Diversity and antitrust.

Anyone unironically saying something is their “North Star” is not to be trusted.

Every act of refusal can help pave the way for others to refuse as well.

We do not have to offer and I believe indeed should not offer any benefit of the doubt: Anything sold as "AI" should be presumed ineffective, exploitative, environmentally ruinous, bigotry-amplifying and otherwise until proven otherwise. /fin

same. and if you're like "but what about [a predictive model that is not an LLM and is actually useful]" then maybe talk about it as a predictive model that does something useful and don't call it "ai" If it's a different thing use different words to describe it

"refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us the future is already settled and decided"

the developer of Calibre has doubled down on this nonsense after encountering user criticism and getting mad about it definitely don't update, and maybe regress to a version before ~8.11 there are forks in development right now, so this won't be the only software in the ebook management niche!

The second-best time to move off WordPress is right now. I use @11ty.dev these days, with plain old Javascript templates (Nunjucks couldn't handle my quote blog anymore and Liquid's apparently from Shopify, so, ew), and there's a nice & helpful community around it. But there are other options too.

Agreed. There was a point I felt vaguely okay with him but he has gone full mask off. Praising RFK. Vetoing state wide AI regulations. Flirting with white supremacy. He can retire to his millions and we don’t need to hear from him again.

I don't know what news I've missed, and I'm signing off for the night before I find out.

The right to die is one of those things that I have done a complete about face on. For years, I thought it was important for people to have the option to die with dignity, but in real world examples, whenever it's been implemented, ghoulish bean counters use it to save a few bucks.

Catching Monday's MAIHT3k finally and I'm so gratified by @alexhanna.bsky.social's callback to Izzy Roland on Game Changer because my immediate thought re @abstracttesseract.bsky.social's logo comment was just "Izzy is too powerful" ^_^

It seems like a lot of people don’t realize every Bitly link is a tracking link or that they’ve integrated gen ”AI” (they did not take long at all to jump on that bandwagon).

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

I saw "font debate" under trending stuff and clicked out of wary curiosity and it's so stupid.

If I disappear from this site, it's because of Bluesky's insistence on privacy violations. I'm exporting my data now in case. Don't want to lose track of some of the folks I follow who afaik aren't on Mastodon but I'll delete my account before I give these assholes my real birthday.

FUCK YES!!!!! Time to start a monthly donation!

I’m still waiting for one more box to show up, but look what arrived at my doorstep today 🥹

ehehe MusicBee has a setting for album shuffle (play a random whole album at a time) and hotkeys available for skipping to the next / previous album! ^_^ It's not perfect via Wine, but heck damn I like this music player.

I need a caffeine & spite tee. (but what color)

This is an insane paragraph. This is at the very least, literally, not "indisputable". The lower-court ruling you're overturning said otherwise, and there's written, public evidence the DOJ said do this for racial reasons! "Indisputable" just means "I don't care to deal with contrary evidence."

it's real good, y'all

Hey friends, I still have to spots open for this first batch if you'd like one. Get one for yourself, or a friend. Have a character that isn't an animal adventurer? That's fine too. ko-fi.com/teeketch/com...

Time to go ahead and delete my account instead of just not spending money there, I see.

Yes, this includes the 18-year “IX. For the Tomb” shoumei cakes. 🍵💀

The increase of ai generated content from creators is getting ridiculous...I don't care if you had a funny idea for a political meme. Don't. Use. Generative. AI. It's not funny.

No contract, no coffee. We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.

my peeve of the day is apparently the dual use of "refuted" to mean either "proved wrong" or "denied [without evidence]" it's worse than cleave meaning both stick together and split apart

So they steal from me then sell those stolen goods to a company who repackages those stolen goods and resells them again. Fuck all the way off. This isn't like ye olden days of pirating off Napster. This is entitlement and greed from AI companies and readers. bsky.app/profile/skyl...

Hey! I have reopened my Inprnt so US & international folks can now buy my art from there~ www.inprnt.com/gallery/anai...

I am a sucker for a Fujian black, and they really had me at 'plum'. white2tea.com/collections/...

I don't post my photography online anymore bc (gestures at the ubiquitous theft engines). I miss sharing creative things. There's my quoteblog (dyk? it's at arestelle.net/quotes), but that's not the same. I've been thinking about adding game screenshots; I like them, and it might scratch the itch.

Today is my birthday, which you know I always use as an excuse to spoil you! November 14th, everything online is 14% off, no code needed! Just skedaddle on over to the site and get shopping!⁠

First five Moon Phase Bebe Fountain Pens are finished and heading out to collectors tomorrow - shipping labeled and everything.

"In response to a radical outpouring of love, loss, life, grief -- expressed together, embodied, on the streets -- we were presented with, forced to use in so many cases, a technology that severs us from creative expression, dignity, and truth."

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

Happy Skyrim Day! May your knees never take an arrow, you always walk on warm sands, and you finally get to the cloud district.

The nanny is hiding a weird selection of mostly totally unobjectionable replies whenever I look at a thread with comments 🤨 (I already turned off the "rude" filter that they turned on by default so it isn't that one)

This looks awfully intentional.

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

"Once you know you are a typical member of a class of individuals, you must act as if your own individual actions were to be multiplied manyfold, because they inevitably will be. ...if _you_ fail to do what you wish the rest would do, you will be very disappointed by the rest as well." ~ Hofstadter

virtue signalling is good actually

bingo

they automated 4chan

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For those who don’t know, Lina Khan gave tech bros hell AND her ass to kiss when she was FTC chair. She was busting monopolies left and right. Gave Amazon and Meta the finger too. This is an EXCELLENT addition to his team.

Damn right. Love my state.

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

Very bad news. Teen Vogue was doing work other journalists were not.