Can someone wise to Asia ELI5 how Russia is not a "Western" country? I look at them, I see Greek civilization influence, capitalism, Christianity? #russia #civilization #history

This week on The Servitor: Abi's been watching Black Mirror again. It hits different these days because we are so there. https://theservitor.com/we-re-living-in-black-mirror-episodes-and-nobody-seems-to-care/ #ai #opinion #tv #blackmirror

Having trouble believing someone who was against ICE would write "anti-ICE" on their bullet. That's a label, not an expression. A really stale and impersonal way to put a sentiment. I would expect them to write something like "Fuck Nazis" Oh well. I don't have the energy to get tinfoil-hat on […]

More publications should frame the reality of Trump by including his greatest hits in every headline. "Felon Donald Trump Signs Executive Order on White Bread in Schools" "Sex Assault Perpetrator Trump Holds Press Conference" Is him being a convicted felon or adjudicated rapist relevant to […]

You know what's way better than billionaire orbital garbage? Goats enjoying a pile of straw bales.

1️⃣ Estados Unidos se vende como “la mayor democracia del mundo”. Pero si aplicamos los 10 criterios clásicos que definen una dictadura, hoy cumple 7 de forma plena y 3 de manera parcial. Abrimos hilo. 🧵

Charlie Kirk memorial was some sort of mass delusion event where everyone felt like God reached down and blessed their politics and grievances. Creepy AF, the bits I saw. If I get shot, I'm thankful there is zero chance of some sort of twisted event like that happening in my honor. #fascism […]

Total coincidence, Grindr having service issues in Arizona while all the gay-persecuting people are making a national martyr out in Arizona. #uspol

BBC just uncritically airing JD Vance spewing lies at Charlie Kirk Christian fantasy rally. JD Vance saying a bunch of stuff about how as Christians for Charlie they must speak the truth every day. Ok. How about start with the truth about the 2020 elections? That seems like a really easy place […]

Getting some more work in on text adventure game I started a couple weeks back. Run a bookstore, deal with customers, collect Words of Power, save the world from extra-dimensional evil! Semi-roguelike. My first serious attempt at a game. I tried vibe-coding […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Keir Starmer calmly listening with no objections to Trump lie about winning the 2020 election, about 25 million people "emptied from Venezuelan prisons" and "mental institutions in the Congo" being allowed in under Biden. Like the fascist enabler he is. #trump #starmer #fascism

#memes #meme #uspol

Do I know anyone who has worked in (and can talk about it) anything to do with "killer robots": autonomous weapons AI targeting / FoF discrimination protocols / human-in-the-loop drone coordination / swarms We started work on an article about the state of AI weaponry a while back. A word or […]

seems to be a new crypto/right-wing/AI agitator instance https://social.beitmenotyou.online/@beitmenotyou/statuses/01K59TNYS0VAJQKKBTH37KY6SK #mastodon

Thanks Mastodon, but I think this one needs no translation 😂 #fucknazis #uspol

The thing is, even if we wanted to have the "violence is never appropriate in a democracy" conversation, by elevating this guy with outright lies they make it impossible to have that conversation without accepting the lies, so instead we focus on pointing out he was a shitbag to counter the […]

I don't feel safe ☹️ Feeling need to self-censor to protect myself and others. Feeling like it's really wrong that I should need to feel this way. #fascism #dystopia

Reposted with AltText #charliekirk #uspol #fascism #fascist

Can we go ahead and do all the political violence at once instead of stringing it out and having to go through these brain-melting media cycles of culture war? if everybody on both sides who wants to pick up a gun would just go ahead and gather in one place and have at each other, so the rest […]

This week on The Servitor: America is rapidly heading for a total surveillance state, with companies promising "predictive" policing. I'm pretty sure we all saw that movie. Tom Cruise... some psychics floating in goo... #ai is going to make it all possible! Or some hellish algorithmic version […]

Microsoft patch day... sure enough, I check my privacy settings, it's turned on personalized ads. How is that legal? Is this not tantamount to entering into a contract on someone else's behalf (agreeing to share data) with no authority to represent them? #law #microsoft #motherfuckers […]

#photo #photograph #photography #naturephotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #nature #monochrome #monochromaric #treephotography #naturfotografie #konaa #kmac #macnessa #konaamacnessa

How often do you try to read a book, can't get into it, then pick it up a couple years later and really enjoy it? It doesn't happen to me often, but it has happened enough times that I'm re-examining all the books I didn't finish that I thought I didn't like. #bookstodon

This week on The Servitor, Abi reads AI 2027 and Ed Zitron's "How to argue with an AI booster" and tries to find reality. Main conclusion: Possible end of world from AI in 2027 is an awfully short timeline for doom. Doom has a lot of work to do if it wants to […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

https://youtu.be/y2zwGdae1jM?si=CFAzsYUauN0binwa Draw me like one of your French ladies #music

Building little game idea I had over the weekend where you run an occult bookstore. So far it's a rogue-like string of random encounters with customers that give you reputation with various factions. Along the way you learn spell words you have to combine to cast spells during longer […]

Large language models are useful when they provide intelligence-like access to large and complex databases like enterprise ticket handlin, internal documentation, feature plans and project specifications. They are also useful as advanced text prediction engines that help you with repetitive […]

This is the shit our idiot Technology Minister wants to shove into every British home (at the Taxpayers expense of course) https://futurism.com/ai-chatbots-mental-health-spirals-reason #genai #ai #llms #mentalhealth #peterkyle #technology #ukpol #ukpolitics

if only there were conservatives around to protest the nationalization of industries, the central planning of the economy, the closing of previously open markets with tariffs... Trump's economic vision looks virtually identical to a corrupted communist economy, or any of the dozen failed […]

Started a new side project (#5137926e10^7). Dialog-driven game where you run a metaphysical bookstore by day, catering to woo woo hippie people, and by night you are a ritualist expanding your knowledge of the arcane. Semi-Roguelike for some replayability. #games

Use CLIT for MCP-less local tools in Claude Code. Claude Code and MCP are a good pair if you need access to commercial integrations, but it's overkill for local tools. Claude is already sitting on the command line, and that means all your favorite bash […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

I think these buildings are a bit iconic right? A panoramic view of Royal Crescent in Bath from a #GooglePixel 6 Pro (no SS/ISO/AP data here). Edited in #AdobePhotoshop 2021. #photography #photo #image #panorama #landscape#panorama#bath #somerset #england #uk#adobephotoshop#unitedkingdom #sepia #pixel

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Re: Labor statistics now #memes #video #politics #uspol

Given the constant stream of data breaches, asking people to hand their #id to an age verification company is little different than handing it to fraudsters directly.

Reading #viriconium (M. John Harrison) and I think "The Afternoon Cultures" would be a great name for a swing band. #sciencefiction #bookstodon

"white women need to be reminded they are white by white men" If that isn't some level 99 racist wife-beater shit I don't know what is. WTAF. #musk #racism #violence #fascism #dystopia

#uk #starmer #politics WTF, "we will recognize Palestine unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire." So. Palestine Is clearly a state, but if Israel appeases us, we will keep pretending it is not. Gross. Just recognize them. Whole scenario is a farce.

In the #DnD Dark Sun setting, what was the thing called that high level preservers aspired to turn into? The opposite of a Tyrian dragon? #tabletop #wotc #tsr

The thing I keep coming back to in #politics is nothing makes people irrational like thinking other people have happiness they don't deserve. People will put up with nearly anything to make sure that people they don't like can't live in peace. it's really disturbing.

World Leaders: "OK, our citizens aren't pleased about this genocide thing. What is the least we could do besides nothing?" "Drop some food on them and pretend they're not dying?" "Brilliant!" #politics

Too bad we don't have thousands of armed Americans whose lifelong fantasy was to resist tyranny... 😐 All those people with "Don't tread on me" bumper stickers sure do like getting walked on. A bunch of pathetic cucks, to use the parlance of our times. They're a peg down from those guys who pay […]

"Right, so there I was, yeah? Standing in this glass box of a building in Palo Alto, surrounded by absolute weapons in thousand dollar hoodies talking about "disrupting the paradigm" and that. I'd only gone in for the free beer, hadn't I? Sign outside said "Future of Everything Launch" and I […]

Daily mental coin flip: Heads: Throw off your shackles and YOLO with your loved ones until the end. Tails: Do capitalist things because you still have to eat and exist within the system. Until the end. Why does my coin come up tails every single day? #reality #capitalism

I was once in a pretty dark place. Specifically, a truck stop bathroom stall with two light panels on the fritz, somewhere near Chaco Canyon. I had eaten Taco Bell about 160 miles back y no estaba bien. Much too late, I realized there was no T.P. ... So I wept in that stinking stall, as one […]