lilithsaintcrow

ComicContext, 7 hours ago to random

anarchiv, 11 hours ago to random Norwegian

Disco Elysium implies the existence of Disco Tartarus

Loukas, 4 days ago to random

Swedish is like Linux. It's quite obvious how the language works, and you can make your own words if you care to.

French is Apple. Try to make your own modifications and they will SEND YOU TO JAIL.

English is your grandparents' PC. We have no idea how it works. Where did all these weird plug-in words come from????

eclectech, 4 days ago to photography

We're going on a cygnet hunt.
We're going to snap a fluffy one.
What a beautiful day!
We're not scared.

#photography #birds

trochee, 4 days ago to random

> the immune response to the “AI” grift [is] beginning to mount now. …A lot more […damage] will be done as the grift continues to wreak ecological destruction and bad actors take advantage of its googly eyes and the human urge to empathy.

Lili Saintcrow | Hijacking Empathy
https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2024/05/hijacking-empathy/

-- @lilithsaintcrow

Linkshaender, 5 days ago to tech

At a certain point in time your stuff is geeky high-tech, the next moment you walk into the „early telecommunications“ exhibition in a museum and there‘s your old mobile phone. 😆
(Museo nazionale della scienza e della tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milano)
#tech #history #retrocomputing

futurebird, 7 days ago to random

At the Role-Playing Games club today, a fun debate. The whole campaign is on this ice-locked ship in the arctic: the DM introduced the possibility of sirens.

One player declares their character is ace and therefore immune to romantic seduction.

Not so, says DM these sirens call out with "whatever you desire most" ... another player wonders if, since their character is monk seeking enlightenment and the death of all worldly desires are they immune?

Apparently the sirens do enlightenment too.

nocontexttrek, 7 days ago to StarTrek

#StarTrek

plaguepoems, 7 days ago to random

If I could explain
how to achieve immunity
from this virus
or from the next virus
trust me, I would do so,
but I doubt anyone would listen
for what interests most people
is not immunity
from this or that virus
but rather immunity
from the consequences
of their actions.

ktempestbradford, 7 days ago to random

100% in agreement. I really want the Galaxy Ring, but not if it costs as much as an Oura and requires a subscription. Especially as a galaxy phone user!

"We need to stop letting companies double-dip with high upfront costs and required subscriptions | Android Central"

https://www.androidcentral.com/wearables/we-need-to-stop-letting-companies-double-dip-with-high-upfront-costs-and-required-subscriptions

Unixbigot, 8 days ago to random

The cheque said “AMOUNT: two dollars and forty cents BEING FOR: classified ad”, rounded block letters in green ink amid the printed prompts. My mother never wrote cursive. “Thanks Mum“ I said, “I’ll pay you back from my paper round money on Saturday”

“No need” she said, “I’m going out; if you have the ad ready I’ll post it for you.”

I folded the cheque and the form I’d clipped from the newspaper. It had been tricky writing on the newsprint with a pen “HOME COMPUTER Amstrad CPC6128 with monitor, printer and external 5.25 inch drive. Original software plus over 30 games. $425. Ph 551806”.

After Mum left I went to my room and booted up my new PC, with its Extra Beige system unit and Different Beige monitor. I patted my 6128’s screen sitting on the floor under my desk. “Sorry old girl, no room to keep you but I’ll find you a nice home”.

Before I even got Kings Quest loaded the doorbell rang.

The visitor was a woman with amazing purple hair, and cat ears. “Hi, she said, I’m Kit, here about the Amstrad”

“But…it’s not even posted yet. And I only listed a phone number!”

“Never mind that”, she smiled, bouncing on her toes “do you still have it?”

I nodded, too flabbergasted to speak

“Four twenty five, right?” she said, thrusting an envelope at me, “here’s five hundred, keep the change. Now, what I want-“

“Wait, what are these things”. I’d opened the envelope to find five slippery rectangles of plastic bearing “100” in large letters, coloured variously green and yellow with a transparent region in the middle. “These aren’t-“

“Oh shazbot!” my visitor said, snatching the envelope back. “Bee Arr Bee”. Then she vanished, with an electric ZZZZAAPP sound.

ZZZAAAPP. She was back, holding out a sheaf of five grey paper rectangles, the recently introduced but rarely seen $100 notes, thick linen paper with subtle colours - easy to photocopy and colour in with textas, I’d seen on TV. I held the note up to the sky to see the metal thread and watermark. “Are these real?”

“Trust me,” she said, “they were hard to find but totally legit.”

“Okay, uh do you want to see the computer running?”. I felt like I was running to catch up with this interaction.

“No need” she grinned. “I’m giving it to you. Box it up and stash it in Mum’s roof. You’ll be glad to have it when you’re older.”

“Wh…what?”

“Do they speak english in what?” she muttered half to herself?

“what?”

“Exactly! Right on script”. She poked me in the chest. “You’ll be alright kid. Forget about the ‘strad for a couple of decades, OK?”

She ran hand through her brilliant purple hair, vibrating like she was having the best time ever. “Oh yeah, you’ll need these”. She tugged at her cat ears and i realized they were a headband. She handed me the band with its two ears. “One last thing“—a suddenly serious look—“listen to your dreams. You’ll know when it’s time. See ya!”

ZZZAAPPPP

I spent the $500 but I kept the ears.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

djsundog, 8 days ago to random

if you're an android user and you get a text message from Gemini, Google's oft-renamed bullshit machine, do yourself and the rest of us a favor and

• long-press the message to select it
• open the three dot menu in the upper right
• select "block"
• leave the checkbox marked to "report spam"
• submit that shit

send every signal possible to the corporate drones that we don't want this bullshit invading our lives.

thomasfuchs, 9 days ago to random

The Microsoft Recall thing is just a stepping stone to send literally everything you see or write on your computer to Microsoft.

They desperately need more data to feed to their LLM moloch to show modest improvements and keep the lie that it “will reach human-level intelligence in 1-2 years” going for a few more years to milk the investors.

jeremycshipp, 10 days ago to random

You are fantastic. You are an attic mannequin with seven rows of shark teeth. You are a grimoire written in moss. You are a school of anglerfish performing a phantasmagorical light show. You are an eldritch hermit crab with a city for a shell.

mcc, 14 days ago to random

"NoAI" patches for video games that remove all assets that were partially or entirely created with mass-scraped large NN models and replacing those game elements with intentionally crude MS Paint drawings

luckytran, 14 days ago to random

The US government keeps telling us that COVID is fine now because “we have the tools.”

Well, they stopped requiring the reporting of COVID hospitalization data and they have ended programs for free tests, free masks, and now free vaccines.

We absolutely DO NOT have the tools.

violetblue, 14 days ago to random

Classic, changing your Terms of Service after a breach caused by your negligence

lilithsaintcrow, 14 days ago to random

"David Bowie still sang their praises: “They were one of the finest fucking rock bands of their time, in about 1973. They were extraordinary: they wrote everything, they played like motherfuckers, they were just colossal and wonderful, and nobody’s ever mentioned them..."" https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/fanny-the-first-female-rock-band-to-top-the-charts.html

stefan, 15 days ago to ai

Oh wow.

"To develop AI/ML models, our systems analyse Customer Data (e.g. messages, content and files) submitted to Slack as well as Other Information (including usage information) as defined in our privacy policy and in your customer agreement."

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

Via https://awscommunity.social/@Quinnypig/112452921509401306

#AI #slack #OptOut #privacy #enshittification #PlatformDecay #capitalism

mhthaung, 14 days ago to girlyposting

Whistling, the detective strolled in. "Morning!"

The rookie gulped his coffee. Hopefully his hangover would abate. "Enjoy last night, sir?"

"I did. Learned something interesting."

"Oh?" He cringed. Even if they'd all been plastered, they surely wouldn't have blabbed—

"My nickname."

"Er, I can explain..."

"I'm not offended. In fact, I'm flattered. After all, panthers are sleek, elegant, lethal at times..."

The rookie sighed with relief. No mention of #Pink.

#MastoPrompt #MicroFiction

glyph, 16 days ago to random

TIL the “what Bladerunner would have driven” tweet was real

cstross, 17 days ago to random

TFW your spouse's iMac has 20Mb(!) free out of 2Tb because they tried to use Adobe Cloud for something and now all attempts to reboot keep hanging (filesystem is okay, though) so the next step is to try for Target Disk mode and a cable to a laptop in order to delete cached junk and logfiles until it will boot enough for them to clean up properly …

UNIXen have never been great about coping with full disks/SSDs, but this is a new nadir, and fuck you very much, Adobe Creative Suite.

mythologyandhistory, 18 days ago to philosophy

Did you know that #Roman road design included #safety features?

In the ruins of #Pompeii, you'll notice small white stones interspersed with the large paving ones along the extensive roads.

Those white #stones are 'cats eyes', i.e. gems that have a single line of inclusion of crystals of another mineral inside.

Upon light reflective on them (from the #moon), they enable the walker to see that they are still on the right path!

https://youtu.be/74n6TgXbgAQ?si=56oPfp7mG1ENxflN

#history

dan_the_architect, 20 days ago to random

My hobby is going to my back porch, peering into the woods and saying “Everything the light touches is our kingdom” in a deep voice.

nash, 20 days ago to random

the aurora stuff was fun but I wish it had destroyed Meta or something too. I guess there's still time