arborelia @arborelia@computerfairi.es

This is how you review an antisemitic, transphobic, piece of shit video game: you roast it in the review and turn the buy link into a donation to Trans Lifeline.
https://www.wired.com/review/hogwarts-legacy-review/

Gotta be honest, the number of you who are ascribing some sort of agency to these language models is pretty depressing, it's like breaking up a fight between a person and the chair they stuck stuck googly-eyes on because the chair is winning.

It's just very bad design to ask a user to do something that they literally cannot do, and this is the first thing we ask of new users. "Choose wisely!" Okay, what does that mean? How do I do that? "Choose wisely!"

When people talk about how alienating getting started on Mastodon is, this is a big part of it.

"I know you," said Alice. "Are you to present me with a puzzle? Perhaps one of you tells the truth and the other lies?"

"Oh no," said Bingle-Dum.

"We both lie," added Googl-E.

"But there must be a clue," pouted Alice. "For how else am I to tell when to trust what you say?"

"That's the point!" laughed Bingle-Dum.

"We don't know when we're telling the truth either!" said Googl-E, finishing the other's sentence.

I will be semi-contrarian and say that I have made Mastodon my primary social network home for the past month-ish, and I still find a lot of it clunky and unintuitive. I think it is designed to do the things it is designed to do, but they don't line up very well with the sorts of things I like to use social media for.

"QUICK. WHAT ARE THE 128 MOST IMPORTANT INSTRUMENTS? WE NEED TO HAVE THE GENERAL MIDI SPEC IN TOMORROW!"

"UH FUCK, PIANO 1 PIANO 2 PIANO 3 FLUTE OBOE GUN"

"GUN???"

"HELICOPTER"

@SwiftOnSecurity I remember reading many years ago a study that indicated: When asked which jobs would eventually be automated, most managers guessed that the jobs just below their level would be.

Its BANDCAMP FRIDAY!

Go buy some music to support musicians!