Solana just published a trans-bashing ad, where a man sees a therapist because he's been "having thoughts again ... about innovation ... crypto, AI" and she urges him to "channel his energy into something more productive like coming up with a new gender ... Why don't we focus on pronouns? ... Numbers are non-binary."
It finishes: "America is back. It's time to accelerate."
Exciting: The Ghost team has just released the beta version of its ActivityPub support for people using their hosted service
filling out my pre-screening form for my annual physical and wondering when they’ll add “oh, you know, the expected amount these days” as an option for when they ask if i’m feeling down, depressed or hopeless
every damn time
why is my chocolate yelling at me to get back to work
get library cards and use them often (online e-book and audiobook rentals count!). sign up to volunteer at your local library. donate money to your library’s general fund. run for a spot on the library board.
join and participate in your local “friends of the library” group. donate books (if your library accepts book donations). set up your own little free library. vote for library funding when it’s on your local ballot.
The Trump administration is explicitly targeting libraries, museums, and the press in the latest executive order.
Also going after services for the homeless, minority businesses, and community development.
BlueSky’s “user intents” is a good proposal, and it’s weird to see some people flaming them for it as though this is equivalent to them welcoming in AI scraping (rather than trying to add a consent signal to allow users to communicate preferences for the scraping that is already happening).
I think the weakness with this and Creative Commons’ similar proposal for “preference signals” is that they rely on scrapers to respect these signals out of some desire to be good actors. We’ve already seen some of these companies blow right past robots.txt or pirate material to scrape.
Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats"
Perhaps someone should rescue her from where she's apparently stuck twenty years in the past, which is the only possible explanation for those hardware limitations and the apparent lack of access to cloud compute.
