Notices by Robert Kingett (weirdwriter@caneandable.social)

Updated my list of Audio only Let's Plays https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250409/ #Gaming #Games #LetsPlay #LetsPlays #Podcast #Podcasts

MAGA cannot have two daddies because it's woke.

New post: The Web is Fantastic Actually https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250603/

ActivityPub is Limewire but for Bluesky @cwebber

Windows #LibreOffice experts, how can I actually check grammar? In Microsoft Word, you can check grammar, but it’s very aggressive and it’s also very wrong at times, so I want to compare the LO grammar checker, but can’t figure out how to enable it, nor check for grammar when I’m checking for spelling errors. Can someone send me a written tutorial? I know YouTube tutorials exist, but I find them parsley useless because I use a screen reader. #AskFedi

This is probably the only pro LLM post I will share, because I really want you to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. I do find it immensely hilarious that he has to use agents in order for the LLM to be relatively useful. So if you have to use agents to make your large language model productivity work for you, I think it fails on multiple levels, but I really want you guys to see how deep the Kool-Aid is and why we’re not getting over the hype even when the hype dies. My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/ #AI #LLM

My new golden rule. If I spot one AI anything in your work, and yes, I can tell. I'm never financially supporting you, ever, Authors, if you can't be bothered to write it, why should I pay for it, let alone read it? https://www.404media.co/authors-are-accidentally-leaving-ai-prompts-in-their-novels/ #IndieWriter #IndieAuthor #AI #AIHype

This! I know that me personally, I started unfollowing people that almost never use CW's. I like them, the more and more I see people use them. It can be great ways to summarize lengthy posts, for example, as well, but what people use it for most is warning others about content in your post, like overtly political stuff in the US, or hate crimes, or really anything that your followers might find unsettling or you think they need to know. For example, if I share a Substack link, I've started CWing Substack links, but I also use them like post subjects or post header text, like an email subject, like if I'm replying to someone I often take the time to put a RE at the start of the CW so people know it's a reply. But here's some stuff on CW's in the Fediverse. I use them for a lot more things. https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-content-warnings-cws-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/ @OctaviaConAmore @justanotheramy @Fragglemuppet @MyView

One Last Time, Discord Is Not A Suitable Replacement For Forums https://aftermath.site/discord-forums-move-champions-neverwinter-star-trek-support-faq #Discord #Forum #Forums

@evan @bignose I don’t consider small businesses to be giant corporations, but For me, Not from my social timeline, no. That’s what calendars and an RSS feed for their own website is for. I’d rather get updates like that from individual artists on here.

This is why Luigi is a hero. Cigna insurance denies Santa Monica man a life-saving lung transplant as he was preparing to fly cross-country for procedure - ABC7 Los Angeles https://abc7.com/post/cigna-insurance-denies-santa-monica-man-life-saving-lung-transplant-he-was-preparing-fly-cross-country-procedure/16361710/ #Healthcare #Health

i’m going to write a longer blog post about this, but There’s an underlying current of capitalism brain within this article that manages to blame poor blind people. It’s just shy of calling those that expressed dissatisfaction entitled. Of course I think that independent developers should get compensated. This article though, goes beyond that premise. In short, this article unironically encapsulates the modern viewpoint of the blind community in one post and amplifies why our community really, really, needs to examine more intersectionality and especially class consciousness as opposed to just blindness issues. For me, it just reinforced the notion I have that blind people Across countries really don’t like poor blind people and has the constant common ableist mentality among our community that breadcrumbs are enough, and we shouldn’t ask for more or criticize anything because we get use out of the thing we’re criticizing. For example, I’m pretty sure that there wasn’t a horde of blind people emailing the developers 24 hours a day. I suspect the author forgot that timezones exist and that there are other blind people across the world that are emailing at different times of the day and night. I found myself rolling my eyes at the very surface level arguments this article was proposing as a reply to the backlash. Blind Users' Negative Attitudes Towards Paid Apps: Mindsets and the Struggles of Sustainable Development - Accessible Android https://accessibleandroid.com/blind-users-negative-attitudes-towards-paid-apps-mindsets-and-the-struggles-of-sustainable-development/ #Android #Blind

Honestly wish I'd discovered Clive Barker sooner, especially after this direct quote.

Noting Rowling’s vast financial success, Barker felt that Rowling’s newfound position of fame ought to exclude her from discussing trans rights. He added, “It really just seems redundant for a woman as successful, as validated in the world, as Ms Rowling, to be negative, to be disruptive if you will, to a very beaten up subculture. These are human beings. She has no right to opine, I think, upon the lives of human beings that she does not know.”

“I feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are,” Barker continued. “And certainly transgender people are on the edge of our culture. And here you have one of the most successful people in the frigging world – Ms Rowling. Going after a very emotionally vulnerable portion of our culture. It just seems unnecessary and unfair.”

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/hellraiser-clive-barker-publishing-homophobia/

#Books #Author #Authors @bookstodon

But, this is the big problem. This is what keeps “normies” away from the Fediverse. It’s not the LGBTQ+ people, it’s not the immigrants trying to establish a voice for themselves online, it’s the “politically neutral” tech-obsessed foss-bros who are so insulated from harm and hatred, that they can’t tell the difference between a guy who would ship you off to prison for being gay, and someone who thinks everyone should have equal rights.

I’ll say it until I’m blue in the face, the Fediverse needs to excise people like this as hard as they have this past week, from ActivityPub, entirely. Over and over again. Until they return to Twitter, and we never have to look at their shitty little profile pictures, ever again.

https://mkultra.monster/social-media/2025/04/28/fashtodon

#Fosstodon #Fediverse #Mastodon

Oh ah, I thought you were actually arguing in good faith! Nice try, but I didn't say anything about outright banning them. Besides, that's impossible anyway, but us woke anarchists can make Nazis so uncomfortable that they just stop using the thing anyway. Like, how, for example, Linus Torvalds being an open communist. https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm @tyil

They don't like the indieweb and open web for the same reasons you and or I do. For example, they view the indieweb as a way to escape all those minorities. This is just one example, but this gets at the idea https://rubenerd.com/the-other-side-of-nostalgia-and-the-indieweb/ @tyil

Is there a category/listing of instances with giant character limits I can point people to? If they want a huge character limit instance such as mine? I tried looking at @FediGarden but they don't have that info/category. #Fediverse #Mastodon #AskFedi

Longer blog post coming but of course PewDiePie would love #Linux and otherwise. It isn't a secret that fascists, and their enablers, love the open web, open source, and even open technology, and places like the people focused web and the indieweb, as an example. this isn't new. Open source and open technology and the IndieWeb etc. Will always attract fascists. Why do they love these things? Simple, they believe they have a space free from community consequences to spew their hatred. You can combat this in a number of small and big ways. Some small ways are making them obviously uncomfortable, and or outright unwelcome, remember the guy that kicks out Nazis even though they say please and thank you?

First, some petty ways.

Make all of your Linux distro wallpaper LGBT+ inclusive.

But on a more serious note,

You can't outright stop them from using open source software. You can, though, make it very clear their bullshit won’t be tolerated here.

This means prioritizing your marginalized contributors over them. Implement their ideas over obvious Nazi ideas. Do things that tell them, hey, your bullshit isn't welcome. Force them to look for non woke software.

You won’t chase them from the internet. That's not possible, but you can force them to be around other Nazis exclusively and that's important because they need numbers. You don't need them. They need you as a recruiting ground. It really is that simple.

As for all who don't believe PewDiePie is a fascist or at least a fascist sympothiser, https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/PewDiePie
#PewDiePie #OpenSource #IndieWeb #Software #Tech #Technology

Updated my list of audio only let's plays. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250409/ #Podcast #Podcasts #LetsPlay #Games #Gaming

Calling All Mad Scientists: Reject "AI" as a Framing of Your Work • Buttondown https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/calling-all-mad-scientists-reject-ai-as-a-framing/ #AI #AIHype