I really need to make music. There's so much to explore and express along the way.

Ah, yes... Allergy headaches...

The flower grows toward the sun not wondering if it will reach it. It simply keeps growing towards it.

Get fucked, Bambu Lab. With permission of the developer to rehost, grab OrcaSlicer-BambuLab here: gamersnexus.net/fk-you-bambu...

Life is a lot and social media is so fucking weird. I think it's helped make the world weird. Gotta remember to disconnect from the weirdness and keep my head on my shoulders.

if you want to be on firmer legal ground re: clips being shared or used to train *certain AI generative websites*, make sure this setting is OFF. You're legally granting anyone permission to take your shit if it's ON.

Today, I saw a procession of cows going under a car bridge that went over a river to get to the other side where they then used a sod-covered wooden bridge so they could cross the river. It delighted me. Don't know why, don't care why, and it's reason enough to post about it.

Fatigue.

I have an anxiety that the government is asking for so much personal identifying information with the medical cannabis move to schedule 3 that they're going to use that data for voter suppression or other hostilities. But if course big corporations don't care about their workers or customers.

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

I'm not in the UK, but this is good. This fight should be happening across the globe. "Age verification" is a scam and a lie meant to surveil and control, not protect kids. Anyone saying "think of the kids" is NOT thinking of the kids in the way they want you to believe; they're just predators.

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.

Warning! You might see posts in the wild claiming "Hogwarts Legacy is free right now!" but this is malware, if you try and run it, it'll install Hogwarts Legacy on your PC.

As part of the SKG movement, we co-signed this statement: www.reddit.com/r/Sto... Access restrictions like ID/age checks and surveillance tech like chat control & face scans pose a direct threat to the freedom of the web and therefore game preservation. #StopKillingTheInternet

Reading through this feels like a nightmare fever dream. Delete Chrome and stop using Google search. Use Zen (privacy fork of Firefox) and Duck Duck Go as a starting point. We need a damn viable Linux phone.

We should ban tech CEOs

”An engineering team at a large AI vendor decided that the user's machine is a deployment surface to be optimised for the vendor's product roadmap, not a personal device whose owner is the legal authority on what runs there.”

I don't use Spotify anymore, but I do give it credit for having a pretty decent "artist radio" function. YouTube Music's "mix" function is pretty crap for sticking to similar artists and genres in my experience. I'm starting to miss using Pandora. I need to find a better way to discover new music

Some of the news about the cannabis rescheduling stuff makes it look like the government is going to step in and own all the raw biomass which means they'll be profiting off of artificially increasing the price and restricting the supply. Obnoxious parasites.

So apparently "AI effects pedals" exist and like... ...idk, man... ...I'd rather have a janky breadboard and a ton of random wires and components. AI is a shortcut for people who want instant product gratification who have no actual curiosity or creativity in their soul.

I appreciate the frequency with which we are finding frogs at our front door, and the variety of species of frogs we have seen this spring so far. Please continue visiting us and making your presence known, amphibious friends.

Read this yesterday. It's a very, very good read.

The Steam Controller is impressively easy to disassemble and repair: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVRf...

I love this essay very much!!!!

Indoor skate park and concert venue that serves as a third space and place to shelter for those who need a break from the weather or whatever.

PTSD is a hell of a thing

I've lost track of how many times I've had to take my car back in because the issue they insist isn't a problem is a much bigger problem than they want to admit, and it only surfaced after paying them a serious amount of money to do what should have been simple work.

i don't know how to parody this anymore

Age verification sounds reasonable until you realize it means every adult hands over their ID just to go online. We wrote about why this is a terrible idea and what should happen instead. https://proton.me/blog/keep-age-verification-from-killing-anonymity-online

Great piece that reiterates something everyone who is not a weird bay area freak or sucked into the AI hype cycle understands implicitly. There's no magic left, these people have barren imaginations.

Cars are too troublesome and expensive and I am frustrated living in a car-dependent society and region. It's...a lot. New job? GREAT! ...but car trouble started up at the same time...which is fucking awful.

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

I am viscerally opposed to age verification for many reasons, many of which are security and privacy related, but there are so many issues that I have to simply echo the sentiments of others who speak to it better than I at times. Fuck this techno feudal bullshit facade. It's all bad.

And the big cultural push around “big tech reform” is the idea that we’re protecting children from the harms of big tech, when we’re actually giving big tech the very power they seek to destroy the world for all children. And that is no longer hyperbolic when Palantir is announcing it via manifesto

At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software

I said it before and I'll say it again: Giving a pack of Epstein associates a comprehensive list of all children in the country with home address and school listed, sortable by various traits that indicate vulnerability to exploitation, is the literal diametric opposite of keeping kids safe.

Unhappy to report the phishing one is quickly becoming a real problem now. Why go to the trouble of social engineering when people will just give up their ID, financial info, biometrics, etc. to an AV portal? There's no standards so how can you differentiate a fake one from a real one?

Unfortunately it doesn't benefit runaway late stage capitalism so it'll never happen in the current USA or many other countries There is no illuminati, it's just the World Economic Forum and the predator class exposed in the files

"Why don't the Americans just...?" I think you should look up what a police state is and how terrifying that is. And then examine the lack of worker protections, class disparity, and actual lived norms of the working class in the USA. ...there's reasons, and it's mostly because you're better off.

It, again, truly doesn't matter whether vibecoding actually caused the outages or not - when you start bragging about how claude is making every engineer on staff more productive and the site goes through months of persistent downtime, that's a Statement.

Real talk Linux would fall apart overnight if trans women suddenly disappeared one day

greta thunberg undefeated in making the worst people absolutely lose their minds XD

New job, same life stress, but less time for social media. My country is a nightmare. I'm just trying to make ends meet and haven't much more to say. I still stream sometimes.

Sorted my thoughts about censorship, so I can stop thinking about it.

Streaming services don't let you own anything and that's bad. GOG at least lets you download DRM-free files.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

[slamming mug on bar, yelling] estonia's right

Experimental math rock making it into mainstream awareness is kinda neat Maybe it's time for the weird music revival I've been craving