Guillotine Jones, Flâneur

@stux@mstdn.social How can this NOT be named the Hieronymus Bosch fish?

If your Mastodon banner art features flying saucers, I, for one, want to follow you. Bong hits 4 extraterrestrial craft.

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social The only way to stop the leopards from eating one's face is to vote for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party. The first rule of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party is that we don't talk about the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party because we don't have any faces.

I, for one, am in a mood today. So if you can't be arsed to boost a post of mine rather than just liking it, I in return, won't be following your ass -- if I'm not already following you. Mastodon: We each make our own rules here, especially the moderators.

Unsealed documents reveal Microsoft executives' awareness that Ai scraping under the guise of fair use was, "...the greatest theft of labor in human history." Side effect: Mining news for Ai training also decimated news organizations' ability to perform their important public service. In defense of Ai, though, the use of automated plagiarism is dumbing down the population to the point where there will soon be nothing left worth scraping. https://www.wonkette.com/p/openai-and-microsoft-knew-their-sht #Ai #Microsoft #OpenAi #NewsMedia

@LordWoolamaloo@mastodon.scot I, for one, have lost confidence in billionaires, if I ever even had any.

Hey, friends, reading the AltText that our friends on the Fediverse provide with their visual imagery can be as much fun -- if not more -- as enjoying the visuals themselves. You'd be amazed at what kind of Easter eggs people are providing in their verbal descriptions. Might even inspire YOU to up your AltText game, too, also. #AltText #EasterEggs

@occult@vox.ominous.net Thanks! But it's pronounced potato. Hear the difference?

I recently started, "Just asking questions," with my family. You know, the way Tucker Carlson does. Now none of them are speaking to me anymore. I haven't copyrighted this yet -- and I don't know if Tucker Carlson has either. So feel free to do this with the people in YOUR life. Bong hits 4 Jesus. #Family #Communication #TuckerCarlson

@fesshole@mastodon.social I, for one, just love a happy ending.

@nonehitwonder@tenforward.social ...if we didn't keep allowing rich psychopaths to ruin everything. There, fixed it for you, None.

@grickle@mstdn.social Pets on trampolines. If only this peace process could be applied to human conflicts, Grickle.

@pissed_eagle@birdbutt.com I boost 4 corvids who use people as tools. Bong hits 4 Jesus.

@laprice@beige.party If a Potemkin village were a person, it could very well be JD Vance.

@futurebird@sauropods.win @maxleibman@beige.party I, for one, am ALREADY sorry about all the uncanny valley stuff that it's becoming increasingly difficult to avoid, @futurebird@sauropods.win .

@msbellows@c.im @riley@toot.cat @overholt@glammr.us Granted, you're paraphrasing the ruling about destroying books after stealing their content for Ai training Mr Bellows, and yes, these may be unintended consequences, and yes, I am not a lawyer, but doggone it, it sure looks like these Ai bros are interpreting this ruling as a license to kill human knowledge by destroying books. My blood is boiling, and it's not books that I think should be reduced to pulp, but the fortunes of those who are using their riches to impoverish everyone else. I

@overholt@glammr.us In my opinion, John, the paragraph you've quoted about Ai "migrating the value" of books by stealing their content for Ai use and then destroying them, is: 1) Incredibly self-serving to an absurd level. 2) A glaring unintentional self-own about gen-Ai's predatory nature. 3) Hubris on a level that is scarier than any horror movie I have ever seen. 4) A direct outcome of letting people become billionaires who see nothing wrong with using the rest of us as lab rats. 5) Clear evidence that capitalists require greater regulation or they're going to kill us all. #GenAi #Capitalism #Books

@LoganFive@beige.party Well, since you asked so nicely, John Logan, I shall be kind for as long as I can remember to do so.

@medieval_illuminations@mastodon.social They're just friends with camels. Bong hits 4 friendship.

@catsalad@infosec.exchange @captainvellalives@lgbtqia.space @ellis@transfem.social Is that a list or a gist? I, for one, can't believe I'm saying this, but I fear this may be too much CatSalad for me to digest.

@cR0w@infosec.exchange Bong hits 4 Winnie and the Pooh and Piglet.

@grickle@mstdn.social He got his mask just in time for the heist, Grickle.

@graham_arden@mastodon.social @occult@vox.ominous.net Let's call the whole thing off!

@geekysteven@beige.party I'm anticipating that post apocalypse, getting CPAP supplies will be the smallest of my problems, geekysteven.

@studiofox@beige.party The fucking classical Greek pottery style of this illustration is what really sells it, in my opinion. Bong hits 4 Hellas.

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social Surely some government entity is going to raise an alarm about the game of Russian roulette that Mr Musk and the other satellite bros are playing with those of us down here on the ground before the heat death of the universe makes this issue moot?

Bing huts 4 Hesus. Bing hits 4 Jesus. Bong hits 4 Jesus. Duck!

@grickle@mstdn.social I salute all artists and all art viewers, Grickle. After all, art is in the eye of the viewer.

@aliceamour@beige.party THIS is truthy AF, Alice.

@jackgangi@masto.hackers.town @catsalad@infosec.exchange Take his money, pleez!

@Bronwyn@sfba.social Boosted 4 reach. Well-loved cat needs a home.

@junesim63@mstdn.social Whenever I see a photo of Nigel Farage I can't help but think that, "I can't believe they're still letting me get away with this," is going through his conman's mind.

@billyjoebowers@mastodon.online I just need the hat and that would be me, Billy Joe.

@jerzone@techhub.social Bong hits 4 tomato meters! Or is it pronounced tomato?

@maxleibman@beige.party Now I'm thinking, Max, and I gotta say, "It hurts." Bong hits 4 rationality. Morse v Frederick 2007.

@BrianJopek@mastodon.world I'll have what she's having.

@Mastodon@mastodon.social @iftas@mastodon.iftas.org Boosted 4 reach. Bong hits 4 Jesus.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Genius move, Ms McGonigle. Now we need a national Amanda McGonigle Day.

@emersunn@beige.party Especially if they started out ignorant, Paul. You know, like most USians.

@ZenHeathen@beige.party Boosted 4 reach. Bong hits 4 Jesus.

@dugglebutt@beige.party Never made that connection B4, dugglebutt. Bong hits 4 Jesus.

@jerry@infosec.exchange Can relate and it's 3 hours earlier where I am. Bong hits 4 Jesus.

@gvwilson@mastodon.social This ^^^ !!!

@aliceamour@beige.party Bong hits 4 Ursula K. le Guin!

@tartley@fosstodon.org @emersunn@beige.party Everyone starts out ignorant, of course. The problem I have is with people who choose to remain so. Even worse are the ones who work actively to keep others ignorant for their own ends.

@nowathecat@mastodon.social Meow cat iz flat.

@dbattistella@mstdn.ca Okay, DB, I'm stumped. Never saw this before.

@grickle@mstdn.social ...Otherwise known as a scene from the Fediverse's #Monsterdon, Grickle.