mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchI was born, raised, and am still living in central Madagascar. Yes, really. Also known as DarHan on a few other sites.
Furry artist, frequently but not always NSFW.
Pretends to be a writer.
Current pfp by Kaiden (https://bsky.app/profile/kaidenhusky77.bsky.social).
The framing device for The Lord of the Rings is that it’s a book written by Bilbo and Frodo, with some additions by Sam.
Given that Sam is a gardener, my headcanon is that all the excessive descriptions of vegetation, especially the scene that lists all the species of plants that grow in Ithilien, were 100% his work.
Today’s take is that people who see LLMs and gen AI as a tool against the copyright system are missing the issue that LLMs and gen AI have the same exact flaw as the copyright system:
Megacorps laying claim to all of human creativity and aiming to be the only ones allowed to sell it back to you.
Like… baby, the hundred-million-dollar companies transparently running a “first hit is free” scam on you are absolutely NOT about “democratizing” shit.
Heard in a YouTube video just now:
“Aww, a quokka!”
“A what?”
“A quokka!”
“The thing that chicken have?”
“That’s… no. That’s a cloaca.”
“Oh.”
Sorry, my brain last night decided to remember that time a former mutual announced in public that they unsubscribed from several Patreons because, paraphrased, “$5 for full-res illustrations is a rip-off, give me MORE if I’m paying that much”.
Aside from the fact that they described the exact way I’m running my Patreon as a “rip-off”, consider the optics of complaining in public that you’re “only” getting several full-res illustrations for
FIVE (5)
dollars.
Today in sad news:
Tsitakakantsa, the widest ever recorded baobab tree, is showing early signs of dying after nine centuries of life.
In the last few years, I’ve seen far many more people criticizing progressives for having a cult-like devotion to Bernie Sanders, than I’ve seen actual progressives displaying a cult-like devotion to Bernie Sanders.
In fact, I’ve run into a good dozen of the former in the last week alone, but can’t remember when I last interacted with the latter.
Do you think it’s a bug or a feature that all those ID verification laws will have the side effect of walling poorer countries off from the internet?
(The poorer the country, the fewer forms of ID are recognized as “valid” by ID verification orgs, often leaving the notoriously hard-to-obtain passport as the only accepted option.)
TIL that the Malagasy legislature passed a law last month that any land plot acquired by a non-Malagasy citizen during the colonial era will have its ownership reverted to the Malagasy state, unless the previous owner can prove that the land has since passed into private Malagasy ownership.
Baguette-mayonnaise-tomato sandwich, my scandalously simple beloved.
130 years ago, 6 August 1896, the French legislature voted to annex Madagascar as a French colony.
From Tumblr user AtomicWrongs:
I also think it’s important to tell the difference between “the author’s barely-disguised fetish” and “the audience member’s unrealised kink that they’re projecting onto the author because seeing a character tied up is making them feel funny in their Audience Member Parts”
This is the second day in a row that I see blatant Russian propaganda on a major Malagasy news site.
Getting bolder, are we.
