Notices by Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 (theogrin@chaosfem.tw), page 3

@migriverat @lillyfinch @Jeramee @JuliusGoat

Knotty problem, because one of the chief goals of those disingenuous fucksticks is to drive us to distraction. Even the most patient of us aren't going to want to answer the same question in a thousand different ways when half the queriers are making a point of doing so in bad faith, at least not without some loss of temper and dwindling patience.

(Can you tell I work in customer service?)

That, to them, is the game: to raise the same questions as those who genuinely want to know, but in ways which make it less likely that we're going to provide useful information to anyone who might be swayed thereby. And it's unfortunately not a trivial issue to solve...

@emilygorcenski

And not long after a newly-declassified paper more thoroughly illustrated the reasons behind the CF-105's cancellation!

Lots of planes on the news.

@Radical_EgoCom

"The news that they have nothing to fear is guaranteed to strike terror into the hearts of innocents everywhere." --Terry Pratchett

Me, a few days ago: "Hey, everyone. Microsoft's pushed their monthly patch for their Malware Prevention Tool, be sure to update it in the Software Center over the next few days so you don't get a forced reboot pushed down your throats."

Everyone else: "OKAY!"

Me: "And here are screenshots of how to do it."
--=--
Today, everyone:
"Hey, forced restart, BRB,"
"Me too!"
"My computer's rebooting itself in 5 minutes."
"FORCED RESTART WHY?!"

Some days I really don't know why I even try.

#infosec #software #patches

So there's some folks who might otherwise have issues with my particular political ideology, and as such...

If you're a fascist, you're not welcome to read my posts.

It's against the rules.

If you are a fascist, do not interact with me. At all. Period.

If you're reading this and thinking, "You just call everyone you disagree with a fascist," then you're probably a fascist, or incapable of drawing inferences from context and acknowledging a dangerous political climate that causes the oppressed to be seen as hyperbolic.

Don't interact with me.

Heal yourself.

Grow. Learn. Watch some Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood or something.

This post is derived from Olivia Hill and will be pinned to my account, because if you personally believe for the very fraction of an instant that the status quo isn't fascist, and that you can get away with protecting it, then I have no desire to deal with you.

At all.

I am now convinced that 99.95% of the time (lower bound, by the way), when someone says 'AI will solve our problems!', not only are they lacking an actual understanding of what LLMs actually are, they also don't understand what their actual problems are.

@annaleen
Whether we need it or not, whether we want it or not, they'll force it upon the public anyway, and then try and pretend that we were asking for it all along.

When the fact that it doesn't allow you to curate your own timeline is the least objectionable aspect of the whole thing, I feel it'd be no great stretch to shut it down and seal the whole thing off with 'This Is Not A Place of Honour' on it as a warning to future social media architects.

Yeah, so...
#Threads is indeed automatically creating accounts for those who already have an Instagram account. Confirmed that with one of my lovely girlfriends.

That lovely 70 million number which Zuck is putting forward? That's just the active Instagram account number. That's it.

It's a level of flimflam and shenanigans which we've come to expect from the man who decided to outright support a genocide with his platform.

@feditips @mods

It may be advantageous to also preemptively block threads.instagram.com, which I believe they may use as a secondary. Even if they don't, it seems like a modicum of effort for safety's purposes when you're already right there.

@goatsarah

Xanadu~
Their private eyes are watching you, Xanadu.

@goatsarah
In one of the appendices to 1984, regarding the construction of the now-defunct Newspeak, the meta-narrator refers to Ingsoc, and indeed the State, in the historical sense. The implication is absolutely that Oceania collapsed as a whole, likely not long after Winston Smith's suicide. Except nobody seems to read that part, or for that matter the 'extra' chapter in A Clockwork Orange...