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Call and response.
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Call and response.
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Call and response.
#science
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Transphobes like to pretend their hate is evidence based but their talking points require you to never fact check them on literally anything
Trans women in sports is a big example.
Look into the controversies on that and you'll realize that among their examples of trans women unfairly winning are one hit wonders, a participation trophy recipient and even stories that involve zero trans women at all. The best trans women athletes they bring up couldn't compete with their pre-transition selves!
The fact the daily wire had to cancel their documentary on men pretending to be trans women to compete in women's because they couldn't actually find any cis men who were willing to do that didn't result in them rethinking their biases they just retooled their hate propaganda into a comedy film.
It's all bullshit pretending to be reasonable concerns same as every other hate movement in history.
#Transphobia
#transrights
#transgender
#lgbtq
#transphobes
#Terfs
#Transathletes
#TheDailywire
#Ladyballers
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I've heard it said that all trans women would be judged by what the worst trans woman does but they don't tell you that you also get judged for what cis people do.
Cis man kills women he thought was trans? Well then they say that proves trans women are inherently violent.
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The wind shifted for a while yesterday, and I could breathe the air and talk to the birds all along the river.
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The wind shifted for a while yesterday, and I could breathe the air and talk to the birds all along the river.
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the @handmade_ghost of Francis of Assisi
@kolya I was raised Catholic, and when I was twelve was required to be Confirmed and choose a saint. They tried to get me to choose the patron saint of housewives (?!) due to a shared family name, then said they'd let me pick any *female* saint, then finally let me pick Saint Francis. It's been a long time since I was Catholic, but at least that small part still makes some kind of sense in my memory-story of myself.
oh wow, that was a lucky pun then, based on your talking to the birds 
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๐จ๐จ BREAKING: Microsoft Edge to kill uBlock Origin for good ๐จ๐จ
Time to switch to #private #browser #alternatives
Which one do you use? ๐๏ธ
- Firefox
- LibreWolf
- DuckDuckGo Browser
- Tor Browser
- GNU IceCat
- Hyphanet
- Helium
Recommendation by the Tuta Team:
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Best Private Browsers 2026 | Zero Trackers | Tuta
When it comes to most secure browsers Firefox and its LibreWolf fork is the best alternative to Chrome on our list - and, no, incognito mode doesn't cut it.Tuta
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wie sieht es mit Brave aus?
Safari or Waterfox
Ungoogled Chromium.
Und vielleicht wird es mit LadyBird auch was gutes geben.
Und vielleicht wird es mit LadyBird auch was gutes geben.
Der hatte irgendwas, was mir nicht behagte oder nicht funktionierte. ๐คWeiร ich nimmer. Habe zusรคtzlich noch Waterfox, nutze aber รผberwiegend Safari. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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I'm concerned of the day where websites stop working on these privacy friendly browsers.
fennec, vivaldi or mullvad?
What's a Microsoft Edge, precious?
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Librewolf and IronFox are my dailes! โค
You always seem to miss out one of the oldest Firefox forks (us), with a native built-in ad blocker. I wonder why? ๐ค
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@Waterfox Honest question, it's not an attack, I just want to know your perspective.
I love Firefox forks (Waterfox and Zen especially) in terms of usability and privacy, but the core reason I use Firefox is because of Gecko. If I use Firefox, their usage statistics go up and more advertisement money flows to Mozilla so that they can maintain it. Waterfox is great but if Mozilla goes down, you guys are cooked as well.
Isn't it counterproductive to maintain these forks? Change my mind.
I'm using Waterfox on a Mac. All the features of Firefox without the AI. Waterfox has an excellent built-in adblocker that actually works better than u-Block origin.
LibreWolf, Zen and IronFox
Firefox, LibreWolf and Brave.
Firefox for stateful and Mullvad Browser for stateless.
Ungoogled chromium & Librewolf on desktop, Fennec / Waterfox on phone. & Tor browser on both.
Zen it is, I absolutely love this great fork. Switched from Vivaldi (Chrome) out of curiosity and got me within 30 minutes to switch completely.
@elduvelle
That surprised me as well. Coming from Vivaldi my top features that kept me there were the workspaces and the second sidebar where one could fix custom webpages to open on ones wish. What annoyed me was the fact that it was yet another Chrome based browser from which the world surely already had enough - and being dependent on Google here that much hurt.
So I tested Firefox again, but I really missed the workspaces a lot since I could not operate with a single workspace and just by grouping. And then I came across Zen. It is based on Firefox, gathers no information from me, had built-in workspaces and some fancy design - both simple and exciting. The custom colourisation of each workspace helps me HUGE to focus on my current task and what I am currently working on (clients, shopping, Linux stuff, vacation). And the "essential" links have become a really nice feature for me. It always annoyed me that I couldn't take certain often used websites with me across workspaces in Vivaldi. In Zen I can, and this is great. Among a few other helpers I have @Tutanota pinned here and quickly jump into my inbox for actions to any of the workspaces. I love it. Like I said, it's got some nice features out of the box and it is possible to mod with some cool extensions.
none of them. most of listed variants is not private enough or pushing ai or vpn or unethical in other ways. and hyphanet and ecosia is not browsers why its showed here. another cringy ad from tuta.
Librewolf and waterfox
Why isn't Vivaldi on the list?
libre wolf, but hate its too much privacy, gets me logged out once I close the browser and reboot my pc
Vivaldi - European alternative, not Google sponsored like Firefox.
What about Vivaldi or Mullvad?
Zen on desktop, Waterfox on Android.
Vivaldi and Waterfox
It's Chromium with new paint. There'll be workarounds.
any reason @Vivaldi isn't on this list?
@trendytoots *IF* another reason was needed to not use that pile of turds, then thatโs a great one
I had pulled back from Firefox a while ago, and moved to Vivaldi as my primary and that's been good so far. Any concerns I should be aware of?
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- I have @Waterfox and @Vivaldi
Both get recommended by @ethicalconsumer
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people actually used Edge?
(I am test driving Vivaldi, currently to get away from AI.)
Tor on mobile and Librewolf on desktop.
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Zen browser and LibreWolf.
Also, Tuta is still supporting greed incentivizing creeptocurrencies huh? Everything that touches crypto turns to shit, mark my words.
Librewolf, WaterFox, Zen, or Tor, peeps.
On my Fedora 44 Laptop:
Librewolf - 3 profiles.
#1 for logins.
#2 Replaced Mullvad
#3 I use for Youtube without an account.
I used to use Mullvad but certain things about how the browser works started to bother me.
I have Brave installed cause sometimes a chromium based browser is necessary.
Tor, seldom used.
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On my GrapheneOS phone:
#1 Brave for logins
#2 Brave Nightly as my forgetful browser
Tor, seldom used.
Still waiting on Vanadium to get better ad blocking.
I mainly use Firefox, although I have Vivaldi installed, and use it as a second opinion on occasion.
Currently using Firefox on multiple devices. Considering trying Waterfox and Librewolf.
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Why would I care about my PDF reader making it hard to use uBlock Origin, LOL, does anyone even use Microsoft Edge to browse the Internet ๐ค I always just used Internet Explorer in the past to download a better browser, this is not any different.
Orion and Safari on my Macs and Librewolf for general use and Chromium for YouTube on my Linux box
Brave for the privacy win.
Vivaldi, Startpage, Safari
The oligarchs have a clear objective: fascism combined with profit maximisation.
I'll never use anything that doesn't allow uBlock.
I use Vivaldi and like it a lot. Is there a problem with It? I thought it was supposed to be good.
Pi-Hole and Chrome. ๐
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uBlock Origin Lite.
uBlock Origin Lite.
Vivaldi with noai.duckduckgo.com
DuckDuckGo No-AI: Private Search Without AI
DuckDuckGo private search with all AI features turned off. The classic results you expect. Always private.DuckDuckGo
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@steve I have a note to try Helium too.
why not recommend @Vivaldi ?
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"We act in solidarity with all trans and non-binary people to build a world where human rights, social justice, and equality are a reality for everyone".
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A year ago I made Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice.
v2.0 is now out.
It now works entirely over Signal, usernames or phone numbers, both for your check-ins and for your emergency contacts. Email isn't safe for everyone to use, but it's still there.
Three new security modules, all optional, stack as many as you want: PIN, authenticator 2FA, and passkeys.
The PIN has a duress option. Enter that one instead and your contacts get alerted immediately, while your screen says everything went fine. (really proud of this one. tweaked to the point of obsession so that response time for a duress PIN matches a normal one. nothing on your screen or in the timing gives it away.)
Also added vacation pause and custom alert messages, both of which people asked for.
v2.0 got a full security review before release. The check-in path is much harder to spoof now. Details in the release PR.
Free forever (as long as I'm alive) and open source.
oh and btw, the person who went missing, for whom I made this originally, turned out to be okay. It took a lot of time and a lot of effort to find them, but I did actually find them. I thought you might want to know that.
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If you already use Wellness Ping, two things changed for you.
The check-in link now takes one extra click to confirm. Mail scanners could follow the link and check people in automatically, which is bad in a fairly obvious way.
And replying PONG now needs the short code printed in your check-in message. Your next one will have it.
Nothing else changes. Your settings and contacts are untouched.
For the infosec peeps, what the security pass actually fixed:
Inbound email replies are now sender authenticated (DKIM/SPF with domain alignment) and have to quote a per-cycle code. Before, a spoofed From header could disarm anyone's switch, indefinitely, if you knew their address.
Check-ins need an explicit POST now. Mail link scanners could fetch the confirm URL and check people in automatically.
PINs are argon2id instead of one round of SHA-256. Rate limits on every auth path. CSRF tokens, strict CSP, Secure cookies, no more data races.
And as mentioned, the duress PIN is also indistinguishable from a normal check-in now, same pages, same timing, so nobody watching your screen learns anything.
If you self-host this or run a fork, update. Everything above applies to older versions.
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Also worlds smallest UI update ๐
Before, and after
Thank you so much. I am sending this to someone who needs wellness checks.
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the GitHub repo has a good explanation paragraph about "what does this even do?".
If I may offer one suggestion: from the landing page alone, it is not easy to understand what this does. The existing phrasing "A simple dead man's switch service. Get pinged regularly to confirm you're okay. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get alerted." would help a lot.
i keep wanna saying things i am proud of here but i am proud of all of it lol, but by far the security modules are the coolest... signal support is cool too but it was kinda like expected for v2.0 yk?
This is a great idea. ๐คฉ
Great!
And funny, because early this century if my Future Ex sent me a message to check in on me, he would write 'Ping' and if I was okay and available, I would reply 'Pong' ๐บ
And funny, because early this century if my Future Ex sent me a message to check in on me, he would write 'Ping' and if I was okay and available, I would reply 'Pong' ๐บ
what a thoughtful and beautiful way to promote humans caring for humans โค๏ธ
What a fine way of Networking .
I like this a lot, always in to help micr0, very cool, you're awesome!
just one little nitpick, looks like the username validation only expects 2 digits, but signal allows for more. Mine has 5 digits
@lynastral since when does signal have more than 2 digits???
Will fix tmr
Very cool! thank you for making this ๐
I think this is brilliant. Thank you. I especially love the duress option.
odd. I'm not receiving the code. I use a privacy email though. do you have splunk
@jeff big signup wave, service is patchy, what's a splunk? Most emails work I haven't seen many issues with email ever since I added turnstile captcha
wow, this is soooo cooool, I love it!
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This sounds like a wonderful thing.
However I'm not sure I really understand how it works and when I put in my phone number on your link, I never received the verification code on Signal, so I don't know what to do now. Any idea what I might have done wrong? I confirmed that the number is correct.
This sounds like a wonderful thing.
However I'm not sure I really understand how it works and when I put in my phone number on your link, I never received the verification code on Signal, so I don't know what to do now. Any idea what I might have done wrong? I confirmed that the number is correct.
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it certainly seems to be struggling ๐
it's working for me, now
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I guess it's having trouble now seeing all the confirmation messages sent to it on the Signal account and isn't seeing them in a timely manner.
I guess it's having trouble now seeing all the confirmation messages sent to it on the Signal account and isn't seeing them in a timely manner.
Considering that #ActuallyAutistic people tend to contemplate snuffing it about 8x more often than neurotypicals, including them: @autistics
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this is fantastic!
the one concern that comes to mind: if I understand correctly it relies on a server being up, how would users learn when the server goes down so that it doesn't become a silent failure mode?
that wouldn't address the issue I'm thinking of though, where the service behind it itself goes down, and so doesn't send out pings anymore
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@joepie91 #Deltachat has en ecosystem of in-band Apps (so-called "WebXDC" apps), and perhaps such a "wellness ping" could be programmed as such a WebXDC app. The app lives within the chat itself, never leaving the deltachat chat (on both sides of the conversation). It's a mind-bender that this is even possible (in a secure and trustworthy way), but I've looked into its security model, and tried a few of these apps, and they seem to be legit.
If I understand correctly, as long as *any* added Deltachat relay stays up, then the WebXDC app should also keep working within a given chat conversation.
Webxdc: mini apps shared in a chat
Secure mini apps for chats. No internet access, no tracking, no servers.webxdc.org
@joepie91 I wish I knew a good answer to this right now,
That's why there is a note: "Note: Built for reliability and security, but like any service, depends on email or Signal and internet connectivity. Have backup plans."
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Thank you very much! ๐ท
Wellness Ping is such a great idea!
We've also thought just on all those who are in war areas alone...!
But that might be an own post for itself to make it public for them.
What do you think?
God bless you! ๐
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GitHub - micr0-dev/wellness-ping: A simple dead man's switch service. Get pinged regularly to confirm you're okay. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get alerted.
A simple dead man's switch service. Get pinged regularly to confirm you're okay. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get alerted. - micr0-dev/wellness-pingGitHub
Thank you so much for this (and thank you for the update about the person, relieved they were okay).
@kkarhan as posted previously, I was not a fan of the decision, but wellness ping was the target of several ddos and signup attacks
If you have another solution in mind, please share
If you would like to leave MicroShit GitHub, vcs.mpaq.org free, no AI shit...
Many services such as XMPP or our voip would be better then Signal ๐ฅต
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@justbob when it comes to community projects I have thought about switching to forgejo, but have not since that would require every person who want to make an issue or pr to make a new account.
As for xmpp I don't use it, but feel free to make a PR
Im sorry. I do hope you understand that MicroShit is stealing your work to train their AI.
@justbob Any open source project, anything that is publicly available, is already being trained on no matter if you consent or not, its a matter of private projects where that would matter.
that is why i built our vcs and alway looking to block them from our sites.
Our team busts ass to keep our systems for humans, not Skynet.
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@justbob oh interesting, what's your infra like? I might try it out as a mirror at first
no idea what you mean but we use Gitea and it seems good.
Its currently only hosting 3 parts of our systems. Mostly for the #TidySearch system but like I said, anyone can host code.
It has a bunch of users but none are using it yet. Just ran the program update today too ๐
Everything says it works just like github once did before microshit
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@justbob I meant how scalable is the server? Would it hold up to thousands of people going onto the repo at once and looking at it, and people making accounts and stuff
Anyhow I am interested will prolly make an account some time soon if I remember
would be a good fit for @Codeberg if you're looking for different code hosting.
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@Cal I didn't know signal had greater than 2 discriminators, working on a fix, and yeah big signup wave, expect it to not work for signal, email should handle capacity tho
@kkarhan I thought about PGP but I am not too well versed in it to do that, would love ur help if you would be willing (to discuss or to help with the code)
I love this. I am pretty sure that I signed up pretty close to when it first came out, just to see how it worked.
I did it with two email addresses, but then the people who would be notified if I didn't check were still all myself. I've been faithfully ping ponging ever since! ha ha
But now that it is on Signal, I think I'm actually going to add a "real" version for myself where if I don't check in, a friend in real life gets a text or email (or whatever).
It's been flawless the entire time I've used it with email, so I look forward to digging into the Signal integration.
Thanks so much for doing this! I am also glad to hear that the person who sparked you creating it ended up okay.
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Patched the bug where Signal usernames were limited to 2 discriminators, added an extra step in signup to hopefully make less ratelimit issues.
Since there is still a big signup wave know service can be patchy, but for those who have already signed up signal rate limits don't affect you so everything works! Once you've signed up.
Did the update on my pc right after I woke up, and now typing this as I walk to uni, will try to get to any other issues after uni
looks pretty cool :3
one quirk tho: for signal, the two digits after the dot in the username don't actually have to be 2--they can be longer (e.g my username was asahi.4096), however the registration site does not accept it โ
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@asahi yeah, fixed, it does accept it now!
@kkarhan I'll keep thinking about other solutions, once again this is a free project I develop and do by myself and entirely out of pocket
Yes, thank you for updating us all
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>Because #GnuPG is the antithesis of #UI &;#UX design.
I dunno. If I want to encrypt a file with gpg:
gpg --encrypt --sign --recipient bob totc.txt
... and I end up with a file encrypted to bob.
Sure, the gpg key editor is very hard to use, but are there better key editors out there?
My understanding of the usability problem is that we don't have good concepts to support end to end encryption that can be used to allow the user to understand what they are doing. Without fixing the root problem, command line options don't matter.
literally everyone hates gpg, the only good part is "it's available everywhere"
bad defaults
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there are Autocrypt headers for email so at least accepting someone's key shouldn't be too hard
docs.autocrypt.org/
For users, Autocrypt offers single-click, opt-in encryption, eases encrypted group communications, and provides a way to setup encryption on multiple devices.
and pep.software/index.html have some cool stuff such as
pโกp (pEp) stands for "Pretty Easy Privacy" and aims to improve email encryption and privacy. A key approach of pโกp is the automation of encryption.
that one immediately came to mind
also sequoia pgp which is far less crap than gpg is
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Ihr Partner fรผr Cybersecurity, System Integration, System- und SoftwarearchitekturpEp software
Would you be willing to separate the check-in/ping frequency from the timeout? So that a check in gets requested every or every second day but a warning gets send out only after e.g. 3 days of missed checks?
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this is very interesting indeed! I don't think I saw this kind of app for a long time. Do you plan matrix integration as well?
@esoteric_programmer Would be open to it, but I don't use matrix, but probably isn't too difficult
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Oh that is unfortunate. Codeberg was under heavy spam attack by some far-right folks last year.
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They have email:abuse[at]codeberg.org for reporting spam.
Reporting spam can be also done through their community issue tracker:
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OK, I can see how that would be simpler for those who possess concepts about the meaning and use of public, secret and symmetrical keys. The same idea as what age does.
Perhaps this is an example of how different systems are differently usable for different people depending on what concepts they come to the system with.
@manualdousuario Thank you so much!! Funnily enough wellness ping came out sevral months before that Chinese app haha, but clearly I am targeting a different audience
@manualdousuario while it's not automated, I have my Dad (who's in his 80s living alone) message me over Signal every day about the same time.
If I haven't heard by 10-11pm, I'm to ring him. If I get no answer, I have two local people who can go to him.
Whatever anyone's "system" is, it puts the vulnerable person in the safest place. If that's an auto ping, then do that. Sounds like a good project.
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"Software release" makes me imagine alpha versions in cages, violently gnawing at the bars, and it's trained and calmed till it becomes a release candidate.
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Republicans voted to massively cut Medicaid, kicking millions off their healthcare! They voted to cut SNAP benefits, depriving millions of food assistance they desperately need!
They are not 'America first', no matter who you are!
NEVER FORGET!
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Videos I've found that do a decent job serving as reminders of what the republican party has done and what kind of people they areHelloMiakoda (YouTube)
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A group of Canadian researchers found that 97 percent of youth who seek treatment for gender dysphoria still identify as trans years later
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Where did you get this video of me eating a snack?
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Hi writers and artists! I wanna finally introduce myself, I joined bc BlueSky's leads are too pro AI.
I write spec fiction, fantasy and scifi stuff (on its surface soft scifi but in actuality it varies) and I like queer, woke, disability rep, etc.
My current WIP series, now in 2026, is about a mage who ends up in a wheelchair and happens to intimidate everyone at her college!๐งโโ๏ธ๐ฉโ๐ฆฝโจ What's not to love?
Curious to hear what y'all are up to!
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Welcome, glad to have you here! ๐
Feel free to ask if you want help with using this place ๐
I swear I have never gotten so many interactions in response to an introduction post on any social media platform ever ๐คฏ y'all are blowing my mind right now โค๏ธ
I expect you used the best hashtags. That's the best way I've found to navigate mastodon.
Nice to e-meet you. I write Urban Fantasy. The current WIP - about to be self-pubbed - is how a woman uses tapestry to accidentally summon the man of her dreams.
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Welcome! We're an odd lot here. Definitely not knee-jerk pro-stupid untested tech billionaire bro get rich quick schemes. Lol. But definitely opinionated.
Welcome!
I write in the same space - mostly, protopian futures (or solarpunk).
Check it out at tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
Welcome to the fediverse.
@Pollinators thank you!! i've been lurking before with a tech account, but the art side is so much for fun โค๏ธ
You can be multi purpose.
The Mastodon block tools help when you want to keep your space clear of a particular phobia. Also, blocking individuals is my tool of choice.
Hi!!!!! Mages are cool, look forward to reading.
welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse!
I'm working on queer fantasy games with romantic leans and dark humor. My account for that at the moment is @falsfiction. Queerness in the stories is subtle sometimes. Everything is subtle.
My published works are short, often flash length. Novel collect bits and pieces I throw to them in their quiet voids when I remember. They're weirder than my short stories and might not ever go out to the world completed.
I hope you can settle in comfortably. Were you already told of #Mosstodon, #LichenSubscribe, and #Asstodon?
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Hi @thatwriterellie! ๐ Welcome. There are lots of writers here. Check out the following hashtags to meet many of them.
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Lawfare is all the "gender critical" lot know, isn't it? It must be nice knowing you can just threaten to sue anyone who calls you out, eh?
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When Amnesty speaks truth to power you know they have hit a nerve when threats of legal action follow the production of their reports. JulyโฆRachel Saunders (Medium)
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It's nice to see that TERF lawfare doesn't always work. Pay attention, Amnesty UK.
Update: it seems that it wasn't the court's decision but an agreement between two parties resulting in the case being dropped. Still, the TERFs didn't get their way.
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Women's group and Fรฉile settle dispute over cancelled event
AN event by a women's group will go ahead at an alternative venue after being pulled from the Fรฉile an Phobail programme.Conor McParland (Belfast Media Group)
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I wonder if they will actually sue. Because then Amnesty will have to defend itself.
if I remember correctly, a rape crisis centre in the area was being run by a trans woman, who got hounded out of her job by the usual suspects.
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The use of AI in UK asylum decision-making is a disaster.
AI hallucinated a document that led to an asylum application being denied.
Applicants aren't being informed that opaque AI tools are being used in their case, nor being given the opportunity to correct errors churned out by these opaque tools.
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Home Office used โAI hallucinatedโ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests
Upper tribunal unable to find document cited in case and claims it is โanalogous to relying on bogus evidenceโDiane Taylor (the Guardian)
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ORG's legal opinion shows that the Home Office's use of AI tools to summarise interviews and key documents in asylum decision-making is likely unlawful.
The lack of transparency means that unlawful or unfair decisions may result from AI hallucinations and errors in rewriting critical information.
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considering warnings about all of this have been repeatedly raised for the past 20 years (it was Machine Learning back then), we can only conclude that's what the system is expected to do. (I'm not talking about the computer system)
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it bears hallmarks consistent with the use of artificial intelligence.
Not, it bears hallmarks consistent with fraud and perjury. The tools used to commit these crimes are secondary considerations.
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Thank you to Diane Taylor brilliant article
The use of any AI in the government is a disaster!
itโs also being used for canadian immigration now and created a black box and backlog of court cases. #cdnpoli
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Yet another attack against the Arch User Repository is underway. We are monitoring and analyzing the malware samples.
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The easiest way to stop this attack (and the last one, btw) is to deny outbound Tor traffic and block downloads from
archive.torproject[.]org in your environment. If the payloads can't do that, they can't continue past the first stage.
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The disc is not the game: Physical releases increasingly require extra downloads
DoesItPlay tracks the many "physical" games that don't work without the Internet.
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Slightly hot take - this doesn't actually matter in the save physical games discussion, because one of the things being harmed are boutique publishers who are putting out complete copies of games on disks - often independent games that would never get a physical release from major publishers.
A console manufacturer deciding nobody gets physical releases is a much more sweeping problem than a publisher deciding not to do physical releases for a AAA game.
Yes, we understand that. But what they're getting rid of isn't just the physical disc that stores data - it's the physical token that proves ownership of the license that can be freely transferred from one owner to the next - either permanently or temporarily.
The disc that stores data was never what they wanted to kill, it was the notion of ownership.
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You might as well release it digitally at this point. What's the point of selling physical, if it still needs to be downloaded?
At least Nintendo's "game key card" thing is clearly labelled, has a plausable financial reason to exist, and is more honest than no disclosure at all. Cartridge flash memory costs tens of dollars per unit, while a disc costs single-digit pennies. Therefore, there is no financial reason to do this with the CD/DVD/Bluray disc media that disc consoles use.
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I was *so* pissed off when I found out the "Portal" box game I bought wouldn't work without connecting to the internet first. Even more pissed off that that became standard before so much becoming only streaming.
Last box game I bought. I would have bought more if they worked on Linux at the time.
Last game purchase I was *truly* happy with was "World of Goo" years ago.
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Letโs be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.
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Many states/countries did too much, as the example of Sweden shows. We had no masking, no curfews. Young children continued to go to school, shops stayed open.
@pietkuip And people died of COVID at a higher rate than in Norway, which implemented much stricter quarantine measures.
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There are always variations, also between different provincies in countries with the same policy.
Despite keeping Sweden open and not masking, we did not have a high mortality compared to other industrialized countries. It was about the average for the EU. And locking people up did not really help anywhere.
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You keep telling yourself that.
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Covid is an airborne cardiovascular disease (among other things)โฆ the burden of heart disease and stroke everywhere has gone up in proportion to the number of people infected with Covid. With that in mind the higher burden in Sweden makes perfect sense after they let it rip.
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Those numbers were from 2021 though, they can't all be from Covid infections as much of the long term damage takes years to present.
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Excess deaths from cardiovascular events tracked quite closely with infection rates; Covid creates an elevated risk immediately, and it stays elevated for months to years. โLong term effectsโ would be damage that shows up a decade or two laterโฆ and youโre right, it hasnโt been long enough to see that yet.
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Ah ok, I thought it was not until the next year or two, not months. Of course accessing reliable data was...hard at the time.
@pietkuip Of all the lessons to take from the pre-vaccination period of COVID, Iโm astounded that you would push the disinformation that non-medical interventions like quarantining and masking do not work. They could have been done better, more sensibly, more effectively. But certainly most other industrialized countries did not โlock people upโ - lockdowns were never enforced in the US, for example. And those that were able to lock people out - see NZ and AUS saw dramatically lower rates of COVID. So in one sense perhaps youโre right - Swedenโs ineffective response looks good (not compared to Norway though) because while others were officially more stringent, they were also ineffective.
I keep hearing - even here in North America - about โlockdownsโ claiming that people were โlocked upโ โconfined to their apartmentsโโฆ I was *never* locked in, nor were most people in most places. However using that baseless but inflammatory language serves the purpose of building a narrative of over-reach.
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The Netherlands had curfews in the evening.
Friends in France were confined most of the time. They made sketches on Youtube, until it was no fun anymore.
An acquaintance in London was in a small hot apartment with her kids that could not go to school. They were not allowed to go to a park.
People in Germany were fined for sitting on a bench watching the river.
Extraordinary limitation of basic freedoms that made no sense whatsoever for stopping any disease. So don't tell me that there was no over-reach.
I will point out that the OP commented about America, where a ridiculous revisionist wave of madness has convinced millions of people they experienced what you are talking about even when it *didnโt happen*, a frenzy that has culminated this week in the vilifying and scapegoating of a public health official for having done anything at all.
I will also ask a very important question: How long did the measures you referenced last? Days, weeks, months?
For example: โConfined most of the timeโ doesnโt help me understand measures in France. What did the laws and orders actually require of your friends? In March and April, or until December? โUntil it was no fun anymoreโ isnโt a measure whose reasonableness I can judge.
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In France, President Macron announce a lockdown from March 17 noon. People were confined to their homes except for authorized reason. Buying food could be such a reason but one needed to be able to show receipts. At first for two weeks, but it got extended several times, till May/June.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confinements_liรฉs_ร _la_pandรฉmie_de_Covid-19_en_France
Thank you for the link. Very informative.
17 March to 11 May - 8 weeks; 56 days. During which people were ordered to stay at home unlessโฆ and โunlessโ included groceries, essential supplies, essential work, medical care, family, childcare, even just โexercisingโ outside for your well-being or to walk your pets.
To accomplish the goal, what would you have done differently?
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I think the Swedish measures were fine: official advice to keep physical distance to other people, no travel further than 100 km or so. In Sweden, basic education stayed open, people were not confined to their homes, and we were in fact encouraged to go out in nature. People were having barbecue parties and picnics. I had cycling buddy, we did regular rounds of 10 or 15 km, and kept in shape.
In France, exercise walks were limited to 1 km from one's home, during one hour. The coast was forbidden, also woods and parts. Totally ludicrous! And not healthy.
Did you have a look at the amazing French bureaucratic form one had to carry when one was outside?
In Sweden on Mar 17, you had the same death rate as France, and by May 10 your death rate was 3X that of France. Totally ludicrous! And not healthy!
Holding Sweden up as some kind of shining example only works if you donโt care about the goal: which was to reduce the spread of Covid and save lives.
(yes, I saw the formโฆ itโs very French)
Could a similar reduction have been accomplished by different measures? Perhaps. But Sweden didnโt accomplish that.
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What did France accomplish then? A bit of a delay maybe. At the end, France and Sweden had very similar numbers of deaths (per capita) attributed to Covid. Close to the EU average.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19โฆ
Ah yes, wellโฆ why do anything at all then. Funny how armchair epidemiologist (like armchair generals) always seem to have all the answers. Iโve heard this approach far too often before and am not interested in pursuing the dehumanizing logic behind it.
A bit of delayโฆ personally I hope to delay my own death for a few years yet, and I donโt consider any of those years to be disposable.
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It may be possible to delay one's death by living like a germaphobe: keeping distance from other people, not doing anything outside one's home. If that is an adult's choice, ah well, let them. But if a family did that, their logic would be dehumanizing and child-protection services should intervene.
The flip side of that coin you describe is someone who refuses to take responsibility and initiates a chain of infection that sickens thousands and kills many. If thatโs the choice you make as an adult, then fuck you very much, asshole. You can rationalize away to consequences of your actions but it doesnโt take away the moral responsibility.
Interesting how few exchanges it took for you go from โbig bad government lockdown overreach trampling on our rightsโ to โpeople who donโt agree with me are pathological and ought to have their children taken away from themโ.
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@pietkuip @christinkallama Sweden created an independent commission to study the response. I suggest you read it, here are some of the summary findings in English and a link to the whole report.
regeringen.se/rattsliga-dokumeโฆ
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Coronakommissionen har utvรคrderat regeringens, fรถrvaltningsmyndigheternas, regionernas och kommunernas รฅtgรคrder fรถr att begrรคnsa spridningen av detRegeringskansliet
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Most of the members of this committee had their expertise in political science etc, not epidemiology. Their conclusions support that the Swedish voluntary approach was correct.
And what initial rigorous and intrusive control measures would they have taken? Stop people from returning from their wintersport vacations in March 2020? Putting them in quarantine camps? Was there any basis for that at the time, any evidence that it would have worked? Even now there is no evidence that such measures would have helped to keep the totals down.
Initially, there was the official recommendation not to travel further than about 100 km. That measure was intended to delay the spread through the country. It was probably useful for some time in the beginning.
@pietkuip @christinkallama I'm not a virologist or epidemiologist. Does that mean we can't come to any conclusions on this and shut up, that seems to be your implication, are you an expert?
They consulted experts in the field see "Personer som kommissionen har
trรคffat". I don't know what they should have done, that is a much bigger question, this is looking @ what they did do and comparing it to other countries.
And, in the UK at least, lockdown starting later than it could have done. By the time government eventually got round to imposing lockdown plenty of people, and employers, had already done it for themselves.
@TimWardCam lol if we're going to talk about the UK
'Eat out to help out'
What the FUCK was that
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that was Rishi Sunak either being an utter corporate-minded arsehole or completely ignorant of any of the science or both.
Myself and probably loads of other people here couldn't believe it was serious at first. It also showed / built up the social and political divide which has hardened in the west over the last decade or so.
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@noodlemaz @TimWardCam yeah, French Laundry was only for the connected.
Exactly thisโฆ
Also the big mistake with just how big a cluster of moisture has to be to form a droplet. Mistaken science about that had been taught for decades.
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I would hesitate to call those all mistakes since some were unavoidable problems. There simply weren't enough N95 masks to go around and we needed to make sure health workers got first access. Tests, likewise, weren't in large enough stock to distribute early on.
The biggest mistakes are arguably ones we made years *before* COVID - like not having a national stockpile of PPE and not having a culture that encourages masking when sick to start from.
EDIT: speaking on the US above
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Yes, I thought the Diamond Princess outbreak when all passengers were confined to their cabins but Covid still spread made the a/c systam the most obvious vector.
Meanwhile the lack of hygene by the crrw leaving meals outside the cabin was maintained as the cause. A problem of medical specialists sticking to their training rather than stepping back and looking at the data
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Campaign adds in Ohio are attacking Amy Acton for doing too much to protect people during COVID.
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The Dutch neoliberal government deemed social distancing of 1.5 meters/5 feet was enough to not force mask wearing or a lockdown. Most likely to prioritize keep the economy running rather than the wellbeing of people.
Still livid when thinking back at that period. And thereafter, when the stupid science deniers thought they could safely cough down everything and everyone without a N95 mask, so people still got Covid.
Still livid when thinking back at that period. And thereafter, when the stupid science deniers thought they could safely cough down everything and everyone without a N95 mask, so people still got Covid.
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And now we may be stuck with it permanantly.
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Y2K remaining the absolute pinnacle of this.
Possibly ozone layer stuff we did, but people tend to forget that was even a concern so nobody's complaining about the costs at this point.
Also having the same rules for indoors and outdoors, given it was airborne. If they'd said "no meeting others indoors unless you absolutely have to, meet up outdoors as much as you like" (plus maybe "and just try not to stand too close together"), then it probably would've averaged out similar-ish in terms of infections, but immensely better in terms of social effects.
I had to stop reading the comments in this thread because even on Mastodon there are denialists. ๐
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You can tell who has privilege by who gets to claim "good faith."
The oppressed never receive the benefit of the doubt. They're always political actors pushing an agenda, a radical change, a threat to tradition, even when the request is a simple "stop hurting me."
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Don't feel so bad. It's not like any other country in the West would be willing to do anything to prevent a pandemic again either.
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as we watch the Reign of Diarrhea Lettuce, Measles, and more we've already got a multicrisis shaping up. They've done nothing.
An actual pandemic like COVID will be fucked up immediately. Influencers will grift. It will be worse.
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I think itโs much worse than that: If we have another pandemic, at least 30% of our country will willfully and violently refuse to take any precautions or participate at all in the reduction of harm
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Please read and understand what this poor health professional woman has to say. Then boost it; boost the living crap out of it. Everyone should see and understand how stupid and evil people can be.
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The truth and nothing but the truth..
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I feel this. As a nurse through Covid watching the death, horror, anger and the raw grieving pain of loved ones was so traumatizing I woke up screaming at night in my sleep. No sourdough and tv show marathons for me. #michigan
- They are not happy unless they have to cut somebody down for doing the Right Thing to save lives. Covid 19 is not the common cold. Trump and his cronies were selling it as heard immunity what we got was herd infection.
You rebel against the absolute power of billionaires to extract every inch they can from everyone, even when it means people die, they'll send their lynch mob after you.
๐ถ Don't it always seem to go "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone." ๐ถ
True then, true now.
If we beat-up and abuse smart, caring professionals....They'll move elsewhere, quit, retire... and in the next go round there won't be any smart, caring professionals left in #America!
The public abuse of Dr. #Fauci by #GOP #senators yesterday was appalling and shameful.
I'm sure he's not perfect, but I'm glad he was there for both #HIV and #COVID. We ALL benefit today from his lifetime of service.
@rzeta0 You litterally included a link to an article that answers your question in your own post, which suggests to me that you are not a serious person who deserves to be taken seriously.
Dr. Fauci's role in putting forward the zoonotic spillover while downplaying the possible lab-leak hypothesis for COVID virus origin has to be investigated.
The role that Dr. Fauci played in trying to discredit the lab-leak hypothesis before eventually conceding that it might be true also has to be called out.
Dr. Fauci has a lot to answer for. Trumps action were despicable but that cannot be a fig leaf for Dr. Fauci's conduct.
what did Fauci do for her student loans?
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Nature abhors a vacuum. But sometimes She fills it with flowers. Honesty, I could not have done this on purpose if I tried.
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Sometimes accidental gardens are the best gardens.
@Jason844 My grandmother was notorious of dropping seeds when working in the yard. Whenever a patch started growing wherever it was, sure enough we'd have to head to the creek and get rocks to put around them to protect them from mowing, etc. Mowing our yard was like mowing around mines in a mine field. lol @WorkWithKirk
Our little back yard is all but clover and Indian mock strawberry "weeds" now. I think that is why the raccoons love it.
I like the Indian mock strawberry but we are going to have to second guess keeping it.
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A little gift from Mother Nature - very pretty arrangement. She's very good!
What a wonderful sight! ๐โฅ๏ธ๐ฉทโค๏ธ๐
I really wish the stuff that grew through my patio would be that beautiful.
That is so much prettier than any flowers I've ever been able to grow on purpose!
The cracks in the paving on our patio are a herb garden. *Some* of it was deliberately planted, but I don't think the wild strawberries were.
what a sweet, beautiful, joyful gift from the Wyld!!! Love how bouquet grew out if thise paving stone cracks.
i am still enjoying the daylights out of that image. makes me want to draw it, and plant spits lime that.
Any idea what flowers and plants those are?
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The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded. Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently.
Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
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Not a good trade.
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This is the magnificent library Anthropic amassed, before destroying it because it gave them a legal copyright loophole.
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utterly despicable
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Fact check: very likely.
According to news.com.au -
The slicing is "a video from Canada's ABTec Solutions demonstrates the process of cutting books' spines prior to scanning."
The warehouse pic: "Court filings show a warehouse of books to be scanned by Anthropic. Picture: Washington Post"
The original reporting seems to be from the great 404media, but it's paywalled.
Technically, the books are scanned and "survive" on Anthropic data centers. But I highly doubt Anthropic or any "AI" company is going to try to resell, donate, etc. their digital copies, even having destroyed the original. So the world does lose a copy of the book without any gain for people who don't use Anthropic LLMs or IP.
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@BigHeadMode we also don't know how many of them get destroyed before scanning, so completely lost even for a digital copy.
i hate that copyright necessitates that
Do you have a location of this warehouse?
after some digging it seems to be
World of Books fulfilment centre in Montgomery, Illinois, Chicago.
900 Knell Road, Dock 15
Montgomery, IL 60538, USA
"World of Books [...] was certified as a B Corporation in 2019."
Well, for all *that's* fucking worth, then.
This picture doesn't make sense to me. If this is storage, why are all these boxes open? If this is processing, why are all these boxes open? None of them appear to be full.
I would expect, if they are processing the books, that there would be most of them in storage, then some number would be open and being scanned. After the scanning, they are all just loose pages, so I would expect to see a discard bin somewhere, with not defined "book" in sight.
@imikotoba Ai erm LLMs destroy everything. Time for #ButlerianJihad
Until this I was thinking guillotines, but for the punishment to fit the crime it should be being burned at the stake.
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@jf_718
wouldn't it have been great if publishers SOLD ebooks, even at the price they charge for a printed book?
but they do not. they license.
And then buy each other.
Living based on the rule of law, not the rule of licenses. I want that world.
And it is causing all sorts of problems, and not just for libraries like the Internet Archive, but for authors etc etc.
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somebody needs to be behind bars for this.
Absolutely horrifying.
I think anthropic's argument is something like "books are a data delivery system. Once an LLM had read that data the book has done its job"
It's f*cking sickening.
@paul
I don't understand the argument. You can maybe claim that an LLM is format shifting of a book, but then copying that LLM becomes copyright infringement.
I don't understand the argument. You can maybe claim that an LLM is format shifting of a book, but then copying that LLM becomes copyright infringement.
@paul That isn't Anthropic's argument, they're following the orders of a judge who's attempting to allow continued training while also maintaining the fiction of "intellectual property" so that the normal people get fucked from two different directions at once
yep, quite right. My mistake.
The quote I reference comes from ISBNdb via @davidgerard
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/23/ai-โฆ
Still, it's bad in every way possible.
AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot
Every AI vendor trains their chatbots on the Common Crawl, a copy of the whole public internet. But thatโs just the starting point. AI vendors are desperate for more data โ in the hope of making thโฆPivot to AI
how is that a library when you can't check out books? Isn't that the main thing a library does?
@kabel42 lots of libraries don't allow books to be checked out. The British Library, for example.
This was predicted by Vernor Vinge in Rainbow's End. Although there the shredded bits were scanned so the pages could be reproduced and archived. Not lost inside an LLM
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I would love a source for the image if possible. I'm always a bit sceptical of any news that only comes in micro blog format with no link to any external source
edit: thanks @wtrmt the source seems to be 404 media according to social.linux.pizza/@BigHeadModโฆ
Fact check: very likely.According to news.com.au -
The slicing is "a video from Canada's ABTec Solutions demonstrates the process of cutting books' spines prior to scanning."
The warehouse pic: "Court filings show a warehouse of books to be scanned by Anthropic. Picture: Washington Post"
The original reporting seems to be from the great 404media, but it's paywalled.
Technically, the books are scanned and "survive" on Anthropic data centers. But I highly doubt Anthropic or any "AI" company is going to try to resell, donate, etc. their digital copies, even having destroyed the original. So the world does lose a copy of the book without any gain for people who don't use Anthropic LLMs or IP.
404media.co/ai-companies-are-bโฆ
news.com.au/technology/online/โฆ
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Your alt text fails to convey the massive scale of this. Those aren't tables, those are entire warehouse shelves! They're eight layers too! These are what you would see products stocked on & stored on top of in large hardware stores such as Home Depot, Lowe's, or Menard's. There seems to be more bulk storage between each row too. This is way worse than it looks at first glance. ๐
I want a library this big. I would take care of all of the books & share them. ๐
@jackemled However many books each of us has, we must add to them and protect them with our lives.
Yes! I'm never getting rid of any of my books, only buying more. I have no idea how to protect them after I eventually die though, which worries me. I probably won't have children to give them to. Getting some books only a few decades further into the future is something, but it's not far enough to make me happy. I would like them to be read at least a century from now.
Donating them to public libraries is an obvious option, but libraries in the USA aren't well funded & are constantly under attack. Donating to private libraries makes me worried the organization running them could be corrupt or that the books might not be read.
@jackemled I am sure we will soon be entering the age of 'underground book communities', groups of activists dedicated to saving books. You might want to start one.
If I could network that way I would have done this exact thing.
A sneakernet with good routing so people can share blogs, loan physical books, movies, & other media to eachother, & do other stuff without touching the Internet at all seems like fun & a good way to get lots of people reading lots of books & sharing lots of cool projects with eachother.
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burning a shitload of books to secure power? I wonder where they got the idea.
If they do it by the book*, a lot of those destroyed books criticize big tech/longevity/AI bros.
*Oh yes, very much intended
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this makes me fuckin sick
And Dolly Parton cringing to see this waste and destruction besides everything else!
They would do the same to people if it helped train their models. Humanity is being strip mined in the race to be the survivor in the AI competition.
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For a machine we have now confirmed in the wild is subject to manipulation by Israeli and Russian online publishing of their propaganda explicitly aimed at corrupting LLM answers.
We can't trust anything with a profit motive, nationalist backing and opaque operations to serve as a repository of knowledge.
Human greed and will to power knows no boundsโฆ
That just begs the question - how do we slurp their imaging data and print new copies of everything?
I will not be thwarted by these motherfuckers in my lemons-to-lemonade quest.
AI isn't just destroying human knowledge.
They're preparing to also:
1. Meter access to knowledge
2. Suppress wages
3. Conduct mass layoffs
4. Meddle in elections
5. Foment race riots & bolster hate campaigns
6. Manipulate public opinion
7. Destroy journalism & science
8. Enable automated warfare
9. Hog water & electric supply
10. Evade pollution regulation
11. Torpedo public health & education
12. Sell out democracy to oligarchs
13. Price & rent fixing
14. Fraud
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@Npars01 yes, they want to own knowledge and make us pay for it.
"Paying for it twice" is a common strategy in rentier capitalism.
businessinsider.com/elon-musk-โฆ
motherjones.com/politics/2025/โฆ
The public pay for the research, institutions, & infrastructure via taxation, then pay again as consumers in the form of fees, subscriptions, & payments to private interests seeking profits.
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rollcall.com/2019/05/16/ocasioโฆ
The oligarchs are trying for "paying for it three times" next.
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โIt will only help Tesla,โ he tweeted.Henry Carnell (Mother Jones)
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Sure this is a massive amount of physical destruction.
On the other hand: how many private heritages of book collections are thrown into the garbage as the heirs don't have space and taste for physical books? This might be far more destruction collectively, and, I must admit, I can understand that people don't want the burdon to keep masses of old books which they probably won't read anyway.
@Dusty_Marc It is a circulating economy. Books get sold by antique book stores and return eventually. What happena here stops this dead in its tracks: It is a book burning pyre.
@Marc
@Dusty_Marc
I dont get your point. Destroying books for ideology (in this case singularity) is a fascist method. This is cultural warfare. It is inexcusable.
I dont get your point. Destroying books for ideology (in this case singularity) is a fascist method. This is cultural warfare. It is inexcusable.
@Marc
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@SalemsLot what do you do when your parents deceise and you get to own all their stuff including thousands of books. And you go to the second hand book stores and the all tell you they have no space and thus no offer.
This Problem arises currently, thousand fold. And when the baby boomers will die away, it will get even more so.
Can you get my point now?
This Problem arises currently, thousand fold. And when the baby boomers will die away, it will get even more so.
Can you get my point now?
@Dusty_Marc @SalemsLot These are books that matter enough that professional booksellers have chosen to acquire them. Don't whitewash it. c.im/@msbellows/11701035731185โฆ
@Dusty_Marc @SalemsLot
Stop it. If I tried to stop someone from killing a child, your response wouldn't be "yeah but look at all those girls the US murdered in Iran." The fact that other harm is happening does not mitigate the fact that this harm is happening. You're enabling the asshats. Don't enable the assets.
Stop it. If I tried to stop someone from killing a child, your response wouldn't be "yeah but look at all those girls the US murdered in Iran." The fact that other harm is happening does not mitigate the fact that this harm is happening. You're enabling the asshats. Don't enable the assets.
@Dusty_Marc @SalemsLot Goodbye, troll.
I find it funny that they complain about Chinese AI companies that copy their models and sell them for cheap ๐คฃ๐
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Horror movie in less than a minute.
Hmm, I wonder how close this actually is to what happened to the library in Alexandria.
somehow it reminds me of nazis burning books in the 1930s
@ralocycleuse Even the Nazis didn't destroy all copies of rare books so that all of humanity would be denied their knowledge.
@ZenHeathen They want to be the information gatekeepers, demanding a toll for every bit of knowledge we need and crave. Reminds me of the Edward G. Robinson character Sol, in the dystopian film Soylent Green:
"Sol: Do you know how many books were published in this country once upon a time - when there was paper, power, and press that worked?"
that's disgusting and deeply disturbing.
@5ciFiGirl when I heard that LLMs were going to destroy culture, I never imagined it would be this literal ๐ฅ
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I only got through a few seconds of that video. it was too painful!!! ๐ฑ
I only got through a few seconds of that video. it was too painful!!! ๐ฑ
@EricBono Yes, but if you destroy the book, no one can accuse you of having copied it, or demand payment for it.
Money is utility and the only legitimate value is shareholder return.
Can't wait until we simply repurpose the book guillotines for use on the billionaires who paid for them.
Irony!
Everybody has already drawn the comparison to the book _Rainbows End_, right? It's weird to keep re-encountering SF novels this often IRL. Something something future unevenly distributed something something Torment Nexus.
some rando with "but ai is useful" appearing in 3... 2... 1...
I would like to put something else under that blade.
I can't say what, but let's say the French had the right idea.
Stop feeding the machine.
But is that email really better with AI? Because I'm climbing to the top of a hill with a flag that says it is not.
Are not rich entitled arseholes the peak of our civilisation? The arbiters of right and wrong, the disseminators of wisdom and the benevolent distributors of their gifts to the world.
Anthropic was not the first, Google did this a decade or so ago.
In plain sight, we are giving them tacit permission to piss on all cultures and laws, as there is only one law that these bastards live by: "That which maximises my benefit is Good".
History calls them barbarians and destroyers of civilisations.
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Who broke this story and where can I read more about this?
Former Antrhopic fanboy until the very day they partnered with Palantir.
@LeslieBurns copyright, artificial scarcity, has always been the problem. there is no material need to restrict copying books, music, videos, software etc.. Copying is never stealing. For long capitalists wanted you to believe it is. Now new capitalists show up. I'm on neither side, but i want copyright to fall
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@condret @LeslieBurns reading Marx would be hard without some form of copyright, because people couldn't make a living writing or producing books
@condret
Oh...my first block of the day. Joy!
Oh...my first block of the day. Joy!
Il sโagit dโune OPA hostile sur la pensรฉe humaine. Une fois quโils auront confisquรฉ tous les savoirs, ils auront le monopole radical de la connaissance.
Et cela leur donnera un pouvoir vertigineux.
Et cela leur donnera un pouvoir vertigineux.
American companies are so evil! American CEOs are especially evil! And republicans are the embodiment of evil!
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@dbattistella
Where's the UN or governments crying out loud against this? They could stop this. They create laws against protesting in a minute, but they don't care about this kind of thing.
AI Sloppers had them all under They pockets.
This is just a horrible thing to watch.
#aislopsucks
AI Sloppers had them all under They pockets.
This is just a horrible thing to watch.
#aislopsucks
@condret @LeslieBurns what books would people print? No author would _write_ a book because they'd starve. There's not much money to be made writing books as it is, except for a few notable exceptions. But even bestseller authors usually start out making very little money.
@DerPumu @LeslieBurns just download the pdf somewhere. also people could still make money from printing books, without copyright. they just could no longer create artificial scarcity by restricting others from also printing the same book.
There are book-scanners, that don't need you to destroy the book. Those aren't particularly expensive, but more, than mass-scanners for loose paper. So Anthropic was too cheap to buy those book scanners, and preferred to destroy human heritage. That is plain stupid.
@condret @not I redrafted several times an answer to this.
About how fair wealth distribution always failed because a *small* minority never does it fairly and captures all the money.
About how #Spotify is to me a perfect example of that: 1 rich #bigtech , a few rich #artists , and 98% of musicians who can't make a living of their #art , now also because of #aislop .
About how #AI captures tons of #knowledge and #culture. Whether it is under #copyright is a problem (to me), but even worse, they make it theirs: public data, #opensource code, including books that are now in the public domain ( #marx included ๐).
But I won't press "toot".
(Oops ๐)
#ai
#artists
#art
#opensource
#bigtech
#culture
#spotify
#copyright
#knowledge
#aislop
#marx
@condret
@Not
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@not i see copyright as a product of capitalism. we have machines that allow us to copy things with the press of a button. copying doesn't take the original away from someone, it just creates a copy. i don't see that as stealing. copyright is needed to make profit from art. i don't want artists to starve or or live under precarious conditions, but copyright is definitly not the solution to that. artists get money from spotify, but they struggle anyways.
i want to abolish copyright, end capitalism and collectivise data centers and all other means of production.
@Not
@condret Out of curiosity, not anger or disagreement, do you wish for copyright as a whole to fail? Just trying to gain perspective.
Example question: If I create a piece of art, say, a painting, logo, cartoon, whatever, should (example company) Meta be able to use that for advertising without permission?
This is how LLMs are produced. People talking about open source local models replacing all this after the big bubble pop are delusional.
@DerPumu @condret @LeslieBurns
In the book "Against Intellectual Monopoly" they make some pretty compelling arguments that we'd all be better off without copyright, including authors. There's some interesting natural experiments from when copyright first existed but wasn't enforced between different countries. They've also made the book available for free if people want to download a PDF of it.
In the book "Against Intellectual Monopoly" they make some pretty compelling arguments that we'd all be better off without copyright, including authors. There's some interesting natural experiments from when copyright first existed but wasn't enforced between different countries. They've also made the book available for free if people want to download a PDF of it.
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We could use the same machine with the most successful humans (aka Billionaires) to study and preserve their brains. Starting by the richest.
@HydrePrever @condret @LeslieBurns no. I'm trying to explain that most authors can't afford to write books out of pure enthusiasm for the topic. To my knowledge, even Marx couldn't really afford it, he was broke most of the time and had to rely on donors to survive.
Most authors wouldn't have that zeal, so in a world where authors get paid much less than they already do or nothing at all, we'd simply have much fewer authors.
Don't get me wrong. Capitalism is THE curse. But imo copyright is the wrong lever to start dismantling it.
Most authors wouldn't have that zeal, so in a world where authors get paid much less than they already do or nothing at all, we'd simply have much fewer authors.
Don't get me wrong. Capitalism is THE curse. But imo copyright is the wrong lever to start dismantling it.
Marx inherited stock that got him dividends whilst writing Kapital. his wife was also from a rich family. and he made money as an editorial writer โwhich is why his articles on the US American Civil War are a must read.
Marx eventually sold the stock. i think it radicalized him more than being a union organizer (which was his main job, btw). he reckoned the dividends obfuscated who was really making the money.
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Same means, possibly different ends? Or maybe not.
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I don't really care for popular books that are available by thousand of copies to loose one copy in favour of a digital copy. I'd prefer it becomes an accessible digital archive, though.
The outrage should be about the archive being locked down, not about the digitization itself. It doesn't really differ to Google Books in that regard. Alternative would be for the books to slowly rot away.
@kryptec @DerPumu @condret @LeslieBurns
I prefer knowledge to be digitized and made accessible rather than having physical copies rot away.
Shadow Libraries are sadly the only way for true open preservation, and that's only because of copyright. I'd argue that copyright is one of the biggest enemy of accessible knowledge preservation, but not AI companies who scan a single copy and are then forced to destroy that analog copy for copyright reasons.
@DerPumu @condret @LeslieBurns Marx lived off money he bummed from his wealthy family and Engels. So not a great argument in favour of copyright.
@whvholst @condret @LeslieBurns So he could afford to just put work into writing and didn't have to make a living from it. Unlike most authors.
@DerPumu @condret @LeslieBurns The overwhelming majority of authors of written works never get paid royalties anyway. It is the ones that get published that get some royalties. A few even enough to get a living wage out of it. Copyright does not work for the authors and is not really defensible in its current form. Both the copyright mafia and the AI bros are enemies of culture and knowledge..
Also keep in mind that "scanned" does NOT mean put together in a nice pdf you can watch at archive.org.
it's more probably a plain text file with only the contents. so much is lost.
@kryptec @DerPumu @condret @LeslieBurns What about a concept where everyone is allowed to distrubute anything _for free_ (with a very strict definition of "for free", eg no ads etc) , but only the copyright holder gets to sell it?
I suppose this could enrage some gods .. "In Hindu tradition, respecting books is a profound act of honoring Goddess Saraswati, the deity of knowledge, wisdom, learning, and the arts. Books and educational tools are viewed as sacred physical manifestations of the goddess herself."
@gilesgoat I believe most civilized societies have a profound respect for books and what they represent. The fact that this is being done to books now I take as a sign of a deeply sick society.
The sickest part is that they are not then made available in digital form for everyone but they are going to feed an AI that then is available at a cost. Now this open a strange dilemma such as "If I buy a book, I read it, I get some knowledge from it that then I use to 'make something' that then I sell for a price how different is from what they are doing for AI apart that they also destroy the book ?" Well the difference I suppose is by leaving the book intact someone else CONT.
CONT. could still re-read it and get more knowledge from it. By destroying it "I break the chain" and if the book is really so rare I wipe out from existence a chunk of knowledge that now belongs only "to an algorithm in a form that only it can really access" also that knowledge is "no longer pure as it was" once it enters "the AI machine" it gets shredded and mixed with lot of other things therefore is "lost twice". Once because you destroyed the book, twice because is in AI.
@gilesgoat a complete disaster in every sense.
i'm not religious, but this feels like sacrelige.... to desecrate a book is a sin against humanity
I'd love to have the Anthropic CEO with his hands under the blade.
At first.
At first.
das ist eins der traurigsten Dinge die ich seit langem gesehen habe...ok ich gucke auch nicht viele Nachrichten...
@UlrikNyman Aaaand when the AI bubble bursts, what happens to all that knowledge? Lost is my thinking.
And the fact that it isn't even because it is the only way to scan the books, but because of copyright just makes it more horrible.
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let's not forget...
Google Books
Amazon when creating their original ebooks
The Internet Archive, who owns Better World Books and sold books to them. Anyone notice BWB's prices have gone up, a LOT?
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Makes sense, its makeup is in the name! Now, if it were Mystery Bread... ๐
@theorangetheme thanks to the spectrometer we know. @catsalad
Every letter of the code is written in banana bread
now I want banana bread
"One does not simply put banana bread into the spectrometer."
-- Dr Boromir, probably
-- Dr Boromir, probably
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Yeah.
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@the_turtle Once had a portable DVD player where the instructions had the specific callout "Do not urinate on and dispose of the battery in a fire."
"And", not "or"...
"And", not "or"...
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So I can urinate on it, or I can dispose of it in a fire, I just can't do both. Noted.
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So I can urinate on it, or I can dispose of it in a fire, I just can't do both. Noted.
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@ozzelot @f00df4ce @the_turtle
some TV-sets in Malaysia have a specific "beware of cat urine" warning (the same set in other countries does not have this!)
It might be because Malaysian folk are increasingly rehoming stray cats, of which a portion of wildcat hybrids with the Asian leopard cat (basically a low foundation number Bengal) and whilst they can be good pets might be a bit wilder..
mastodon.social/@sufw/11028798โฆ
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Attached: 2 images Itโs said that every warning sticker has a story, and Iโd be *really* interested in this one attached to our hotel room TV. #tv #cats #catpee #malaysia #weirdSascha Wenninger (Mastodon)
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Interesting. From what I gather, in addition to the normal electrolytes and such, cat urine is extra high in urea (as you could guess by smell) because their kidneys are very efficient, urea is hygroscopic, and moisture in the air breaks that down to ammonium which is conductive and quite corrosive.
Interesting. From what I gather, in addition to the normal electrolytes and such, cat urine is extra high in urea (as you could guess by smell) because their kidneys are very efficient, urea is hygroscopic, and moisture in the air breaks that down to ammonium which is conductive and quite corrosive.
@f00df4ce @vfrmedia @ozzelot 18 years ago I damaged my lungs pretty seriously cleaning up cat whiz (overspray from a catbox in a corner) with a bleach solution in a powered floor cleaner, which released a shitload of pure chlorine for me to breathe. 18 years later, all that damage has finally just about healed.
@the_turtle @vfrmedia @ozzelot Yeesh, that's awful. I had a similar concern cleaning recently but didn't think there would be enough volume to be a factor. I guess I was lucky to find peroxide and enzyme based cleaners first.
As regards the metal, ammonia/ammonium are typically fine on stainless up to industrial temps, but apparently the chlorides in the urine are what make it so aggressive as it removes the protective chromium oxide layer, and without oxygen exposure that doesn't reform. Plus despite having uricase, a purine heavy diet means uric acid is still present among all the other stuff.
Was not expecting the cat biology/metallurgy rabbit hole, but kinda fascinating.
As regards the metal, ammonia/ammonium are typically fine on stainless up to industrial temps, but apparently the chlorides in the urine are what make it so aggressive as it removes the protective chromium oxide layer, and without oxygen exposure that doesn't reform. Plus despite having uricase, a purine heavy diet means uric acid is still present among all the other stuff.
Was not expecting the cat biology/metallurgy rabbit hole, but kinda fascinating.
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It is effective at breaking it up inside too, except it will also break you up...
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It is effective at breaking it up inside too, except it will also break you up...
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Now I want to know what happens when you put banana bread in the spectrometer
@schrotthaufen bendy lines in your spectra, of course.
@Cat ๐๐ฅ (D.Burch) โ It's fine. This is raisin bread.
Chesterton's Banana Bread
how the fuck else am I to verify that my banana bread contains real bananium??
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Now I wanna know the results.
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I'm not saying that these things are related
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oh, I inherently know what happened here
โoh, I thought it was banana bread, but didnโt know for sure. Of course I needed to test the potassium content to inform my decision on whether it actually was banana bread.โ
@Lando I was thinking the same ๐น
@Lando This is why professional banana bread counterfeiters use fake banana flavor and just a dash of K40
@walshman23 @Lando I knew it! ๐ฎ
But custard is still okay?
Rev. 1 read "Please do not put banana bread in the spectrometer, BRIAN."
๐คฃ someone put banana bread in the spectrometer!
so what your saying is cinnamon raisin is okay?
Ok... *puts garlic bread in the spectrometer* 
I don't understand why not. I mean, isn't the mass-energy ratio influenced by the radiation in the bananas? I'd want to know that!
But the only way to quickly verify that itโs โbananaโ bread is to put it in the spectrometer! Itโs one of the best ways to identify individual elements. The most common impostor, โbanaโ bread, looks and tastes almost identical in all respects, but contains only half the sodium.
I feel prepared to write a version of the backstory on this ๐
You're not the boss of me, stupid sign.
@AlexQR
And thanks to you, they need a new sign...
Please do not put pieces of shit in the spectrometer
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I have put way weirder things inside spectrometers! If you ask I will give 1 example each
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May I have an example, please.
May I have an example, please.
@mcpinson decisions decisions... a piece of fruit we found in the lab from a decade prior. It wasn't moldy, somehow it dehydrated first?
@cinebox Sign made by a coward.
One of my life goals is to be the reason behind a bizzare sign like this
There is an important issue here! They make the rule, but they don't tell you the story that made them think to make the rule. There is always a story. For example, at the university I used to work for, if you wanted to be reimbursed for travel, they said you had to submit the boarding passes. Clearly, someone had tried to get reimbursed for a trip they did not take. But at the time, Southwest COLLECTED the boarding passes, so no one who flew Southwest could be reimbursed. We took pictures of the passes. Sometimes that worked, sometimes not. Then it became possible to check in online and print the boarding pass. You could print two copies of the boarding pass. Or 100. This did not prove that you had boarded the plane, but it satisfied the rule.
The people who made the rule were staff who never got reimbursed for travel. They had no idea what problems they were creating, or that their rule did not accomplish what they intended.
Surely there is no other way to verify the presence of actual banana in the bread
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Yes.
This one always got me thinking...
food prep and restaurant kitchens often feature large bins containing food
maybe this is a gentle reminder that this particular inviting large plastic container is not suitable when you need to move a huge amount of ingredients or mid-recipe product from/ to one area or another or the walk in freezer
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Don't put Metal in the Science Oven, Honey!
Oh, so herman sourdough bread would be just fine, I suppose.
I'll keep that in mind. ๐
But, but how are we supposed to know if it's made with real bananas?
I want to see that potassium spectrum.
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@mcpinson banana bread spectroscopy results are 1 part Barium 2 parts Sodium
what would be just the best is if the story behind this sign resulted in a paper on the atomic composition of banana bread
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@newstik I mean, it says right there that it's the *worst* water.
@newstik A great source of electrolytes...
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I suppose it has to do with Bananaman's backstory.
conceivably a safety reason. I once tried to warm a banana in the microwave, and it caught on fire.
We did put single malt scotch in the IR spectrometer once. The lab smelled amazing for days.
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It will go bananas.
I think my favorite WTF caused this? is
"It's against the law to get an elephant drunk"
Obviously, someone did, and the assumption is that something bad happened.
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"It's against the law to get an elephant drunk"
Obviously, someone did, and the assumption is that something bad happened.
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@Darkphoenix I once went looking through our local city law codes and found a few interesting ones. Notably "It is illegal to climb on the outside of a moving vehicle and honk the horn." ๐ค Also one which banned use of "roller skates and toy wagons" from a particular section of downtown, which went from oddly specific to vividly surreal with the addition of a clause which "This does not apply to police officers in the line of duty" (I definitely want to know what duty requires police officers to make use of a toy wagon!)
please do not look at laser with remaining eye.
The TF2 Soldier would like yo have a word with you...
Something something potassium-40
but every other sort of bread is okay, then?
Iโd have some cranberry bread in there the next day. fuck the police.
I hope I found the story behind this one: link.springer.com/article/10.1โฆ
"A quick FT-IR method for estimation of ฮฑ-amylase resistant starch from banana flour and the breadmaking process"
@greyhash
As you are doing spectrometry, why shoudn't one do that? Any Idea?
As you are doing spectrometry, why shoudn't one do that? Any Idea?
Is it like fairy cake in the The Total Perspective Vortex?
Don't give psychedelics to the bisons โ๏ธ
๐ถ๐ต Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring /
Banana bread ๐ต๐ถ
*Spectrometer breaks loudly*
ok. I got it. Too many รxle. 
sry.
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Not sry.
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also a chance the sign was snuck in by the psychology dept. to sow disarray in the chemistry department
laugh all you want, but we had access to portable/ruggedized spectrometer, tomography and various CBRNE sensor/scanner types.
We were bored, a lot. We had things to do, but those were keep-busy bullshit.
You know what's NOT bullshit? *Proving* that low sodium shoyu is just regular shoyu, but watered down. ::nods sagely::
Every piece of gear cost more than our salaries. Thanks, US taxpayers.
Well now how am I suppose to Spectrograph my Banana Bread? โ
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Putting Banana bread in the spectrometer is science of the highest order and will ensure a wondrous future.
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I just learned that Oracle, which is shoveling unbelievable amounts of cash into getting everybody to use LLMs, also has a policy forbidding contributors to OpenJDK from using LLMs to generate code, citing code quality, security, and legal concerns:
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I want to boost this but I'm worried that some other faction _within_ oracle will find out and kill this policy
@glyph As a law firm that dabbles occasionally in software, I think Oracle's legal team is likely to win whatever arguments that generates.
wait, OpenJDK is an oracle thing?
@freya Java was originally developed by SUN Microsystems and OpenJDK is also from that time.
Oracle bought SUN and they got OpenJDK that way.
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โOracle is the steward of OpenJDK and if you havenโt yet signed the Oracle Contributor Agreement (OCA), and are not covered by a company-level agreement, then please do so. This is required in order to make your patch available for review.โ
OpenJDK isn't a fork of SunJDK. It is in fact Sun opening it to contributions from other companies -- their competitors, mostly -- and later on to individual contributors.
There were forks made after Sun made the code available under the GPL, like IcedTea, and even free software implementations predating that, like GNU classpath or Apache Harmony. But overtime the vast majority of these efforts eventually folded into OpenJDK, leaving it the main reference implementation by an overwhelming margin and the upstream to most Java runtimes available today.
Amazingly enough, Oracle didn't ruin this after they swallowed Sun. In fact, they continued investing in the platform, paying the developers, and maintained the armed peace with the likes of IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, etc...
While, to this day, Oracle retains a majority in the governing instances for OpenJDK, as well as in the number of contributors they directly employ, the project has grown into something genuinely resembling a public good, though it is admittedly more out of the delicate balance of power amongst its corporate participants than out of ideology.
In a lot of ways, it reminds me of the ISS during the cold war; the corporate daddys absolutely hate each other's guts, but one the ground the engineers are quite happy working together to build something good and to leave the corporate bickering to others with nothing better to do. For the most part, anyway.
But it's a pretty fragile equilibrium, of course. And the current "Interim" AI policy is a perfect example of that: it's obvsiously the sensible thing to do, and so it was decided by the project governing board, in their own name and in absence of (or perhaps in accord with, I'm not privy to that) Oracle's official policy on the matter. But as soon as Oracle's leadership decides otherwise, this will be it.
As @glyph said in a earlier post, better we keep quiet about this, lest we jinx it! ๐
@fred @anzah @glyph fascinating! I just found a JDK that will work on my box:
freyja@ashlynne:~/jdk11/jdk-11.0.32$ ./bin/java -version
openjdk version "11.0.32" 2026-07-21 LTS
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.32+11-LTS)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.32+11-LTS, mixed mode, sharing)
freyja@ashlynne:~/jdk11/jdk-11.0.32$ uname -a
SunOS ashlynne 5.11 snv_151a sun4u sparc SUNW,A70 Solaris
freyja@ashlynne:~/jdk11/jdk-11.0.32$ file bin/java
bin/java: ELF 64-bit MSB executable SPARCV9 Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped, no debugging information available
freyja@ashlynne:~/jdk11/jdk-11.0.32$
and it's a perfectly up-to-date too! (11.0.32 was released last week).
@fred @anzah @glyph other cursed SPARC things I have ported include:
freyja@ashlynne:~$ go version
go version go1.18 gccgo (GCC) 13.4.0 FMI-SOL211-13_4-20260719 (Fractal Microsystems) solaris/sparc64
freyja@ashlynne:~$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 13.4.0 FMI-SOL211-13_4-20260719 (Fractal Microsystems)
Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
freyja@ashlynne:~$ /ws/on11/build/src/pkg/fractal/developer/llvm-19.1.7/build/bin/ld.lld --version
LLD 19.1.7 (compatible with GNU linkers)
freyja@ashlynne:~$
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @anzah this precious girl I am logged into right now is actively living through it
One of their points is that the contributor must own the code they contribute (i.e., have copyright over it), and they rightly point out that machine-generated code cannot be copyrighted.
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@clayfoot yep, same reason we refuse AI submissions in OpenLDAP. Other reasons might be debatable, but this is clear cut. mastodon.social/@hyc/114495011โฆ
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@ondrej@sury.org @bagder in OpenLDAP we simply prohibit AI generated code. This is a simple consequence of our existing policy to only accept code submitted by its authors.Howard Chu @ Symas (Mastodon)
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Pica is screaming at the doorknob. The research continues. ๐ค
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I worry about this a little... but she really thinks yelling is the best method for most things so I'm not that worried.
@Josh
this is why she keeps humans around.
I wonder what it is telling her
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Expectation: โThe tent is so big because of all the marginalized people we have to fit in it! ๐ฅฐโ
Reality: โThe tent is so big because the Nazis need another safe space bro! Just a little more room for white supremacist christofascist patriarchy bro. Just a bit more. I swear. We gotta make the tent big enough for all this diversity of thought bro. Just enough to purify the entire planet bro. Think of the shareholder value!โ
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Donโt even worry about it bro. AI is gonna teach us how to save the planet. We just need a few more sacrifices bro. Just a few more. Itโs called โeffective altruismโ bro.
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effective altruism is so funny because people talk it up so much as this revolutionary concept and then it turns out to be the idea of "donate to charities that help people" but because it's built up so much mystique it's full of these high concept scams that help literally no one while promising the world. It's in the collection of things that are named after how smart the founders thought they were, like objectivism or utilitarianism.A good rule of thumb is that if your founders haven't considered they might be wrong then they probably are.
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Naw, see, the special part is you donate to SOME charities, the fancypants ones that make big future promises, because you're so smart you can see how speculating on them will pay off down the line, and NOT OTHERS like, say, these other charities that would save the lives of these here orphans staring at us in present time, I have a magically ALTRUISTIC reason to abandon them and leave them twisting in the wind guilt-free. Cause I'm so smart about how I spend my resources and emotional energy. Harumph, harumph. Behold the butterfly of legend, the chaos wizard, above mere short-sighted mortals (bleeding heart liberals even) and defining the future through sheer self-importance. Harumph!
Naw, see, the special part is you donate to SOME charities, the fancypants ones that make big future promises, because you're so smart you can see how speculating on them will pay off down the line, and NOT OTHERS like, say, these other charities that would save the lives of these here orphans staring at us in present time, I have a magically ALTRUISTIC reason to abandon them and leave them twisting in the wind guilt-free. Cause I'm so smart about how I spend my resources and emotional energy. Harumph, harumph. Behold the butterfly of legend, the chaos wizard, above mere short-sighted mortals (bleeding heart liberals even) and defining the future through sheer self-importance. Harumph!
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The initial idea behind "effective altruism" makes sense. Figure out a monetary value for how much good a charity does and donate based on that rather than vibes to make sure your money puts the most good in the world.
The next step of "pick some weird ass bogeyman (roko's basilisk) that will never fucking happen and assign it a value of infinitely bad so all the money goes into preventing that no matter how unlikely" is where it gets incredibly stupid.
Couple more mosquito nets oughta do it
the averaging machine is going to average us a an exceptional solution any day now.
this is why I do not value "diversity of opinions" one iota. I value opinions from diverse peoples, instead.
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ok as per usual my sketch turned out WAY creepier than a normal sketch, but hey. Horror cricket it is.
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Man, I feel like an idjit. Spent the last 10 minutes frantically searching our home for whatever gadget might be emitting a regularly spaced emergency beep (yes, we have a few of those). At first I thought it was the fridge left open. Then I thought it sounded like same frequency the smoke alarm/CO2 detector makes when its batteries are low (we have more than a few those those, too). Nope. It was just a cricket.
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Might be the funniest thing I have read today Brian...
@NoRomBasic @briankrebs, it strikes me that that could easily have been from an old Test Match Special, during a particularly quiet part of the game (like, for example, an interruption due to rain).
Cricket needs a fresh battery.
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That is so on brand for this _timeline_.
It's not you. It's the world we created. โค
I got distracted by a faint repetitive buzzing sound the other day. It sounded like a phone alarm but as if the phone was under a cushion on the settee.
The source of the noise turned out to be the induction hob that I was standing next to while it was simmering a pan of soup that I was looking forward to eating.
We've had that induction cooker for almost 15 years now.
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@gary_alderson okay, smart guy. so what's your solution for getting crickets out of your house? I don't want to squash him. He hopped further inside the house when i opened the door lol. He's still chirping, only now I lost him.
did you have the right battery for it?
We had cricket noises for months. We had some crickets as food for some weird tropical toads that had got dumped on us to look after, and one or two of them escaped to make noises at us for week after week.
Reminds me of the original Annoy-a-tron -- it was a tiny, configurable electronic prank gadget created by ThinkGeek around 2008. It was designed to emit short, random-interval beeps, cricket chirps, or voice clips to drive coworkers and friends crazy while being nearly impossible to track down.
Place a winsome she-cricket on the veranda?
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Waking up in a tent near mount Tom in California and thinking, the 405 is very loud this morning, only to slowly realize the sound I was hearing wasn't car traffic but the fast-running stream nearby ... I did commit there and then to spend more time in nature.
Nature calling ๐
Oh, I got one. I once hunted around for HOURS to locate a very occasional beep a few years ago, like, a "smoke detector dying" beep. What was it? My on-call pager (yes, an actual pager) that was letting me know I missed a page. I almost went hunting for an unseen smoke detector in my attic.
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Here the rooks occasionally imitate tractors or chainsaws.
We do have some crickets in Ireland but I don't think any have cheeps like electronics with a running down battery. When I hear that it's always a battery.
One is mostly ultrasonic.
I've heard crickets in the US.
We do have some crickets in Ireland but I don't think any have cheeps like electronics with a running down battery. When I hear that it's always a battery.
One is mostly ultrasonic.
I've heard crickets in the US.
This has happened to me.
More than once.
time for a new pet gecko
It was trying to tell you the temperature.
An emergency cricket?!
hah, reminds me of a story from South Africa where some birds were starting to mimic car alarms.
this exactly happened to us a couple of years ago. The little guy was so loud we thought "it's impossible a single little cricket can make such noise"
๐คฃ classic xD hahah
when my miraines got bad in 2020 it took me over a day to realise the tinnitus wasn't some sort of crickets in the garden.
Not too long ago I spent far too long searching the living room and kitchen for a beep, only to realize it was coming from the cockpit of an F1 car on the television.
Meanwhile on Cricket social media, John the Cricket posted "Just spent 10 minutes winding a human up by impersonating his smoke alarm". Let's hope he doesn't go viral or they'll all be at it.
Reminds me to put the smoke alarm back up. Currently hidden under a pile of clothing, to stop it going off/being loud.
A few days ago it started beeping like the battery was dead.
At 11pm.
Has a 10 year battery and is less than 2 months old.
No sign of fire/ smoke (heating fires/neighbour smoking) Not even smokey outside. Nothing on that might be overheating.
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There's one location in this house that is eating smoke detectors. I tossed out the old one about a year ago - it wasn't anywhere near its 10 year life span - and have had to replace it three if not four times over since then because they only survive 2-4 months each in that location.
There's one location in this house that is eating smoke detectors. I tossed out the old one about a year ago - it wasn't anywhere near its 10 year life span - and have had to replace it three if not four times over since then because they only survive 2-4 months each in that location.
ah yes, the elusive Emergency Cricket.
In fairness, given cricket lifespans it's entirely possible that the cricket considers its stridulatory courtship attempts to be emergency beeps.
clearly you didnโt have enough crickets so it was sounding the alarm.๏ฟผ
I used to have similar problem at 2am. It was a flip phone with a low battery. And high pitch sounds are so hard to follow.
The solution is simple:
Turn up the temperature in the house 10ยฐF.
If the chirping speeds up, it's a cricket.
If the chirping stays the same, it's 19 other things.
@RealGene i don't think I would want to make my house 10 degrees Fahrenheit, thank you ๐
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ok as per usual my sketch turned out WAY creepier than a normal sketch, but hey. Horror cricket it is.
Someone I knew a long time ago spent *days* tearing apart his home looking, increasingly frantically, for the godforsaken cricket that kept chirping at all hours of the day and night. It was his smoke detector.
I am galoot. Last time this happened I accidentally set a timer/alarm on the induction stove instead of just changing the time after a power cut.
A friend had it the other way around. Her father (>80) complained about a cricket and at the end it was one of the smoke detectors.
Still wondering about his good hearing.
That's a bit like maybe 20 years back when I desperately reached for the (Nokia) phone thinking it was ringing but it turned out the local birds were mimicking the ringtone.
You have an emergency cricket?
A beep seemingly everywhere in the apartment ended up being a low battery in a new hearing aid.
@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange friendly lizard
I literally took down and snipped the battery out of a smoke detector because of an incessant beep. Turned out to be the 3rd party CO detector *next* to the smoke detector. An expensive mistake, but now as I replace smoke detectors with combo units, I can actually record install dates (something conspicuously missing from the ones that came with the house).
Interesting how our brains automatically think itโs technology making the noise. 30 years ago weโd automatically think it was an insect
You were lucky. A chirping cricket means there are no predators in the bush.
@Random_Seed or that it's raining cats and dogs, which it was right before this guy showed up.
OH MAN I FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL YOU
It was a bird chirping outside once, for me.
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reminds me of Bob Collins helping a listener with her beeping VCR (wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/wgn-archโฆ 6th item down)
i'm glad this story got more than
crickets
heh
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#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
63. Fire - Pepper&Carrot
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.Pepper&Carrot
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i feel this comic spezialy
the City dwellers are the perfect electorate for the current German government ๐๐
@xarvos ๐Yes, a direct reference to that, and also to the famous "Our house is on fire" quote of Greta Thunberg.
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je pense que la derniรจre case va pouvoir resservir en rรฉaction meme ><
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Not understanding your reference for
there's no fire here if , the fire is about south Europe. but if about fire in the Middle East then it makes sense
@spirillen Many topics. The fire is just a metaphor.
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hm... looks like genAI to me /s ๐
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@tinsuke Thank you for the little "/s" at the end ๐
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damn, I'm sorry.
I know you understood the joke related to your previous post:
framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/1169โฆ
But I can't help but think that this might have caused some quick distress before getting to the โ/sโ at the end. Sorry about that.
And stuff like this just make me wanna support your awesome work (in nature, process ans output):
davidrevoy.com/article1164/wheโฆ
So I just went ahead and ordered the Pepper & Carrot collection (was on my wish list, just needed a nudge!) to read to my kids.
Thanks for your inspiring work & ethics!
For Instagram, my art is "Likely made with AI". Hard to be an artist in 2026...
@tinsuke Thank you very much 
"Well okay, there are some scattered flames... but that's all part of the natural cycle! We've had fires before and survived, and anyway it's not our fault and there's nothing we can do about it."
Ha! Pure fantasy. Has nothing to so with real events! ๐
@Jalella *wink* *wink* ๐
I literally peeled off a fasch sticker today insinuating that the climate collapse is "green propaganda" and a hot summer is all fine and dandy, so this is frightingly timely ๐คข
@jfml I feel it. I wrote this one after being confronted also to situation on my trip back from Paris.
How some people respond delusionally to any stressful 'global' situation... In this comic, the first guy diminishes the effect, the woman in second solves the problem selfishly with money (the higher class dodging the issue with their resources), and the last dog-man blames a minority (racism).
ah, I thought itโs a symbol for โLรผgenpresseโ (mendacious press)
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A huge amount of art will be created by future generations just to process what the hell happened to us right now.
I mean, think about how much has been done and written about all our past self-inflicted disasters. That's us now.
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very accurate. sadly!
I know you're talking about global warming, but one time at my job at a picture frame shop, there was a massive fire on the same block (not our building, but about three storefronts down) and my boss wouldn't let us go home early or even make a plan to evacuate the art.
Spent all day telling customers over the phone not to come down because the road out front was completely blocked off with fire trucks.
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@pencilears Oh no. Yes, the allegory is about Global Warming/Climate Change, but it is also broad enough for many topics. The real main topic is about the delusional response of people refusing to see the emergency, so your experience totally matches that.
@pencilears Normalcy Bias is a serious problem with a complex cause.
It is at its most disturbing when it occurs without deliberate effort for promoting it by malicious parties and without the individual affected being typically so inclined to ignore problems, instead their cognition just clearly visibly skipping a beat.
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thereโs no fire in Ba Sing Se
Thank you for this very apt piece of social commentary.
Nothing to laugh or smile about this time. Beautiful drawings, as always.
"But ... don't you see it?" hit hard.
@hardy Thank you for reading. I probably experienced an overwhelming emotional response over the last day. The smoke from a forest fire 300 km away filled my valley, one of my cats had to go to the vet because he has a weak heart and the heatwave almost killed him (he's fine now, this is one: davidrevoy.com/article1075/diyโฆ). On the train back from Paris, an old man said, "It was like that in 1976 too".
I just took my laptop and furiously typed out this story...
I just took my laptop and furiously typed out this story...
I completely understand. Good thing for all of us that you were able to turn what could have been an angry rant into something beautiful instead. Highly appreciated.
@hardy oh not the '76, I'm so done with people mentioning '76.
Basically every year of my life has been a record summer yet it's always been โwell it was worse in 76โ โwe did okay in 76โ โit's barely warmer than 76โ .
Like okay we get it you had **one** hot year when you were a kid or whatever. _Its hot every year now_.
Once in a century has become an annual event how do you not see this is a problem????
how it feels living in Texas
Oof! I feel so bad for the people in Europe when the weather gets like this. It used to be so rare, and now it seems like it's happening every year, sometimes multiple times. The people saying, "Just get an AC" feel so callous.
This reminded me of a commercial I see a lot on my left-leaning TV channel. I think you might appreciate it.
youtube.com/watch?v=qT39g2EMGiโฆ
Ignoring fire in a hot restaurant! Ft. Billy Eichner, Adam McKay, Ana Gasteyer, & Thomas Lennon
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Auรerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Yellow Dot Studios (YouTube)
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@ToonLink Thank you for sharing, gold lines of dialog on this animation! ๐คฃ
Too bad we can't just leave.
@knodel Yes, the part where she leaves away flying is the total fiction in this comic. Sadly, we have to endure those @$%#@
No hay peor ciego que el que no quiere ver.
(There's none so blind than those who don't see.)
(There's none so blind than those who don't see.)
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Pas fan de la derniรจre case, รงa n'a rien ร voir avec une quelconque "folie", laissons les fols en dehors de รงa voulez-vous ?
Au contraire, je pense que c'est un phรฉnomรจne de dรฉlire de masse pour divers raisons et pathologies non traitรฉs (eg. des psychoses ordinaire sous jacente et diffรฉrent niveau de paranoรฏas)
(edit: ensuite, je respecte votre gout de pas รชtre fan, pas de soucis, et je n'ai pas voulu offensรฉ quiconque en cours de traitement ou concernรฉ par le signe du doigt autour de la tempe. Ho la que non.)
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J'vois pas l'intรฉrรชt de verser dans la psychophobie pour dรฉmontrer le non sens du bouzin, c'est tout. bizoo
@ZoidbergForPresident Je vous rassure, pas de psychophobie ou psychoshaming ici (loin de lร , mรชme la dรฉmarche inverse).
Satire has to run fast to keep up with reality these days. (the photo shown in the link is destined to be iconic)
@arfisk True. This photo was taken on a nearby region where I live; the smoke filled my valley during a full day. The media here are in loop about it, I listened to that while painting this comic...
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We know all about the smoke in Australia! It gives me serious flashbacks to new years day in 2020, when SE Australia was an inferno, and hundreds were trapped in the coastal town of Marlo. (Fortunately the main front missed the township proper)
The only good that came out was a lot of foxhole conversions.
"They would kill him." Plato, the allegory of the cave
The third panel turned out really good!
everything is fine
"It's hot today, isn't it?"
"I don't like discussing politics"
"I don't like discussing politics"
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Sadly, my broom hasn't been working that well for flight of late... Have had to storm off on foot...
I'm tempted to put the last panel as a comment to every news about heatwaves, drout, wildfire etc. - it's such a bad "told you so"-moment for scientists worldwide. And in Germany our gov is killing renewable energies... again... ๐ญ
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i love this comic tackles multiple things at once haha good work as always!
"pure elves' propaganda" lmao
Strong Don't Look Up vibes
once you add police punishing you for using word "fire" - you'll get Putin's Russia.
Imagine: some time later Pepper meets a group of elves who are investigating the city fire.
Elves are happy that there is somebody who listens to them and tell, that they knew how and why would the fire happen years before. When Pepper asks about what is going to happen in future, elves tell, that in 50 years all the planet will be a desert, in 100 years it will be on fire, and in 300 years it will look like Venus.
Then Pepper asks, how to prevent all of that, and elves tell, that usage of fire should be prohibited, as well as wood, paper (as fuel for fire) and glass lenses (to prevent them from focusing sunlight and causing fire), and 2 out of 3 moons should be moved and fixed in one point to block the Sun.
Then Pepper asks: "Is the future going to be so harsh and are there easier way to prevent that?" โ and elves tell, that those were their worst predictions, most likely the planet would become warmer but not to the point of worldwide desert, and to prevent that it is enough to replace all fire lamps with magical cold sources of light.
But they also say that nobody is going to listen to them if they will tell the most likely instead of worst possible predictions and measures.
This is a parody on climate change activists, who tell that Earth is going to turn into hell due to global warming instead of most likely projections, and thus involuntarily discredit the movement to stop climate change.
don't believe the fire propaganda
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It's 1915, the right is weaponizing white women's safety to attack black people
It's 1998, the right is weaponizing straight women's safety to attack lesbians
It's 2026, the right is weaponizing cis women's safety to attack trans people.
#transphobia #homophobia #racism #lgbtq #transgender #transRights #lgbtqRights
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there won't be anyone
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in reply to jd ๐ • • •Danny Boling โฎ๏ธ
in reply to bouriquet • • •@bouriquet
maga's will start selling cans of *only* CFCs, just for kicks.
@jd
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in reply to The ol' tealeg ๐ก • • •@tealeg
Same here.
My response is always the same: I know because I was there.
@jd
derptron
in reply to jd ๐ • • •Victoria :3 ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ต๐ธ
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in reply to Victoria :3 ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ต๐ธ • • •@tragivictoria @crazyeddie
We watch the monitoring feeds nervously down in NZ because it affects our rates of skin cancer and cataracts. It just about skins over and then reopens for a while on a seasonal basis at the moment
stats.govt.nz/indicators/ozoneโฆ
Ozone hole | Stats NZ
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in reply to jd ๐ • • •Did you know that the same guy invented CFCs and leaded gasoline? Thomas Midgley, Jr. possessed "an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny"
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in reply to jd ๐ • • •Jens
in reply to James Endres Howell • • •I tried to explain it to a dude here and he just said "that's what they want you to think". I asked him who was trying to make me think that... And to no ones surprise that's when it got horribly antisemitic
James Endres Howell
in reply to Jens • • •@ohyran Bah
Don't punch these guys, violence never works. Seriously. That's why I lust for withering-ridicule-vengeance
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clew
in reply to James Endres Howell • • •Iโd be as happy with plain but very short. Gets though to more people, IME.
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James Endres Howell
in reply to clew • • •@clew I am not judging by the criterion of civic efficacy, but by my lust for vengeance
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Niklas
in reply to jd ๐ • • •It's nothing like the climate crisis, because that requires us to make / consume / produce *less* things.
Bytebro ๐ฌ๐ง ๐บ๐ฆ ๐
in reply to Niklas • • •Kind of boils down to the old capitalist thing about "Buy more shit, or we're all fucked!", no? ๐
WesDym
in reply to Niklas • • •@nilclass A big difference is that it didn't affect current manufacturers. The people who made refrigerators that used CFCs only had to make and sell a DIFFERENT kind of fridge, but they still got to make and sell them. In fact, they got to enjoy HIGHER sales. The industries responsible for the problem were also the solution.
It's different for fossil fuels. You can't convert an oil derrick to a solar farm. Regulation of CO2 is bad for them, so obviously they resist it.
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in reply to jd ๐ • • •Kevin Russell
in reply to jd ๐ • • •Matt Walsh has a kink.
Matt Walsh wants everyone to know how base and stupid he is.
And WOW Matt Walsh is Stupid.
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in reply to jd ๐ • • •WesDym
in reply to jer • • •@jerrej He knew the answer. This is what conservatives do. Frank Wilhoit's essay about this explains why. They're after POWER, that's it, and to hell with other people. Any lie that advances their goal is justified in their mind for that reason. He knew that his OWN followers didn't know better. That's all this is about. "Hey, remember that BS about the ozone layer? Same BS now about climate change!" He knows. He has no shame about it.
To be fair, he probably can't make a living any other way.
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in reply to jd ๐ • • •This is like the people that claim the Y2K bug was a non-issue. Not much happened because people did the work preventing it.
Some people just need to be repeatedly slapped in the face by reality until they accept something needs to be done about it.
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in reply to jd ๐ • • •Margret Kuarell
in reply to Trieck or gaank • • •scbarton
in reply to jd ๐ • • •Ok, but the ozone hole is only stabilized. In other words, it's still there.
ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov
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in reply to jd ๐ • • •Martijn Vos
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We should really do the same with fossil fuels and global warming. We know we can do it because we've done it before with the ozone layer and also acid rain.
Piranhallama
Unknown parent • • •@shaknais @scbarton as a fridge person, HCFC22 is a particularly useful substance. HFC23 is a by-product. Whilst R23 has no ozone depletion potential, it does have a global warming potential around 14000 kgโขCO2 equivalent. At least coal is slowly being replaced as the power source for production. Unfortunately, R22 production has a much bigger impact than "only" the ODP.
R22 is a prolific intermediary for the production of many fluoropolymers. PTFE, of which Teflon is a trade name for a particular blend, is a particularly ubiquitous example known to most people. There are many more.
Some countries are still producing vast amounts of R22. Article 5 countries have until 2030 to phase it out under the schedule. As a refrigerant, it is readily available in many countries the world over despite the Montreal Protocol and future amendments. It is hard to believe it won't persist beyond 2030.
PurpleGengar
in reply to jd ๐ • • •I remember answering an exam question at 7th grade, I answered that the Ozone layer can be fixed, but the teacher substracted 2 marks from me, saying it's irreversible.
I want those two marks back!
Gins
in reply to PurpleGengar • • •M Schommer
in reply to Gins • • •Well, it's people who can't be fixed. Taking away those 2 marks was wrong!
M Schommer
Unknown parent • • •Acid rain is another good example for the same class of problems, being solved by the same process. Also both problems were solved without real impact to the lifes of 99.9% of people: Hairsprays & fridges changed, & now all cars use unleaded fuel. But that's all, normal consumer life went on.
Unfortunately, it's not *that* easy to fix the climate catastrophe, but after those 2 miraculous experiences in the past, ppl are expecting another wonder, no painful & costly changes.
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