People out here anthropomorphizing LLMs like they never heard any of the countless warning stories human folklore has about devious spirits disguised as humans, smh and knock on wood

TIL heterospecific communication means communication between animals of different species, not straight people talking about straight people things

you say an AI agent hallucinated and took down production, but what I'm hearing is that you let a flock of stochastic parrots into the server room and now you're somehow surprised there's birdshit everywhere

forget power over ethernet, I want mana over ethernet

Happy December 13th, the one day of the year that I accept non ISO 8601 date formats without judgement

The only "great" thing history will credit Trump with is the Great Depression 2

Today's alt text rant was inspired by yet another cool #retrocomputing post that would ironically be mostly unintelligible to the hardware the poster had so carefully restored :neobot_cry:

If your post can't be comprehended 50 years from now by digital wizards who have written a mastodon client for a century-old speak & spell connected to the internet via Morse code bounced off the moon and powered by potatoes, it must not be important :blobfoxhappymlem:

(ok maybe this last example is a bit much, but why take that chance??)

Alt text for blind and low vision users
Alt text for low bandwidth users
Alt text for flakey Internet
Alt text for digital decay and link rot
Alt text for text based browsers
Alt text for calling out the relevant details you mistakenly assume are obvious to everyone
Alt text for explaining the joke to people that don't have the same background as you
Alt text for the 10,000 people learning something "everyone knows" for the first time today
Alt text for leveling up your own writing skills
Alt text for everyone

me, about to like and boost a cool looking image, when I notice it has no alt text: "This doesn't look like anything to me"

*keeps scrolling timeline instead*

Yes, the Torment Nexus runs on the souls of orphans and produces results less reliable than a $5 pocket calculator, but here's why the technology is here to stay

nor did any of the history channel's many, many WWII shows ever cover any of the fash cringe either

Ofc, believing oneself to be inherently superior to other ethnic and racial groups is hella incel mary-sue in the basement levels of cringe, but afaik the mid 19th century fash didn't also have bad spray tans, ill-fitting ties, and the subtle wit of a concussed rhinoceros

none of the young adult dystopian fiction I read as a teen prepared me for how cringe this would all be

wait I think I put this meme on backwards

women will literally go to therapy instead of spending billions of dollars burning a social media company to the ground

you may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of industrial test equipment

I'd never claim to speak for the entire LGBTQIA+, but what if...

We receive:
Human rights
Housing & Healthcare
Energy drinks

You receive:
A whole bunch of cool weirdos
Freedom from the American tech hegemony
10,000 renaissances worth of art and media

With the current American political dumpster fire and war on expertise, I'm kinda surprised other English speaking countries aren't treating it like a fire sale on highly trained talent

you will have to pry
my gender from my cold
dead hands
and even then
all you will hold
is an idea i carved
into the side of the world
with fire

"You can't spell steganography without the gays"
Alan Turing