Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

Economics: "Humans only value things monetarily."
Sociology: "Uh, | don't..."
Economics: "Humans are always rational and value is calculated by complex internal calculus."
Sociology: "Uhhh, Psy, can you help?" Psychology: "That's not how humans..." Economics: "ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!"
Physics: *drops teacup*

Mainstream media are finally waking up.

“Firstly, cleaning indoor air mitigates all airborne diseases at the same time without requiring changes to individual behaviour. Several diseases that cause us repeated suffering and fill our hospitals are airborne, including COVID-19, influenza, RSV, and tuberculosis.”

https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-its-time-to-clean-the-germs-out-of-our-indoor-air

#covid #PublicHealth #AirFiltration

Apparently HP isn't content on just squeezing their customers; they're going to spy on whatever they're printing, and sell that data.

https://lemmy.world/post/12859204

Time to re-up this from Awkward Yeti: (Nick Seluk)
https://linktr.ee/theawkwardyeti
#trauma #MentalHealth

Upgrade your home defense

#picotron quakotron with proper palette - still runs like dog but hey, at least pretty!!

This meme from egg_irl got me thinking.

This conflation is super common, and also heavily hits closeted gay and bisexual men, bolstering compulsive heterosexuality.

Toxic masculinity largely exists to let bullies be bullies, but this enforcement of cishet supremacy is a huge “bonus” effect.

If you work in education, please please please educate your colleagues that "AI detectors" like TurnItIn are all scams and none of them can reliably detect AI-generated content.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1bwojmm/comment/ky7o8m4/

All of you. ALL OF YOU.

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im a true bisexual: i like both short people and tall people

I wish more people who are worried about FOSS supply side attacks would realize that universal basic income and free healthcare would result in an almost infinite stream of excellent software from people who care more about quality than profit.

We finally released instrument.txt, our 3.4 thousand word guide to Picotron's instrument editor! https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=141467

If you're a musician who wants to play with Picotron but don't have the background in synthesizers to figure out the UI, this is for you. We hope it helps!

#Picotron

So, uh, if you live in Arizona and enjoy having privacy about what you jerk it to, you should *really* get in touch with your local representative. A Porn ID law is about to pass which will directly hit e621 which operates out of Arizona.

WIP backups / file versioning for #picotron: all disk writes are (optionally) logged and earlier versions can be fetched by sticking a timestamp on the end:

> cat foo.txt:-30
-- shows foo.txt as it was stored on disk 30 seconds ago

@njion Once I get over my anxiety, imposter syndrome, awkwardness, insomnia, inattentiveness, fear of phone calls, and hatred of folding laundry, it’s over for you fucks.

Man, this really sucks to read. The games industry can be really awful

https://www.ign.com/articles/how-hidden-nazi-symbols-were-the-tip-of-a-toxic-iceberg-at-life-is-strange-developer-deck-nine

Set your wi-fi password to:
2444666668888888

So when someone asks, you can tell them that the password is 12345678.