Notices by ErosBlog Bacchus (erosblog@kinkyelephant.com)

I will be a lot more outraged about the Chinese LLM that won't talk about Tiananmen Square when Google's Gemini grasps firmly aholt of its balls long enough to answer a question about Melania Trump's immigration status.

#AI #LLM #Censorship #DeepSeek

While reading today's column by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) the little literacy engine that reads words aloud to me in my head bounced HARD off the stack of fricatives in the word "enshittificatory" and then, like the driver of a monster truck at a demolition derby, backed up and revved the engine and hit that word AGAIN with greater speed/force, and then a THIRD time before finally bouncing over the obstruction and (shouting "Whee, that was fun!") powering onward.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/#praxis

@NewtonMark @Unixbigot re "killed while spearfishing in shark attack"

Not to critique anybody's fun, but I grew up in grizzly bear country and came away with the attitude that if a person takes weapons in hand and goes out hunting in the territory of apex predators, that's a very special kind of choice. Resulting injuries or deaths should probably be tracked for statistical purposes, but not in the "wild animal attacks" statistics.

Is there a category for "fucked around, found out?"

Hey, this is a smart audience, so.

Indulge my fantasy that there might be a 3D printer under my tree. (There isn't.)

Assume I've never touched a piece of CAD or 3D modeling software, but I yearn to learn.

Know that I am loathe to spend time learning commercial or web tools, even free ones. I am a FOSS bigot.

What free open source tools (ideally, ones with attached communities) should I be looking at?

And what are some good "learning for the novice" resources?

Boosts welcome.

Thanks!

@fredbrooker

No.

I reject that entirely.

On top of the fact that phrasings like "little people" are destructive of the solidarity that we're all gonna need to survive, it's just factually incorrect.

"Little people" aren't capable of assaulting public interest institutions like the Archive and Wikipedia. That takes the concentrated malice of super-wealthy individuals.

If you thought the publishing industry trying to take down the Internet Archive was bad, and now you're watching Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia:

Billionaires are why we can't have anything nice.

Even when we do it ourselves, we can't have it. If it helps us learn, understand, think, reason, or argue, they don't want that for us.

They will kill it.

Is there a guillotine smiley? There needs to be a guillotine smiley.

Your infrequent reminder that corporate status is a gift that we the people give to wealthy investors for their convenience and protection, under an ancient belief that society as a whole will benefit.

No one has a right to corporate status. It can be withdrawn at any time by we-the-people acting through our legislatures.

If corporations do not serve us, we can do away with them.

@hagen @tante It's pretty normal for a word to have a narrow technical meaning and a much broader popular usage that is gleefully adopted by people who do not know or never understood the narrow technical sense of the word.

#Enshittification @pluralistic

Say whatever else you will about the modern world, but never think we take our fancy pool-shootin' billiards tricks as seriously as we used to!

https://www.erosblog.com/2024/12/14/trick-shot/

PS: I'd love to live in a world in which all the porn on Mastodon had alt-texts as detailed as this one I just wrote.

#Pool #Pussy #Trick #PoolTrick #Billiards #SpreadPussy #TrickShot #Porn #VintagePorn #PubicHair #Bush #Blonde #Brunette #BlondeBush #Vintage #Stockings #Hoisery #Lingerie #BlackLace #1970s

I'd also like all the porn shared on here to be ATTRIBUTED to the best ability of the people posting it, but that's an old mania of mine and I've long since made peace with the fact that most people don't share it or give even a tiny fuck about it.

As for the alt descriptions, I have OK vision but I'm still amazed how often I need (want) alt text to help me puzzle out WTAF I'm looking at. Being somewhat face-blind and color vision impaired no doubt contributes to that.

#AltText #Attribution

In the USA before Dobbs, abortion couldn't be outlawed outright, so opponents pioneered ways to make it "impossible but not illegal." Mostly by dreaming up impossible regulations for abortion providers.

This post is not about abortion.

Anti-porn forces are following the same playbook with age verification. AV isn't intended to "protect the children" or whatever. It's impossible to comply; customers won't ID themselves. It's a porn biz killer, and that's its purpose.

#Porn #AgeVerification

I absolutely guarantee that if somebody somehow managed to thread the needle by coming up with a cryptographic protocol and business model that solved all the privacy and security and trust issues in a cheap and easy-to-implement way, the folks who passed the current batch of AV laws would balk, object, and change the laws to forbid it. Because the impossibility is the point of these laws.

Nobody cares how oldsters feel about the slang coinages of younger and cooler people, and that's right and proper.

Nonetheless, I treasure the addition of "yeet" and "rizz" to the American English vocabulary.

#yeet #rizz

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @jon @pluralistic

See also: Never Build Your House On Someone Else's Land

https://www.erosblog.com/2022/02/07/someone-elses-land/

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @jon @pluralistic

I am struck by the sudden realization that Bacchus's First Rule (which I had come to view as increasingly obsolete in the social media age) remains fully operative, inasmuch as "your own server that you control" can now be, or include, a fully-federated social media presence.

https://www.erosblog.com/2013/06/11/bacchus-first-rule-of-the-internet/

#BacchusFirstRule

Our side does misinformation too.

All day my TikTok's been full of something billed as a church choir singing Madonna's blowjob song "Like A Prayer" and people laughing that these Jesus freaks think it's a hymn. (Which it is, sorta; a hymn to cock.)

In truth all of TikTok is reacting to video of a pop music concert in Germany. They know what they're singing along to.

Misinformation can be great fun.

#Misinformation #Madonna #LikeAPrayer #Blowjob #Choir #TikTok #Christians #Cock #Dick #Penis

I'm so out of touch I've spent half of today scratching my head and thinking "So, wait... are people really out there paying for sex work with Venmo? That feels like terrible opsec to me."

#SexWork #SexWorker #Venmo #OpSec

@AnarchoNinaWrites It's not just Republicans working at the tech companies that are putting machine guns on the robot dogs as fast as they can.

@AnthonyJK If my theory of pornocalypse is true, and the things I've read about venture capital involvement in Bluesky are also true, then evolution in a progressive direction on sex work and porn is impossible for them.

Super-summarized: financial inflection events are the main driver of pornocalypse. Venture capital always has one eye on the exit. Which means a VC-funded company will always tend to get more pornocalyptic, not less.

I say all this in abstract, I've never looked at Bluesky.

"Start archiving shit now." This applies to your favorite porn, your adult discussion boards, all the media in your online community spaces. But especially porn that's important to you. You need to have it on your own storage media. There's no guarantee that online adult stuff (or the internet itself) will survive the next four years, Project 2025, random acts of fascism and authoritarianism, whatever. Archive, archive, archive! Become an erotic data hoarder.

#archive #backup #porn #fascism