enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

If you needed any more reasons not to use Duolingo to learn Japanese or other languages, they're now catering to transphobes.

Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system

don’t worry everybody, Microsoft had to lay off 9,000 people today so they could literally give 100 million more dollars in AI funding to Israel

Carrying the Weight of Life -Vocal Cover- My Xenoblade Chronicles 3 rock opera is finally complete! With over 15 contributing artists, this is a BEHEMOTH. Featuring me and Mewa Topolska on vocals, and the incredible Ike Nelson as the narrator! LINK BELOW! #XenobladeChronicles3

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

The corporate internet lowkey kinda sucks, go make a website if you want!

あまりにも良い顔すぎたので、模写のようなラクガキしました

I haven't played a whole lot of video games in the past 2–3 years, but I just finished Arctic Eggs, and it has got to be one of my favorite ones ever. bckl.gg/gZaX

"'In general, many generative AI researchers seem to misunderstand why humans do what they do,' Sinapayen added, 'and we end up with proposals for products that automate the very part that we get joy from.'" Hits the nail on the head

Who tf had the idea of using AI, notorious for making stuff up – especially if you force it to – to do fact checking on news articles?? If anything, it should be the other way around

phos

what's wrong babe? you've barely touched your rarohire rochi terochichimomo

My favorite part about Bluesky is easily the fact that the feeds are chronological by default and ad-free. No opaque algorithm forcing stuff onto me or trying to waste as much of my time as possible; the procrastination is entirely on me

Studying for a CS exam right now… I love the German language for how it, for no particular reason, casually contains absurdly long words

なつかしいね

Uninstalled all of the mobile games again. I hate it when they are just designed to waste time & money. That's the one thing I'm pretty good at myself, goddammit!

framework customer support needed a vid showing that my laptop crashes when jostled

An ad put up at a bus stop in London today.

I got my first-ever anime Blu-ray today, just to realize that I don't have a Blu-ray player

百合シチュ　79日目 レイヤーさんにロックオンされる撮影初心者 #創作百合 #百合シチュ101 Newbie photographer getting locked onto by a cosplayer

Ahem

“We asked who was mission critical and more than half of people were identified,” Cheatham said. “That was too many.” Just awful. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Every time I try to use social media, I face the dilemma that I can't decide between posting about politics, anime, tech, or other random stuff that comes to my mind. It's once again happening here on Bluesky, as the people that follow me have vastly different interests. Maybe a mix of all four?

I decided to give mobile gaming another try for some reason. The amount of ads they make you watch is absurd, everything can be bought with money, and deceptive marketing is the default; it's riddled with dark patterns. Genuinely can't believe people are putting up with this

This was such a funny interaction, from “this album is pretty weird, I don't really like it” to “I bought the CD” in only three months. Aratamemashite Hajimemashite Midori Desu is such a terrific album!

Why do people still refer to Musk as “Elon”? We used his first name because liking him was hip, and I seriously think we should stop. What other billionaire or Nazi do we do this with?

Twitter has a "regurgitate this art with AI button". Maybe… maybe the remaining artists will come over now… fixupx.com/Cypress_empr...

If you see this, post an anime you love!

Popular Information - NSA today planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion,” which is creating unintended consequences. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Finally pulled the trigger yesterday after the recent events. Goodbye Twitter, I won't miss you :)

Pure insanity at this point. It gets worse with each passing day, and it has somehow only barely been two weeks. And as a European, I'm not even directly affected by most of their statements and decisions...

Hey, I'm das, and if you're reading this, you probably already know me from somewhere else :) I would abandon Twitter for Bluesky like everyone else, but right now, I'm quite happy not using any (major) social media site, so don't expect a great deal of activity on this account in the near future