

A reply:
“Wikipedia is considered left-wing fascist enemy territory by every democratic citizen with a functioning brain that I know of. The fact that you reference an article from it says a lot about you. And it also says what to make of your personal opinion regarding Brave: namely, nothing.”

Am I missing something or is said person unhinged? What the @#%

#CryptoCultScience #wikipedia

Instead of LLMs, consider the productivity and happiness gain by getting off the Web, into the forest, and feeding the crows. They'll outwit us all while the ouroboros eats itself.

“Take off the wings, and put him in breeches, and crows make fair average men. Give men wings, and reduce their smartness a little, and many of them would be almost good enough to be crows.” ―Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)

#CognitiveDecline #LLM #learning #intelligence

Don't worry, Sam, SpaceX won't ACTUALLY launch 7,000 satellites! (There are currently 10,296 Starlink sats in orbit)

Don't worry, SpaceX said they'd get their satellites fainter than magnitude 7! (They have not https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2025MNRAS.544L..15M/PUB_PDF)

Don't worry, they won't actually start Kessler Syndrome! https://outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashclock/

Don't worry, they won't actually launch a million AI data centres into orbit!! https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366

This is the fucking worst I-told-you-so https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

How peculiar that so many gentle dogs are named "ici!" and "non!"

There should be exams to own a dog and a certified test for the dog to keep them off a leash. #dogs #DogControl #IdiotPrevention

And yet another:

The Gambling Epidemic is So Much Worse Than You Think, by Second Thought - https://youtu.be/seNwZhK4UdA

#Polymarket #CryptoCultScience #PredictionMarkets #betting

If only I had bet Patrick Boyle and John Oliver would reverberate the exact same sentiment two days after I did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0nsou-1Q2k #PatrickBoyle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN4njIQcSR4 #JohnOliver

🎲 Why the hell do so many people "enjoy" gambling? For those who are good/bad at it it's a waste of talent/money, respectively.

But Polymarket takes the cake. When everything is turned into a bet it signals people have completely forgotten what makes life worth living for, devoid of morality.

Even though the wisdom of crowds is beneficial in some economic way or another, it strikes me as depraved when everything is turned into a dollar sign.

#Polymarket #CryptoCultScience #PredictionMarkets