> Online safety laws have failed to protect children in UK, Ofcom admits
Quelle suprise that the lobbyists quoted here want even more regulations and restrictions.
The slippery slope of "just a few more rules"...
(Rather than a fundamental rethink)
@noodlemaz @anna_lillith Look like a clear AI slop copy of the original concept from Sergio Duce.
So this is a little bit of a delicate post. There's a thing that concerned white leftists* do to minorities regularly, where the minority person needs to talk about a real racial tension that affects their safety or autonomy, a tension they didn't ask for (but some nasty people care, so you have to too), and they get hit with the "why are you trying to talk about race? That's sus."
Well, I'm white, so I managed to make it to my mid-thirties before the stars aligned to have an experience like that, and I probably never will again. But they did align, and it happened, and boy was that surreal and bad. Until I gave context, I think I worried someone I was going down some FOX News pipeline or something. So I know most of us know this, but pleeaaaaase let minorities talk about these things without shooting the messenger.
*and not just leftists, but that's... a tangent.
When a nobleman came in to the tavern and put a note on the board, the monster hunters went to check it out. Laughter erupted.
"A gazebo? Quick, someone get Eric!"
Then the bounty caught their attention.
"That's a lot of gold. Why?"
"This gazebo," the nobleman said, "was made by Baba Yaga."
Honestly fuck Afriforum so hard. As an Afrikaner I am resigned to my ethnic group being history's designated villains but we don't need to keep fucking doing it.
As you say, they never give up. A jilted and unexamined expectation of privilege, a resentful palingenetic narrative and a belief that group membership is determined by birth are a bad combination of structural factors.
I am confident of victory but that doesn't mean I don't despise the fucks we're up against.
Stepping on a d4 actually does 1d12 damage to your foot, while stepping on a d12 only does 1d4 damage
One of the problems I see with modern portrayals of old folk tales is that there is a tendency of turning into neat "packages" - one single, "definite" version of a story with a clear beginning and end for easy consumption of an audience that will not know the context of the original storytellers. The Brothers Grimm themselves were part of this trend, with their repeated "cleaning" of their fairy tales collection, but many of their successors hardly did better.
Real folk tales and real folklore is considerably messier, with countless variants and narratives mutating and merging into each other. A good example is the text I am currently translating, featuring a particular crumbling well in the #Aargau canton of #Switzerland . This well has an entire myth-cycle associated it, with variant tales in neighboring villages. These range from the Devil lurking down there as a treasure guardian, to the Wild Hunt, to a vast sunken Roman city. These tales are messy and confusing, but that's what makes them so fascinating to me.
In modern media and storytelling, the closest we come to this is #fanfiction . Published media - whether books, movies, or television/streaming series - have their own "canon" events and stories, and fans obsessing over canon. But fanfiction writers make all of this their own, and weave their own contradictory stories with their own lore out of this base - just like the oral folk storytellers of old.
I'm at the point where I don't even want opt-in "'AI' capability" in any software I'm forced to use, because the griftslop bastards will absolutely steal everything, nailed down or not, EVEN IF the settings are turned to "no, no, absolutely not, HELL no."
When you need to multiply 7*8 do you simply have it memorized, or do you need to add, subtract or otherwise connect it to another math fact that you know better?
That is do you simply think "56" or are there more thoughts that lead to 56?
All security issues have to wait. I am sorting wooden blocks 😍😍😍.
If you also want to do something amazing with your kids in #Berlin: Hamburger Bahnhof has this amazing exhibit until the start of next year.
"As of September, 2026, 3,277 farms and gardens now sprout across Detroit, according to nonprofit gardening group Keep Growing Detroit, or KGD.
That number has steadily grown over the last several decades, giving the city national renown as a leader in urban farming."
https://planetdetroit.org/2026/10/detroit-urban-farming-history-future-food-sovereignty/
This is why adding accessibility data to the current BCD framework is tricky.
Accessibility needs behavioural tests. It’s not enough that a feature has the correct role, it also needs to behave correctly.
Report: Palantir Targets UK MPs With ‘Intimidating’ Letters
"British MPs who criticised Palantir in parliament received 'intimidating' letters from the US spytech firm".
Eg, Palantir warned Clive Lewis that it "was surveilling his activities relating to Palantir last month", a letter that Lewis described as “very Big Brother” & an “implicit threat”.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/22/palantir-targets-mps-with-intimidating-letters/
#UKPol #EUPol #USPol #Palantir #PalantirIntimidation #news #democracy .
Hear me out, who wants to chuck in for our very own fedi pub on an island?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@neuronakaya/117492242142281404
I would like to promote this post, as a girl who works with AI on a daily basis: DO NOT GIVE YOUR BANK PASSWORD(S) TO AI AGENTS!
This was the calmest Raven from the morning. They seem to be most tolerant of human presence at the beginning and end of the day, possibly coinciding with their grooming and self-maintenance tasks.
It was enabled by all of the people who framed F/OSS operating systems adversarially and decided that making ‘Linux software’ was more important than making portable F/OSS that ran on a load of different platforms.
When I started getting involved in F/OSS, portable code was a mark of quality. If your software was x86-only, or ran on only one OS, it was seen as poor quality. Between then and around 2010, a load of projects went from ‘we create great software for *NIX systems’ to ‘we target Linux but take patches for other systems if anyone wants to deliver them’ and then finally to ‘we develop Linux software, if you want to run anywhere else maybe you can maintain a downstream fork but we’ll probably break it every few days’.
Some of that shift was from companies shipping Linux software, but a lot was community-led projects.
This created a single point of failure. As long as most Linux software ran on various other platforms (Minix, BSDs, OpenSolaris derivatives, and so on), Linux was just another replaceable component. Don’t like the direction it’s taking? Pick one of the other options. But as soon as the software you care about became ‘Linux software’ that might run elsewhere, you’ve consolidated power into whoever controls Linux.
The outcome of this was, shockingly, exactly the same thing as happens every time a large group of people decide to give control of something important to a small group of people.
@purplepadma @WeirdWriter
Most of those that lost their jobs to washing machines were poor women, mostly black. So of course no one cried for them.
@WeirdWriter Actually, I’m pretty sure that some people whose livelihood depended on running a handwash laundry did in fact cry when washing machines made their business obsolete. It’s just historical and a working class problem, two things that tech bros don’t care about.
Blocked a disabled Tech Bro that unironically said with his full chest in another thread not by me that LLMs are amazing, and that humans deserve to lose their jobs, and then equated his justification by saying no one cried when washing machines were invented to replace people that washed clothes and otherwise by hand. I'm here to remind you that disabled people do not think alike, and it is OK to not listen to every single disabled person with the same velocity that you would not listen to, for example, a gay Nazi. Disabled people can be Tech Bros too. Obviously, hear them out before assuming but I'm here to remind you it's okay to block the minute they crossed that line with your morals.