I’m a paying customer of 404 Media, but I can’t bring myself to read more than the first couple of sentences of their recent “AI Slop” and “Brainrot” stories: https://www.404media.co/tag/ai/
It is beyond belief how terrible people can be. And how eager Big Tech is to facilitate them.
Very hard to avoid burn-it-all-down-and-sow-the-ruins-with-salt thinking.
It has been said that the Fediverse in general is a progressive bubble and I think that assertion is fair-ish. Certainly true of me and I think somewhat true of our coop-owned #CoSocialCa instance.
So, let me introduce our own @mpjgregoire , an actual Canadian Conservative on CoSocial who, unlike certain other of our Tories, has never emitted the slightest stench of MAGA, at least that I’ve noticed: https://cosocial.ca/@mpjgregoire/114213512761645455
There are a lot of Canadians who don’t want to visit the US just now. But if you have to, I would strongly advise going by air, because US CBP is in the airport in Canada. So they can still arbitrarily refuse entry because you voted Liberal or your name is Nadia or whatever, but they can’t throw you into detention without recourse, which they definitely can at the highway crossings, and seem to be doing more of.
From a scholarships person at a well-known US University: “They’re telling me to take down the minority scholarships. I’m trying to resist.” Someone notes that in these situations, if left with no alternative, HTTP status code 451 (Unavailable for legal reasons) may be appropriate.
Substantial layoff at Google this morning, locations around the world. IT and helpdesk hit hard. To be fair, they’re hard-pressed, last quarter’s earnings a mere $26.54B, that’s a narrow 27.51% profit margin.
I suppose everyone else already knew this, but it turns out that the “Leopards eating people’s faces” meme has historical roots; Here’s a Roman-empire mosaic from what is now Tunisia, said to be of a leopard eating a condemned man’s face.
Saw a post somewhere that the 18F victims should get together and form a consulting company. There will demand for there services to put together what the DOGE wizards break…
Dropped by Xitter so you don’t have to. Zelensky got messages of support from the leaders of: Belgium, Ireland, Slovenia, Austria, Canada, Romania, Denmark, Croatia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, the EU, Portugal, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Czechia, Lithuania, Moldova, Spain, Poland (so far).
Fash-friendly Italians notably absent. Hey Britain, what say?
Follow-up question: Anyone out there with hands-on experience for de-DRM-ing downloaded books on MacOS? There seem to be a few tools out there, all a little on the sketchy side. I could do this on Linux if the tools are better there.
These stories about US AID, if true, are making me sick. This is the kind of evil that will be written down in history books with weighty commentary advising the reader not to try to understand it, because it’s inexplicable and unforgivable.
Jeepers. Out of the blue, from Adobe, notice that. my Photography apps monthly subscription is going up by a freaking 53.88%. On the one hand, I love Lightroom. On the other, this is also the same company that recently recommended canceling your next photo shoot because AI will make the pictures. I don’t even mind paying for software by subscription, but this feels super abusive. Investigating options…
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