Notices by Steve Williams (blabberlicious@toot.community)

@Aaron_David @steter
Add Donald Trump's Lawyers to this list?

Fresh meat for the Tooting Bollard Defense Network!

Got there too late for the money shot.
Just it had been 'decoupled'.

This thread is well worth a read, if you hate careless drivers as much as I do

👆 👆 👆 👆

#WorldBollardAssociation #suv #waragainstcars

“Struggle to make you presentation pap?”

#fixed_it_for_you

With all that ai juice, Microshaft could have used a spell checker.

Mac users - BUG or 'feature'?:
When I record an audio memo into Notes or Voice Memo, it only does a voice transcription if using the iPad/Mac's internal microphones.

External microphone do not work, with one exception, On the Mac, if you use your iphone as a mic source it works.

Can anyone else confirm this? I'd be pissed if transcription dint work with external mics.

Trying to set up a workflow for a disabled senior, and this is a kick in the nuts.

Cheers!

#mac
#accessibility

Fantastic reporting for #London peeps. Worth your support. https://www.londoncentric.media/p/london-news-london-centric-best-investigative-reporting-2025

“A 10-minute-long clip with real actors can take as long as six months, and it might be tens of thousands of dollars because of the amount of time it goes into writing the script, iterating on it, getting into the studio, actually recording it, and then editing it,” Sivaji said. “What we’re hearing from customers is that it allows them to dramatically scale how many people can make these kinds of videos and how often they can make them. “

Fuck right off, & keep going.

https://www.theverge.com/news/766557/google-vids-ai-avatar-gemini-image-to-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

What does that even mean? Dramatically scale the number of people? So you can have thousands of people producing the same content that teams of talented, experienced people working together made.

Go.fuck.yourself.

The minister told PoliticsHome in January: “ChatGPT is fantastically good, and where there are things that you really struggle to understand in depth, ChatGPT can be a very good tutor for it.”

No words can adequately express the intense levels of irony implicit in this idiot’s statement.

#aisucks

London is my > 60s Oyster.

@steter
Is the strongly worded letter mightier than the weakly worded acronym?

Having doubts.

This my Grandfather “Chico” and his brother Fernando. They were brought up by their father after their mum died suddenly. Penniless, they waited on taxis on the streets of Buenos Aires.
Eventually, their father sent them down south to Patagonia to a friend, with a note they weren’t to open till they met.

The note said he was dying, and asked for his sons to be looked after.

They never saw him again.

My Argentine aunt and godmother, Grace, with her daughters. Shot by dad in Chelsea in the 80s.

The good genes defiantly didn’t make it across the Atlantic. 🥹

@urlyman
Speaking of Portsmouth, reminded that my house in Devon was part of fishing community that warned the tech bro of the day not to dredge the bay to make dockyards.

Ignored. The village was destroyed.

We now have a car park for uselsss nuclear submarines.

Progress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallsands

Nation addicted to Cheap Shit outraged at being sold out by a Rich Shit.

Exploitation is currently being nationalised.

No need for imports.

#capitalism

Today’s internet is sponsored by Kirby’s.

#EdwardianMedicine

UK Breaking News: Guardian more interested in Trains Rights than #transrights 🤷

@lisamelton

@steter @KimPerales
That’s breakfast off the menu. 🤮

@KimPerales @steter
The facade is cracking.

Meta has joined the chat:
Got the welcome it deserved.

#aisucks

Seeing fedi nerds saying this somehow ‘evades’ copyright, when, in reality, it allows idiots to piss all over the legacy of artists.

Off they go, into the #AI woodchipper to be subsumed & forgotten - just grist to the content mill.

But you’ve been ‘empowered’ with a creative tool. Thanks Sam.

Imagine if Miyazaki learnt his skills by cranking out copies of shitty memes, rattling off prompts and plundering his rivals.

This Idiocracy is sucking power from us. Literally and figuratively.