A Soggy Clump of Soil

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

Don't confuse my hatred of the hyperwealthy for jealousy over what they have. I don't want a six figure sports car, or a 40 room mansion, or a gold leaf truffle wagyu steak dinner. I want redistribution of wealth that allows for infrastructural support of all citizens' basic survival needs.

It is said that nothing lasts forever, and often that is cause for sorrow and regret. But take heart, for it also applies to the reign of despots, to tyranny. They too cannot last forever, so let us usher in their end, let us outlast them.

Out on the horizon, past the roll of wastes like a sea’s waves frozen in dust, a darkness swirled and swelled. In its maw was fire, its terrible eye gleaming with a hatred pure and bright. And the man knew then that he walked into death. He walked all the same.

TGI(stfu)F. Learn the script.

Screenshot from a Tumblr post by ralfmaximus: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference. Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false: If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false. Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out

Hey Firefox users.

NEW Gar Friends edit by request!

Watch until the end for what you’d want in a Gar-Friends crossover teaser 👏👏👏👏😂

The smallest act of defiance may be all it takes to bring forth the hidden courage inside of you. Snarl in the face of your fears, let them cower at what they've unleashed.

Chapter 7: Antlers A closeup of Talita's antler shows the thin, soft coating of brown integument on the velvet skin. The bone underneath is about 30 centimeters long now. Her mouth is tight with a suppressed grimace and she is gripping her neck in discomfort. Dr. Henriques: They grew in again, huh? Talita: Yeah, third time this year. A wider shot shows Talita is sitting up on a tall, multi-segmented hydraulic operation table in a white tiled room with medical posters on the walls. She is in casual clothes, and the doctor is injecting a syringe into the muscles of her mid-shoulder. She already has a patch on her fore-shoulder from a previous injection. Talita looks like she'd rather be anywhere else. Dr. Henriques: Have you been sleeping at least 12 hours a day? Talita: ...Mostly… Dr. Henriques: And limiting your activity during the winter light cycle? Talita: I walk so much for work, I don't think it matters whether or not I do weights…

The doctor turns away from Talita to do something at the sink counter, and Talita begins to slide her legs off the operation table. Dr. Henriques: Well, if you want your cycle to be more regular– Talita: I know, I know. The doctor turns around the points at Talita, who freezes. Dr. Henriques: Hold still. One more. Talita: Another?? Dr. Henriques: We’re finally getting you up to date. She smiles and hold up another needle. Talita grimaces and grips her arm as the doctor administers another injection. Talita: It's not like there's anyone here I could swap germs with… Dr. Henriques: Orders from the top, Miss Dospaço. The doctor covers the last injection site with a wad of gauze and tapes it down, tearing off the piece of tape with her thumb. SFX: Riiip Talita walks out of the pan-sophont operation room, gripping the injection sites on her right side while ducking under the rolling garage door. Talita: Ow. I’m gonna be limping all day.

The doctor holds up a large round sticker with a rocketship on it and smiles. Dr. Henriques: Would a sticker make you feel better? Talita looks back over her shoulder at the sticker with wide, plaintive eyes. Later, Talita is sitting in the park on a picnic blanket behind the human apartments, in conversation with Gillie. She is wearing the sticker on her tank top.  Gillie: (ASL) Ask me questions in sign! Talita nods and holds up her hands.

Talita signs “Did anything interesting happen at work today?” in ASL. Each sign is drawn in the accompanying ASL translation. ASL TRANSLATION: TODAY YOUR WORK ANYTHING INTERESTING HAPPEN ? Gilie: (ASL) Good! But... She imitates Talita's question mark sign, a wiggling index finger. Gilie: I probably wouldn't use "?", I'd just sign the sentence with raised eyebrows. She demonstrates, signing a truncated version of the sentence: "Did anything interesting happen?" ASL TRANSLATION: ANYTHING INTERESTING HAPPEN (raised eyebrows indicating "?")

This week on #RunawayToTheStars: Talita gets her shots, a consolation sticker, and ASL language practice with Gillie.

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A cyanobacteria as Sue Sylvester from the musical television show Glee saying: "I'm going to create an environment that is so toxic"

Cyanobacteria during the Great Oxygenation Event about 2.4 billion years ago, which resulted in the mass extinction of many anaerobic organisms 🧪
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_O...

painting of a whitish fuzzy critter

Another little denizen of the Faerie Forest

2.5"x3.5" watercolor / multimedia

#art #fantasy #traditionalart

🦖 🪱 🦕

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I mean, if we get into the taxonomy, it isn't NOT a lizard

Sincerely thought those sausages were acorns at first

amongussexgif ... Instead of being in settings its in the google app. Also, google, not chrome. Icon is a G, not the circle thing. Click on your pfp to open a menu From there, go Settings > Gemini > Digital Assistants > Switch to Google Assistant. This disables Gemini, google's Al assistant, and switches you back to the old one. We aren't done yet. Go back to Settings. From there, we go Settings > Google Assistant > scroll to find General > Google Assitant on/off > turn it off They really tried their best to make it a pain, but you can eventually disable it. Holding the power button on your phone still pulls up a menu and asks you to turn it back on, but this is the least intrusive you can make it. Applies to all non-apple phones afaik. For sure Samsungs and Pixels but idrk about others Edit: thank you my friend @/teeth-kid for confirming that this also works on Motorola

Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.

I GUESS THE FAMILY LEGACY WILL END WITH ME... HOW SAD AND SHORT SIGHTED TO REDUCE YOURSELF AND ANY LEGACY TO GENETICS. THERE ARE FAR GREATER THINGS YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR KIN'S FUTURE. YOU CAN HELP BUILD A FOUNDATION... ...WITH CREATIONS AND TEACHINGS THAT WILL RIPPLE ACROSS TIME.

Many ways to pass a torch.

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

Pretty bad choice to make.

Just some regular fashion advice for going for a little walk in your city! Share this so others can improve their style :)

The northern hemisphere's answer to the platypus

My name is [your name] and I'm one of [representative's name]'s constituents. I'm calling to urge them to vote NO on three internet censorship bills: • the Kids Online Safety Act - KOSA • the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act - IODA • and the SCREEN Act All three bills claim to protect teens by placing a duty of care on online platforms to prevent exposure to harmful things. But Republicans keep expanding the definition of "harmful." These bills are gifts to fascists. [bail out here at 0:30 if you want] KOSA's sponsor said it would "protect minors from the transgender in this culture." The Heritage Foundation said it would use KOSA to block abortion information. Both other bills allow the FTC to enforce them. FTC Chair Ferguson signed up "to fight wokeness" and "the trans agenda.' The people in power now can't be trusted with laws like these. [bail out here at 0:50 if you want] Don't give weapons to fascists. If passed, these bills will harm LGBTQ teens, adults, and anyone who needs information on reproductive health or abortion. Vote NO on KOSA, IODA, and SCREEN.

if your reps are democrats, please call or email about these bills. we all hate calls, but calls are better. this script is 1 minute with bailouts built in. personalizing is good!

schumer & blumenthal cosponsor KOSA. add spice. you'll get an intern. be polite.

www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

My name is [your name] and I'm one of [representative's name]'s constituents. I'm calling to tell them to vote NO on three internet censorship bills: • the Kids Online Safety Act - KOSA • the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act - IODA • and the SCREEN Act These bills claim they'll protect kids by making online platforms block content someone somewhere decides is harmful. But I don't trust any DC elites deciding for me and my family what's harmful and what's fair and free speech. [bail out here at 0:30 if you want] Just like I didn't vote for Elon Musk to make decisions about Social Security, I'd absolutely never vote for the next Democrat whatever to decide if my Facebook church page or the NRA website is too "harmful" for whatever oversensitive group and needs to get censored and cancelled and taken down. There's no reason at all to give that kind of power to anyone in government ever. We have a First Amendment for a reason. Censorship harms everyone. Vote NO on all three of these bills.

if your reps are GOP, please call or email about these bills. we all hate calls, but calls are better. this script is timed to 1 minute with a bailout built in. personalizing is good!

don't do "hick voice." just sound like you.

you'll get an intern. be polite.

www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

Well, it nearly killed me, and it's still a little bit wonky, but you can now read the first ten pages of The Unfamiliars here, and a new page will be available every week going forward. More bells and whistles to follow.

theunfamiliars.site

You can’t replace artists with AI.
You can’t replace teachers with AI.
You can’t replace scientists with AI.

Important work comes from people. AI does not have the creativity, problem solving skills, and humanity necessary for the most important work we do as humans.

cat saying "shoppe has been droppe" in front of a compilation of product photos

cat saying "why did I make so much stuff" in front of a compilation of product photos

cat saying "look at all these ceramics" in front of a compilation of product photos

cat saying "l'm gonna have to pack these all" in front of a compilation of product photos

shop update is live! please step forward in an orderly fashion to give me your credit card info

acorviart.bigcartel.com

The front end of a vehicle stopped at an intersection, held up by a salamander in a tiny safety vest and stop sign. Behind it is a large group of yellow spotted salamanders crossing the road.

Amphibian migration season is coming this spring. Remember to drive slow!

the point of this btw is not some lame I-told-you-so, it's that if you're not already, you should be making a point of listening to people who were right 3, 6, 9, 12, 24, 48 months ago, and ignoring people who've been consistently wrong in that time period. and we should be jettisoning pols too