the machine!

a three panel comic. first panel, a man in heat resistant gloves comes across a canister of tear gas being thrown at his feet. second panel he has picked it up and someone yells to him, "throw it back!" third panel, he is throwing back his ass. END

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

it's really bad how "STEM" is used as a synonym for "Silicon Valley software megacorps" in the discourse

the other day one of the other tenants in my unit got misdelivered my tax documents, which I found out because I found it in the shared "return to sender" bin and not, y'know, my own mailbox which is one foot away

see also: everyone on all sides of the AI debate insisting that everyone that doesn't agree with them is engaging in Cartesian dualism

this is an unvirtuous post of mine but it feels like this attitude is something I see a lot, where if someone else does something bad and you notice it, the onus is not on the person or the state to clean up, but you yourself

knowing what to `order by desc` on can be the tricky part

there was an image going around a while ago of rainbow-painted hostile architecture painted rainbow that people were using as an example of "pink washing", except

- the rainbow was obviously photoshopped
- the fact that all the background signage was Chinese may give a clue to the actual location

honestly even as someone with robust backups I wouldn't let an ML model edit my data outside of version control because of risk of it making a bad change I don't notice (e.g. it didn't delete this PDF but it edited the text to nonsense)

While many of you are yelling Go Patriots or Go Seahawks, I’m rooting for Robert Mueller and the rule of law

the bay area is cursèd. like cursed, but literary

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sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣

it could have maybe been doable during the peaks of Rainbow Capitalism but 2026????

in the same way a dragon can

was experimenting with Z-Image Turbo, an AI image model that is much smaller and doesn't have language parsing capabilities like most current image models

was intentionally using prompts it isn't able to handle bc of not having language capabilities

anyway this is "unlegalized cats"

this is why you should *never* hit someone with an rpg. it’s dangerous, it’s shitty, and it’s wrong

sometimes I think about that stupid "silence is the sound of gentrification" article from the mid 2010s. I think that's an exemplar of what I think of as, like, the worst excesses of Woke 1.0

but if it has to be *slop* slop (ie made sincerely) it's We Are Charlie Kirk no contest

either taction for the take-tack or Sydney saying the reporter was in a loveless marriage and demanding he apologize

the Bitcoin price graph in suricrasia.online/unfiction/ba... is one of my favorite bits of the thing

I used to run it myself because it was vastly easier to run than the bloated nonsense that is Mastodon proper; GTS (what I use now) has been similarly easy as Pleroma but doesn't seem to have the shithead problem. So I don't think it's just "too easy to set up = bad userbase"

oh wait is it a typo for Pleroma?

I think for various reasons Pleroma had a reputation specifically for 4chan jackasses; anecdotally I definitely did feel like problem users were more likely to be running it. Akkoma and GTS don't have the same reputation.

what's Penumbra in this context?

you can solve it if every individual person runs their own node (p2p) but that has, uh, its own problems

though I will say I think people overstate the burden of running your own activitypub node as long as it's *just* for you

come on you wanna swordfight man come on you swordfight you man I'll come swordfight you dit dit dit dit dit dit

“Barack Obarna, 2009-2017” accompanied by an AI generated Obama that resembles Mr. Bean.

It’s gotta be Irish Obama for me dude

the absolutely bizarre english combined with the coherent normal code is such an amazing combination

imagining a type of person who does not drink alcohol at all but all their mugs say NOT TEQUILA, NOT WHISKEY, etc