zdl

zdl, 7 days ago to mastodon

Why is #mastodon looking more like Twitter every time there's an update?

Please stop trying to be Twitter. I quit Twitter partially over all this kind of stuff being pushed at me non-stop.

If I want to find someone to follow, I'll look. Don't assume I want your fucking algorithmic recommendations.

zdl, 7 days ago to firefox

You know, I think I just found the perfect browser plug-in: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/block-the-rich/

#Firefox #PlugIn #BlockTheRich

zdl, 14 days ago to random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEjCNzGOe3Q

There is literally nothing that won't get death threats from the right wing.

We find out that statues were once painted? Death threats.

🙄

zdl, 14 days ago to random

OK, this is quite possibly the weirdest sound recording and reproduction device I've ever heard of. It beats even wire recorders for weirdness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBNTAmLRmUg

zdl, 16 days ago to random

@dansup @dansup The alt text on the post https://pixelfed.social/p/zhang.dianli/699843661291068434?fs=1 doesn't seem to be showing to me for some reason. I'm using Firefox if that helps. A friend I asked to check can see it using Chromium, however.

Do you have any advice?

zdl, 16 days ago to random

I wish I could credit this clever work of art. If anybody knows, I'll edit with full credit.

zdl, 18 days ago to random

So this little video is making the rounds in Chinese social media.

I'm calling it now: the Democrats have no hope in this election. They've alienated the demographic that they so desperately need the support of for calling them "anti-semitic" for...checks notes...opposing an open genocide.

The youth are not going to be voting Trump, but they're definitely not voting Biden either. Trump will win. Enjoy your next four years.

(Reposted because I forgot the actual video! I'm an idjit.)

video/mp4

zdl, 21 days ago to random

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/15/tech/uber-shuttle-airport-concert-annual-product-update/index.html

Techbrodudes reinvent something that's been around for ages, only making it worse.

You know, public transit has been around for AGES before you got your grubby little rent-seeking mitts on it and tore it down, you festering horde of goblins!

#Uber #Reinvent #Terrible #TechBroDude

zdl, 24 days ago to random

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I present to you American-style "Buddhism".

https://americanbuddhist.net/2024/05/16/the-jewish-plot-to-enslave-humanity/

For my friends who wonder why I'm instantly suspicious of any westerner I encounter who claims to be "Buddhist", here's why.

zdl, 1 month ago to random

Isn't it amazing that the ten greatest love stories of, and I quote, "all time", happened to all fall within about a 200 year span and in the circle of European culture?

https://www.yourtango.com/love/greatest-love-stories-of-all-time

The parochial nature of this list hurts SO BADLY!

zdl, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

TALKING HEAD: In China today, the communist government demonstrated its evil again as it sent armed and armoured police and vehicles against peacefully protesting students nationwide.

frantic hissing from off-screen

TH: What's that?

frantic hissing continues

TH: Oh.

short pause

TH: In the USA today, student rioters have forced universities nationwide to bring in heavily armed police and even the National Guard to restore order in the face of illegal occupations of public spaces.

zdl, 1 month ago to random

Conspiracy theory time.

(This is mostly in jest. Mostly.)

Phones, even when "turned off" are still active and can still do things. The fact that modern phones don't have removable batteries is so that the surveillance state (whether formal or capitalists) will always have an in on you.

zdl, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

This notice was at the bottom of a poster board for a musical theatre production.

Look at it. Read it. Try to guess which production is so disturbing it needs a trigger warning.

I'll put the answer in a (hidden) reply.

#MusicalTheatre #TriggerWarning #Guess

zdl, 1 month ago to ai

Encyclopaedia Metallum¹ just put out an interesting statement² on AI. Despite being in text, I have to make it an image because of character counts. One of the ironies of living in my SF future apparently.

#AI #GenerativeAI #SupportArt #Policy #Metal #MetalArchives #EncyclopaediaMetallum #MySFFutureIsBetrayed

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¹ https://www.metal-archives.com/
² https://www.metal-archives.com/news/view/id/296

zdl, 1 month ago to vegan

#Vegan #BlackMetal #Chef

"What are four words I never expected to see together, Alex?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoE8jLGE6R4

zdl, 1 month ago to China

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/15/china/china-israel-iran-mediator-intl-hnk/index.html

Oh, this is a hilarious trap. "Can China play a role in avoiding an all-out war in the Middle-East?"

Possible outcomes:

1. The Chinese government manages to play that role. Now China is blamed for everything that happens. "Because we know they can do this!"

2. The Chinese government doesn't play that role. Now China is blamed for everything that happens. "Because we know they can do this … but chose not to!"

(1/2)

#China #Israel #Iran #USA #perfidy

zdl, 2 months ago to random

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna146799

It's time for countries around the world to start standing up to #billionaires. Charge them. Try them in absentia if need be. Use #extradition treaties to hem in their movements. Go after their assets with great vigour.

The only good #billionaire is a dead billionaire. A decent second place is a billionaire that's scared to move.

18+ Vaccinations in Book Form?

A while back, I set myself the project of figuring out how much of the MIT undergrad physics curriculum could be taught from free online books. The answer, so far, is more than I had anticipated but much less than what we deserve. But working on that, along with a few other conversations, has got me to wondering. We’ve seen...

zdl, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to generativeAI

The #Hotpot #GenerativeAI picture generator has an interesting feature: it seems to be flatly impossible to generate a picture with both #DonaldTrump and #VladimirPutin in which Trump is in any way subservient to or even equal to Putin.

This is the closest I've come, which is not very close at all. It still has Trump slightly more in the foreground than Putin, despite the prompt stating they should be side by side.

🧵 (1/n)

zdl, 2 months ago to generativeAI

Wow! SO just pointed me at this article.

It's almost scary how accurate this is!

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

And now I have a framework to use when talking to a #GenerativeAI true believer.

zdl, 2 months ago to random

http://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-2023-hugo-awards-somehow-it-got.html

I seems if you say "Hugo Awards" three times into a mirror another scandal pops up.

"Appalling as it is, the choice to screen English-language nominees for ideological compatibility may, in fact, be a sideshow to the real scandal, which is that hundreds of Chinese voters have been disenfranchised. And—barring even more revelations—this disenfranchisement cannot be blamed on PRC sensibilities and censorship."

Fuck #Worldcon.
Fuck the #Hugoawards.

With a rusty chainsaw.

zdl, 2 months ago to random

Could someone explain to me why I'm getting HUNDREDS of these popping up all the time today on Mastodon?

It does this non-stop while I'm just sitting here doing nothing, sometimes stacking six or seven high.

@Mastodon
#MastodonBug
#UncommunicativeMessages

zdl, 2 months ago to random

If you want to see white supremacy in action, just take a gander at the #RejectedConfuciusDrafts hash tag "game".

zdl, 5 months ago to Facebook

@kissane wrote a devastating critique of #Facebook/#Meta and its activities in #Myanmar. TL;DR summary: Meta are #WarCriminals. It's that stark. That brutal. (My words, not those of @kissane.)

I'll add more brutal words: if you use any of Meta's products, you're a #quisling #complicit in supporting war criminals.

Have a nice day.

zdl, 6 months ago to lemmy

So I found a place called #Lemmy that's like a "Reddit" without the corporate espionage and other such shitfuckery. I've decided to open a community for fans of #FGU (Fantasy Games Unlimited) games to see if I can't find any more people whose gaming life was shaped by this wild, weird, wonderfully eclectic publisher.