oh i see its time for the yearly dose of online "lesbians can't fuck men" and "you can't be bisexual and lesbian" discourse on ye olde sociale mediaes
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mastodon 4.7.2+glitchbloodbath bisexual;- nonbinary shrike;- one thousand deep-sea worms in a convincing trench-coat. jaunty nihilist. they/them.
i'm into tech, tinkering, queer multiplicity theory, getting way too into the first 5% of projects, writing and slut riffs.
cape town, south africa
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lowering fuel taxes is not a solution to the fuel cost crisis
the solution to the fuel cost crisis is (1) a switch to green energy in the long term and (2) crushing sanctions against the usa in the short term
the year is 2040. i am the last developer hand-writing code. i make a UNION query in postgresql and a palantir drone disintegrates my apartment with a laser. a hologram of donald trump promises that the kerfuffle with Iran will be over soon.
some people with GenAI brain are so fucking funny
they'll say things like "god this stuff makes me miserable" and "if I could do it all over i wouldn't use it"
like, my fellow bioform.... you can just fucking stop. you know that, right? you can just put the fucking bobot down and start the process of repairing your brain, today. will it be difficult? perhaps. will it be better for you, and your company, and the world, in the medium, long, and probably even short term? most certainly.
genuine question
is spam actually still a problem
i see products like incogni or something that seem to base their entire identity off of being ways to defeat spam/places that have your emails
but i'll be honest: i barely, barely receive spam. i can't remember the last time i got a completely unsolicited Spam Email; at worst, i'll sometimes get something unwanted from a company who didn't properly unsub me or added me to a new mailer list.
do i just have good digital hygiene?
how often do you receive spam email?
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@adhdeanasl can't believe that working for the Torment Nexus LLC has now forever associated my name with all the tormenting it turns out we were doing. I'm as shocked as all of you! But not as shocked as the people we were tormenting with electricity.
you're poly because your heart is a boundless crucible of love and you could ladle it into the open mouths of a thousand different people and still find it no less full than when you started
I'm poly because having lots of partners will give them herd advantages if a blackmailer tries to kidnap one of them to get to me
we are not the same
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place "the cat is out of the bag" my guy. the cat is running an extortion racket. it is sitting on a leather couch filing its nails saying "gee, that's a nice bag youze got there, would be a damn shame if little old me was to jumps back in there" while you sob and shovel a billion dollars a day into its litter box.
alternate universe where everything is exactly the same except the book is called "Moby Penis"
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place "this ship has sailed' yes straight into fucking charybdis
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@qurlyjoe goddamn i love masto so fucking much look at all this weird eclectic cool shit that shows up in my feed
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when this bubble pops, if you're not following up every single thing your office tech chud says with the exact same words, but whiny and high pitched and silly sounding, you're not doing your job.
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if your AI coworker suggests that the ground is down and the sky is up, you should ask them why they've taken their Office Fool collar off while you double check their work.
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@gabboman @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place see also "The Muskrat" like you all know you can just say Elon Musk, that's fine.
that's it, i'm starting an i_fucking_told_you_so.md file in my obsidian vault
PARTNER RETURNS TOMORROW WHEEEEEEE
read a very incisive observation on Reddit that boils down to: AI artists don't want to make art, they want to possess art.
the name's Boned. Jams Boned.
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we have to reclaim being abhorrently mean to people who deserve it because they will never learn otherwise.
"you're not immune to propaganda, even if you say things like 'you're not immune to propaganda' " 🤝 "your tech won't solve things, even if you say things like 'your tech won't solve things' "
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@annika I bought my Loops in like, 2022, and they are still sitting at "best purchase of the 2020s" for me. Earplugs are fucking excellent.
"claude code is actually good for my ADHD--" i will fire you and your fucking adhd into the sun
I personally find "computer science is actually a humanities study" takes pretty trite because the reality is that almost everything is a humanities study, by the definition being applied.
Every field of study benefits enormously from the ability to relate to, work with, empathise with, understand the needs of, assess the impacts of new developments on, and be patient with, other humans. Every single one. Even engineering. Even physics. Even pure maths. Every single "malanthropic genius" these fields have seen would have been more impactful still if they had better humane skills. There is no field of study that is above its humanity.
The problem lies in the inherent lie that is told as to how STEM is superior to humanities, coupled with how computer science *can* be more accessible to those who do not have the brain type for the STEM fields in general, but also has loads of room for people of the abstract mathematics or hard engineering disciplines.
The problems we have are from people treating themselves not as exciting pioneers in a diverse field with a lot of humanity, but rather as temporarily embarrassed science majors, and demanding the respect they've been told science should have over the humanities.
Just saying "actually computer science is a humanities study" misses the point. All studies are humanities studies, and computer science contains multitudes.
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any man who must call his content rage bait is no true rage baiter
(very on mushrooms voice) dragons are probably related to centaur given how these are the only two notable species that have a 6-limbed symmetrical structure as opposed to the traditional arm/leg paradigm. dragons being coldblooded and lizardlike is probably an example of convergent evolution, perhaps scales being an adaptation to sliding more smoothly through gold piles and having better aerodynamics, with the coldblooded aspect suiting the isolated long-term hibernation/stasis cycles.
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@josephcox@infosec.exchange I personally believe that every single company agent involved in making this possible, from the lowest managerial level to the C-Suite, should never work a single minute in the industry again. I think they should be named and mocked every single time they open their mouths or post online.
There need to be consequences for people who willingly make the world a worse place.
topographer? idontevenknowher!
RE: @gutenberg_new@mastodon.social
So, this was a fun* little read.
(* misery, misogyny, animal abuse, death)
i have so many thoughts about Why Men Play Rugby and so many of them are specifically about The Trite Reasons Superficially Progressive People Say Men Play Rugby
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@thirstybear@agilodon.social https://yxzzy.wtf/posts/2026/ai-and-pdd/
I made a very similar observation on my silly little blog regarding Promotion Driven Development - the same excesses that make all the big tech firms inefficient behemoths are the ones that ensure only the most preening muppets get their ideas executed
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"um this is called conservatorship" no this is called people who run companies that profit off of and inspire financial ruin should never be allowed to touch money again
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@jonny@neuromatch.social imo, the other reason is that both of them have a foundational base that is inconsistent, superficial, reactionary, and has at best a passing familiarity with reality. GenAI is great at spitting out that kind of stuff!
But if the left adopts these tools, we're not going to accelerate our work, we're just going to see our work become less consistent, less meaningful, less considered, and less truthful.
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@kaleissin@wandering.shop @josephcox@infosec.exchange specifically "company agents" (i.e. people who represent the company's interests as opposed to the company's workers -- HR, management, C-suite, certain compliance departments)
i'm still so fucking mad KAOS only got one season
genuinely is there anyone in Helsinki or Berlinwho would like to do a house swap for a few of their coldest weeks for a few of my warmest ones (Cape Town)?
we should chat
yeah yeah a grown up danny torrence had a bunch of people in a trunk in a hotel. big deal. I'VE had a bunch of people in my trunk in a hotel, and im not writing any sequels about it
does anyone ever get the feeling that they are living in the timeline that keeps them alive for the longest? that every potential car crash, even time you slip and wobble a little on a wet stairwell, every time you feel a piece of food almost get lodged in your throat, that some other world had you splattered or tumbled or choking and you're just unaware of it because it pared off from the reality in which you inhabit?
idk why but i put a proper thumb/wrist spica splint on today and i cant stop swinging my arm into an exaggerated karate chop and whispering a little miss piggy "hiiiyah!"
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place my stance on this is that i don't CW stuff about genocide, and I don't CW stuff about climate change, and I tend not to CW stuff about imperialism. these are important subjects and I believe that if you want to look away you should be the one to do so. For example, Israel would love it if the world put all of Palestine behind a content warning and ignored it. No thanks.
I also don't CW food because food is beautiful and wonderful and I've spent too much of my life thinking otherwise.
I do, however, do what I can to ensure any posts/alt texts on the above contain a broad enough selection of words to twig any filters.
(half-listening to a mathematician) but surely that implies the existence of a bottomologist?
thanks very much, mister "Terry Pratchett", if that IS your real name, for forever ruining SMALLCAPS to all us shitty garbage writers who'd like to add some weight to a snippet of text every now and then but know that doing so will force our work to be compared to yours and no doubt be left direly wanting